Comments by "Jim Luebke" (@jimluebke3869) on "Why Are We Fighting a War on the Past? - Tim Stanley" video.

  1. "The idea that those thousands of years there isn't something in that's valuable, precisely because it's been thrashed out over that period of time, they haven't whittled down certain basic problems and found certain solutions and coping mechanisms, the idea that you'd want to junk that social knowledge is absolutely mad, let alone the idea that you could come up with something better just off the top of your head." THIS. Exactly THIS.
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  2. "What about minorities whose lives are better now?" Are they better because of new ideologies, or because of old traditional ideas? America's "Great Society" programs are arguably the biggest disaster to happen to minorities in the US, and Affirmative Action is generally thought of as ineffective.
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  3. As an aspiration, it's more aesthetic than moral. Consider English food. I've recently moved to New England from someplace more colorful, and it is a bit on the bland side.
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  4. "Why do the selfish and narcissistic get to the top?" Is this really true? They may be extremely helpful people; just you're not one of the ones they're helping.
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  5. "The sense of the pace of change was already there in the 19th century" That's because we saw more actual chances in the years from 1870-1920 than we have during the years 1970-2020. Cars, airplanes, electricity, radio, movies, urbanization, political upheaval, you name it -- there was more change back then than there is now.
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  6. "Pregnant persons" are still expectant mothers. The new language MUST be treated with contempt, if we want to survive this with our sanity and society intact. You are not somehow wise for even ironically affirming "Well now we have to say..." you are being a useful idiot, and you need to STOP.
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  7. "We mustn't be too Eurocentric, we must look at how religion is flourishing in places around the world." Isn't it so ironic, that those who h**e Europe and all that it stands for, still see Europe as the measure of everything everywhere? It's almost as if their worldview is incoherent.
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  8.  @shawnaweesner3759  Blandness can be helpful sometimes -- Kipling's "Ballad of Boh da Thone" suggests that Victorian England was something of an asylum for the men out building the Empire. Looked at from a different angle, some wags have theorized (with a surprising amount of evidence) that the Empire was just an attempt to bring tasty food back to England, and that filling Englishmen with tandoori chicken at home is the best way to prevent further imperial adventures.
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  9.  @rascallyrabbits2573  Why did you move, if you don't mind my asking?
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  10. "BAE celebrated a Pride festival on the Isle of Wight a number of years ago" And a century or so ago, Fritz Krupp did similar sort of celebrating down on one or other of the Italian islands. Things really haven't changed as much as you think.
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  11. "It's like morality changes and language changes." No. These are being pushed by political actors with an agenda that is for most people highly destructive.
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  12.  @freeandcriticalthinker4431  Great to see Free Thinkers coming around on this one. =) Just take it easy on Christian believers this time around, eh?
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  13. "Nation-building thus far hasn't worked." Germany. Japan. South Korea. This begs the ghastly question - do you have to flatten the place first?
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