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39 minutes in and Neil is just spewing disproven ukranian propaganda. He never actually said " I don't need a ride I need ammo" zelensky has repeatedly turned down peace settlements and he definitely had a contingency plan for when Russia invaded its ludicrous to say "he didn't know what he was going to do". Several international ambassadors have gone on record saying the Zelenksy isn't even in Kyiv except for photo ops. I guess I learned that historians lie lol
“I don’t think you become good spontaneously as a result of Darwinian natural selection”.. as good an argument in support of Christianity as I’ve ever heard.
I quite like Nial. I started following him on Good Fellows, though I'd heard his name countless times throughout my life. Nial is a man I admire and take quite well to his perspective on history, counter culture, and fearlessness, 'Irish impulse to walk towards gun fire'. I appreciate this interview. I didn't need anymore convincing but now I'm quite certain, I quite admire this guy
What I like about those Goodfellas is they will never walk away from a fight. In fact, they are more than willing to start one with anyone that looks sideways at the United States!
Outstanding interview, Credit to you Tim for bringing out the reflective and considered side to one of our centuries great historians and thinkers. “Words read to words written ratio” logo to be on the front cover of every book, genius!
Niall has been a soulmate of mine (history graduate here) and I've been a student of his for over a decade without him suspecting. It was great learning more of his personal story in his student days. I wish I could meet him in person some day :)
Thankyou Tim Ferris for your very enlightening interview with Niall Ferguson from Australia, somewhat in the Southern Hemisphere, out of the way of argy-bargy in the Northern H and glad to be here ! With our own good wine !
Very interesting and fun because Niall does have a sense of humor that rhymes a bit with my own. Plus he is chock full of good content from other historians...he is not afraid to cite other smart people.
Talks about not judging figures from history. And then, positively talks about Henry Kissinger, the literal cold-war proxy war monster of the 20th century. What in the actual fuck? There’s a difference between judging people and _not praising the architect of a genocide._
did you miss the bit where he's written a book about him and that era from original sources that seems to contradict the common narrative. i.e. the one you are espousing. he has a different opinion based on actual knowledge of the events including the white house discussions that nixon taped.
Superb conversation, close up with Mr Ferguson, relaxed, thoughtful and wide-ranging, easier on the mind and ear to panel discussions on stage, here with excellent probing skills by Tim. Thank you both!!
I understand that Professor Ferguson is looking at the issue through a historical lens, and analyzing similarities, and dissimilarities between the past, and the present, but the past is not the present, and the present is not the past. He didn't mention either of the two main issues that China has going against it without any intervention whatsoever: 1) the demographic problem: the one-child policy is set to wreak havoc in China. Their size of their population is in decline. What does this do to their labour force? What happens to the economy when there aren't enough bodies to fill the job vacancies? What about the size of their military? etc. China's population is, at present, the largest in world; however, it is set to shrink well below one billion. 2) China's relations within Asia: Aside from Russia, does China have any friends in surrounding it? All the nations around China see it as a major threat. If China were to attempt to invading Taiwan with a large force, and start suffering losses, wouldn't that tempt surrounding countries to involve themselves in the conflict to possibly grab Chinese territory? China would have a multiple front battle should that happen, and the Chinese haven't exactly endeared themselves to the countries in their neighbourhood (they haven't exactly endeared themselves to the minorities within their nation either - the Tibetans, and Uighurs come to mind).
Very engaging discussion, always a delight to listen to Prof. Ferguson who has great insights into the importance of history for understanding the complex contemporary world.
He’s very perceptive in his comments on China and Russia, but it goes even deeper than he recognizes…. 1. Obama’s “pivot to Asia” was aimed squarely at China. (Remember the US Marine base built in northern Australia?). This prompted China to respond with more ardent nationalism. 2. Yes, Biden has escalated the conflict, but it’s important to recognize how much the State Department is also devoted to escalation. They turned that first Alaska meeting into an acrimonious public confrontation (which no one seems the recognize, the US initiated). The State Department also withdrew opposition to Taiwanese independence from its website for a month or two (if acted upon, this would have meant war). The Pentagon has been the only moderating force (they tried to stop Pelosi’s trip), which should tell us something. When the diplomats are flirting with war, it becomes almost inevitable. 3. Most surprisingly, the center-left has become as belligerent as the neocons on China (Pelosi was the first speaker to visit Taiwan since Newt Gingrich). These same people used to be cheerleaders for economic integration with China. So why did they make a 180? This goes to their motive. They publicly stated that they expected economic integration to be good for international peace and prosperity, plus the opening of China. But they also hoped that China would come under the sway of the US, through multinational corporations, as well as growing political and cultural affinity. In short, they wanted to strengthen China, but only if the US ultimately controlled them. If we know anything about the modern Chinese, it’s that resisting western domination is the ONE thing that unites them most. 4. If the US can’t control China, then China’s rise threatens the US status as the sole world superpower. Our fall-back plan is war, over Taiwan and possibly the South China Sea. We’ll also support escalating Uyghur and Hong Kong insurgencies. It’s important to understand that China WILL go to war over Taiwan, so by picking this scab we are making war inevitable. The same was true of Ukraine. (No serious analyst thought Russia would just sit back and watch Ukraine shell and kill Russian-speaking Ukrainian civilians indefinitely.) 5. China and Russia are creating a BRICS block, with a currency to challenge the dollar. This is only in the opening stages, but has already progressed far more rapidly than expected (with India and even Saudi Arabia beginning to move away from the dollar). The US does not seem to have any strategic response to this, other than war. Needless to say, this greatly increases the risk of a devastating world war. Conclusion: The US needs a response to China’s rise that does not depend on war. This is a potential turning point for humanity. Americans and our friends need to speak out, or disaster will be inevitable.
Chileans have a name for the dregs: “bigoteado”, although is used for the collected dregs of many glasses. Not for Château Lafitte grand vine du Bordeaux
Wonderful conversation. I like the strategy of going to church anyway, even if you don’t believe. I did this in my atheist phase, because somehow I wanted to. The atheist phase didn’t last.
Well mine did. I still think it(religion) is irrational and based on fear, ultimately, and custom/ Which god you pumping for, Baal, Ra, Jesu, Mohammed, Jehovah, Zoroaster? They can't all be right; just an invention of man to assuage the fear of terminal decline !
@@linmal2242 Start with the one your ancestors worshipped. I promise you they weren't atheists, and I doubt it's because you're more clever than they were.
China's B&R investments will eventually face the same fate as British and French overseas investments in the first half of the 20th century. Take Brazilian and Argentinian waterworks, railways and power stations. Built out by British and French capital in two countries who had no history of colonial engagement in either country, all their assets were nationalised. The same will happen to all China's overseas infrastructure investments. US strategy of technological containment of China mirrors the pre WW2 oil embargo on Japan in the 1930's and may provoke a similar reaction.
From China? That wilderness of culture. Not likely. The only good 'Chinese' music came from Hong Kong, the band Beyond, and that was well in the time of British colonialism.
As a mathematician, I strongly disagree with Niall Ferguson and admire his intellect. I read all of his books and learned a lot from them. The more I listen to him, the more enriched I feel. Life is worth living while there are inspiring intellectuals like Niall.
@@bighands69 his belief in the constructiveness of empires and order. The world is too complicated - well beyond our ability to comprehend it, to predict the consequences of our actions, to plan and control. A much better option is feedback-based approach which is a very different paradigm. imho, this civilization is more likely to crash than (or before) to reinvent itself.
My favorite historian I would just gently correct him: those Rothchild letters that were 'written in Hebrew characters, mostly German but with occasional words in Hebrew' were in fact written in Yiddish.. Of course, he may have been trying to avoid a simplistic question of 'what is Yiddish...'
This was quite interesting and enjoyable.... truly. However! :} I find it to be a contradictory statement that humans need the Bible, or the frameworks at least, to be a decent person. That humans cannot "spontaneously" become good, is certainly a contradiction, especially if you are an atheist. If you don't believe that God exists, that implies that humans wrote the Bible. And if humans wrote the Bible, I guess that means the concepts of Christianity are derived from the thoughts, feelings, and experiences of man.... Maybe I missed the point regarding this idea, but would like to hear his thoughts about this someday.
The one point few are talking about that will change all these calculations.... China (and wider Far East's) demographics. China will be losing 20 million people per year by 2030 or so. That is a collapse. Internal issues will take a lot more priority and China even in 20 years (could be less) will be declining (and even collapsing). India is rising, and whilst they will be very annoying at times, they are not a threat in the bigger sense. After China goes, the West looks much more secure for what looks like centuries to come. All the brain drain heads for the Anglosphere, not other parts of the world. Our issue will be to integrate foreign peoples, which currently we are failing miserably at. We demand nothing of those that arrive. This is a recipe for civil unrest, and this will be the West's biggest challenge (that from within).
Hi Richard. I think your views on the future of the rosy future of the West and the decline of the East are wishful thinking to say the least. The West is unstable culturally, socially and economically much more than it’s elites care to admit. Many of the countries in the West are actually poor countries pretending to be rich. For years they’ve borrowed money on the markets to disguise how precarious their position is. They now can no longer do so and face ever falling living standards and cultural malaise.
@@johnmccaffrey5942 The cultural point is true. However, when it comes to debt and insecure models - China trumps the pack with 350% debt to GDP with a declining population and no safety net nor capital to support such a Western idea. Japan - already suffering and in terminal decline. Then you have South Korea. Philippines (you always thought they would grow) now has a birth rate of just the replacement of 2.1. They will not reach developed status before declining too (like China). Wherever you look it is happening. The Anglosphere and Western Europe are in trouble, but they have the tools to recover. That said, I doubt discount absolute decline due to cultural malaise.
Hold on Niall, you are forgetting that Glasgow hosts a university founded in 1451, the 4th oldest in the anglo speaking world. My time at that august establishment won't have been too different from yours at Oxford.
If we have a cold war with China, it's not because of it's dictator, or if it's Taiwan, or cheap goods at Walmart. In the British tv series The Prisoner, the atangonist changed each episode, but was always called Number 2. The Soviet Union was the second largest economy and was an enemy. Any nation, even a free one cannot be allowed to have a GDP approaching much less exceeding the United States. China or any nation would be at best a competitor, an enemy at worst. It could be China or someday India, or a renewed European Union, but any #2 GDP nation automatically triggers a cold war. America believes it's primacy is eternal. Geopolitically there is enough fossil fuel energy and resources to support one superpower on earth, not two.
Uhhh in case you haven't heard , the West and the US are going woke and sustainable, who needs fossil fuels ....the Empire of Lies is going green yo ! Muaaaaaaaaahahahahahahahaaaaa.....Smell of Empire rot is everywhere and the Anglo-Saxons having a meltdown, can't deal with it. More humble pie to come as the world has changed overnight
@@wasdwasdedsf year to year, BTUs of energy produced along with raw material production puts a hard ceiling on physical wealth and value added goods that can be produced. Only enough fuel for approximately 1billion, actually somewhat less to have an "American" suburban middle class lifestyle. Geoeconomics is becoming a bit zero sum because of those ceilings. Cold war with China will unofficially not be because of autocracy. Rapid emergence of middle class way pass the sub 1billion level supported by conventional fossil fuels, would lead to constant energy crisises shortages and international tensions...like today.
@@michaelcooney9368 yea none of the globalists narrative is true in any way shape or form. nuclear power alone is enough for a long time "would lead to constant energy crisises shortages and international tensions...like today." uhhh.... you have to be joking? why are you peddling the insane propaganda of people who have explicitly made this happen? the western world has consistently underinvested in fossil fuel exploration for a long time they have consistently dismantled power plants, even somtehing so insane and nonsensical as nuclear power platns, which are PERFECT for their narrative about a gas thats healthy actually being evil and will destroy the planet. they have created sanctions that have, fore example for EU made them go from having something like 25% of global gdp to 18... while making russias exports profit margins better and making the ruble the strongest perfomrning currency in 2022... so literaly the oposit of what they said they wanted
Will watch after rest in glasgow scotland meister tim ferriss, as a turk from istanbul biomedical engineer and neuropsychopharmacologist from university of glasgow. Alright lets go, as always ;)
This guy seems reasonably well informed. However when I hear anyone works at the Hoover institution I think back to the "research" they do in intelligent design and am instantly reminded that they exist solely so push a certain agenda, and are not really interested in objective analysis. At least as an institution as a whole, that doesn't mean that individual contributors can't be objective. But still, it's a black mark of sorts to be affiliated with them, even though they pay the bills.
1:27:42 surely this is unfairly laid at the doorstep of china due to western corporate greed? Btw, I am not apologizing on behalf of the CCP, or Poo. Thank you for uploading and sharing.
You watch the authentic BLAMELESS who will be left over once this smoke clears obviously the people with over 98,000 congregations around the globe JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES! Not only my opinion but take it as advice or go ballistic?lolSeriously peeps from pathetic Canada B.C. thanks for reading this.oxox
Dear Niall: to understand the role of contingencies in the philosophy of history, take a look at Judea Perle of UCLA. He understands counter-factual logic.
ive been trying to put my finger on why im not impressed with Niall, from the intro it struck me, Niall is not afraid to manipulate and hide historical opinion and knowledge to suit his none historical career, that means right wing capitalist.
It’s ironic that at 1:22:27 he says he hopes “he never engages in the kind of punditry that is just designed to get retweets and social media followers” by, say, predicting “the end of the world,” yet at 58:00 he says he thinks “iran will blow up again.” A few months after this conversation, Saudi Arabia and Iran restored ties, not to mention with Chinese intermediation. His examples of accurate predictions his company made (Covid, inflation, Russian invasion) seem hardly impressive to be honest. He’s an interesting historian, but he has somewhat forced himself outside the academy as he said he always sought to do, at 3:26. A helplessly ostentatious man, he seems, betraying several contradictions and, dare I say, a neoconservative bloke trying to stay relevant in a fast changing world. I’ve followed the Good Fellows podcast that he’s a part of and it’s all quite predictable. An echo chamber, the Hoover institution seems to be.
Professor Ferguson, why the gratuitous comment that Biden is "incompetent?" It sounds like name calling. State the facts that support your opinion, please.
😭 aku jadi gak bisa baca banyak Tim........ Jadi aku berencana mau cek fakta sekaligus minta dihilangkan tandaku sekaligus bertanya apakah ada kemungkinan radang tenggorokan bisa sembuh
Great, thoughtful analyis, and then we heard "..as comptletely incompetent as Joe Biden..", and the naked partizanship of such totally unnessary statement, in this context, reminds us of the prejudices and frealties of the soul, even when it resides in incedibly intelligent and succesful people. Maybe, it this true, ego-feeding, success that is the culprit..
May be learn from history how to avoid war, surrender to aggressors could be one extreme way, but could allow aggressor wipe out some races/class or nations etc.
What a timing... Just as Russia (possibly) accidentally dropped bombs on Poland killing at least two people, which technically means an attack on a NATO nation.. what a timing.
@@williamh.gatesiii8183 I'm Polish and I'm no fan of Russians.. having said that, it's the Ukraine that could benefit (in a short term) the most, dragging NATO into this conflict, literally cementing antirussian sentiments.. I'm more worried about the potential False Flag operation from UA rather than Russia's deliberate or even accidental attack..
Well,,,, i want to go to that doctor strange today. I will give my hand to him and see him (with his wife of course). I need a little surgery. I love you Tim. Don't give up. and never come to me.
Ha Ha! Very funny title. Cold War II started a long time ago (2014 perhaps?), it's just that Putin wasn't kind enough to tell us. That's the problem with historians, they are always slow on the uptake.
"The crisis now unfolding, however, is entirely different to the 1970s in one crucial respect… The 1970s crisis was largely artificial. When all is said and done, the oil shock was nothing more than the emerging OPEC cartel asserting its newfound leverage following the peak of continental US oil production. There was no shortage of oil any more than the three-day-week had been caused by coal shortages. What they did, perhaps, give us a glimpse of was what might happen in the event that our economies depleted our fossil fuel reserves before we had found a more versatile and energy-dense alternative. . . . That system has been on the life-support of quantitative easing and near zero interest rates ever since. Indeed, so perilous a state has the system been in since 2008, it was essential that the people who claim to be our leaders avoid doing anything so foolish as to lockdown the economy or launch an undeclared economic war on one of the world’s biggest commodity exporters . . . And this is why the crisis we are beginning to experience will make the 1970s look like a golden age of peace and tranquility. . . . The sad reality though, is that our leaders - at least within the western empire - have bought into a vision of the future which cannot work without some new and yet-to-be-discovered high-density energy source (which rules out all of the so-called green technologies whose main purpose is to concentrate relatively weak and diffuse energy sources). . . . Even as we struggle to reimagine the 1970s in an attempt to understand the current situation, the only people on Earth today who can even begin to imagine the economic and social horrors that await western populations are the survivors of the 1980s famine in Ethiopia, the hyperinflation in 1990s Zimbabwe, or, ironically, the Russians who survived the collapse of the Soviet Union." consciousnessofsheep.co.uk/2022/07/01/bigger-than-you-can-imagine/
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39 minutes in and Neil is just spewing disproven ukranian propaganda. He never actually said " I don't need a ride I need ammo" zelensky has repeatedly turned down peace settlements and he definitely had a contingency plan for when Russia invaded its ludicrous to say "he didn't know what he was going to do". Several international ambassadors have gone on record saying the Zelenksy isn't even in Kyiv except for photo ops. I guess I learned that historians lie lol
“I don’t think you become good spontaneously as a result of Darwinian natural selection”.. as good an argument in support of Christianity as I’ve ever heard.
Thank you Mr Ferguson. Happy Father’s Day, when it comes.
Niall is one of my favourite intellectuals - please continue to be on more podcasts to share your enlightened learnings nice one Tim!
What? Not Martin Luther Adulterer?
@@asaunders1406 Stupid comment.
Correction: you meant to say 'entertainer'.
Wonderful interview. Many thanks and much appreciation for what you do, Mr Ferguson, and for the excellent interview by Mr Ferris.
Thank you for this! I’m a huge fan of Niall and Ayaan.
Excellent interview. Ferguson is just a wealth of wisdom and perspective on how the present fits within the past. I learned a lot.
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I quite like Nial. I started following him on Good Fellows, though I'd heard his name countless times throughout my life. Nial is a man I admire and take quite well to his perspective on history, counter culture, and fearlessness, 'Irish impulse to walk towards gun fire'. I appreciate this interview. I didn't need anymore convincing but now I'm quite certain, I quite admire this guy
Agreed, but he’s a Scotsman .
What I like about those Goodfellas is they will never walk away from a fight. In fact, they are more than willing to start one with anyone that looks sideways at the United States!
Outstanding interview, Credit to you Tim for bringing out the reflective and considered side to one of our centuries great historians and thinkers.
“Words read to words written ratio” logo to be on the front cover of every book, genius!
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@timferriss pls interview Natan sheransky
This is an excellent interview with Niall. One of the most in-depth I have seen. I personally learnt a great deal and I think he was enjoying himself.
I hope so too. It was a great interview.
Niall has been a soulmate of mine (history graduate here) and I've been a student of his for over a decade without him suspecting. It was great learning more of his personal story in his student days. I wish I could meet him in person some day :)
You poor, unfortunate fellow. Condolences.
Another poor unfortunate fellow here..
One of the sharpest thinkers we have.
being broadly approachable does not an intellectual make.
Thank you Mr Ferguson
Thankyou Tim Ferris for your very enlightening interview with Niall Ferguson from Australia, somewhat in the Southern Hemisphere, out of the way of argy-bargy in the Northern H and glad to be here ! With our own good wine !
Great questions, Tim. Awesome that you could extract such incredible answers from Niall. I’m a big fan of his books, specially the Rothschild
Love Niall's books. Heavy reading, but well worth the effort!
Very interesting and fun because Niall does have a sense of humor that rhymes a bit with my own. Plus he is chock full of good content from other historians...he is not afraid to cite other smart people.
The word psychedelic was used seriously in this conversation. Amazing.
This is a really good interview. TIm interjected just enough on behalf of the viewer who is not an expert to clarify things but mainly let Niall run.
Talks about not judging figures from history. And then, positively talks about Henry Kissinger, the literal cold-war proxy war monster of the 20th century. What in the actual fuck?
There’s a difference between judging people and _not praising the architect of a genocide._
did you miss the bit where he's written a book about him and that era from original sources that seems to contradict the common narrative. i.e. the one you are espousing.
he has a different opinion based on actual knowledge of the events including the white house discussions that nixon taped.
I could listen to both all day on this one. I learned quite a bit. Thanks Tim and Nial!
Superb conversation, close up with Mr Ferguson, relaxed, thoughtful and wide-ranging, easier on the mind and ear to panel discussions on stage, here with excellent probing skills by Tim. Thank you both!!
I understand that Professor Ferguson is looking at the issue through a historical lens, and analyzing similarities, and dissimilarities between the past, and the present, but the past is not the present, and the present is not the past. He didn't mention either of the two main issues that China has going against it without any intervention whatsoever:
1) the demographic problem: the one-child policy is set to wreak havoc in China. Their size of their population is in decline. What does this do to their labour force? What happens to the economy when there aren't enough bodies to fill the job vacancies? What about the size of their military? etc. China's population is, at present, the largest in world; however, it is set to shrink well below one billion.
2) China's relations within Asia: Aside from Russia, does China have any friends in surrounding it? All the nations around China see it as a major threat. If China were to attempt to invading Taiwan with a large force, and start suffering losses, wouldn't that tempt surrounding countries to involve themselves in the conflict to possibly grab Chinese territory? China would have a multiple front battle should that happen, and the Chinese haven't exactly endeared themselves to the countries in their neighbourhood (they haven't exactly endeared themselves to the minorities within their nation either - the Tibetans, and Uighurs come to mind).
Very engaging discussion, always a delight to listen to Prof. Ferguson who has great insights into the importance of history for understanding the complex contemporary world.
He’s very perceptive in his comments on China and Russia, but it goes even deeper than he recognizes….
1. Obama’s “pivot to Asia” was aimed squarely at China. (Remember the US Marine base built in northern Australia?). This prompted China to respond with more ardent nationalism.
2. Yes, Biden has escalated the conflict, but it’s important to recognize how much the State Department is also devoted to escalation. They turned that first Alaska meeting into an acrimonious public confrontation (which no one seems the recognize, the US initiated). The State Department also withdrew opposition to Taiwanese independence from its website for a month or two (if acted upon, this would have meant war). The Pentagon has been the only moderating force (they tried to stop Pelosi’s trip), which should tell us something. When the diplomats are flirting with war, it becomes almost inevitable.
3. Most surprisingly, the center-left has become as belligerent as the neocons on China (Pelosi was the first speaker to visit Taiwan since Newt Gingrich). These same people used to be cheerleaders for economic integration with China. So why did they make a 180? This goes to their motive. They publicly stated that they expected economic integration to be good for international peace and prosperity, plus the opening of China. But they also hoped that China would come under the sway of the US, through multinational corporations, as well as growing political and cultural affinity. In short, they wanted to strengthen China, but only if the US ultimately controlled them. If we know anything about the modern Chinese, it’s that resisting western domination is the ONE thing that unites them most.
4. If the US can’t control China, then China’s rise threatens the US status as the sole world superpower. Our fall-back plan is war, over Taiwan and possibly the South China Sea. We’ll also support escalating Uyghur and Hong Kong insurgencies. It’s important to understand that China WILL go to war over Taiwan, so by picking this scab we are making war inevitable. The same was true of Ukraine. (No serious analyst thought Russia would just sit back and watch Ukraine shell and kill Russian-speaking Ukrainian civilians indefinitely.)
5. China and Russia are creating a BRICS block, with a currency to challenge the dollar. This is only in the opening stages, but has already progressed far more rapidly than expected (with India and even Saudi Arabia beginning to move away from the dollar). The US does not seem to have any strategic response to this, other than war. Needless to say, this greatly increases the risk of a devastating world war.
Conclusion: The US needs a response to China’s rise that does not depend on war. This is a potential turning point for humanity. Americans and our friends need to speak out, or disaster will be inevitable.
Is "Greenmantle" based on the John Buchan novel of that name?
Chileans have a name for the dregs: “bigoteado”, although is used for the collected dregs of many glasses. Not for Château Lafitte grand vine du Bordeaux
What would the outcome be if the United States endeavored a trade war with China prior to the renewed outbreak in Ukraine?
A prof I had at McMaster U in Canada was an acolyte of Sir John Plumb in the early 60s - in later years used to go to England to visit him
And I still watch UA-cam and accept Funakoshi in my life because.....??
Lying should not be named cognitive dissonance
Wonderful conversation. I like the strategy of going to church anyway, even if you don’t believe. I did this in my atheist phase, because somehow I wanted to. The atheist phase didn’t last.
Well mine did. I still think it(religion) is irrational and based on fear, ultimately, and custom/ Which god you pumping for, Baal, Ra, Jesu, Mohammed, Jehovah, Zoroaster? They can't all be right; just an invention of man to assuage the fear of terminal decline !
Big Surprise
@@linmal2242 Start with the one your ancestors worshipped. I promise you they weren't atheists, and I doubt it's because you're more clever than they were.
Niall has such a command of English - he reminds me of Christopher Hitchens.
You will never know how deeply you wounded me with this comment.
China's B&R investments will eventually face the same fate as British and French overseas investments in the first half of the 20th century. Take Brazilian and Argentinian waterworks, railways and power stations. Built out by British and French capital in two countries who had no history of colonial engagement in either country, all their assets were nationalised. The same will happen to all China's overseas infrastructure investments.
US strategy of technological containment of China mirrors the pre WW2 oil embargo on Japan in the 1930's and may provoke a similar reaction.
Loved this. Fan of Ferguson's erudition and eloquence
Someone with your pretentious pseudonym would be. Fool!
We got Yakov Smirnoff and the Scorpions' best song from the last one. Maybe we'll have similar fortune this time around. Cheers!
From China? That wilderness of culture. Not likely. The only good 'Chinese' music came from Hong Kong, the band Beyond, and that was well in the time of British colonialism.
I would kill to have him as prifessor...
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Brilliance
I love when Tim has guests who are at least mildly unintuitive as natural guests for the show!
I must admit I am seriously sceptical of anyone that wins an award from the CFR
Niall Ferguson is great. Good to see Tim starting to interview more politically heterodox figures.
A privilege to hear. At the end of the podcast Niall talks about books that are a "must read" for kids but are not common these day. Any help?
Always love to hear book recommendations from the older, more educated generation
@@Lascts25 "The God Delusion" by Richard Dawkins and "God Is not Great" by the late Christopher Hitchens !
"The God Delusion" by Richard Dawkins and "God Is not Great" by the late Christopher Hitchens !
Great interview. Niall is always interesting to listen to. You can see he thinks about his answers.
Where can I find an edition of the Rothschild brothers' correspondence, please?
Thank you in advance!
This guy sets the internal red flags off for me 😅
How so?
As a mathematician, I strongly disagree with Niall Ferguson and admire his intellect. I read all of his books and learned a lot from them. The more I listen to him, the more enriched I feel. Life is worth living while there are inspiring intellectuals like Niall.
As a mathematician what exactly do you disagree with.
@@bighands69 his belief in the constructiveness of empires and order. The world is too complicated - well beyond our ability to comprehend it, to predict the consequences of our actions, to plan and control. A much better option is feedback-based approach which is a very different paradigm. imho, this civilization is more likely to crash than (or before) to reinvent itself.
"ladies and germs" ?
Please explain.
Fantastic
My favorite historian I would just gently correct him: those Rothchild letters that were 'written in Hebrew characters, mostly German but with occasional words in Hebrew' were in fact written in Yiddish.. Of course, he may have been trying to avoid a simplistic question of 'what is Yiddish...'
This was quite interesting and enjoyable.... truly.
However! :} I find it to be a contradictory statement that humans need the Bible, or the frameworks at least, to be a decent person. That humans cannot "spontaneously" become good, is certainly a contradiction, especially if you are an atheist. If you don't believe that God exists, that implies that humans wrote the Bible. And if humans wrote the Bible, I guess that means the concepts of Christianity are derived from the thoughts, feelings, and experiences of man....
Maybe I missed the point regarding this idea, but would like to hear his thoughts about this someday.
Ferguson is always first class. Even when I disagree with him. Great interview Tim.
Listened to the Prisoner’s Chorus from Fidelio straight after this. Great interview!
Good for you! The interview and Fidelio were both flops. Change your pseudonym to "clown1"
@@asaunders1406 What an intellectually stimulating argument. What was the purpose of your comment?
Terrific Tim. A very enjoyable listen.
Always learn a lot from Niall Ferguson.
That was wonderful.
Loved this!
57:59. We have a Middle Eastern crisis right now, as per Niall, I worry about what comes next...
One of, if not the best interview I have ever heard.
If that is what you thought, you should get out more.
@@asaunders1406 Nothing like rudeness to underline a comment! I thought trolls only inhabited Twitter.
Children: intelligent apprentices in training ! Now, the training can be good or destructive, to both the individual and society.
Tim could you make another Tools of Titans, I loved that book!
You could learn more by reading Winnie the Pooh.
I’d rather have a cold war than a World War III
I used to think I was working class until I went to Glasgow, now I think I'm middle-class!
(Ronnie Barker- Porridge)
The one point few are talking about that will change all these calculations.... China (and wider Far East's) demographics. China will be losing 20 million people per year by 2030 or so. That is a collapse. Internal issues will take a lot more priority and China even in 20 years (could be less) will be declining (and even collapsing). India is rising, and whilst they will be very annoying at times, they are not a threat in the bigger sense. After China goes, the West looks much more secure for what looks like centuries to come. All the brain drain heads for the Anglosphere, not other parts of the world. Our issue will be to integrate foreign peoples, which currently we are failing miserably at. We demand nothing of those that arrive. This is a recipe for civil unrest, and this will be the West's biggest challenge (that from within).
Hi Richard. I think your views on the future of the rosy future of the West and the decline of the East are wishful thinking to say the least. The West is unstable culturally, socially and economically much more than it’s elites care to admit. Many of the countries in the West are actually poor countries pretending to be rich. For years they’ve borrowed money on the markets to disguise how precarious their position is. They now can no longer do so and face ever falling living standards and cultural malaise.
@@johnmccaffrey5942 The cultural point is true. However, when it comes to debt and insecure models - China trumps the pack with 350% debt to GDP with a declining population and no safety net nor capital to support such a Western idea. Japan - already suffering and in terminal decline. Then you have South Korea. Philippines (you always thought they would grow) now has a birth rate of just the replacement of 2.1. They will not reach developed status before declining too (like China). Wherever you look it is happening. The Anglosphere and Western Europe are in trouble, but they have the tools to recover. That said, I doubt discount absolute decline due to cultural malaise.
Invite Eric Li
A very thought provoking conversation. Thanks ..
Hold on Niall, you are forgetting that Glasgow hosts a university founded in 1451, the 4th oldest in the anglo speaking world. My time at that august establishment won't have been too different from yours at Oxford.
Read the book CHUMS - it is most revealing about Oxford.
If we have a cold war with China, it's not because of it's dictator, or if it's Taiwan, or cheap goods at Walmart. In the British tv series The Prisoner, the atangonist changed each episode, but was always called Number 2.
The Soviet Union was the second largest economy and was an enemy. Any nation, even a free one cannot be allowed to have a GDP approaching much less exceeding the United States. China or any nation would be at best a competitor, an enemy at worst.
It could be China or someday India, or a renewed European Union, but any #2 GDP nation automatically triggers a cold war. America believes it's primacy is eternal. Geopolitically there is enough fossil fuel energy and resources to support one superpower on earth, not two.
Uhhh in case you haven't heard , the West and the US are going woke and sustainable, who needs fossil fuels ....the Empire of Lies is going green yo ! Muaaaaaaaaahahahahahahahaaaaa.....Smell of Empire rot is everywhere and the Anglo-Saxons having a meltdown, can't deal with it. More humble pie to come as the world has changed overnight
theres enough resources to support tens of billions of people easily
@@wasdwasdedsf year to year, BTUs of energy produced along with raw material production puts a hard ceiling on physical wealth and value added goods that can be produced. Only enough fuel for approximately 1billion, actually somewhat less to have an "American" suburban middle class lifestyle.
Geoeconomics is becoming a bit zero sum because of those ceilings. Cold war with China will unofficially not be because of autocracy. Rapid emergence of middle class way pass the sub 1billion level supported by conventional fossil fuels, would lead to constant energy crisises shortages and international tensions...like today.
@@michaelcooney9368 yea none of the globalists narrative is true in any way shape or form.
nuclear power alone is enough for a long time
"would lead to constant energy crisises shortages and international tensions...like today."
uhhh.... you have to be joking? why are you peddling the insane propaganda of people who have explicitly made this happen?
the western world has consistently underinvested in fossil fuel exploration for a long time
they have consistently dismantled power plants, even somtehing so insane and nonsensical as nuclear power platns, which are PERFECT for their narrative about a gas thats healthy actually being evil and will destroy the planet.
they have created sanctions that have, fore example for EU made them go from having something like 25% of global gdp to 18... while making russias exports profit margins better and making the ruble the strongest perfomrning currency in 2022... so literaly the oposit of what they said they wanted
It's the reserve currency that counts, lose that and you lose it all.
Those leftover drinks were called wounded soldiers where I am from
Will watch after rest in glasgow scotland meister tim ferriss, as a turk from istanbul biomedical engineer and neuropsychopharmacologist from university of glasgow. Alright lets go, as always ;)
Recommended history: Sir Richard Evans on World War Two.
We are in one, now!
This guy seems reasonably well informed. However when I hear anyone works at the Hoover institution I think back to the "research" they do in intelligent design and am instantly reminded that they exist solely so push a certain agenda, and are not really interested in objective analysis. At least as an institution as a whole, that doesn't mean that individual contributors can't be objective. But still, it's a black mark of sorts to be affiliated with them, even though they pay the bills.
"Be not afraid " until conscription
It's all brilliant but the historical contingency part especially so.
1:27:42 surely this is unfairly laid at the doorstep of china due to western corporate greed?
Btw, I am not apologizing on behalf of the CCP, or Poo.
Thank you for uploading and sharing.
This illuminates how subjective history is. Thank you
You watch the authentic BLAMELESS who will be left over once this smoke clears obviously the people with over 98,000 congregations around the globe JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES! Not only my opinion but take it as advice or go ballistic?lolSeriously peeps from pathetic Canada B.C. thanks for reading this.oxox
Better Cold War II than World War III
1:07:04 impersonation of Trump just gold.
Dear Niall: to understand the role of contingencies in the philosophy of history, take a look at Judea Perle of UCLA. He understands counter-factual logic.
The coming? We are already in the cold war 2
ive been trying to put my finger on why im not impressed with Niall, from the intro it struck me, Niall is not afraid to manipulate and hide historical opinion and knowledge to suit his none historical career, that means right wing capitalist.
Geopolitics? I think you might want to stick to bio hacking.
And you are?
It’s ironic that at 1:22:27 he says he hopes “he never engages in the kind of punditry that is just designed to get retweets and social media followers” by, say, predicting “the end of the world,” yet at 58:00 he says he thinks “iran will blow up again.” A few months after this conversation, Saudi Arabia and Iran restored ties, not to mention with Chinese intermediation. His examples of accurate predictions his company made (Covid, inflation, Russian invasion) seem hardly impressive to be honest. He’s an interesting historian, but he has somewhat forced himself outside the academy as he said he always sought to do, at 3:26. A helplessly ostentatious man, he seems, betraying several contradictions and, dare I say, a neoconservative bloke trying to stay relevant in a fast changing world. I’ve followed the Good Fellows podcast that he’s a part of and it’s all quite predictable. An echo chamber, the Hoover institution seems to be.
Professor Ferguson, why the gratuitous comment that Biden is "incompetent?" It sounds like name calling. State the facts that support your opinion, please.
😭 aku jadi gak bisa baca banyak Tim........ Jadi aku berencana mau cek fakta sekaligus minta dihilangkan tandaku sekaligus bertanya apakah ada kemungkinan radang tenggorokan bisa sembuh
Great, thoughtful analyis, and then we heard "..as comptletely incompetent as Joe Biden..", and the naked partizanship of such totally unnessary statement, in this context, reminds us of the prejudices and frealties of the soul, even when it resides in incedibly intelligent and succesful people. Maybe, it this true, ego-feeding, success that is the culprit..
May be learn from history how to avoid war, surrender to aggressors could be one extreme way, but could allow aggressor wipe out some races/class or nations etc.
Odd that Ferguson speaks so harshly about Biden.
What a timing... Just as Russia (possibly) accidentally dropped bombs on Poland killing at least two people, which technically means an attack on a NATO nation.. what a timing.
Russia is trying to poke the bear. I have no idea what is wrong with them.
I'm sure they will blame the ukrainians and say that they clearly bomb themselves
@@williamh.gatesiii8183 I'm Polish and I'm no fan of Russians.. having said that, it's the Ukraine that could benefit (in a short term) the most, dragging NATO into this conflict, literally cementing antirussian sentiments.. I'm more worried about the potential False Flag operation from UA rather than Russia's deliberate or even accidental attack..
False flag
@@NovaDoll Russia is surronded by NATO, yet you think Russia is poking the bear?
Heard of false flags?
Well,,,, i want to go to that doctor strange today. I will give my hand to him and see him (with his wife of course). I need a little surgery. I love you Tim. Don't give up. and never come to me.
Any relation to Turd Ferguson, of celebrity Jeopardy fame?
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Charming, well articulated propaganda straight from the mouth of the Hoover institute!
Ha Ha! Very funny title. Cold War II started a long time ago (2014 perhaps?), it's just that Putin wasn't kind enough to tell us. That's the problem with historians, they are always slow on the uptake.
I'd forgotten how Tim Ferris's schmoozing could be so cringeworthy.
"The crisis now unfolding, however, is entirely different to the 1970s in one crucial respect… The 1970s crisis was largely artificial. When all is said and done, the oil shock was nothing more than the emerging OPEC cartel asserting its newfound leverage following the peak of continental US oil production. There was no shortage of oil any more than the three-day-week had been caused by coal shortages. What they did, perhaps, give us a glimpse of was what might happen in the event that our economies depleted our fossil fuel reserves before we had found a more versatile and energy-dense alternative. . . . That system has been on the life-support of quantitative easing and near zero interest rates ever since. Indeed, so perilous a state has the system been in since 2008, it was essential that the people who claim to be our leaders avoid doing anything so foolish as to lockdown the economy or launch an undeclared economic war on one of the world’s biggest commodity exporters . . .
And this is why the crisis we are beginning to experience will make the 1970s look like a golden age of peace and tranquility. . . . The sad reality though, is that our leaders - at least within the western empire - have bought into a vision of the future which cannot work without some new and yet-to-be-discovered high-density energy source (which rules out all of the so-called green technologies whose main purpose is to concentrate relatively weak and diffuse energy sources). . . . Even as we struggle to reimagine the 1970s in an attempt to understand the current situation, the only people on Earth today who can even begin to imagine the economic and social horrors that await western populations are the survivors of the 1980s famine in Ethiopia, the hyperinflation in 1990s Zimbabwe, or, ironically, the Russians who survived the collapse of the Soviet Union."
consciousnessofsheep.co.uk/2022/07/01/bigger-than-you-can-imagine/
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We so need a multi polar world, and it’s coming soon 😀
Wait... aren't we in a hot war in Ukraine since 2022? Did somebody miss something? ;-)
I suppose cold wars are defined by their *lack of violence.