I think the idea of Alcoholics Anonymous, founded in 1935, should be right up there with your list. Beginning in 1935, it was the first time in human history when drunks and drug addicts were cured by they themselves, one working with another, not by societal laws, lock ups, or church/synagogue/mosque shaming.
I would include in the list Arabic numerals and the number 0. Without the number 0, we wouldn’t have our binary number system which is the foundation of computing.
wow. the foundation of computing sounds so cool. lets include that! (common dude, do you really think the arabs are directly responsible for the binary system? a little far fetched for my taste)
@@zaubermaus8190 I apologize for not being clear. I meant for Arabic numerals and zero to be separate ideas. Our mathematics would be completely different if we were to try, say, multiplication or long division using Roman numerals. As for zero, my first inkling of how powerful it is conceptually came from an episode of Schoolhouse Rock from the 70s: Zero, My Hero.
Arabic numerals are based on Sanskrit from India, while their script is derived from Hebrew. Zero, we can all agree that we owe the Meso-American empires for both zero and a REALLY accurate calendar.
I'm still a firm believer of Socrates of Democracy. For those who don't know he logic, imagine you were on a ship, who would you want to sail the ship you happen to be on? Either a crew of experienced harden crew, or your local individual who happen to be ambitious. Everyone would take the experienced crew. That logic also applies to government. Socrates logic would imply that only people who have actual intellect of a subject could vote for that specific subject. So, if you know everything about economics and say national health care, you could vote fore exactly those two points. But if you know nothing about national defense or education you would be declined to vote for those subjects. This encourage intellectual voting. The only challenge remains, how do we teach everyone the knowledge so all can vote on every subject?
@@route2070 I can probably make an educated guess at what your getting at and in my opinion you couldn't be more right. And it's really sad and scary whats happened to our University's in the U.S. The majority of them are controlled by one politically party and if you follow any news then you should be able to atleast see that. Hell, the head of a department in an Ivy league school has been selling research to China. An its crucial to current military technologies research. I mean one of our Top University's is doing this. An some of the stupid ultra left policy's they force is in almost all the colleges. I don't want either the left or the Right to have major influence over the colleges, an their academic curriculum. College is supposed to a place of higher learning. Having your feelings hurt, an having "safe spaces" are just two things that you shouldn't go into college worrying about. It was a place for framing your own POV. Not to have socialist or authoritarian views pushed on them by the college staff. Sorry about that long winded rant lol
Optimus never saw someone eat a Tide Pod or step in front of a car while playing Pokémon Go. Some "sentient" beings NEED to be told how to live, for their own sake.
@@joshuawalker301 I read that as "librarian". Now I'm picturing Optimus in horn rimmed glasses, shushing Starscream, while pointing at a "no talking" sign, and I can't stop laughing.
I love how Sideprojects summarized #7: Human Rights; it was a beautiful summary, beautifully worded and delivered. I almost dropped a tear or two from my eyes. 😿🎩 And I must add, this Sideprojects topic was a good idea. 😉
I love how since "The Blaze" started, its mannerisms have slowly snuck their way into all of Simon's channels. Small changes in delivery, a few memes added here and there. Occasional personal stories from the life of Simon. The Blaze consumes, and infects. It is beautiful.
I can't remember where I heard this quote, but it basically goes "The single greatest form of government is a benevolent dictator" I imagine the full quote is dark.
i think one of the most significant aspects of the modern scientific method was galileo's idea of using mathematics. i may be wrong, but until then, mathematics and geometry were used in astronomy but not to describe motion and cause and effect on earth. today, all the fundamental laws of nature are understood in mathematical terms.
you’re right. the great Vin Diesel once said “ I live my life a quarter mile at a time“ finally connecting for civilisation, maths and motion. we all still live in the great shadows of men and thinkers like Diesel.
Thats cause galileo understood that mwthematics was a tool. In the modern day, people think math = science, but that isnt true. Math is a tool used in science, but is no more scientific than a ruler, a clock or a shoe.
Galileo was put on trial more for calling the Pope a simpleton than for saying the Earth orbits the sun. And he was a bully of a writer who acknowledged that Copernicus was correct in his assertion that it did so, but said his proofs of it were mostly incorrect. And Galileo himself had some ideas which were in fact wrong - like the idea that comets were not real but optical illusions was his.
I just watched your "into the shadows" video. When Simon leaves UA-cam to live his immortal life in party and peace because he's covered every facet of every topic ever, it will be a sad day.
What even is sideprojects anymore. Anyway, I would've thought the written word - translating sounds into symbols as a way of communicating and preserving information, the concept of mathematics as the basis of scientific though, and the idea of property and ownership from when nomadic cultures transformed into agrarian ones would have been worth a mention.
I saw pictures of a frozen hair contest in Canada. Hair, Beards, Mustaches all frozen in different ways to make them look fun, artistic, etc. Danny get on it. You can freeze Simon in a challenge. Winter is coming !!!
Simon should upload a video to Highlight history once every 2 - 4 weeks, so that way he can claim that he has consistent uploads on every single channel he runs.
@@Sideprojects your community understands why it's neglected. The view count on it compared to your other channels, in regards to subscriber count, isn't great. A bit of consistency might help it with the almighty mysterious UA-cam algorithm, but I'm no expert.
I'd argue against Human Rights on this list. Like Feminism, it's still something fought towards. Unlike Feminism, those in power don't actually care to enforce it. There are constant, horrendous human rights violations all over the world that nobody is doing much against simply because we benefit from being friends with the countries committing them. The same stands for violations in the past.
Only pseudo-scientists claim that sir francis bacon's methodology (THE scientific method) is too rigid. Its rigid in just the right way so that you either prove or disprove your hypothesis via the outcome of testing. which is what affords it it's empiricity.
19:04 that paragraph clearly was the basis for the "camp for guests from foreign countries" also called Guantanamo bay -.- also: communism is, in theory, indeed perfect.... the problem are the people in charge and their inevitable corruption.
The problem with calling the USSR "communist" is that Stalin created a fascist state, and it turned into an oligarchy - and under Putin is fascist again. China became fascist under Mao and isn't much different. North Korea was ostensibly communist but is fascist. The only one of the that came close to communism was the early USSR under Lenin - which didn't last.
Technically, we have never proven that we aren't the center of the universe, just not the center of the solar system. We could be the center of the universe and as we spin around the sun, we send a shockwave to expand the universe. We haven't gone far enough to prove we aren't the center of the vast universe. Lol
As yet, apart from THEORY, there is no known limit to the UNIVERSE. IF, as some contend, it IS LIMITLESS, then from the VIEWPOINT, (literal standpoint) anywhere, any point WITHIN would APPEAR to be the CENTER. HOWEVER, since the dimensions/limits of this UNIVERSE "THING" are limitless and unknown, one cannot speak of a CENTER, SINCE "center" implies a SPHERE, which is logically contrary to the notion of INFINITE. The Ancients made this self-same error in LOGIC in assigning Earth as the apparent center of the Solar System. This mis-perception persists today as "Science", and is best represented by the BIG BANG Theory. However, I believe you are correct in one sense: Each of us is a CENTER of our perceptions and the ULTIMATE center of a UNIVERSE OF ONE. I'm okay with that. We have LANGUAGE in our favor. A handy tool in defining where our individual UNIVERSE(S) INTERSECT, to in-turn, define the ELEPHANT in the ROOM. 👁️ Keep looking... ⬆️
Greenlit for Go Nice to see this one FactBoy. i'll skip all of the annoying baseball metaphors that flash to mind because i truly admire your choices here. Without hyperbole you spoke the truth, the whole truth and nothing else. The idea of the power of an idea was woefully lacking yesterday. Much less so today. Unspoken ideas die with the physical body. Speak them or write them down and they may be immortal. You've taken your game to another level Simon. Thank you🙏🖖
The RUSSIANS had a similar Maneuver called (by some) THE CRAZY IVAN. It has it's modern evolution in Jet "breathers", but it was first used (hard to believe, thus CRAZY) in prop driven aircraft, most notably the Russian POLIKARPOV. This underpowered, under-gunned "target fodder" for German Aircraft Technology had a unique wing/chord profile, which presaged supersonic wing design. The play: Messerschmidt on your six, taking aim. Nose-down, Throttle-up. Messerschmidt follows. Stick back full, roll back loop, cut throttle, neutralize, wings level, THROTTLE PUSH; nose gun stinger (in prop nacelle) and four 7.62 mm ShKAS MGs BLAZING. Empty mags. RUN LIKE HELL FOR THE DECK if you miss. It worked, briefly, until the German Pilots "fingered"-out " the detente: FOLLOW, side-slip the loop... DEEP SIX... fire-on Will... Uh... IVAN: crash and burn... I talked with a WWII Russian pilot who survived several engagements in this fashion. Two kills. Two doikes. He survived the first. He parachuted out. The German pilot who done him did a wing-over on a flyby, forewent the obligatory "dusting" and IVAN drifted to Earth, still cringing for the kill. In the Second enGAGEment, IVAN went to the ground with his Bird, breaking both legs in the crash. He was nearly incinerated but a farmer pulled him from the wreck: 2nd & 3rd° burns, 15% of his body. He went back into the air in a Lend/Lease RAF rig, Survived, to fly a swept-wing MiG 15 "Fagot". Quite a character. Russian IRON Stock. I tell his story, in his memory whenever the opportunity presents. Na ZDROVIE! 👍
The idea of collectivism working on a large scale will work has lead to the most brutal and depraved governments on the face of the earth. And even though we know these ideas are bad and don't work we still can't rid the world of them
We gave most of our heavy manufacturing to China due to Reaganomics. The base of which is getting the supplies for retail at the lowest possible price.
It's because the idea behind it sounds extremely promising and enticing, especially to the lower and middle class. Problem is humans just aren't capable of putting it into action on any actual level. The type of person who thinks to them self "I know what's best for millions of people and am willing to do whatever it takes to make it to the top" is almost always going to be some self serving psychopath who really only cares about power and control. It just can't work as we are now.
What a fantastic video. The way you all can take any subjective topic and give many sides without ever (really) allowing personal likes, dislikes, beliefs or politics to steer the conversation is commendable. Please keep up the excellent work...for our sake 🙏
Went to sub to in the shadows channel. Noticed I already was subbed. I don't even know which channel I'm watching anymore, if Simon's bald head is in the preview photo then I just click
I kinda think the idea of AGRICULTURE is a big one...the thought we can stay in one place and use seeds to grow what we want/need... took us out of the jungle and created villages then cities then of course, societies giving rise to all these ideas mentioned...instead of just moving around in bands of 50-100 people and just surviving. but maybe this list is just of ideas coming from already established societies.
Shawn, agriculture could not have begun without fencing. Or the idea of personal property exclusivity yours on the basis of labour expended. Agriculture was the physical embodiment of many ideas. Agriculture wasn’t an idea, or a movement, or a readily identifiable development in human evolution. Cities and close concentration of populations was a side effect of agricultural surplus, and the ability to distribute that surplus, and reward those who created that surplus. Thus, portable wealth in the form of money, would be more responsible for Cities than agriculture.
@@Sideprojects not just for sideprojects. It's a work in progress for the entire Whistler UA-cam empire! Well, maybe not for TopTenz, Geographics, Biographics and Today I Found Out, but for all other channels, definitely.
This was a very interesting exploration on these topics. If the "anti-abortion" laws going into affect are any indication, we are going backwards not maintaining.
You should have added evolution to the list. It shows that every living creature that does and has existed are all related. The abrahamic religions believed that men were set above animals and that god would not allow species to go extinct, even crossing plant and animals to get new varieties was considered blasphemous at one point. Evolution showed us that we humans are just an animal like any other, not "the pinnacle of creation" and we rely on the complex interaction of all life on the planet. The theory of evolution is essential underpinning to every biological and medical science, it even has many uses in other fields of study such as computer science. Just as the heliocentric model of the solar system removed us from the centre of the universe evolution placed us as just another species that has evolved, is still evolving and will eventually go extinct.
@@kevintemple245 In relatively recent history, the most well-known postmortem Christian evangelist is probably Elizabeth Cotton. In 1915, she declared that, thirty-three years earlier, Charles Darwin himself had revealed to her, on his deathbed, his wish to recant the doctrine of evolution in exchange for Christian salvation. This claim was shown to be false by none other than Darwin’s daughter, Henrietta Litchfield, who was with him at the end. She pointed out that Cotton-like Taunton, in Hitchens’s case-hadn’t actually visited him during his final days.
@@kevintemple245 A lie by a christian who wished to cast doubt on Darwin's theory. Even if Darwin did seek to become a christian, ( he didn't, he had been an athiest for decades by this point) it would make no difference. There are billions of data points and millions of studies that show the theory of evolution to be correct. I am pretty sure that there is something in the bible however that says that Christian's shouldn't lie or bear false witness, some rules or other that Cotton didn't seem to mind breaking.
Lenin had nothing to do with the overthrow of the Tsar. That was accomplished by a different faction that was trying to institute democracy. Lenin saw an opportunity, returned to Russia, and led a second revolution.
I would add monotheism, as 1/3-1/2 the world's population believes it, and I would add the 2nd law of loving your neighbor as yourself as revolutionary, because most all other groupings are tribal and exclusive, but not Christianity.
Jeeze Simon.. ANOTHER new channel!? .. you don’t REALLY have that much TIME?? 😱.. isn’t there a new little peanut at home.. lol.. does the missus know you’re going to work more? 🤪🤪.. lol
The U.S. is definitely a representative democracy...allegedly. (Hardy har har har! We're a delusional oligarchy where morons actually believe their vote makes a difference. Might makes rigjt, he who has the gold makes the rules in fact.)
The Communist Manifesto may well have been the beginning of "the Star Trek dream". "The acquisition of wealth is no longer the driving force of our lives. We work to better ourselves and the rest of humanity." - Jean-Luc Picard (Star Trek The Next Generation)
Context: abortion rights. The Texas govt has made abortions illegal after 6 weeks of pregnancy, and anyone who performs an illegal abortion can go to prison for doing so, no matter the circumstances of the abortion. The public can literally dob in ANYONE they think is helping someone get an abortion. Plenty more info out there on the web, I'm not an expert and don't like in the USA, so what I said may not be entirely accurate, but it's more or less the truth.
American representative democracy: you choose who you want to receive the bribes on your behalf... how do you have a system of legal political bribery?
Same with Facebook, I suppose. Or any media organisation owned by the State, such as the BBC in the UK or ABC in Australia, captured by the Long March through Institutions, derived from the diseased ravings of Marx.
Now that you have so many shows... Can you find the origin or history of the word OKAY ? I used to think the word spread around the world in WW1 and 2 starting as an easy way to communicate with GIs and was so useful it crept into other languages.. But now I think the word is much older and it seems its used in many languages. What can you find out?
@@xionmemoria Thanks... I've read the first idea. But what surprises me is that many other ( European too) languages use it . So that makes my wonder if there isn't more to it. I know it is easy to say it spread during WW1 and 2... but is that really the case? I don't know.
Shouldn’t farming be on the list. It has utterly changed human history and health. How many of the ideas listed would have originated with hunter gatherers? The video was interesting and informative but the significance of the change from gathering to planting is hard to overstate.
Definitely a process but probably including a sequence of novel ideas, probably near simultaneously in a variety of locations by people (women?) who were facing the same climatic problem. For example: “Those seeds I dropped are handily placed. What if I drop some more there? Oh, the birds eat them. What if I push them into the soil? Better, but they are starting to wilt. What if I bring water to them?” And so on.
South Australia became the first colony to give women the vote in the late 1800's. Maybe the first in the world. The Commonwealth of Australia gave women the vote when it was founded in 1901. New Zealand as a country might have just beaten Australia. Could be an interesting video.
Read if you got 1-2mins to spare. Ok, so democracy was not really invented in Athens, as if one were to really think about how the ancient tribes used to function, they would collectively decide on whatever decisions were to be made. And if we're talking about it being implemented on a large scale, check out the 16 great kingdoms/republics of the Mahajanapada period of India. Just look into them. But, in short, two of the kingdoms/republics were oligarchic republics and existed before the Athenian, as the Mahajanapada period existed from 6th century BCE to 5th century BCE, i.e. 100 years before the Athenian copy. So that means that it was Athens but the two Indian states that really should be considered the birthplace of democracy, as they piggy-bagged off of the Indian idea, IDK if they did or not but it seems probable that they did, and implemented it on their soil.
2:40 - Chapter 1 - Democracy
5:20 - Chapter 2 - Heliocentrism
7:20 - Chapter 3 - The scientific method
9:30 - Chapter 4 - Free market economics
11:50 - Chapter 5 - Communism
14:50 - Chapter 6 - Feminism
18:15 - Chapter 7 - Human rights
I think the idea of Alcoholics Anonymous, founded in 1935, should be right up there with your list. Beginning in 1935, it was the first time in human history when drunks and drug addicts were cured by they themselves, one working with another, not by societal laws, lock ups, or church/synagogue/mosque shaming.
"Democracy is non-negotiable!"
-Liberty Prime
"Death is a preferable alternative to Communism."
@@james.w. capitalist dictatorship/monarchies: agreed
Let's liberate Anchorage boys!
I would include in the list Arabic numerals and the number 0.
Without the number 0, we wouldn’t have our binary number system which is the foundation of computing.
Heh, I just covered this on another video that isn't out yet :)
wow. the foundation of computing sounds so cool. lets include that! (common dude, do you really think the arabs are directly responsible for the binary system? a little far fetched for my taste)
Absolutely agree, but I stand to be corrected, I vaguely recall zero came from India. Then Arabic Mathematicians built upon it.
@@zaubermaus8190 I apologize for not being clear. I meant for Arabic numerals and zero to be separate ideas.
Our mathematics would be completely different if we were to try, say, multiplication or long division using Roman numerals.
As for zero, my first inkling of how powerful it is conceptually came from an episode of Schoolhouse Rock from the 70s: Zero, My Hero.
Arabic numerals are based on Sanskrit from India, while their script is derived from Hebrew. Zero, we can all agree that we owe the Meso-American empires for both zero and a REALLY accurate calendar.
"Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others." - Winston S. Churchill
One of my favourite quotes ever
I'm still a firm believer of Socrates of Democracy. For those who don't know he logic, imagine you were on a ship, who would you want to sail the ship you happen to be on? Either a crew of experienced harden crew, or your local individual who happen to be ambitious. Everyone would take the experienced crew. That logic also applies to government.
Socrates logic would imply that only people who have actual intellect of a subject could vote for that specific subject. So, if you know everything about economics and say national health care, you could vote fore exactly those two points. But if you know nothing about national defense or education you would be declined to vote for those subjects.
This encourage intellectual voting. The only challenge remains, how do we teach everyone the knowledge so all can vote on every subject?
@@Spiritus_Invictus I think that is supposed to be a liberal arts education...... But yeah .... about that....
@@route2070 I can probably make an educated guess at what your getting at and in my opinion you couldn't be more right. And it's really sad and scary whats happened to our University's in the U.S. The majority of them are controlled by one politically party and if you follow any news then you should be able to atleast see that. Hell, the head of a department in an Ivy league school has been selling research to China. An its crucial to current military technologies research. I mean one of our Top University's is doing this. An some of the stupid ultra left policy's they force is in almost all the colleges. I don't want either the left or the Right to have major influence over the colleges, an their academic curriculum. College is supposed to a place of higher learning. Having your feelings hurt, an having "safe spaces" are just two things that you shouldn't go into college worrying about. It was a place for framing your own POV. Not to have socialist or authoritarian views pushed on them by the college staff. Sorry about that long winded rant lol
A benevolent dictatorship is the best form of government, it makes it easier to kill off one person than overturn a whole government
"Freedom is the right of all sentient beings" - Optimus Prime
Optimus never saw someone eat a Tide Pod or step in front of a car while playing Pokémon Go. Some "sentient" beings NEED to be told how to live, for their own sake.
If you can obtain and hold it. Otherwise...
@@SkunkApe407 That's where Darwinism steps in...
Optimus prime was a libertarian.
@@joshuawalker301 I read that as "librarian". Now I'm picturing Optimus in horn rimmed glasses, shushing Starscream, while pointing at a "no talking" sign, and I can't stop laughing.
I love how Sideprojects summarized #7: Human Rights; it was a beautiful summary, beautifully worded and delivered. I almost dropped a tear or two from my eyes. 😿🎩 And I must add, this Sideprojects topic was a good idea. 😉
"They live all around the globe" _💀_
🌍💀 "HA HA HA!"
@@davidripley2916 ah ha ah ha ah ha!
Flat eathers live all around the globe, that refence cracked me up.
BA DA BUM BUM TSHSHSHSHHS
Well it's true. I live near the edge and my cat is lookng for a way to push me off.
BLAZE ON FACT BOY 😂
I love how since "The Blaze" started, its mannerisms have slowly snuck their way into all of Simon's channels. Small changes in delivery, a few memes added here and there. Occasional personal stories from the life of Simon. The Blaze consumes, and infects. It is beautiful.
History's most influential idea of all time is Whistlerism: the worship of thick beards
All that beard blaze oil 👌 nectar of the bearded gods.
I can't remember where I heard this quote, but it basically goes
"The single greatest form of government is a benevolent dictator" I imagine the full quote is dark.
"...just hurt my brain to read out loud"
But you'll do it for us, won't you Fact Boi?
I make the sacrifices that need to be made.
i think one of the most significant aspects of the modern scientific method was galileo's idea of using mathematics. i may be wrong, but until then, mathematics and geometry were used in astronomy but not to describe motion and cause and effect on earth. today, all the fundamental laws of nature are understood in mathematical terms.
you’re right. the great Vin Diesel once said “ I live my life a quarter mile at a time“ finally connecting for civilisation, maths and motion. we all still live in the great shadows of men and thinkers like Diesel.
Thats cause galileo understood that mwthematics was a tool. In the modern day, people think math = science, but that isnt true. Math is a tool used in science, but is no more scientific than a ruler, a clock or a shoe.
Find yourself a book called "Our Mathematical Universe", by physicist Max Telmark. It is what it says on the tin.
Galileo was put on trial more for calling the Pope a simpleton than for saying the Earth orbits the sun. And he was a bully of a writer who acknowledged that Copernicus was correct in his assertion that it did so, but said his proofs of it were mostly incorrect. And Galileo himself had some ideas which were in fact wrong - like the idea that comets were not real but optical illusions was his.
I just watched your "into the shadows" video. When Simon leaves UA-cam to live his immortal life in party and peace because he's covered every facet of every topic ever, it will be a sad day.
By that time deep fakes will be really good.
I would add germ theory would have been so out of the box when it was first thought of...
What even is sideprojects anymore. Anyway, I would've thought the written word - translating sounds into symbols as a way of communicating and preserving information, the concept of mathematics as the basis of scientific though, and the idea of property and ownership from when nomadic cultures transformed into agrarian ones would have been worth a mention.
"You can kill man, but you cannot kill an idea." Unless that person did not tell someone an idea.
And that is why Rickroll will haunt us forever.
@@Punishthefalse never gonna give you up, never gonna let you down…
The 'all around the world' bit nearly choked me to death.
The US democracy "is not without its flaws." Understatement of the millenium.
I saw pictures of a frozen hair contest in Canada. Hair, Beards, Mustaches all frozen in different ways to make them look fun, artistic, etc. Danny get on it. You can freeze Simon in a challenge. Winter is coming !!!
Simon should upload a video to Highlight history once every 2 - 4 weeks, so that way he can claim that he has consistent uploads on every single channel he runs.
I know I know. Highlight History gets so neglected :(
@@Sideprojects your community understands why it's neglected. The view count on it compared to your other channels, in regards to subscriber count, isn't great. A bit of consistency might help it with the almighty mysterious UA-cam algorithm, but I'm no expert.
I'd argue against Human Rights on this list. Like Feminism, it's still something fought towards. Unlike Feminism, those in power don't actually care to enforce it.
There are constant, horrendous human rights violations all over the world that nobody is doing much against simply because we benefit from being friends with the countries committing them. The same stands for violations in the past.
Only pseudo-scientists claim that sir francis bacon's methodology (THE scientific method) is too rigid. Its rigid in just the right way so that you either prove or disprove your hypothesis via the outcome of testing. which is what affords it it's empiricity.
I was going to say that you misused the term, but after doing some research I was nonplussed to discover it is an autoantonym.
19:04 that paragraph clearly was the basis for the "camp for guests from foreign countries" also called Guantanamo bay -.-
also: communism is, in theory, indeed perfect.... the problem are the people in charge and their inevitable corruption.
"All around the globe" hah. Needs a ba da bum bum psssshhhh.
Not really original though.
The bulgarian money on 9:44 . Aint gonna miss that.
Hey. Can you PLEASE do the YF-23 vs the YF-22.
There's enough footage for you and it was the competition that molded the modern Air Force.
@MusicMaster1987 Fine. But the YF-23 is cooler looking, it had potential, and the contest that took place deserves a video. I WANT MY MONEY BACK.
Ah-ha! Now red Solo cups are turning up even in the clips, e.g. @ 01:37.
The problem with calling the USSR "communist" is that Stalin created a fascist state, and it turned into an oligarchy - and under Putin is fascist again. China became fascist under Mao and isn't much different. North Korea was ostensibly communist but is fascist. The only one of the that came close to communism was the early USSR under Lenin - which didn't last.
Technically, we have never proven that we aren't the center of the universe, just not the center of the solar system. We could be the center of the universe and as we spin around the sun, we send a shockwave to expand the universe. We haven't gone far enough to prove we aren't the center of the vast universe. Lol
As yet, apart from THEORY, there is no known limit to the UNIVERSE. IF, as some contend, it IS LIMITLESS, then from the VIEWPOINT, (literal standpoint) anywhere, any point WITHIN would APPEAR to be the CENTER.
HOWEVER, since the dimensions/limits of this UNIVERSE "THING" are limitless and unknown, one cannot speak of a CENTER, SINCE "center" implies a SPHERE, which is logically contrary to the notion of INFINITE.
The Ancients made this self-same error in LOGIC in assigning Earth as the apparent center of the Solar System. This mis-perception persists today as "Science", and is best represented by the BIG BANG Theory.
However, I believe you are correct in one sense: Each of us is a CENTER of our perceptions and the ULTIMATE center of a UNIVERSE OF ONE.
I'm okay with that. We have LANGUAGE in our favor. A handy tool in defining where our individual UNIVERSE(S) INTERSECT, to in-turn, define the ELEPHANT in the ROOM.
👁️ Keep looking... ⬆️
Greenlit for Go
Nice to see this one FactBoy. i'll skip all of the annoying baseball metaphors that flash to mind because i truly admire your choices here.
Without hyperbole you spoke the truth, the whole truth and nothing else. The idea of the power of an idea was woefully lacking yesterday. Much less so today.
Unspoken ideas die with the physical body. Speak them or write them down and they may be immortal.
You've taken your game to another level Simon. Thank you🙏🖖
I just wish there were more “idea guy” positions at companies
Would you do the J35 Draken, the first plane to ever perform the cobra and a huge leap in aircraft technology.
The RUSSIANS had a similar Maneuver called (by some) THE CRAZY IVAN. It has it's modern evolution in Jet "breathers", but it was first used (hard to believe, thus CRAZY) in prop driven aircraft, most notably the Russian POLIKARPOV. This underpowered, under-gunned "target fodder" for German Aircraft Technology had a unique wing/chord profile, which presaged supersonic wing design.
The play: Messerschmidt on your six, taking aim. Nose-down, Throttle-up. Messerschmidt follows. Stick back full, roll back loop, cut throttle, neutralize, wings level, THROTTLE PUSH; nose gun stinger (in prop nacelle) and four 7.62 mm ShKAS MGs BLAZING. Empty mags. RUN LIKE HELL FOR THE DECK if you miss.
It worked, briefly, until the German Pilots "fingered"-out " the detente: FOLLOW, side-slip the loop... DEEP SIX... fire-on Will... Uh... IVAN: crash and burn...
I talked with a WWII Russian pilot who survived several engagements in this fashion. Two kills. Two doikes. He survived the first. He parachuted out. The German pilot who done him did a wing-over on a flyby, forewent the obligatory "dusting" and IVAN drifted to Earth, still cringing for the kill. In the Second enGAGEment, IVAN went to the ground with his Bird, breaking both legs in the crash. He was nearly incinerated but a farmer pulled him from the wreck: 2nd & 3rd° burns, 15% of his body. He went back into the air in a Lend/Lease RAF rig, Survived, to fly a swept-wing MiG 15 "Fagot".
Quite a character. Russian IRON Stock. I tell his story, in his memory whenever the opportunity presents.
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The idea of collectivism working on a large scale will work has lead to the most brutal and depraved governments on the face of the earth. And even though we know these ideas are bad and don't work we still can't rid the world of them
We gave most of our heavy manufacturing to China due to Reaganomics. The base of which is getting the supplies for retail at the lowest possible price.
It's because the idea behind it sounds extremely promising and enticing, especially to the lower and middle class. Problem is humans just aren't capable of putting it into action on any actual level. The type of person who thinks to them self "I know what's best for millions of people and am willing to do whatever it takes to make it to the top" is almost always going to be some self serving psychopath who really only cares about power and control. It just can't work as we are now.
@@milliondollarmistake that's human nature meaning it will never work
@@maxpayne2574 it started way before Regan and has never been put in check
What a fantastic video. The way you all can take any subjective topic and give many sides without ever (really) allowing personal likes, dislikes, beliefs or politics to steer the conversation is commendable. Please keep up the excellent work...for our sake 🙏
He said UA-cam and freedom of information 😂 😂
Went to sub to in the shadows channel. Noticed I already was subbed. I don't even know which channel I'm watching anymore, if Simon's bald head is in the preview photo then I just click
be neat to maybe do a list of top 10 ideas that sound great but either are bad in practice or have become bad because easy to twist into horrid things
Into the Shadows: the murder of the American trolley car line.
I kinda think the idea of AGRICULTURE is a big one...the thought we can stay in one place and use seeds to grow what we want/need... took us out of the jungle and created villages then cities then of course, societies giving rise to all these ideas mentioned...instead of just moving around in bands of 50-100 people and just surviving.
but maybe this list is just of ideas coming from already established societies.
Shawn, agriculture could not have begun without fencing. Or the idea of personal property exclusivity yours on the basis of labour expended.
Agriculture was the physical embodiment of many ideas. Agriculture wasn’t an idea, or a movement, or a readily identifiable development in human evolution. Cities and close concentration of populations was a side effect of agricultural surplus, and the ability to distribute that surplus, and reward those who created that surplus. Thus, portable wealth in the form of money, would be more responsible for Cities than agriculture.
Great channel, you should have way more subscribers! ❤❤❤
Thanks, work in progress :)
@@Sideprojects not just for sideprojects. It's a work in progress for the entire Whistler UA-cam empire! Well, maybe not for TopTenz, Geographics, Biographics and Today I Found Out, but for all other channels, definitely.
Especially good episode, thanks!
I love the optimism... that *only* the 'dark corners of the internet' would make negative comments at Mary Wollstencraft for her views...
Hay can you guys consider the avg.
The American counter group.or the flying tigers
Great *idea* for a video
18:11 Oh no, there goes Simon's social credit. See you in Xinjiang mate.
Great video as always!!
We you know you limit this video to seven because next month you'll do "Seven more most influential ideas".
This was a very interesting exploration on these topics.
If the "anti-abortion" laws going into affect are any indication, we are going backwards not maintaining.
Fine work.
This should be on your upcoming Gigaprojects channel.
You should have added evolution to the list. It shows that every living creature that does and has existed are all related. The abrahamic religions believed that men were set above animals and that god would not allow species to go extinct, even crossing plant and animals to get new varieties was considered blasphemous at one point. Evolution showed us that we humans are just an animal like any other, not "the pinnacle of creation" and we rely on the complex interaction of all life on the planet. The theory of evolution is essential underpinning to every biological and medical science, it even has many uses in other fields of study such as computer science. Just as the heliocentric model of the solar system removed us from the centre of the universe evolution placed us as just another species that has evolved, is still evolving and will eventually go extinct.
Fun fact: Darwin recanted his theory late in his life.
@@kevintemple245 In relatively recent history, the most well-known postmortem Christian evangelist is probably Elizabeth Cotton. In 1915, she declared that, thirty-three years earlier, Charles Darwin himself had revealed to her, on his deathbed, his wish to recant the doctrine of evolution in exchange for Christian salvation. This claim was shown to be false by none other than Darwin’s daughter, Henrietta Litchfield, who was with him at the end. She pointed out that Cotton-like Taunton, in Hitchens’s case-hadn’t actually visited him during his final days.
@@kevintemple245 A lie by a christian who wished to cast doubt on Darwin's theory. Even if Darwin did seek to become a christian, ( he didn't, he had been an athiest for decades by this point) it would make no difference. There are billions of data points and millions of studies that show the theory of evolution to be correct. I am pretty sure that there is something in the bible however that says that Christian's shouldn't lie or bear false witness, some rules or other that Cotton didn't seem to mind breaking.
Lenin had nothing to do with the overthrow of the Tsar. That was accomplished by a different faction that was trying to institute democracy. Lenin saw an opportunity, returned to Russia, and led a second revolution.
Yeah, Lenin only had the Tsar, his wife, and his 5 children slowly and painfully murdered.
@@MrTexasDan Exactly, he did both the easy bit, and it reflected the monstrous gelifs he forced on others.
Would "The Most Insane/Terrifying Roads/Bridges/Rail Lines in the World" make for a decent SideProjects or TopTenz?
Flat earthers don't live all around the globe, they instead live all across the plain 😄 bada boom boom tis
Brain blaze comes out in everything now
Saw Newton's telescope, clicked.
God? The atomic bomb? Wanton ignorance? Baby back ribs?
I would add monotheism, as 1/3-1/2 the world's population believes it, and I would add the 2nd law of loving your neighbor as yourself as revolutionary, because most all other groupings are tribal and exclusive, but not Christianity.
Not Christian, but the 10 commandments is in the Old Testament. Thus Jewish. D-K hard at work with this comment.
@@dougstubbs9637 , monotheism began with Zoroastrianism and Love Thy Neighbor As Yourself is New Testament, not Old.
"frivolous creatures" is a very apt description if we're being honest
Jeeze Simon.. ANOTHER new channel!? .. you don’t REALLY have that much TIME?? 😱.. isn’t there a new little peanut at home.. lol.. does the missus know you’re going to work more? 🤪🤪.. lol
Suggestion: start a channel on the industry of Advertising.
"Cuz Fuck????" lol
The U.S. is definitely a representative democracy...allegedly.
(Hardy har har har! We're a delusional oligarchy where morons actually believe their vote makes a difference. Might makes rigjt, he who has the gold makes the rules in fact.)
Flat earthers do not exist 'all around the globe', but all around the disc.😜
You 'd *have* to limited it to 7, or anything under 10, otherwise it would be a video that belong in TopTenz
Cato may have been almost right. In modern-day Finland 58% of university graduates are women.
What is that piece of music at the slide that reads democracy ?
Brilliant.
The Communist Manifesto may well have been the beginning of "the Star Trek dream".
"The acquisition of wealth is no longer the driving force of our lives. We work to better ourselves and the rest of humanity." - Jean-Luc Picard (Star Trek The Next Generation)
Saying in ancient Greece that democracy lasts for 200 years.
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@2:57 year 507 BCE👍🏼 ty👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
The United Nations may advocate for human rights, but ironically, they let countries that violate human rights on the U.N. Human Rights Council.
The current 2021Texas Govt when Simon starts to talk about feminism: "Cut that out! False information! Lies!"
Context: abortion rights. The Texas govt has made abortions illegal after 6 weeks of pregnancy, and anyone who performs an illegal abortion can go to prison for doing so, no matter the circumstances of the abortion. The public can literally dob in ANYONE they think is helping someone get an abortion. Plenty more info out there on the web, I'm not an expert and don't like in the USA, so what I said may not be entirely accurate, but it's more or less the truth.
American representative democracy: you choose who you want to receive the bribes on your behalf...
how do you have a system of legal political bribery?
Saying “UA-cam” and “freedom of information” in the same sentence is the most absurd idea ever conceived.
Same with Facebook, I suppose. Or any media organisation owned by the State, such as the BBC in the UK or ABC in Australia, captured by the Long March through Institutions, derived from the diseased ravings of Marx.
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Democracy was not a new idea in Athens. It has probably been an alternative form of government in tribal societies for as long as humans have existed.
American democracy was abolished in 1976.
America was never a democracy. It's a Constitutional Republic. Well, until Wilson and FDR added socialism and fascism to the mix.
15:16 he wasn't wrong though
Make channel for happier things in history...
Now that you have so many shows... Can you find the origin or history of the word OKAY ? I used to think the word spread around the world in WW1 and 2 starting as an easy way to communicate with GIs and was so useful it crept into other languages.. But now I think the word is much older and it seems its used in many languages. What can you find out?
@@xionmemoria Thanks... I've read the first idea. But what surprises me is that many other ( European too) languages use it . So that makes my wonder if there isn't more to it. I know it is easy to say it spread during WW1 and 2... but is that really the case? I don't know.
Roger Daltrey is Issac Newton, prove me wrong.
Nah, I fort he wuz . . .
-TOMMY! I'm free, etc.
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Arguably the most influential idea was religion. It predates all of the above ideas and continues to exert its influence.
Shouldn’t farming be on the list. It has utterly changed human history and health. How many of the ideas listed would have originated with hunter gatherers? The video was interesting and informative but the significance of the change from gathering to planting is hard to overstate.
Definitely a process but probably including a sequence of novel ideas, probably near simultaneously in a variety of locations by people (women?) who were facing the same climatic problem. For example: “Those seeds I dropped are handily placed. What if I drop some more there? Oh, the birds eat them. What if I push them into the soil? Better, but they are starting to wilt. What if I bring water to them?” And so on.
4:23 LMFAO
New channel name:
Would of been on top-tenz, but couldn't find 10 ;)
Too bad that Adam Smith's "invisible hand" is oftentimes the hand of a psychopath...
Hey, we've all been averaged out into non-binaries anyway. Gender nullification.
The radium girls would be great for into the shadows I know you probably hate you tube suggestions
Or poplov
The thing about economics is, you want to see what and who was paid with and by what and who
South Australia became the first colony to give women the vote in the late 1800's. Maybe the first in the world. The Commonwealth of Australia gave women the vote when it was founded in 1901. New Zealand as a country might have just beaten Australia. Could be an interesting video.
Read if you got 1-2mins to spare.
Ok, so democracy was not really invented in Athens, as if one were to really think about how the ancient tribes used to function, they would collectively decide on whatever decisions were to be made. And if we're talking about it being implemented on a large scale, check out the 16 great kingdoms/republics of the Mahajanapada period of India. Just look into them. But, in short, two of the kingdoms/republics were oligarchic republics and existed before the Athenian, as the Mahajanapada period existed from 6th century BCE to 5th century BCE, i.e. 100 years before the Athenian copy. So that means that it was Athens but the two Indian states that really should be considered the birthplace of democracy, as they piggy-bagged off of the Indian idea, IDK if they did or not but it seems probable that they did, and implemented it on their soil.
how can you give a thumb down for such informative videos? people are useless (sometimes and some of them) ;-)
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Bravo :--)