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what your view on James Burnham, who was a former communist who took a marxist class analysis and applied it through a rightist frame, or what about Julius Evola perennial Traditionalist This is the inherent intellectual and ideological and theological idea that there are certain key truths in all of the major faiths. All of those faiths that have survived, that are recorded, that have come down to us, even their pale antecedents, even those dissident, deviant and would-be heretical elements of them that have been removed, in all of them can be seen a shard of the perspectival truth that these particular traditions could be said to manifest. Beneath this, of course, is the ethnic and racial idea that people in different groups within mankind as a body perceive reality differently, experience it differently, have different intellectual and linguistic responses to it, and form different cults, different myths, different religions because they are physically constituted in a manner that leads to such differentiation. This can lead among certain perennialists to a sort of universalism at times, almost a neo-liberalism occasionally, where all cultures are of value, where all are “interesting,” where all are slightly interchangeable. But given that danger, the advantage for a deeply religious mind of the perennial tradition is to avoid the sectarianism and negative Puritanism which is inevitably part and parcel of building up large religious structures. As always, a thinker like Evola proceeds from the individual and goes to the individual. or even Thomas Carlyle Neo reactionary A new reactionary; typically one coming to reactionary ideas and conclusions by way of post-libertarian and/or post-anarchist paths; like traditional reactionaries one who is profoundly anti-progressive and suspicious of all egalitarian ideologies but one who is an advocate for absolutist monarchy structure over a network of a intermediary libertarianism.
Carthage ruled the known world trade for almost a thousand years with capitalism and was beat out by the Romans Agriculture social - slave - conquest spoils system.
This channel's magnum opus. A perfect representation of what UA-cam can be at its best. The only thing I won't accept is Lancashire being described as part of the Midlands.
I thought his other video, about, what was it about... shite I can't remember. I think it was about capitolism too. And that was supposed to be his masterpiece. But this is the one, this is the magnum opus, and it's even longer at over five hours. Certainly qualifies for 'magnum opus' length. But there's a lot to say on the subject, you might just need five hours.
Exactly... I was born in Lancashire and live in the Midlands. Not only are they geographically separate, socially they are massively different too. Lancashire is much friendlier and hospitable whilst Midlands are more like an extension of London. That's in this day in age. Can imagine in the past the difference was much more tangible
Holy shit is this all new? I've been noticing a trend of compilations as channels are realising there's money to be dug out of their back catalogue. But this isn't a compilation? This is an incredible amount of work, I hope you feel it's worth it. I am certainly grateful.
It’s honestly mind-blowing that such a gem of content is available for free on UA-cam! Thank you so much for the hard work, dedication, and effort you pour into creating these videos-it truly means the world!
I don't have time to watch this saga right now, but I'm gonna leave a comment for the algorithm and to say that I'm really looking forward to it next week. Really appreciate your channel.
I swear your content is WAY to good to just be a UA-cam video. Your Marx video was so remarkably well done. I absolutely cannot wait to watch this later.
@@elliott614I'm sure he'll come out with a 5 hour long video about the colonial roots of white supremacy and why that history has conditioned us still today to treat males with British accents as a symbol of authority. I too enjoy the the accent though.
Thank you for the passionate work. Your efforts have helped progress my own thinking, and you should feel positively about the unknowably-infinite "ripple effect" you're having.
3:39:49 Cattle has always been 'capital'. That's where the word 'capital' first came from. It was a measure of the heads of cattle (or 'caput' in latin). The word 'cattle' is itself cognate with 'capital' via a different route.
Me too. When I can afford it, I will send some bills over!! Can’t believe how he does this…. Must have a PHD by now…. makes scholarly education very accessible.
Wow only in the first hour but just had to say, bravo this is so well done. Absolutely incredible free content. - Also on the subject matter, this needs more coverage. I think your average American (that I’ve interacted with) just assumes any and all economies are capitalism, or any exchange of currency and ownership are capitalism. The truth is that it is more complicated, and language and terms both evolve as the world evolves, and as the definitions of words change to average people. It reminds me of a long essay on ‘what is facism’ and it turns out it’s actually extraordinary poorly defined and more or less just means whatever people want it to mean within a pretty wide scale. Anyways I digress, but just wanted to thank you for this deep dive
First, the great and lengthy Marx video, and now this gargantuan behemoth. You have an amazing work ethic and standard of quality. I'm all in, thank you!
What people don't realise is that during the decades after WW2 Western Europe offered a good life to the average citizen BECAUSE of communism in Eastern Europe. Communists introduced free education and free healthcare for all, the dignity of the worker grew immensely. Western European ruling classes were terrified of the revolution spreading into their countries. So they made sure that their people not only got what people had in socialist countries, but even more than that. That wasn't because the ruling classes became less selfish, but because they were scared. And the moment communism was defeated in Europe, the process of rolling back the rights and material assets has begun.
Whenever one of your works is published, it's just like Christmas. Thank you. Can't wait to watch this on repeat, just like I did with many of your videos.
5 hours?!?! I can’t watch it this weekend but my Monday at work is actually going to be awesome for once!! Can’t wait!! (Also I was actually first?! Holy cow that’s never happened before! 😁)
8:18 let’s not mix metaphors: It’s like deconstructing a submersible, while in it. This metaphor has the added bonus of allowing one to play with the air pressure dynamic.
this is impressive. i’m a bit over halfway this is really well done. i appreciate the nuance and appreciation for the historical complexity of economic and social developments.
It has to happen, but I cant help but feeling myself that it's too late! And it's worrying how there seems to be a complete block in regards to inventing a workable system to replace capitalism. Capitalism isn't naturally evolving into something better (in fact we seem to be headed towards a capitalist dystopia or a kind of techno-feudalism), in fact there are very regressive forces actively trying to prevent that from happening. It seems the beneficiaries of capitalism (it's 'winners' if you like) become just too powerful and unaccountable, under this system (especially during its global phase) and these individuals manage to accumulate too much wealth, power and control over societies systems (the economy, politics, government, the mainstream media etc.) for anything new to be given the opportunity to emerge organically or otherwise. Their whole empires have been gained through this system and it's in their interest to keep this system in place. The last thing that they want to see is their private wealth being redistributed, and a relative flattening of inequality. What they (the capitalist elite) don't seem to understand is that such high levels of inequality, as well as our capitalist education system, actually slows down our technological development. It's like during the dark ages where the only beacons of learning were a few scattered monasteries (aside from that knowledge accumulation largely went into hibernation). People were engaged in the production of food and constant small scale warfare. The Roman institutions of learning had disappeared (universities wouldn't be founded in Europe until the High Middle-Ages). I think this is why the capitalist elite seem to be in such a breakneck hurry to develop super-intelligent A.I., .. If this is achieved it renders them the power to dominate in an historically unprecedented way. Effectively for the first time it could potentially eliminate the dependence of the elite class, on the rest of us, and you don't have to be a genius to understand the implications of that. It erases the interdependence that has always existed between classes: Even hunters need gatherers and gatherers hunters .. If you spend the bulk of your time hunting then you are good at that (the more time you perform an activity the more skilled one becomes at it), and don't have time to gather, and the same for gatherers. A slightly higher status might be applied to hunters, but they are dependent on the gatherers, in order to enjoy a balanced diet, i.e. one that doesn't just consist of meat alone. So, if the elite can have all of the work done by robots, what on earth do they need any of us for? If robots are doing the ordering in supermarkets and stocking the shelves, sorting and delivering the post, producing the food, e-tech etc, etc.. It effectively frees them from dependence on us, for the first time in the history of civilization. And I don't think removing our interdependence on one another is a good thing. We loose all bargaining power and any avenue to improve our lot. Classes would become flash frozen. So we'd potentially end up in a kind of Neo-feaudalism (if we're kept around). One's lot and destiny would once again be decided by birth! As was the case for the vast majority of us throughout recorded history.
You almost finally did it. Ill usually fall asleep listening to one of these videos and have to go back. But you're almost at the point where i can fall asleep AND wake up to a single video.
This is prime educational content. I especially applaud that you have not attempted to reduce the complexity of capitalism as a phenomenon in favor of a narrative that is easier to understand. You will not come away from this video with a simple explanation, and that is what we need. The world is complex, and our minds are not very well suited to deal with that, but deal with it we must in order to understand and improve our societies. If we even can, but that's a different topic.
I'm early in the video but it seems to me that capitalism was developed as methods of institutionalizing systemic exploitation were invented in the absence of monarchical systems. We'll see how my perspective changes throughout this video. It's also difficult to disentangle the effects of technological advancement and socioeconomic paradigms. It's just as easy to imagine a scenario where industrialisation would benefit all of the community rather than enrichment of a few; i suspect that the legacy of naturalized hierarchy dissuaded the masses from challenging class exploitation, especially considering the lack of education available to the masses.
one thing. people really confuse this average lifespan number. the one thing that drives this number down was child mortality. if you made it trough your youth your life expectancy got almost as high as today. there where quite a few old folks over 80 even back then. people always assume the mean value. that people died with 35 regularly. but like i said. these numbers get highly skewed through early outliers. most people died in there 60s. from natural causes.
no this has been litigated to death but no if you lived to 30 you were not very likely to grow old to 70-or 80 yrs old you were still orders of magnititude more likely to die before 50 than you are today
I paid many tens of thousands of dollars and spent an ungodly amount of time reading during my under and postgraduate degrees to put all this history together in my own brain. Huge respect to you for succinctly (yes I'm aware of the irony of describing a 5 hour video essay as succinct) making this information accessible, understandable, and free to anyone 🙌
By 1800, there were 1,600 Newcomen engines in England, but only 45 in France. France had been busying itself with "Liberté, égalité, fraternité," the French Revolution.
Problem is it is a reflection of the different parts of human nature. The growth of the enlightement drew and provoked these parts to develop further .
@tonyburton419 can't argue that it wasn't the right step for humanity. Just the stubbornness to adapt and change from now for what's good for the world not whats worth the most money 🇺🇸
Our country of America has become so successful & very powerful and yet our country does not see the importance of investing into our own people.. Our country seems uninterested in improving the quality of living for its citizens, especially the lower income citizens. It almost feels like America has completely detached from reality. They put profit above all else, they chase ever increasing profits above everything else. They don't care that it means our system will fail the vast majority of our citizens.. This business model is unrealistic. This sadly will lead to a drastic increase in homelessness, widespread poverty, little to no home owners. We will see empty store fronts, leaving us with corporations & the remaining large companies.. We have forgotten what the soul of America is made of... It comes from a thriving multilevel system.. where even the lower income individuals can obtain comfortable living options.. if the lower income level citizens cannot at least exist comfortably in their own way, the system that we know of will eventually breakdown..
At some point capitalism metastasizes, into something else, and it takes on a much less benevolent face. With globalization, the power players stop thinking in terms of the best interest of their home country, and it all becomes more about the best interests of the company & shareholders. At home companies were bound by rules, and workers had effective representation, through labor unions (at least up until the 1980s). Now they can move around at will, and set up shop in wherever they can extract the most profit, through lowering production costs as much as possible. This drives down wages at home, and we see the modern phenomenon, of whole sectors of jobs filled by immigrants, because, these jobs have become too low paying and undesirable, to the vast majority of the native population. Unions too have been massively weakened and most have very little bargaining power anymore. Companies operating overseas have got used to exploiting desperately poor people, and those who will accept long hours and horrible conditions, to bring these jobs back countries have to further lower conditions and wages, so western countries will compete to lower conditions trying to court jobs back home. Dignity and providing a decent living (like steady well remunerated, lifetime employment with one employer) for hard work, isn't really a thing anymore, it used to be in the three decades after WW2, but in the 1980s that was definitively ended. Capitalism was allowed to mutate into something else, that we are still living with today, and it seems to be completely played out now. The middle class has been decimated and most of our wealth has ended up in very few hands.
Found the redditors let me ask u 2 boys a question does the 10-20 million illegal immigrants which tilts heavily towards working age men in the US have anything to do with the capital class' ability to collapse wages and stop worker organization?
Thats very informative of how things couldve been different aka better. I wish capitalism had never happened so we could all be free rather than controlled by corporations
I haven’t had time to watch this monstrously long video yet, but according to my current beliefs, it’s naive to regret the onset of capitalism - it was a necessary stage for further development. Another thing is that it threatens to become the last, but crises are normal for progress and this one will be overcome, like all previous ones.
@@permanentsilence you are controlled by capitalist realism, like mark fisher wrote. Capitalists stop there from being creative music like post punk and other things like that to limit your imagination, so you cant see different possibilities, aka that people will be better off in communism where the rich cant steal billions from the working class
I'll watch the intro now, and then one "chapter" each day. Love your longform stuff, but I can't watch it in one sitting, unfortunately. 2024-12-15: Chapter One was neatly presented! To us in the present day, the influence of the church, or religion more generally, seems so unfathomable. I just can't put myself "back" into that kind of mind set as an agnostic. I want to decide how to live my life, even if it is still wrought upon by the changes of today. 2024-12-16: Chapter Two surprised me with the parabel between aliens and the discovery of the americas. But it is quite apt! Just thinking about it, all the new plants, and peoples, previously unimaginable, that'd definitely be similar to how an encounter with aliens might go. That's also more often where I heard it: The treatment of the new peoples, akin to how some think aliens might treat us.
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Lancashire is not in the midlands of England!
what your view on James Burnham, who was a former communist who took a marxist class analysis and applied it through a rightist frame, or what about Julius Evola perennial Traditionalist This is the inherent intellectual and ideological and theological idea that there are certain key truths in all of the major faiths. All of those faiths that have survived, that are recorded, that have come down to us, even their pale antecedents, even those dissident, deviant and would-be heretical elements of them that have been removed, in all of them can be seen a shard of the perspectival truth that these particular traditions could be said to manifest. Beneath this, of course, is the ethnic and racial idea that people in different groups within mankind as a body perceive reality differently, experience it differently, have different intellectual and linguistic responses to it, and form different cults, different myths, different religions because they are physically constituted in a manner that leads to such differentiation.
This can lead among certain perennialists to a sort of universalism at times, almost a neo-liberalism occasionally, where all cultures are of value, where all are “interesting,” where all are slightly interchangeable. But given that danger, the advantage for a deeply religious mind of the perennial tradition is to avoid the sectarianism and negative Puritanism which is inevitably part and parcel of building up large religious structures.
As always, a thinker like Evola proceeds from the individual and goes to the individual. or even Thomas Carlyle Neo reactionary A new reactionary; typically one coming to reactionary ideas and conclusions by way of post-libertarian and/or post-anarchist paths; like traditional reactionaries one who is profoundly anti-progressive and suspicious of all egalitarian ideologies but one who is an advocate for absolutist monarchy structure over a network of a intermediary libertarianism.
Some of the audio is out of sync around 2:22:50. Bravo dude. I might crack open some of those books.
Carthage ruled the known world trade for almost a thousand years with capitalism and was beat out by the Romans Agriculture social - slave - conquest spoils system.
I'm halfway through, my mind boils at the thought of how much work went into this essay.
You could have gone a bit more in depth…
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Yeah, I think this was a very shallow video, too little information
Lol
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I'm not through yet but I bet it ends on a cliffhanger, too.. sigh
This channel's magnum opus. A perfect representation of what UA-cam can be at its best. The only thing I won't accept is Lancashire being described as part of the Midlands.
I thought his other video, about, what was it about... shite I can't remember. I think it was about capitolism too. And that was supposed to be his masterpiece. But this is the one, this is the magnum opus, and it's even longer at over five hours. Certainly qualifies for 'magnum opus' length. But there's a lot to say on the subject, you might just need five hours.
There's a bit of distance between the places
Exactly... I was born in Lancashire and live in the Midlands. Not only are they geographically separate, socially they are massively different too. Lancashire is much friendlier and hospitable whilst Midlands are more like an extension of London. That's in this day in age. Can imagine in the past the difference was much more tangible
Over 5 hours. These videos you make are like books.
i bet the script is A BOOK. it even has the density of good books. its not just fluff.
I rarely comment on UA-cam but I seriously can’t believe this is free, this is a legacy video
Phenomenal content for this age. Kudos to you and your team for this solid historical content presented in an entertaining way.
Started watching Then, and Now I’m still watching.
Great video mate, love the depth and quality throughout the whole video.
Holy shit is this all new? I've been noticing a trend of compilations as channels are realising there's money to be dug out of their back catalogue. But this isn't a compilation? This is an incredible amount of work, I hope you feel it's worth it. I am certainly grateful.
It’s honestly mind-blowing that such a gem of content is available for free on UA-cam! Thank you so much for the hard work, dedication, and effort you pour into creating these videos-it truly means the world!
I don't have time to watch this saga right now, but I'm gonna leave a comment for the algorithm and to say that I'm really looking forward to it next week. Really appreciate your channel.
Lmao
I swear your content is WAY to good to just be a UA-cam video. Your Marx video was so remarkably well done. I absolutely cannot wait to watch this later.
dethrones Tom Nicholas for best insomnia relief channel! hahaha love the content, I just struggle with calm british accents lmfao
@@elliott614I'm sure he'll come out with a 5 hour long video about the colonial roots of white supremacy and why that history has conditioned us still today to treat males with British accents as a symbol of authority.
I too enjoy the the accent though.
There goes my Saturday.
Fr.
I was so happy to see a new Then and Now. I jumped for joy when I noticed it was 5 hours!
I'm suddenly in the mood for a five hour, eleven minute, and thirty-eight second road trip
I am not, this had better convince me in the first few minutes. 0:01
I swear to God. This just popped up and I saw how long it was. And was just like fuck yeah out loud af
Lol! My thoughts exactly.
Good work.
5 hours! Nice, in-depth!
5 hours of Then & Now is my favorite way of spending the weekend. 😅
I love the length man!
That's what she said
The movement from Hegel to Marx to this history of capitalism is simply magnificent and you are truly a master of the genre.
5 hours. excellent. Thank you for all the work and effort you put into making this valuable content.
Thank you for the passionate work. Your efforts have helped progress my own thinking, and you should feel positively about the unknowably-infinite "ripple effect" you're having.
When mom says one more video before bed
lol
3:39:49 Cattle has always been 'capital'. That's where the word 'capital' first came from. It was a measure of the heads of cattle (or 'caput' in latin). The word 'cattle' is itself cognate with 'capital' via a different route.
This channel is a treasure. One day when I can afford to I will become a patreon supporter. Long form content and so much effort and passion.
Me too. When I can afford it, I will send some bills over!! Can’t believe how he does this…. Must have a PHD by now…. makes scholarly education very accessible.
Well i know how my lunch breaks will be spent for the next week. thanks mate!
Lewis Waller you present and explain excellently you remind of James Burke connections when I was a kid - well done on you work and dedication 👏
Upvote for James Burke appreciation. I regularly revisit his shows; truly fantastic television.
This is absolutely amazing
Wow only in the first hour but just had to say, bravo this is so well done. Absolutely incredible free content.
- Also on the subject matter, this needs more coverage. I think your average American (that I’ve interacted with) just assumes any and all economies are capitalism, or any exchange of currency and ownership are capitalism. The truth is that it is more complicated, and language and terms both evolve as the world evolves, and as the definitions of words change to average people. It reminds me of a long essay on ‘what is facism’ and it turns out it’s actually extraordinary poorly defined and more or less just means whatever people want it to mean within a pretty wide scale. Anyways I digress, but just wanted to thank you for this deep dive
First, the great and lengthy Marx video, and now this gargantuan behemoth. You have an amazing work ethic and standard of quality. I'm all in, thank you!
👍
i’m so excited rn
Watched the previous 2 hour+ video on Marx. Excited for this one. Will take a few days to get through it but definitely excited
What people don't realise is that during the decades after WW2 Western Europe offered a good life to the average citizen BECAUSE of communism in Eastern Europe. Communists introduced free education and free healthcare for all, the dignity of the worker grew immensely. Western European ruling classes were terrified of the revolution spreading into their countries. So they made sure that their people not only got what people had in socialist countries, but even more than that. That wasn't because the ruling classes became less selfish, but because they were scared. And the moment communism was defeated in Europe, the process of rolling back the rights and material assets has begun.
Whenever one of your works is published, it's just like Christmas. Thank you. Can't wait to watch this on repeat, just like I did with many of your videos.
As of this comment, it's in ten days!
5 hours?!?!
I can’t watch it this weekend but my Monday at work is actually going to be awesome for once!! Can’t wait!!
(Also I was actually first?! Holy cow that’s never happened before! 😁)
Lol.
My first thought was, hmmm to do something like that justice you'd need four hours... Then I saw 5 HOURS!? that's huge!
And this video is only part one😊
I love playing factorio while your videos perform on background
The factory must grow
Do the children yearn for the factory?
This video goes on for longer than it’s been online lmao 😂! Can’t wait to see it. I hope it’s good 👍 😅.
I am 6 minutes in and I've liked and subscribed. You clearly deserve it for this emmense and incredibly valuable undertaking. Solidarity.
Holy shit!! Thank you so much!
The happiness seeing this title and the sadness it will surely contain 😊😢😅
8:18 let’s not mix metaphors: It’s like deconstructing a submersible, while in it. This metaphor has the added bonus of allowing one to play with the air pressure dynamic.
This is true contribution to the world of knowledge! Deep respect for you Mr. Waller.
this is impressive. i’m a bit over halfway this is really well done. i appreciate the nuance and appreciation for the historical complexity of economic and social developments.
The deeper level of explanation on your videos is top notch
OMG. So ready for this.
Yeah, me too.
Been waiting for the last few months
The only channel which I truly appreciate for making longer time worthy videos!!!!
This is the type of content that is needed in this day and age ! Bravo
End capitalism
It has to happen, but I cant help but feeling myself that it's too late! And it's worrying how there seems to be a complete block in regards to inventing a workable system to replace capitalism. Capitalism isn't naturally evolving into something better (in fact we seem to be headed towards a capitalist dystopia or a kind of techno-feudalism), in fact there are very regressive forces actively trying to prevent that from happening. It seems the beneficiaries of capitalism (it's 'winners' if you like) become just too powerful and unaccountable, under this system (especially during its global phase) and these individuals manage to accumulate too much wealth, power and control over societies systems (the economy, politics, government, the mainstream media etc.) for anything new to be given the opportunity to emerge organically or otherwise. Their whole empires have been gained through this system and it's in their interest to keep this system in place. The last thing that they want to see is their private wealth being redistributed, and a relative flattening of inequality. What they (the capitalist elite) don't seem to understand is that such high levels of inequality, as well as our capitalist education system, actually slows down our technological development. It's like during the dark ages where the only beacons of learning were a few scattered monasteries (aside from that knowledge accumulation largely went into hibernation). People were engaged in the production of food and constant small scale warfare. The Roman institutions of learning had disappeared (universities wouldn't be founded in Europe until the High Middle-Ages). I think this is why the capitalist elite seem to be in such a breakneck hurry to develop super-intelligent A.I., .. If this is achieved it renders them the power to dominate in an historically unprecedented way. Effectively for the first time it could potentially eliminate the dependence of the elite class, on the rest of us, and you don't have to be a genius to understand the implications of that. It erases the interdependence that has always existed between classes: Even hunters need gatherers and gatherers hunters .. If you spend the bulk of your time hunting then you are good at that (the more time you perform an activity the more skilled one becomes at it), and don't have time to gather, and the same for gatherers. A slightly higher status might be applied to hunters, but they are dependent on the gatherers, in order to enjoy a balanced diet, i.e. one that doesn't just consist of meat alone. So, if the elite can have all of the work done by robots, what on earth do they need any of us for? If robots are doing the ordering in supermarkets and stocking the shelves, sorting and delivering the post, producing the food, e-tech etc, etc.. It effectively frees them from dependence on us, for the first time in the history of civilization. And I don't think removing our interdependence on one another is a good thing. We loose all bargaining power and any avenue to improve our lot. Classes would become flash frozen. So we'd potentially end up in a kind of Neo-feaudalism (if we're kept around). One's lot and destiny would once again be decided by birth! As was the case for the vast majority of us throughout recorded history.
Five hours is crazy
You almost finally did it. Ill usually fall asleep listening to one of these videos and have to go back. But you're almost at the point where i can fall asleep AND wake up to a single video.
This is basically a book provided for free on youtube. Amazing.
great video lewis mate
This is prime educational content. I especially applaud that you have not attempted to reduce the complexity of capitalism as a phenomenon in favor of a narrative that is easier to understand. You will not come away from this video with a simple explanation, and that is what we need. The world is complex, and our minds are not very well suited to deal with that, but deal with it we must in order to understand and improve our societies. If we even can, but that's a different topic.
That title, that runtime.
Thank you five hours, a wealth of knowledge.
5 hours? Hmmm… I guess I’m already here.
wow! Incredible work!!!
I'm early in the video but it seems to me that capitalism was developed as methods of institutionalizing systemic exploitation were invented in the absence of monarchical systems.
We'll see how my perspective changes throughout this video.
It's also difficult to disentangle the effects of technological advancement and socioeconomic paradigms. It's just as easy to imagine a scenario where industrialisation would benefit all of the community rather than enrichment of a few; i suspect that the legacy of naturalized hierarchy dissuaded the masses from challenging class exploitation, especially considering the lack of education available to the masses.
Suddenly my sunday is looking different.
Totally.
one thing. people really confuse this average lifespan number. the one thing that drives this number down was child mortality. if you made it trough your youth your life expectancy got almost as high as today. there where quite a few old folks over 80 even back then. people always assume the mean value. that people died with 35 regularly. but like i said. these numbers get highly skewed through early outliers. most people died in there 60s. from natural causes.
no this has been litigated to death but no if you lived to 30 you were not very likely to grow old to 70-or 80 yrs old you were still orders of magnititude more likely to die before 50 than you are today
Perfect drop for my 30th. You're the best
This was amazing from beginning to end, your work never ceases to impress. Thank you!
Dayyyyyyyum 5 hrs ?!
I paid many tens of thousands of dollars and spent an ungodly amount of time reading during my under and postgraduate degrees to put all this history together in my own brain. Huge respect to you for succinctly (yes I'm aware of the irony of describing a 5 hour video essay as succinct) making this information accessible, understandable, and free to anyone 🙌
absolutely superb video, hats off, this is an absolute gem
Whoa okay. Been busy I guess.
Why did I click on this 5 hour video so fast?
First we were gifted the near 7hr masterpiece from fall of civ, and now your 5hr genius.
Imma save this vid for later I’ll be back
thanks. seriously, so important ...
I cannot wait to work through this Lewis. Will give thoughts afterwards.
Christmas came earlier!
By 1800, there were 1,600 Newcomen engines in England, but only 45 in France. France had been busying itself with "Liberté, égalité, fraternité," the French Revolution.
I have to rewatch this
I hate it when creators try and stretch their videos to hit 10 minutes smh
Damn I'll have to book another day off work
Absolutely phenomenal. The go to resource for this topic.
Great new video. Highly recommend channel.
Thank you Lewis… your efforts are greatly appreciated
I love where this is going. Thank you.
I can listen to it when sleeping.
Lately I've been doing that with Winners Take All (anand ghiar.... not the chocolate something else.) audiobook
The fact that we think this is the only way to live is absolutely a disgrace to our evolution
Problem is it is a reflection of the different parts of human nature. The growth of the enlightement drew and provoked these parts to develop further .
@tonyburton419 can't argue that it wasn't the right step for humanity. Just the stubbornness to adapt and change from now for what's good for the world not whats worth the most money 🇺🇸
I blame the education system for turning into job training centres, run by people we don't trust and most of us think need replacing.
The moment I saw 5hrs long... HELL YEAH LETS GOOO
holy shit brother
Now we know what we were waiting for. Bravo!
Our country of America has become so successful & very powerful and yet our country does not see the importance of investing into our own people.. Our country seems uninterested in improving the quality of living for its citizens, especially the lower income citizens. It almost feels like America has completely detached from reality. They put profit above all else, they chase ever increasing profits above everything else. They don't care that it means our system will fail the vast majority of our citizens.. This business model is unrealistic. This sadly will lead to a drastic increase in homelessness, widespread poverty, little to no home owners. We will see empty store fronts, leaving us with corporations & the remaining large companies.. We have forgotten what the soul of America is made of... It comes from a thriving multilevel system.. where even the lower income individuals can obtain comfortable living options.. if the lower income level citizens cannot at least exist comfortably in their own way, the system that we know of will eventually breakdown..
At some point capitalism metastasizes, into something else, and it takes on a much less benevolent face. With globalization, the power players stop thinking in terms of the best interest of their home country, and it all becomes more about the best interests of the company & shareholders. At home companies were bound by rules, and workers had effective representation, through labor unions (at least up until the 1980s). Now they can move around at will, and set up shop in wherever they can extract the most profit, through lowering production costs as much as possible. This drives down wages at home, and we see the modern phenomenon, of whole sectors of jobs filled by immigrants, because, these jobs have become too low paying and undesirable, to the vast majority of the native population. Unions too have been massively weakened and most have very little bargaining power anymore. Companies operating overseas have got used to exploiting desperately poor people, and those who will accept long hours and horrible conditions, to bring these jobs back countries have to further lower conditions and wages, so western countries will compete to lower conditions trying to court jobs back home. Dignity and providing a decent living (like steady well remunerated, lifetime employment with one employer) for hard work, isn't really a thing anymore, it used to be in the three decades after WW2, but in the 1980s that was definitively ended. Capitalism was allowed to mutate into something else, that we are still living with today, and it seems to be completely played out now. The middle class has been decimated and most of our wealth has ended up in very few hands.
Found the redditors let me ask u 2 boys a question does the 10-20 million illegal immigrants which tilts heavily towards working age men in the US have anything to do with the capital class' ability to collapse wages and stop worker organization?
Thats very informative of how things couldve been different aka better. I wish capitalism had never happened so we could all be free rather than controlled by corporations
Yes, we could all be hunters in the mornings, fishermen in the afternoons, and philosophers at night!
I haven’t had time to watch this monstrously long video yet, but according to my current beliefs, it’s naive to regret the onset of capitalism - it was a necessary stage for further development. Another thing is that it threatens to become the last, but crises are normal for progress and this one will be overcome, like all previous ones.
@@permanentsilence you are controlled by capitalist realism, like mark fisher wrote. Capitalists stop there from being creative music like post punk and other things like that to limit your imagination, so you cant see different possibilities, aka that people will be better off in communism where the rich cant steal billions from the working class
Brilliant work, thank you for this!
5 hours... damn. Im in for a long night lol
You do an amazing job, i endlessly thank you for all of it
Thank you so much for all of your work, this was an absolutely amazing analysis
Incredible, incredible work. Genuinley. I just hope you are able to maintain a funding model so you can keep going:)
Banger vid
I'll watch the intro now, and then one "chapter" each day. Love your longform stuff, but I can't watch it in one sitting, unfortunately.
2024-12-15: Chapter One was neatly presented! To us in the present day, the influence of the church, or religion more generally, seems so unfathomable. I just can't put myself "back" into that kind of mind set as an agnostic. I want to decide how to live my life, even if it is still wrought upon by the changes of today.
2024-12-16: Chapter Two surprised me with the parabel between aliens and the discovery of the americas. But it is quite apt! Just thinking about it, all the new plants, and peoples, previously unimaginable, that'd definitely be similar to how an encounter with aliens might go. That's also more often where I heard it: The treatment of the new peoples, akin to how some think aliens might treat us.
5 hours is crazy for a UA-cam video and I’m here for it
Magnificent piece of work 👏👏👏
Thx so much 👍
You are an intellectual behemoth... Genuinely you are creating such important works, thank you truly
5 HOUR THEN NOW VIDEO? LESS GOOOO
Done! ❤