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Could 2:56 perhaps be unknowingly being reffered to certain Radical factions of today sweeping across certain countries?

my ancestors from NZ were influenced by the British Empire to Serve,,,,and off they went....to be met , with , "upper lip along superior British supremacy," maby NZ er's served and of course , distracted by all of this,

This viewing is going to be much more hilarious this time.

Barbarians in an absolute shambles

While I like this show, Civilization only applies to white christians. No. Jews, No Moslems, No Chinese.

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I watched this series as a new college graduate in 1969 and went off to Europe on a mission to see the signature reliquary head of Charlemagne and as much else as I could. What a wonderful guide. Sadly, today it seems the barbarians have returned ...

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It's my ireland.... BWAAAHAA! (Yea, it's mine 😁).

5.0 - Most admired sculpture in the world?😂

Great episodes of art history. Except for the first episode, which consists of a truly unfortunate and incorrect assertion that civilization was almost totally gone if not for the "skin of our teeth". Evidently the entirety of Western Europe was rolling in the mud with the swine after Western Rome fell, according to Clark. Somewhat ironically, the Greek kingdom to the East calling itself "Roman" was the entity that - in the words of Will Durant - "completed the ruin of Italy" with a silly re-Romanization invasion. Yet Byzantium is one of the good guys. (Shrug.) I think Clark confuses "Christianity" with "civilization" (um, the old classical world, hello?). Right at the beginning he says, "What is civilization? I don't know" - going on to say that he knows when he's looking at it, as the camera pans to Notre Dame Cathedral. Except he should know it, as the word "civilization" is derived from "civitas", that is, "city". To quote Durant again, "civilization starts in the towns" - even non-Christian ones, I would add. Notre Dame ain't in the boonies, ya feel me? In any case, it's hard to the look at the magnificent goldsmithing of the Anglo-Saxons, the woodworking and ship-building of the Vikings, or the mosques of Islam and call the people who made them "barbarous". Clark can't escape his prejudices. The worst of them is, in his opinion - an old, Victorian one by the way, one that was outdated by the late 1960s when this was made and certainly by the mid-80s when I was in high school - that Europe was nothing but empty plains and hills bordered by endless ocean ... EXCEPT FOR BRITAIN! "Civilization" (meaning Christianity, one presumes) carried on in the isles of Britain ONLY. I do all this nitpicking only to urge you to ignore much of that first hour and continue on with the other four, which are well worth it and, I suspect, fall within his real expertise - art history. He has much worthwhile to say about that.

Hopelessness from superstition yet this man talks of Christ as one does old boy if one is white, western and privileged.

I walk around with my hands in my pockets as one did when at prep and public school and not because I am a complete wanker.

Ken Clark, well you see there is Us and Them and Us have the money and nice things and Them have nothing that Us want except their blood, sweat and tears, that is it in a nutshell old boy.

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they just stole everything Roman and did not create anything but cheap copies

christianity judaized west for our eternal enemy.

Beautiful. Keep on doing this job. ❤❤

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The real question today is: Is humanity, not so much as civilization, worth preserving?

34:50 byzantine song

It is abundantly obvious that civilization is in serious decline. Very sad. Men used to think much bigger than they do now. Humanity is choking itself to death.

Love the rick wakeman intro

Love love love Sturgill with Laur on the Tele.

Sadly dated in tone and outlook. This first episode is so Euro-, Christocentric as to be offensive to those whose civilisation / culture / religion is otherwise. Perhaps other episodes looked favourably on those other civilisations, but the damage has already been done. And where is the internal balance. This is no objective critique, more a hagiography

Made in '69. As KC would say - a highly agreeable year.

In modern education we are taught that an agent of change will suffer ostracism unless grassroot affiliation is maintained. Nevertheless leadership is often plagued by scapegoating maneuvers to prevent progressive actions/self-education. Change in groups is vilified then recognized as ideal. Nothing new. Being martyred is what groups do to their “own”

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2:28:20 - The music is the Symphony No. 1 by William Walton - a friend of Clark's. 3:15:22 - 'The trouble is that there is still no centre. The moral and intellectual failure of Marxism has left us with no alternative to Heroic Materialism - *and that isn't enough* .'

A calm and informative place in the rumble and restlessness of today’s RUclips.

This place looks absolutely sinister 😳 Nothing about the exterior looks warm and inviting. I hope I am wrong.

Wow, just wow ! Thanx for uploading this .

Its such a fuckin shame whats happening in Europe

I’m collecting old masterclasses like this, anybody knows more like this one?

I have been watching this on PBS since I was a kid . One of the greatest TV series ever. Our world is no longer civilized. His ideas and his voice are legends. He was a brilliant man.

It does make sense that religious sacrifice is the management of communal violence via a sacred route and this is necessary to protect children. Think about the eucharist - the body and blood of Christ. We participate in the murder of Christ and eat his body for (literally) Christ's sake. It is totally atavistic - but totally necessary catharthis.

Thomas Jefferson at Monticello had about 200 negro slaves and 40 house guests. The slaves enjoy themselves everyday at his expense, so were the house house guests. At his death, most of his properties was robbed by you know who. 😂😅😂. Thomas Jefferson die has a broke man deeply in debt or nothing of wealth, His children got nothing from his living weath.

They had alot of slaves hidden in their work. That's why it civilization.

And after this opens we have to contemplate Trump in the Whitehouse + misc. other fascist buffoons. That said, this great documentary inspires you to combat those cretins.

Such a biogoted and baised documentry . Culture is only when western world does it everything else is barbarism .

the west steals wealth and beauty from other more civilized cultures to make it their own. The west is FINISHED. Free Palestine, free Congo, Sudan, Libia, Cuba, Venezuela...

This series should've been called, "the Western Civilization". But I like it, it's very informative and enlightening ..

Thank you for uploading this!

[1] One flaw in Kenneth Clark's remarks is that he seems to believe a person's face reveals their character. In other words, if you look nice, you are nice. Anyone who has dealt with a conman or a con-woman knows this is not true. Cardinal Francesco Alidosi had a gentle, agreeable face but was a ruthless person who did not hesitate to execute people. Somewhere in the Bible it says that Satan was God's most beautiful angel. The sadistic SS guard Kurt Franz who worked at Treblinka was called "Lalke"--Yiddish for "doll face". [2] @3:35:36 "derived from a Roman figure of a boxer"---If Clark means that bronze "Boxer at Rest" in Rome's Terme Museum, that was not excavated until 1885. Michelangelo's "Dying Captive" could not have been inspired by the "Dying Niobe" since it was not found until 1583. Michelangelo died in 1564. He would have loved to have seen these works, but he was no longer alive. [3] The best discussion of Raphael's paintings is in Heinrich Wolfflin's "Classic Art".

2:54 odds, it is built on a magnetic leyline and they are using word trickery here to say it was like a 'magnet' like any other cathedral built anywhere else, they are on certain points/crossing lines or song lines as the druids called them x

Who are the scapegoats of the current year? The three who did not get their sentences commuted by Joe Biden - Robert Bowers, Dylann Roof, and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.

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This seems to have a un relates touch, most people don't have time like this to try and write a spoiled tapestry of unloved high class loner life...

these are late civilisations ,id love to see what he would make of new discoveries ,RIP