Mr. Evan sir? I’m not a politician, and no matter how hard I can ever try, my ideas are never going to be listened to. I’m no Communist, not a Liberal, nor a Republican; simply put, I know Nothing about politics. I’m asking You this question because, to be simple again, you know more than I do, and you have an honest voice. I don’t want to upset anybody, and so I wanted to post this here so you can read it better and people won’t blow up my phone... I just don’t want to make anybody mad. You quoted in the video that an Albanian man once said that Communism was like a House, and that it needed four pillars... has anyone ever thought of using it as a temporary structure, rather than a permanent one? Dangerous thinking, I know, but again I’m only a writer and a poet, not a politician at all! I’ve only that one question, and if I’ve angered you at all, then I heartily apologize for doing so. I love your content, and I’d hate to lose a good source of learning. Please Stay Safe Sir; and I hope you’re having a Good Day Out There. It surely is a Wild World.. isn’t it? Sincerely, an Observer; Fletcher Grey A Patchwork Prince
@@MDGeist-ws2rh in the eternal fascism sense Let me put like this, could you give me one example, in which the US isn't fascist? It has started to become a dictatorship/oligarchy since the patriot act according to Naomi Wolf, at least.
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For me too, Atlas. It seems as if there is no reality at all nowadays. Only different versions, depending on whom you talk to. As if reality was not something objective, verifiable.
"Reality has no place in ideology". An Open & Honest Government is a form of Ideology, but it requires that honest people occupy the positions of power within it...
No, David. It requires dishonest people to be able to profit from being honest. Honesty cannot survive in politics, but if the politicians can balance their profits from being honest against the profits from dealing with the mafia/Big Biz/etc, we'll be much better off. So don't wait for "the sole honest politician", just reward every act of honesty from every politician, even if he's a nazi. And vice versa, punish every act of dishonesty, even from your BFF-turned-politician. If enough of the electorate does like you, we'll be able to train pavlovian responces in them.
"Reality has no place in ideology" - Evan Hadfield. I love that phrase! I'm definitely going to make some T-Shirts with that!.... ....I hope Mr. Hadfield doesn't get mad!
@@KommentarSpaltenKriegerAgree 100% Trump is guilty of being a loud mouthed misogynistic pig. But his NSA is not listening to our phones. The FBI is not arresting political opponents. And Trump is not changing our system of government in such a manner that at the end of his term, he would be able to stay. Hillary on the other hand did try.
This was extremely interesting. A few times during this video I caught myself with a feeling like, "you're being too dramatic," or, "that's quite cynical/fatalistic." But when I stopped to examine this feeling I realized that I couldn't find anything objectively wrong. This isn't to say that you clearly are correct about everything but rather how easy it is to not take the grim, but subtle problems seriously. In fact, it seems like I already have similar beliefs presented in this video but to hear it from another person presented differently changes things somehow.
The video strongly implies that the people on the far right and far left are insane while the people in the middle are the sensible ones. In the USA that means the Hillary fans and Neocons that hate Trump.
Hillary is indeed a rightist but I think what 432423429482 means is that she's in the middle, and from a U.S. perspective she kind of is. To the rest of the more developed world, she's pretty far right.
thats not strictly true.... all ideologies have basis in truth,some truth otherwise they wouldnt be belived example communism the working is exploited by capitalists ... and this creates an unfair society. Now to an extent this is true ( or was in the west about 120 years ago) however in other parts of the world hyper capitalism causes frankly the conditions for communism because people look around and realise its all true ! take conservatism (pre liberal conservatism i.e non american or european conservatism ) it holds that traditions that are age old are age old because they work. they should be ajusted and we should be very careful about sweeping them away. now again this is also to an extent true. i could go on but it simply isnt true that ideologies have basis in reality why do you think people support them or their leader they are’t all power hungry maniacs they probably believed it as well ( Mussolini was a fascist because he believed in it ect)
@@reecemacaulay1690 ideology’s never end well because they oversimplify extremely complex problems into a battle between two sides, for example identity politics goes hand in hand with with ideology’s so you can blame a entire group of people for something that very few actually did, that’s why I try not to have opinions unless I see both sides because being in a echo chamber is nothing more than being in a cult full of yes men to scared to challenge ideals
In this comment section: people argue about everything but the fact that we are all in trouble. Semantics/ideologies are more important to most than reality, and that's what this video is trying to explain.
The ideas we have serve to understand the reality and solve for our problems. To condemn in bulk "ideology" is stupid, it is the absolute subordination to the ideas that creates the belief, and the fanaticism, it is rather necessary to use to solve the problems. To speak of "reality" is to hide that the ideas and the structured thoughts are the vehicles of our comprehension and tools of actions. It is not the ideology that poses a problem but how men use it, to relate to it.
When I first calculated this figure, I left off 3 zeros off the end of the debt, and came up with $108 a person. to cancel out the debt..which isn't a big deal, but I was wrong. Here is the corrected total: US people over the age of 65 15% x 329,000,000 = 49,350,000 US people under the age of 18 24% x 329,000,000 = 78,960,00 combined exempt: 128,310,000 329,000,000 - 128,310,000 = 200,690,000 National debt = ~22,378,000,000,000 Flat Tax: 22,378,000,000,000 / 200,690,000 = ~111,505 THAT"S RIGHT, $111,505 a person in the USA between the ages of 18-64 to cancel out the national debt today. source for young and old: www.kff.org/other/state-indicator/distribution-by-age/?currentTimeframe=0&sortModel=%7B%22colId%22:%22Location%22,%22sort%22:%22asc%22%7D source for USA population: www.census.gov/popclock/ source for national debt: www.usdebtclock.org/
All I can say is thank you for this observation. Ideologies tend to be shelters for the glass houses we live in. It seems that whenever our realities are challenged, conflict naturally arises to try and regain this crumbling glass shelter. People are born into a world of simplicity. Their parents seem to project their own shortcomings of complexity onto their children. This eventually results in generations born into cycles of idealism which crumble under a complicated reality that requires sober analysis. This, this is catalyst for their polarized and partisan beliefs. When their glass homes break, they wish to rationalize their ideology by attacking and parading noise on the battle ground of ideas instead of accept complexity and thoughtful discussion. The truth is most people are not educated enough to deal with problems rationally and feel threatened whenever their ideologies are under fire. They are raised by these irrational and helpless parents. When expectations of reality fall short, specifically economics, people tend to rationalize why they are victims of this complex reality. They then project these into simple compartments which again ignore much nuance and play a "I know more than you, WAKE UP" problem. After all, it is these ideologies that shaped their reality, that shapes most of our realities. No-one wishes to feel like all they have known is a lie (or inadequate at best) and so in a desperate attempt to shield this lie of a simple reality, they ignore nuance and attack with full force, forming tribes which allow them solace in simple ideas. Many irrational people feel helpless and are only retaliating as they might be tired of adaptation. We can see this with the US today. Many people are tired of economic woes and so need to point to people and attack institutions to try rationalize how these problems could exist. Perhaps the wording is not perfect here, however, the point is that naturally tribalism is a defense mechanism when people do not know how to talk about or deal with economic problems. It is easier to point labels and attack one another since they lack much education on BOTH sides of a discussion. Reality is complicated and school has failed to prepare children to think and argue more critically. As such reactions would be more tension than reason. People don't have the tools of nuanced discussion and in defense of their ideology attack each other to protect their crumbling reality. Again, this problem stemming from parents oversimplifying reality for their children and schools failing to teach nuance. Even this isn't touching the surface of the complex interplay of ideas and the battle ground of realities. It does put a smile of my face that some people do recognize these problems and are willing to have nuanced discussion. However, the sad reality is I have yet to meet them in person. Most people here in my home country, South Africa, are concerned more with identity politics, than they are with solving complicated problems through practical solutions. The same seems to be with America. The main issue is that we are attacking the wrong aspects of a problem. We are naive in assuming that solutions can exist without compromise and are with their own consequences. The inability to carefully study problems and their possible solutions leads us to a path of partisan beliefs that take us nowhere. This is a sad reality indeed. Most of the world's politicians are not very effective at this either. However, I do have hope, albeit naive. Humanity is indeed a fascinating topic.
Actually, I don't think so. Don't take me wrong though, he is right on point with his analysis and it is a powerful one. The work he does on all his other videos in a way makes it so you can't dismiss this one as easily. It is the analysis of a man who a seen the world and thought actually about the culture and history of those places. If political statements become prevalent in his work, they will be easier to dismiss. But in a way, many of the things he says in all his videos *are* political. They just don't require to name any political party, ideology or figure to be political. He reminds us that the world is complex and without (I think) ever saying so explicitly that simple solutions like those proposed by extremism of any kind aren't really long term solutions. (edited just to correct grammar)
I wouldn't reccomend engaging in a comment war with people who make statements without any kind of argument, especially with a channel such as yours which can often ruffle a lot of peoples jimmies
Thank you Evan for speaking politics. Not because they align with my politics, because they frankly don't, but because we need to. Medovukha, if you heard propaganda in this video, you're ears are still closed. We're not talking "teams", we're just talking reality.
0:15 “you can’t just walk away from your problems” *_two men behind him walk away_* 0:00 “most people lie to themselves” *_two men behind him contemplating riding down the building on a bicycle_*
Watching this a year later in the middle of blm protests, covid, and all that 2020 is for America and it's crazy that the writing has been on the wall so long
I agree and yet I wish that more people could see this video now during a time like this. Not to say who’s right or who’s wrong but to take a step back and look at what going to lie ahead in our future and see if we are on the brink of collapsing.
"The future they envisioned would never have to become reality, so long as the present made it look like it had the potential to do so" That's a really good metaphor
This video was brought to me by YT six ears later of when it was made, and yet it is so up to date that gives me chills. We all, not just the people in real power, expect to keep having some crumbs of the pie until there's no more pie for anybody. And that's exactly what is happening in front of our own eyes, everyday. We change our ways or we'll all perish, it is that terrifyingly simple. Greetings from Toronto.
He has my respect as a Turkish too. When he started talking about how it all began and started telling about the signs I got shivers down in my spine because I am seeing them \ we are seeing them all the time these last years. This is the most accurate view of how my country is becoming right now.
Hasan Aslan yep we are seeing it from here in Canada too, watching some event that hit the top Page on Reddit about Turkey and Adro... Its a scary situation thats boiling over there. For us the next step in over control might be from the extreem left and SJW, their demands are getting listen too and they get more and more ridiculous, they dont see it coming but with laws that could be past it does give the gouvernent lots of control.
@Nick Reyes ... you seeing them too ? From outside, US sure looks like it will implode in next 5 to 10 years, maybe sooner. In countries where we had experiences like Albania and such is really interesting too observe it. As for my country ( Croatia ), our middle aged female ( MILF ) president is giggling and being close to Trump when at a international meeting. And when at a Soccer world cup she is dancing her but out in front of Putin. Imho, as a small country, if we have a steady supply of good loking women into presidents chair we will be fine, more or less. XD
@@DreamskyDance The Croat president is HOT haha we also rooted for u at the world cup but it's a shame Croatia lost against France but Croatia deserved to win!
Maybe because of my background (I'm Venezuelan and witnessed with my own eyes the rise of "la revolución"), I have a more pessimistic view of this... Populism and extremism seem to be only curable by collapsing the society that gave birth to them... The steps toward collapse are so minimal (and usually popular), that is difficult to the average citizen to notice the danger. I think that when the society feels the need for a strong leader, it's already too late. From there, there's only chaos coming.
I think a part of it is also some countries with money drowing countries when they can't farm money from those places. I would love for Chile to nationalize some of it's resources but after observing other countries I fell that the backslash would be far bigger than what an economic estimation would give and it's playing as a nice sheep what restrain neighbours from throwing wolves. Just too many times money seems to be stonger that ideologies.
I don't think you're wrong. But at the same time most of the instability that caused the breakdown of societies is generally economic, The iron curtain fell not becuase of xenophobia, but because of bankruptcy. Venezuela is collapsing because they can't pay for basic human needs. And as much as i loathe that and agree with you and everything in this video i highly doubt that a system which purports to be "good for all" like the united states and can show a demonstrable positivity in terms of total global wealth will ever truly be challenged internally. I just hope people can realise the path they are moving down before its too late. I don't think violent revolution is the answer but at the same time i doubt anything will change barring an economic collapse. And even then, the united states showed fabulous resilience last time that happened, well the last 4 times really.
11:15 i love this. I have said this and now i know i was raised with good ideas by my grandparents. I have so much love for you as a fellow human i thought you should know.
While I don't agree with all of what is expressed, I can respect the message, and I can respect the argument. We need more people that can express their opinions with a level head. Thank you for sharing yours.
I agree. I am a Trump supporter, and everything he said is more or less true in my opinion. I just don't see what alternative there is. Look at the opposition. The GOP isn't even going to try and reform itself. They're cruising for a collapse in 2024 when they lose Trump for good, regardless of the 2020 results. The dems are so focused on Trump, they don't have a plan for 2024 either. They burned everything. Destroyed thier party, used every favor, and exposed themselves using every back handed tactic in the book. And they still might loose. What am I to do? Do you really expect me to vote for a socialist? Do I even have to say what is wrong with that? Do I need to explain how centralization incubates and creates dictators? Do you see now how the decent into dictatorship is all but guaranteed at this point. The only hope is that after Trump the GOP tries to be more moderate... but why would they do that? They have no principles, they think only tactically. There is no tactical reason for the GOP to be moderate when riding on the coat tails of somone like Trump. The Democrats have gone so far left, nothing less that total collapse will save them. But that won't happen soon enough to stop Trump, or the GOP at large. It would cost them the next two elections. They won't do it. Even if they could, for the same reasons the GOP won't do anything.
@@Fabrizio_Ruffo Socialism. Watch it again. Most western democracies offer the form of 'socialism' in the same way police, fire, infrastructure and schools are covered in the US. Good health should be a given and a healthy population is a productive population. Not Venezuela style. Not dictatorship. Not removing competition. The community working together rather than dog eat dog. Hard and smart work still get rewarded handsomely. No one wants people being told what jobs they have to do or have everyone on the same wages. That's just silly and as proven, bound to fail. Your Democrats would be considered rightwing in many of our countries... Our so-called western socialist systems have been going strong for over 75 years and only now that some fools are looking to the US are we getting the problems related to greed and short term thinking. Open your mind and look at the positive examples.
@@SPM1X I'm sorry but I have to disagree about the part where you talk about the Dems. They are quite far left even for European standards. The completely open borders is an example. You just can't have that, yet the Democrats want it.
As a historian, the world today is so depressing. You see people making the same mistakes that you study, only you know how badly they went last time and they won't believe you when you tell them. You say "look at what corruption and populism did to Athens, to Rome etc." and they think this time will be different. Some even have the stupidity to think of those as good - I see people talk of Caesar as if he was great; he killed a million people and plunged his country into civil war! Some even try to argue it, thinking that their afternoon on wikipedia matches four years of daily study.
Is hard to look inside when you're told at every time to look outside, that's our current goverment's policy (I'm from Mexico), someone else always is to blame, is an intermational conspiracy, is the media, the conservatives, the drug cartels. But the goverment still says we're on the rigth way, our future is bright and we've never been better. The walls have crumbled but they are still arguing for the color of the paint . Excellent script, left me thinking.
It's almost election time here in Brazil. I've watched the death of all the "canaries" along the years. The population is completely divided and the general who is vice to the candidate that'll probably win already talks about the possibility of military intervention, should "a state of anarchy rises". It's not a matter of right and left, I feel that whenever people are too blinded by hate that they can't see valid points in the other side of the table we all lose. And we just got democracy back here in 1989. These are scary times.
" Are you still living your dream? " Written on the depreciated walls of a crumbling building by the hands of one in a majority, echoing the words of the minority. A beautiful apple can still be rotten inside, eaten away piece by piece, too late we notice it until that bite sinks in when we finally dare to try and taste it. It's September 9th 2019, a year after this was posted, and never has it been more relevant, and sadly... it's relevance will continue to increase. I wonder if in 2029 most of us will look back at this, and ask ourselves " Have we lived our dreams? " or.... will it continue with the minority telling the majority " Continue to live -my- dreams ". I fear the latter, will always be present.
Beautifully true. The real issue is not even majority minority conversation. I think few extra smart people /leaders just fill the brain with such talks n this leads to hatred. A normal person first ignores the ideology and when situation starts bubbling up the person is forced to pick a side. And that's how the war between ideologies begin and continues. We allust understand we all belong to one earth. Idealogies based war will take us no whr. It's time we start building smart communities with better vision who care abt everyone on earth including other species. It is difficult but it is certainly possible.
This video is great, as per usual. I wanna make that clear, since this comment is very critical of a lot of the things Evan is saying here. "Extremism" is a relative term. Extremism today might be centrism in a century, and extremism in the 1800's is centrism today. Criticising an ideology by simply calling it extremist is fallacious, it isn't an actual argument. It's describing the ideology's position relative to the center of current politics, not what the ideology actually says. There's also a undercurrent in this video that you see in a lot of especially more centrist political commentary, the notion that "ideology" is bad, and we need to in stead be objective, focus on the needs of actual people, not ideology. Thing is, ideology is everywhere. Everyone has an ideology. Believing that you yourself is beyond ideology is perhaps the single most ideological thing you can do, since you're essentially saying that _your_ ideology is just common sense, not politics. To pretend that the problems the world face today are beyond ideology and politics neuters our ability to engage with those problems.
The attack of fact and reason, the breeding of closed-mindness, xenophobia, etc. All are BAD things, and are always bad things. Cultural relativism is a great way to close your eyes for the terrible things that happen, but every time someone shouts 'fake news' at CNN, a part of democracy dies, and there's only so much you can chip away from it before there's nothing left.
As an Albanian, this video surprised me, in a fascinating way. Yes, it used to be like North Korea. A very, very bizarre thing for us to admit today, while commenting on a youtube video, while my grandfather still owns and cherishes some of the memorabilia you can see on the video with great nostalgy. Amazing!
It's not often you see someone truly try to make an unbiased commentary like this. I especially love the part around 1:40 where he points out how Republicans in America often associate universal healthcare with Socialism, and Socialism with Communism while alot of leftists around the world associate gun rights an similar right wing issues with nazi's. I'm right of center myself but i live in a far left area and I've seen people campaigning for gun rights or support for the military get called Neo-Nazis even by the press and I've seen people pushing for universal healthcare get called communists. Meanwhile everyone around the world who's left of center seems to think that Trump is a neo-nazi fascist even though he's not particularly racist and he's more of a libertarian since he's very pro-business while Facists don't support capitalism and they're incompatible with libertarianism (Trump's still an idiot, just not a Fascist idiot). I'm a strong supporter of Israel, and it drives me crazy how many people think if you don't support Israel you're a nazi, but if you do support them you must be some sort of Muslim hating Zionist. Many people, especially the news seem to think in extremes like this and it drives me nuts.
An interesting and thought provoking message there at the end. And surprisingly I'm not seeing a flamewar in the comments. WTF interned I was expecting to be entertained :D And yeah, a thing that people often miss, especially if they come from the west, is not only that these totalitarian/dictatorial systems kept the trains running (somewhat) but that they offered a rather drastic improvement of life in the war ravaged and often underdeveloped Eastern and SE. Europe. It's easy for someone from the West to scoff at "low" standard of living in communist countries. But people living it weren't comparing it to what was available at the West, they were comparing it to what they had before the system. And in many cases, they had nothing before. Countries were 90% agricultural with almost little to no mechanization. Basically the land was worked as it was centuries ago. Next to no roads, no electricity, little to basic (and when I say basic I mean 4 years of education IF the family can spare you to go to school) education, the works. And then in couple decades, basically in the blink of an eye, you go from that, to having roads reaching even the sparsely populated regions. The government really pushing electrification so every village had what used to be reserved for cities. Plus mechanization is being introduced, along with education allowing the people from villages to move to cities and get jobs there. Industry is blooming with jobs opening left right and centre and the government is GUARANTEEING you a place to stay, work and enough to sustain yourself, and even maybe eventually buy that Radio/TV thing. Now this might not look like much, and is probably being built on bad ground, but this is the difference from going from middle ages to mid XXth century. People in general wouldn't know what else to ask for. Freedom? This region was commonly under the thumb of local strong men and dictators anyway, so for many that's just how the whole country thing was run. It provides some basic services, expects recompense in form of duties and jails those who go against it. Same old same old. I'm from the Albanian north-western neighbor country, and am wondering if you'll head northwest into the "region" (as we call it here, ex-Yugoslavia for those outside of it).
You're not seeing much of a "flamewar in the comments" because videos of this type are not interesting to those who like to flame opposing thoughts rather than think about them. Thinking and learning are hard.
I remember discovering that when I was a student in Western Europe. I would do some harvest work during the summer when school was out. Lots of foreign workers. Quite a few from Eastern Europe. I think that's the first time I was exposed to someone who said they actually liked it better under communism than how it was now. It blew my mind back then. I think the Germans call that sentiment "Ostalgie", play on words with Ost/East and nostalgia for the old DDR. Dunno if there's an English word for it.
I've heard similar things from people that grew up in China but are now in the USA. They see that the country has changed but still identify many of those same dictatorial aspects of the country that those that grew up and continue to live just accept as the way things have always been and will remain. They have no idea of how things could be better and so don't push for change.
Firstly, thanks Evan and team for this amazing episode. I really appreciate the casual factual bombs being dropped towards the end. I could really see how empassioned you were talking about how somewhat comical the US's imperial ambitions have gotten. Arguably at the expense of their own citizens too, you could say. I really feel for those Americans caught underneath the poverty line and really with a few competely rational measures that involve tending to the pillars you spoke about, things could be a lot easier. Maybe not brilliant as people will always differ on that definition, but surely better if treated with objectivity. It doesn't get enough attention, that's for sure. My country certainly doesn't help by simply rolling over and never challenging it. Secondly, idk if this too overly ambitious of me to say or possibly embarrasing myself since you've probably got it pretty covered, but I'm a musician and I'd love to make some tunes for you if you ever wanted more music to use in a future video. I guess you could PM me or whatever, but I'd be totally up for it. Until then, I'm happily just here, enjoying everything you make :)
We are genuinely always appreciative of help, regardless of how it works out. If you've got some music you think suits our style, we'd love to hear it.
This is undoubtedly the most important UA-cam video I've ever watched. I'm impressed by the quality and thankful for the content. I only wish there were more people as levelheaded as you with your communication skills.
@@HelloImNoob2323 I thought it was fine, if a little overly dark, not very creative, and pretentious sounding. but what do you expect from someone who drinks beer out of boots, in the college they went to?
@@quinwalker6469 I don't know why I don't like it, I think its too wordy. I feel like he says 10 words for every word that is needed haha. Hes never straight to the point it always goes down some line of discussion that is not only hard to follow but also very biased based on his own personal opinions. If you don't agree with him, its excrutiating to listen to..
It is true, and it's sad that speaking out against the American president leads to being demonized by his supporters. There is very little objective analysis in respect to Trump, and what is objective (such as the last few minutes of this video) is taken by his supporters as lies and slander. They speak of any truth against him as lies that are projected by the media in an attempt to smear the record of Donald Trump. Mirroring the idealism of many countries which are brought up by those same supporters as evil, controlling, and destructive. Such a view being held by such a large portion of the population is dangerous, whether that be a danger of physical aggression or otherwise, one thing is certain, the danger of the mob mentality is that of a lack of truth holding up the ideals which rise to the surface of the tumultuous melting pot that is the American political landscape. I wish I could find the words for all I want to say, but I believe this is the base of the issue, or at least a possible explanation for a portion of the underlying issue.
@@anonb4632 yep, but I was referencing the recent California fires where Landlords and real estate didn't give two shits until the fires reached their doors
You mean "fanaticism", not "extremism". There is a clear and important semantic difference between fanaticism, extremism, fundamentalism and radicalism; they are _not_ synonyms. The problem with misusing the concept of extremism is that we then tend to settle into a view that sees the middle-ground or the halfway point as instinctively the best option, or the point of moderation. But in reality there are many situations in which there really isn't a middle-ground, and where the rational and ethical option is actually at an extremity of a spectrum of worse possibilities. You wouldn't see people saying "we need a moderate amount of genocide", for example. Or "we should strike the middle-ground between colonialism and cooperation". Many options in politics are not things that you should do "in moderation", many are things that you should absolutely never do, and many others are things that you should always opt to do if possible. In reality, extremities are a thing.
Well said. It's a relative position. And for that matter, it may very well be that, ironically, an extreme response is the only one which can stop the rise of fanaticism. What else can you when the system is corrupt to the bone, trending towards further centralization of power? In a twisted way, you have to centralize your own forces to stop it.
Yes, It really is a reality. I can understand why some nations have to be "extreme". Especially if the western countries are FORCING to third world countries their values of "democracy" and human rights when in fact these western countries are the leading violators of it. This could be the only way of standing up against hypocritical western ideologies and governing themselves.
@@cbbutalis2405 Not inherently, sometimes an extreme measure can be beneficial for the improvement of the material conditions of society. Just as in the midst of a natural disaster, people make extreme decisions to save lives, social changes sometimes also require risk and violence, not because of the political or economic ideas of the population, but out of sheer need. Systematic violence can not be stopped with "normal" measures, even less judging the value of a measure because of its centrality in the political spectrum, which is very misleading, because after all what is proposed in this trial is how the jurisdiction must execute violence, and sometimes what we consider as centrist ideology does not correspond to what we consider moral. in short, we should execute the violence according to the material need and will of the people in order to avoid that they be treated as means and not as ends. Taking light positions does not entail stopping violence or defending freedom, in any case it limits your ability to act to stop the execution of immoral and undemocratic violence.
Very few people are genuinely looking for a "halfway point" as you put it. Nobody is saying "we need a moderate amount of genocide." These are strawmen meant to keep you allied to a specific political party so those in power can profit off of you. The very few people who are looking for this halfway point are cowardly and have no voice of their own. Actually, the entire reason people think this is a genuine group of people is due to left-leaning propaganda meant to vilify centrism without an understanding of what centrism is because it's a competing ideology. You will also see people making this claim that centrism is more conservative in some areas than others. This, again, is a fundamental misunderstanding of what centrism is. Centrism is not looking for a middle-ground. It's rejecting partisan politics. As the video itself states, you could want closed borders and free healthcare, which isn't a middle-ground between open borders and closed borders or a middle-ground between having social programs and not having them but something that doesn't neatly fit into a pre-packaged ideology. You are already falling prey to 3, 7, 9, and 10 on the definition of fascism mentioned in the video with this rhetoric.
Before you even mentioned my once-glorious nation, I was drawing the parallels. Believe me, so, so many of us here in your neighbor to the south know the canaries are dead. We see what's happening in this current administration. How do we stop it? Seriously. I'm asking. Also, the nepotism was enlightening! I'd never put the Bushes in that category, but you're so right. Wow.
Rare Earth, I’m so glad I found you! I think your videos content are great, your cameraman and/or director are very professional. You are all very talented people! I’ve been watching a few videos and each are very impressive! You explained a very complex situation amazingly in simplicity easy enough to understand with in-depth bipartisan viewpoints and intellectual arguments. I haven’t seen anything biased yet, all truly journalism. Keep up your great work!
Yes, indeed, I definitely agree with you; the quality of "Rare Earth's" videos (more like mini-documentaries) are very professional and entertaining. No doubt, the host is excellent at opening up various concepts that most of us never contemplate, and oftentimes, these topics are quite controversial, on one level or another. Therefore, I offer only the highest compliments for the awesome host and his amazing team! Having said this, I do have a different perspective about the "non-biasness" of the content, as you say. Personally, after watching about 7 "Rare Earth" videos, I have definitely noticed some bias in the content. Of course, I'm not saying that the host is correct or incorrect in his assessment, but, nonetheless, a certain percentage of the content is biased in one way or another. No doubt, it is quite challenging to present any topic without tainting it with some degree of bias. After all, we each see the world through our own personal filters, and in most cases, we are unaware of our own filters because they appear to be true to us. Moreover, when a topic is presented in a rational, meaningful manner (such as Rare Earth does) our brains tend not notice the "bias" in that presentation. However, whenever a presenter has a definitive conclusion on a topic or a "personal opinion," you can always find "bias." Although I, too, may have expressed some unintentional bias in my response to your comment, please know that my words come only with great respect! as well as grace & humility, Nanice
Well, for some time, we were colonies of those nations. Albania doesn't have an industry as much as military vehicles are concerned. Even now, we get our armored jeeps from Erdogan's Turkey.
We live in a strange world. As someone neither left or right wing, it's scary. Our militarism has run rampant. A few years ago, democrats were holding mass protests against war. They cried for an end to violence, a stop to interfering in the middle east, for peace and a restoration of our lost rights. And then Obama was elected. Despite running on a platform of peace, he left a legacy of extending existing conflicts and expanding our involvement in the middle east. The worst part is the effect it had on his party. Being placated by their victory in the white house, democrats turned a blind eye. They essentially forgot that we're still at war. When Trump won, I thought democrats would start holding mass protests against war, if only to spite him, but they haven't. A sign of the times, the proudly left-wing Vox called Tulsi Gabbard's anti-war stances "conservative". Republicans are no better. Donald Trump has made unprecedented strides in favor of gun control which would have caused conservatives to riot under Obama. Many of Trump's policies are really not conservative so much as authoritarian, and republicans would stand against it if they weren't so blinded by their partisan goggles. As both sides descend into extremism, I pray we'll find our way out of this mess.
I'm not sure if extremism fits what you just described, though. Republicans being for gun control and Democrats for military intervention is arguably them being less extreme, in being more like each other. The fact that they are changing for the worse, at least in my opinion, does not make them extreme, per se. Maybe it makes ME extreme, since I am now outside of the political norm.
The only way out of this mess is to take the federal gouvernment out of power. Take the U out of the USA and let the states have their own systems with more than just 2 parties.
@@autotuna3805 I think the US needs to get rid of the two party system in order to be a real democracy again. This means (at least) changing the vote counting method. But of course, not republicans nor democrats would ever want that. When all the votes from a state go to the same party, there is no chance of survival for minor parties.
When you focus on who you are against, it's easy to ignore who you support just to harm them. We see it everywhere, but I don't see someone I can support without ignoring what support with them. And that's in a political system where I have more than two choices.
@@Ayy_Doll_Fiddler one-party state in Northeast Africa with indefinite mandatory conscription, only state-run TV, and widespread torture and rape in gov't. Often called Africa's North Korea, they're basically everything that can be evil about a country.
The trouble with "extremism" as a thing to avoid is that every position seems extreme to someone. Once you define extremism as something more specific than something that you (or anybody else) considers extreme, the word "extremism" no longer accurately applies. It feels good to say you oppose extremism of all sorts, but that does not mean anything.
Yeah liberal capitalism is just as "ideological" as "extremist" ideologies. It's only non-extreme by virtue of being the predominant ideology but this is entirely limited to a particular time and place. Like the video's example of border control is contingent on a specific notion of the state at our specific time in history; transpose it somewhere in the past or in a possible future and it very well could be an "extremist" position.
@Tony Tran An anarchist society is the least extreme ideology, then? "Natural ethics", whatever it means, wouldn't place any human above any other, as we are all made of flesh.
@@convenientEstelle anarchism is chaos though and hierarchies exist for a good reason and can be found all throughout nature. They bring order to society and life itself. And everyone and everything benefits from order, even economically, businesses are most likely to invest in low crime and orderly areas than ones with constant looting, rioting, and vandalism.
Unfortunately almost all Americans are too preoccupied in debt or being angry to care about this. It's easy for people to blame Trump for the perceived problems in America, but its more likely the fault of ignorance. Nobody cares to care, and those that do care about the effect and not the cause.
This is a truly amazing and eye-opening video, and yet it saddens me to know that some will not care to listen and treat this piece of information as a lie solely because they aren’t brave enough to accept failure and move on, and would rather take buckets of water out of the sinking ship than reach solid land and start over with the knowledge they have acquired me from past mistakes, in order to build an even stronger boat able to withstand increasingly challenging storms.
Wow. This video, and You, are so incredibly *BASED* It's so refreshing and reassuring to hear such logic and reason. Please stay strong my good man, and keep passionately sharing your wisdom. Our world desperately needs it (as you clearly know all too well)!
What is the next state that you will be visiting? P.S. Will you ever make a guide about how to travel the world, Rare Earth style, or a video about how you got started?
It would be interesting to pull another bait and switch where they look at the worst parts of America and say/imply that it is a communist or 3rd world country right up until the end.
Absolutely amazing that you show the world how it really is, your commentary and the content here itself is unique and unbelievable interesting, thank you!
Outstanding piece - easily the best I have heard for years.. but I suspect that only those that are capable of self-honesty will really be able to understand the message.
Occasionally I'll come back to this video as a palate cleanser after a long news week. There's so much nuance we miss in the moment. We gather behind leaders in the hopes of a better tomorrow, but allow ourselves to be talked into something we never wanted. I guess we'll have to wait and see what the future says about us.
When building a house for a long period of time, the foundation will eventually start to crumble. There are two ways to fix it. Either slowly and carefully fix the cracks in it, or demolish the whole house and start anew.
Such is life. The empires fall. The mansions rot and collapse. The dictators run or die. The shiny ideology of the decade tarnishes and rusts. The people are eternal, made in the eternal’s image and somewhere deep knowing the eternals laws and each individual within them always arguing within themselves whether to side with the eternal or the passing.
Duterte was hugely popular by the population of the Philippines because of the international drug trade. He was the one who shut it down effectively. Small crimes also disappeared. He would be elected again and again if their system allowed it.
This video only exists because of you: www.patreon.com/rareearth
Mr. Evan sir?
I’m not a politician, and no matter how hard I can ever try, my ideas are never going to be listened to. I’m no Communist, not a Liberal, nor a Republican; simply put, I know Nothing about politics. I’m asking You this question because, to be simple again, you know more than I do, and you have an honest voice. I don’t want to upset anybody, and so I wanted to post this here so you can read it better and people won’t blow up my phone... I just don’t want to make anybody mad.
You quoted in the video that an Albanian man once said that Communism was like a House, and that it needed four pillars... has anyone ever thought of using it as a temporary structure, rather than a permanent one?
Dangerous thinking, I know, but again I’m only a writer and a poet, not a politician at all! I’ve only that one question, and if I’ve angered you at all, then I heartily apologize for doing so. I love your content, and I’d hate to lose a good source of learning.
Please Stay Safe Sir; and I hope you’re having a Good Day Out There.
It surely is a Wild World.. isn’t it?
Sincerely, an Observer;
Fletcher Grey
A Patchwork Prince
@@MDGeist-ws2rh in the eternal fascism sense
Let me put like this, could you give me one example, in which the US isn't fascist?
It has started to become a dictatorship/oligarchy since the patriot act according to Naomi Wolf, at least.
By the by, who is that? 4:42
You have said what is wrong with politics. What do you believe is the right way to do politics?
Thank you for this video.
Those two guys in the beginning were up to some radical stunts.
you could say that they were about to participate in some Xtremist sports
I was hoping the footage of the attempt would be there somewhere..
@@robr3169 They chickened out
@@RareEarthSeries can't say I blame them...that was seriously steep
Here's the location on Google maps:
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"There's more to life than being not dead."
...words to live by
The most important realisation for an entity attempting to outgrow an abusive circumstance, be it a nation or person
Words to die by, are much more powerful.
Is there more , more unless your dead ,then all bets are off , note to self ," avoid death "
Existing < Living
Sounds like a communist slogan to keep followers lining his pockets.
"Reality has no place in ideology" that sent shivers up my spine
Ideology is there to breed lies, to make the ones in charge feel better. When or IF they finally face those lies, it'll already be too late.
For me too, Atlas. It seems as if there is no reality at all nowadays. Only different versions, depending on whom you talk to. As if reality was not something objective, verifiable.
"Reality has no place in ideology". An Open & Honest Government is a form of Ideology, but it requires that honest people occupy the positions of power within it...
No, David. It requires dishonest people to be able to profit from being honest. Honesty cannot survive in politics, but if the politicians can balance their profits from being honest against the profits from dealing with the mafia/Big Biz/etc, we'll be much better off. So don't wait for "the sole honest politician", just reward every act of honesty from every politician, even if he's a nazi. And vice versa, punish every act of dishonesty, even from your BFF-turned-politician. If enough of the electorate does like you, we'll be able to train pavlovian responces in them.
"Reality has no place in ideology" - Evan Hadfield. I love that phrase! I'm definitely going to make some T-Shirts with that!....
....I hope Mr. Hadfield doesn't get mad!
Instructions unclear, built a house for the proletariat.
*bunker
Built a house for the working class... Good job, comrade
"To the ideologically focused every slope is slippery"
Brilliantly put.
when does he say that in the video?
nevermind I found it
I disagree. Very wishy-washy. Had to stop the video despite the magnificient video footage because the political takes were truly horrible.
@@KommentarSpaltenKrieger Without ability to compromise, the only outcome you can bring forth is war. Ideologues are their own worst enemies.
@@KommentarSpaltenKriegerAgree 100% Trump is guilty of being a loud mouthed misogynistic pig. But his NSA is not listening to our phones. The FBI is not arresting political opponents. And Trump is not changing our system of government in such a manner that at the end of his term, he would be able to stay. Hillary on the other hand did try.
I just found this channel, and it's beautiful. Thank you!
laowhy86 umm. What in the heck are you doing here??😂😂 Random. Totally random...but hi.
@laowhy86
woo I found you here man....
Hung hao!
nice seeing you here laowhy86
This was extremely interesting. A few times during this video I caught myself with a feeling like, "you're being too dramatic," or, "that's quite cynical/fatalistic." But when I stopped to examine this feeling I realized that I couldn't find anything objectively wrong. This isn't to say that you clearly are correct about everything but rather how easy it is to not take the grim, but subtle problems seriously. In fact, it seems like I already have similar beliefs presented in this video but to hear it from another person presented differently changes things somehow.
The video strongly implies that the people on the far right and far left are insane while the people in the middle are the sensible ones. In the USA that means the Hillary fans and Neocons that hate Trump.
@@rangergxi Hillary is a rightist??? Tf?
Hillary is indeed a rightist but I think what 432423429482 means is that she's in the middle, and from a U.S. perspective she kind of is. To the rest of the more developed world, she's pretty far right.
@@echion-3654 Fair enough in that sense. Even though in the world view Hillary would be a conservative. (She's gross)
Yeah I was editing my comment while you wrote yours and we basically said the same thing.
"Reality has no place in ideology", id quote that. "Nobody believes their system could collapse until it did", thats a good one.
thats not strictly true....
all ideologies have basis in truth,some truth otherwise they wouldnt be belived example communism the working is exploited by capitalists ... and this creates an unfair society. Now to an extent this is true ( or was in the west about 120 years ago)
however in other parts of the world hyper capitalism causes frankly the conditions for communism because people look around and realise its all true ! take conservatism (pre liberal conservatism i.e non american or european conservatism ) it holds that traditions that are age old are age old because they work. they should be ajusted and we should be very careful about sweeping them away. now again this is also to an extent true. i could go on but it simply isnt true that ideologies have basis in reality why do you think people support them or their leader they are’t all power hungry maniacs they probably believed it as well ( Mussolini was a fascist because he believed in it ect)
@@reecemacaulay1690 ideology’s never end well because they oversimplify extremely complex problems into a battle between two sides, for example identity politics goes hand in hand with with ideology’s so you can blame a entire group of people for something that very few actually did, that’s why I try not to have opinions unless I see both sides because being in a echo chamber is nothing more than being in a cult full of yes men to scared to challenge ideals
This.. I'm going to say this from now.
You though this was going to be about Albania? SIKE! it's about the US!
Psych. Spelling it "sike" makes you look like you're still in primary school.
Huh, "sike", could you please explain whatever it is you are talking about?
@@rickc2102 Isn't it a slang word anyway (schools don't usually allow slang usage in anything written)?
Rick C There homophones, it’s psych when it’s means mind or in things like phycology. Sike when it means not.
Rick C you seem pretty fun at parties
The drone camera work is getting really really good
Francesco is one amazing cameraman
And they probably kill a few drones in the process....
In this comment section: people argue about everything but the fact that we are all in trouble. Semantics/ideologies are more important to most than reality, and that's what this video is trying to explain.
The ideas we have serve to understand the reality and solve for our problems. To condemn in bulk "ideology" is stupid, it is the absolute subordination to the ideas that creates the belief, and the fanaticism, it is rather necessary to use to solve the problems. To speak of "reality" is to hide that the ideas and the structured thoughts are the vehicles of our comprehension and tools of actions. It is not the ideology that poses a problem but how men use it, to relate to it.
When I first calculated this figure, I left off 3 zeros off the end of the debt, and came up with $108 a person. to cancel out the debt..which isn't a big deal, but I was wrong. Here is the corrected total:
US people over the age of 65 15% x 329,000,000 = 49,350,000
US people under the age of 18 24% x 329,000,000 = 78,960,00
combined exempt: 128,310,000
329,000,000 - 128,310,000 = 200,690,000
National debt = ~22,378,000,000,000
Flat Tax: 22,378,000,000,000 / 200,690,000 = ~111,505
THAT"S RIGHT, $111,505 a person in the USA between the ages of 18-64 to cancel out the national debt today.
source for young and old: www.kff.org/other/state-indicator/distribution-by-age/?currentTimeframe=0&sortModel=%7B%22colId%22:%22Location%22,%22sort%22:%22asc%22%7D
source for USA population: www.census.gov/popclock/
source for national debt: www.usdebtclock.org/
@@jmcnally647 It's worse than that. The people at the top will move their wealth, leaving only those who can't afford it with the debt.
@@yevraskiy7545 ideology is a trash can
All I can say is thank you for this observation. Ideologies tend to be shelters for the glass houses we live in. It seems that whenever our realities are challenged, conflict naturally arises to try and regain this crumbling glass shelter. People are born into a world of simplicity. Their parents seem to project their own shortcomings of complexity onto their children. This eventually results in generations born into cycles of idealism which crumble under a complicated reality that requires sober analysis. This, this is catalyst for their polarized and partisan beliefs. When their glass homes break, they wish to rationalize their ideology by attacking and parading noise on the battle ground of ideas instead of accept complexity and thoughtful discussion. The truth is most people are not educated enough to deal with problems rationally and feel threatened whenever their ideologies are under fire. They are raised by these irrational and helpless parents. When expectations of reality fall short, specifically economics, people tend to rationalize why they are victims of this complex reality. They then project these into simple compartments which again ignore much nuance and play a "I know more than you, WAKE UP" problem. After all, it is these ideologies that shaped their reality, that shapes most of our realities. No-one wishes to feel like all they have known is a lie (or inadequate at best) and so in a desperate attempt to shield this lie of a simple reality, they ignore nuance and attack with full force, forming tribes which allow them solace in simple ideas.
Many irrational people feel helpless and are only retaliating as they might be tired of adaptation. We can see this with the US today. Many people are tired of economic woes and so need to point to people and attack institutions to try rationalize how these problems could exist. Perhaps the wording is not perfect here, however, the point is that naturally tribalism is a defense mechanism when people do not know how to talk about or deal with economic problems. It is easier to point labels and attack one another since they lack much education on BOTH sides of a discussion. Reality is complicated and school has failed to prepare children to think and argue more critically. As such reactions would be more tension than reason. People don't have the tools of nuanced discussion and in defense of their ideology attack each other to protect their crumbling reality. Again, this problem stemming from parents oversimplifying reality for their children and schools failing to teach nuance. Even this isn't touching the surface of the complex interplay of ideas and the battle ground of realities.
It does put a smile of my face that some people do recognize these problems and are willing to have nuanced discussion. However, the sad reality is I have yet to meet them in person. Most people here in my home country, South Africa, are concerned more with identity politics, than they are with solving complicated problems through practical solutions. The same seems to be with America. The main issue is that we are attacking the wrong aspects of a problem. We are naive in assuming that solutions can exist without compromise and are with their own consequences. The inability to carefully study problems and their possible solutions leads us to a path of partisan beliefs that take us nowhere. This is a sad reality indeed. Most of the world's politicians are not very effective at this either. However, I do have hope, albeit naive. Humanity is indeed a fascinating topic.
Christ. I'm now deeply depressed. Binge watching was not a good idea.
Andrew Yang check him out
@@Growthtimes_Art What does Mr. Yang have to do with this?
Maybe can bring some hope for the U.S. It's Mr.Yang also.
@@Growthtimes_Art Printing 220+ Billion every month will not fix this country.
Alittle bit misinformed there. Check out his website yang2020.com he explains it well and he has tons of podcasts you are able to listen to.
"When every one is screaming it's hard to listen to a calm voice" Thats... wow. Tbh never really thought about it that way. Thank you.
I’m so ignorant. Where was all this information when I needed it.
Chris, you should talk more about politics.
He does look like Chris Chapel
Actually, I don't think so.
Don't take me wrong though, he is right on point with his analysis and it is a powerful one.
The work he does on all his other videos in a way makes it so you can't dismiss this one as easily. It is the analysis of a man who a seen the world and thought actually about the culture and history of those places. If political statements become prevalent in his work, they will be easier to dismiss. But in a way, many of the things he says in all his videos *are* political. They just don't require to name any political party, ideology or figure to be political. He reminds us that the world is complex and without (I think) ever saying so explicitly that simple solutions like those proposed by extremism of any kind aren't really long term solutions.
(edited just to correct grammar)
@@Medowokha-bp5lq Which part, specifically, do you find to be incorrect?
I wouldn't reccomend engaging in a comment war with people who make statements without any kind of argument, especially with a channel such as yours which can often ruffle a lot of peoples jimmies
Thank you Evan for speaking politics. Not because they align with my politics, because they frankly don't, but because we need to. Medovukha, if you heard propaganda in this video, you're ears are still closed. We're not talking "teams", we're just talking reality.
Let's be honest, the shoe was at college; It was a communist.
@John Smith Well who wouldn't want to do that?
Tell that to my student loan debt! Colleges are capitalist af
@@wildebt The progressive commie is public risk for private profit
Okay, who or what was the shoe ?
A lot depends on if the shoe was for the "Right Foot" or "Left Foot".
Hey,just because we albanians have bunkers every 5m that doesnt mean we're north korea...probably
Veton Rečica north koreans can’t even access this video in their bunkers.....
. . . I mean, bunkers doesn't sound bad at all
Yeah, bunkers are cool. Fill em up with a bunch of marines, and they'll help to keep the Zerg from getting into your base.
I mean Switzerland has bunkers too. We are off to a good start! 😋
i wish we in australia had bunkers, that's awesome
0:15 “you can’t just walk away from your problems”
*_two men behind him walk away_*
0:00 “most people lie to themselves”
*_two men behind him contemplating riding down the building on a bicycle_*
Idk if you could tell but when he started talking one of them did the banging thing with his hands and hips
Welcome to Albania
Vincent I think you're seeing things that aren't there..
Na that was there
Chris isn't the problem
"The canaries are dead..." . Well, don't just stand there! Someone go get more canaries, damnit!
But eventually you will run out of canaries right?
Steven Edy Not if you breed them...
Bringing more canaries into a coal mine is a truly frightening metaphor.
"Bigger ones, this time, that can survive more sulfide before dying! ....I like the numbers (of dead canaries) being where they are."
Solving problems by creating more potential problems.
Watching this a year later in the middle of blm protests, covid, and all that 2020 is for America and it's crazy that the writing has been on the wall so long
I agree and yet I wish that more people could see this video now during a time like this. Not to say who’s right or who’s wrong but to take a step back and look at what going to lie ahead in our future and see if we are on the brink of collapsing.
Yes. It’s scary.
BLM is just an excuse to not solve the real problem
@@notanicenamebutlovesrockan9265 What?
@@grundlehunter69 They just use it to distract the people from the real problem of racism, because of BLM, they are slowly segregating people again.
“Are you still living your dream?” That last piece of graffiti art, it sent goosebumps down my arms. Heavy stuff, a really good video.
"The future they envisioned would never have to become reality, so long as the present made it look like it had the potential to do so"
That's a really good metaphor
Please tell me you have footage of those guys riding the bike down that ramp. You have to upload it!
They chickened out.
You mean, they chose reasonable actions over extreme actions!
Nah they chickened out damn pussys |;)
_Radical Extremists_
@Rare Earth
A few people did ride bikes at Hoxha's pyramid in the past when it was covered by marble tiles, but i can't find that video now :)
"The Canaries are dead, time to stop mining." Powerful.
you understand that right?
This video was brought to me by YT six ears later of when it was made, and yet it is so up to date that gives me chills.
We all, not just the people in real power, expect to keep having some crumbs of the pie until there's no more pie for anybody.
And that's exactly what is happening in front of our own eyes, everyday.
We change our ways or we'll all perish, it is that terrifyingly simple.
Greetings from Toronto.
Probably your best video you've made. You have my respect as an Albanian
He has my respect as a Turkish too. When he started talking about how it all began and started telling about the signs I got shivers down in my spine because I am seeing them \ we are seeing them all the time these last years. This is the most accurate view of how my country is becoming right now.
Hasan Aslan yep we are seeing it from here in Canada too, watching some event that hit the top Page on Reddit about Turkey and Adro...
Its a scary situation thats boiling over there.
For us the next step in over control might be from the extreem left and SJW, their demands are getting listen too and they get more and more ridiculous, they dont see it coming but with laws that could be past it does give the gouvernent lots of control.
Greetings from America
@Nick Reyes ... you seeing them too ? From outside, US sure looks like it will implode in next 5 to 10 years, maybe sooner.
In countries where we had experiences like Albania and such is really interesting too observe it.
As for my country ( Croatia ), our middle aged female ( MILF ) president is giggling and being close to Trump when at a international meeting. And when at a Soccer world cup she is dancing her but out in front of Putin. Imho, as a small country, if we have a steady supply of good loking women into presidents chair we will be fine, more or less. XD
@@DreamskyDance
The Croat president is HOT haha we also rooted for u at the world cup but it's a shame Croatia lost against France but Croatia deserved to win!
"He who would trade liberty for some temporary security deserves neither."
It was true back then and it's true today.
At least get the quote right
It's a nice quote, but trading some liberty for some security is kinda the basis for modern civilization.
So, get rid of your police and military, you brave idealist, lol.
Everyone deserves liberty
-Benjamin Franklin
Maybe because of my background (I'm Venezuelan and witnessed with my own eyes the rise of "la revolución"), I have a more pessimistic view of this... Populism and extremism seem to be only curable by collapsing the society that gave birth to them... The steps toward collapse are so minimal (and usually popular), that is difficult to the average citizen to notice the danger. I think that when the society feels the need for a strong leader, it's already too late. From there, there's only chaos coming.
I hope you're wrong, Ever. But I worry you aren't.
I think a part of it is also some countries with money drowing countries when they can't farm money from those places. I would love for Chile to nationalize some of it's resources but after observing other countries I fell that the backslash would be far bigger than what an economic estimation would give and it's playing as a nice sheep what restrain neighbours from throwing wolves.
Just too many times money seems to be stonger that ideologies.
Hope you are alright
UnPuntoCircular u old
I don't think you're wrong. But at the same time most of the instability that caused the breakdown of societies is generally economic, The iron curtain fell not becuase of xenophobia, but because of bankruptcy. Venezuela is collapsing because they can't pay for basic human needs. And as much as i loathe that and agree with you and everything in this video i highly doubt that a system which purports to be "good for all" like the united states and can show a demonstrable positivity in terms of total global wealth will ever truly be challenged internally. I just hope people can realise the path they are moving down before its too late. I don't think violent revolution is the answer but at the same time i doubt anything will change barring an economic collapse. And even then, the united states showed fabulous resilience last time that happened, well the last 4 times really.
11:15 i love this. I have said this and now i know i was raised with good ideas by my grandparents. I have so much love for you as a fellow human i thought you should know.
I'm planning to translate the subs for your videos in my language, because more people deserve to see them.
While I don't agree with all of what is expressed, I can respect the message, and I can respect the argument.
We need more people that can express their opinions with a level head. Thank you for sharing yours.
I agree. I still think he's a smart guy.
I agree. I am a Trump supporter, and everything he said is more or less true in my opinion. I just don't see what alternative there is. Look at the opposition. The GOP isn't even going to try and reform itself. They're cruising for a collapse in 2024 when they lose Trump for good, regardless of the 2020 results. The dems are so focused on Trump, they don't have a plan for 2024 either. They burned everything. Destroyed thier party, used every favor, and exposed themselves using every back handed tactic in the book. And they still might loose. What am I to do? Do you really expect me to vote for a socialist? Do I even have to say what is wrong with that? Do I need to explain how centralization incubates and creates dictators? Do you see now how the decent into dictatorship is all but guaranteed at this point. The only hope is that after Trump the GOP tries to be more moderate... but why would they do that? They have no principles, they think only tactically. There is no tactical reason for the GOP to be moderate when riding on the coat tails of somone like Trump. The Democrats have gone so far left, nothing less that total collapse will save them. But that won't happen soon enough to stop Trump, or the GOP at large. It would cost them the next two elections. They won't do it. Even if they could, for the same reasons the GOP won't do anything.
@@Fabrizio_Ruffo Your ideology is Trumpism, and it blinds you from the greater scope of the nations issues.
@@Fabrizio_Ruffo Socialism. Watch it again. Most western democracies offer the form of 'socialism' in the same way police, fire, infrastructure and schools are covered in the US. Good health should be a given and a healthy population is a productive population.
Not Venezuela style. Not dictatorship. Not removing competition. The community working together rather than dog eat dog. Hard and smart work still get rewarded handsomely. No one wants people being told what jobs they have to do or have everyone on the same wages. That's just silly and as proven, bound to fail.
Your Democrats would be considered rightwing in many of our countries... Our so-called western socialist systems have been going strong for over 75 years and only now that some fools are looking to the US are we getting the problems related to greed and short term thinking. Open your mind and look at the positive examples.
@@SPM1X I'm sorry but I have to disagree about the part where you talk about the Dems. They are quite far left even for European standards. The completely open borders is an example. You just can't have that, yet the Democrats want it.
"Those who do not know history's mistakes are doomed to repeat them." is probably the right response in the growing chaos today :/
And those who know history has no power to prevent the mistakes from happening.
Or they are already on top of the food chain and don't want to change.
@@alexalexzhemail7166 those who know history warn the world but everyone calls them crazy
we know history, we are taking it back, deal with it
As a historian, the world today is so depressing. You see people making the same mistakes that you study, only you know how badly they went last time and they won't believe you when you tell them. You say "look at what corruption and populism did to Athens, to Rome etc." and they think this time will be different. Some even have the stupidity to think of those as good - I see people talk of Caesar as if he was great; he killed a million people and plunged his country into civil war! Some even try to argue it, thinking that their afternoon on wikipedia matches four years of daily study.
Is hard to look inside when you're told at every time to look outside, that's our current goverment's policy (I'm from Mexico), someone else always is to blame, is an intermational conspiracy, is the media, the conservatives, the drug cartels. But the goverment still says we're on the rigth way, our future is bright and we've never been better. The walls have crumbled but they are still arguing for the color of the paint .
Excellent script, left me thinking.
I can't take this suffering anymore called 'AMLO is my president'
It's almost election time here in Brazil. I've watched the death of all the "canaries" along the years. The population is completely divided and the general who is vice to the candidate that'll probably win already talks about the possibility of military intervention, should "a state of anarchy rises".
It's not a matter of right and left, I feel that whenever people are too blinded by hate that they can't see valid points in the other side of the table we all lose.
And we just got democracy back here in 1989.
These are scary times.
Brazil made the right choice
@@malokk5773 Cala boca gringo
Brazil has been living a bad democracy since then, to be fair.
Aug28, 2022. Balsonaro still trying to wreck the country. Brazilians still flummoxed about what to do. Maybe trump about to suffer. We will see
" Are you still living your dream? "
Written on the depreciated walls of a crumbling building by the hands of one in a majority, echoing the words of the minority. A beautiful apple can still be rotten inside, eaten away piece by piece, too late we notice it until that bite sinks in when we finally dare to try and taste it.
It's September 9th 2019, a year after this was posted, and never has it been more relevant, and sadly... it's relevance will continue to increase.
I wonder if in 2029 most of us will look back at this, and ask ourselves " Have we lived our dreams? " or.... will it continue with the minority telling the majority " Continue to live -my- dreams ". I fear the latter, will always be present.
Beautifully true. The real issue is not even majority minority conversation. I think few extra smart people /leaders just fill the brain with such talks n this leads to hatred. A normal person first ignores the ideology and when situation starts bubbling up the person is forced to pick a side. And that's how the war between ideologies begin and continues. We allust understand we all belong to one earth. Idealogies based war will take us no whr. It's time we start building smart communities with better vision who care abt everyone on earth including other species. It is difficult but it is certainly possible.
Has its relevance continued to increase yet?
@@ShaedeReshka Perhaps more than ever, yes
2024 here. And this aged beautifully. The words are truer and truer every year that goes by
This is getting out of hand now there are two of them
No, not anymore.
I can't take dis seriosly with dat furry profile me boi
A surprise to be sure...
Its a pokemon
Hello there
15:45 "We have to stop mining [...] This is Rare Earth." I see what you did there :D
I'm from Albania and I can't agree more with you thank you for sharing your history for the rest of the world
This video is great, as per usual. I wanna make that clear, since this comment is very critical of a lot of the things Evan is saying here.
"Extremism" is a relative term. Extremism today might be centrism in a century, and extremism in the 1800's is centrism today. Criticising an ideology by simply calling it extremist is fallacious, it isn't an actual argument. It's describing the ideology's position relative to the center of current politics, not what the ideology actually says.
There's also a undercurrent in this video that you see in a lot of especially more centrist political commentary, the notion that "ideology" is bad, and we need to in stead be objective, focus on the needs of actual people, not ideology. Thing is, ideology is everywhere. Everyone has an ideology. Believing that you yourself is beyond ideology is perhaps the single most ideological thing you can do, since you're essentially saying that _your_ ideology is just common sense, not politics. To pretend that the problems the world face today are beyond ideology and politics neuters our ability to engage with those problems.
So you're not a Cylon? Ok I believe you
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I just wrote something incredibly similar to this. Thank you. : )
The attack of fact and reason, the breeding of closed-mindness, xenophobia, etc. All are BAD things, and are always bad things. Cultural relativism is a great way to close your eyes for the terrible things that happen, but every time someone shouts 'fake news' at CNN, a part of democracy dies, and there's only so much you can chip away from it before there's nothing left.
As an Albanian, this video surprised me, in a fascinating way. Yes, it used to be like North Korea. A very, very bizarre thing for us to admit today, while commenting on a youtube video, while my grandfather still owns and cherishes some of the memorabilia you can see on the video with great nostalgy. Amazing!
Damn, that was amazing. Really great job creating a balanced and sober take on where we are as a society. Thank you for this!
It's not often you see someone truly try to make an unbiased commentary like this. I especially love the part around 1:40 where he points out how Republicans in America often associate universal healthcare with Socialism, and Socialism with Communism while alot of leftists around the world associate gun rights an similar right wing issues with nazi's. I'm right of center myself but i live in a far left area and I've seen people campaigning for gun rights or support for the military get called Neo-Nazis even by the press and I've seen people pushing for universal healthcare get called communists. Meanwhile everyone around the world who's left of center seems to think that Trump is a neo-nazi fascist even though he's not particularly racist and he's more of a libertarian since he's very pro-business while Facists don't support capitalism and they're incompatible with libertarianism (Trump's still an idiot, just not a Fascist idiot). I'm a strong supporter of Israel, and it drives me crazy how many people think if you don't support Israel you're a nazi, but if you do support them you must be some sort of Muslim hating Zionist. Many people, especially the news seem to think in extremes like this and it drives me nuts.
Balanced?
8:40 - This is where he starts describing the United States, but through the metaphor of Albania.
Don't believe me, keep watching until the end...
This video somehow hits even harder now in 2024
Me: Stop mining....hell no ive struck gold and now i think i found some diamonds.
*falls in lava*
An interesting and thought provoking message there at the end. And surprisingly I'm not seeing a flamewar in the comments. WTF interned I was expecting to be entertained :D
And yeah, a thing that people often miss, especially if they come from the west, is not only that these totalitarian/dictatorial systems kept the trains running (somewhat) but that they offered a rather drastic improvement of life in the war ravaged and often underdeveloped Eastern and SE. Europe. It's easy for someone from the West to scoff at "low" standard of living in communist countries. But people living it weren't comparing it to what was available at the West, they were comparing it to what they had before the system. And in many cases, they had nothing before. Countries were 90% agricultural with almost little to no mechanization. Basically the land was worked as it was centuries ago. Next to no roads, no electricity, little to basic (and when I say basic I mean 4 years of education IF the family can spare you to go to school) education, the works. And then in couple decades, basically in the blink of an eye, you go from that, to having roads reaching even the sparsely populated regions. The government really pushing electrification so every village had what used to be reserved for cities. Plus mechanization is being introduced, along with education allowing the people from villages to move to cities and get jobs there. Industry is blooming with jobs opening left right and centre and the government is GUARANTEEING you a place to stay, work and enough to sustain yourself, and even maybe eventually buy that Radio/TV thing.
Now this might not look like much, and is probably being built on bad ground, but this is the difference from going from middle ages to mid XXth century. People in general wouldn't know what else to ask for. Freedom? This region was commonly under the thumb of local strong men and dictators anyway, so for many that's just how the whole country thing was run. It provides some basic services, expects recompense in form of duties and jails those who go against it. Same old same old.
I'm from the Albanian north-western neighbor country, and am wondering if you'll head northwest into the "region" (as we call it here, ex-Yugoslavia for those outside of it).
You're not seeing much of a "flamewar in the comments" because videos of this type are not interesting to those who like to flame opposing thoughts rather than think about them. Thinking and learning are hard.
But rage is easy. Then again since he probably didn't say anything rage inducing in first minutes they probably went off to look at some other outrage
I remember discovering that when I was a student in Western Europe. I would do some harvest work during the summer when school was out. Lots of foreign workers. Quite a few from Eastern Europe. I think that's the first time I was exposed to someone who said they actually liked it better under communism than how it was now. It blew my mind back then. I think the Germans call that sentiment "Ostalgie", play on words with Ost/East and nostalgia for the old DDR. Dunno if there's an English word for it.
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I've heard similar things from people that grew up in China but are now in the USA. They see that the country has changed but still identify many of those same dictatorial aspects of the country that those that grew up and continue to live just accept as the way things have always been and will remain. They have no idea of how things could be better and so don't push for change.
"Ideology alone can't hold up a roof"
Yet another great quote. You are an amazing writer
Wow..... This is... Amazing I applaud you
EVAN WHAT WERE YOU DOING CLIMBING UP THAT BALCONY????
YOU ALMOST GAVE ME A HEART ATTACK!!!!!
Firstly, thanks Evan and team for this amazing episode. I really appreciate the casual factual bombs being dropped towards the end. I could really see how empassioned you were talking about how somewhat comical the US's imperial ambitions have gotten. Arguably at the expense of their own citizens too, you could say. I really feel for those Americans caught underneath the poverty line and really with a few competely rational measures that involve tending to the pillars you spoke about, things could be a lot easier. Maybe not brilliant as people will always differ on that definition, but surely better if treated with objectivity. It doesn't get enough attention, that's for sure. My country certainly doesn't help by simply rolling over and never challenging it.
Secondly, idk if this too overly ambitious of me to say or possibly embarrasing myself since you've probably got it pretty covered, but I'm a musician and I'd love to make some tunes for you if you ever wanted more music to use in a future video. I guess you could PM me or whatever, but I'd be totally up for it. Until then, I'm happily just here, enjoying everything you make :)
We are genuinely always appreciative of help, regardless of how it works out. If you've got some music you think suits our style, we'd love to hear it.
Oh thanks. I was worried for a minute I'd made a fool of myself. I'll get to work on something for you and send it over when it's ready :D
>"People always ask me to talk about politics more"
>*talks about politics*
>same people "You're doin it wrong!"
Maybe he was talking about ideologies, not politics?
This is undoubtedly the most important UA-cam video I've ever watched. I'm impressed by the quality and thankful for the content. I only wish there were more people as levelheaded as you with your communication skills.
Sober and logical perspectives. Beautiful cinematography. Excellent story telling. This is easily one of the best channels on UA-cam. Thank You.
I wish this would go viral...it needs to be heard.
It won't. Remember who owns UA-cam.
@@GalileoAV Yeahhh... They can't stop us from sharing the fuck out of it tho. 👍
@@NowinLao plus the way the narrator talks is excrutiating
@@HelloImNoob2323 I thought it was fine, if a little overly dark, not very creative, and pretentious sounding. but what do you expect from someone who drinks beer out of boots, in the college they went to?
@@quinwalker6469 I don't know why I don't like it, I think its too wordy. I feel like he says 10 words for every word that is needed haha. Hes never straight to the point it always goes down some line of discussion that is not only hard to follow but also very biased based on his own personal opinions. If you don't agree with him, its excrutiating to listen to..
Good work
Appreciate ya Matt
Hey Matt, in case no ones told you today, your awesome, and yours and Tom's uploads make my day when they happen
@@legendofFranktheTank I agree and love you all.
Yeah, one of the better episodes of rare earth.
I certainly never expected to see Matt in this comment section.
That sudden jump of 1000 dislikes looks very suspicious... someone is salty.
Optimus Princeps Bob Boblington trump supporters and neo-nazis are mad at this hot tea
It's dislike bots.
@@wug6175 yep,fucking disgusting tactics. But thats literally how this administration won.
Genericname123 not really. If you mean the us president, then I should inform you that he won because of gerrymandering.
It is true, and it's sad that speaking out against the American president leads to being demonized by his supporters. There is very little objective analysis in respect to Trump, and what is objective (such as the last few minutes of this video) is taken by his supporters as lies and slander. They speak of any truth against him as lies that are projected by the media in an attempt to smear the record of Donald Trump. Mirroring the idealism of many countries which are brought up by those same supporters as evil, controlling, and destructive. Such a view being held by such a large portion of the population is dangerous, whether that be a danger of physical aggression or otherwise, one thing is certain, the danger of the mob mentality is that of a lack of truth holding up the ideals which rise to the surface of the tumultuous melting pot that is the American political landscape. I wish I could find the words for all I want to say, but I believe this is the base of the issue, or at least a possible explanation for a portion of the underlying issue.
America is the perfect example of the house being on fire but people not caring until it reaches them
This happened recently literally
@@anonb4632 yep, but I was referencing the recent California fires where Landlords and real estate didn't give two shits until the fires reached their doors
@@cossaizy6309 And now it's happened again with the Coronavirus. It seems that "history repeats itself" will always be rule of law.
“The first time history repeats itself, it is a tragedy. The second time history repeats itself, it is a farce.” -Karl Marx
Not really.
You mean "fanaticism", not "extremism". There is a clear and important semantic difference between fanaticism, extremism, fundamentalism and radicalism; they are _not_ synonyms.
The problem with misusing the concept of extremism is that we then tend to settle into a view that sees the middle-ground or the halfway point as instinctively the best option, or the point of moderation. But in reality there are many situations in which there really isn't a middle-ground, and where the rational and ethical option is actually at an extremity of a spectrum of worse possibilities.
You wouldn't see people saying "we need a moderate amount of genocide", for example. Or "we should strike the middle-ground between colonialism and cooperation". Many options in politics are not things that you should do "in moderation", many are things that you should absolutely never do, and many others are things that you should always opt to do if possible. In reality, extremities are a thing.
Well said. It's a relative position. And for that matter, it may very well be that, ironically, an extreme response is the only one which can stop the rise of fanaticism. What else can you when the system is corrupt to the bone, trending towards further centralization of power? In a twisted way, you have to centralize your own forces to stop it.
Yes, It really is a reality. I can understand why some nations have to be "extreme". Especially if the western countries are FORCING to third world countries their values of "democracy" and human rights when in fact these western countries are the leading violators of it. This could be the only way of standing up against hypocritical western ideologies and governing themselves.
They are all shit, so putting them into the same pack is best
@@cbbutalis2405 Not inherently, sometimes an extreme measure can be beneficial for the improvement of the material conditions of society. Just as in the midst of a natural disaster, people make extreme decisions to save lives, social changes sometimes also require risk and violence, not because of the political or economic ideas of the population, but out of sheer need. Systematic violence can not be stopped with "normal" measures, even less judging the value of a measure because of its centrality in the political spectrum, which is very misleading, because after all what is proposed in this trial is how the jurisdiction must execute violence, and sometimes what we consider as centrist ideology does not correspond to what we consider moral.
in short, we should execute the violence according to the material need and will of the people in order to avoid that they be treated as means and not as ends. Taking light positions does not entail stopping violence or defending freedom, in any case it limits your ability to act to stop the execution of immoral and undemocratic violence.
Very few people are genuinely looking for a "halfway point" as you put it. Nobody is saying "we need a moderate amount of genocide." These are strawmen meant to keep you allied to a specific political party so those in power can profit off of you. The very few people who are looking for this halfway point are cowardly and have no voice of their own. Actually, the entire reason people think this is a genuine group of people is due to left-leaning propaganda meant to vilify centrism without an understanding of what centrism is because it's a competing ideology. You will also see people making this claim that centrism is more conservative in some areas than others. This, again, is a fundamental misunderstanding of what centrism is.
Centrism is not looking for a middle-ground. It's rejecting partisan politics. As the video itself states, you could want closed borders and free healthcare, which isn't a middle-ground between open borders and closed borders or a middle-ground between having social programs and not having them but something that doesn't neatly fit into a pre-packaged ideology. You are already falling prey to 3, 7, 9, and 10 on the definition of fascism mentioned in the video with this rhetoric.
"the more we cry wolf the more emboldened wolves feel in joining our herd".
WORD.
Before you even mentioned my once-glorious nation, I was drawing the parallels. Believe me, so, so many of us here in your neighbor to the south know the canaries are dead. We see what's happening in this current administration. How do we stop it? Seriously. I'm asking.
Also, the nepotism was enlightening! I'd never put the Bushes in that category, but you're so right. Wow.
Use that 5th ammendment you are all so proud of. It's what it's for, right?
Ya waiting for the boog 2.0
@@xSegami 2nd not 5th an its going down sooner than any just 5 years ago would ever guess.
Rare Earth, I’m so glad I found you! I think your videos content are great, your cameraman and/or director are very professional. You are all very talented people! I’ve been watching a few videos and each are very impressive! You explained a very complex situation amazingly in simplicity easy enough to understand with in-depth bipartisan viewpoints and intellectual arguments. I haven’t seen anything biased yet, all truly journalism. Keep up your great work!
Yes, indeed, I definitely agree with you; the quality of "Rare Earth's" videos (more like mini-documentaries) are very professional and entertaining. No doubt, the host is excellent at opening up various concepts that most of us never contemplate, and oftentimes, these topics are quite controversial, on one level or another. Therefore, I offer only the highest compliments for the awesome host and his amazing team!
Having said this, I do have a different perspective about the "non-biasness" of the content, as you say.
Personally, after watching about 7 "Rare Earth" videos, I have definitely noticed some bias in the content. Of course, I'm not saying that the host is correct or incorrect in his assessment, but, nonetheless, a certain percentage of the content is biased in one way or another.
No doubt, it is quite challenging to present any topic without tainting it with some degree of bias. After all, we each see the world through our own personal filters, and in most cases, we are unaware of our own filters because they appear to be true to us.
Moreover, when a topic is presented in a rational, meaningful manner (such as Rare Earth does) our brains tend not notice the "bias" in that presentation.
However, whenever a presenter has a definitive conclusion on a topic or a "personal opinion," you can always find "bias."
Although I, too, may have expressed some unintentional bias in my response to your comment, please know that my words come only with great respect!
as well as grace & humility,
Nanice
6:28 did not know Albanians policemen used the same Bike as the Italian Police, Moto Guzzi V35 , cool
Well, for some time, we were colonies of those nations. Albania doesn't have an industry as much as military vehicles are concerned. Even now, we get our armored jeeps from Erdogan's Turkey.
They were bought from Italy. Albania doesn't have it's own developed vechile industry
Or the buses that ex-yugoslav countries use
We live in a strange world. As someone neither left or right wing, it's scary.
Our militarism has run rampant. A few years ago, democrats were holding mass protests against war. They cried for an end to violence, a stop to interfering in the middle east, for peace and a restoration of our lost rights.
And then Obama was elected. Despite running on a platform of peace, he left a legacy of extending existing conflicts and expanding our involvement in the middle east. The worst part is the effect it had on his party. Being placated by their victory in the white house, democrats turned a blind eye. They essentially forgot that we're still at war.
When Trump won, I thought democrats would start holding mass protests against war, if only to spite him, but they haven't. A sign of the times, the proudly left-wing Vox called Tulsi Gabbard's anti-war stances "conservative".
Republicans are no better. Donald Trump has made unprecedented strides in favor of gun control which would have caused conservatives to riot under Obama. Many of Trump's policies are really not conservative so much as authoritarian, and republicans would stand against it if they weren't so blinded by their partisan goggles.
As both sides descend into extremism, I pray we'll find our way out of this mess.
I'm not sure if extremism fits what you just described, though. Republicans being for gun control and Democrats for military intervention is arguably them being less extreme, in being more like each other. The fact that they are changing for the worse, at least in my opinion, does not make them extreme, per se. Maybe it makes ME extreme, since I am now outside of the political norm.
The only way out of this mess is to take the federal gouvernment out of power. Take the U out of the USA and let the states have their own systems with more than just 2 parties.
@@autotuna3805 then you would all have to build walls around each state! haha
@@autotuna3805 I think the US needs to get rid of the two party system in order to be a real democracy again. This means (at least) changing the vote counting method. But of course, not republicans nor democrats would ever want that. When all the votes from a state go to the same party, there is no chance of survival for minor parties.
@@Piromanofeliz it must be deeper than the electoral college.
I don't understand any of your videos but i still love em
Your approach and tone is beautiful, fair and just.
Rare Earth is the first channel I've ever supported through Patreon. Love your insightful, interesting videos!
Thank you Susan!
Lots of great info! Be well!!
When you focus on who you are against, it's easy to ignore who you support just to harm them.
We see it everywhere, but I don't see someone I can support without ignoring what support with them.
And that's in a political system where I have more than two choices.
Well said
Eritrea: Am I a joke to you?
Who dat?
@@Ayy_Doll_Fiddler one-party state in Northeast Africa with indefinite mandatory conscription, only state-run TV, and widespread torture and rape in gov't. Often called Africa's North Korea, they're basically everything that can be evil about a country.
He won't risk dying in Eritrea just for the sake of an analogy :)
@@blueveins3238 have you ever visited Eritrea?
One of the best channels on the platform period
The trouble with "extremism" as a thing to avoid is that every position seems extreme to someone. Once you define extremism as something more specific than something that you (or anybody else) considers extreme, the word "extremism" no longer accurately applies. It feels good to say you oppose extremism of all sorts, but that does not mean anything.
Yeah liberal capitalism is just as "ideological" as "extremist" ideologies. It's only non-extreme by virtue of being the predominant ideology but this is entirely limited to a particular time and place. Like the video's example of border control is contingent on a specific notion of the state at our specific time in history; transpose it somewhere in the past or in a possible future and it very well could be an "extremist" position.
@Tony Tran An anarchist society is the least extreme ideology, then? "Natural ethics", whatever it means, wouldn't place any human above any other, as we are all made of flesh.
@Tony Tran i guess u r a very stable genius.
@@CombineWatermelon it’s not even remotely close to libertarian. The predominant ideology is neoliberalism.
@@convenientEstelle anarchism is chaos though and hierarchies exist for a good reason and can be found all throughout nature. They bring order to society and life itself. And everyone and everything benefits from order, even economically, businesses are most likely to invest in low crime and orderly areas than ones with constant looting, rioting, and vandalism.
absolute mad lads on a bike at the start
Unfortunately almost all Americans are too preoccupied in debt or being angry to care about this. It's easy for people to blame Trump for the perceived problems in America, but its more likely the fault of ignorance. Nobody cares to care, and those that do care about the effect and not the cause.
Damn, I don't think I've read anything smarter in the last three months.
Hit that nail on the head!
Very well filmed, documented and narrated. Thank you for all the research
I just found your channel today, your'e an amazing storyteller
“There’s more to life than being “not dead.”
What a brilliant line! If there isn’t a self-help book with that title, there should be 🙂.
This is a truly amazing and eye-opening video, and yet it saddens me to know that some will not care to listen and treat this piece of information as a lie solely because they aren’t brave enough to accept failure and move on, and would rather take buckets of water out of the sinking ship than reach solid land and start over with the knowledge they have acquired me from past mistakes, in order to build an even stronger boat able to withstand increasingly challenging storms.
Wow. This video, and You, are so incredibly *BASED*
It's so refreshing and reassuring to hear such logic and reason.
Please stay strong my good man, and keep passionately sharing your wisdom. Our world desperately needs it (as you clearly know all too well)!
What is the next state that you will be visiting?
P.S. Will you ever make a guide about how to travel the world, Rare Earth style, or a video about how you got started?
It would be interesting to pull another bait and switch where they look at the worst parts of America and say/imply that it is a communist or 3rd world country right up until the end.
My family suffered under Hoxha's regime, thank you for making this video!
that's uh....quite a title
More so than "The nazi pedophile apocalypse cult"?
I can't just help but congratulate you for this fantastic video. Your commentary was excellent. Keep it up.
Absolutely amazing that you show the world how it really is, your commentary and the content here itself is unique and unbelievable interesting, thank you!
Outstanding piece - easily the best I have heard for years.. but I suspect that only those that are capable of self-honesty will really be able to understand the message.
Very well presented - I applaud your rational balanced approach
4 years later, here we are.
Occasionally I'll come back to this video as a palate cleanser after a long news week. There's so much nuance we miss in the moment. We gather behind leaders in the hopes of a better tomorrow, but allow ourselves to be talked into something we never wanted.
I guess we'll have to wait and see what the future says about us.
I cant believe I'm finding this video for the first time after trump just got elected for the second time.
"Current president" claims are even more valid atm lol
When building a house for a long period of time, the foundation will eventually start to crumble. There are two ways to fix it. Either slowly and carefully fix the cracks in it, or demolish the whole house and start anew.
Every system collapses eventually, it's the nature of change. Some simply last longer then others or can rise again.
This was made one year ago, but recommended to me today.
This might be the single most important channels on UA-cam. And probably one of the most interesting. Keep up the great work!
Teaching by using examples is so very powerful. Keep putting though provoking content on a widely accessible forum, will hopefully stimulate change.
Albania, Albania
You border on the Adriatic
Your land is mostly mountainous
And your chief export is chrome.
Cheers
Coach
Mha karin ti mu pillropsh 🖕🖕
@BRUH BRUH U punk ass whigga who told u that turism is 0%?
@BRUH BRUH Come in vlore and we'll see
Such is life. The empires fall. The mansions rot and collapse. The dictators run or die. The shiny ideology of the decade tarnishes and rusts.
The people are eternal, made in the eternal’s image and somewhere deep knowing the eternals laws and each individual within them always arguing within themselves whether to side with the eternal or the passing.
You good?
Cure4Living, What Christian thing?
This video should be shown to every classroom across the country.
Duterte was hugely popular by the population of the Philippines because of the international drug trade. He was the one who shut it down effectively. Small crimes also disappeared. He would be elected again and again if their system allowed it.
When Evan get's political he brings down ideologies and uplifts humanism
"I'm not sure that shoe was communist"
Well it probably wasn't from Taiwan…
I should visit Albania someday
It's spelled Alabama. Good luck!
@@bigteddybear5962 as an Alabamian, I approve this message
One of the videos I am always happy about rediscovering. Thank you so much for the work on this one^^