Why Has the West Been So Successful? | 5 Minute Video
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- Опубліковано 7 кві 2019
- The Western world has produced some of the most prosperous and most free civilizations on earth. What makes the West exceptional? Ben Shapiro, editor-in-chief of the Daily Wire and author of “The Right Side of History,” explains that the twin pillars of revelation and reason - emanating from ancient Jerusalem and Athens - form the bedrock for Western civilization's unprecedented success.
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Script:
Western civilization. It’s been around for a while, but suddenly everybody is talking about it. Some are anxious to save it; others are happy to see it go.
But what exactly is Western civilization?
Is it the great cathedrals of Europe or the Nazi concentration camps? Is it the freedoms secured in the US Constitution or chattel slavery? Life-saving medicines or poison gas?
The left likes to focus on the bad-genocide, slavery, environmental destruction. But those have been present in every civilization from time immemorial.
The positives are unique to the West-religious tolerance, abolition of slavery, universal human rights, the development of the scientific method: these are accomplishments of a scope and scale that only the West can claim.
These aren’t the only achievements that make the West special and uniquely successful. As Western thought evolved, it secured the rights of women and minorities, lifted billions of people out of poverty, and invented most of the modern world.
Progress hasn’t been a straight line, of course. But the arc of history is clear. The obvious proof is that the world is overwhelmingly Western. And, with few exceptions, those parts of the world that aren’t aspire to be.
Why? Why has Western civilization been so successful?
There are many reasons, but the best place to start is with the teachings and philosophies that emerged from two ancient cities: Jerusalem and Athens.
Jerusalem represents religious revelation as manifested in the Judeo-Christian tradition: the beliefs that a good God created an ordered universe and that this God demands moral behavior from His paramount creation, man.
The other city, Athens, represents reason and logic as expressed by the great Greek thinkers Plato and Aristotle and many others.
These two ways of thinking-revelation and reason-live in constant tension.
Judeo-Christian religion posits that there are certain fundamental truths handed down to us by a transcendent being. We didn’t invent these truths; we received them from God. The rules He lays down for us are vital for building a functioning, moral civilization and for leading a happy life.
Greek thinking posits that we only know truth by what we observe, test, and measure. It is not faith, but fact, that drives our understanding and exploration of the universe.
Western civilization, and only Western civilization, has found a way to balance both religious belief and human reason.
Here’s how the balance works.
The Judeo-Christian tradition teaches that God created an ordered universe, and that we have an obligation to try to make the world better. This offers us purpose and suggests that history moves forward. Most pagan religions taught the opposite: that the universe is illogical and random, and that history is cyclical. History just endlessly repeats itself-in which case, why bother to innovate or create anything new?
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This is the slowest I've heard Ben Shapiro talked.
That was a good one.
Yep
Put speed on 1.25 and he will sound as usual.
This is what Ben would sound like if he were really, really, really high.
Yeah ur actually right
It must be killing him to talk so slowly lol
its kind of weird
had to put it at 1.5 speed lol
Exactly what I was thinking lol
He did not appear the least troubled about it.
Yes, just as it can be difficult for me to talk without stuttering.
I think he was talking at normal speed and they just slowed it down. Try replying it on 1.25x. It feels right!!!
Lol its true!
It's so normal at 1.25x
Omg. You're right!
I watch all non-music UA-cam videos at 2x speed because I have a low intention span 😂
You saved us
You missed the third one, Rome and the practical implementation
Absolutely. Rome set the stage for Europe and later America to forge our modern world.
Rome nobles hired Greek scholars to teach their children so Rome and Greece go together.
It's the same thing. Reason.
It's nice to remember what brought countries to become superpowers, but it's also worth remembering, what caused their fall:
- Macedonian and Mongol Empire - ,,What happens, when you don't pick your heir wisely"
- Roman Empire: ,,What happens, when those _Oppressed minorities_ aren't forced to assimilate"
- Byzantine Empire: ,,What happens, when you trust other countries too much"
- Spanish Empire: ,,Maybe importing cheap products from other countries is not a good idea"
- Polish-Lithuanian Commonwelth: ,,This is what happens, when elites in your country get to much to say in pollitics"
- Holy Roman Empire: ,,It turns out «Power of Friendship» isn't the strongest thing ever known"
- 1st French Empire: ,,Your good luck will eventually come to an end - sometimes in very painful way"
- Danish Empire: ,,No matter how many things you have, if they have zero meaning, they are useless garbage"
- Portugal Empire: ,,Sometimes there are barriers, that won't allow you to grow forever"
- Russian Empire: ,,No matter how big and strong you are right now, if you don't continue developing, you will become weak and small and eventually fall"
- Ottoman Empire: ,,Your pollitical system has to grow and develop, just like your economy"
- Austro-Hungarian Empire: ,,Tolerance is good and imporant, but you can easily overdose it"
- German Empire: ,,No one is invincible - specifically you"
- III Reich: ,,You should learn from other ones' mistakes"
- Belgian Empire: ,,Harassing others won't gwarantee you will survive"
- Dutch Empire: ,,There are always people, who want you fail"
- 2nd French Empire: ,,This is what happens, when you don't invest in your Army"
- Italian Empire¹: ,,When you're dependent on others' help, you won't succeed when they have problems"
- Great Japanese Empire: ,,There are always stronger than you, no matter how much you believe in yourself"
- British Empire: ,,Being evil will eventually come back to you"
- Soviet Union: ,,Building utopia will end in disaster"
¹It's not the Roman Empire - it's how you can call Italian country with its colonies in 1870-1943.
Well you know that they did adopt some of greek values
Hint: play at 1.25x speed for it to sound like normal Shapiro.
2x
For mega Shapiro
Lmao
so true
LMAOOO
had to play it at 1.25 the speed for consistency
Lol yeah Ben usually talks pretty fast. Apparently his whole family talks like that.
😂😂
Haha I speak so quickly that I have a tendency to slur my words together
Thanks for reminding me i can do that
I tried it just for laughs. Spot on!!
Fun drinking game: Watch this video and take a drink every time you see a logical fallacy.
Laughs in colonisation 🤣🤣
I can't do that. I would get drunk.
I would die
Put it at 1.25 speed. That’s Ben’s normal voice
At first I thought the title said Why is Ben Shapiro so successful?
Why? Because he has IQ of about 150 and he works his ass off.
Because his wife is a doctor duh
Der Mikadomampfer He went to Harvard before he was married and was a successful lawyer
@@hauckanimation8638 I know, it's only a joke.
@Vincent Cuttolo nah more like 78 IQ
Ben Shapiro on PragerU, the best crossover ever
Also the left saying something is anti semitic then turning around and supporting Palestine then letting in. Muslim anti-Jewish immigrants
well, Dennis Prager's lips are permanently grafted to Ben's ass, so...
Lol. True dat!
Hes a man with dual loyalties
@@HighFlyingOwlOfMinerva as U.S. military service member, I tell you that you are an enemy of the state. What's wrong with Zionism? Israeli intelligence, technology and tactics saved countless lives on my team during combat deployments. You sick morbid twat
@@HighFlyingOwlOfMinerva No one is willing to challenge what Ben actually believes. They only want to make a mock-up of what he believes and challenge that. I've seen him strawmanned every single time. That's how you can tell someone is probably right.
Superbly spoken. I love seeing Daily Wire/PragerU collaborations.
Literally half the stuff he said is complete bs though.
@@cowboybeboop9420 I've taken shits that took more effort than what you just put into your "argument". If you want to make an argument then do it like an adult: Quote the statement, make an argument, support it with evidence and information.
Otherwise I could just say that literally everything he said is true because everything YOU say is false. Gosh, arguing your way is sure easy, but it sounds stupid af.
@@RENEG4DE4NGEL Also "democracy" in the West came neither from Christianity/Judaism nor from Athens.
Literally every medieval European kingdom had a parliament, senate, diet or whatever the said country called it. This came from the Germanic barbarians who believed that every warrior in the war band should have an equal say and later translated that into their states (France, Germany, England, etc).
By the time the Germans created their kingdoms the ideas of Greek democracy where dead for centuries. Greek democracy was also very different from Western or American democracy. The idea of limiting human rights had nothing to do with religion but more to do with circumstance and practicality and was the correct approach overall as witnessed by the failures of Britain for example. America was mostly an exception to this due to circumstance and dumb luck (too long to explain).
The Founding Fathers were also a bunch of dicks who get white washed. Obvious known facts of the time get ignored and ideas that they never had get put as goals even though they only happened as a result of their failures to achieve their objectives. For example the Senate was supposed to be filled with aristocrats and England wanted to give the US representation.
I am a Liberterian Orthodox Moslem. ☪️
In God we Trust. ☪️✡✝️ God of Ambrahem is the true God.
In Logic we thrive.🗽 Reasoning of events is the true way.
Hope the Islamic World Follows the path of Conservative Democracy, and bring back the caliphate, and the golden Islamic age.
@@AntiFurryNatio Hate to brake it to you pall but "the golden Islamic age" ended when the majority of the Middle East and North Africa stopped being Christian and converted to Islam.
If the kuran is the literal word of God than you don`t need science or inquiry etc since God already told you what you need to know and he can just change things on a whim if he wanted to.
Slogans for PragerU - 'For those who don't care about references', 'Short conservative videos for people without time to think', 'Science is good when it makes us money'
I'm Asian and I appreciate what Western Civilization has accomplished and contributed to the rest of world, and it definitely worth preserving.
Obvouisly you're a racist bigot white supremacist with internalized racism from the oppression you have received from whites.
@@beayn Do have anything else to support those claims aside from the usual buzzwords.
@@beayn lol your statement is so super predictable. Your joking right?
@@beayn not sure if you are sarcastic or what?
your sarcasm detection chip requires replacement
Hey, did you know this guy's wife is a doctor?
They argued a lot...
Hey, did you know this guy is a Jew?
And he paid her student loans
Nintendo Guy00
@@stochasticdifferentialeq.1393 And I assume the liberal side is better? If so, CNN has it's own channel. I think it may be more up your alley.
3:37 "man has the capacity to search beyond Revelation" no pun intended!
3:35 That pot on the left looks like the thing that my wife keeps in the drawer.
*Hold up*
A perfume bottle?
I am from Azerbaijan and I think that West is great
Azerbaijan is in europe so you should haha
Technically yes, but majority of our people are muslim. However, not radical.
@@FaridCG - Sorry, but this channel made a video literally saying most Muslims aren't moderate...
@@FaridCG well fair enough
i am a proud feminist and i have a vagaina xoxo Azerbaijan is in Asia right cause it’s in the caucuses
I’ve gotten so used to him talking fast that I had to turn the playback speed to 1.5
@daibon Ten The Father of the United States was British (Washington). The Father of Christianity was a Jew (Jesus). The two roots of America.
That actually does sound a lot like his show at that speed lol
Sperg
Lol... For once I could understand him completely... Not a native English speaker here...
Thank you so much for making these videos
Hope that western civilization survives and thrives...Love from an atheist of a third world country Bangladesh.♥
the main goal of westeren civilisation is to make sure countries like Bangladesh keep staying as it is, soo their part of the world can consume as much as they want. soooo i wouldn't hope that if I was you.
@@hamz4977 which country are you from?
@@Sharifkhan12365 somewhere in africa
@@hamz4977 UA-cam is censoring me -_-
@@hamz4977 my own countrymen don't respect each other... They would do nything to anyone for the slighest benefit... Our everything is corrupt...Govt,police,Farmer,Businessman,Doctor,Engineer everyone...
Women are not safe in broad daylight let alone night time... Often women are raped and people blame them on their clothes... I could write more harsh truth but youtube is censoring...
So do you think west do all this stuff?
When that guy helped the woman by sharing his umbrella, that was so sexist!
Damn misogynists. They're everywhere! :D
Your sarcasm is noted.
It's just a small part of the toxic, umbrella-sharing rape culture we live in.
Scott Meech he owned her.
Huge mistake.
Dont be imprealist, keep your umbrellas to yourself
Wait. Did you just assume both their genders?!?!?! Triggered!!!
Legend has it that he isn’t actually talking this slow, they actually had to just slow the video down because he physically could not speak this slow on his own.
So tru
The west is successful for a lot of reasons. A potentially important aspect is simply the geography of western Europe allowed trade (and war) between nations which allowed ideas and materials to be exchanged. Physical and cultural isolation is strongly correlated with poor material wealth
Exactly, It has very little to do with cultural superiority !
this is true indeed. but even with coastal/trade lines naturally available, a force of morality & reason is what gives humans direction.
@@theisheep2676 western civilisation has been overwhelmingly culturally superior to any other civilization from ancient Greece and Rome to modern western Europe and US, having dominated science, discovery and culture. There is little arguing about it, but it's an uncomfortable truth so it is hardly ever mentioned
@@infinitydreamzz western civilisation has largely been a backwater for most of history. I know it’s hard for you to accept but go study world history if you can be bothered lol
@theisheep2676 sure buddy you do realize everything from law to science etc are all part of culture and the west has unilaterally dominated the world even china
We all have our ups and downs. Why Has the West Been So Successful? Technology. Colonialism. Interest.
Yes. That is a balanced answer, there were bad things (colonialism) as well as good things (interest, technology)
@@theisheep2676 well in order to have a succesful civilization like the west with (technology and scientific development) you must have bad things like (colonialism, genocide and hitler)
I don’t think I’ve ever heard speech so clearly.
It's amazing what a difference good headphones can make.
I hope you were listening to what you were hearing so clearly, cause this video is full of half truths and flat out lies.
See the breakdown of this video here if you don't believe me: ua-cam.com/video/anlB-TUk4Ks/v-deo.html
Listen to David Tomlinson speak.
State of Serenity I find that mullet dude just as biased as Ben Shapiro. I truly don’t understand how people can fully agree with the ideals of one political party. It seems very un-American.
@@BlazeDaBeast585 Ideally, we'd have no political parties at all.
Ben Shapiro can talk slowly?
They prolly slowed it down.
This audio has been slowed down astronomical units in order for him to sound normal.
Set playback speeed to 0.25x
If they didn’t the video would have been over in 1min and 37 seconds
They paid the editor top dollar for that feat. 😂
Great content thanks guys !
Shapiro: We value logic
Romanticists: Are we just a joke to you?
im Asian but Western Civilization to me was the greatest thing that happened to human civilization
I'm Asian as well and I appreciate what the Western World has accomplished and contributed to the rest of humanity, and it definitely worth preserving.
And now we must fight to keep it like that, and not fall into barbarism.
@@koolmckool7039 Western civilization one point is a barbarism.
@@Connor.SG-1Ring Western and eastern do contribution to civilization. You need both to advance as human race.
@@campkira What does the east provide us, really?
The West is successful because Dr Phil knows some facts about your feelings.
😂😂 underrated comment
LOCAL COPE He also pushes for laws preventing the boycott of Israel.
LOCAL COPE Hypocrisy. He's a self-labeled zionists. If he had to choose between America and Israel, we all know who he'll side with. 26 states already have such laws.
Pagans had no reason to innovate
Greeks: We invented the modern basis of astronomy and legal systems
Romans: We made aqueducts and other architectural feats.
Nords: We invented advanced ocean travel and found America before Colombus
As we say in Brazil: Ben Shapiro is the GUY!
Except he isnt
Yeah, he is
@@pilotwall If you take some time to look into his arguments you will realize he really isn't.
and look at where you are right now
Prager U is so necessary right now...Keep up the fantastic and crucial work!!
Prageru is Not a university, it's just a UA-cam channel managed by a bunch of religious conservatives
cant attack the facts so you attack the messanger....just like a true socialist progressevi/regressive.
PragerU isn’t a university. While that is true it mean nothing for UA-cam videos, as I feel like if it was a real University but it was just called: Prager I think there would be no difference to what they say.
Yep, a channel that makes less than 5-minute videos that make assertions with little to no arguments to support. Definitely 'crucial' to have...
@@axelinghdh572fbxndhdhjsd9 - Spoken like a true fanatic...
*I cant wait for Ben Shapiro to destroy Thanos with facts and logic in Avengers Endgame*
Thanos: STOP! You're talking to fast!
Spoiler alert.
That would be a great cartoon for Steven Crowder to add to his other Avengers bit. "Paging Steven Crowder..."
He kind of already did in his infity war review.
He should pull a Reverse card from Uno when Thanos snaps and watch him disappear 😂
Athens & Rome : We are the greatest civilization.
Indus valley / Ancient India : 🙃
Well it would've been reverse if you Indians have done more conquering and exploring instead of just staying in India
@@someguy6422 I dont think conquering other lands, massacring the natives, and looting their resources makes a civilization or a country great.
@@jatinkhanna76 Lmao the west never massacres anyone; everyone just died of diseases. The west civilised the world and that’s a thing to be thankful for.
@@user-sd6lg8lf5c the same west which massacred 6 million jews, which created unnatural famines in India which led to starvation and death of more than 10 million Indians, killed the natives of America, Australia, etc. Also, India, Japan, China, Persia, etc always have had great civilizations. All the west has done is displayed its uncivilized nature by taking over the native lands, massacring people, and looting their resources.
@@jatinkhanna76 Also what unnatural Indian famines are you talking about? Just because the west was in India, it doesn’t mean it’s responsible for some random famine.
Finally I understand him as non native English speaker 😂
Have fun in America bro they gon tear ur ass up💀
Wow
I’ve never heard Ben Shapiro speak this SLOW
Great job, Ben. Thank you PragerU!
Prager U had to play his voice in slow motion
this "SLOWLY"
Glad to have financed the American revolution!
Greetings from the Netherlands
Maarten van der Poel, thanks for that!
Yep! Without the Netherlands America wouldn't exist. Thank you so much.
Maarten van der Poel, dank je wel!
@@JonesTheSecond Graag gedaan haha
Glad we participated!
Greeting from France.
We have the Renaissance, the Enlightenment, the Age of Exploration, the Scientific Revolution, Greek philosophy, Roman government, Judeo-Christian theology/morals, the Industrial Revolution, democracy, free market capitalism, and much much more. I am proud of my heritage, upbringings, values instilled in me, my roots, and ancestry.
Thank you! All the other comments are by Far-Left non-westerners.
And along the way many dead corpses :). Don't let that affect your pride though.
@@bobafett9596 That’s just natural selection.
@@bobafett9596 yeah cause how could a human civilization have violence?!?!?! wow!!!
@@bobafett9596people also die without being killed. You die one way or other in the end
"Religious tolerance is unique to the West."
This is blatantly wrong. Genghis Khan, a Mongolian emperor, practiced religious tolerance when Europe was still doing the crusades. Quoting Wikipedia:
"The Mongol Empire practiced religious tolerance because Mongol tradition had long held that religion was a personal concept, and not subject to law or interference. Sometime before the rise of Genghis Khan, Ong Khan, his mentor and eventual rival, had converted to Nestorian Christianity. Various Mongol tribes were Shamanist, Buddhist or Christian. Religious tolerance was thus a well established concept on the Asian steppe."
He was a genocidal warlord, but he couldn't give less of a shit what god you worshiped.
But then again, vague assertions made without any evidence are sorta PragerU's bread and butter.
You are right. The problem with that is that many civilisations that we even don't know about probably had the same thing. Mongol Empire didn't last long, and probably didn't manage to preserve that value. The thing with that is actually that you said it in the best way "they didn't give a shit about what God you worshiped". It is just that, their indifference. They probably wouldn't give a shit about someone killing someone else over religion in their realm of reign if it didn't interfere with their personal interests. Ben was talking about values, and simply not giving a shit instead of protecting it is not a value itself.
Rip Islam
Wow, you can really notice that they told him to speak slowly haha
its because pragerU buys bluechecked NPC's to read lines for them in pursuit of popularity amongst younger generations, so many fear mongered shocked sedated sheeple follow this channel
@@MrNinjaone1 I dunno. I don't feel very afraid. Meanwhile, AOC is saying "obey my every command or you will all die in 12 years!"
He started speaking slowly for his daily radio show. It's really annoying as now I watch it at 1.75x and there is less content.
@@MrNinjaone1 i don't really feel scared, what are u talking about bro?,he is screaming that the world will end in 12 years
Revelation and reason. Let's go Western Civilization!
and..... white people. (Tends to be a very important component of western civilization)
@@digbyjones4203 Most people in the west are white, but I don't really care about skin color.
FusionOmni I would say that western civilization are the ones that are most open to immigration.
Greek weren't white but had a tanned skin
@@fusionomni305 ok, name one 1st world black country. Cause skin color doesn't matter in maintaining western civilization standards of living obviously to you....
This is a SOLID speech.
For braindead people
@@tinttiakka2028 oh I forgot, frustrated losers like you too.
What
What do you mean? It's full of incoherent historical inaccuracies.
@@rickr.a2806 explain...
Interesting video I like the view of the need for balance of the 2 =)
I am a Greek agnostic and I approve this massage!
Your country of not the same civilization that created socrates Socrates and Plato.
@@willhiggins9563 Greeks think they own everything just because their ancestors helped invent the foundation of 1st world societies. They think very highly of themselves, which is typical of the EU.
A B Greece is nothing like that.
@@AB-pr4uc Stereotype. There are some people thinking like that in Greece. The most uneducated ones. I bet you have no such people in your country.
🇵🇭 From the Philippines, I support this message. 👍
More like - From Philippines, I bend over.
“Religious tolerance”
Enter all of European history just about ever
This is something I’ve always wanted to hear
An explanation of how both belief and logic can work together to make such a wonderful nation and neither one needs to be bashed for it because they both offer something needed such as purpose and ideas
nothing to do with genociding an entire population and enslaving another, right? twas the magical mix of "belief & logic" that made it all happen
@Usuário Sarcástico first of all, shapiro has never in his life honestly adressed the fact that religions have caused far more damages than good. it was simple tool to justify genocides and it was used time and time again against anyone "in need of destruction", or non-whites.
second, america has progressed passed nothing at all and logic has no meaning for conservatives. a good chunk of americans do not acknowledge the fact that they live on lands stolen after years and years of atrocities that not only depict how greedy humans can be, but also cruel beyond reason. a good chunk of americans still undermine the gravity of slavery and refuse to acknowledge how much of an impact it was on the usa. why do you think people, the target audience of prageru, are still getting riled up when the statue of a confederate general is taken down? in my country, the question of colonialism was recently brought up again. in answer, the king met with the current president of the once owned country and acknowledged that the history of both countries are sadly tied together, and that nothing could ever wash away the wrongs that were done. that is how you use logic to recognize "your faults", even if they were not committed by you personnally. meanwhile, shapiro still refuses to admit racism through administrative process is possible.
shapiro just panders to his audience by saying stuff like "the american freedom" or "the judeo-christian values", but he never explains the meaning of any of these words, what gave birth to these concepts in the first place, or anything that could be seen as a negative. everything is always perfect and no harm was ever done, thanks to religion.
that's a civilization that's heading towards a wall at full speed. it's happening right now. if americans weren't taught to remain ignorant and hateful, maybe the country wouldn't be on fire right now. atleast be aware of the fact that the outside world either makes fun of you, or hates you. sometimes these two overlap.
@Usuário Sarcástico you do realize there's something called the party switch, right
they swapped the names "republicans" and "democrats"
have you ever noticed how prageru never ever uses a source, or can't even make a correct graph for that matter? or is that also a "marxist manifesto"
This alt-right sage is scaring me with his rage
Ummm.... alt-righters aren't generally fans of his religion....
@@digbyjones4203 woosh
@@schpyy
It's pretty hard to tell what is and isn't a joke since insanity and extremism are being expressed more and more openly and earnestly. You can longer rely on thinking that people will:
See something
↓
See that it's crazy
↓
Think that therefore it's obviously a joke
Cause people actually hold these crazy beliefs and like to talk about it a lot more nowadays.
Either you're terrible with sarcasm, or you're just a soyboy bitch....
@@digbyjones4203 He was referring to that article that referred to Ben as such. I'm pretty sure he was saying it ironically. Not sure how someone can unironically call him alt-right. He's against white nationalism and the alt-right hates his beliefs and his guts.
Fun fact: His wife’s a doctor!
Sai Gudi What's your point?
MOE FRITZ nothing it’s just something he brings up a lot.
@@saigudi7396 I think because he loves his wife. I talk about my husband a lot because I love him.
Maggie Whiteside Or because he wants to seem smart and qualified so he doesn't have to substantiate his ideas.
how tf did he even get a wife
Raghu Bodanapati What about Japan,south Korea
Trex bra Japan and korea were uplifted by the west and had western values heavily incorporated into their countries as a result they are more prosperous then ever before
Me @Trex bra No. I dont know much about korea. But about Japan, Japan had been more advanced in various ways than the west. For example, the population of Tokyo was much larger than that of London(which is of course the largest city in Europe at that time) in the early 1800s. And the water supply system in Tokyo was far better than that of London. Well, about technology, especially in China and Japan, they were much more advanced than the west(just check out for example the gunpowders or other inventions). About economy , for example, Futures contract was first established in 1697 in Osaka(long before the westerners came to Japan.), and we had our own capital system. And there are just so many other elements that oppose what you said, so "they are more prosperous then ever before" is just wrong. Yes, we are prosperous right now and we have been, because we have been evolving on our own, and partly because some effect from the western countries from precisely the late 1800s.
They obtained a similar balance between education, honor, and faith
Well, we definitely gave the Japanese the train. That's a fact.
@Simon Silicon Why would you believe Christian values aren't positive, unless you specifically choose to cherry pick examples and or judge teaching of Christianity solely on the how man has perverted it? Spirituality that encourages living a good moral life is more important than how that spirituality is defined. I'm from Hawaii, believe me, Japanese are very spiritual, the problem is how "atheist" is being translated by the west.
@Simon Silicon I live in Japan, and someone has to tell you that Japan would be nowhere where it is today if Western and American influences were never in the picture. The reason why Japan has become successful is because the Japanese are good at adopting foreign things and implementing them with their rigid social norms. But without foreign things and ideas to borrow and draw from, they'd be exactly how they were pre-Meiji era. Even today, the society is just barely keeping up. Their culture and mentally is quite structured and inflexible compared to the West, so while those things helped them create a productive society, to maintain such a society for themselves requires certain efforts that they can't quite pull off.
@Simon Silicon You're mixing things up. If you hear someone tying Christianity with the success of the West, it is because the belief in God as the sole creator of all natural laws and truths led to breakthroughs in scientific discoveries and political thought, which is something uniquely Western and this diffused all over the world. This phenomenon isn't found anywhere else; certainly nothing of the sort sprouted out of Japan's native Shinto tradition.
Ben is right on point, you got to appreciate that.
I feel so proud and also humbled to be born in Europe, and more specifically in Greece.
Europe is blessed.
Islamists are being smuggled into your country by NGOs. Won't be proud for long 😂😂😂
@@ishan1789 compared to other countries, we are in the clear. These refugees are here temporarily, for the most part. Its central Europe that has a problem with the refugees.
Refugees as distinct from legal immigrants are the most likely to never return.
You gave us Vangelis, a modern Greek God.
3:35 a.m.?
Why the hell not? 😂
Clustee My Man u posted that comment at 12:57
Its 2am for me and I got school at 8.... yeahhhhh
When you posted it was 11:57am by me 👍
Me too
same but 2 hours back in cali lmao
Faith is based on feeling, Ben.
hi
Hi 👋👋
Finally, someone I agree with.
When I need a moral and spiritual lift, I always come here and listen to Ben talk about what makes the west exceptional. It's uplifting in a very dark and doggie downer world. Thanks Ben!
How the west destroyed the world while her citizens cheered.
Slavery, and the Doctrine of Discovery, for starters.
@@schhug No.
I am muslim from Kuwait and I think the west is great
welcome brother
Nice rhyme.
yusefq891 stay out of the west before your cancerous ideology kills us all
AxelingHdh572 Fbxndhdhjsd that guy did nothing to you. Him recognizing our civilisation being great proves he's a fair person
Trust me, it is!
I love Ben Shapiro !!! Such a great guy.
From the Philippines.
Without the West, we would be yelling allahu akbhar right now.
The west💪🏻
I love the Philippines!
@@dexterj5896 I would like to make an amdendum to your comment: coming from the Philippines myself (born and raised) and now continuing to serve in U.S. Army, I was raised as a Catholic. Since the the Spaniards Conquered the Philippines around the 1600s bringing with them Catholicism. (I have delcared my faith now as Christian when at the age of 18)
@C caymer can't say about Mexicans since I don't live in US. Probably, the illegals are the ones don't assimilate. From my experience, usually individuals or groups with Christian background assimilate well in Western world.
Feeling alone isn't enough. You have to think as well to harness those feelings in a moral way.
Preserve the West!
Multiculturalism is suicide.
Who will preserve? what about your contribution? R u really serious to spend time and risk life to save it?
oddly enough the people trying to destroy it the most are of the same tribe as Shekelpiro.
What if history really is cyclical and now comes the decline and fall
Down with the west.
the philosophy of moderation, i love it!
greetings from south America. Keep on it PragerU.
Very informative
Great video
Hey let's become a third world country....N O T
If you look at drug, health, wealth repartition & violence statistics america is already a third world country :/
2014 wants its meme back
@@Plusimurfriend 😂
Frank Castle three is more than one, #thirdworldgang!
Lol
Ben Shapiro, you are some oxygen in our leftist atheist poisonous smog. Greetings from Holland!
The west is the greatest civilization emerged on the earth.
Ben Shapiro is a over hyped moron.
Hey now, don't lump us atheists in with the left.
@@willhiggins9563 Ben Shapiro can write proper sentences. I guess you're less intelligent than a moron.
@Ben McKean proof that everything he said in this video is false? We'll wait...
I appreciated this video; Now time to juxtapose it with other perspectives
Outstanding video
UA-cam needs Dennis Prager and Ben Shapiro
陳師寬 i agree.
@@HighFlyingOwlOfMinerva 90% of the media is run by liberals. Social media networks have even banned people for right wing opinions, and although there are tons of liberal news networks, there is only one conservative news network, Fox. Sorry, but I say we don't have enough people to challenge the authoritarian and identitarian regressive left that has gained so much power under victimhood culture.
I think Ben Shapiro is better and balance than Dennis, Dennis somehow (little) fall to his own delusion
@@HighFlyingOwlOfMinerva Im an Israeli citizen, and I've always wondered what's wrong with Zionism?
*Hebrew* *Hammer* laying down some truth.
"Hebrew Hammer" , Love it. Awesome !!! Yes He is !!
here you go:
הפטיש העברי
@@HighFlyingOwlOfMinerva Is it exhausting being so full of hate?
Is it exhausting being this much of a Zionist shill?
@Wall Might *Slaves* That's rich.
Human rights and religious tolerance and slavery abolition started in middle east ironically
Ben Shapiro on a PragerU video? It's like a dream come true!
Hey its Ben! Yay
My thoughts exactly! ^-^
Ben? Shapiro
Prager? U
Leftist? Triggered
Hotel? Trivago
Easy there tiger, dont stoke that false pride too hard. His claims have no historical or anthropological basis. But I get it.. you need this lie to feed that small ego of yours.. mazel tov !
@@ElMagnifico0709 Same thing with every other Prageru video.
Alek L.
Shapiro U Triggered Trivago
@@ElMagnifico0709 Ok prove it. you have made an exceptional claim, there for the burden of proof is on you.
@@Delgen1951 I just refuted the original claim made in the video. The proof of burden lies on the maker of the video. My stand is that every culture is just as important as the other. Sure, some major contribution has been made by the west, but if you want to look at the progress of the world as a whole, other cultures cannot be sidelined as simply as the maker of this video intends to.
Well put.
keep up the facts! Big fan!
Progressives progress toward chaos, despair and detriment.
I stand with the West
@@nadlax5920
You mean the SJWs? I don't follow or bow to anyone who can't pass the mirror test.
Character first - and that eliminates a lot of would-be role models across the board.
So having a 40 hour work day and kids not working is chaos? Yeah your funny
Sir Admar Xth
Woodrow Wilson
CONservatives are named so for their ability to con their low IQ followers.
@@B33SON1 Why are progressives so regressive then? Silencing speech and ideas is literally the opposite of progress.
The way Ben was talking, the video clip took FOREVER!!
Well-put.
I was waiting to hear "facts don't care about your feelings" at the end.
Have I heard Ben argue this already? Yes.
Will I still watch it? Yes.
Your smile is contagious!
I would encourage you to discard these arguments, particularly if you are Christian, as Ben is attempting revisionist history in this video.
@@rhysf.505 please explain. I'm not sure if you're being funny or serious.
Josh, Judaism and Christianity are opposing religions. Judeo-Christian is a Jew who converts to Christianity. There are no such thing as "Judeo-Christian" values, as Judeo-Christians have Christian values. The west was founded Christianity and the Greek Legacy ONLY. Jews showed up much later and always lived on the fringes of European society unless they integrated as Christians. Ben inserting his religion into the picture is false, and that would be bad enough already, but he's also trying to erase Christendom in the process.
Rhys F. How do you get that Judaism & Christianity are directly opposed? Christianity came out of Judaism. The Bible includes the Jewish holy books.
I'm an Atheist, and I like Ben Shapiro because he is an intelligent person who doesn't push his beliefs on others, and can disagree with someone and still respect them
I feel the same.
Never really got a chance to discuss this with an atheist but can I ask where or how you think our world is from/created
@@liveandletlive2894 the Big Bang. No God needed
@@randomytviewer3284 you'll have to be a bit more specific than just saying a "big bang" as #1 whatever items banged into each other must've came from somewhere or been made from something also wherever the big bang took place who or what created that space and #2 if you keep up with the current events on this subject they've sorta disproved the old big bang and now it's another theory which I'm not yet exactly clear on
@@urbandesitv3529 Yes I know the idea that a Bang created the Universe sounds crazy, but the scientific evidences support it. I'm an agnostic, not an atheist though. I believe there might be a "God" an ominipotent, omniscience being who created the Universe, but I don't believe the Abrahamic God exists
Great as always sir
While I agree with most points of this video I’m inclined to disagree with some points. First of all, abolition of slavery was never uniquely western. Ancient China, Ancient Persia, and Ancient India didn’t even have slaves at all, while Europe only abolished slavery as recently as the 1800s, while the cultures I mentioned above were around from 2200 BC for China, 500 BC for Persia’s Achaemenid Empire, and 200 BC for India’s Mauryan Empire and 400 AD for India’s Gupta Empire. Furthermore religious tolerance also isn’t uniquely western. Ancient Persia once again valued all religions and allowed for religious tolerance before any European Empire, and Religious wars actually never occurred at all in the East. Buddhism spread throughout Asia by peace, and Buddhism never got rid of Shintoism or Taoism, it coexisted with them. Compare that to the spread of Christianity and Islam, both of which spread predominantly through conquest and violence, and completely replaced the native religions. Furthermore, universal human rights also started in ancient Persia’s Achaemenid Empire with the Cyrus Cylinder which stated all people and cultures are considered equal in the empire. Also, India’s Gupta empire outlawed torture and executions in 400 AD, and China’s Song Dynasty in the 1100s was pretty much a socialist democracy, with free hospitals and free schools and free retirement homes for the elderly, and the Emperor was more like a president. However I do agree that the West invented the scientific method, but what I don’t agree with is that only the west did science. Also you mention that the world is overwhelmingly western which is true, but it’s not overwhelmingly western because of peace, it’s overwhelmingly western because the west conquered and subjugated pretty much every non western country, except for those that westernized themselves. Also, the west was definitely not the only civilization to balance religion and reason. In ancient India and China various scientific discoveries were made, science flourished, and various inventions were made despite the society being overwhelmingly religious. This proves that science and religion have been coexisting in Ancient China and India for a long time. I’m saying this stuff because it seems you only acknowledge the bad things non Western civilization does while completely ignoring the good it does, basically like what the left does but reversed. Also, all of this great stuff western civ does is very recent, and as recent as the 1920s. You really think Europe in the 1600s valued equality, democracy, and freedom? Not at all. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t dislike western civilization at all, and I’m very grateful about all Western civilization has created. However, I’m also grateful about what Eastern civilization has created, and it’s best to acknowledge the greatness of both Eastern and Western Civilization!
Well said
That's so well written and worded.
This is how you reason with someone.
Racist Liar. They didnt aboilsh anything. The West Abolished Slavery World wide and its Universal Law now. Thats why the had to force Persia, India and others to aboilish it. And you also forgot your Untouchables. Brits also abolished Sati for good. And inly the West had Developed the Concept of Reason. Philosophy as we know were invemted by Greeks because they were the first to separate Wisdom from Religion.
India had caste system for thousands of years which was worse than slavery.
@@maheshhardasani787 Really?
Love from India, Ben. Keep Rocking !
He probably thinks our culture is beastly and that's why our country is shithole , and u like him
@@prasoonkumar8131 india went downhill the moment the Muslims invaded
Aldarinn oh yes bcuz Hindus had it all figured out before that
@@prasoonkumar8131 i mean, stop overpopulation. That would reduce so much problems in India. You can see how the west puts career over making 5 kids.
@@kasperknutsen8283 thank you for suggestion , miss economist .
Western Civilization allowed Ben’s wife to become a doctor. I’ll see myself out
I dare a Muslim to say that while in the middle east!
@Levigyrl J are you stupid the muslim world may be behind the west but they have hospitals where tf did you get that information
@AR2004 - I believe they mean hospitals centralized around the Muslim faith. The Christian and Jew faiths are commonplace in hospitals in the US.
I am superglued to Athens and Jerusalem - no question about it! Thank you for a very informative video. Truly enjoyed it.
well its also baghdad and damascus that saw great scientific and knowledegable improvement.
He did a pretty good video buuut how the hell did he skip the Roman Catholic & Orthodox Churches, the Germans, and Imperial Rome?
Jerusalem had almost nothing to do with Western Civilization in terms of actually shaping it other than the fact that some of the big ideas and our religion started there.
You have Roman law and Greek philosophy with Germanic influence of the idea of personal freedoms and property and then the Roman Catholic and Orthodox Church acutely to put all that together. Were does Jerusalem falls into this other than being a holy city?
YES YES YES. My thoughts EXACTLY
THANKS BEN, HOPE TO SEE SOMEONE LIKE YOU AND MR. PRAGER TO MY BELOVED COUNTRY THE PHILIPPINES.
People like Ben Shapiro give me hope and sanity.
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That's worrying
people like Ben Shapiro take away my hope and sanity
with a single word 'pagan' he classified a large section of Philosophy.
Excellent Ben... thank you
Progressivism is a misnomer. It is more accurately, Aggressivism.
Have a nice day
Thank you.
We really call them regressive. Because they like going back towards stupidity instead of making real progress.
Or regressivism :)
Ben x PragerU is the most anticipated crossover event.
He's part of prager u and he has been for a while he just has his own business the daily wire
Thanks Ben!
Thank God for western civilization.
I love when Ben talks about ‘Judeo-Christian values’ as if that’s a thing
This guy isn't alt right, he's just plain right
He's a kosher conservative. He likes to potray todays judaism as a necessary element to Western Civilization when it was infact the reformation of Judaism (Christianity) that would end up saving and leading the West Civ to what it was upuntil recently.
@C caymer why?
If he was alt right, he'd be right.
Woke
@@lambadaglover1011 he literally says judeo-christian all throughout the video
This was very well put, especially with the representation of 'Western Civilization' standing on the two pillars; one of Judeo-Christian values (faith) and one of reason.
Not really. Ben is suggesting that the only way to learn moral behaviour is to have it provided to you by the imaginary creator of the universe. That is one of the most repulsive ideas around. Scientific Materialism does not necessarily lead to Nihilism. To not believe in "god" is to know that it is up to us to make the world a better place.
(Yes, I know an atheist is not by definition a materialist. But surely almost all atheists are materialists)
you could say that ....... This is Epic!
Prager, your artist did an awesome job on this one. Really good art direction.
Yeah, fits right in with their propaganda campaign.