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Capitalism is the only game in town or the world or the future of outer space. It knows no boundaries, borders, subsumes all narratives. It is the black hole of reality.

I really liked the simple format, no long-winded introductions, just straight to content. I don't mind Sir Christopher being in a little box so the slides are visible, very nice. Many historians do arithmetic history, names and dates, what we all suffered through in high school. Some historians are up to algebra, the structures, not events crowd, those that concede people and structures are variable. Clark is a calculus history. People, structures and relationships not only interact, they change over time, often quickly and unexpectedly. Human psychology enters, the dismal science of economics is a factor. How bracing, though complex. I have heard a rumor, just a rumor mind you. NASA sent a space probe with a recording of the art and music and history of the human race, hoping intelligent space aliens would see it. Years later, an alien probe came back, with the sole message, "Send more Clark!" This channel is looking a bit neglected, so I hope the fine folks at U Oslo keep it up, and thanks for the English-language content.

Very interesting and persuasive. Thank you.

Susanne Winterling was one of the greatest art-professors of my University (HfG, University of art and design, Offenbach am Main). It is a pitty that we don't have her anymore :( Students need professors like her! Her classes inspired me so much. I got deeper and deeper into the topics of sustainability and I tell you her input was one of the driving-forces without knowing it from the starting point! I wish our University would see the imporantce of people like Susanne. But their focus is unfortunally yet somewhere where art is just repeating itself from old traditions :( Everyone who has the chance to work with Susanne. You are a lucky one! :) <3

great video

Wonderful!

I could endure 8 minutes of this. I imagine myself sitting in the Harry Helmsley bench in Manhattan overlooking Central Park South, with lights, TV and HVAC off everywhere on a dark summer day, as it was 4 years ago when I sat there, figuring out the Fiat-driven pretend economy’s mechanics…. Realizing that anything other than “nobody’s home, so how do they pretend?” was the only question worth asking. Historicity? Really? It didn’t even get corrected by my “Icky Bum Wrong Again” Marxist spell checker. Integrated ridiculous notions don’t fill the buildings or pay actual rents along Central Park or throughout the rest of a city that has looked empty for 20 years. Not only was BoJo mischaracterized here, but straw Trump was mischaracterized as well. As to M. Macron, I did not get beyond the “he has been awful except for this great Marxist speech at the Sorbonne.” I was hoping for better.

Christopher Clark certainly knows history and how that relates to the present!

Imagine a dinner party with Sir Christopher and Stephen Kotkin. Marvellous