Our era judges itself against utopian fantasies rather than real historical comparison—the ultimate intellectual sleight-of-hand. This episode exposes the shocking truth: your life is VASTLY harder t…
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The Political Compass—created by libertarians to separate themselves from fascism—works fine for modern Western politics but COMPLETELY BREAKS when applied to history. Why are Medieval Europe, the Ta…
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As a child, I heard about a comic-book villain called the Unabomber—a Harvard mathematician turned terrorist who wanted to destroy civilization. Fast-forward to our current sci-fi dystopia, and attit…
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Germany's bizarre 1919-1933 "psychedelic trip" between conservative militarism periods offers disturbing parallels to America today. While surrounding decades were prudish and structured, Weimar expl…
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The Middle Ages didn't apologize for human nature—barbarian invasions, heretic burnings, and noble oppression were called what they were. Today we do EXACTLY the same things (often worse) but hide be…
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Experts studying specific historical topics often reach conclusions OPPOSITE to public belief. Today's economy follows this pattern—"great on paper" while visibly failing outside your window. Despite…
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Reality is a cone—different civilizations grasp different sections and heights. Indian philosophy sees reality as divine illusion, Africans lack our concept of time, and medieval Europe had three inc…
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The post-WWII peace is an ILLUSION—just like every other "permanent peace" throughout history. All great peaceful periods (Pax Romana, 19th century) were maintained by empires with overwhelming viole…
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These civilization videos require INTENSE research—I've read six books just for this one! Unlike geopolitics videos where I can fit new info into existing frameworks, each civilization demands I reac…
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We study foreign cultures anthropologically but examine our own only through sociology—which has become 99% leftist propaganda. This means we're experiencing history's most rapid social changes with …
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