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Feral Historian
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Stories are cultural artifacts, whether it's epics on clay tablets or big-budget films. Those artifacts can tell us a lot about the time and culture that made them if we take a few minutes to shake them and see what falls out. To that end, an independent scholar goes rogue from academic respectability, wanders out into the wild, and talks to the trees and rocks about science fiction and its place in historical study.
Grab your hiking pack and get your nerd-on, we've got a lot to talk about.
Grab your hiking pack and get your nerd-on, we've got a lot to talk about.
The Prisoner : “It Means What It Is”
The Prisoner is one of those rare television series that is both completely rooted in its particular time and yet somehow timeless. It’s 1960’s Orwell-meets-Sargent-Pepper style speaks to themes of authoritarianism, social atomization, and malicious technocracy just as well today as when it was made. And while it’s been analyzed from every angle in the intervening decades, I’d be remiss if I didn’t contribute something to discussion of The Prisoner.
Collin Cleary’s essay on The Prisoner, covering mostly different aspects, can be read here:
counter-currents.com/2014/06/patrick-mcgoohans-the-prisoner/
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Collin Cleary’s essay on The Prisoner, covering mostly different aspects, can be read here:
counter-currents.com/2014/06/patrick-mcgoohans-the-prisoner/
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Dies the Fire and the Founder Effect
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The first book in S.M. Stirling’s Emberverse series, Dies The Fire yanks modern technology out of the world and sets the stage for a multi-faceted exploration of how distinct cultures emerge from small isolated groups and the profound effect individuals can have the societies that coalesce around them. 🔹 Patreon | patreon.com/FeralHistorian 🔹 Ko-Fi | ko-fi.com/feralhistorian And the obligatory ...
Firefly and the Lost Cause
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I’ve often been questioned for making Civil War comparisons when discussing Firefly. Here I explain why Firefly not only reflects but is based on the Lost Cause mythology of the Confederacy. For further background on how secession was framed at the start of the American Civil War, battlefields.org has plain text copies of several of the Confederate States' declarations of causes for secession u...
The Cabin in the Woods : Industrialized Blood Sacrifice
Просмотров 15 тыс.21 день назад
The Cabin in the Woods (2011) is on one level a skewering of the trope-filled horror genre. But more than that, it comments on the horrific and micromanaged nature of our own world. 🔹 Patreon | patreon.com/FeralHistorian 🔹 Ko-Fi | ko-fi.com/feralhistorian And I’m still shilling for my book, Ninti’s Gate. 🔹 www.amazon.com/dp/B0CYXH9BWD 00:00 Intro 00:30 Society needs to crumble 02:57 Modern Horr...
Walking Dead - The Ones Who Live : On Ideology and Revisionism
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The Civic Republic has been a thread woven through the Walking Dead for years, and with this 6-episode spinoff it finally sees some resolution. In the process it plays with pseudo-science as a justification for atrocities and the post-war desire to move on. 🔹 Patreon | patreon.com/FeralHistorian 🔹 Ko-Fi | ko-fi.com/feralhistorian Ninti’s Gate, available on kindle and paperback, 🔹 www.amazon.com...
Fitzpatrick’s War and the the Narrative of History
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Fitzpatrick’s War tells the story of the rise and fall of a dictator, formatted as a largely critical memoir, interrupted repeatedly by annotations from a regime-lackey historian writing later. It’s interesting as much for its structure as its story, and it deserves more recognition than it gets today. 🔹 Patreon | patreon.com/FeralHistorian 🔹 Ko-Fi | ko-fi.com/feralhistorian And the obligatory ...
Fatherland : Alternate History with a Point
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The 1992 novel by Robert Harris is a great example of the otherwise generally mediocre “Germany won WWII” alternate history premise. By removing the regime from its current almost mythologized status as a unique and singular evil, instead portraying it as merely a repressive state in a Cold War, Fatherland illustrates an uncomfortable truth about realpolitik and atrocities. CORRECTION: Somehow ...
A Canticle for Leibowitz and Cyclical History
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A Canticle For Leibowitz, Walter M. Miller’s 1959 novel of long-term nuclear war aftermath, is a modern classic. It also presents us with a cyclical view of history that poses some questions for us today. 🔹 Patreon | patreon.com/FeralHistorian 🔹 Ko-Fi | ko-fi.com/feralhistorian And a reminder that Ninti’s Gate is still available on kindle and paperback, 🔹 www.amazon.com/dp/B0CYXH9BWD 00:00 Intr...
Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome : The Past is Fluid
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Thunderdome is a layered film, riffing on law, religion, and cultural development. And it does it against the backdrop of a history that morphs with each film in the series, a post-apocalyptic future without a consistent past. This one is not monetized, because Warner Bros are like that, so thanks to the channel’s patrons over at Patreon for supporting this content. 🔹 Patreon | patreon.com/Fera...
Drakon : 4th in a Trilogy
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I’ve never known anyone who said that Drakon was their favorite Draka book, but it does have some interesting elements both on its own and in relation to the earlier novels. Let's have a look back at Gwen and Ken's old-timey '90s adventure. 🔹 Patreon | patreon.com/FeralHistorian 🔹 Ko-Fi | ko-fi.com/feralhistorian And for something quite different from Drakon, Ninti’s Gate is available on kindle...
Event Horizon : Chaos and Evil
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There’s a fan theory that Event Horizon is a Warhammer 40K movie, which leads me to several questions starting with “why equate chaos and evil?” Pulling on that thread reveals, I hope, a few interesting insights into the story and the assumptions it builds on. 🔹 Patreon | patreon.com/FeralHistorian 🔹 Ko-Fi | ko-fi.com/feralhistorian And for some sci-fi with no horror elements at all, Ninti’s Ga...
The Federations : It’s the Same Picture
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I find it curious that Star Trek's United Federation of Planets is often held up as an aspirational positive future for humanity while the United Citizen Federation in Starship Troopers is framed as an authoritarian pseudo-fascist dystopia. They're very similar in most respects, and I think the major difference comes down the the underlying assumptions about what drives human decision-making on...
Enemy Mine : Lost in Translation
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Enemy Mine still holds up well, but Barry Longyear’s novella of the same title is even better. Let’s look at how they differ and what the film wasn’t able to fully convey. 🔹 Patreon | patreon.com/FeralHistorian 🔹 Ko-Fi | ko-fi.com/feralhistorian And should you be interested, here's my own take on a story of enemy forces finding some grounds for cooperation on a distant world. 🔹 www.amazon.com/d...
Slow Collapse (or Children of Mad Rollerboys)
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While Mad Max is arguably the most famous, there have been many “slow collapse” films that examine the breakdown of society from different angles. Here I’m looking at it primarily through 2006’s Children of Men and 1990’s Prayer of the Rollerboys, though with a couple other mentions to broaden the scope a bit. With Children of Men I keep referring to Julian as Julia. I’d just read 1984 again ri...
1984 and the Politicizing of Language
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A dive into “1984” in relation to modern politics can’t be done without pissin’ in everyone’s Froot-Loops, so grab a tall glass of Victory Gin and let’s talk about how The Party functions, how doublethink makes us crazy, and how it’s not just those nutters on the other side that do it. I take a few jabs at current sacred cows of the Left and Right here. Hopefully the comments won't look like Ha...
Captains America : Old Symbols, New Era
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Captains America : Old Symbols, New Era
Childhood's End (Youtube Copyright Edit)
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Childhood's End (RUclips Copyright Edit)
Dune : Story and the Sands of Time
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Dune : Story and the Sands of Time
Robocop : Man, Machine, and the Law
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Robocop : Man, Machine, and the Law
Red Son : Is Soviet Superman the Best Superman?
Просмотров 19 тыс.4 месяца назад
Red Son : Is Soviet Superman the Best Superman?
Space Feudalism : DuneBattleHammer
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Space Feudalism : DuneBattleHammer
Star Trek : Jobs, Money, and Replicators
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Star Trek : Jobs, Money, and Replicators
What KIND of Civil War Movie Are You?
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What KIND of Civil War Movie Are You?
BoS Kapital Vol. 3 : Fallout and Central Planning
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BoS Kapital Vol. 3 : Fallout and Central Planning
BoS Kapital vol. 2 : Jumpstarting Capitalism
Просмотров 26 тыс.6 месяцев назад
BoS Kapital vol. 2 : Jumpstarting Capitalism
Babylon 5 and Space Above and Beyond - ‘90s Cousins and Reboots
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Babylon 5 and Space Above and Beyond - ‘90s Cousins and Reboots
Two Eagles Chapter 2 : Operation Bloodstone
Просмотров 5 тыс.7 месяцев назад
Two Eagles Chapter 2 : Operation Bloodstone
Warhammer 40K : Finding a Light in the GrimDark
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Warhammer 40K : Finding a Light in the GrimDark
Remember what the colonel when we repel the brotherhood's attack and the purifier starts working, crowds of people will flow to the enclave for support, help and water
brotherhood of steel ...... a bunch of rabid fanatics who believe that all pre-war technologies should belong to them and yes, they still do not produce anything new, but only sit on a pile of technology...Well, they've collected this damn piece of scrap metal that can be blown up from the most ancient artel..But the Enclave has all their equipment, armor, weapons and equipment, they produce themselves and also, they use more than the best versions of Vertibird, such as combat and cargo
Stallone movie = got the world right, but Dredd himself wrong on every level. Urban movie = more realistic world less comic accurate, but gets Dredd himself right in very way possible
The stealth concept is a Russian idea. Funny how the Firefox nose looks almost identical to the F117 which was being developed at the same time. Also Russia produces most of the world’s titanium, a key element for jet engine turbine blades.
The comics do contain a lot of different stories about the judges and the system they uphold. Judges plant agitators to pro-democracy rallies and harass their leaders to disrupt their cause. A reporter uncovering that the judges are pumping calming drugs into the city to keep the people more docile is given the option between a life sentence in isolation or a lobotomy. The drug administering system is even used against the city when East Meg One agents pump drugs through it to cause mass hysteria across Mega City One before the Apocalypse War. Even Anderson, with her positive look on life, acting as a lively counter to Dredd's dourness, isn't beyond thinking about the immediate greater good. She sentences an innocent man, effectively the second coming of Buddha Christ, even though she knows he's good and honest person. Purely because him being left alone would cause too much civil unrest and social upheaval. There's also characters like Jack Point, who are far grayer, operating as undercover agents in the underworld, where they have to navigate between their own morals and the law.
Yes, BUT you got it the wrong way around: The ending of Firefly works more than ever. It's SOCIETY that doesn't work anymore. 😉 One of the biggest problems today is: Everyone talks about politics, but no one has read the book 😄
The only way to get past capitalism is if you have enough automation to create a post-scarcity anarcho capitalism society. There will always be somebody willing to trade this for that, but with enough automation, it would be few and far between. Something like the second book in Isaac Asimov's robot series. Socialism can only work in a tiny microcosm like a family or a commune of a few dozen people, and even then the commune will only last for so long.
There are some problems depicted in the game, but there are a lot of positives. You're pretty much allowed to open carry whatever you want so there is no NFA. You are allowed to make whatever modifications to your own body that you want. There is a lot of upward mobility. One of the criticisms was the idea that medical care favors the wealthy, but that's the way it is in real life, even under socialism.
Pandoras Box in reverse🤔
Fun Fact: Russia can (and ocasionaly does) put up, questionable, claims to US Territory, from Alaska to parts of California and Hawaii.
So comited to Democracy that they cant risk the people vote the wrong way, unfortunately is the perfect description of modern "liberalism"
For an alternative look at "Post Big Corpo" look into the Heavy Gear setting, at the planet of Caprice. While underdeveloped, the base idea behind them is that Earth started colonies on other worlds, one of them was a Mars-like shit hole of dome living and mining. Eventually Earth consumes itself with civil war, and cuts off all the supply and support shipments to other planets, including Caprice. Being a barren hellscape that was only ever populated for mining, they are rather screwed. The only groups with the resources to save the abandoned world were the big companies (mining, dome construction, underground agro, etc) so they took over. But in doing so, the people and the corpos wrote new law that basically says you're a citizen of the corp you work for, and it is your responsibility to protect/serve/make them succeed, while at the same time the corpos primary responsibility is the welfare of their employees (not fiduciary duty to the stockholders, because they're all on earth, behind a close jump gate and massive war). It's an... interesting flavor of dystopia, and I think it could really stand to be fleshed out.
Portmerion, the location where the show was made, actualy was used as a internment facility in WW II.
Dredd 2012 is my favourite film. Everything about it from performances writing satire action aesthetics and visual effects is perfect. It's the only film that looks better in 3d.
Discovery is what happens when you hire political playwrites who can't fill a student theatre at teh local community college, to work on something with not only a budget, but a history that they despise.
You mean early stage communism.
Okay you edgy Hobbsian/Nietzsche fan. I have to disagree. Clothes do not make a man a Nazi.
This guy predicted the WEF by 30 years.
Another eye-opening companion piece about late-stage capitalism is 2012's "Syndicate." The opening intro reveals so much information in only about a minute or two, and the rest of the game does a pretty good job of showing some of the consequences and implications of everything.
Thank the Mig-25 for the invention of the F-15.
3:20 wait is that literally you
Cobra was the blue-print for the face-less corona-fascists. They look the same.
Id watch that movie...
Ascension was horrible. Before it devolved into mystery boxes. The very premise is retarded for non-american viewer. I suspect even for american viewer as well. 1. No one sees 50's America as anything but land of great opportunity and of free people, only some Americans try to sell a story that it was bad. Who says that? leftist boomers, the worst people that ever lived in modern context with mommy and daddy issues? So basically-people who hate their parents and thus times they lived in? Why do you believe in this nonsense? oh noes, but WASPS were mean and stiff! for whom? its all figment of your imagination, no one who emigrated to USA during that period shares this "observation". 2. No one wants to watch 50's America in space, as in metaphor for class division. Its absurd 3. No one cares about internal american cultural monologues, stop spitting it out, they are uninteresting. You guys have NOTHING to say. 4. A ship divided into classes and generations IS interesting, but shoud have been treated seriously as a SF concept. And this wasnt doing it. This was yet again american leftists being leftists and thinking they are smart by saying something by pointing finger at it. Thats not smart, its not artistic, its crude, obnoxious and by simpletons for simpletons.
White guilt and the elites using it
Max is a naive coward that let's it happen thinking he's good. You should change the name of your channel to the fooled stooge
you know... you really are an assuhole ....just sing the song, pal.
Every major ongoing story (I hate the word Franchise) I ever liked has been utterly ruined by wokeness. Star Wars, Star Trek James Bond - the list goes on...
23:07 Basically, "Do we have the right to forcibly liberate those who helped enslave us?" When that day comes, I don't think we'll care about them, at all.
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Awesome movie! Ive watched probably close too 100 times. Here's a fun fact .George Miller was an actual Dr in real life at the time of this movie. He saved money on budget by not having to hire a Dr to be on set for stunts and production
Confederate generals (particularly Lee) are hailed as geniuses, but Lee made nearly as many dumb mistakes as some of the lesser Union generals.
I know working men, truckers, most would just die to drugs on UBI.
Could you make a video about Cows With Guns?
I never realized how close we have always beem to this reality until now :(
Nah, its just a movie
Fascism is when military.
HA HA "The one where, we didnt wuss out"
The relevancy of government is based on its ability to unify a people against a perceived external threat. East Asia or Gold-stein or communism or terrorists or climate change. The threat doesn't matter, just the belief the government will protect the people. (See the 'Report from Iron Mountain' a document from the 1960's)
4:18 My Man
you have a vibe like the reporter in max headroom
Our society goal is to define good governce. A process that is eternal and never ending
Dude your videos are great,we gotta make you famous
The Black Hole was a mad-scientist horror film in space. I loved the style of the Cygnus - it seemed Victorian or even Steam -Punk and its emptiness made it particularly creepy.
Yep sounds like where we're at
it's quite funny that the subtext of this show is similar to Bladee's 2021 album ''The fool'' in its lyricism and theme
I have never seen it.... though i remember the endless commercials early days on the SciFi channel. What do you want?...information... where am I? information. You're not getting it. We will by hook or crook.
Erica is wearing Portuguese camo trousers. Awesome camouflage! This is my absolute favourite pattern…
They're watching you... 😮. tavi.
Zero marginal productivity human.