The Northern Renaissance: Crash Course European History #3
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Date: 2022-04-04
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Joe
It seems rather obvious to me that anyone who has studied history, humans and human nature, should see that Utopia is a pretty pipe-dream that could never work, and Realism is the best way to go.
Utopia sound all nice and cozy, but almost everything in it requires humans to change their very nature --including many biological traits-- and to not only change a few people, but EVERY single person who lives, INCLUDING those born psychopaths. Which is impossible.
The reason is simple: In a society filled with good and virtuous people, the manipulating, back-stabbing, ruthless person will quickly rise to the top and end up ruling. And the kind people will both be too naive to see it, and unwilling to take the drastic measures necessary to stop it.
(Well, that, and from what I have seen in history, revolutionaries tend to end up swapping out a bad leader for a worse one)
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It seems rather obvious to me that anyone who has studied history, humans and human nature, should see that Utopia is a pretty pipe-dream that could never work, and Realism is the best way to go.
Utopia sound all nice and cozy, but almost everything in it requires humans to change their very nature --including many biological traits-- and to not only change a few people, but EVERY single person who lives, INCLUDING those born psychopaths. Which is impossible.
The reason is simple: In a society filled with good and virtuous people, the manipulating, back-stabbing, ruthless person will quickly rise to the top and end up ruling. And the kind people will both be too naive to see it, and unwilling to take the drastic measures necessary to stop it.
(Well, that, and from what I have seen in history, revolutionaries tend to end up swapping out a bad leader for a worse one)
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Theia
Shadiversity has a video on medieval literacy and how it's all skewed because -literacy- was measured by -can you read Latin-. And that, while most people couldn't read latin and didn't have access to books. that didn't mean they were illiterate. Merchants, or anyone that could buy or sell goods or needed to be able to write some sort of contract could read their native language (albeit an unstandardized version) just by merit of -hey we have this handy Latin script, and all the letters have sounds, I bet we could sound out these words-
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Shadiversity has a video on medieval literacy and how it's all skewed because -literacy- was measured by -can you read Latin-. And that, while most people couldn't read latin and didn't have access to books. that didn't mean they were illiterate. Merchants, or anyone that could buy or sell goods or needed to be able to write some sort of contract could read their native language (albeit an unstandardized version) just by merit of -hey we have this handy Latin script, and all the letters have sounds, I bet we could sound out these words-
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Fuzzy
-It is -SAFER- to be feared than loved- - Safer, not better. Why has it taken us so many centuries to read and interpret the subtext in the Prince? As if the nobles and aristocracy NEEDED Machiavelli to tell them of methods they'd already been using up to that point. The Prince isn't meant to be taken at face value, yet that hasn't stopped every subsequent tyrant and entry-level poli. sci. professor from doing just that, the former eventually shooting themselves in the foot doing so while the latter preps future tyrants to do the same.
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-It is -SAFER- to be feared than loved- - Safer, not better. Why has it taken us so many centuries to read and interpret the subtext in the Prince? As if the nobles and aristocracy NEEDED Machiavelli to tell them of methods they'd already been using up to that point. The Prince isn't meant to be taken at face value, yet that hasn't stopped every subsequent tyrant and entry-level poli. sci. professor from doing just that, the former eventually shooting themselves in the foot doing so while the latter preps future tyrants to do the same.
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WolfHagenSdW
I can safely state that the far easterners where right: -The body shapes the fluid, not the other way around- is always the first step in understanding differing viewpoints.
But yeah, sitting currently in dem Middle European woods, Global Warming WILL be the game changer. 1/3 of the trees are effectivly dead (wood pestilences) and the soil is drying up at a rate unbeknownst in Euro History. Feels weird ramming a spade in the ground and only getting resistance once you're halfway down.
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I can safely state that the far easterners where right: -The body shapes the fluid, not the other way around- is always the first step in understanding differing viewpoints.
But yeah, sitting currently in dem Middle European woods, Global Warming WILL be the game changer. 1/3 of the trees are effectivly dead (wood pestilences) and the soil is drying up at a rate unbeknownst in Euro History. Feels weird ramming a spade in the ground and only getting resistance once you're halfway down.
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Joe
Surprised you didn-t comment on one of the more interesting aspects of Erasmus legacy: the Erasmus Programme. This is the European Union (and some others though sadly soon not the U. K) programme to encourage greater depth and breadth of learning through encouraging doing a year in a different European university which I think is a very good post modern example of Erasmus ideals
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Surprised you didn-t comment on one of the more interesting aspects of Erasmus legacy: the Erasmus Programme. This is the European Union (and some others though sadly soon not the U. K) programme to encourage greater depth and breadth of learning through encouraging doing a year in a different European university which I think is a very good post modern example of Erasmus ideals
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david
Yep, some countries even regions won't get a mention (Scotland? I wait with bated breath. I suppose to concertina all these centuries and countries you HAVE to pick a theme and I'm getting a lot about Europe's INTELLECTUAL history rather than, say, warfare and rulership or developments that affected the vast majority of ordinary people (fair enough, Black Death and printing)
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Yep, some countries even regions won't get a mention (Scotland? I wait with bated breath. I suppose to concertina all these centuries and countries you HAVE to pick a theme and I'm getting a lot about Europe's INTELLECTUAL history rather than, say, warfare and rulership or developments that affected the vast majority of ordinary people (fair enough, Black Death and printing)
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Argen
It occured to me while watching this that it is no surprise that people in Italy went for some neoclassicalism, they are living in the same cities that the Romans built. The Colosseum is still there. It wasn't not there in the middle ages or the renaissance. It would be difficult to live in the same city as that kind of building and not have it influence you.
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It occured to me while watching this that it is no surprise that people in Italy went for some neoclassicalism, they are living in the same cities that the Romans built. The Colosseum is still there. It wasn't not there in the middle ages or the renaissance. It would be difficult to live in the same city as that kind of building and not have it influence you.
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Libros
Nice. I didn't know anything about this humanist lady. Here un spain the most important humanist was Vives, born un 1492 in Valencia, and friend of erasmus and moore. But sadly he is our first exiled and lived in belgium. He wrote many books, one of them about -the education of the christian woman-
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Nice. I didn't know anything about this humanist lady. Here un spain the most important humanist was Vives, born un 1492 in Valencia, and friend of erasmus and moore. But sadly he is our first exiled and lived in belgium. He wrote many books, one of them about -the education of the christian woman-
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sidharth97
John: -. ballet, fascism, automatic weapons, pizza and defensive minded football-
Most people: -He said football! :o-
Me: - He understands enough football to make a reference about the spread of defensive football from Italy across mainland Europe: O-
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John: -. ballet, fascism, automatic weapons, pizza and defensive minded football-
Most people: -He said football! :o-
Me: - He understands enough football to make a reference about the spread of defensive football from Italy across mainland Europe: O-
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Christian
Is it better to be loved or feared? Perhaps in the past such as in Machiavelli-s time, it was more pragmatic and acceptable to be feared. However, the events of the 19th and 20th Centuries shattered that idea for the modern era.
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Is it better to be loved or feared? Perhaps in the past such as in Machiavelli-s time, it was more pragmatic and acceptable to be feared. However, the events of the 19th and 20th Centuries shattered that idea for the modern era.
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