You, sir, have a wonderfully broad based 'knack' for discernment across an incredibly broad range of cultural contexts. You relate the information brilliantly while rendering it highly digestible to 'armchair scholars' such as myself. You series of Meso- and South American cultures helps untangle the quipu like knots of information created by researchers who's narrow beams of focus, albeit understandable, limit the availability of a broader understanding of the broader ebb and flow of cultural, spiritual overlap and influences. I appreciate your willingness to offer reasonable conjecture at face value, most being highly plausible.
I just played "Shadow of the Tomb Raider" which has a lot of Maya and Inca architecture/artwork. I figured it probably wasn't the most accurate, since it's a video game, so I'm excited to learn more about the real stuff!
A worthy? Tv drama for your movie night is the BBC the feathered serpent. It's got cheesy 1970s sets and fashion and white people pretending to be Indians but has a different and possibly more respectful angle to mesoamerican civilization than Apocalypto and road to Eldorado
Racism racism racism! Look no doubt some of the colonial lenses they were viewing the Mayans through were of racism, but to then argue that believing South East Asians to perhaps be the architects of the Mayan buildings is flawed given the likely view of a racist of both "brown" people groups. Although clearly in error, as is the modern Atlantian believers attempts to link distant cultures, I believe their motivation is more often than not just their naive attempts to reconcile what was understandably a giant mystery, that being why were a people found living such meager existence in their contemporary time, knowing from the old world how often demographics change, why would they not be puzzled by and struggle to understand how these people could have fallen so far, as they no doubt saw it. As we too similarly struggle to understand how such a collapse of arguably a greater magnitude than fall of the Western Roman Empire, was twice possible, without a returned to some level of civilisation again. It is very strange we can all agree, although obviously nowadays we know more. Our society is going through far too much tension and insult to continually, without consideration for its severity, continue to just reach repeatedly for all past European views as though all things were viewed through the lense of racism. Even if your social class clearly doesn't take any pride in your heritage, as do most cultures in the world whether deserved or not, usually take some level of pride in their heritage, as Europeans we are prided in being contrarians, but your social class just won't let up seeing everything as motivated through racism, dishing out what has become the single biggest insult to a European far too casually. Unlike you most of us laymen blue collar Europeans take some pride in our ancestry, unlikely many of us descend from the elite racists of the past, regardless, any other people's would be getting sick and tired of the relentless nature of the insults from your side. Just consider please, when we've come so far until the last decade, why is it that racism is suddenly seen more often more places? Whether true about the past or not, it was not so out of character from ancient tribalism. You're forgetting it is also our culture that brought ideas of genuine equality to the world, just ease up man. You gotta remember that as with any other people's whom feel hurt and insulted by insults to their people, whether accurate or not, when it is in excess of the pointing out and cherishing of the pros, it becomes too much, then you get a President Trump. I'm telling you, most people these days want equal opportunity, some equaling up of the starting point for everyone, but no middle low class will endure continued demonization by elites whom just virtue signal, point the finger, but do nothing substantial for really helping heal. Healing won't happen with continued finger pointing at one racial group, it can't, it's taking us back man and generating escalation in a negative loop. Just ease up. Stay true, but please remember, racist is the worst insult you can say to a European whom isn't racist, most of us aren't that's why it's just been to much for us and we're now feeling the only way we can stop the demonization is to vote in someone whom doesn't demonize us ie Trump 2024,Trump Jnr etc
You, sir, have a wonderfully broad based 'knack' for discernment across an incredibly broad range of cultural contexts. You relate the information brilliantly while rendering it highly digestible to 'armchair scholars' such as myself. You series of Meso- and South American cultures helps untangle the quipu like knots of information created by researchers who's narrow beams of focus, albeit understandable, limit the availability of a broader understanding of the broader ebb and flow of cultural, spiritual overlap and influences. I appreciate your willingness to offer reasonable conjecture at face value, most being highly plausible.
i’m not one of ur students but thank you so much for sharing knowledge of mayan culture!! - a guatemalan
Thank you for making these! I very much appreciate it, Latin Art History is my favorite subject :)
I just played "Shadow of the Tomb Raider" which has a lot of Maya and Inca architecture/artwork. I figured it probably wasn't the most accurate, since it's a video game, so I'm excited to learn more about the real stuff!
u r d best professor to me.
Very exciting Very nice
It's interesting how the idea of the Noble Savage still bedevils the study of non-Western cultures. People tend to be people all over the place.
Great video ! :)
In the ad before this video, Jennifer Coolidge was talking to an agent on the phone named Maya…UA-cam knows
A worthy? Tv drama for your movie night is the BBC the feathered serpent. It's got cheesy 1970s sets and fashion and white people pretending to be Indians but has a different and possibly more respectful angle to mesoamerican civilization than Apocalypto and road to Eldorado
Racism racism racism! Look no doubt some of the colonial lenses they were viewing the Mayans through were of racism, but to then argue that believing South East Asians to perhaps be the architects of the Mayan buildings is flawed given the likely view of a racist of both "brown" people groups. Although clearly in error, as is the modern Atlantian believers attempts to link distant cultures, I believe their motivation is more often than not just their naive attempts to reconcile what was understandably a giant mystery, that being why were a people found living such meager existence in their contemporary time, knowing from the old world how often demographics change, why would they not be puzzled by and struggle to understand how these people could have fallen so far, as they no doubt saw it. As we too similarly struggle to understand how such a collapse of arguably a greater magnitude than fall of the Western Roman Empire, was twice possible, without a returned to some level of civilisation again. It is very strange we can all agree, although obviously nowadays we know more. Our society is going through far too much tension and insult to continually, without consideration for its severity, continue to just reach repeatedly for all past European views as though all things were viewed through the lense of racism. Even if your social class clearly doesn't take any pride in your heritage, as do most cultures in the world whether deserved or not, usually take some level of pride in their heritage, as Europeans we are prided in being contrarians, but your social class just won't let up seeing everything as motivated through racism, dishing out what has become the single biggest insult to a European far too casually. Unlike you most of us laymen blue collar Europeans take some pride in our ancestry, unlikely many of us descend from the elite racists of the past, regardless, any other people's would be getting sick and tired of the relentless nature of the insults from your side. Just consider please, when we've come so far until the last decade, why is it that racism is suddenly seen more often more places? Whether true about the past or not, it was not so out of character from ancient tribalism. You're forgetting it is also our culture that brought ideas of genuine equality to the world, just ease up man. You gotta remember that as with any other people's whom feel hurt and insulted by insults to their people, whether accurate or not, when it is in excess of the pointing out and cherishing of the pros, it becomes too much, then you get a President Trump. I'm telling you, most people these days want equal opportunity, some equaling up of the starting point for everyone, but no middle low class will endure continued demonization by elites whom just virtue signal, point the finger, but do nothing substantial for really helping heal. Healing won't happen with continued finger pointing at one racial group, it can't, it's taking us back man and generating escalation in a negative loop. Just ease up. Stay true, but please remember, racist is the worst insult you can say to a European whom isn't racist, most of us aren't that's why it's just been to much for us and we're now feeling the only way we can stop the demonization is to vote in someone whom doesn't demonize us ie Trump 2024,Trump Jnr etc
You know he has made tons of videos about western art as well?
The lack of paragraph breaks is astounding.