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Yeah, phone is unfortunately anachronism at this point. But I'm afraid we're stuck with it.

Thanks for the comment. Since I was born in 1955 I did indeed live through most of it. I was in the San Francisco Bay Area when the hippies began, I was in Europe in the late 70s, I spent 16 years in New York City, I visited Europe repeatedly, I now live on the edge of Russia in Tbilisi Georgia. So I've often had an excellent seat to the times. Plus I've done lots of historical research and kept my nose to the ground sniffing things out. So for me nothing in this series is remotely abstract. Thanks for noticing. And for your endurance!

Thanks for the book recommendation Anthony. I think Kenneth Clark share the general prejudice against even the name Baroque. I believe it wasn't until 1966 that the was an academic agreement that the Baroque was the name of the era. Surely Clark was one of the many who disdained it as the decadent Late Renaissance. But I'm of the opinion that it was probably one of the most important eras in history.

@@TheAnadromist Ah interesting. I am a big fan of Bernini and plenty of other Baroque artists, I just as a whole prefer the Renaissance. I did not know that the term only became dominant in the 60s. Art periodization is a tough thing to try to pin down as well.

I was thinking of Paul's use of the phrase 'memory hole' as a verb. And it occurred to me how many new phrases have been formed in the last few years. And what's puzzling is how many of these phrases already have perfectly valid words already. Instead of memory holed I'd simply say buried, which conveys exactly the same thing more concisely. But this isn't just a criticism. There is a reason we are doing this. The lords of social media are the young millennials and generation Z. They have a low resolution understanding of the real world, and very little connection to it. So things that were absolutely obvious and quotidian when I was younger now are seen as novel and new words have to be used to describe them. (As though they were discovering them for the first time.) Then these words get adopted further up the generation ladder by the rest of us watching videos where suddenly these new/old concepts return. Some one these neologisms will stick, most won't. Since I take the long view, I rarely use the new words, unless they fit a purpose no other word will fill. So 'member berries'? Why would I use that phrase when we have so many very specific words for remembering and nostalgia, unless it has a very specific meaning of memories from the recent media that are being foisted back upon us, which is what I think it does mean. Still I have other less ironic phrases for the same. I would use it in quotes. But then again the word practically screams to be in quotes. So what I do is to continue using the words of the past to make the younger generations realize that the past has rights of its own. And it needs to breathe too.

@@TheAnadromist best YT creator response game ever. Much to chew on 🙏

Did you see it on an overcast day?

@@TheAnadromist No, it was super hot.

@@MarcInTbilisi South Rim no doubt. Many complain when they get there if it's overcast and ungrand-canyon-like. I prefer the North Rim, which is less visited and much higher, thus cooler. I stayed a few days there on a dirt road no one ever visited watching a small portion of the canyon. Magical.

The problem with being a tourist is that it implies a state of enforced hedonic ignorance. It isn't about connecting to anything but the momentary experience. But for the traveler one can access new time, when everything slows down and the memory is on high alert. Thanks Marc.

Well at least you can visit Quebec. Actually I find Whitehorse one of the most exotic corners of Canada.

Ancestral hilltops are good. And getting lost in the Vatican will be her strongest memory of that journey.

Yes I'm a big proponent of travel, but much less of tourism. Real travel exposes us to something other, and shows us to be other ourselves. Tourism reduces the reality by packaging it into an overly digestible meal. Alas the patience of the locals in overtouristed destinations is being stretched thin. (See my last video interview with Doug Lansky.)

@@TheAnadromist Deep. Like a peregrinating Zen monk or haiku poet.

Thanks. Yeah lots of mood in Italy. My time in Palermo was haunted by old buildings, markets selling young skinned goat kid heads, and the creepiest catacombs on earth. (Also see Giallo)

@@TheAnadromist I've visited Palermo two times. And also the Tuscany region in Italy. Palermo / Sicily is Italy, but it's also not Italy and may as well be its own country. I've visited those catacombs too in or near Palermo; it was on my last day there and the night afterward when back home I woke up in the middle of the night with sleep paralyzes, the only time I've ever experienced this. So I was suddenly awake but couldn't move a single part of my body while simultaneously feeling an invisible presence in the room looking at me. I joked about it afterward, thinking maybe some spirit from the catacombs had followed me home. It was a weird coincidence with those catacombs still fresh in my mind. I didn't know about Giallo as a genre. But reading about it now, I can see how the show Ripley probably also has some aspects of it for its overall texture and feel (though the fun part about Ripley is that we, as the viewer, are coconspirators, and there's no mystery who the killer is).

@@phiswe That's a great story about the catacombs. I felt it while I was there. But then again I was quite prepared for what I was about to see. Alas I haven't seen Ripley. I rarely do streaming services. But it sounds interesting. My reflections on Palermo can be found here: gravityfromabove.wordpress.com/2017/12/08/life-and-death-in-palermo/

Alas there was a Dark Age that ruined much of this. Even crop rotation vanished as a memory, and most of the organization. Only the Roman Catholic Church survived, and most of the organization they brought into post-Roman Europe was not ancient Rome but a mixed set of ideas. The Holy Roman Empire, it is often said, was neither Holy, nor Roman, nor an Empire. When the Renaissance brought Roman ideas back, Europe had already completely changed. And yet. We always look back. Or we did, until the Internet came along. Now we just look into our hands stuck in the eternal NOW.

@@TheAnadromist Dark Age is a myth. The knowledge of building a society and running it survived. Cultural heritage is like a rope, made up of many strings of which none runs all the way from one end to the other, but the general ideas survive.

@@Liisa3139 Well you seem to know more about history than I do, so I'll defer.

Actually that is the myth we are sold. Europe is filled with unquaint things. But Americans (Asians too.) are suckers for tourism propaganda. And so what we are sold is the very center of Paris not the Banlieu (their Suburbs), we are sold on street in Prague, most people never get off that street. But when I go there I am often all over the place. Now the truth is that by American standards much about Europe seems quaint, but then again by the standards of most other countries America seems like endless cultural conformity (until they get there). But trust me if you are the average American in any way you are not seeing Europe as it is. I mean consider Paul. He's an intelligent man. But his knowledge of Europe is fairly abstract and it is only by his going to Europe that he is beginning to see something else. The big problem with Europe is that World War 2 left such a huge hole in everything that they have been happy to have the US deal with their threats, which gave them a chance to focus on quality of life stuff, only to more recently have those issues come back and bite them. Poland suddenly realized that they need to grow their military quickly because if the Russians cross their borders America may not be a in the mood to help... or even be able to. Each European country is in a different world. The former Iron Curtain countries seem more serious about the future than the Western countries do.

@@TheAnadromistI was actually going to say that about the Eastern European world, they seem to be proving Francis Parker Yockeys theory exactly, that for culture to still exist occupation under the soviets was a far better option than Americanization. It would be hard but quick, bloody but over, whereas Americanization of the west has had a slow creeping effect which digs a lot deeper into cultural erosion.

@@WarInHeaven I wonder about these broader generalizations. But anyone who thinks that Americanization is worse or more insidious than the Soviet Union is the kind of thing only people living today could think. I live in the ex-Soviet Union in Georgia. While people debate American/Western influence here. AT least they CAN debate it. There were NO DEBATES ABOUT ANYTHING during the USSR. Nevertheless the SU wasn't completely bad. And they did preserve a kind of Western Culture which has largely been forgotten in the West. But it was changed in the saving.

@@TheAnadromistyour probably right I knew I’d get grilled for the big generalizations I hope I didn’t come across too poorly about the SU / US

Islam wouldn't allow that.

Thanks. That's why I chose to do this on my channel. He sprinkles a thought here, an observation there, then goes on to other thoughts and ideas. But it sounded like he had many more thoughts. Indeed he did.

Thanks for the observations. One thing I am grateful for is that I began to travel to Europe when I was in my 20s. Many people today have an idea of waiting until they have enough money or even until they are retired. And by that time in your life you generally have no real ideas about travel. (There are of course many exceptions.) But I traveled on a shoestring and didn't look back. Somewhere along the way I figured out that the point of traveling was not simply traveling, but to have a reason to travel. By the way you might find my video Ranking 25 different kinds of tourists and travelers interesting.

Thanks. Yes part of what interests me about tourism, and I love travel, is how our basic reality is disappearing in the false dreams of tourism. I often read or listen to people who talk about their little town being nowhere. Being completely boring. And I can't help but see a connection between the dream of tourism and the emptying of reality. By the way if you want my longer thoughts on modern tourist check my video Ranking Tourists, from worst to best.

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It gets a lot less capsulized as it goes. Thanks.

Well John it's a thought, but at least from the perspective of someone living in New York City, it just seems like we tried as hard as possible to blame our new villains for everything and forget about the Cold War as soon as possible. I kind of wish there'd been even enough triumphalism to at least clarify to the younger students what the last 45 tears had been about. The average American student was given no idea that there was ever such a thing as Communism, which is how the worst excesses of the Left were allowed to grow again. The media, the schools, the news, only had one boogie man, and he had a small mustache, the one with the big mustache disappeared from sight, the Chinese one was supposed to be a friend now, until they weren't. We did won the cold war then immediately buried it and forgot about it, except in the most superficial manner. Now it seems to be returning in the most ersatz way. And it all feels a bit upside-down, farcical and just as dangerous.

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Glad to hear it. Check out my new one on digital footprints.

No. You are missing his point. He is saying the same thing Tom Holland does in his history book 'Dominion'. Rookmaaker is essentially saying these people are essentially living off the capital of their Christian past, but without acknowledging it. And he is absolutely right. Check out Dominion for an in depth argument about how even the anti-Christian world we see now is essentially a Christian heresy, impossible without Christianity.

@@TheAnadromist oh, ok, I misunderstood, but he did mean that christians are not taking their own teaches seriously, didn't he? they go to church and they make their confessions, but they don't go out to rescue the babies from the sewers like the early christians did, they just keep it in the private sphere, and meanwhile they let evil keep working unaddressed.

We already know. See China.

Actually as I mentioned at the end of this she is being influenced in ways today that have even mutated since her 'documentary' came out. Her boyfriend Travis Kelce and his brother and his family are quite Catholic. Likewise her friend, Brittany Mahomes, wife of KC quarterback Patrick Mahomes, has recently come out in favor of Trump. Taylor's lefty fans are trying to get her to distance herself, but she isn't. I surmise that Taylor is a pure lefty doesn't really wash, which is why I think she is closer to JK Rowlings in outlook than to AOC. And financially she is anything but a leftist. I think she is actually changing her outlook slowly behind the scenes. Meanwhile check out this video. ua-cam.com/video/F0do-cYdmcY/v-deo.html

@@TheAnadromist I should have been more specific in what I said. Taylor has come out and endorsed Harris after yesterday's debate. I agree though that she's not a pure lefty and not a true "woke" partisan, which makes her endorsement all the more curious. I apologize for the lack of clarity in my initial message. P.S this is Michael S, on one of my alternate accounts.

he told ppl to do their own research and make their own decisions..

If you want to see where art is ending up. Pretty much where I've predicted with lots of Cute. But very weird too. Look at this video. ua-cam.com/video/gBSrh7Wqf-8/v-deo.html

@@TheAnadromist watched the video, there's a lot of craft in those artworks, but with the optimism the narrator treats it it ends up being a depressing video, I really can't stand this situation art is in, there has to be a way out from this. What's been very salient to me recently is a phrase of tolkien "a good craftsman learns to love his material" I didn't understand it at first but I see it now in medieval art and mythical stories, that's what I was trying to get close to with those AI images I showed you, sorry I haven't responded yet, I've been both sick and busy, watching the Rookmaker videos also, I will explain more in an email response soon.

@@acuerdox Yes. The narrator was a bit uncritical. But I did notice the presence of large eyed childlike figures, if cynically done. Nevertheless the Cute is what is beyond the postmodern.

This moment feels open with small but fertile possibilities. Let's not rush. Let's not waste it. Eventually times will change again.l

Which was my point. (See my How We Got here series.) The point is not to waste this moment.

Truly spoken. What will happen when people are no longer needed for work?

Being older, I preferred the Nineties to the Eighties by far. You hit that teen culture moment as a teen, which means that you were definitely being catered to, and it probably felt pretty good. But alas we paid the price for 'good times'. We're paying for it now. Somewhere in one of the answers here I explain some of the things we should have done. Thanks for the comment.

@@TheAnadromist paying for it is putting it lightly. I was in college in 2008. That was my job market after graduating. It's been a rough 17 years.

Thanks. I'm actually pretty far down the road of making a video about Generations and Decades. I think these things are a lot subtler than people understand. And of course it matters when we were children. The Lord of the Rings helps to make sense of 9/11. And the 60s really goes from 1964 through 1975, divided by the failure of the hippies and the simultaneous spread of same like Chinese whispers. And yes I agree the period from 9/11 to March 2020 seems like one epoch with breaks around 2008, 2012 or 14. But one thing is clear, we are no longer in the early days of the 21st century. 1914 is a major dividing point because of WW1, But WW1, like WW2, is an era by itself. And in 1918 the 20s begins. At the same time people tend to go along with the decade theory and look for changes when they end. Of curse the joke is that they all end a year too early because the media tells us that the years with 0s are a new decade. I just got a book of films by decade made by a German publisher, Taschen, and guess what their decades end at the end 1980, 1990, etc. which is what it used to be. (See Kubrick's 2001.) But stay tuned for my generation/decade video.

@@TheAnadromist Thank you for that. Looking forward to it

You've nailed it.

Even worse the West desided to punish the former USSR. Gave them "uncontrolled" capitalism and "Democracy". They went from society with a poverty rate of 3% to a Democratic societry with 30% poverty rate for ten years . The Russians blame us for that and rejeted it by voting Puttin into power. You can watch youtube videos of USA advisers saying they wanted to destroy the former Ussr so it could never be a problem again.

Which is precisely what I find I disagree with Spengler and why the Germans in the 1940s liked him.

@@TheAnadromist yeah they liked a lot of people who didn’t like them back. He was in the same camp of Jung Heidegger and Wagner as well as Nietzsche. All of these people were adopted by the mid century Germans, who if read clearly would have been very critical of that movement. Blood in his sense is spiritual first not DNA

@@WarInHeaven Jung actually had all his references to the return of mythology and Dolph Hipler scrubbed from the American versions of his books after the war. (See The Jung Cult book) I guess i take a more Christ centered approach to history, which is much less warlike. (If done correctly.)

@@TheAnadromist interesting book recommendation!

​@@TheAnadromistHeidegger was also an enthusiastic supporter of "the painter" and virulent antisemite as we now know from his notebooks and various unearthed materials.. contrary to how he tried to present himself after the war and how some tried to whitewash him..

That's the usual right wing perspective, I think it's time for more courage and less fatalism.

@@TheAnadromist maybe I’m just too Calvinist to see something good coming down the road (;

Indeed. Tchaikovsky also wrote the 1812 Overture. We have been terrible at commemoration and celebration. Celebration now is often just loudspeakers playing repetitive music in an open space. Imagine the eye-rolling that would have been involved in any American celebration of the end of the any event since the 1980s, let alone the Cold War. But and here is the point, the political leaders never know how to address the cynicism and meaninglessness of contemporary life. They spend so much time in the day to day of political life and elections that they can take no long term view. We need some new leaders. Maybe in this moment some are being shaped. That is the hope.

@@TheAnadromist Given the short-term planning of government and their obsession with day-by-day headlines, is it not perhaps the very system begetting these figures which lies at fault? Democracy does necessitate the mass political mobilisation of the people, creating these neurotic politicians bound and tied from making meaningful change. That being said, revolutions of days gone by have never gone very well...

@@NeutronNick11 Ellul said that modern technology essentially neuters democracy. (See The Political Illusion.) Unfortunately all the alternatives recently suggested are worse. But I feel something else is brewing.

The religion of the self had taken firm root by the 90s, and no longer having an external enemy, apart from 'them' left the mirror as the holy shrine. Was it inevitable? I don't think anything is inevitable. But we do create a kind of fate by ignoring things earlier, before they get out of hand. And when we have prepared sufficiently, and the issue never comes to a head, we usually don't see it, because the catastrophe has been diverted. And yet it was nightmare was diverted. This has happened many times in history. (England not experiencing a French style revolution.)