A Final 8 Taboo Questions about History and Society.
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The sad fact is being both progressive and a conservative does make complete sense if you use the classic definitions. Preserve that systems that made your society great ( system of checks and balances for example) while identify what about it needs to change and how to change it ( MLK ) . It's sad how people are acting like one side is good and the other is a evil virus of Satan
MLK subverted free speech and freedom of commerce and association. First massive step in ruining America.
This is why it is my personal belief that political parties are one of the biggest detriments to our society.
But where is regressive?
@@1mol831 regressive is not a political believe unless you genuinely believe we should return to ape
@@frostogtaake maybe less political parties and more the political polarization that happened in the 20th century. also america's strict 2 party system that has not really let a 3rd party grow hasn't exactly helped that polarization as well, which is why you have people like bernie who are trying to change the democrats from the inside instead of creating their own party
And as always, do not forget that Europe has gone from representing 40 % of the world’s economy in 1965 to barely 25% today, while the USA has remained a solid quarter.
Because they have been driven away from the colonies they sucked wealth from. They lost one sided oppressive market system they built. Also the fact that countries with natural potential are rising like China.
USA on the other hand has represented free market and largely, comparatively a much fair global order than euro centric world.
To be honest it is true. I just wished whatifalthist at least give more examples of statistics. There are many out there that does show Europe's decline. If it were any other channel I would be mad. However Whatifalthist has been very humble and even shows humility and honesty when wrong which is very rare these days. It does not hinder his important talking point so i think the repetition can slide.
Yeah... mmmmmaybe unifying Europe wwwwasnt the best idea 😬
Historically Europe has always been at around that percentage, with the advent of the industrial revolution hitting Europe earlier for many reasons, Europe for the past few centuries has vastly over represented herself in terms of economic percentage. Mind you, Europe is not a rich continent naturally, and historically Europe has been overshadowed by the near east and North Africa in terms of pre-industrial output.
Now for the United States, it is very obvious why the US would be very representative of GDP, a relatively high population united state with a large landmass larger than the European continent by many times. Although much of that GDP is bloated by many firms transferring their financial net worths after WWII, the US is currently the Europe of the industrial revolution and imperial era, nations such as Nigeria, India and China in the far future will absolutely dominate global geopolitics. For Europe to stay relevant, they’d have to somehow unite the continent under a nation notoriously good at economics, and be willing to adopt a more growth focused instead of welfare focused economy. this will drastically increase European GDP to levels higher than the US, this will never happen however.
Rudy has said exactly that sentence like over a dozen times spread out over like 10 videos since a year or so. While it's factually true, I doubt it's a sign for Europe's weakness. It's because large parts of Asia have industrialised.
Watching taboo #7 as the UN releases their report saying that the Ozone is healing itself is a beautiful example of human nature coming full circle
The hole in the ozone wasn't what you think it was
Human nature???? U mean in spit of human
I think the most important contribution of this series is not how completely correct his arguments are, which is always up for debate with these issues, but how it is a fearless attempt to start a conversation. We don’t get anywhere by fighting over who is the most qualified expert to make blanket statements about what is true. We progress as a society by wrestling with issues that are far bigger than us, with patience and humility but also boldness and honesty.
Yes, it is important to wrestle with these issues, and there is too much of a tendency to pick ones favorite talking head and everything follows from that. And that's why I feel the need to point out a fundamental error on the gender issue.
Notwithstanding some valid facts and reasonable conclusions of the UL'er, he begins in the middle of the story with 20th century postmodern gender theory, skipping over the prior study of gender variance as an observable phenomenon, subject to scientific study. On this much, he is way, WAY off.
@@MarcillaSmith i missed this way back. I’m interested in what those prior studies are? Full disclosure, I am one of those individuals who subscribes to the concept that sex is a biological phenomena in which there are two representations of gender identity down to the microscopic level of cellular proteins. But i’m curious to learn more
Well said. 👏
I like how every video in this series is progressively longer
But less progressive
@@oldluke7653 L
@@Euthenon middle finger
And more heretical! ;D
@@hoi-polloi1863 Non Nobis Domine!
"its not about who's right, its about what you are going to do about it" more beautiful words have never been spoken.
May as well say “might makes right”
@@jamesfrancese6091 many people can be right theoretically, there can be a whole intellectual echelon wishing and hoping for what they believe to be "right". but only when someone comes along to impose will to action, to challenge the status quo, to make right. if not, it all amounts to nothing.
@@andrewnock2675 If one wants to construe this as an essentially “only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing”-type sentiment, then it would seem that “being right” is central to the normative question of “what you are going to do about it”. This is simply the classical metaethical tension between virtue ethics and its later rivals. Ironically, what may be politically closer to the original quote would be the famous epigram of Marx: “The philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways; the point, however, is to change it.”
@@jamesfrancese6091 That's a dumb conclusion outta you. Nice way of showing you're just a delusional, disingenuous actor. That whole statement is about personal ownership and volition, not necessarily what is objectively right or wrong. Try again.
No matter what happens you can be sure of 2 things:
-The majority of people will treat their viewpoint like it's a religion.
-We'll continue to think we're smarter than our ancestors because we have faster and shinier things than they did.
“Satan is realer than France” must be the coolest thing I’ve heard all month! 😂
Yea this should be a shirt
Fr*nce is Satan confirmed
Scary fact #67: there is a FRANCE!
@@alexthehopeless3778the French 🤮🤮🤮
The 1st one is really easy to grasp but people don't want to. Morality is much more of a way to stop your society and or ingroup from weakening itself and is more a subset of practicality that grew more complex and caused us to feel good as we were doing something effective for the group. Today instead of making morality a subset of practicality it's flipped so we do things to feel good while hurting the group and that's why we're seeing problems not commonly seen as severely in history despite our knowledge and wealth. You need a sturdy base to not have your whole shit collapse on itself.
Really good summary
It seems like with internet and globalization a new morality system will rise alongside a globalized and intermixed culture.
A good deal of real morality, in my opinion, is about restraint and simplicity.
This point raises the entrenched problems of what we.might call establishment right and left conceptions, and hashtag *all* of their adherents.
The right have internalized a really shoddy interpretation of the regard our civilization has had for the individual, while the left.. i dont think i need to i need to really elaborate on whats wrong with them (and i cant be bothered, its wasted breath frankly).
Both are crass materialists and see this crass materialism as the realization of ever marching onward "Progress" (this is why the right has been inept, it has internalized its oppositions socio-moral framework, and thus cant defend against the socalled Progress thatis built into the very logic they accept)
But why are people like this? I am not like this, how do we eliminate this sickness?
This was an excellent series. You're a far braver man than I for covering 25 taboo topics in the space of 1 month.
“Rudyard, do you want quality or quantity?”
“Yes”
Hell yeah! I love it when my favorite history channels interact with each other! Can’t wait for newest release this Friday Ezekiel
@Michael Bolton Must have had to run from a lynch mob every other day
I think it's time cancel culture died and free speech was actually free you have my support 100% even if I don't agree with everything he said in the videos. I'll fight for your freedom to say it nevertheless.
That's like a topic a day!
I'm uneasy that 3/4 of people don't like thinking about abstract ideas. This is really the only thing that can drive us forward, for better or worse.
@@sambathelionking it's not that they dont like thinking about them, it's that they cant. People of all intelligence levels can usually get thru life and seem no different than smart people but their minds cant move past everyday thinking, it's simply not within their capacity to think in abstract or complex ways. Even funny wordplay jokes will not make sense to them or quick, witty conversation that jumps around; they arent capable of grasping it. I didnt know this until I got to know some of these types.
@@sambathelionking you should check out "World Population Review 2023," the section that ranks all countries by average "eye cue" ...most people dont know it can go as low as what is the average in many countries. This means much of that society is composed of basically 8 yr old children in adult bodies but unlike a child they will never gain any more understanding.
If 3/4 don’t think of abstract ideas or like it, and it is also likely they never did. In which case we’ve got along just fine keep thinking yourself and you’ll be all right. The Wiseman’s eyes are in his head, it means you have foresight to make provision for the future. The word, foresight and provision are the same word by the way. Prometheus versus eppaPrometheus.
The majority of people are borderline simpletons, though. It’s nothing new. As long as they have their booze, weed, tv shows, and sportsball, an alarmingly large number of people are generally apathetic and won’t put forth the effort to consider such things.
We get it you are 14 years old and edgy you'll grow out of it
This series was unironically life changing thank you showing all my friends
The “cognitive revolution” was called god. I believe a higher power created us from primitive humans and “their” dna.
I pitty your friends. Hopefully they have The ability to read The media.
I hope it’s not the final one because I love these videos, they are my favorite of yours
My only criticism is the choppy audio transitions. I listen to my phone at work and I always think I accidentally skipped a portion of the video.
He means it’s the final part of this series
Same
@@decathreat6194 yeah, and they dont want this series to end.
I'm sure people who are already similar to Whatifalthist love having their opinions validated like it's a circlejerk.
Would love to hear you do a podcast or something with your father, every time you've brought him up he sounds more and more like a legendary father.
Is your name actually coffee
'the dollar is backed by nukes and carriers, crypto is backed by nerd neckbeards'
sounds like an absolute savage. #murderedbywords
@@xxxchild_predatorxxx107 bro that’s the magic nigga from the green mile
the dollar is also backed by the moon and the sun
@@condotiero860
It sounds like a great quote, but the dollar is currently being destroyed by the very establishment issuing it (through mass counterfeiting called "inflation", manufactured economic collapse and through incentivizing Russians to get rid of their remaining USD) - but to destroy any cryptocurrency You'd need actual digital totalitarian control over the technology.
I verily enjoy this channel-- I flow back and forth with him from agreement into disagreement, yet allowing both to not smother the other to a 'right/wrong perspective' simplicity. And I'm also realizing how much easier it is to perform my own deconstruction of my personal beliefs vs this lecture, especially watching independently. Keep going.
Is it just me, or can everyone else read a bunch of print on the screen while listening to his narration?
Understanding how the world works has really changed the way I look at life. This channel's cold truths are one of the reasons I'm putting my life back on track.
I'm not even kidding, my white girlfriend told me that you're a white supremacist racist and how your videos should be banned.
I've been watching your videos for a few hours now and I have to say that you my man are a philosopher, the way you think about things is genius to say the least, this channel is the greatest CZcams channel I've ever seen. We need more rational people like you, we need more conversation like this!!!
Just being blunt if your girlfriend thought this was white supremacy you might want to rethink your relationship, she sounds kinda crazy and you seem like a chill level headed guy.
See your first problem is believing women have opinions
@@thedukeofchutney468broke up with that crazy lady! She was beyond saving, It wasn't very serious, lasted just 7 months. Dodged a bullet there
@@robertmills3830 hey, i like this channel too. He does have a lot more right leaning opinions, but the guys 21 or something so its no surprise
@@robertmills3830 legend
IMO, a lot of modern cultural developments are peace time indulgence, that can exist only because much of consequences of getting the reality wrong have been engineered away. Once our living environment becomes a bit more hostile, and your mastery of the environment can affect your survival, we will have some more clarity on which ideologies/world models are ‘correct’.
I find it odd that he accepts Darwinism as real, and then says we shouldn’t live as it dictates.
@@9thebear theres a difference between the fact that women can bear children ( as an objective fact) and women ought to bear children.
@@9thebear Evolution doesn't care about you as an individual or about happiness.
Heard someone say recently that being depressed or happy is essentially a luxury, as it generally means you are fed and have shelter, and so have time to ruminate on your feelings. This is likely to be proved true in coming years
As PJ O'Rourke put it:
The most significant result of human civilization is that it prevents the slow and stupid from being tiger food.
This is a great discussion. It's been clear for some time that our cultural elites have given up on civilization.
Either that or they're actively trying to destroy it.
Hey, here's a shocker: I am a homosexual male who believes there are only two sexes... The one I'm attracted to and the one I am not.
Also, I agree with you completely with regards to climate change. When someone starts preaching to me that it's the apocalypse, I simply tent my fingers and ask: Is this your first apocalypse, then?
And finally, I love your live and let live philosophy. I consider it virtuous for humans to resist our authoritarian tendencies.
yea man, nothing more liberating than putting a di** in someone's a**s
I hate when people assume I'm a communist, anti-western, gender-relativist and a few more things just because I'm gay. Feel u
@@atlistihavesenseofhumorlol2051 "I hate when people assume I'm a communist, anti-western, gender-relativist and a few more things just because I'm gay."
-> AFAIK, many Communists are homophobic.
No problem being Homo. A lof of Roman Emperors were allegedly gay. Key Word: Allegedly.
I believe in two sexes plus nature's little in betweens, as well as many genders. 😁
this is probably his best non alternate history video yet. he just checks so many right points and he sounds way more humble than let's say a few months ago. i really enjoyed the 50 minutes i spent watching it.
he said he sounded humble🤣
@@nickmartin1797 cope liberal
@@user-fn5xg7qt7u your a drone dude. Wake up
@@D4Shahda you're
@@user-fn5xg7qt7u hes so wrong on so many points its funny
You hit the nail on the head as to the suicide of the west. The problem is that if you are determined to survive in a Western culture currently, you are like the child in a car whose parents, like our politicians want to drive the car off the cliff, at the urging of your sibling who thinks we can fly into utopia. Meanwhile the parents argue over how fast the car will go over the cliff.
Nope, the west is more like a grandparents that make their fortune through exploitation of labour and land before labour and land law to protect exist.
Now too rich, live in isolated communities that can literally afford to avoid the poor and don't see the need to help them.
Making their money exploiting the poor.
The greatest thing that the West has bequeathed to world culture is democracy, a method of resolving a society's inevitable differences that saves a culture from constant internecine bloodshed. Whoever lies about the outcome of elections, that person is the worst enemy of the West. Trust and believe that, my friend.
we're fucked most probably, should we fight tho? yes
Basically in your scenario someone kicked your dad out of the drivers seat and pretends to be your father.
Whatifalthist says this is OK because it means the GDP will be higher because this other guy is driving the car instead of your dad. The problem is all the gains go to him and his car, not you and yours.
The answer is return to your true father. Reject the fake father, and his evil intentions.
I think of the whole of humanity as passengers on the Titanic, arguing about the position of their deckchairs while the ship goes down. And the band plays on.
Man I have to say, you and TIK History, IMO have some of the most important channels on CZcams in today's age. The depth you go into is very refreshing and much needed in these chaotic times. Thanks for your hard work mate.
Maybe I’m born in the wrong time, but I just watched all of these and I think you knocked it all out of the park.
12:53
"Is Satan more real than France," my man Rudyard is asking the real questions out here.
"My heresy continues"
Hahahah I love this channel
Aight… where’s ma heavy flamer?
@@Ballin4Vengeance what
where da warhammer 40k fans at
@@sovietunion7643 Look for a location called “Parent’s Basement”
"my heresy continues", proceeds to reference Christianity 500 times and can't stop referring to the cognitive revolution as "leaving the garden of eden"
My problem with gender ideologues is that the government mandates sensitivity training. You are forced to at least say you agree with their faith. If we have a state religion but we're not willing to call it a state religion then the ability not to lie has been lost. The situation is worse than not being able to tell the truth. We must now lie.
Halfway through the video, and I already know your channel is a hidden gem. Your perspectives are poignant, logical, and relevant. Thank you.
WIAH: Summarizing his perspective on a very complex topic
The Background: Dinosaurs sliding off of Earth like it's some fucking dinner plate
Classic WIAH slideshow moment
im really digging the increase in memes used in the videos they make it more palatable seeing so much info dump
It has to be said: about 60-70% of this video is basically Jordan Peterson’s lectures on Genesis, summarized. Not a criticism, but its pretty much point by point going through his ideas.
So... what you're saying is... I missed JP's insights on Florida. Pray, do tell.
No, this guy is a thousand times more coherent than Jordan Peterson.
Yea… 😆
All he was missing was the dominance hierarchy, which i hate anyways.
Lobsters were strangely absent. Instead, we got turtles and tigers.
Just watched all 3 videos back to back. And these were the most useful, entertaining and educational video's I've watched on CZcams. Thanks
I kind of think I would enjoy a pod cast for you to discuss current events/news with your excellent eye to history.
These taboo videos scored a sub from me!
You missed, under Darwinism, that cooperation & altruism develop logically by improving the ability of groups to survive. This includes films of bacteria; colonies of ants, bees & wasps; herds of all sorts; prides of lions; families of meerkats. The list goes on and on.
But when a member in those groups can no longer carry their weight they are eliminated from the group. Not exactly altruistic is it?
@@XcessPain Aye. In a lot of ways, that's called the criminal justice system. Every successful society has had one. When a member of the society harms the chances of survival (actual (reciprocal, or negative law/rights) or perceived (positive law)) of the larger group, they get dealt with. WHAT a group protects against, and what are considered acceptable ways of succeeding, or conversely what is considered criminal, amongst other things, is what can be described as a civilizational group strategy (hence, why nations also appear to be cyclical throughout their history. They resort to what is both culturally accepted, and what their societies "selected" for)
@@arandomguest0089 that’s not altruism, that’s efficiency. If the only thing that makes things moral is the survival of the group or just what benefits the most people, you will start to see rational justification for things like murder and genocide quite quickly. This is still a form of moral relativism which leads to things that in our hearts we know are immoral. Sorry, but it comes from something essential.
@@tommyrea Rational justification for murder and genocide do happen. The bible has many examples of this.
@@denisl2760 while that comment is mostly a straw man, what’s more to the point is that to say Darwinism can explain morality with group prosperity is a paradox. Morality by definition is not fluid, but what is best for the majority often is. Furthermore what is optimal on the group level is often unoptimal at an individual level and vice versa. If you take a wholly Darwinian view, you cannot claim that morality actually exists or even try to explain it. You must admit that you hold will of the strong as the only force which guides society. If so, may our strong be gentle (but that right there is a moral claim so perhaps not).
The idea of France becoming overwhelmed with an ideology that mandated that all tigers must die for world peace, and then the Jacobin Anti-Tiger League (JATL) set its fleet to India to cull the Bengal Tigers, causing a naval fleet blockade, causing foreign powers to intervene, causing World War III, and thus the rearrangement of the world order sure is a thought that I certainly didn't just have and that I will certainly not think about now and again for the foreseeable future. Thanks Whatifalthist. Thanks.
Of course, their tiger genocide would come to a screeching halt the moment the French realized that there are actually more tigers in *Texas* (in private hands) than live in the wilds of Asia!
@@randlebrowne2048 Truly that would be the end for the French. The Franco-Texan war would be a total route.
@@monad5140 one can only hope for such a Bright future
dude i fucking love you because you are able to describe my thoughts, opinions and beliefs in a way I can't. Especially when it comes to cultural norms, gods and morality
Dude I love your videos man. I love how you take a step back and address certain topics in an unbiased way. You’ve really been expanding the way I see things and honestly making me feel better about the state of the world and where it’s going regardless of the craziness. Please keep going 👍
I've always been struck by a fundamental contradiction of nightclubs: People choosing to make the most important decisions of their lives regarding procreation in an environment characterized by white noise, poor lighting, mind-altering substances, and sleep deprivation.
'choosing' is overstating things
@MR. RICKLES FARTTENHOOS They are a social construct, like France.
@@williamchamberlain2263 no its not. Nobody is being forced into a nightclub. Nobody is forced into promiscuity. Nibkdy is forced to not be on the pill or wear a condom. Lack of personal responsibility as always.
@@alastor8091 That and glorification of promiscuity by modern culture which conquer the weak mind of the youth
People get nervous about sex and nightclubs lower the nervousness.
Invoking Shaun King during your social construct section was utterly hilarious.
A followup I didn't want to post 5 minutes after watching: Your idea of humans being separate to animals through our awareness of time is digging in the right places, but besides the core point. Many higher intelligence species show an awareness to time and death (crows and elephants have "funerals" for their loved ones, and they constantly plan and remember yearly events. they can solve time related puzzles in experiments, etc. ). What *really* distinguishes us is language. now yet again, some animals have this (dolphins and Orcas give each other names, and have vocal structures so unique to each pod they act as regional cultures) but the main thing is the sheer level of abstraction we are capable of. The origins of which are from a double mutation of the FOX-P2 gene. (Fun Fact: Chimps can do basic math far faster than a human and we believe it's because they lack this. but it's also why humans have such a wider range of mental disabilities compared to most primates. Our very brains are pushed to their design limits. But it's worth it to have a slower, yet far more creative mental dynamic). But where you get on to something again is touching on the stoned ape theory. We most definitely had these mutations well into 70k years ago, but what may have happened is the sudden explosive use of psychedelics could have created the earliest foundations for ritual, music, and most integrally: religion as a form of ultra efficient social bonding (Dr. Connor Wood has an excellent paper on this. He also did an interview on it with the channel religionforbreakfast). This was probably done annually, and got large mostly sparse groups of hunter gathers talking and trusting one another within one night of partying. When you can get large groups of people to get together and mostly not kill each other, you get society.
Do you have a blog, Reddit posts about what you've written ? I'd like to read more...
@@SgtCarter69 My points about the FOX-P2 genes come from some CARTA lectures. They haven't made anything like that in awhile, but there older stuff is really good. There's tons of videos talking about the other things that shaped our intelligence, such as human domestication evens, and the feedback loop between age and sociability. (basically, we became as smart and and long lived as a primate can be. This is because older people can't hunt, but they can raise infants as the others do, and big brains mean a longer, more vulnerable childhood. The saying, 'it takes a village to raise a child" is quite literally how this was designed to work) As for the relationship to ritual, music, and religion I recommend just checking out the interview religionforbreakfast did with Dr. Wood. It covers everything pretty well.
i have been trying to put these ideas into words for so long, thank you
This series has brought me to a closer understanding of the laws of my religion, the Catholic Church. It just makes so much more sense! Oh also I think you said that in the adam and eve part, the punishment for women was to bear children but it is actually to bear children in sorrow.
Exactly. God told them to be fruitful before the fall. It’s the pain that women have to endure that’s the punishment. Fun fact, there isn’t a single animal that goes through the same level of birthing pains that a human female goes through. Not even hyenas and that’s REALLY saying something!
@@kingrobotnik6950 Animals can’t show pain and yell out during birth because out in nature showing vulnerability gets you killed by predators.
@@kiraflash4596 you know you can be in immense pain and not cry out right. Dude, don’t try to limit mankind and all that we’ve accomplished to just animals. That’s disrespectful to humans and makes you look pathetic.
@@kingrobotnik6950 But humans are animals....
And pain.
I am a depressed follower of your channel for awhile recently going through a break up your channel has made me realize that it is ok to be who I am. I am starting my own CZcams channel about history and I look forward to watching more of your content and hopefully collbarting with you soon
That sounds like a great moment. Glad you’re feeling comfortable.
Subscribed in front
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best of luck homie, check out " the inflamed mind" and " lost connections"
oligarchs have poisoned us incredibly, Some people being depressed just means they are slightly more sensitive to being poisoned
3800+ areas in the US have water at least 2x worse than Flint
95% of US baby food is poisoned/riddled with heavy metals, and some brands had 100x the legally allowable level of heavy metals, and approximately half of the companies refused to even cooperate with the congressional investigation into baby food, likely meaning their own internal testing actually found worse results.
Bro post already
38:38 reminded me of HP Lovecraft: “The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of the infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.”
Yoooo Lovecraft fans get in here!
He really was ahead of his time on the concept of "knowing the unknowable will destroy the human mind".
Modern people are more than ever racked with anxiety and nihilism in this age of information over load, understanding that we are mere specks dotted upon a ball of precarious dirt, drifting through infinite void.
Opening our consciousness even further would seem indeed to be inviting madness.
@@ThisAutomaton H.P. Lovecraft was a raging white supremacist with a tragic childhood.
Granted, you'd have to be somewhat warped to be able to create some grand and absurdly esoteric stuff like he did
@@kitcutting Erm, okay? Just because somebody was a white supremacist, doesn’t mean they weren’t incredibly influential, intelligent, or even generally good people.
@@kitcutting The interesting thing about HP Lovecraft is that he lived in the 1920s and 30s in America, a society which was very different from what it is today, he had limited interactions with non-whites, and yet, he was very conscious of the changing demographic shift in America and was basically afraid that Mexicans and South Americans would replace white Americans, he was concerned that desegregation would bring harm to whites, and also said that the Chinese would be one of the biggest threats to white Europeans in the far future, if Europeans were to survive until that point at all. Everything he talked about ended up being true, Mexicans are now openly migrating to America, changing the demographics and voting for their in group to change the demographics even further. Black Americans now commit a horrifyingly large amount of racially motived attacks on whites because of their culture framing all whites as oppressors of them. And currently, the Chinese are becoming the biggest power in the world, and they have an any means necessary mindset and have very little regard for their fellow man if they are in the way of Han Chinese interests, like the Uyghurs. And Lovecraft said all these things 100 years ago.
@@zekun4741 source?
This has to be one of if not my favourite CZcams series.
Great job!
You have so many facts combined with so many debatables that I want to know where you live, go there and spend hours talking debating and arguing with you.
Bravo👏
These ideas aren't as taboo as previous episodes, but your perspective on them is brilliant as hell. I also love that you make the process by which you gathered the facts you use in your videos apparent, by which I mean referencing all those books written by academics you read and alluding to your photographic memory in a previous episode. I hate it when politicians or celebrity academics reference facts and statistics but not source them. I want to be able to gather facts myself, not just get them from other people. Well now I know how you do it, and perhaps I can integrate it somewhat into my own life!
@@shimmyshai9266 I'm not sure if you're disagreeing with my comment or if you're lamenting the state of the human condition in our postmodern world, but my opinion on this channel's sourcing of its facts has changed. Mentioning the actual books he gets his facts from actually turns out to be a minority occurrence. Most of the time it's "just trust me bro I have a photographic memory".
On the Garden of Eden topic, it’s been theorized that the location was in modern day Persian Gulf. The evidence behind the theory is based off original Hebrew translations of the Old Testament and off of translations of similar myths compounded with topographical data of what the Middle East looked like during the ice age. In the story, it’s stated that the Euphrates and Tigris met with two other rivers. Using the data, they found evidence of two other rivers (one spawning in Saudi Arabia and the other in Iran) that met in the Persian Gulf, which was a fertile valley during that time. The Garden of Eden is most likely a story evolved from the Sumerian creation story since it’s theorized that their ancestors came from that valley when it became flooded. I would say that the center for the start of critical thinking and myth creation actually came from a place in Siberia just north of Mongolia.
The Garden of Eden is a spiritual place. When you walk with the God of Israel the entire earth is Eden unto you
The story is about the unequal relationship between characters with less or more active frontal lobes. We know that H. neanderthalensis and H. sapiens shared this region for a time.
The Garden of Eden is in Missouri dummy.
I've always thought that there is a truth to the bible just not the truth we might first think of and if so I really wonder what does the book of revelation mean because we're already seeing three of the horse men of the apocalypse in our current age and thinking about it just raises so many questions we really need to ask.
@@pong9000 that would explain the nephelim
Your videos are amazing and i love people who think like us as well as everyone in the comments who wants too see and be the change in the world!
Been a fan of yours for a while. Another very well informed video. Without discussion we will never change the things that need to change I applaud you for taking on these topics
It would be amazing if you did serialize these "8 taboo" episodes. It would make you have more of a brand than you already have. Love your work, brother. Thank you
Id say it would work better as a separate channel
While I do disagree with some of the things you say, I enjoy getting a different perspective on life, and I respect your candor.
@The Philosoraptor It is good to find a CZcamsr who can speak his mind without trying to be pretentious.
What do you disagree with?
@@nathanseper8738 it’s refreshing to see someone disagree with someone online without being toxic about it.
@@Laocoon283 I would Also be interrested.
Dig the channel bud, always reading a researching myself and it’s always good to hear others who do.
This is a very interesting series! Love it! ❤️ What other youtubers do these kind of videos?
Not many.
30:40 "We are not slavishly beholding to our biology in every single regard - except at the same time... we are."
Congratulations, Rudy! With this you have found something incredibly important imo, and pretty early in life, too. I was in my mid-20s when I fully and consciously grasped that concept. I used to call it duality, but now I call it ambivalence. Still searching for a better word. In a nutshe, the fact that in this wonderfully weird world there can exist two things simultaneously that should exclude one another. I found that this can be applied to so many fields, in the big as well as in the small, and I find it pretty humbling.
Have a good day :)
Conjoined auto-disparity?
I prefer using the word Duality for this phenomenon. It’s surprising to read about how much of Human Psychology acts in the same way with our notions of “Good” and “Evil”, and I’m loving everything that I find on the subject.
It’s funny how you do see it in physics.
The serpentine belt on your alternator if too tight will not work and damage the equipment, and if too loose, it will fall off and Hass to be tensions. Both ways. There is a Goldilocks spot. But never mind that read the Bible, where and what it says, undo it, and he will live a better life.
Are we human or are we dancer....
"I don't know if we will engineer ourselves to be gods in the future"
From an ancient point of view we did already
We're like a toddler who suddenly found a magic wand. 😂
We don’t know how to maintain our environment though. We’re literally killing ourselves
It is only logical to do so. We're fairly primitive in the field of bioengineering still
Flying cars, or godhood didn't happen.
genuinely try explaining to the roman empire even just what ww1 era tech was.
just basic early radios would seem like a holy gift, or the hell a mounted trench machine gun (which is a piece of crap compared to now) would unleash.
let alone modern technology which they wouldn't be able to really comphrehend how it effects society because its so far gone from their lives its insane.
It has been a while since I looked at your channel. You content has got even better! Thanks
Somewhere in Africa during the cognitive resolution:
Ape 1 *eats a handful of mushrooms*: "Holy Fuck I've discovered circles"
Ape 2: "ooga booga"
Ape 1: "What do you mean you can't understand me?"
Nothing better than to get an hour oong video from daddy alt hist
You have forgotten the name of your father
You're probably older than him
Atheist????what says that about this video???
Finally I love to talk about these tough questions. We need to discuss them and I respect the initiative from you.
What’s that name tho
@@Abdirazak_sulley FatGigaChad
I loved this series. My primary criticism is that your definition of "Darwinism" has virtually nothing to do with Darwin, who specifically dealt with biology. His foundational theory of biodiversity (the evolution of species / descent with inherent modification) is merely scientific, not philosophical (though it was philosophically disruptive, as science often is). Evolutionary biology has since developed far beyond Darwin, so that our current understanding of evolution has as little to do with Darwin as our understanding of gravity has to do with Newton. Your use of the term "Darwin"/"Darwinism" seems to relate to a colloquial abstraction of Darwinian concepts into non-biological systems.
This difference is not just pedantic. The statement that the Nazis were Darwinists is a common myth. In reality, the Nazis rejected Darwin's science and instead believed that God had specially created separate races of humans. Meanwhile, Darwin and his fellows argued that there was only one extant race of humans, which turned out to be correct. (Race/Breed/Subspecies are identical concepts, biologically.)
The Nazis were atheists however. Just like all other socialists
The Nazis thought that the Aryan and Nordic race was superior because they evolved on harsh climates, not because of God. The Nazis were a secular political group, not a religious sect.
Social darwinism is a thing and more that he was talking about.
The Nazis did use Darwinist ideas, it's just that as with everything else they twisted them to their own goals. Also what do Nazis have to do with god? Nazis hated god and actively fought against the church, in fact they tried to replace the church with their own and even created a massive cathedral worshipping Nazism and created an entire mythology to raise the Aryan race onto a pedestal and lower other races far below it. If anything Nazism tried to replaced god and the church with their own version.
Not from himself directly, Darwin brought on the concept of the survival of the fittest. Hitler himself thought in terms of nations fighting for survival. The way the Nazis were to create an a new era based on a new religion was through artistry and myth-making. The artistry was the aesthetic delivery of the message and the myth, or pseudo-history to justify it all. Much like scientific socialism, there was no science behind it at all, but merely a narrative, or explanation to justify belief.
Found your channel about a month ago. Love the content. One of my favorite channels now
Even though in this final episode you don’t just pose the questions as in previous videos but also attempt to answer them (and I agree with most of your answers) I must say this was a very thought-provoking series. Excellent job!
This reminds of a good deal of social theory which for decades has posited that mass society breeds alienation and that increasing numbers of men would refuse to participate in family life or economic competition. Trends like equality of the sexes, the end of the military draft, and free trade have tended to atomize people and to lead to more of a drop-out sensibility.
I view myself objectively. Even though I like myself and know why I am still lacking in certain areas that, in my opinion, objectively lower my own value (it sounds harsh but hear me), I still feel the strong need to better myself in those aspects I feel lacking in. These are really basic, root-level things, like beauty (overweight, not well groomed enough), value for others (providing others with things I feel are valuable, like a pleasant companionship and genuine help to better their lives), or value through creation (simple creative work such as art or even things that can be directly monetized). This has been with me ever since I was a kid, it's something within all of us, and I think that's at least part of darwinism, if not its core. Ironically, a large part of the reason I still like myself is because I feel like simply acknowledging this feeling of darwinism within us instead of forcibly rejecting it already gives me a virtue that seems to be generally lost today. If someone were to tell me "Hey, you're fat, and it makes you less beautiful," I'd be hurt, but agree with them completely, and in fact thank them for being truthful with me (unless they intended it to be a malicious attack on my ego rather than anything else). This has been the thing driving me especially lately, and it feels good to have it work as a compass for me. It tells me exactly what I need to better about myself and just do in general.
"The idea of a gender spectrum was developed by a radical wing of a radical breakoff movement that came from one of the worst failing ideologies in all of history" must be one of best descriptions I have ever heard.
Pretty fascist too.
and there you have it damn how is it fascist?do you know what fascism stands for?what it means or at this point u only commenting on peoples comments just to trigger a third person into answering u?
@@gregendlikelegend3339 they ( gender ideologues) want to control your language via their pronoun bullshit and saying trans women are women, and in turn that language controls thoughts. They also like to force how they perceive themselves onto others which is delusional and unhealthy. These things are very fascist lmao
@@gregendlikelegend3339 the word fascism is no longer a sentence to describe a type of regime but a buzzword to use when youre triggered by someone who has different political views :1
Gender being a spectrum has popped up in many cultures throughout history
Your video's are the only ones that get full screen mode and my 100% full attention. I'm always scared I'll miss the spot to pause to read everything. Thank you for having the bravery to talk about these things. I agree with so much that you say but I'm often afraid to voice my opinion because if you disagree even 10% with some peoples views they go on a near screaming rampage and refuse to even listen. It's with us, or against us no middle ground.
Despite my disagreement with your view on a topic or two, this video was great to watch. I always welcome someone arguing their points without arguing in bad faith. Love the channel, please keep making great videos like this!
Bro you're not even getting close to the real taboo questions. LOL
This video was a whole lot better than your other Taboo questions videos.
The ignorant breadtubers are going to smear you relentlessly so you might as well just embrace the fact that you are one of the good guys. Excellent work dude, keep it up.
There are no good guys on this website. We tend to follow those who express our own beliefs.
@@longclaw22-72 there are good guys, they just follow different ideology, and mostly the loudest ones are often the worst
Those left guys are useless.
@@longclaw22-72 where do your own beliefs come from?
what is a breadtuber?
Geology student here. We are still technically in an ice age. The very end stages of one, but one nonetheless. The majority of the earth's history has been on average 30F hotter across the globe. This is why earth didn't have ice caps for the majority of its history. Enjoy the heat bois. I won't... I enjoy the ice and snow...
Thank you for that! So.......humanity's challenge is to keep the Earth artificially cool in order to avoid the damage and mass human die-off that the current temperature trajectory will bring. Would you agree with that?
Imagine a geology student who still uses Fahrenheit for temperature measurement 🤣
Sry but this joke needed to be here
@@mthej6211 fair. I do centigrade pretty regularly too. Just most of the people I interact with don't understand the quick conversion scale, so i just automatically convert and round it for them so they know what I'm talking about.
@@ninamartin1084 We need to develop our space industry. So many of our problems will be solved when we are in space, looking down at Earth. For one, solar power satellites that can absorb or even reflect sunlight will let us tailor our temperature. And that's not even high tech, we just need to establish our foothold in space.
@@ninamartin1084 did you watch the global warming section of the video? Literally talks about this blind apocalypse trajectory nonsense; humanity has lived on a hotter planet and life has survived on a hotter planet. There wont be a mass die off, possible mass migration due to the north having the majority of the land but it is currently colder than most humanity likes to live in or weather patterns could change ( ex. rain in the Sahara becomes normal). Alarmism is the end is nigh BS that is not helpful in any meaningful way to adapting to change.
At 19:18 I am confused by the politicization of Maleficent. Like Gregory McGuire's character, Elphaba in "Wicked," the back story of The Wicked Witch of The West, Maleficent's evilness is explained by how cruelly she was wounded and abused. Over the course of the story she is redeemed and returns to good and helps the young ingenue realize that true love is not the romantic lie we have been sold about sexual love, but rather true love is the transcendent selfless love of a parent of Godparent. This is not a demonstration of the hatred of The West. It is the retelling of a story wherein the hero is love itself.
Good job as usual whatifalthist
I really love this series as it mostly covers stuff people mostly know but are too afraid to admit the truth of the matter but it also delves into really interesting insights into topics that are not known broadly and shines a light on some really interesting information in both cases please keep it up wether it is a continuation of this topic or group of topics or just another one that you come up with as all of your videos are really well done bravo my friend
10:11 Most convincing explanation of what happened to the dinosaurs I've ever seen.
HAHAHA. I mostly listen to these like a podcast while doing chores, and I totally missed that image lol.
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lmao
Ideas of video : Can we have a top 10 most creative period in history ??
I'm very intrigued and curious on why you consider the middle ages as one of the most creative time in history !!
This has to be one of the best channels on YT. The search for the truth is the most just of causes.
Hey Whatifalthist I just wanted to say that your videos are great and I love how they are grounded in reality.
I can’t believe that you only have this many subscribers you always make me think about things that I wouldn’t think about normally
People don't eat all this crap.
I can tell you PTSD is very hard...
I think your content is thoughtful and well presented
You terminated a child 👧🏻 👦🏻? How do you feel about your self?
@Dub105 that dosent make sense. I didn't say anything like your statement.
What question would you most like to discuss in a classroom as a student or teacher but feel as if you can't for some reason or another?
Is Christianity good or bad?
you know it's serious when florida is in the thumbnail
You’ve made me reconsider several key positions since I found this channel a few months ago. You have a good brain, keep it up brother.
Been liking this channel a lot lately
Watched all 3 vids...Def subscribed.
Thanks for content
Great work I stand amazed at the way you have diagnosed the worlds greatest plagues and have exposed them in such a thoughtful manner. Keep it up!
That final argument comparing gender thinking to religion really hit the nail on the head. I have been recently thinking about how people embody the whole argument and persona of a SJW or lgbtq supporter after finding themselves agreeing with certain aspects of it, and this video made me realize the similarity of it to religious fanaticism and the ways religion instill beliefs in their followers, something which I was already aware of. As always, really intriguing video and very thought provoking ideas.
At least religions have reasons to justify their beliefs. This is more like an extremist self help theory that by identifying with some gender I will be more happy just because
@@sergiowinter5383 When it comes to sexuality though if someone isn't attracted to the opposite sex they just aren't but I'm convinced those people exist to help the village when it comes to helping raise children in a tribal context. Gender however I agree is similar in belief to religion in the way some people act about it.
What he could have brought up is that this aspect is in fact a legacy of Communist thinking.
Its also because it was believed that if we just simply declared that gender differences did not exist, then discrimination could be stamped very easily. It was a cop out from the harsher reality that the task would be much tougher.
Leftist political ideology is a fanatical faith based belief system for people who don't realize they're religious.
Let's get started! Haha Hey THANKS for your videos and all your hard work.
I've never understood the "how can god let this happen" argument. The only way to prevent evil from being enacted by a human being is to enslave them, which is an act of evil. All-good, all-knowing, all-powerful. Enslaving people violates the all-good clause in the christian definition of god.
Long story short, we are responsible for our own actions. A valuable lesson whether you are religious or not.
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@@daikucoffee5316 Better put on a lifejacket before you drown in cringe
I really suggest that you check out Last and First Men. It's an interesting philosophical journey about the future of humanity. Your point on the Garden of Eden, Cognitive Revolution, Satan, and Morality really had me appreciating the book even more for its content.
I read this twice, wanderfull, the sad of extincion and which is your favourit specie and why? I dont remember...
This is one of the most realistic takes I’ve ever seen on the world. Thank you.
As always an excellent presentation
Your "Vacuum argument" term made me subscribe for more
An important note for darwinism is that genes aren't completely selfish. There's something called the gay uncle theory which explains why some people are gay through evolutionary psychology
i haven't watched the video yet so this is completely unrelated to anything but what do you think about helping people in your ingroup, is that the gene being selfish? for example if i help my sister survive but i suffer would my gene still be selfish because there is a copy of the gene in her dna?
@@salvadorsays yes, I think that's why the us vs them mentality is so strong. That's what I meant by saying that it's not completely selfish
Genes are completely selfish though. Altruism exists purely through the principals of reciprocity, and relatedness.
It makes perfect sense for me to help my sister have 8 kids, instead of us each having 1, because my sister having 8 still results in more of my genetic material seeing the next generation than us having a combined 2.
That theory is pretty much debunked. The current theory is a heterozygote advantage. Where as gay people are no more likely to invest in the children of there siblings then a straight person. They do seem to have a lot more nieces and nephews. This implies that the "gene" or whatever is causing homosexuality is helpful if you only have one copy of the gene, but a detriment when you have two copies.
Also I don't think I've seen a single person use the term "selfish gene" correctly in this comment section.
I love this feeling and I wished more people were like this. It's like when you have a scab on a wound and you want to see the skin except that feeling is a question and it's never ending.
I wanted the leave a comment of appreciation for the content you create. You are a True Artist in craft and spirit. While I don’t agree with every point you make, I clearly see your earnest orientation. Your depth of knowledge and understanding on complex issues and concepts before the age of knowledge(26 for Europeans) is truly incredible. Our people need the leadership, peerage, and mentorship your content provides. Keep up the Great Work!
Your content is amazing.
Religion isn't here to show us how good the world is, it's here to show us how to make the world good. Whether you believe Jesus was the son of God, or just some wise dude, he still told us how to be good people, You don't have to be Jew to find the wisdom that's in the torrah, and the teachings of Buddha can help you whether your trying to be enlightened, or just a little happier. You don't have to believe in God to see that the religious books of every major religion lay out the morals and values that define modern western culture. That's why when we separated church and state we kept things like murder and rape illegal, before the widespread of the Abrahamic religions there were alot of ways to legally justify rape and murder in 80% of the "civilized world" atleast. Now, we see those things as innately evil, but it was less than 1000 years ago that someone had to come along and teach humans that those things were wrong. Some Europeans didn't figure it out until the 20th century, some nations still have to figure that out.
Doesn't the Old Testament still contain plenty of justification for murder? What's your point here, humans are dumb and need to be enlightened? The Human rights acts have superceded the commandments, and should now be worshipped accordingly?
Which nations haven’t figured it out?
@@yonithebear2591 a good bit of the middle east, some central African nations, parts of South America. If you think the rest of the world has the same morals and values as the western nations you are sadly mistaken.
@@camelholocaust5149 cant wait til abrahamic religions spread into the middle east maybe then they`ll stop killing eachother
@@camelholocaust5149 you are right, the middle east still has a long way to catch up with advanced civillization
I really enjoy watching this channel grow. You've got something special, man.
Nice videos I’ve been binging this harder than Netflix!!!!
I swear I love each new vid even more