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Bibliography:
A History of Western Philosophy by Bertrand Russell
The Decline of the West by Oswald Spengler
Evil by Baumeister
The Master and His Emissary by Ian McGhilchrist
The Blank Slate by Steven Pinker
The World after Liberalism by Matthew Rose
Reason, Faith and the Struggle for Western Civilization by Samuel Gregg
A Conflict of Visions by Thomas Sowell
Cynical Theories by James Lindsay and Helen Pluckrose
The Madness of Crowds by Douglas Murray
The Elephant in the Brain by Simler
A Secular Society by Charles Taylor
Dominion by Tom Holland
War in Human Civilization by Azar Gat
Mere Christianity by CS Lewis
Caesar and Christ by Will Durant
The Age of Faith by Will Durant
Recapture the Rapture by Wheal
Fire in the Minds of Men by Billington

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  1. I'm only at the Darwinist section in the video. You said it's the smallest of the groups. Isn't neo-liberal capitalism all Darwinist? People are so "survival of the fittest" now days.

  2. Bruh, where's ur source for this. All ur videos just spew the same hateful and untrue messages of women being weaker through all of history when 30-50% of hunters were women. Also, Europeans aren't inherently better and deserve to rule over the world. India had made WAY MORE medical advancements than Europe did and the medical revolution suspiciously lines up with when the Europeans colonized India. In reality the only thing u were right about is that Europeans were better than others at war, because that's all their rulers forced them to do. Bruh learnt history of a cereal box and now prophecises that he's got all the answers. If these r our intellectuals than we're doomed.

  3. I was really looking forward to your analysis in the Marxism/Communism section since I've been attempting to learn from the leading contemporary sources the past couple of years. I feel like you really missed the mark on that section. That is not the Marxism/Communism I have learned about. It's especially not up to date on contemporary Marxist discussion where it's more about economic democracy–where workers democratically decide what to do with a company's profits and resources–rather than the government or a small minority of shareholders deciding what to do with the profits and resources.

    Anyway, I really hope you give it another go in the future as I am new to your channel, and give it an updated take.

  4. I think the thing that really got me into the Christian belief was the philosophical argument. God represents the ultimate good and the devil represents ultimate evil. in this frame, the 10 commandments are the 10 basic principles that are condemnable, and the Bible is a storybook of how to mitigate good vs evil. kind of like how we have laws and tons of case law to help describe the law.

  5. As someone who was or is involved with all of the 4 "religions" at some point (I confess the Orthodox Christian faith, my political views are basically Darwinist but used to be communist when I was a kid, my life-style centres around using technology all day) and as a non-American/European young man (meaning I have similar problems as you do but perceive things from more than just a post-Columbian perspective ~hehe~), I view it more as a balance between the elements issue, with a central component that needs to balance them out:

    Darwinism (Sun Father-archetype): fire, choleric, salamander, tetrahedron (destructive inferno when close like Hades, life-giving hearth when at a proper distance like Prometheus)

    Machine-Worship* (Moon Mother-archetype): water, phlegmatic, undine, icosahedron (you can see yourself in the surface's reflection like Psyche, or drown you like Narcissus)

    Communism (Earth Mother-archetype): earth, melancholic, gnome, cube (can punish the wicked in the underground like Tartarus, or kill its own children in a cave like Medea)

    Theism** (Sky Father-archetype): air, sanguine, sylph, octahedron (can blow you in the right direction like the Anemoi, but can also get you shipwrecked)

    That central component which balances the things out would be, and up until very recently used to be, Christianity. Not as the elemental archetype of Theism or the mere confession of faith, which (as Rudyard pointed out in the vid) can be a cover for one of the other "religions", but as the genuine, lived-out way and truth (in the church we call it orthopraxy) and the way society is organised (the symphony between church, people, and state). I guess a term our Protestants friends across the pond use nowadays is "kingdom priorities". Darwinism, Machine-Worship, Communism teamed up in the 19th century to cause Western Christianity to retreat to this clock-maker theism we see today. We must also remind ourselves that there is a 5th element, a genuinely atheist faction which not only rejects Christianity or Theism, but bears no adherence to Communism, Darwinism or Machine-Worship either. These are mostly skeptic atheists, who believe in a complete void, or "chaos" as it's called in Greek mythology. While they may not be very powerful today, their intellectual forebears tore down the social fabric of the 18th and 19th century and opened the floodgates for the modern religious confusion. Basically what we need now is someone with the ability to address the shortcomings of all 4 "religions", a deputy of God integrating their ideas into daily life and society through his person. This was the socio-ideological arrangement during the middle ages all the way up to the 19th century between the nobility (Darwinism), clergy (Theism), burghers (Machine-Worship), and peasants (Communism), all led by the crown/monarch (Christianity/component of balance). What I see as the problem in American society (which you exported over to us across the pond after WWI+II, smh) is the homemade democratic character of the United States, where the "crown" (the POTUS), kept rather weak via checks and balances, is unable to balance the "religions". So what I rather think is going to happen is a situation where the US moves toward Caesarism like Europe did during the 30's (as Oswald Spengler predicted; notice also how the elemental aspect confirms his notion of cultures and civilisations going through seasons: Darwinism in spring, Theism in summer, Communism in fall, Machine-Worship in winter), and ultimately introduces more monarchic elements and an "imperial cult" based on military power (the military is popular in the US) and personal prestige to keep the country together internally as well as vs. outside competition. Tolerating all religions as long as they all venerated the emperor worked for the Romans, ERE, HRE and their successor states (as well as for the Chinese and their cultural sphere), and across US history, the tendency has been toward evermore centralisation and concentration of power in the hands of the federal government, not less. I think you will agree, Rudyard, since you are not the only one that has compared the US to Rome in the past, noticed the ascending cult in personality and talked of a upcoming civil war or American Caesar (or Sulla, to begin with). But there's also a sizeable amount of those who think it's wrong and your republic will collapse due to degeneracy without metamorphosing into an empire. Thus we will watch your bets against Providence with great interest. Thank you.

    *missed opportunity for an Adeptus Mechanicus joke in the vid

    **would have been more accurate IMO to use this term generally rather than Christianity specifically

    (PS: The increasing resemblance of our timeline to WH40K lore is both exciting and concerning)

  6. I've been saying for years at this point that the Western Left has been following a parallel to the NeoConfucianism movement of the Chinese Song Empire, complete with the upheaval of the scholar over the soldier/warrior (which removed the chinese martial nobility that we can find a synonym in the Roman Equites) and the glorification of physical mutilation/alteration as a sign of their devotion to the movement.

    It is proof to me that the issue is very much about fanaticism and zealotry vs any specific faith/philosophy as the actions and their goals end up being the same.

    The fall of civilization also parallels an old experiment of mice in a massive enclosure with plenty of food, nesting sites, and more…within several generations they fell apart. Some lashed out against others, others spent all their time grooming, others hurt themselves and others, and some just stopped eating.

  7. “Burning of the heretics becomes cancel culture” I don’t think that analogy works when the next example is how how the modern examples are much worse lol

  8. Humans in the middle ages were apologizing for human nature ALL OF THE TIME! Confessions were a big thing. People confessed rape, murder and literally every other sin.

  9. your opening statements are just outright wrong, you identified cultural things that act as religions Now but don't know how Zoroastrians was so important and all those cultures in middle east area are to a large extent influenced by it, they (Zoroastrians and especially their leaders) were secular as in they understood the underlying moral and behavior is what matters not the name of the god and the rituals, but no society of that time were atheists, they largely had tribal Gods and Deities, and christianity did not Crush all the rest, except if you think (as you and westerners normally do) that the world is just Europe (and then europeans in america) and there was no nihilism too,
    you seriously need to read actual history that doesn't neglect the value of persians and middle east because they're supposedly the rival of the roman/greeks and western though in general and that doesn't erase the civilizational importance of them (like inventing money, contracts, writing, philosophy, individualism, secularism, living in harmony, mysticism and so on)

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