Guys, someone below mentioned you getting someone on from one of the unis to talk about free speech and about getting someone woke on with them. This gave me an idea that if universities wont allow debates you guys should set them up mini style on your show. Perhaps some mini style debate on a set topic.
Oh. 😳 I was going with, Hitler used his dark charisma, intuitive genius & magnetic personality to target the only things that mattered, the perception filters of the ENTIRE German people & the common sense of HALF of the German population, so ALL of it paid attention to him & didn't filter him out, & half of them ended up common sensing that it was fine or not a deal breaker to do a Holocaust & a World War! 😳 And that it was fine to hate the Jews cos Hitler said so, or not a deal breaker to hate the Jews ONLY if done in support of Hitler! 😳 Cos Hitler had to create the cult of personality BEFORE he could destroy democracy & set up a dictatorial regime & state media & secret police! (just like Trump did with "kung flu", he made it so half the US felt it was fine but only if TRUMP said it, OR it was said in SUPPORT OF TRUMP! 😳)
@@athcnv Did Trump actually call it Kung Flu? I know he called it the Chinese virus because it was. Same as Spanish Flu or Middle Eastern Virus. My asian friend called it the Chinese Virus. But then he's Tibetan and hates The CCP.
My mother worked beside an ex- German POW in the 1950s. She said he was a really nice guy and couldn't understand how he could have been pro Hitler. When she asked him he said, 'It was easy. We thought we were the good guys saving the world. We all loved him.'
I had a girlfriend back in the late '70s whose mother was from Germany. She told us the same story. They all believed that they were the good guys and were saving Europe. They were obsessed with the concept of purity, both spiritual and physical. Draw your own conclusions.
The public motives of the German leadership were not quite the same as their private motives. Sure, the media drummed up hatred of the ‘banker race’, which became widespread, but not many ordinary people knew the full horror of what was decided at the Wannsee Conference.
Please keep this style of guest coming. Too many people are unaware of the underpinning histories and philosophies behind humanity's grand crimes, meaning we are all too prone to repeating those crimes again and again.
The lack of honesty in history teachings of public schools is astonishing. Even 20 years ago it was getting weird and things being done behind parents backs, utter destruction of masculinity and programming to be a work slave that cant do anything beyond repetition. When you create a stupid bias population of zealots that cant tolerate critical thinking... Well.. you get the karens, the authoritarianism, the socialism, all the toxic ideology in an echo chamber that worsens through generations and its far more likely any school will be bias against anyone not democrat in hiring and retainment. So you end up entire schools covering for each other, hiding things from the public and parents, putting ideology in their heads as fact without question, hell even asking questions is punished in multiple ways like extra homework or class ridicule. The intelligent were overwhelmed beyond reason, the arts and skills were already being gutted, and everything dumbed down for the idiots of the bunch that never tried or cared. Id go from regular class making As but bored as sht jn trouble falling asleep and so easy my homework was done before i ended the class, to gifted class making ds and cs just crushed by the expectations of 4 plus hours of homework and projects of repetitive garbage youd already mastered or all your classes dumping on you like they were your only responsibility. Oh work hard, get into a good college, burn yourself out and hate the process of learning. leaving you just sicked by it all and resentful. Youd repeat the same info as the year before 80 percent of most classes. Classes too large to move at a pace that wasnt tedious while teachers exhausted and overworked so many kids to grade and keep in line. Politics were more behind the scenes like with standardized testing, weird test questions with political or racist undertones, weird quizzes with personal information gathering, unexpected medical tests and in school vaccinations... In hindsight, creepy sht actually. ohh and i was one of those with the several years of super fluoride used as an unwitting test subject, more than just that too. Teeth from my classes are garbage in almost everyone, wonder why. Oi. What i hear now, we need to start pooling for more private schools and get our kids out asap. Making kids a pawn in a political situation and indoctrinating/turning them against parents... Yea thats not evil at all, nah.. caughnazisdidthatcaugh ... They declare themselves our enemies but we keep conceding ground and pandering to them.. maybe we should believe them and grow a spine... History says its all downhill from here..
I think i will remain suspicious of any ideology that has cultural hegemony...especially if its revolutionary and totalitarian. Be wary of idealism, and do not assume everything with a "progressive" label slapped on it is inherently good. They will more often than not use compassion as justification for totalitarianism. So many people get fooled by that tactic.
I love the way, unlike a lot of others, these guys listen and let the guest talk without destroying the flow, sone destroy their own good intentions with constant interruption and breaking of the narrative, kudos to these guys.👍
They 100% broke the flow at 35 min, which a loaded question attempting to lead him into making a parallel between vaccine mandates and 'nazi-ism making a comeback'. He very emphatically denied that this was a responsible claim to make, after which they 'broke the flow' again, completely changing the subject. Yeah, tell me more about their "good intentions" lol. They're not here to listen to the guy, they're trying to steer his words to pander to the new hoards of conservative snowflakes watching this, who equate multiculturalism with white genocide and who think being asked to wear a face mask is as bad as being packed into a cattle car and driven to the gas chamber.
Absolutely agree. They wait and …listen..to the answers. The usual interviewers? Well it is in the interviewers eyes, all as much about them as it is about what the guest has to say. The interviewers are all about being stars and that ego has to be supported. Here our interviewers, no doubt know they are smart enough and do not have to keep proving it. They ask good questions and..listen to the answers. This is wonderful. Is it not true…..once a war starts, the opposite side has to be vilified to allow killing of the bad and the innocence. I do always think of the innocents on all sides, I support Ukraine but I also feel for the young Russian boys being sent to the meat grinder. I think of their mothers,I think of the destruction which will take generations to replace. So thanks for those who interview and listen.
My father went to sea in the English Merchant Navy at 14. When he was 18 his ship was attacked by German planes and was sunk, he was washed up on shore with shrapnel wounds in his thigh and the sole of his foot was hanging off from the little toe right round to the big toe and just flapping. 2 German soldiers found him on the beach and carried him to their own field hospital and a German surgeon did such a good job sewing it up that he walked for the rest of his life without any problems. he was taken to Stalag V111B and was there for 4 years till the end of the war. They could've just shot him and I'd never had life, I'd love to know who those 2 German soldiers and the surgeon were to thank them for saving his life
Wow! Wow! I'm sure that the Russians, the Jews, the French Resistance and many others will tell you that the Geneva Convention protected your father and DIDN'T protect them (because they fell "outside" the Geneva Convention) but hey, it was all "so worth it" for you to grow up and not waste life but instead; spend your time listening to whiney simps like Douglas Murray blame OTHER people instead of himself for his mediocrity. So "glad" to see that you also threw in a little of your hatred of women by blaming Trans athletes instead of yourself.
That’s the thing. The Gmans never wanted to fight a brother war. They had strong morals and never did what ”some ppl who now run the world” so claim. The two dudes running this channel are even )ewish, their purpose is to reel dissident minds in, then muddy the waters. ”The best way of controlling your opposition is to lead it” - Cant even name the origins because of the overaggressive AI algo
The universities are the problem. Their primary purpose is marxist indoctrination. The deep state and most federal politicians are 100% in support of this.
My father was in the US Infantry in WWII, and half German. He tried to convey to me as a boy that Hitler was a human, not a demon. It was a risky thing for him to do, to possibly be seen as a nazi sympathizer. He understood quite well who and what Hitler was. It became a taboo subject. As a young adult, I read Psychopathic God, written by a psychoanalytic historian, who looked at Hitler from private writings. This was fascinating to me, and if anything, repelled me even further from nazism than I was. I tried discussing it with fellow college students and was immediately branded a nazi and that stuck for the rest of my college period. It is impossible for most people to examine their beliefs in such areas.
Hitler. Woke up in the middle of the night to stop kristalnaught. He also. Order the death rates in the camps to be decreased as much as possible because Germany needs their labor.
ua-cam.com/video/8QgXIFzQi0Y/v-deo.htmlsi=_Tq9anhw2jQPA9gj I recommend EVERYONE listen to the AI dub of Hitlers speech to fully understand the state of things in Germany after WW1. Even a cursory understanding of the impact reparations had on the German spirit is enough to plainly see why WW2 happened.
I understand that as a German. I read 'Mein Kampf' and friends from East Germany after the fall of the Wall were horrified to know that we were even able to read this book. I said: "Know Thy Enemy".
Always amazes me how the ideology, behaviours and atrocities of the Imperial Japanese Army in WWII escapes these kinds of discussions. The horrors of the Japanese in Burma and The Philippines in particular never seem to warrant discussion. The abject brutality, torture and murder meted out by Japanese soldiers on those they considered racially inferior (anyone not Japanese) beggars belief.
It's because it's a subject that is so vile there's no way you can tone it down in order to teach it to Young impressionable Minds. I being a curious lad when I was younger began to look into the Bataan Death March and Nanking. It shocked me so thoroughly that I wrote it off as anti-japanese propaganda to protect my mind from breaking. Now that I'm much much older, I don't know how I would teach that to a younger person without creating the same emotional turmoil in them. A final point is that Japanese culture has for the most part been embraced and revered in the West for a couple Generations now. And this prevents people from looking into it further. It would be like finding out that your favorite uncle who is such a hit at parties and has a wonderful work ethic was once a rapist a murderer and a sadist. These are just my observations.
How does one explain to a modern, secular audience how a society that regarded Its “emperor” as a divine being differs from a society such as hours? The use of the western word “emperor” is itself misleading. It come from the Latin for something like “commander of the forces”. I am not sure that Hirohita, for instance,” was a priestlike figure, or more like a Buddha-life person. or more like the Han “emperors”.
I had a good friend who was Jewish and he lived in a huge all Jewish community in a town next to mine. He began explaining how the area became so predominantly Jewish and his 12 block community of houses was all Jewish people. A star of David on every single house. He explained that the Jewish people have always formed communities that contribute to that community in every way. They actually help each other put their kids through college and pursue intellectual and political jobs. They do do it through donations and fund raisers. I was blown away. I was also a little jealous 😂. What an advantage that is over every other nationality on the planet. The rest of us are every man and woman for themselves and the Jewish people are one for all and all for one. I'm glad I learned that and I believe it to be true. Everytime I hear people complaining that Jewish people have all the money or run the world. I can't help but remember what my friend taught me and think your damn right they do. Their one big team and the rest of us are individuals trying to eat each other to stay alive. 😂
Those Western misguided atomistic philosophers such as Descartes placed the West on the wrong track and ultimately launched a war against Nature. Originally, local ethnic communities in Europe had a rich and vibrant local culture.
@@johnchamberlain9775Is there a source for this i.e., Bank of International Settlements etc. ? Just curious as I know that many US corporations continued business through intermediaries and subsidiaries through very subtle arrangements via neutral countries in South America etc.
Stephen Hicks smashes the notion that professors (specifically of philosophy) educate in ways that are unapproachable to the layman. He speaks clearly in a very engaging and relevant way on incredibly deep topics. He's just that good, and MANY professors are not.
That notion was invented by philosophers to exclude the layman and his down to earth common sense approach to such questions from the discussion, for the purpose that applying common sense to what most philosophers propose makes it look very silly indeed. It’s the real reason they want to ban “ableist” insults. They don’t actually care about disabled people, they just don’t like being called stupid so they try their best to make it illegal.
@@InceyWincey all correct. Right-wing pundits have taken to calling the intelligentsia "midwits." They are smart enough to cause a lot of damage but too dumb to know better.
I suspect this is because he is educated not only in his small area of specialisation but also in education and this subject is also relatively easy to understand if you have enough knowledge. It is a bit different with quantum physics that I suspect even the professors do not really get so how should you? Having said all this, he really is doing it well and answers the questions well. This is a skill on its own. Not an easy task especially if (which is not the case here) the questioning party misbehaves or the format forces cutting off parts of the communication. Roger Penrose is very good at it but I suspect this may be true for quite some of these big brains. It is just we are surrounded by people with a degree in gender studies or with massive conflict of interests or both.
True, and this is yet another reason why I'm glad I started following Carl way back in 2016 -- I've found so many amazing people on this side of YouYube.
I love listening to Mr. Hicks. He is brilliant, especially on this topic. I grew up at a time when reading widely in philosophy was a thing. By the time I got to university, I had read a lot of these books and of course continued to be exposed to more. My field of study and professional life, by the way, is not in these areas. I studied first physics then computer science. When I started high school, if the third quarter of the last century of the last millennium, our education was broad and deep in both STEM fields as well as liberal arts. I actually dropped out of university, got a job making what university graduates were making (because of skills picked up working at school) and later went back to school. I ended up going to school while working at GE Aerospace. The company paid for it (I was very lucky). I went to Villanova University. They still had (have) a good emphasis on the liberal arts across the board. I had to take two courses in western civilization, three in philosophy, three in religious studies (it is, after all, a Catholic university), four in English literature and a foreign language. Rather than looking at all this as an imposition I reveled in it. I bring all this up not to toot my own horn, but to contrast that with what is happening in many universities today. Many of the courses I had to take are being eliminated at present. This is a disaster! Our young people are coming out of university more indoctrinated than enriched. We proceed along this path at our peril.
@@lenorefoxmoor9985 Thanks. I downloaded the book, "Nietzsche and the Nazis" to my Kindle (it was even included in Kindle Unlimited, oh joy). I find it well written but hard to read. That is because I want to respond to Nietzsche all the time. Sometimes I feel like screaming. Of course, it makes sense. Nietzsche's philosophy led to the Nazis and a lot of the racist totalitarian regimes we have today.
They are turning out potential, 'Sardine Packers, an einsatzgruppen commander so known to his men because he could optimise the number of victims in an alloted space. With the rise of Anti Semitism one wonders where such thinking will lead. Both Orwell and Huxley warned of a future disdain amongst the young for past lessons of human negativity. I am a Christian,not a Jew, - nevertheless !
There's a fantastic irony in people's refusal to engage the shadow. They hide from the shadow precisely to convince themselves that others are evil or deficient in some way, and in demonising others whilst ignoring their own shadow, they are far more likely to commit atrocities and become the person other people demonise.
@@sabinemeyer3899I disagree. Jordan Peterson is still very much under the thumb of his shadow and it's amazing that someone with that much knowledge in psychology is unable to put it into practise himself. But that was until I realised he deeply misunderstands what the findings of Carl Jung and Sigmund Freud were really about
My grandfather was born and raised in Sicily but when Mussolini rose to power, he lived in Brooklyn, NY and my grandfather was a socialist and against Mussolini.
Whenever you hear someone called a nazi or fascist today it’s nothing more than name calling. Most of those doing the name calling couldn’t even define those words.
One of our country's top minds and I can't remember seeing him once in my life on television or published in a mainstream newspaper, it really says alot about the state of western society.
Western society is moving away from the legacy media, and rightfully so. The same Internet that is causing so much division right now is also providing a way out of new monopolies dictating our conversations. This channel is just one example.
@@alexanderordinary2110 With respect, most of the west's msm is the same. U can watch BBC, CBC and english language versions of French and German news for example and they are all spouting the same thing.
My deceased grandmother from Austria said that after the defeat of the imperial Germany and the Habsburg empire Austria-Hungary in WWI there was so much unbelievable poverty, misery, collective trauma that the charismatic Adolf Hitler tricked hope and actually improved the situation substantially for the better until January 1943. PS. The poster of a painting behind Dr. Hicks is of Caspar David Friedrich’s wanderer above the sea of fog
@@landofthesilverpath5823 And more than just a theoretical threat, they instigated takeovers in rebellions in cities and towns across Germany; it was for this reason that the NSDAP party called in 'reinforcements' from German nationalists who had been fighting against Poland, France, the US and UK troops left as peacekeepers, fighting in Russia and other states like Czechoslovakia, Latvia and Lithuania; against communism. Known as the Freikorps (and one A.H. had briefly been one supposedly, though records are 'patchy') these helped the NSDAP and allies - including the officials and remaining aristocracy - to remove, execute or exile, those Communists. There were very real acts of terrorism and uprisings by the Communists across particularly southern Germany in the 20's; which led to this uneasy alliance of NSDAP and the 'old guard' in that Weimar era, as they were each 'the enemy of my enemy'. The re-integration of the Freikorps under the NSDAP also helped them to crush dissent in their own ranks, and the Freikorps essentially became the 'Brownshirts' - the party enforcers, and the beginnings of the re-militarisation of Germany, even though they were prevented from forming an army under the treaty of Versailles. It's also this anti-Communist stance which gained the NSDAP and it's "leader" huge US support and very strong UK and pan-European support as well - again, the NSDAP were very much 'the enemy of my enemy' as all feared a revised and re-mobilized Red Communist Army marching west against a weakened Europe, even by the early 1930's. A strong and staunch resistance from the fiercely anti-Communist NSDAP, whether in coalition or in Governemnt, was very welcome by most of the western nations, not only Germans.
I have shared your videos with all of my friends. You are performing a desperately needed service - providing long-form, rational, and informative discussions with people who are the deep thinkers of our time. It is so unfortunate that journalism as a profession is dead, but you two (and your staff) are filling a vacuum Thank you so much for all you do and please keep up the good work!
Yeah but we should avoid amateur analysis. Closer get the rise and falll or TIJ history....yes we dehumanizing the dehumanizers.....where does this get us with actual historical evidence...where is the true values..the triumph of wills and mein kampf...half of America was ok with Hitler and wanted us to avoid taking sides.....
This man just exactly describe my experience at the University of Bristol during my foundation of arts and humanities- My tutor, a self-proclaimed Marxist and male feminist, attempted to treat critical theory to a bunch of 19-year-olds by applying the results of the theory not by explaining it as an ideological perspective. The whole attitude was one of hostile conflict, I was actively interrogated as to my background, so that when I was attacked, it wouldn’t breach any of their moral codes for political correctness the whole course was extremely strange. I don’t think people can quite comprehend what is going on in the higher educational establishments there needs to be an investigation launched into all of it!
This has been going on for decades. In the 1980s I took over a job from a chap who left to do a degree in Sociology. He was forced off the course because he was a Conservative. Only he seemed surprised by this.
Similar but not as intense happened to me in late 60’s at SUNY, he told us we were asleep because we weren’t out in the streets trying to bring down the military industrial complex
I recently went to university as a mature student and was stunned to learn that gender theory is spoken of by professors as if it's factually correct that humans can change sex. Not only that, if you dare question the premise or point out contradictions then you are treated like a leppa
After spending a year at Harvard’s Graduate School of Education, I never once witnessed an honest and rigorous debate. The echo chambers of the social justice warriors are well protected. People don’t know the true meaning of ‘critical’ thinking. My fellow international students from all over the globe - democratic and autocratic countries, were truly alarmed by the propaganda and brainwashing that is occurring in the USA.
And me. thanks, guys. Fascism was Socialism specifically for the national collective of Italians. so Nazism was Socialism for the national collective of Germans.
@@Redrosewitch So, why did Hitler's earliest acts involve exterminating all Communists, Socialists and trade unionists? And in what part of socialism is the country's business contracted out to private companies. Daimler-Benz, for example. The firm avidly supported Nazism and in return received arms contracts and tax breaks that enabled it to become one of the world’s leading industrial concerns. TAX BREAKS? In socialism?
Stephen Hicks is a fantastic synthesizer of modern philosophical, political, and economic history. As an historian myself, I have immense respect for him.
You know there's something off when you see a bunch of comments like this yet little reasoning. Sounds kinda like political propaganda, disguised as pragmatic rationalism. It's important to note people's newfound fixation on fascism not being "so bad" and people being praised endlessly for doing so might not be a great sign lol. Or otherwise implying that bad fascism somehow came from the ideological left when in reality it arose from the stomping out, and eradication of, the ideological left, They had to kill literally all political opponents to then create a space where people "voted" mr. adolf into power lol. Not to mention just the general smugness of the title of the channel in the first place made it p clear lol. I was truly hoping it wasn't as bad as I thought it would be, but I guess it's more about the plausible deniability and to sway young people who are you realize radical far right proto fascists had to kill thousands of German citizens that were socialist and communist/revolutionaries to then be able to have millions vote for Hitlr. They forced that vote, shaped it. And their idea of their own perfection of culture was just their own echoes going out and back, in the western world. Germany was very close to becoming a truly socialist/communist state and most supported communist revolution until it was stomped out by far right paramilitaries. Has little to do with left idealism turning into something bad, in fact it's exactly the opposite.
Dr. Hicks gets it. Wow. A philosopher who doesn't purely talk about politics, history and the lot but makes the connection to our kids and their education. Genius thinking. As a psychologist and mum I see many things about the origins of our society's current issues just there: what kind of life do our kids have and how do they get educated? Well done KK & FF. Love your show. Danke aus Deutschland. :-)
He mention that school teachers in Germany gravitated to the Nazis. That may be because the model teacher was a produced of the Prussian system. Medical doctors were also drawn to the Nazi Party.
This has have to been the greatest conversations you guys have ever done on you channel. This is the reason why people should remember history not to repeat it, and not erease history to be able to repeat it.
International CIA. "When everything the American people is a lie, we will have succeeded " Could replace most countries with the word Americans, as exact same Totalitarian Dictator has rewritten every country's history. Right after they steal all their gold & Silver and every valuable. Before they bombed 2/3 +++ of Poland infrastructure they loaded 1600 long semi trucks going one way and others going the other way. After the war they dismantled the factories and hauled to Russia, which rusted since the "REAL NAZI COMMUNIST", who say " There is no God", which were the gathering of world Satanists, wearing German & Russian uniforms.....just like today, the same gathering of same Nazi's and Mafia, and Terrorists are gathering in Ukraine.. when Putin wanted to havre a cease fire for few days for a Christian Holy Day, Britain was in Ukraine with ythe British Mafia saying NO PEACE, just like they did in WW one and WW2 when Germany and Austria sued them for peace. WW2. Britain & France had a defense pact with Poland, as they were planning their Holocaust. Poles that escaped didn't know this and fought and died next to British, American, Russians against Hitler, while being led to believe they were fighting for " Your freedom &a ours. Death toll was high. British Norse West Royal Empire, along with their Royal family, leading the Nazi, non Germans into entire Central Europe to Holocaust every Polish Proto Slavic ethnic tribe including Iran & India etc etc. Including Prisoners of war. British Bankers, " in the future nobody will remember Hitler, but how much free labor you got. In British controlled Russia they had already established Gulag Archepeligo long before 467 Gulags with litterally 1000's of death, torture, beat, freeze daily while forced to run all day in Siberia, 70 below zero, in mines so toxic most died in 3 months. Also took children up there. Disease rampant..from starvation & sadistic torture. Released criminally insane from prisons to be guards. Britain also ordered Italy to release Mafia from prison. Britain, Russia &US had taken over Iran. Ordered Ajerbajan, a netorious terrorist group to join in the torture and killing of Poland Muslim, Catholic, Jews & atheists. There was the Russian NKVD, Secret Service who are most excellent torturers. In Belgium, after drafting 15 year olds to Poland, and brainwashed by the BBC, British Bolshevik Communists Propaganda Dept, about how dishonest those Polish Catholics are, total criminals and as everyone in Europe and US knows, the Pope is the AntiChrist. Let's not forget British Crown Cousins, Royal Norse Swedes who Britain encouraged to massacre 2/3 of Poles in 1600's for crime of religious freedom and Constitution, Bill of rights. Freedom for British, Swedes, French, but 1000 yrs is starvation/ slavery for East &Central Europe, as Britain controls all ports. How many Germans were starved to death. BY Britain? Irish Catholics, Britain removed all food from every home, just like Bolshevik Jews did in Ukraine after massacre of 66 million German and Slavic in 1917 and 1930 Ukraine, 20 million starved to death. British Royals said, Christians don't have a right to exist. Also, if you don't speak English you don't have a right to exist. European corporations made a killing on their abused Slavic FREE LABOR. BUILT NEW factories, roads, bridges all over their World Wide Kingdom. Royal Countries don't fight wars, they let their Vassal States like Russia, US, Canada, Australia, India....45 then another 70 after Wzw2, who of for Britain & France expenses? America. Britain made Germany pay billions in reparation fee but refused to let Poland recieve funds to rebuild. Actually, they gave it to zfrance to conquer and oppress. Ore countries. Any peaceful protests met with mowing down 100's of citizens with spray of bullets, or in Siberia they crushed five live people at a time by tanks going back &a forth until there was literrally a mountain hill of bones. The sadistic cruelty of zbolsheviks is unsurpassed. Those few who know the truth remember. Back stab double cross. Britain was cheering when Putin was going to drop an Atomic Bomb on Poland and All Baltic/ Balkan states. They have had a premeditayive genocide plan for many years. Hell is for eternity. We want no one to go there. Look up Polish Saint Faustina, Divine Mercy. Jesus said Poland was only reason He didn't destroy evil Europe. You may want to stop this war.
I think we took the wrong lesson from the Nazis. We simply wrote them off as mindless barbarians who malevolently turned on minorities. But the truth is that throughout history group conflict has been a natural and inevitable part of human politics. If we wanted to reduce the chances of repeating history we would support the creation of ethnically homogenous nationstates. When people feel threatened by the growing power of foreigners they are quite likely to react
@@pablodelnorte9746 This is really stupid. Critical theory is a post modern task, an attempt to interpretation social relations. The frankfrut school recognised Marxism lacked any discussion on this. Marxism did not address social problems, Marxist critique like the critique of many before him was of capitalism/economy.. The Franfurt school was completely disillusioned with the failures of Marxism finding it lacked sufficient critique of western civilisation and indeed they were critical of Marxim itself Frankfurt school found Marxism and Leninism philosophically inflexible systems of social orgnisation and sought a different path to realise social developlemtn of society. It couldn't be further from Marxism. The person speaking knows nothing about Marxism or the Frankfurt school, he doesn't need to, because he knows the audience on here won't know either.
Ingmar Bergman the Swedish director spent a year in Nazi Germany as a teen and lived with an ardently Nazi family. A kind of student exchange program. He says it was glorious. Uniforms, parades, sports, spectacles, huge bonfires, thousands singing en masse and the praise of health, cleanliness and belonging to the group. Only a year later back in Sweden did he understand Nazism.
I have an Aunt that was a reading teacher and she was part of the Clinton's administrations reading initiative. As a group they went to Cuba to study their reading programs as it was reported that the Castro Regime had brought about one of the highest literacy rates in North America. What they brought back and incorporated into the US Education system was that most people only need to have an 800 word vocabulary. In addition to use the sight reading method. So to achieve this the books were dumbed down and the students did not learn to sound out words but rather memorize them on sight. So the result is that students cannot self educate by reading the great works or other writings of history or if they do it is a dumbed down version. That was 30 years ago and now we have the product of that great experiment on our children.
I have my Masters in Reading. Sight words are very important in reading and as we become more proficient in reading that number expands greatly. There are lists of sight words necessary for primary grade levels. They appear frequently and do not always follow the rules of phonics. Phonics was always an important component of teaching as well. In addition it is routine to give students lists of words appropriate to their level to memorize. The problem may be that since computers have been so available, students are not reading books. Recreational reading is one of the critical factors in becoming proficient.
This content is absolutely fantastic. So insightful. I hope enough people get to see this because a hell of a lot of people need to. Thank you so much.
Stephen Hicks is amazing, and what he's telling us just scratches the surface. Hegel, Marx, Nietzche, the Nazis, these are just recent (200 or so years) of thinking coming out of Germany. You can go back to 1077, when the Emporer Henry IV (of Saxony, much of which would later becone Germany) spent 3 days in a hairshirt, prostrating himself before Pope Gregory at Canossa. He did so after political battling which ended with Gregory excommunicating Henry. This "humiliation at Canossa" was such a pivotal moment in European history, that 800 years later, in 1877, Otto Von Bismark would put a plaque on a monument that says "We will not go to Canossa". This expression, in Germany, meant that they are their own (extremely) proud people who will not bend to ANYONE, EVER. Hitler referenced Canossa, as well. This is just the tip of the iceberg. Hegel, (a strong influence on Marx, Giovanni Gentile - fathet of Fascism, and the Nazis) who wrote in the 1800s to 18teens, was embraced as the pinnacle of thought in Germany, while many other philosophers of his time and after would say that, essentially, Hegel was a Freaky Prussian Wizard. Eschewing outside religious influences, like Catholicism, Hegel drew heavily on Alchemy as a Native German spiritual underpinning for German-ness. In my opinion, Mary Shelly's character, Victor Von Frankienstein, was an echo of these movements in thought. Her Frankenstein character, though not specifically German but Swiss/Italian, studied Alchemy. Her book, published in 1818-1820 (conflicting sources on that) comes out after msny of Hegels major published works, from about 1808 to 1818. This was 100+ years before the Nazis. There's so much crazy history before what Stephen Hicks is relating to us (and doing an excellent job, IMO).
@@michaelfern4079 Hitler read a fair amount about Otto Von Bismark, and the expression "go to Canossa" was a fairly common reference, politically, in and around Germany (around, as in various nations and cultures). He mentioned it in accounts of discussions with an Italian Diplomat (German Studies Review Volume14 Number3 Oct1991 ... available on JSTOR, if you have access... it's often free if you are enrolled in college), and apparently he described his dealings to restore the legality of the Nazi Party after his release from prison as a sort of Road to Canossa (Wikipedia entry on "Road to Canossa" which is pretty accurate insofar as I can know). The idea of the "Road to Canossa" came up in discussions I had with some friends, one a Librarian/crazy bibleophile friend of mine, and another with a different friend from Iceland, who's done business in other countries, and with whom I was bitching about Germans, lol. I'm painfully American, very liberal, like Hicks, with a lot of American-Scots-Irish ancestry, so, there are stark contrasts I notice that rub me the wrong way, and I want to understand these things, so as to deal with them more easily, and not let them catch me on the back foot. Anyhow, when you start connecting the dots, and really realize, to the U.S. comparitively, how deep history in europe goes, and how deeply, based on history, many Europeans still approach the present, it's hard not to be a little awed. I mean, it's our history, too, but there's a sharp demarcation between U.S. History that emerges not long after the emancipation from Britain. That other thread of European History, the more Germanic one, is really important to understand, because, In my opinion, anyway, it's the real dialectic the U.S. has been struggling with. Namely, American Liberalism (strongly rooted in British Liberalism) and German Hegelian Ideology, and it's many european offshoots.
@@michaelfern4079 lol. That's a whole other can of worms, and kinda outside my wheelehouse. African history, what little I've learned, is pretty fascinating, too. I'd love to hear a Somali Scholar do some comparitive political history.
@@montycantsin8861 History is so friggin’ insane. I try to point out the same thing about how old these things are (as old as humanity itself) and how when you dig in populations that have effectively never came into contact with each other in more ancient history follow in the footsteps with the same evil ideas.
I’m really glad Stephen is highlighting the socialist bits of the Nazi ideology, especially when ‘Fullfact’ are supposedly debunking it. You can just search on UA-cam for Nazis discussing the economy to realise they were not economically right-wing at all, there was a video of Joseph Goebbels talking quite a lot about the necessity of state intervention in the economy that springs to mind.
Communism, National Socialism, and Fascism are twigs growing of the same branch. The greatest trick the socialist/communist have pulled is that their political philosophy is diametrically opposed to Fascism. The end result is the same...a totalitarian government.
@@homewall744 exactly! They told us they were socialists. It’s just sort of amazing to me because having been through secondary school history classes, we were not taught of this aspect of Nazism.
This junk by this guy talking with admiration of evil barbaric people is disgusting. So they were well read monsters. Monsters are to be talked of with admiration?
What I find unfathomably wierd is not one person, when addressing the hatred of the jews back then, never stop to ask one simple question. Why? Why were they disliked so much? Why did countries have laws that didn't allow the jews to become citizens or serve in government positions? Why did they get removed from 161 different areas in 2000 years of being without a homeland? It baffles me to no end that asking that type of question is taboo or even disregarded as valid.
@@stevilkenevil9960 You should not be "baffled" by your question, you should be glad you have a functioning mind capable of critical thought. Too bad there are not more people like you! Perhaps then we would not be plagued with this Zionist plague threatening mankind.
11:52 I find this absolutely fascinating, I’ve always wondered how Hitler rose to power with such popularity. I feel that my high school education (early 2000’s) only showed me the horrors of WW2 and especially the Holocaust, however it was never taught how a progressive, forward-thinking society got to that point.
People voted for Trump, Putin, Orban, Nethanyahu in fair elections (at least the first time). They blow up the positives and downplay the warning signs. Combined with a weak unconvincing opposition and there you have it ... Some of them turn out worse than others afterwards.
You're lucky enough to live through it, just with a different pale group of people being villified this time around. And as things are going this time the genocide is successful.
Hitler and his political party brought a depressed post ww1 Germany out of that and put millions of Germans back to work and raised them publicly for it
@@RightTurnClyde They cut away from whatever leftist-roots they may have had as soon as they took over the country. Mussolini had leftist roots, and obviously so did the totalitarian communist regimes. And they all failed miserably at being true to genuine leftist ideology once in power. Fascism is fascism, regardless of which direction it comes from.
Hitler never explicitly rejected Christianity. You might also revisit the history of Jewish ghettos, murderous pogroms and expulsions of entire Jewish populations through European Christian history. This includes Britain and France and Spain.
Rubbish they kept on rearming after the WW1 despite being told not to and the size of there military was worked so they would be able defend themselves but not take offensive action and the reaparations were not as regressive as has been made out Due to the lack of reparation payments by Germany, France occupied the Ruhr in 1923 to enforce payments, causing an international crisis that resulted in the implementation of the Dawes Plan in 1924. This plan outlined a new payment method and raised international loans to help Germany to meet its reparation commitments. Despite this, by 1928 Germany called for a new payment plan, resulting in the Young Plan that established the German reparation requirements at 112 billion marks (US$26.3 billion) and created a schedule of payments that would see Germany complete payments by 1988. As a result of the severe impact of the Great Depression on the German economy, reparations were suspended for a year in 1931, and after the failure to implement the agreement reached in the 1932 Lausanne Conference, no additional reparations payments were made. Between 1919 and 1932, Germany paid less than 21 billion marks in reparations, mostly funded by foreign loans that Adolf Hitler reneged on in 1933.
In the nineteen twenties of the last century half of the scientific papers published in the world still originated from Germany or were at least fist printed in German. Therefore it is not an exaggeration that Germany was at the forefront of science in every respect.
His final summation upon the importance of maintaining the standards of education is most evident among current school children. According to literacy figures to be found on google , 25% of primary school leavers in England are unable to read and write properly. I'm 81 and at age 7 went to an all boys junior school. I cannot recall any child that moved on from my small Infant school who was unable to read , too some extent. Maybe boys of my age were lucky , no video games and the Public Library was a short walk from the school. By the tine I was 11 I had read every Biggles book, ploughed through the tomes of The Royal Airforce 1939 -45 volumes 1 & 2 . And I still failed the 11 plus exam.
Because they now have to cater to the lowest common denominator, people for whom English is not a first language or with low literacy parents. From abroad.
If you know this is "honest", this means you are an expert on the subject. Obviously your opinion about "honest" is actually unsubstantiated thus dishonest.
@@BarbarraBay Your bordering on intellectual bullshit. Go find the video "The greatest story never told" and learn something. Also "Hellstrom the rape of germany"
Disagree. Not once did he mention communism and the relationship between the rise of bolshevik communism and National Socialism-- which existed in opposition to it. Many people supported Hitler solely because of their opposition to communism.
When speaking about religious aspect in Germany, you should add that Nazis were winning in protestant parts, which is linked to Luther's view on Jews. In 1936 Edith Stein who was a Jewish philosopher but also a Catholic nun, writes to the Pope warning about persecution of Jews but also Catholics in Germany. This is often omitted, but this was also one of the reasons (another being the view that Slavs are subhuman, to be eliminated after Jews are finished with) why the occupation of Poland was so harsh, completely different than in the West.
Completely disagree disagree about Poland.After Ww1 in the German lands annexed by Poland they brutalised German residents.Hitler warned the Polish to stop and gave them an ultimatum either stop or he would go to war ,it is well documented.
@@JohnJohn-cu7nk German lands annexed by Poland? Careful here, are you talking about lands that were partitioned and taken by Prussia and Austria when Poland dusappeared from maps for 125 years? And Poles were routinely killed fir speaking their language etc? And then they got them back ? Well documented ? I wonder by whom. BTW, I was talking about situation before and during WW2. Are you really trying to say that Poles brutalised Gernans after WW1 therefore I shouldn't mention what went on under German occupation during WW2? Is this for real?
@@gosiachaaban2484 As I stated the poles Brutalised the German citizens who lived in the lands that were annexed by Poland after Ww1 .Like this said it's well documented .Read any newspaper from these dates
Great interview. One thing though. Nietzsche wasn't antisemitic. He occasionally used jew as a synonym for Christian as he despised the judeo christian religion. He explicitly attacks actual antisemites in his writings, essentially calling them small minded idiots. His reputation for antisemitism comes from his sister and her husband, who were virulently antisemitic, and who cared for Nietzsche and tried their hardest to reinvent the public perception of his beliefs to align with their own during his illness.
@@JRobbySh That certainly was not Nietzsche's position as he was an "anti-Christian cult" all to himself. Anti-Judaism means hatred of the Jews as a religious group.
Nietzsche not being antisemitic, not being fond of the antisemites, does not actually matter at all. His - not his sister's - philosophy, if one can call it that, was so vile, so much engaging in phantasies of violence, that you could easily just add another target.
@@str.77 Can you say which of his books engages in fantasies of violence? I've read "The Birth of Tragedy," "The Gay Science," and "The Antichrist" and I don't remember anything like that. He did strike me as a bit emotionally unstable.
Professor Stephen Hicks is a Rockstar! In my German immigrant family I was always referred to as the Englishman. Yes! Go John Locke, Adam Smith and John Stuart Mill. Liberty! Ron Paul 2024....
Hitler said, when asked if he'd ever read Nietzsche "No, I can't do much with Nietzsche. He is not my guide." Probably because he was an outspoken anti-nationalist, staunch critic of anti-semitism and the only work that was even remotely linked to the Nazi party was Will To Power, a book put together and highly edited by his Nazi sister once FWN had lost his faculties. Anyone who has studied Nietzsche knows this so Stephen is either out of his depth or is bending the truth to disingenuously prop up his agenda. Please don't listen to people like this. Go and read the work and the biographies and use your own mind, instead of lapping up this guy's pseudo-intellectual bullshit. He's clearly just trying to get a few crumbs of Jordan Peterson's profits, as are these morons at Triggernometry.
@@hattorihanzo2275 His book Nietszche and the Nazis was released in 2010. That would be 12 years ago, not 20, correct,? He had very little mainstream success with this work and it was not taken seriously in academic circles (much like Jordan Peterson). If you were to compare JP with SH in terms of mainstream success with dumbasses, SH is crawling around in JP's shadow. The only people who have SH on their shows are people without the budget for JP. SH would be washed up if there hadn't been a newfound mainstream thirst for the pseudo-intellectualism of JP in the late 2010's. I think you may be one of the dumbasses i mentioned above. We'll see...
Hitler also promised he wouldn't invade Poland.....Nietzsche influenced Nazism in significant ways through Will to Power. He didn't have to approve of them
I was happiest as a Boy Scout. I grew up on military bases in distant parts of the world and always felt myself surrounded by kindness, both from local people and from all ranks of the services. I never doubted that Britain and its empire were good. In my late teens, I emerged from boarding school an outsider: anti-establishment, anti-capitalist and with a hankering after traditional ways. I was almost a hippy but my music was more folk than psychedelic. For two years I was immersed in a German speaking culture to the point where I was losing fluency in English. Naturally, I was curious about the Nazis: what was their appeal to these rather pleasant people I was surrounded by. Well, they appealed to boys who liked scouting and hiking, were drawn by tradition, and thought that Germany was a great place that was being changed by financiers and capitalists into something alien. But, the terms “Jew” and “Financier” were pretty well interchangeable (historically Jews were disbarred from traditional crafts, and had the role of ‘money lender’ thrust upon them). I think this last point would have stopped me becoming a Nazi in the 30s. I hope so.
It constantly astounds me that so many people think that it is usually evil intent behind great evil, you see some great evil and behind it you will see some beautiful utopian ideas.
@@globetwig4401 Libertarianism breaks down as soon as you introduce humans. Its very much like Marxism in that case. Ever notice how Libertarians are fond of saying: "There's never been a 'TRUE' Libertarian society."
@@jakebarnes28 Totally agree. I personally regard Libertarianism as a fundamentally flawed political ideology with an extremely simplistic understanding of human nature(s). In fact, I'm very much opposed to Libertarian dogma.
It's extraordinarily rare that someone who does evil things on a mass scale doesn't think they are morally justified. There is no right or wrong, only consensus. The only difference between you and the absolute monster is the number of other people who agree with you.
It’s fucking terrible. As a philosophy student he butchers the medieval thinkers, messes up enlightenment thinkers, but worse is the counter enlightenment …Kant ? Kant? Counter-enlightenment? Hahahah
@@shamster7182 I'm not "of the Left" (nor "of the Right"), I like Hicks, and I think postmodernism is dogshit, but Hicks doesn't do a good job criticizing it. There are intelligent videos you can look for on youtube which go into detail how he fails (or falls short, take your pick). A test of your openness would be to look for them and learn how your legend doesn't know everything.
I had neighbours when I was a child that were German National Socialists. These folks were the Very Nicest, *Sweetest people I have ever known ; so I have never appreciated the condemnation of them.
So they didn’t torture or murder you or invade your country so they are fine people. Great mentality to have. They treated me fine so who cares about anyone else.
Because there is an inherent moral standard. What they allowed themselves to do is evil. No dogma, no ideology… justifies treating a group of people your immoral piece of shit. I don’t care how nice they were. That’s shows how capable they are to allow such evil. What’s wrong with you?
I am just listening to a war diary of a German war reporter starting with the invasion of Poland. At 11 minutes in he quotes Nietzsche "of all writings I love only those that are written in blood". Amazing.
Very interesting content. Thx. Edit: what a joy it was to listen to Mr Hicks. It is an art to press so much content into an hour without deviating or becoming boring. A gem.
This is why the state needs to be minimal and the church/voluntary communities are so important. People do need groups of meaning but they shouldn't be tied to something that they can't opt out of. Don't give the state power that you don't want your political opponents to have.
Most enlightening , a perspective of the Germans i didn't previously have. I just had a thought , about when I was a schoolboy , unlike today we were taught about the British Empire , not especially good , but never being bad . The influence that had upon myself and many of my friends was to get out in the world . See first hand what you have read in geography/history lessons .I realize that back in my day ( now 84yo.) we had a large military force and the second largest Merchant Navy in the world . Many British colonies to choose from. To this present time I consider the four years I spent in the MN the best education i had . From the opulence and splendour of New York , to the most deprived place I saw , The Globals of Glasgow in the 1950's .
This guest is one of the most interesting men I've seen on you tube. Thank you for bringing him to the the fore, this talk is truly fascinating and an education I've never had before
Learning more about context at that time is fascinating. Also philosophy and identity politics. I'll be listening to the first interview next. Valuable, valuable content. Thank you.
Never underestimate the power of making people feel superior, the, "othering" of another group and the power it gives.... President Lyndon B. Johnson once said, "If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best coloured man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you."
White Americans not only LOOOVE Black people, today, often want to date them or marry them, a number of people falsely claim Black ancestry to get college acceptance or a professorship or at least honorary Blackness for social acceptance. White kids buy rap, buy swag, sustain musicians. White people HEAVILY DONATE to causes which purport to help Black people, even when Black people tell them they are causing more harm by supporting the wrong things .. like reducing educational standards and treating Black people as helpless and inferior, while viciously attacking Black conservative leaders.
Stumbled across this all but accidentally. Enjoyed listening to this man ramming down my throat that I should not accept at face value what others have been attempting to ram down my throat for far too many of my 70 years on this planet. Most of them failed as my blxnbsometer is quite finely tuned and apart from my military service and adherence to all that entailed, I am by and large quite averse to many forms of collective thinking and action unless I can see it's not going to impact negatively on others - going to listen through this all over again over a coffee and a hobnob or two later today. Many thanks. Wend your ways in peace and harmony but keep your bayonet sharp just in case.
after reading the incredible book IBM and the Holocaust, I realize that doctors, economists, engineers, lawyers, psychologists - in short the intelligencia - played an instrumental role and that their role generally goes unnoticed.
Thomas Sowell covers this really well in his books. And you're right, that the general public has no understanding of how those "intellectuals" steered society to disaster.
The elite always use the power of the state for their advantage or to gain greater relative advantage than rest of society. They attempt to structure government where they are in control.
The US and UK do not. Many nations have a full understanding of that issue. It is why many nations mistrust the intellectuals even today.@@SoloRenegade
@@shauntempley9757 those of us paying attention in teh US and UK, and who actually studied history absolutely do. and we still mistrust "intillectuals" and rightfully so. it's the ignorant or malicious people who trust them.
I want to see a discussion between Stephen Hicks and Jordan Peterson about how Nietzsche's ideas influenced the Nazis. Because they have pretty different ideas about that, and are both reasonable.
@@charlytaylor1748 I'd contend not. At least not insofar as saying that the majority of individuals act within his idea of master morality within the moral framework he described. For his conception of master morality, yes. For his contention of slave morality, no. Read how he defines each though and see how he separates those groups. I don't think it's far wrong to argue that his conception of the master morality is something like liberalism (if liberalism lost its egalitarian component) run amok. Individual free agents with no external moral framework to guide their actions. His conception of slave morality is what to look at to understand collectivism through the lens of Nietzsche. Long story very badly summed up, because there's a lot of material there, is that if individuals with slave morality are given power they are happy to burn everything down, instead of take (invest) the power and use it for themselves which is the behavior you would expect of individuals with masters morality, and then they'll lose it because they don't understand power (and how it has to be used in order for it to not burn it's wielder). Within Nietzsche's worldview the vast majority of human beings have slave morality and are far more comfortable taking orders and abiding by the dictates of society rather than forging their own path in the world. One of the biggest reasons Nietzsche gets labeled as an Arch-individualist is because he spends so much time and energy talking about master morality. You can almost think of this as a philosophical equivalent to the great man theory of history. He spends a good deal of time talking about his thoughts on individuals with slave morality as well but it's much less quippy, much more depressing, and less fun to read being the philosophical equivalent to the trends and forces theory of history. However, a key to understanding the difference between Hicks and Peterson on the topic of Nietzsche is to ask which of those moral frameworks they are talking though. Hicks is typically talking about slave morality which in Nietzsche's estimation was over 95% of the population while Peterson leans more towards talking from the perspective of Master morality which in Nietzsche's estimation was less than 5% of the population but by far the important less than 5% of the population. I'm not saying that either of these illustrious gentleman is right or wrong, just that you can square that circle regarding Nietzsche pretty straightforwardly. Additionally, I am not commenting on the morality of either gentleman, merely which Nietzschean lens they are using for analysis.
@@douglasbodenhamer931 if you take a look through my comment history, assuming UA-cam still allows you to look for that in a reasonable way, I've got I feel a number of those floating around on UA-cam. Additionally, I got a podcast on anchor if you're interested under the name mutually assured deprogramming which I encourage you to check out. I managed to find a leftist that claims they can talk forever, or at least for a long time I tend towards hyperbole at times.
Everybody is talking about antisemitic Europe. Is nobody interested why so many people hated Jews? I mean: every country has tough history with neighbors. That's a fact,but why would you be hated by most nations?
@@donna-marie9100 Reason is not justification. If various peole of vastly different cultural and national backgrounds hate you, MAYBE some part of your behavior or mindset is the reason for it?
There’s an analysis that it came about through the concept of a whole people without a home. Thus they could not be trusted to be loyal to anything but themselves(their community).
This is so important! As someone who went to high school in Israel we are taught in depth about the Nazi party and this point of view is what we’re taught we learn about there humanity and that’s what makes it even more scary, to learn that the people who’ve done this are people just like us and that we are capable of doing it again and that’s why we can never forget. I am scared of where we are going as a society.
'to learn that the people who’ve done this are people just like us and that we are capable of doing it again' - in the case of Israel, ARE doing it again.
@@dexstewart2450 fairly sure you couldn't find Jews who literally thought that all Germans should be murdered when walking down the streets of 1940s Germany though. I'm pro Palestine. Doesn't mean I'm anti Israel though.
The people replying to you don't seem to have learned anything from this video. Hats off to your school for teaching you in that way. When I was in school they basically just taught us that Hitler and the NSDAP were evil, because they were evil. No explanation, other than "they looked for a fall guy" (and found it in the Jewish people). Godspeed
Do collectivists enjoy groups because it’s cosy and warm? Being an individual feels cold and lonely to them? I can’t remember how many comments I’ve seen right here on UA-cam where someone starts with identifying themselves via their group eg. “As a Muslim, we believe….” Or “As a white person, I think…” 🤦♂️ You’ve been blessed with a brain of your own. Develop it. Use it. It’s always given me the creeps when people identify themselves and form their beliefs and behaviour in terms of what their group wants.
Everyone wantst to talk about how they are different than all the bad people in history, but no one wants to talk about how we're very much alike the bad people in history. When you get to look at those dark corners of yourself, that's when you make real progress.
Wow thank you so much. You have just given me-an old hippie-such a succinct explanation of humanity that will help me make sense of the world + current happenings. Thank you so much!❤
Really enjoy your discussions, guys. You seem to be proving my long-standing belief that comedians are among the sharpest thinkers of our time. I am slightly disturbed that the UA-cam algorithm seems to know what I'd enjoy, but for the time being I am ok with it. Keep it going !
@@davideldred.campingwilder6481 I don't remember exactly how he put it but around the midway mark Russell claims that "nothing I say is true" and that he just tells stories that people can either agree or disagree with and that for him to say that he knows some absolute truth would be "highly arrogant." Hicks responds with "Slavery is a moral abomination" and it trips up Russell because under his own rules that opinion is just as valid as the justification of slavery. He then basically just changes the subject and ends up giving credit to religion to avoid giving the credit to the Union soldiers at the time having any sort of rational thoughts or reasons to be against slavery.
The problem with classic liberalism is how much it depends on the autonomous individual able to subsist in the world on his own devises. This is, I think, a heroic role, and there exist few schools that aim at creating heroes. Maybe the service academies. But maybe they are afraid of creating them nowadays. I mean how awful if too many Grants or Lees appeared. Warriors, rather than bureaucrats.
Years ago, before the BBC went totally mental, I heard a program on R4 that was a repeat of a much older one in which those who'd voted for the Nazis were asked why. They said it was because they were Socialists - they believed the so-called International Socialism of the Soviets was too Utopian, too pie-in-the-sky, but that National Socialism was do-able. Unfortunately, they were sort of correct and would have remained so if Germany hadn't decided to 'spread the word' into other countries.
Hitler had to start the war because his socialist economy was failing. It was either invade the neighbours or have another major depression. It's not like he tried to hide the fact that his socialist plan would require 'acquiring' more land for the German people to use, he mentions it in his writings occasionally before he was anywhere near the being dictator.
@@Arkantos117 I hadn't heard that before, but it does make sense. FDR was no different. His programs were not working. It was the war that actually gou us out of the Depression
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@@johnmercer3571 Hitler was an artist. Did paintings for a living and sucked at it.
Where's the link to "Identity Crisis"?
Guys, someone below mentioned you getting someone on from one of the unis to talk about free speech and about getting someone woke on with them. This gave me an idea that if universities wont allow debates you guys should set them up mini style on your show. Perhaps some mini style debate on a set topic.
Oh. 😳 I was going with, Hitler used his dark charisma, intuitive genius & magnetic personality to target the only things that mattered, the perception filters of the ENTIRE German people & the common sense of HALF of the German population, so ALL of it paid attention to him & didn't filter him out, & half of them ended up common sensing that it was fine or not a deal breaker to do a Holocaust & a World War! 😳 And that it was fine to hate the Jews cos Hitler said so, or not a deal breaker to hate the Jews ONLY if done in support of Hitler! 😳 Cos Hitler had to create the cult of personality BEFORE he could destroy democracy & set up a dictatorial regime & state media & secret police! (just like Trump did with "kung flu", he made it so half the US felt it was fine but only if TRUMP said it, OR it was said in SUPPORT OF TRUMP! 😳)
@@athcnv Did Trump actually call it Kung Flu? I know he called it the Chinese virus because it was. Same as Spanish Flu or Middle Eastern Virus. My asian friend called it the Chinese Virus. But then he's Tibetan and hates The CCP.
My mother worked beside an ex- German POW in the 1950s. She said he was a really nice guy and couldn't understand how he could have been pro Hitler. When she asked him he said, 'It was easy. We thought we were the good guys saving the world. We all loved him.'
I had a girlfriend back in the late '70s whose mother was from Germany. She told us the same story. They all believed that they were the good guys and were saving Europe. They were obsessed with the concept of purity, both spiritual and physical. Draw your own conclusions.
Look at Europe and how it is falling apart today and ask yourself, "Is nationalism bad?"
@@rinzler9171 I think it is going to come back. History always goes in cycles.
The public motives of the German leadership were not quite the same as their private motives. Sure, the media drummed up hatred of the ‘banker race’, which became widespread, but not many ordinary people knew the full horror of what was decided at the Wannsee Conference.
@@sirrathersplendid4825 so, let's hear this Wannasee proposition?
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Please keep this style of guest coming. Too many people are unaware of the underpinning histories and philosophies behind humanity's grand crimes, meaning we are all too prone to repeating those crimes again and again.
The lack of honesty in history teachings of public schools is astonishing. Even 20 years ago it was getting weird and things being done behind parents backs, utter destruction of masculinity and programming to be a work slave that cant do anything beyond repetition. When you create a stupid bias population of zealots that cant tolerate critical thinking... Well.. you get the karens, the authoritarianism, the socialism, all the toxic ideology in an echo chamber that worsens through generations and its far more likely any school will be bias against anyone not democrat in hiring and retainment. So you end up entire schools covering for each other, hiding things from the public and parents, putting ideology in their heads as fact without question, hell even asking questions is punished in multiple ways like extra homework or class ridicule. The intelligent were overwhelmed beyond reason, the arts and skills were already being gutted, and everything dumbed down for the idiots of the bunch that never tried or cared. Id go from regular class making As but bored as sht jn trouble falling asleep and so easy my homework was done before i ended the class, to gifted class making ds and cs just crushed by the expectations of 4 plus hours of homework and projects of repetitive garbage youd already mastered or all your classes dumping on you like they were your only responsibility. Oh work hard, get into a good college, burn yourself out and hate the process of learning. leaving you just sicked by it all and resentful. Youd repeat the same info as the year before 80 percent of most classes. Classes too large to move at a pace that wasnt tedious while teachers exhausted and overworked so many kids to grade and keep in line. Politics were more behind the scenes like with standardized testing, weird test questions with political or racist undertones, weird quizzes with personal information gathering, unexpected medical tests and in school vaccinations... In hindsight, creepy sht actually. ohh and i was one of those with the several years of super fluoride used as an unwitting test subject, more than just that too. Teeth from my classes are garbage in almost everyone, wonder why.
Oi. What i hear now, we need to start pooling for more private schools and get our kids out asap. Making kids a pawn in a political situation and indoctrinating/turning them against parents... Yea thats not evil at all, nah.. caughnazisdidthatcaugh ... They declare themselves our enemies but we keep conceding ground and pandering to them.. maybe we should believe them and grow a spine... History says its all downhill from here..
@@CailenCambeul There is a reason why history is being erased
I think i will remain suspicious of any ideology that has cultural hegemony...especially if its revolutionary and totalitarian. Be wary of idealism, and do not assume everything with a "progressive" label slapped on it is inherently good. They will more often than not use compassion as justification for totalitarianism. So many people get fooled by that tactic.
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Just watched 'The great escape' and 'Schindlers list' with my 14 year old daughter, who had no idea what she was about to see
I love the way, unlike a lot of others, these guys listen and let the guest talk without destroying the flow, sone destroy their own good intentions with constant interruption and breaking of the narrative, kudos to these guys.👍
They 100% broke the flow at 35 min, which a loaded question attempting to lead him into making a parallel between vaccine mandates and 'nazi-ism making a comeback'. He very emphatically denied that this was a responsible claim to make, after which they 'broke the flow' again, completely changing the subject. Yeah, tell me more about their "good intentions" lol. They're not here to listen to the guy, they're trying to steer his words to pander to the new hoards of conservative snowflakes watching this, who equate multiculturalism with white genocide and who think being asked to wear a face mask is as bad as being packed into a cattle car and driven to the gas chamber.
I always try to give kudos to good interviews and these guys are good.
It's a real treat.
Absolutely, unlike Piers Morgan.
Absolutely agree. They wait and …listen..to the answers. The usual interviewers? Well it is in the interviewers eyes, all as much about them as it is about what the guest has to say. The interviewers are all about being stars and that ego has to be supported. Here our interviewers, no doubt know they are smart enough and do not have to keep proving it. They ask good questions and..listen to the answers. This is wonderful. Is it not true…..once a war starts, the opposite side has to be vilified to allow killing of the bad and the innocence. I do always think of the innocents on all sides, I support Ukraine but I also feel for the young Russian boys being sent to the meat grinder. I think of their mothers,I think of the destruction which will take generations to replace. So thanks for those who interview and listen.
My father went to sea in the English Merchant Navy at 14. When he was 18 his ship was attacked by German planes and was sunk, he was washed up on shore with shrapnel wounds in his thigh and the sole of his foot was hanging off from the little toe right round to the big toe and just flapping. 2 German soldiers found him on the beach and carried him to their own field hospital and a German surgeon did such a good job sewing it up that he walked for the rest of his life without any problems. he was taken to Stalag V111B and was there for 4 years till the end of the war. They could've just shot him and I'd never had life, I'd love to know who those 2 German soldiers and the surgeon were to thank them for saving his life
Wow! Wow! I'm sure that the Russians, the Jews, the French Resistance and many others will tell you that the Geneva Convention protected your father and DIDN'T protect them (because they fell "outside" the Geneva Convention) but hey, it was all "so worth it" for you to grow up and not waste life but instead; spend your time listening to whiney simps like Douglas Murray blame OTHER people instead of himself for his mediocrity. So "glad" to see that you also threw in a little of your hatred of women by blaming Trans athletes instead of yourself.
That’s the thing. The Gmans never wanted to fight a brother war. They had strong morals and never did what ”some ppl who now run the world” so claim.
The two dudes running this channel are even )ewish, their purpose is to reel dissident minds in, then muddy the waters.
”The best way of controlling your opposition is to lead it” - Cant even name the origins because of the overaggressive AI algo
Great story!
most men are civilised no matter who their masters are.
People are usually lovely, its the systemes that create evil.
So basically, we're repeating everything again. Interviews like these should be shown in schools and universities.
Everything in nature is a pattern.
Can we still call them schools and universities? My son is at uni now. A different world. Indoctrination instead of mind-opening education!
The universities are the problem. Their primary purpose is marxist indoctrination. The deep state and most federal politicians are 100% in support of this.
Doesn't fit the preferred narrative. 😑
But if they showed this in school they couldn’t do it all again.
My father was in the US Infantry in WWII, and half German. He tried to convey to me as a boy that Hitler was a human, not a demon. It was a risky thing for him to do, to possibly be seen as a nazi sympathizer. He understood quite well who and what Hitler was. It became a taboo subject.
As a young adult, I read Psychopathic God, written by a psychoanalytic historian, who looked at Hitler from private writings. This was fascinating to me, and if anything, repelled me even further from nazism than I was. I tried discussing it with fellow college students and was immediately branded a nazi and that stuck for the rest of my college period.
It is impossible for most people to examine their beliefs in such areas.
thats what happens when you get an education at an indoctrination camp.
Hitler. Woke up in the middle of the night to stop kristalnaught. He also. Order the death rates in the camps to be decreased as much as possible because Germany needs their labor.
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I recommend EVERYONE listen to the AI dub of Hitlers speech to fully understand the state of things in Germany after WW1.
Even a cursory understanding of the impact reparations had on the German spirit is enough to plainly see why WW2 happened.
Ignorance is bliss.
I understand that as a German. I read 'Mein Kampf' and friends from East Germany after the fall of the Wall were horrified to know that we were even able to read this book. I said: "Know Thy Enemy".
Always amazes me how the ideology, behaviours and atrocities of the Imperial Japanese Army in WWII escapes these kinds of discussions. The horrors of the Japanese in Burma and The Philippines in particular never seem to warrant discussion. The abject brutality, torture and murder meted out by Japanese soldiers on those they considered racially inferior (anyone not Japanese) beggars belief.
When you say the Holocaust was the 3rd or 4th worst atrocity of the 20th century and many people don't know about the other 3.
It's because it's a subject that is so vile there's no way you can tone it down in order to teach it to Young impressionable Minds. I being a curious lad when I was younger began to look into the Bataan Death March and Nanking. It shocked me so thoroughly that I wrote it off as anti-japanese propaganda to protect my mind from breaking.
Now that I'm much much older, I don't know how I would teach that to a younger person without creating the same emotional turmoil in them.
A final point is that Japanese culture has for the most part been embraced and revered in the West for a couple Generations now. And this prevents people from looking into it further. It would be like finding out that your favorite uncle who is such a hit at parties and has a wonderful work ethic was once a rapist a murderer and a sadist.
These are just my observations.
How does one explain to a modern, secular audience how a society that regarded Its “emperor” as a divine being differs from a society such as hours? The use of the western word “emperor” is itself misleading. It come from the Latin for something like “commander of the forces”. I am not sure that Hirohita, for instance,” was a priestlike figure, or more like a Buddha-life person. or more like the Han “emperors”.
We fixed fixed them
Based Japanese Imperials.
The BBC has abandoned the production and broadcasting of this sort of content. This type of topic deserves a wider audience.
DESERVES TRUTH. ONLY CAN BE FOUND OUT BY DIGGING. LIKE A GEOLOGIST
I had a good friend who was Jewish and he lived in a huge all Jewish community in a town next to mine. He began explaining how the area became so predominantly Jewish and his 12 block community of houses was all Jewish people. A star of David on every single house. He explained that the Jewish people have always formed communities that contribute to that community in every way. They actually help each other put their kids through college and pursue intellectual and political jobs. They do do it through donations and fund raisers. I was blown away. I was also a little jealous 😂. What an advantage that is over every other nationality on the planet. The rest of us are every man and woman for themselves and the Jewish people are one for all and all for one. I'm glad I learned that and I believe it to be true. Everytime I hear people complaining that Jewish people have all the money or run the world. I can't help but remember what my friend taught me and think your damn right they do. Their one big team and the rest of us are individuals trying to eat each other to stay alive. 😂
Those Western misguided atomistic philosophers such as Descartes placed the West on the wrong track and ultimately launched a war against Nature.
Originally, local ethnic communities in Europe had a rich and vibrant local culture.
Mexicans and Muslims do the same thing... you'll find it in Asian also, they still have the tribe mind, unlike the west.
AND THEY FUNDED BOTH SIDES OF THE WW2 WAR$$$$$$$
@@johnchamberlain9775Is there a source for this i.e., Bank of International Settlements etc. ? Just curious as I know that many US corporations continued business through intermediaries and subsidiaries through very subtle arrangements via neutral countries in South America etc.
It's called Nepotism
This lesson is more pertinent now than any time before in my 38 year life. Stand strong people.
And it's amazing how illiterate about history people are beyond "Nazis bad, we good"
Yeah the similarities between now and then scare the shit out of me
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@@sportscarman5 Exactly, hopefully we win this time so we can avoid even more small hat subversion and destruction.
I like how these guys listen to their interviewees (quite rare in todays journalism) they never interrupt and ask well thought through questions.
He is extraordinarily bright well spoken guy and haven’t seen him in a while- thank you for having him on
Stephen Hicks smashes the notion that professors (specifically of philosophy) educate in ways that are unapproachable to the layman. He speaks clearly in a very engaging and relevant way on incredibly deep topics. He's just that good, and MANY professors are not.
That notion was invented by philosophers to exclude the layman and his down to earth common sense approach to such questions from the discussion, for the purpose that applying common sense to what most philosophers propose makes it look very silly indeed. It’s the real reason they want to ban “ableist” insults. They don’t actually care about disabled people, they just don’t like being called stupid so they try their best to make it illegal.
@@InceyWincey all correct. Right-wing pundits have taken to calling the intelligentsia "midwits." They are smart enough to cause a lot of damage but too dumb to know better.
The true leftist roots of the Nazis ua-cam.com/video/hukNex-OG4k/v-deo.html
We must not mistake the rhetorician for the philosopher.
I suspect this is because he is educated not only in his small area of specialisation but also in education and this subject is also relatively easy to understand if you have enough knowledge. It is a bit different with quantum physics that I suspect even the professors do not really get so how should you? Having said all this, he really is doing it well and answers the questions well. This is a skill on its own. Not an easy task especially if (which is not the case here) the questioning party misbehaves or the format forces cutting off parts of the communication. Roger Penrose is very good at it but I suspect this may be true for quite some of these big brains. It is just we are surrounded by people with a degree in gender studies or with massive conflict of interests or both.
Dr Hicks is a treasure.
You should get him on your show. By the way you and your team are doing a fantastic job.
@@djknox2 And SFO, too. Not an academic, but a pretty good analyst.
@@djknox2 ShortFatOtaku
True, and this is yet another reason why I'm glad I started following Carl way back in 2016 -- I've found so many amazing people on this side of YouYube.
Thanks, Carl!
I love listening to Mr. Hicks. He is brilliant, especially on this topic.
I grew up at a time when reading widely in philosophy was a thing. By the time I got to university, I had read a lot of these books and of course continued to be exposed to more. My field of study and professional life, by the way, is not in these areas. I studied first physics then computer science. When I started high school, if the third quarter of the last century of the last millennium, our education was broad and deep in both STEM fields as well as liberal arts. I actually dropped out of university, got a job making what university graduates were making (because of skills picked up working at school) and later went back to school. I ended up going to school while working at GE Aerospace. The company paid for it (I was very lucky). I went to Villanova University. They still had (have) a good emphasis on the liberal arts across the board. I had to take two courses in western civilization, three in philosophy, three in religious studies (it is, after all, a Catholic university), four in English literature and a foreign language. Rather than looking at all this as an imposition I reveled in it.
I bring all this up not to toot my own horn, but to contrast that with what is happening in many universities today. Many of the courses I had to take are being eliminated at present. This is a disaster! Our young people are coming out of university more indoctrinated than enriched. We proceed along this path at our peril.
🎉Well stated & so true😢
@@lenorefoxmoor9985 Thanks.
I downloaded the book, "Nietzsche and the Nazis" to my Kindle (it was even included in Kindle Unlimited, oh joy). I find it well written but hard to read. That is because I want to respond to Nietzsche all the time. Sometimes I feel like screaming. Of course, it makes sense. Nietzsche's philosophy led to the Nazis and a lot of the racist totalitarian regimes we have today.
They are turning out potential, 'Sardine Packers, an einsatzgruppen commander so known to his men because he could optimise the number of victims in an alloted space. With the rise of Anti Semitism one wonders where such thinking will lead. Both Orwell and Huxley warned of a future disdain amongst the young for past lessons of human negativity. I am a Christian,not a Jew, - nevertheless !
Excellent!! Jung said "people don't have idaas. Ideas have people." Mr. Hicks introduces us to how that happens.
There's a fantastic irony in people's refusal to engage the shadow. They hide from the shadow precisely to convince themselves that others are evil or deficient in some way, and in demonising others whilst ignoring their own shadow, they are far more likely to commit atrocities and become the person other people demonise.
True.. Very True
So, as a white person , do you accept that you are a nazi hippy?
Exactly. As Jordan Peterson ( admirable as a psychologist only)said: " W all need to recognise and come to terms with the monster within us".
That's TDS in a nutshell. I've never seen anything so devoid of self awareness in my almost 70 years.
@@sabinemeyer3899I disagree. Jordan Peterson is still very much under the thumb of his shadow and it's amazing that someone with that much knowledge in psychology is unable to put it into practise himself.
But that was until I realised he deeply misunderstands what the findings of Carl Jung and Sigmund Freud were really about
My grandfather was born and raised in Sicily but when Mussolini rose to power, he lived in Brooklyn, NY and my grandfather was a socialist and against Mussolini.
Fascism and socialism are identical.
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Not identical, but they overlap.
@@afritimm correct, not identical in definition but identical in how they destroy an entire nation via ‘big government dictatorship’
Both replies are wrong. If You think national socialists and socialists are the same I got shocking news in the same vein for you about the titmouse
Whenever you hear someone called a nazi or fascist today it’s nothing more than name calling. Most of those doing the name calling couldn’t even define those words.
I didn’t realise that when I’m called a fascist, I’m really an Italian socialist.
most of those doing the name calling are projecting their own guilt
I know what these terms mean and these guys are wrong
Nazism is Radical Authoritarian Nationalism. Everything has moved so far left now that it's becoming a meaningless rock to throw.
@@endloesung_der_braunen_frage So do I. And I believe, based on history and philosophy, that they are correct.
One of our country's top minds and I can't remember seeing him once in my life on television or published in a mainstream newspaper, it really says alot about the state of western society.
Who controls our Media, Robert? They are not likely to promote someone who so easily exposes their Marx based revitalized radically Left agenda.
ummmmm you mean American society. All of the west is not at all like the US. US is a special case, with its woke BS, see eye A controlled media etc...
Western society is moving away from the legacy media, and rightfully so. The same Internet that is causing so much division right now is also providing a way out of new monopolies dictating our conversations. This channel is just one example.
@@alexanderordinary2110
With respect, most of the west's msm is the same. U can watch BBC, CBC and english language versions of French and German news for example and they are all spouting the same thing.
@@barboglesby2162 Or their conservative religious agenda.
My deceased grandmother from Austria said that after the defeat of the imperial Germany and the Habsburg empire Austria-Hungary in WWI there was so much unbelievable poverty, misery, collective trauma that the charismatic Adolf Hitler tricked hope and actually improved the situation substantially for the better until January 1943. PS. The poster of a painting behind Dr. Hicks is of Caspar David Friedrich’s wanderer above the sea of fog
If you want to know the Truth find the video "The greatest story never told"
It's easy to pay for your shit socialist policies by invading and pillaging your neighbours.....yes, Hitlers policies were socialist.
...and the communist threat. That was a serious thing.
@@landofthesilverpath5823 And more than just a theoretical threat, they instigated takeovers in rebellions in cities and towns across Germany; it was for this reason that the NSDAP party called in 'reinforcements' from German nationalists who had been fighting against Poland, France, the US and UK troops left as peacekeepers, fighting in Russia and other states like Czechoslovakia, Latvia and Lithuania; against communism. Known as the Freikorps (and one A.H. had briefly been one supposedly, though records are 'patchy') these helped the NSDAP and allies - including the officials and remaining aristocracy - to remove, execute or exile, those Communists.
There were very real acts of terrorism and uprisings by the Communists across particularly southern Germany in the 20's; which led to this uneasy alliance of NSDAP and the 'old guard' in that Weimar era, as they were each 'the enemy of my enemy'.
The re-integration of the Freikorps under the NSDAP also helped them to crush dissent in their own ranks, and the Freikorps essentially became the 'Brownshirts' - the party enforcers, and the beginnings of the re-militarisation of Germany, even though they were prevented from forming an army under the treaty of Versailles.
It's also this anti-Communist stance which gained the NSDAP and it's "leader" huge US support and very strong UK and pan-European support as well - again, the NSDAP were very much 'the enemy of my enemy' as all feared a revised and re-mobilized Red Communist Army marching west against a weakened Europe, even by the early 1930's.
A strong and staunch resistance from the fiercely anti-Communist NSDAP, whether in coalition or in Governemnt, was very welcome by most of the western nations, not only Germans.
Yes the same picture was used for a description of Beethoven's personality in the magazine,"The Great Composers" series, issued in the early nineties.
No one hates a collectivist quite like another collectivist of a different brand. Well done guys for having Prof. Hicks on the show.
Exactly. This is the explanation for the conservative hatred of socialism.
@@Supernautiloid can't say I know any conservative collectivists.
@@thomdrolet2624 That's because they were destroyed in the 1980s. The only kind of "conservative" that exists is a profit-maximizing liberal.
@@thomdrolet2624 I know about 75 million. Not personally of course. But that's how many voted for Trump in 2020 so I think it's a good indicator.
@@Supernautiloid how exactly are trump supporters collectivist?
I have shared your videos with all of my friends. You are performing a desperately needed service - providing long-form, rational, and informative discussions with people who are the deep thinkers of our time. It is so unfortunate that journalism as a profession is dead, but you two (and your staff) are filling a vacuum Thank you so much for all you do and please keep up the good work!
Yeah but we should avoid amateur analysis. Closer get the rise and falll or TIJ history....yes we dehumanizing the dehumanizers.....where does this get us with actual historical evidence...where is the true values..the triumph of wills and mein kampf...half of America was ok with Hitler and wanted us to avoid taking sides.....
This man just exactly describe my experience at the University of Bristol during my foundation of arts and humanities-
My tutor, a self-proclaimed Marxist and male feminist, attempted to treat critical theory to a bunch of 19-year-olds by applying the results of the theory not by explaining it as an ideological perspective.
The whole attitude was one of hostile conflict, I was actively interrogated as to my background, so that when I was attacked, it wouldn’t breach any of their moral codes for political correctness the whole course was extremely strange.
I don’t think people can quite comprehend what is going on in the higher educational establishments there needs to be an investigation launched into all of it!
This has been going on for decades. In the 1980s I took over a job from a chap who left to do a degree in Sociology. He was forced off the course because he was a Conservative. Only he seemed surprised by this.
Similar but not as intense happened to me in late 60’s at SUNY, he told us we were asleep because we weren’t out in the streets trying to bring down the military industrial complex
I recently went to university as a mature student and was stunned to learn that gender theory is spoken of by professors as if it's factually correct that humans can change sex. Not only that, if you dare question the premise or point out contradictions then you are treated like a leppa
After spending a year at Harvard’s Graduate School of Education, I never once witnessed an honest and rigorous debate. The echo chambers of the social justice warriors are well protected. People don’t know the true meaning of ‘critical’ thinking. My fellow international students from all over the globe - democratic and autocratic countries, were truly alarmed by the propaganda and brainwashing that is occurring in the USA.
Bristol is full of left-tards
Incredible educator, so informative and eloquent - learnt so much.
And me. thanks, guys. Fascism was Socialism specifically for the national collective of Italians. so Nazism was Socialism for the national collective of Germans.
Mostly just his personal opinions.
This is stealth "conservative" propaganda which works by pretending it is not.
@@Redrosewitch So, why did Hitler's earliest acts involve exterminating all Communists, Socialists and trade unionists? And in what part of socialism is the country's business contracted out to private companies. Daimler-Benz, for example. The firm avidly supported Nazism and in return received arms contracts and tax breaks that enabled it to become one of the world’s leading industrial concerns. TAX BREAKS? In socialism?
@@thepagecollective well said. Questions for which I doubt you'll receive replies
No matter how many times you listen to SH, he always manages to explain old complicated concepts in accessible and new relevant ways. Genius.
Stephen Hicks is a fantastic synthesizer of modern philosophical, political, and economic history. As an historian myself, I have immense respect for him.
You know there's something off when you see a bunch of comments like this yet little reasoning. Sounds kinda like political propaganda, disguised as pragmatic rationalism. It's important to note people's newfound fixation on fascism not being "so bad" and people being praised endlessly for doing so might not be a great sign lol. Or otherwise implying that bad fascism somehow came from the ideological left when in reality it arose from the stomping out, and eradication of, the ideological left, They had to kill literally all political opponents to then create a space where people "voted" mr. adolf into power lol. Not to mention just the general smugness of the title of the channel in the first place made it p clear lol. I was truly hoping it wasn't as bad as I thought it would be, but I guess it's more about the plausible deniability and to sway young people who are you realize radical far right proto fascists had to kill thousands of German citizens that were socialist and communist/revolutionaries to then be able to have millions vote for Hitlr. They forced that vote, shaped it. And their idea of their own perfection of culture was just their own echoes going out and back, in the western world. Germany was very close to becoming a truly socialist/communist state and most supported communist revolution until it was stomped out by far right paramilitaries. Has little to do with left idealism turning into something bad, in fact it's exactly the opposite.
you're not a historian, and Hicks is a proven hack.
Dr. Hicks gets it. Wow. A philosopher who doesn't purely talk about politics, history and the lot but makes the connection to our kids and their education. Genius thinking. As a psychologist and mum I see many things about the origins of our society's current issues just there: what kind of life do our kids have and how do they get educated? Well done KK & FF. Love your show. Danke aus Deutschland. :-)
He mention that school teachers in Germany gravitated to the Nazis. That may be because the model teacher was a produced of the Prussian system. Medical doctors were also drawn to the Nazi Party.
This has have to been the greatest conversations you guys have ever done on you channel.
This is the reason why people should remember history not to repeat it, and not erease history to be able to repeat it.
International CIA. "When everything the American people is a lie, we will have succeeded "
Could replace most countries with the word Americans, as exact same Totalitarian Dictator has rewritten every country's history. Right after they steal all their gold & Silver and every valuable. Before they bombed 2/3 +++ of Poland infrastructure they loaded 1600 long semi trucks going one way and others going the other way. After the war they dismantled the factories and hauled to Russia, which rusted since the "REAL NAZI COMMUNIST", who say " There is no God", which were the gathering of world Satanists, wearing German & Russian uniforms.....just like today, the same gathering of same Nazi's and Mafia, and Terrorists are gathering in Ukraine.. when Putin wanted to havre a cease fire for few days for a Christian Holy Day, Britain was in Ukraine with ythe British Mafia saying NO PEACE, just like they did in WW one and WW2 when Germany and Austria sued them for peace.
WW2. Britain & France had a defense pact with Poland, as they were planning their Holocaust. Poles that escaped didn't know this and fought and died next to British, American, Russians against Hitler, while being led to believe they were fighting for " Your freedom &a ours. Death toll was high. British Norse West Royal Empire, along with their Royal family, leading the Nazi, non Germans into entire Central Europe to Holocaust every Polish Proto Slavic ethnic tribe including Iran & India etc etc. Including Prisoners of war.
British Bankers, " in the future nobody will remember Hitler, but how much free labor you got. In British controlled Russia they had already established Gulag Archepeligo long before 467 Gulags with litterally 1000's of death, torture, beat, freeze daily while forced to run all day in Siberia, 70 below zero, in mines so toxic most died in 3 months. Also took children up there. Disease rampant..from starvation & sadistic torture. Released criminally insane from prisons to be guards. Britain also ordered Italy to release Mafia from prison. Britain, Russia &US had taken over Iran. Ordered Ajerbajan, a netorious terrorist group to join in the torture and killing of Poland Muslim, Catholic, Jews & atheists. There was the Russian NKVD, Secret Service who are most excellent torturers. In Belgium, after drafting 15 year olds to Poland, and brainwashed by the BBC, British Bolshevik Communists Propaganda Dept, about how dishonest those Polish Catholics are, total criminals and as everyone in Europe and US knows, the Pope is the AntiChrist. Let's not forget British Crown Cousins, Royal Norse Swedes who Britain encouraged to massacre 2/3 of Poles in 1600's for crime of religious freedom and Constitution, Bill of rights. Freedom for British, Swedes, French, but 1000 yrs is starvation/ slavery for East &Central Europe, as Britain controls all ports. How many Germans were starved to death. BY Britain? Irish Catholics, Britain removed all food from every home, just like Bolshevik Jews did in Ukraine after massacre of 66 million German and Slavic in 1917 and 1930 Ukraine, 20 million starved to death. British Royals said, Christians don't have a right to exist. Also, if you don't speak English you don't have a right to exist. European corporations made a killing on their abused Slavic FREE LABOR. BUILT NEW factories, roads, bridges all over their World Wide Kingdom. Royal Countries don't fight wars, they let their Vassal States like Russia, US, Canada, Australia, India....45 then another 70 after Wzw2, who of for Britain & France expenses? America.
Britain made Germany pay billions in reparation fee but refused to let Poland recieve funds to rebuild. Actually, they gave it to zfrance to conquer and oppress. Ore countries. Any peaceful protests met with mowing down 100's of citizens with spray of bullets, or in Siberia they crushed five live people at a time by tanks going back &a forth until there was literrally a mountain hill of bones. The sadistic cruelty of zbolsheviks is unsurpassed. Those few who know the truth remember. Back stab double cross. Britain was cheering when Putin was going to drop an Atomic Bomb on Poland and All Baltic/ Balkan states. They have had a premeditayive genocide plan for many years. Hell is for eternity. We want no one to go there. Look up Polish Saint Faustina, Divine Mercy. Jesus said Poland was only reason He didn't destroy evil Europe. You may want to stop this war.
I think we took the wrong lesson from the Nazis. We simply wrote them off as mindless barbarians who malevolently turned on minorities. But the truth is that throughout history group conflict has been a natural and inevitable part of human politics. If we wanted to reduce the chances of repeating history we would support the creation of ethnically homogenous nationstates. When people feel threatened by the growing power of foreigners they are quite likely to react
Uh, the attempt to create an ethnically homogenous nation state was precisely why they were murdering Jews and gypsies, and so on.
Black Lives Matter Marxist philosophy couldn’t have been explained any better.
🤣🤣🤣 BLM is not Marxist lol
@@orlamcmanus9019 BLM is a product of neo-Marxist Frankfurt School critical theory. I think Angela Davis would agree.
@@pablodelnorte9746 This is really stupid. Critical theory is a post modern task, an attempt to interpretation social relations. The frankfrut school recognised Marxism lacked any discussion on this. Marxism did not address social problems, Marxist critique like the critique of many before him was of capitalism/economy.. The Franfurt school was completely disillusioned with the failures of Marxism finding it lacked sufficient critique of western civilisation and indeed they were critical of Marxim itself Frankfurt school found Marxism and Leninism philosophically inflexible systems of social orgnisation and sought a different path to realise social developlemtn of society. It couldn't be further from Marxism. The person speaking knows nothing about Marxism or the Frankfurt school, he doesn't need to, because he knows the audience on here won't know either.
@@orlamcmanus9019They absolutely are! Their website indicates as much!
@@oliveoil7642 Explain
Ingmar Bergman the Swedish director spent a year in Nazi Germany as a teen and lived with an ardently Nazi family. A kind of student exchange program. He says it was glorious. Uniforms, parades, sports, spectacles, huge bonfires, thousands singing en masse and the praise of health, cleanliness and belonging to the group. Only a year later back in Sweden did he understand Nazism.
Sounds like college football.
Sounds pretty awesome
it was@@mikejones9702
@@johnhensler4777 LOL - Exactly
So he went back home and they "explained" him, why being healthy and happy and not being a slave is bad. Ok... 🤡🤡🤡
Stephen Hicks is brilliant. Bring him back again! Give him his own show!
Yep! Very concise.
he's only brilliant to you because you have zero knowledge to begin with.
I have an Aunt that was a reading teacher and she was part of the Clinton's administrations reading initiative. As a group they went to Cuba to study their reading programs as it was reported that the Castro Regime had brought about one of the highest literacy rates in North America. What they brought back and incorporated into the US Education system was that most people only need to have an 800 word vocabulary. In addition to use the sight reading method. So to achieve this the books were dumbed down and the students did not learn to sound out words but rather memorize them on sight. So the result is that students cannot self educate by reading the great works or other writings of history or if they do it is a dumbed down version. That was 30 years ago and now we have the product of that great experiment on our children.
Newspeak. Language cannot express forbidden thoughts.
So the mess the world is in nowadays is all your Mums fault..?!
I think you’ve misunderstood reading instruction.
I have my Masters in Reading. Sight words are very important in reading and as we become more proficient in reading that number expands greatly. There are lists of sight words necessary for primary grade levels. They appear frequently and do not always follow the rules of phonics. Phonics was always an important component of teaching as well. In addition it is routine to give students lists of words appropriate to their level to memorize. The problem may be that since computers have been so available, students are not reading books. Recreational reading is one of the critical factors in becoming proficient.
@@leoorchard5992see? There it is at work.. it was his aunt. Not his mom. You ought to be angry at the Castro's...
This guy is so brilliant and eloquent. Amazing pod
This content is absolutely fantastic. So insightful. I hope enough people get to see this because a hell of a lot of people need to. Thank you so much.
This is first-rate. Everybody should know this. Stephen Hicks is incredibly knowledgeable and a fantastic teacher.
Stephen Hicks is amazing, and what he's telling us just scratches the surface.
Hegel, Marx, Nietzche, the Nazis, these are just recent (200 or so years) of thinking coming out of Germany.
You can go back to 1077, when the Emporer Henry IV (of Saxony, much of which would later becone Germany) spent 3 days in a hairshirt, prostrating himself before Pope Gregory at Canossa. He did so after political battling which ended with Gregory excommunicating Henry.
This "humiliation at Canossa" was such a pivotal moment in European history, that 800 years later, in 1877, Otto Von Bismark would put a plaque on a monument that says "We will not go to Canossa".
This expression, in Germany, meant that they are their own (extremely) proud people who will not bend to ANYONE, EVER.
Hitler referenced Canossa, as well.
This is just the tip of the iceberg.
Hegel, (a strong influence on Marx, Giovanni Gentile - fathet of Fascism, and the Nazis) who wrote in the 1800s to 18teens, was embraced as the pinnacle of thought in Germany, while many other philosophers of his time and after would say that, essentially, Hegel was a Freaky Prussian Wizard. Eschewing outside religious influences, like Catholicism, Hegel drew heavily on Alchemy as a Native German spiritual underpinning for German-ness.
In my opinion, Mary Shelly's character, Victor Von Frankienstein, was an echo of these movements in thought. Her Frankenstein character, though not specifically German but Swiss/Italian, studied Alchemy. Her book, published in 1818-1820 (conflicting sources on that) comes out after msny of Hegels major published works, from about 1808 to 1818.
This was 100+ years before the Nazis.
There's so much crazy history before what Stephen Hicks is relating to us (and doing an excellent job, IMO).
Great comment. Thanks. Where did Hitler reference Canossa? In Mein Kampf or speeches etc? Thanks.
@@michaelfern4079 Hitler read a fair amount about Otto Von Bismark, and the expression "go to Canossa" was a fairly common reference, politically, in and around Germany (around, as in various nations and cultures).
He mentioned it in accounts of discussions with an Italian Diplomat (German Studies Review Volume14 Number3 Oct1991 ... available on JSTOR, if you have access... it's often free if you are enrolled in college), and apparently he described his dealings to restore the legality of the Nazi Party after his release from prison as a sort of Road to Canossa (Wikipedia entry on "Road to Canossa" which is pretty accurate insofar as I can know).
The idea of the "Road to Canossa" came up in discussions I had with some friends, one a Librarian/crazy bibleophile friend of mine, and another with a different friend from Iceland, who's done business in other countries, and with whom I was bitching about Germans, lol. I'm painfully American, very liberal, like Hicks, with a lot of American-Scots-Irish ancestry, so, there are stark contrasts I notice that rub me the wrong way, and I want to understand these things, so as to deal with them more easily, and not let them catch me on the back foot.
Anyhow, when you start connecting the dots, and really realize, to the U.S. comparitively, how deep history in europe goes, and how deeply, based on history, many Europeans still approach the present, it's hard not to be a little awed.
I mean, it's our history, too, but there's a sharp demarcation between U.S. History that emerges not long after the emancipation from Britain.
That other thread of European History, the more Germanic one, is really important to understand, because, In my opinion, anyway, it's the real dialectic the U.S. has been struggling with. Namely, American Liberalism (strongly rooted in British Liberalism) and German Hegelian Ideology, and it's many european offshoots.
Monty Cantsin Fascinating. Thanks so much. I’m guessing Somalians right off the boat are gonna have a bit of bother fitting in... 😬
@@michaelfern4079 lol. That's a whole other can of worms, and kinda outside my wheelehouse. African history, what little I've learned, is pretty fascinating, too.
I'd love to hear a Somali Scholar do some comparitive political history.
@@montycantsin8861 History is so friggin’ insane. I try to point out the same thing about how old these things are (as old as humanity itself) and how when you dig in populations that have effectively never came into contact with each other in more ancient history follow in the footsteps with the same evil ideas.
My course in Philosophy of Education was one of my best memories in college. God Bless You, Sir.
I’m really glad Stephen is highlighting the socialist bits of the Nazi ideology, especially when ‘Fullfact’ are supposedly debunking it. You can just search on UA-cam for Nazis discussing the economy to realise they were not economically right-wing at all, there was a video of Joseph Goebbels talking quite a lot about the necessity of state intervention in the economy that springs to mind.
Socialist is right in the party name, so it is rather obvious.
Communism, National Socialism, and Fascism are twigs growing of the same branch. The greatest trick the socialist/communist have pulled is that their political philosophy is diametrically opposed to Fascism. The end result is the same...a totalitarian government.
All the nutjob regimes are left wing. The other end of the table sits Milton Friedman and the like.
@@homewall744 exactly! They told us they were socialists. It’s just sort of amazing to me because having been through secondary school history classes, we were not taught of this aspect of Nazism.
This junk by this guy talking with admiration of evil barbaric people is disgusting. So they were well read monsters. Monsters are to be talked of with admiration?
Stephen Hicks speaks very well and makes a lot of sense to me. Would be great to listen to him again in the future
Anti semitism wasn’t just pervasive in Germany or Austria back then, it was EVERYWHERE.
Its not correct to call it antisemitism as the so called "jews' weren't even semities. They came from what was Kazaria and we now know as the Ukraine
What I find unfathomably wierd is not one person, when addressing the hatred of the jews back then, never stop to ask one simple question. Why? Why were they disliked so much? Why did countries have laws that didn't allow the jews to become citizens or serve in government positions? Why did they get removed from 161 different areas in 2000 years of being without a homeland? It baffles me to no end that asking that type of question is taboo or even disregarded as valid.
@@stevilkenevil9960 You should not be "baffled" by your question, you should be glad you have a functioning mind capable of critical thought. Too bad there are not more people like you! Perhaps then we would not be plagued with this Zionist plague threatening mankind.
Same. Id love to know myself @stevilkenevil9960
They’ve been kicked out of every country they’ve settled in. Why?
11:52 I find this absolutely fascinating, I’ve always wondered how Hitler rose to power with such popularity. I feel that my high school education (early 2000’s) only showed me the horrors of WW2 and especially the Holocaust, however it was never taught how a progressive, forward-thinking society got to that point.
People voted for Trump, Putin, Orban, Nethanyahu in fair elections (at least the first time).
They blow up the positives and downplay the warning signs. Combined with a weak unconvincing opposition and there you have it ...
Some of them turn out worse than others afterwards.
You're lucky enough to live through it, just with a different pale group of people being villified this time around. And as things are going this time the genocide is successful.
One word: atheism!
Hitler and his political party brought a depressed post ww1 Germany out of that and put millions of Germans back to work and raised them publicly for it
@@patnor7354who’s being “genocided”?
Brilliant. Describes what’s happening today with the Woke mentality
@@davideldred.campingwilder6481 Identity Politics for one.
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@@S-North . . .Identity Politics came from Communists from the Frankfurt School which Hitler and the National Socialists were fighting against.
@@RightTurnClyde They cut away from whatever leftist-roots they may have had as soon as they took over the country. Mussolini had leftist roots, and obviously so did the totalitarian communist regimes. And they all failed miserably at being true to genuine leftist ideology once in power. Fascism is fascism, regardless of which direction it comes from.
@@republitarian484 So they're heroes then?
How did the German people reject 2000 years of Christianity and descended into barbarism? The role of WW1 cannot be underestimated. Great discussion.
Christianity started Hatred toward Jews ...it started with Catholics and Christians
GERMANY OFFERED PEACE. IT WAS TURNED DOWN NUMEROUS TIMES.
WHY?
Hitler never explicitly rejected Christianity. You might also revisit the history of Jewish ghettos, murderous pogroms and expulsions of entire Jewish populations through European Christian history. This includes Britain and France and Spain.
Rubbish they kept on rearming after the WW1 despite being told not to and the size of there military was worked so they would be able defend themselves but not take offensive action and the reaparations were not as regressive as has been made out
Due to the lack of reparation payments by Germany, France occupied the Ruhr in 1923 to enforce payments, causing an international crisis that resulted in the implementation of the Dawes Plan in 1924. This plan outlined a new payment method and raised international loans to help Germany to meet its reparation commitments. Despite this, by 1928 Germany called for a new payment plan, resulting in the Young Plan that established the German reparation requirements at 112 billion marks (US$26.3 billion) and created a schedule of payments that would see Germany complete payments by 1988. As a result of the severe impact of the Great Depression on the German economy, reparations were suspended for a year in 1931, and after the failure to implement the agreement reached in the 1932 Lausanne Conference, no additional reparations payments were made. Between 1919 and 1932, Germany paid less than 21 billion marks in reparations, mostly funded by foreign loans that Adolf Hitler reneged on in 1933.
In the nineteen twenties of the last century half of the scientific papers published in the world still originated from Germany or were at least fist printed in German. Therefore it is not an exaggeration that Germany was at the forefront of science in every respect.
His final summation upon the importance of maintaining the standards of education is most evident among current school children. According to literacy figures to be found on google , 25% of primary school leavers in England are unable to read and write properly. I'm 81 and at age 7 went to an all boys junior school. I cannot recall any child that moved on from my small Infant school who was unable to read , too some extent. Maybe boys of my age were lucky , no video games and the Public Library was a short walk from the school. By the tine I was 11 I had read every Biggles book, ploughed through the tomes of The Royal Airforce 1939 -45 volumes 1 & 2 . And I still failed the 11 plus exam.
Because they now have to cater to the lowest common denominator, people for whom English is not a first language or with low literacy parents. From abroad.
This is by far the best most honest essessment of historical and political struggle I've ever heard! I am subscribed.
If you want to know the Truth find the video "The greatest story never told"
If you know this is "honest", this means you are an expert on the subject. Obviously your opinion about "honest" is actually unsubstantiated thus dishonest.
@@BarbarraBay Your bordering on intellectual bullshit. Go find the video "The greatest story never told" and learn something. Also "Hellstrom the rape of germany"
You may like academic agent as well. Life's complicated.
Disagree. Not once did he mention communism and the relationship between the rise of bolshevik communism and National Socialism-- which existed in opposition to it. Many people supported Hitler solely because of their opposition to communism.
When speaking about religious aspect in Germany, you should add that Nazis were winning in protestant parts, which is linked to Luther's view on Jews. In 1936 Edith Stein who was a Jewish philosopher but also a Catholic nun, writes to the Pope warning about persecution of Jews but also Catholics in Germany. This is often omitted, but this was also one of the reasons (another being the view that Slavs are subhuman, to be eliminated after Jews are finished with) why the occupation of Poland was so harsh, completely different than in the West.
Completely disagree disagree about Poland.After Ww1 in the German lands annexed by Poland they brutalised German residents.Hitler warned the Polish to stop and gave them an ultimatum either stop or he would go to war ,it is well documented.
@@JohnJohn-cu7nk German lands annexed by Poland? Careful here, are you talking about lands that were partitioned and taken by Prussia and Austria when Poland dusappeared from maps for 125 years? And Poles were routinely killed fir speaking their language etc? And then they got them back ? Well documented ? I wonder by whom.
BTW, I was talking about situation before and during WW2. Are you really trying to say that Poles brutalised Gernans after WW1 therefore I shouldn't mention what went on under German occupation during WW2? Is this for real?
@@gosiachaaban2484 As I stated the poles Brutalised the German citizens who lived in the lands that were annexed by Poland after Ww1 .Like this said it's well documented .Read any newspaper from these dates
@@JohnJohn-cu7nk what annexation are you talking about? And any newspaper is a bit vague tbh. Do you mean German newspapers, Polish or which ones?
@@JohnJohn-cu7nk YOU made the claim that it is "well documented" but won't provide anything in the way of documentation. Weird.
Great interview. One thing though. Nietzsche wasn't antisemitic. He occasionally used jew as a synonym for Christian as he despised the judeo christian religion. He explicitly attacks actual antisemites in his writings, essentially calling them small minded idiots. His reputation for antisemitism comes from his sister and her husband, who were virulently antisemitic, and who cared for Nietzsche and tried their hardest to reinvent the public perception of his beliefs to align with their own during his illness.
Interesting. Do you recall any reference materials for such? If you can recall, then please share.
There was such a thing as anti-judaism, which hates Jews as a kind of anti-Christian cult, rather than as a “race”.
@@JRobbySh That certainly was not Nietzsche's position as he was an "anti-Christian cult" all to himself. Anti-Judaism means hatred of the Jews as a religious group.
Nietzsche not being antisemitic, not being fond of the antisemites, does not actually matter at all. His - not his sister's - philosophy, if one can call it that, was so vile, so much engaging in phantasies of violence, that you could easily just add another target.
@@str.77 Can you say which of his books engages in fantasies of violence? I've read "The Birth of Tragedy," "The Gay Science," and "The Antichrist" and I don't remember anything like that. He did strike me as a bit emotionally unstable.
Just binged both of Professor Hicks' Triggernometry appearances...Awesome! Thanks guys.
Thank you for introducing me to this wonderful, brilliant man! I’m hooked!
Professor Nick's including remarks on identity with references to Shakespeare and Milton are spot on... Bravo!
My grandfather served in the German army & was taken prisoner in 45'. I miss him dearly.
What a thug. Probably burning in after-life.
Professor Stephen Hicks is a Rockstar! In my German immigrant family I was always referred to as the Englishman. Yes! Go John Locke, Adam Smith and John Stuart Mill. Liberty! Ron Paul 2024....
Rand Paul 2024?
I would vote for Rand. No way Ron Paul would run for office again.
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I enjoyed this. Thank you. This level of conversation should be the norm on tv.
Insightful, balanced, brilliant analysis! Thank you Dr Hicks & guys.👏👏👏👍👍
Hitler said, when asked if he'd ever read Nietzsche "No, I can't do much with Nietzsche. He is not my guide." Probably because he was an outspoken anti-nationalist, staunch critic of anti-semitism and the only work that was even remotely linked to the Nazi party was Will To Power, a book put together and highly edited by his Nazi sister once FWN had lost his faculties. Anyone who has studied Nietzsche knows this so Stephen is either out of his depth or is bending the truth to disingenuously prop up his agenda. Please don't listen to people like this. Go and read the work and the biographies and use your own mind, instead of lapping up this guy's pseudo-intellectual bullshit. He's clearly just trying to get a few crumbs of Jordan Peterson's profits, as are these morons at Triggernometry.
He must be a genius if he planned to "get a few crumbs of Jordan Peterson's profits" nearly 20 years ahead of time.
@@hattorihanzo2275 His book Nietszche and the Nazis was released in 2010. That would be 12 years ago, not 20, correct,? He had very little mainstream success with this work and it was not taken seriously in academic circles (much like Jordan Peterson). If you were to compare JP with SH in terms of mainstream success with dumbasses, SH is crawling around in JP's shadow. The only people who have SH on their shows are people without the budget for JP. SH would be washed up if there hadn't been a newfound mainstream thirst for the pseudo-intellectualism of JP in the late 2010's. I think you may be one of the dumbasses i mentioned above. We'll see...
Hitler also promised he wouldn't invade Poland.....Nietzsche influenced Nazism in significant ways through Will to Power. He didn't have to approve of them
What a brilliantly articulate professor. Quite a few concepts conveyed clearly in a short space of time. I'll be watching this twice
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Could listen to Stephen Hicks all day long. Fascinating interview.
Thanks Guys, feeling well schooled with historical detail.
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@@RightTurnClyde thanks for the additional info. So much to know and so little time remaining. The real truth is out there somewhere.
" My body My Choice "
- screamed the Socialist in 2018
" Your body Not Your Choice "
- screamed the Pro-Vaxxer in 2021
I was happiest as a Boy Scout. I grew up on military bases in distant parts of the world and always felt myself surrounded by kindness, both from local people and from all ranks of the services. I never doubted that Britain and its empire were good. In my late teens, I emerged from boarding school an outsider: anti-establishment, anti-capitalist and with a hankering after traditional ways. I was almost a hippy but my music was more folk than psychedelic.
For two years I was immersed in a German speaking culture to the point where I was losing fluency in English.
Naturally, I was curious about the Nazis: what was their appeal to these rather pleasant people I was surrounded by. Well, they appealed to boys who liked scouting and hiking, were drawn by tradition, and thought that Germany was a great place that was being changed by financiers and capitalists into something alien.
But, the terms “Jew” and “Financier” were pretty well interchangeable (historically Jews were disbarred from traditional crafts, and had the role of ‘money lender’ thrust upon them). I think this last point would have stopped me becoming a Nazi in the 30s.
I hope so.
Mr. Hicks just scared the hell out of me. He described the very problem we face with Woke culture today.
It constantly astounds me that so many people think that it is usually evil intent behind great evil, you see some great evil and behind it you will see some beautiful utopian ideas.
‘The road to hell is paved with good intentions’
Like Libertarianism.
@@globetwig4401 Libertarianism breaks down as soon as you introduce humans. Its very much like Marxism in that case. Ever notice how Libertarians are fond of saying: "There's never been a 'TRUE' Libertarian society."
@@jakebarnes28 Totally agree. I personally regard Libertarianism as a fundamentally flawed political ideology with an extremely simplistic understanding of human nature(s). In fact, I'm very much opposed to Libertarian dogma.
It's extraordinarily rare that someone who does evil things on a mass scale doesn't think they are morally justified. There is no right or wrong, only consensus. The only difference between you and the absolute monster is the number of other people who agree with you.
I can highly recommend Professor R C Sproul , a brilliant mind , on the origin of evil.
Hicks is a legend, his book on postmodernism is essential reading.
It’s fucking terrible. As a philosophy student he butchers the medieval thinkers, messes up enlightenment thinkers, but worse is the counter enlightenment …Kant ? Kant? Counter-enlightenment? Hahahah
@@louisdavies8050 you don't sound like you should be taken seriously.
@@shamster7182 I'm not "of the Left" (nor "of the Right"), I like Hicks, and I think postmodernism is dogshit, but Hicks doesn't do a good job criticizing it. There are intelligent videos you can look for on youtube which go into detail how he fails (or falls short, take your pick). A test of your openness would be to look for them and learn how your legend doesn't know everything.
I had neighbours when I was a child that were German National Socialists. These folks were the Very Nicest, *Sweetest people I have ever known ; so I have never appreciated the condemnation of them.
So they didn’t torture or murder you or invade your country so they are fine people.
Great mentality to have.
They treated me fine so who cares about anyone else.
Because there is an inherent moral standard. What they allowed themselves to do is evil. No dogma, no ideology… justifies treating a group of people your immoral piece of shit. I don’t care how nice they were. That’s shows how capable they are to allow such evil. What’s wrong with you?
After reading Hayek's Road to Serfdom, I have always viewed the political divide as collectivist vs individualists
Great interview guys. You are doing excellent work. The world is a better place because of you two (don't let that go to your heads).
Daily vigilance against the moral failings of others seems like a joyless existence to me. And yet so fashionable.
I am just listening to a war diary of a German war reporter starting with the invasion of Poland. At 11 minutes in he quotes Nietzsche "of all writings I love only those that are written in blood". Amazing.
typical nazi misinterpretation of Nietzsche
Very interesting content. Thx.
Edit: what a joy it was to listen to Mr Hicks. It is an art to press so much content into an hour without deviating or becoming boring. A gem.
This is why the state needs to be minimal and the church/voluntary communities are so important. People do need groups of meaning but they shouldn't be tied to something that they can't opt out of. Don't give the state power that you don't want your political opponents to have.
I'm from the government,I'm here to help you. Like the Australians are finding out.
Right. True freedom is not in receiving government help but in not needing it. Government dependence is serfdom.
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"Don't give the state power that you don't want your political opponents to have."
I say this to the leftists all the time.
Most enlightening , a perspective of the Germans i didn't previously have. I just had a thought , about when I was a schoolboy , unlike today we were taught about the British Empire , not especially good , but never being bad . The influence that had upon myself and many of my friends was to get out in the world . See first hand what you have read in geography/history lessons .I realize that back in my day ( now 84yo.) we had a large military force and the second largest Merchant Navy in the world . Many British colonies to choose from. To this present time I consider the four years I spent in the MN the best education i had . From the opulence and splendour of New York , to the most deprived place I saw , The Globals of Glasgow in the 1950's .
Such an interesting interview. Thank you so much for sharing
This guest is one of the most interesting men I've seen on you tube. Thank you for bringing him to the the fore, this talk is truly fascinating and an education I've never had before
Learning more about context at that time is fascinating. Also philosophy and identity politics. I'll be listening to the first interview next. Valuable, valuable content. Thank you.
Never underestimate the power of making people feel superior, the, "othering" of another group and the power it gives....
President Lyndon B. Johnson once said,
"If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best coloured man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you."
White Americans not only LOOOVE Black people, today, often want to date them or marry them, a number of people falsely claim Black ancestry to get college acceptance or a professorship or at least honorary Blackness for social acceptance.
White kids buy rap, buy swag, sustain musicians.
White people HEAVILY DONATE to causes which purport to help Black people, even when Black people tell them they are causing more harm by supporting the wrong things .. like reducing educational standards and treating Black people as helpless and inferior, while viciously attacking Black conservative leaders.
🤮 like any USA President is worth quoting, hideous repulsive nation.
Stumbled across this all but accidentally. Enjoyed listening to this man ramming down my throat that I should not accept at face value what others have been attempting to ram down my throat for far too many of my 70 years on this planet. Most of them failed as my blxnbsometer is quite finely tuned and apart from my military service and adherence to all that entailed, I am by and large quite averse to many forms of collective thinking and action unless I can see it's not going to impact negatively on others - going to listen through this all over again over a coffee and a hobnob or two later today. Many thanks. Wend your ways in peace and harmony but keep your bayonet sharp just in case.
This was amazing! I’ve never heard philosophy and politics put into such an approachable package.
after reading the incredible book IBM and the Holocaust, I realize that doctors, economists, engineers, lawyers, psychologists - in short the intelligencia - played an instrumental role and that their role generally goes unnoticed.
Thomas Sowell covers this really well in his books. And you're right, that the general public has no understanding of how those "intellectuals" steered society to disaster.
The elite always use the power of the state for their advantage or to gain greater relative advantage than rest of society. They attempt to structure government where they are in control.
You might read Wall Street and the Rise of Nazism by Anthony Sutton. Nazism had many supporters and admirers around the world, especially 1935-1938.
The US and UK do not. Many nations have a full understanding of that issue.
It is why many nations mistrust the intellectuals even today.@@SoloRenegade
@@shauntempley9757 those of us paying attention in teh US and UK, and who actually studied history absolutely do. and we still mistrust "intillectuals" and rightfully so. it's the ignorant or malicious people who trust them.
I want to see a discussion between Stephen Hicks and Jordan Peterson about how Nietzsche's ideas influenced the Nazis. Because they have pretty different ideas about that, and are both reasonable.
Indeed wasn't nietzsche the arch individualist?
@@charlytaylor1748 I'd contend not. At least not insofar as saying that the majority of individuals act within his idea of master morality within the moral framework he described.
For his conception of master morality, yes. For his contention of slave morality, no. Read how he defines each though and see how he separates those groups. I don't think it's far wrong to argue that his conception of the master morality is something like liberalism (if liberalism lost its egalitarian component) run amok. Individual free agents with no external moral framework to guide their actions.
His conception of slave morality is what to look at to understand collectivism through the lens of Nietzsche. Long story very badly summed up, because there's a lot of material there, is that if individuals with slave morality are given power they are happy to burn everything down, instead of take (invest) the power and use it for themselves which is the behavior you would expect of individuals with masters morality, and then they'll lose it because they don't understand power (and how it has to be used in order for it to not burn it's wielder).
Within Nietzsche's worldview the vast majority of human beings have slave morality and are far more comfortable taking orders and abiding by the dictates of society rather than forging their own path in the world.
One of the biggest reasons Nietzsche gets labeled as an Arch-individualist is because he spends so much time and energy talking about master morality. You can almost think of this as a philosophical equivalent to the great man theory of history. He spends a good deal of time talking about his thoughts on individuals with slave morality as well but it's much less quippy, much more depressing, and less fun to read being the philosophical equivalent to the trends and forces theory of history.
However, a key to understanding the difference between Hicks and Peterson on the topic of Nietzsche is to ask which of those moral frameworks they are talking though. Hicks is typically talking about slave morality which in Nietzsche's estimation was over 95% of the population while Peterson leans more towards talking from the perspective of Master morality which in Nietzsche's estimation was less than 5% of the population but by far the important less than 5% of the population.
I'm not saying that either of these illustrious gentleman is right or wrong, just that you can square that circle regarding Nietzsche pretty straightforwardly.
Additionally, I am not commenting on the morality of either gentleman, merely which Nietzschean lens they are using for analysis.
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@@KatanamasterV Thoughtful and justified response. Refreshing to observe.
@@douglasbodenhamer931 if you take a look through my comment history, assuming UA-cam still allows you to look for that in a reasonable way, I've got I feel a number of those floating around on UA-cam.
Additionally, I got a podcast on anchor if you're interested under the name mutually assured deprogramming which I encourage you to check out. I managed to find a leftist that claims they can talk forever, or at least for a long time I tend towards hyperbole at times.
Everybody is talking about antisemitic Europe.
Is nobody interested why so many people hated Jews?
I mean: every country has tough history with neighbors. That's a fact,but why would you be hated by most nations?
How about you answer your own question, cos this sounds like you are saying their hatred is justified.
@@donna-marie9100 Reason is not justification.
If various peole of vastly different cultural and national backgrounds hate you, MAYBE some part of your behavior or mindset is the reason for it?
There’s an analysis that it came about through the concept of a whole people without a home. Thus they could not be trusted to be loyal to anything but themselves(their community).
Read your bible. Know your Creator.
@@ByankaMexia-l2q I prefer sticking to facts. While i enjoy fiction, I do my best not to build my world upon it, but to each their own, I guess?
This is so important! As someone who went to high school in Israel we are taught in depth about the Nazi party and this point of view is what we’re taught we learn about there humanity and that’s what makes it even more scary, to learn that the people who’ve done this are people just like us and that we are capable of doing it again and that’s why we can never forget. I am scared of where we are going as a society.
'to learn that the people who’ve done this are people just like us and that we are capable of doing it again' - in the case of Israel, ARE doing it again.
@@dexstewart2450 fairly sure you couldn't find Jews who literally thought that all Germans should be murdered when walking down the streets of 1940s Germany though. I'm pro Palestine. Doesn't mean I'm anti Israel though.
The people replying to you don't seem to have learned anything from this video. Hats off to your school for teaching you in that way. When I was in school they basically just taught us that Hitler and the NSDAP were evil, because they were evil. No explanation, other than "they looked for a fall guy" (and found it in the Jewish people). Godspeed
So childish to judge someone from a country by thier government.. chill warriors chill.
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Very interesting content, well presented. And thank you for asking a question and letting him talk!
Do collectivists enjoy groups because it’s cosy and warm?
Being an individual feels cold and lonely to them?
I can’t remember how many comments I’ve seen right here on UA-cam where someone starts with identifying themselves via their group eg. “As a Muslim, we believe….” Or “As a white person, I think…” 🤦♂️
You’ve been blessed with a brain of your own. Develop it. Use it.
It’s always given me the creeps when people identify themselves and form their beliefs and behaviour in terms of what their group wants.
I really, really like this guy. He reflects ideas that I discovered on my own, but he puts academic gravitas behind them.
Bless his heart he has no idea how far intellectualism in America has fallen.
Everyone wantst to talk about how they are different than all the bad people in history, but no one wants to talk about how we're very much alike the bad people in history. When you get to look at those dark corners of yourself, that's when you make real progress.
Covid showed that darkness. We jnow who the modern nazis are
He reminds me of a history professor I had in college. I could listen to him all day.
Wow thank you so much. You have just given me-an old hippie-such a succinct explanation of humanity that will help me make sense of the world + current happenings. Thank you so much!❤
Really enjoy your discussions, guys. You seem to be proving my long-standing belief that comedians are among the sharpest thinkers of our time. I am slightly disturbed that the UA-cam algorithm seems to know what I'd enjoy, but for the time being I am ok with it. Keep it going !
Professor Hicks is great. First became aware of him after he totally demolished a post-modernist in a debate
What one was that? 👍👍👍👍
@@michaelfern4079 Thaddeus Russell. It’s an interesting debate.
@@davideldred.campingwilder6481 I don't remember exactly how he put it but around the midway mark Russell claims that "nothing I say is true" and that he just tells stories that people can either agree or disagree with and that for him to say that he knows some absolute truth would be "highly arrogant." Hicks responds with "Slavery is a moral abomination" and it trips up Russell because under his own rules that opinion is just as valid as the justification of slavery. He then basically just changes the subject and ends up giving credit to religion to avoid giving the credit to the Union soldiers at the time having any sort of rational thoughts or reasons to be against slavery.
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The problem with classic liberalism is how much it depends on the autonomous individual able to subsist in the world on his own devises. This is, I think, a heroic role, and there exist few schools that aim at creating heroes. Maybe the service academies. But maybe they are afraid of creating them nowadays. I mean how awful if too many Grants or Lees appeared. Warriors, rather than bureaucrats.
Fascinating, stimulating, educattional.....and mre. Thanks to all three.
Years ago, before the BBC went totally mental, I heard a program on R4 that was a repeat of a much older one in which those who'd voted for the Nazis were asked why. They said it was because they were Socialists - they believed the so-called International Socialism of the Soviets was too Utopian, too pie-in-the-sky, but that National Socialism was do-able. Unfortunately, they were sort of correct and would have remained so if Germany hadn't decided to 'spread the word' into other countries.
Definitely, if Hitler would have remained a nationalist, what a different outcome. There still would have been war with Russia.
That's so interesting!
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Hitler had to start the war because his socialist economy was failing. It was either invade the neighbours or have another major depression.
It's not like he tried to hide the fact that his socialist plan would require 'acquiring' more land for the German people to use, he mentions it in his writings occasionally before he was anywhere near the being dictator.
@@Arkantos117 I hadn't heard that before, but it does make sense. FDR was no different. His programs were not working. It was the war that actually gou us out of the Depression
What a gem this interview is ! Fantastic job guys, thank you for the insight !
Christopher Hitchens always said the true believers are the most dangerous
Interesting interview, keep it up. Various topics, not just politics, attracts different kind of people.