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Johny Harris videos have always looked cool visually BUT he gets so much stuff wrong. Even I, a mere lowly undergrad student, often spot that his whole argument is often being built upon his feelings rather than the facts or theory. His russia-ukraine video was a hilarious example of that (because he just basically copy-pasted russian propaganda and called it facts).

Johnny is lowkey a d-bag who conveniently leaves out information with the intent of making the West/America look bad. I also love his video, but he’s pretty manipulative with what he chooses to present.

You could make an entire video series on what Johnny Harris gets wrong.

The Protestants were mostly Scottish and English settlers, not Irish! If im not wrong.

How does this video is not recognized? A great work, deep analysis of the real sense of Dune's book and the idea of a charismatic leader and its political power. A required point of view far beyond the science fiction itself clarifying the central critics.

Keep it up mate, you'll be a major player in this space soon!

You deserve more views

Curious if you have any thoughts about the decline of the multi ethnic Austro-Hungarian & Ottoman Empires? I always think about them regarding the effect of Nationalism in the 19th century.

9:45 To deny that elites are manipulating the masses in today's day and age and its not incredibly effective is pretty naive, those other listed points in history there was no print media or it was just starting. Where as in today's day and age information warfare is a very real and very common everyday occurrence. In the US text books are altered by special interest groups and concepts like evolution are forced to be taught to be an idea that some crazy scientist have, not to mention that in the south US history textbooks are written to be favorable to the history of the south and uncritical about the role that slavery had in the revolutionary war. The people in government choose to do things like omit the fact that the founding fathers owned slaves, and hide the fact that during WWII the US had concentration camps for Japanese people but due to racism they just collected people of all Asian heritage and essentially stripped them of all their belongings and allowed for their property to be reclaimed by "Americans" which just meant white people. The US literally just saw the richest man in the world stop a spending bill that had enough support to pass the house get shot down by threats of "Primary", where the implication is that Musk would be able to spend essentially infinite money of campaigns to sway public opinion of anyone that did not fall in line. To pretend like propaganda isn't a powerful tool and isn't the cause of MANY if not most of these anti-working class ideals just shows how little you are actually paying attention to history. It may not have been like that in pre-2000s Ireland or India, but the rise of the right wing in India, the removal of many rights in India especially for impoverished farmers and the rampant exploitation of the Indian workforce does kind of prove to be a major counter point. The issues in India are incredibly complicated that essentially boils down to racism, and a mismanagement of the colonial project. For certain the perpetual anti-working class propaganda that is spread by every local news station, printed in school text books, and preached in mega churches in the US has definitely been enough for some ideas to be shaped. We literally have technology that can convincingly create images and audio that fool people into believing actually made up non-sense, to the point where scammers can perpetrate kid napping scams using the simulated voices of their "abductees" to convince people to give up 1000s of dollars to later find out that the whole thing was not real. Now that being said of course elites manipulating the masses isn't the only thing forming people's ideas, but its certainly an effective strategy, especially in disinformation age.

i think the whole point of stressing how these concepts are fake is to undermine the ideological commitment to reifying and preserving such concepts

Fantastic as usual Brendan.

18:03 Issue with those little political units allow for the hoarding of capital in specific ones away from others and it encourages lots of capital flight. Allowing capital to play each one off one another. That’s more of a position for international agreements and unity though (went out the window with both of the Bushes)

Do you believe the EU could change the way people feel about their own nation and maybe even supplant the nationalist instinct?

wtf is up with that map at 12:15. It shows Kingdom of NL 1830-1918. 1830 sounds about right, that is the belgian independence war era. But 1918 does not have any significance to our state AFAIK.

Amazing ! I can’t believe this hasn’t got more views. I think you could have included bits from Jonathan Haidt’s The Righteous Mind, who I know you have referenced before, talking about how the left often underestimates how open societies undermine moral capital! Great video though.

Johnny does not deserve the attention. But his name does draw views, which you punch up at this point. Play the game I guess

This was a very good video and I think you handled the subject very well. As a Dane I can relate to a lot of your arguments før the validity of nationalism/nationality. Maybe because our two countries have so much shared history.

If nations are just a bunch of made up myths, I'd love to know what religion is.

Sanders is the greatest American politician of the last fifty years. Which is why he's been marginalized by both parties all the while, despite never losing appeal to those he actual governs or represents. He understands he needs to bring people together over shared values and reality. Our two parties meanwhile try to create alternate realities and vilify the other.

It seems most British papers are tabloids. Why do Brits put up with that? I've never understood this. Its all trash and biased. In the US, most Americans know that Fox News is biased and largely inaccurate (Politico often rates it factually wrong). Only the ultra conservative take it seriously. Murdoch owns Fox News and many UK tabloids. Shows the poor quality of those UK papers. It tells me that most Brits must be pretty conservative. Otherwise, Brits would rise up and insist on more legit media.

Eat your glasses

As a young person who is, somewhat, dissatisfied with democracy right now, I think that you have misrepresented the data a bit. In the polling you show, young people state, what I have just stated, that they are dissatisfied with democracy. In your video(which I think was quite good) you interpret this as young people being anti-democratic, I don’t know if that is necessarily true. I think your analysis is, somewhat, right in suggesting that younger people are, in some cases, more anti-democratic, but that is not what the data you show on screen tells us. It states that about ca. 45% of millennials aged 30-35 are dissatisfied with democracy, but not necessarily anti-democratic. All people who are anti-democratic are probably dissatisfied with democracy, but I wouldn't imply that all people who are dissatisfied with democracy are anti-democratic. I think there are good reasons for young people(especially in the US and UK) to be dissatisfied with democracy. e.g in the US and UK you have an electoral system that, in many cases, fails to represent the will of the voters(electoral college and the system you have for parliament seats in the UK). There are many reasons to be dissatisfied with democracy that have nothing to do with being anti-democratic. I hope it’s clear that this comment attempts to be a good-faith critique and not anything else. I liked your video and wish you the best.

Well I mean the graph you showed was only for developed contries. In El salvador. The incumbent went from winning 55% of the vote in 2019 to 82% in 2024 thanks to him amking excellent decisions

Interesting video Brendan. Nice to see these concepts actually being put against statistical data. As a 37yo who grew up surrounded by relatively left-leaning kids (despite going to a relatively conservative Australian private school) I find it confusing to think of people <20 holding conservative views. I always felt like conservatism particularly targeted the freedoms and expression of younger people, so I can't imagine how they're landing in this political territory so young.

Inflation cannot be the sole and only reason, we had quite bad stagflation (high inflation, and stagnant growth) in the 1970s (perhaps late 1970?) there is not a corresponding "all governments" lose vote-shares there. The figure of how income+wealth distribution changes over time would be very interesting to see (Pickety's (sp?) work...)

Very interesting talk.

loved this!

I'm really disillusioned by this recent trend. 😟

great graphs!

about the ideia that "if you grow up during depression times you are more likely to have a zero-sum view": what about the great depression of 1929!? Look at the graph and see the contradiction. Smells like cherry picking...

Reflecting on the zero-sum or positive-sum thing, I think I would say "the opulently rich are often seen to be shafting people" rather than the 'even moderately rich people get rich at the expense of others.' We live in a world of enormous wealth inequality. And also the world does not seem able to make certain political moves to bolster that, which we young people often feel at the disadvantage of. If we live in a world where we sometimes win and sometimes lose, why do the most rich people never lose their livelyhood as a class once in a while? Why is their wealth stable and that of other not? Why do they always do well, regardless of the state of the economy. So I think there is this sense of what's protected, and what is prioritised, more than whether people think it is possible to be acting according to good principles without fearing whether it will hurt us. Reflecting on the output orientedness. I think with young people it is like a matter of "we keep voting but nothing changes" leading young peopleto ask whether they are even powerful in the first place. Wether their concerns even matter. This again comes back to my previous point about the sense that you are not prioritised. I actually do think I harbor a quite positive-sum view in that I can stomach others having something without fearing that I'll lose. And maybe even if it means I'll lose out. Maybe people can be somewhat resilient to that idea. But if I earn only half as much tomorrow than I do today, my rent does not halve in turn. However, if I were to earn double as much tomorrow, you bet the market will adjust if that is how everyone fared. My optimism even in the face of loss is OK because I believe we have to live society according to certain principles where we value each other and make sure we keep society running. For that, I can give something up and I would hope others do as well. But that does not seem to be how politics works, and neither does the economy expect less of me if I have less to pay. The last thing means that a loss of income would not just mean a loss of living standards where you go back to those of someone many decades ago.... you end up on the streets. This squeeze I think is what makes many people very very angry and pessimistic.

Great video! Please do more!

Hi Brendan, great video!! Very interesting graphs and really appreciate you taking us through them. Just a note video editing wise, the rise in volume of the music between your different talking points is a bit jarring, I'd recommend a less intense change in volume in these parts!!

Great video. But one issue with it: The NHS works?!? Gave me a good chuckle.

Good to see you back

I know exactly who reads the papers. The Daily Mirror is read by people who think they run the country. The Guardian is read by people who think they ought to run the country. The Times is read by people who actually do run the country. The Daily Mail is read by the wives of the people who run the country. The Financial Times is read by people who own the country. The Morning Star is read by the people who think the country should be run by another country. And the Daily Telegraph is read by people who think it is. What about ppl who read The Sun? Sun readers don't care who runs the country as long as she's got big tits

This has to be the clearest and best post that expands the DUNE story. After watching so many Dune posts I stumbled upon this one that explains the politics of DUNE in such a clear and clever way. Thank you for taking time to create this post.

All authoritarians are left wing. Even the nazis were socialists. The clue is in the name. Because they are seen as right wing though they are taught more. The communist regimes of the 20th century killed a hell of a lot more people. Basically we're taught from a young age that left = nicey nice. Right = baaad. I wonder why

Which is the next video about the next political party? Looking forward to seeing more.

Farage, that chap is a grifter 😂

What good has reform actually achieved?

I was looking forward to the rest of this series but 4 minutes in and this is clearly biased and not factual. Firstly, Farage isn't "against immigration". To come to that conclusion you must either A) be a liar or B) lazy and not actually listened to the man and his policies, in which case, why would I continue watching? Reform is right wing indeed but calling them far right is ridiculous. I'm not sure what else was said in this video as I stopped at this point.

No prizes for guessing who you vote for then

Shame all the reform voters are to lazy to even vote for him 😂😂😂😂

Saying traditionally left right is about business/economy is crazy when it started based around if kings should exist

You’d only think he is racist and fascist if you’ve never listened to anything he’s said or understand any of Reform UK’s policies. In other words if you only listen to mainstream media and the establishment elites. PS. Far right has no meaning anymore.

Nigel Farage's wife is German.

The UK electoral system needs radical change. In the recent election Labour received 9.7 m votes 35% of total and 412 seats whrreas Reform teceived 4.1 m votes or 14.3% of the votes but only 5 seats or less than 1% of the seats. WHAT A CRAZY SYSTEM. How can the UK public support such a blatantly unfair system. You might even move to the irish multi seat transferable vote system. David mccabe dublin

Except for the occasional informative article in the papers' websites, younger adults don't care about newspapers anymore. I think this may be primarily why newspapers are increasingly losing influence. Whether that's a good thing or will be replaced by something even worse remains to be seen. I get all my news online, mostly on UA-cam using multiple media sources from points across the political spectrum from The Times to Novara Media (but favouring centrist and left wing sources) and from multiple countries (UK, US, Germany, etc.).