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A Final 8 Taboo Questions about History and Society.

A Final 8 Taboo Questions about History and Society.

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A Final 8 Taboo Questions about History and Society. On the US' role in the world, if I could waive a magic wand we'd leave Eurasia to their own devices. If they don't want our help, fine. Let's focus on the New World. If we spent (in inflation adjusted terms) 10% of what we spent on the Marshall Plan and everything that came after it on Latin and South America, we'd have some damn fine trading partners and allies. We wouldn't need to spend our monetary and psychological capital policing the Old Word when we have everything we need in the Western Hemisphere. Hardworking, productive, god fearing people and boundless natural resources. Oh and only 1/6 of the world's population. The US waxes and wanes on immigration policy, but how about we stop protecting the ingrates in Europe and spend that money investing in Mexico, Brazil, Honduras, Guatemala, Panama, and hell even Cuba, just to name a few. I bet those individuals who would do literally anything to make it to the US wouldn't feel so compelled if they had the same economic opportunities we subsidized for the Europeans. I'm not talking about interventionism like the Banana Wars or how we treated our neighbors to the South during the Cold War. I just mean investing in their economies to give other AMERICANS something close to the standard of living we gave Europe for nothing in return other than an irrelevant buffer against a Soviet state that was much more afraid of us than we were of them. Also this excludes our forever loyal allies in Japan and South Korea. We should not abandon them.
Date: 2022-07-20

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You seem to be under the impression that Europe is a hellhole ruled by radical leftists that plaster the streets in you're worth nothing you white trash billboards.
I put it to you that Europe no longer rules the world because there are now other players who have far greater access to resources including people.
Hell, i would go as far as stating that Europe never really did rule the world, except perhaps in the 18th and 19th centuries when it largely did so purely on its technological advantage.
The Mongols could have probably conquered Europe if a couple of Khagans had lived slightly longer.
China was for most of its history more populous, prosperous, and advanced than Europe.
Now we are dealing with the consequences of the collapse of the core idea of the nation-state, nationalism, when we saw that our nations are perfectly happy mechanically exterminating us or throwing us into futile meat grinder wars. In the absence of both national and tribal loyalties, we have fallen back on individualism and hedonism, where what matters is one's own material happiness, experience and success.
When our nations destroyed themselves out of an inability to set aside their petty self-interest the US had to step in, which allowed us to turn our economies inward and developed our living conditions.
Europe no longer dominates military rankings, but it dominates in quality of life, happiness and health.
I am not sure where you are pulling your Europe is technologically backward shtick but the many excellent technological universities and succesful startups coming out of here are probably a point against that. We have a red tape problem and southern Europe is definitely doing worse than just about everyone else in the West, but that's far from proving that Europe as a whole is backward.
Demographic suicide probably results less from a concerted effort to commit civilizational suicide and more from Europe being very rich, very educated and very healthy. It's almost like if child mortality is next to nothing people don't want to have 5 kids. It's been observed everywhere that as countries get richer and more educated the birth rate plummets. I don't know why you would jump from there to the conclusion that a civilization is committing conscious suicide, unless that's the conclusion you wanted to reach from the get go.

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Regarding #5: If you haven't read it, Hierarchy in the Forest covers the interaction between Darwinian evolution and altruism in a quite interesting and compelling way.
To oversimplify a big (good) book, the main argument of the author is that language and tool use both enabled the egalitarian ethos, common among all extant immediate return foragers and probably the common condition of the vast majority of our anatomically modern ancestors, to form. Over the long, evolutionary timescales this implied, it caused significant selection for genuinely altruistic behavior (in addition to the classics of nepotism and egoism.
The development of language allowed humans to pass moral judgement, not in the floofy sense of sitting around like Aristotle musing on what's right and wrong, but in the sense that when you got back from your hunting trip, and your wife said your brother killed and ate my baby, you knew who was in the right (and how much she was in the right, versus if he had raped her, torn up some fabric she was working on, stolen a fruit from her, etc, whereas if she just hooted and screeched like a chimpanzee, you'd more or less have no choice but to pick who you liked better.
Tool use, on the other hand, changed the physical calculus of violence. Rather than a ten to twenty minute brutal gang beatdown session being the only way to kill another member of the species (that's how chimps do it, now, one single stab with a long pointy stick can be a lethal kill. Unlike in chimps, where bullies dominate, being a big enough bully inevitably gets you shanked by the rest of the tribe. (Who, incidentally, will generally be gossiping about you behind your back long before actually shanking you)

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Some commentary on the last point. As a nonbinary person (this goes somewhere trust me, the gender identity as religion argument has a lot more basis than you'd expect. There's an entire subset of the trans community known as either truscum or transmedicalists that try to look through gender as somewhat of a study and have come to the conclusion that something called gender dysphoria is needed to be trans. In essence, the group equates transgenderism to a disorder similar to body dysmorphia, where what the mind/subconscious thinks the body is doesn't match what the body's current form is, and therefore the cure to this disorder is transitioning your body to the point where it matches your mind's vision of your body. (the subconscious is weird and I don't think we really have answers to how exactly that works)
You're not going to see this view presented in pretty much any mainstream trans community though, not because people don't have the opinion but because it's been buried by the people in charge of pretty much every social media space and painted in misinformation about what the group actually believes. The view itself contradicts what the common consensus of the trans community believes (that you can choose your gender identity like an outfit) and thus doesn't really get shared. When you see people stumbling across the truscum community by accident, the frequent reaction is oh, that's what you guys believe. It's being treated more and more like a religion and speaking up on that fact isn't really done within the community, so props to you for making an educated point for not being someone really within the group.

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In the 1980s a criticism of Darwin was made involving Angiosperms, Flowering plants are biologically more effects at reproducing and constitute 75 percent of plants. However, Angiosperms had existed for millions of years before the KT extinction that destroyed the dinosaurs, Apparently the existence of species that dominated the world had a limiting effect on the spread of Angiosperms that reached only 25 percent until the asteroid that struck the Yucatan Peninsula cleaned the slate an enabled the survivors to compete on a even playing field. The 19th century notion that a superior man will rise to the top is not completely true. I was an honor student considered a genius in childhood. I financially supported my widowed mother from age 16, I meet none of the White Trash stereotypes. I was mugged repeatedly delivering food. I became disabled without the cause either being my own fault or that of bad genetics, The arguments that you posited against Communism especially totalitarian Communist states under Stalin for example, have some merit, but Trujillo and Battista were capitalist and were still evil dictators. The society we live in especially in the US a nation massively rich in resources, manpower and other metrics, does not need that much tweaking into a totalitarian state but those compensations that Adam Smith wrote should compensate the losers in Capitalism are also not forthcoming either.
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Fantasy nonexistent technology is not going to save us alt. Your environmentalist friend is right. If we do not degrow then the cancer on the Earth that is our species will debase the entire biosphere that we rely on for our own survival. And then most of us will die. That is almost certainly what we are going to do, though. This is probably the answer to the Fermi paradox. Any species that gains the level of technology inevitably commits mass suicide by way of overshoot. Also, for as much as you justifiably take shots at the ultra-woke, you do understand that the GOP and their base has devolved into a christo-fascist cult of personality that wants to install a theocracy, right? They literally want to genocide LGBT people, with the religious and maybe racial minorities up next. Like, you do get that right? Your understanding of the climate science is incredibly flawed. You need to do a lot more research because you honestly don't really seem to have much of an understanding of what the climate scientists themselves are saying. You're just assuming Greta and AOC are wrong about the path we're on when I can provide you with all the evidence you need to understand that they're not.
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1. darwinisem isn't just about biolegy, the fact that it's about memes (ideas) is a lot more importent today becuse memes are faster then genes.
the west isnt the importent part but their ideas, there is no reason why we can't have evryone holding hands all around the world and that stuff. but for that science and democrsy need to spred.
and it is posibble in non western countries like isreal and Japan for examle. this brings me to the second point
2. isreal isn't western
like I don't expect an american to know evrything about small country but i live here so i do know.
in short early isreal was majorety western and worked realy hard to look like that, but after the foundation of the country a lot of imagrents came from yes western europe but also the arb world and at the fall of the ussr also from there. so now and ever since the 50's we are'nt western. that's not counting arbs that are also part of isreal in some level making us even less western.
today parts of isreal are realy conected to the west and has large influnce from it. but it's not part of it.

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5. What if darwinist survival is changing from competitive to cooperative as population increases? Or, is competitive sometimes and places while being cooperative in other instances? If. 001% chooses competition when cooperation is called for, is that which is called for possible? Those (99. 999%) who know to cooperate in that instance would seem to be expected to be ultra-intolerant of wrong, competition-at-all-times dogmatist fools. They may be inspired to 'cancel' any individual in that. 001 who continue to endlessly make everything worse in those instances when cooperation is the darwinist survival choice to make everything better. On the other hand, procompetitionists would not seem to care about or may even prefer those who choose to cooperate in instances where darwinist survival demands competition, like a poker player having an opponent fold a superior hand to 'cooperate'. Do humans seem a species able of unity, having come 'so far' without it? If there was a whole species cooperative past to draw on, perhaps? if that past has ever been, I am unaware.
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The view of good and evil, God and satan is not the same in Judaism as in Christianity. There is not devil in Judaism and satan just means adversary or a stumbling block. A river or mountain can be satan. The idea of good and evil is actually a balance. Better words would be spiritual and worldly. Man has a choice and evil is an act as described in your video. But the dualism of God and satan is a foreign ideology. Literature like the book of Enoch and others were influenced by foreign ideas therefore not accepted because it goes against the guiding principles of Judaism as delineated in the 5 Books of Moses. Take it at face value or as metaphor, doesn t matter. That s just like the idea of what the after life is like. The Old Testament (as called by non Jews) alludes to an afterlife but gives no description. Importance is placed on the world at hand and what can be done to improve it. Sorry for the rant, but it s just that these concepts are foreign to Judaism and they are always presented as JudeoChristian.
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I love it when a Neo Liberal Progressive deludes themselves into thinking they are a conservative. In the US Neo-Liberalism called conservatism because it actually and older form of liberalism that believes in laissez faire that fell out of favor during the 1930's thanks the failure of capitalism in the US during that period. An industrial progress, or die philosophy is literally the opposite of an actual conservative philosophy which is about preserving culture, and natural resources. The Japanese are a great example of actual conservative society. As that would mean it would have to go back to being just a colony of Europe where it's dominate cultures originates from assuming that is did not break up from that no one European culture is dominate enough to allow it to stay stable as a single colony. The US is stuck being a Liberal Bonaparte pattern empire, and the US basically can never be a true conservative society thanks to that fact. So Americans are liberals despite what they call themselves.
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Here's my unrequested constructive criticism: you have to improve the quality of your editing, man. There's multiple instances in every video in which sentences are cut before they end, and the audio varies between one sentence and the other, indicating that some of them are add-ins or have been recorded in a different occasion. It might help to re-record the whole thing in a single occasion once you are confident with the script. Now, I am sure you are a busy man and prefer to focus on the content rather than on the form, I am a man of substance myself, but you know, form helps too.
As for the content, I generally don't agree with some of your takes, and I tend to take your predictions with a heavy grain of salt (this being due to the inherent biases that you get from having a background that, impressive as it is, I seem to understand being limited to history, but I find your videos interesting and enjoyable nonetheless, and I respect the amount of reading and thinking that goes behind them.

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Morality is more like an ideal, if you ask me.
One thing about darwinism that people don't seem to get is that it also works on a societal level, not just on an individual level. Some people living perfectly happy celibate lives is not so weird if you consider that it's not just about individual survival and procreation but also the survival of the group.
Climate change is definitely not gonna wipe out humanity. But yeah, it's highly likely that it will change our world. Probably by quite a lot if we don't do something about it, but we aren't entirely sure how drastic it's gonna be. I think it's a very good thing if people in charge are worried, but I'm gonna try not to worry too much myself (except when I'm choosing who to vote for.
The gender thing I'd rather not get into, though I do wanna say the way you say it, it sounds like the entire left is radical and unreasonable. That's not the experience I've had. Most people are actually quite reasonable.

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Israel's a weird and I would argue bad example. I stopped criticizing it because I decided it fit better in the category of post-Ottoman dhimmi successor state, though there is a common element between these and the post-Austrian local ethnic group successor state - i. e. Hungary and other non-Western European countries. The breakup of the Ottoman Empire was a much more drawn out process than breakup of the Austrian Empire and I would argue begins with Greece and ends with Israel. (Though the Greek Orthodox Turkish speakers weren't expelled from Anatolia and Eastern Thrace and forced to live in Greece until the Turkish victory in the Turkish War of Independence, whereas the Mizrahim were expelled from Iraq, Transjordan, Syria, etc. immediately on the formation of Israel in 1948) It isn't logical to hold a nonWestern state representing a nonWestern culture and whose claim to legitimacy falls within a distinctly Eastern pattern to Western standards.
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What is the real difference between honoring the spirit of the beaver and giving them the space they need to breed? Things don t just exist in the physical world, they exist in the mind and dreams as well. Being without beaver isn t just physically being without beaver, it is mentally being without beaver and the meta-sense of being without beaver. Beaver is an ecological force who s unseen hand and presence IS interfaced with physically, logically, and emotionally. They way you stated the fact felt to me dismissive of the practice as a superstition, when the effect that you stated would ve been the known and understood effect of what they were doing. The blessings of respecting beaver IS more abundant ecology. Many beaver lifetimes pass in one human one, yet the influence and habits of beaver remain the same, as though you were interfacing with one thing, the Meta-Beaver.
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Best video so far but you forgot to mention how Christianity and religion in general is a cope for Darwinism there have been more darwinistic philosophies that have lost out to these religions. The most detailed description of this and one of the funniest, honest, most concise, and brutal books about this is ragnar Redbeard. The author was named Arthur Desman who probably had anti social personality disorder, which is why might makes right fit with his reality. The reason we fight Darwinism is because we evolved! a conscience. So to avoid having it destroyed we instinctively fight it subconsciously to maintain and function as a group. aurther Desman UnIronically wanted cannibalism as it was logical to get a caloric edge, in a never ending worldwide war that would result if Nietzsche's ideal man. Which he thought would be made up of mostly English people
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