Understanding Modern Civilization

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[vilimylly]

"The duality of of the autistic masculine and the hysteric feminine." You hit the nail on the head with that one! I've never heard anyone describe modern civilisation so accuratley.

[Melammu]

A man who snuffs out his emotion becomes a robot. A man who does not develop his mind becomes an animal. Balance must be achieved.

[gadsdenimperitor]

You should do an April fools video that covers the history and influence of Mongolian heavy metal

[phaeton]

Duuude, the modern HR department being this paradigms version of the clergy is soooo true

[KingArthurWs]

When visiting my family in Switzerland, I spent most of my time with them at their place, which was all beautiful, heavy wood architecture hundreds of years old, with all the buildings nearby made of that same style. Yet, when we went into the center of the town to the grocery store, we were shocked to find a square, bare, concrete block with no windows. Easy to forget the shifts we have made with globalization and the like.

[georgios_]

28:29 as a Greek, I have to say that's very accurate. Western historiography makes it feel like we went extinct after Plato and Aristotle and all 👀

[trentonfairley]

The “We can be cursed togetherrr” part killed me 😂

[chrismeyers]

It’s kind of crazy how much your videos have changed my worldview. Before, I was just you run of the mill republican, I’d vote red for anyone, but (it’s kind of hard to explain) your videos changed my views of reality in some fundamental way, and I stopped believing in the illusions I was surrounded by. I think it was your neutrality, up to that point I had been so used to everything being biased towards one group or another.

Then again, watching your videos may just make me feel smart about myself lol.

[harshjain]

Yup. I have to watch this twice or thrice to understand and soak in fully. And I am an engineer who watches 24/48hr long videos for certain projects in a stretch. Yet, the amount of ideas and the things I want to write down are way too many.

Never in my life have I been more...in a state of trance than this video. So many 'oh damn, this makes sense', it really really...explains so many things that I always pondered about.

Amazing work. Never stop. God bless.

[rms]

architecture is highly dependent on the building-science technology and techniques of how its components come together. Cost also plays a huge factor to the features and forms that a building features. Its technology driving the aesthetics. Modern materials of steel, glass, concrete, aluminum, waterproof membranes, modern HVAC systems, Lighting systems, electrical systems, plumbing systems - have yielded the modern industrialially constructed "international modern style of contemporary architecture" it simply is the cheapest and most efficient way to create useable, climate controled, interior space for the purposes of work, live, production etc. Anything outisde this minimalist modern mold is essentially relegated as "ornimentation" and usually requires specialized craftsman in order to add frilly decoration or ornamentation (which was much more prevelant in previous centuries) - ornamentation was more common because of 3 factors: 1. the building owners were relatively rich and they demanded it. 2. the constructors such as veryday construction workers of previous eras were highly under payed and thus having lots of craftsman to create decorative ornamentation was somewhat affordable. 3. there was a much greater importance in a buildings 'stately presence' than today. in modern day, buildings are more often regarded simply as machines which facilitate a specific mechanical function (the human inhabitants being part of this machine) the machine was either a machine for living, or a machine for creating money, or delivering a service, or production or manufacturing of goods etc etc.

[marcodossantosoliveira]

Bloody hell!!! I have watched this guy for years and he has mentioned Angola for the first time with a really clear description 👌🏾

[mobilityproject]

Consumerists be like: We will make a new utopia around young people consuming and screwing with strangers. Then young people will never want to fight again.
Reality be like: Large scale child abuse/neglect leads to inefficiency and stagnation. Overconsumption times inefficiency equals ecological collapse.

[enoughothis]

Reject skyscraper, return to gothic cathedral.

[kylepederson]

“Our era is run by religious fanatics who worship the god of progress” is such a good sentence to describe it

[kevincronk]

I get what you mean about world cities. I grew up right outside of DC and have always been completely used to everyone else being immigrants from literally everywhere but the US (name a country, 80% chance I've known people from there at some point). I'm a Freshman in college now and the students at my college are mostly from rural areas of the state and it's a huge culture shock, despite how technically we're both from Virginia. I have more in common with the immigrants from other parts of the world than with the people from the same state as me. However, the fact that it's people from all over the world, not people from NYC, London, and Dubai, makes me doubt that it's so much that these cities are just islands of a different culture as opposed to places where this different culture, which does exist everywhere, is concentrated.

[mdl]

As a British person, I consider myself as a western and I don't condemn my ancestors. I think we did the best we could as humans, I am ashamed of our modern state though.

[Tgruss]

I have been hearing these ideas piecemeal from different people for the past two years. This is the first time I’ve heard them all coherently tied together into a single line of thought. It is as if the highlights of my own intellectual interests have culminated into a single video. You need to expand out this script into a book to get it out to the main stream.

[WestPictures]

I love this channel because Rudyard is so earnest. It is great to hear someone passionate about these topics who isn't overly cynical or trying to seem hip. I like the conversational style

[Mornathel]

My family is from California but I grew up in the heart of Cajun country in the region called Acadiana. In terms of California, my family is very aware of its cultural and heritage being very German and Celtic. My mother’s maiden name is Zentmyer, and that side of the family is very proud of its German roots. We still practice the more Germanic inheritance system where the oldest son gets most of if not all the inheritance and family heirlooms. That’s why it was such a massive and huge deal when my great grandfather gave me his first naval saber instead of my grandfather. Due to the fact that my grandfather had no sons, and the firstborn son of my great uncle being very “modern, ” I, as the traditional and heritage aware great grandson have gotten heirlooms I otherwise shouldn’t have. On my father’s side, my grandfather plans on giving all the important family heirlooms to my dad and mom as the firstborn and most appreciative of the family history. My great Grandfathers service weapons will go to my dad with the M1 Garand and captured Arisaka rifle already being passed down. The rifle has a chrysanthemum etching still on it which is a big deal.

Watching this video helped crystallize why I’ve seen in my family. In both sides the first born are still traditional and and we are aware of our heritage and family history to the point we almost venerate it. While my cousins aunts and uncles are all very contemporary and modernist, not being as aware or even caring about our history or traditions.

[amitbechor]

"I've been to France"
sir this is a Wendy's