This NYC Professor is a COMPLETE JOKE!
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- Опубликовано: 27 сен 2024
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Without dismissing the issues inherent to Spartan culture that have been listed, such a statement clashes with everything we know: in 404 BC, Sparta emerged victorious from the Peloponnesian War that had pitted it against Athens, inaugurating what historians define as the Spartan hegemony in Greece, which lasted throughout the first quarter of the 4th century BC and beyond, only shattering in 371 BC with the defeat at Leuctra against the Thebans.
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Defining the Spartan army as "the greatest gay army that's ever been on the planet" is a provocation to the alt-right, amusing if we want, but essentially nonsense (we have already talked hundreds of times about how the sexuality of the ancients is not superimposable on modern sexuality. The most correct definition (if one really wanted to give one) would be "pansexual army", given that at the time everyone could have been defined more or less in a certain way as "pansexual", but also remembering that sexuality followed specific norms and rules (e.g. after puberty, passive homosexuality tended to be stigmatized). Subsequently, however, he recovers and presents a more or less FAIRLY correct picture. The point is that the masculinity expressed by Spartan culture, a mixture of frankness, roughness, simplicity, frugality, remains evident (just read the various Apophthegmata Laconica by Plutarch), and this is because in antiquity someone could quietly be perceived as virile and at the same time have (active) homosexual relationships, e.g. Philip II of Macedonia said "If I enter Laconia I will raze it to the ground!" The Spartans replied: "If" (hence the adjective "laconic") [A Spartan responds, during an initiation rite, to a priest who asks him the most nefarious action he had ever committed]. (Spartan): To whom should I confess it: to you or to God? (Priest): To God. (Spartan): Then you go away. A Spartan is asked if the roads leading to Sparta are safe, the answer given by the Spartan is the following: "It depends on what you are; while the lions with us roam wherever they want, the hares end up in the pot. An orator makes a speech with very long sentences and a Spartan comments: "Wow, what courage this man possesses! How skilled he is in wrapping his tongue around emptiness!"
“The Spartans were strange catalysts of democracy: They were utter fascists. They had the best land in Greece, and it was tilled by slaves and the citizens were all soldiers to defend the territory.
The Athenians were the ones who gave birth to democracy, but the Spartans made it all possible.”
Relativamente alla rappresentazione della mollezza persiana in contrapposizione con la virilità dei guerrieri greci, invece, sono le stesse fonti classiche a parlarcene:
“Since the sight of the Persians inspired terror in Agesilaus' troops, he ordered his Persian prisoners to be stripped and their white soft bodies, contemptuous to Greeks, to be displayed to his men”
- Frontino, Stratagemata, 1.11.17
Certainly, 300 represents the Persians in a caricatured way, emphasizing the "oriental softness" (I wouldn't say "racism"). The film is based on the Graphic Novel by Frank Miller, who, as in his other works (e.g., "The Dark Knight Returns"), employs a very particular form of social satire, and if read in-depth, he is an author who loves to put forth great contradictions. In fact, Miller does not describe the Spartans in a positive way, but plays with the narrative according to which, at a given moment, their contribution was incisive in defending Greece, and therefore also Athenian democracy, from the aims of an autocratic state such as the Persian empire. "The Spartans were strange catalysts of democracy: They were utter fascists. They had the best land in Greece, and it was tilled by slaves and the citizens were all soldiers to defend the territory. The Athenians were the ones who gave birth to democracy, but the Spartans made it all possible."
Regarding the representation of Persian softness in contrast to the virility of the Greek warriors, however, the classical sources themselves tell us about it:
"Since the sight of the Persians inspired terror in Agesilaus' troops, he ordered his Persian prisoners to be stripped and their white soft bodies, contemptuous to Greeks, to be displayed to his men" - Frontinus, Stratagemata, 1.11.17
#ancientgreece #ancientrome #propaganda
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metatron, I have a question, have you seen the wikipedia article titled "Homosexuality in the militaries of ancient Greece" or "Homosexuality in ancient Greece"?
Truth? Lies? I'm afraid youtube won't let me post the link.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homosexuality_in_the_militaries_of_ancient_Greece
the fact that he doesn't seem to understand that 'wakanda' is not a culture but a fictional backstory from a comic book makes him ridiculous
Hello Metatron, could you make a video about the Satyricon ? The three main protagonists are in a kind of love triangle (they are all three men of course), one being the passive one, and the two others seem to fight over him, wich eventually lead to a r8pe. It seems like a pretty interesting depiction of ancient society, even tho it's a satire, it's still a fascinating (and very funny) window on the past. It's like ancient south park i suppose ?
any professor who compares Greek mythology to a comic book should be fired. Wakanda isnt African mythology, it was created by two jewish guys in 1966 ffs
There's always some jungian every generation who wants to draw it all into the great universal myth.
Every single time
No way really? All the roads lead back to the Jews it seems if you catch my drift
@@PackHunter117 It was Stan Lee and Jack Kirby. One is the father of the classic Marvel comics the other was the co-creator of Captain America. Two men that made stories about hope, heroic ideals, and striving to help others.
If you want to apply your conspiracy theories you might want to pick INDIVIDUALS who actually embody something negative.
@@katnerd6712 Alright you’re right and that would be a different argument and subject than what’s discussed in the video. Didn’t know they were Jews but I guess that shouldn’t surprise me
Sparta being exclusionary and isolationist = bad.
Wakanda being exclusionary and isolationist = YAAASSSS
I'm always astonished with how stupid that sort of thing is.
So there's this hyper-advanced African society that just chose not to do anything about slavery, both within and outside of Africa?
It reminds me of how the wizards in Harry Potter just ignored WWII, and we're not supposed to think they're horrible people.
@@thebreadbringer yes, also not sharing their welth and medics
The worst part is, that isolation view is literally condemned in the movie.
Because of race.
Who knows they might have been selling them too. wakanda does seem to be ritch with being hidden and no outside trade just saying...
So he's supposed to be talking about history and proceeds to fawn over Black Panther? Yup, he's one of *those* professors.
He's a huge fan of the BBC.
Plenty professors like that unfortunately. I had to write detailed essays on Wakanda for two different classes during my undergraduate degree. Ridiculous.
@@thatlittlevoice6354 😂😂😂
@@thatlittlevoice6354 ah, yes, the British broadcasting corporation. I've heard of them.
@@thatlittlevoice6354 The veiny kind!
Imagine being a university professor and using Black Panther as a source to explain how Greek and Roman history is whitewashed...
I genuinely wonder how African people feel that he would rather use Wakanda, a fictional culture and country from western comic books, to discuss African history rather then actually discuss real African Cultures.
Any content they do is not meant to be consumed outside their western, liberal, urbanized bubbles.
Its disgusting in my opinion especially when IT comes from african American for crying Out loud despite making man ape Not wear His Gorilla costume they Made His entire Clan make monkey noices during a discussion Not even the man ape in the Comics make monkey noices all the time. Also its very americanized Sure they butchered some thousands different cultural window Dressing into IT but IT IS very clearly african American Not real african
@@DonVigaDeFierro what?
@@kobiee2x137
He’s saying professor doesn’t actually give a damn what Africans think.
@kobiee2x137
🤣 tttkktt
“There are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them.”
― George Orwell
They are Useful Fools. Term coined in Russia and got miss translated to Useful Idiot in English. Fool and idiot is different.
Like those Marxist college professors. More concerned with theoreticals and hypotheses than actual practical application and objective truth
Does that mean intellectuals have low IQ? I am unsure what intellectual means at this point. I know there are low IQ educated people but I hesitate to call them intellectuals. What is a higher IQ and educated person then? What do we call that person? I call this professor an impostor or a charlatan.
Misquote.
"I have heard it confidently stated, for instance, that the American troops had been brought to Europe not to fight the Germans but to crush an English revolution. **One has to belong to the intelligentsia to believe things like that: no ordinary man could be such a fool…**
I was talking with someone today and they told me that something I *know* to be untrue (I'm not often that sure on things) must be true because the man they heard it from had "a doctorate" (likely not even covering what we were talking about). There's a lot of clearly knowledgeable and smart folk within "academia" - but the amount of bullshit and bias amongst them is nevertheless, shocking. We mock, say, the Victorians for what they got wrong, and their biases, but I think we could be worse nowadays. It seems to me that, maybe Man broadly, has a window of "deep" knowledge that is very narrow, yet confidence (either self-confidence, or the confidence others have in us) tends to stray much more broadly than it should. Like someone who's an "expert in Greek mythology" can be staggeringly bad with, say, Greek history of the same time.
Anybody who uses Marvel films as a reference for academic discussion isn't to be taken seriously.
exactly, anyone who treats fiction as facts should be ridiculed... (spiderman, dragons, minotaurs, magic, astrology, ressurections, religions...)
@@milansvancaraso u don’t like metatron either then?
But Mythology as a reference for academic discussion works? They both involve things that either cannot happen, or are so fanciful they most likely didn't happen. You guys are soft.
@@gimligloinson972 I do like many of his videos, even this video of his is factual, and I won't hate someone just for having some ridiculous stances on something (my previous comment was hyperbolic half-sarcasm to demonstrate the point)
I just don't like the hypocrisy many people don't see here, that's all :)
I completely disagree based on the premise of the talk, basically, the portrayal of mythology in modern filmography. Thus, any film that goes into mythology would be on the table. I don’t get why he’d pick Black Panther unless you’re comparing modern concepts of invented ancient mythology to mythologies of the surrounding areas to the setting.keeping Mediterranean, I believe, haven’t seen, that Love & Thunder portrayed the Greek pantheon, even if shortly, but still something. Why didn’t he comment more on the portrayal of Bast & likelihood of her bestowing such favors on a man…there was an opportunity to speak to the topic, but he ignored it for non-topic bs.
Hope his students see this & question why he expects them to stay on topic in their submissions.
Does this guy not know that 300 is meant to be a story, told by Dilios to the army that he's commanding at the end of the film, right before they go into battle to hype them all up by telling this embellished legendary tale about their former king who heroicly gave his life to save them from this invading empire.
So the monsters, the deformaties, they're all meant to be embellishments (or at least taken with a generous pinch of salt).
That would take nuanced thinking and sadly that is lacking in society today. There is no sliding scale to these people. You are either Good or you are Bad. According to this way of thinking saying “Erm…a full blown African Samurai makes no sense and is basically the cultural appropriation you all keep banging on about” is to these people no different than saying “You that little austrian man with the Charlie Chaplin tash really had some brilliant ideas on how to run a country didn’t he?”
He also didn't even know what the story of Clash of the Titans was.
"Half of the Mediterranean is Africa and we forget that." No, just people like this professor who forget that N. Africa, the Mediterranean portion, is not black.
It's Africa, but it's not THAT Africa. The Sahara was quite an obstacle for trade and culture for most of history.
Berbers!
@@ududy22 I legit can't imagine how humans made it across. It amazes me.
@@Vicus_of_Utrecht well, they followed water. Namely The Nile. It provided sort of a "bridge" with liveable conditions.
Liberal white people believe all of Africa is black.
Professor condemns European whitewashing of African history, then complains about Europeans teaching African history...
to him it right or wrong doesnt matter, as long as it serves his most holy of politics
@scrattthesquirrel5242 You’ve just perfectly described the vocal left in the USA. Bravo.
@@scratthesquirrel5242 teaches in NY. all you need to know for an accurate picture
@@eastcoastsailingcenter7768 Who all made points, except you. So you're definitely the triggered one.
Man, there is being an ally, and then there's taking up all the oxygen in the room pretending to be one.
This "professor" is utterly disgusting.
The "professor" saw some SHELL'S....
@@JamilaJibril-e8h What?
I'm pretty sure he know that half of what he says is utter nonsense, but he says that anyway, because if he said the truth, he would most likely be targeted by some leftie looney gender pseudo science students and could loose his, probably well paid job.
I wish there were more videos like that, with modern day "professors" showing their true colors. Now, if you are still going to send your kid to this university, it's on you.
Why do you think he's employed at NYU?
As a disabled person, I think it's so gross when activists like this use our experiences to further their own agenda. Disabled people are not withering delicate flowers that need your protection, professor. Let us be evil and malicious for heaven's sake!!
Same. I'm legally blind (only have one eye, with about 20/000 vision after a 2019 injury).
Anyways, during covid I was getting online tutoring help for my calculus one class. The tutoring website , which selects available tutors from around the world that are available upon submitting a request. The tutor I got was Canadian, no disability, normal healthy guy. Naturally, I let the tutors know right away about my disability type and level , so they can adjust their teaching style and explain things a little slower. Make a long story short, somewhere among our small talk, he lectured me on NOT to "use the word 'disabled' ".
My immediate response was "F**k you, cripple"
The online session immediately ended. The website refunded me my $11.99. it was my finest moment.
@@tenaciousb4731eyepatches are a villain stereotype for a reason
@@crizman7032 I totally got a pure white glass eye for my hollow left eye socket
My family hates it. I was completely going for James Bond villain
Exhibit A: Davros. Having listened to Big Finish audios, Davros is a force to be reckoned with. A villain through and through with a sharp intellect behind a crippled body.
Good old Richard the 3rd
As an African myself, there is A LOT I could say about this "professor" and debunk him. However, considering the amount of balderdash and lies, I don't think it's worth it. Let's just laugh at this revisionism and ignorance 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
És Angolano ou Moçambicano? (Talvez Cabo verdiano?)
@@felipepicolo angolano
@@camilofonseca2073 Imaginei que fosse, devido ao nome. Um abraço daqui do estado do Rio de Janeiro, Brasil, desde que RUclipsrs como o Baptista Miranda vieram pra cá o interesse que os Brasileiros (ao menos os da internet) têm pelo vosso país aumentou e a Internet diminuiu a distância entre nós e os outros países lusófonos consideravelmente. Muito legal saber que temos muito mais em comum do que o idioma (e a ancestralidade de boa parte dos brasileiros).
@@felipepicolo opa. Abraço irmão.
Edit: com relação ao meu nome já é uma outra e longa história.
Thanks for speaking up about this.
Why.... did he bring up Jan 6 and gay army in the same sentence? These channels are such a joke.
Because left winger does left wing things they can’t talk about anything without bringing up their moronic and racist ideology.
The Enlightenment was a mistake folks.
Because they have a specified Derangement Syndrome
Because it's propaganda
My best guess is the professor somehow made a connection between the Q-anon shamon and spartans. So he was saying how its strange that conservatives dressed up as a gay army. That's my hypothesis but your guess is as good as mine lol. Maybe some people at the capital on january 6th dressed as spartans or something, but i dont recall anything like that
Nothing worse than someone made STUPID by their own education.
The problem is he is educating others.
Over education is known to make mind very ridged.
@@Dracones101 I think the correct word is "indoctrinating others"
@@Dracones101 the word you want is indoctrination.
@@Dracones101 The correct word is stupefying if I got it right
the professor: The goddesses were on the ground, while the gods were in the sky
Hades: allow me to introduce myself
It's hillarious that this guy was constantly talking about African culture, African mythology and African influence on the Greek mythology and then decided to talk about a marvel movie instead of actual African mythologies lol.
Yeah that makes me mad because I want to learn more about African culture and its getting hijacked. Look at the Woman King. That movie had 0 relevancy in to what actually happened. They were the actual oppressors against other tribes, not their saviors.
Mythology and fiction are the same thing. Don't know why that upset you.
That statement is disrespectful to literally every culture that has ever existed. While it's quite possible some stuff that was known to be fiction at the time has gotten accidentally mixed in most "Mythologies" use to be religions practiced by people who believed they were true.
@@kaimagnus5760 My point was, Black Panther is fake, and so is Zeus and Hercules. So if he was just using wakanda as an example people are familiar with what's the big deal? Even metatrons gripe about him calling a shield a hoplite is easily proven to be true with a Google search.
@@ChadOfAllChads Black Panther is modern and American not ancient and African, so it doesn't fit the context of what he was talking about at all. And even if it did fit a context of, I don't even know what, maybe showing the audience what is our modern version of mythology? Then the Professor would still have mentioned the African (or specifically Ethiopian and Kushite because Egypt is so obvious it doesn't really require much elaboration in a short video) influcences on Greek mythology and then didn't even bother to mention ONE story or character even remotely related to them, while simultaneously complaining about general population's lack of knowledge about them.
He's an activist revisionist.
@@JHimminy No, "revisionist" just means that you reinterpret history for your own purposes, with or without any evidence.
One's relation relative to "authority" is a nonsense metric.
This is to say that it is not wrong to push against the accepted orthodox position but that facts make one correct, not bias or position relative to others.
Nah, he's just a coward afraid of loosing his job.
@@tomekkruk6147bingo
The Medusa bit wasn’t revisionism tho. That’s actually close to what the myth reflects.
@@yoeyyoey8937 Ah, so nothing he said was revisionist then.
That's not a professor, that's an activist.
He identifies as a professor
Anyone, involved in academia today, is a political activist. They wouldn't have the job otherwise. Anyone, involved in politics today, is a lobbyist for a corporation (or religious minority). They wouldn't have the job otherwise. Any non African origin working in the westhas their job through affirmative action. They wouldn't have their job otherwise. Meritocracy is now dead, which was one of the major foundations of the western civilization.
In and of itself there's nothing wrong with being an academic and an activist. If you're doing biomedical research you might also be an activist in raising awareness on issues of public health. If you're an environmental biologist investigating endangered ecosystems, you might simultanously be an activist fighting to protect them. If you're a climate scientist... you're probably fed up with debunking the same old climate denialist BS over, and over again etc. One basic condition though -- don't bend or misrepresent the state of knowledge in any given academic field when doing the activist stuff.
Most academics in the humanities think exactly like this.
@@Qba86 If youre a climate scientist you know youre pushing bs propaganda just to make us pay higher taxes.. because aparently theres no other solution to climate change other than extreme taxation.
This "professor" said that a portrayal in film was "problematical"........not a word, professor!
The professor forgot, if he ever knew, that the movie 300 was based on a comic book. It was never intended to be an accurate depiction of Spartan/Persian culture or of history, but rather a fantasy for plain fun.
That movie was. But there is another movie of the 300 that wasn't based on a comic I think it was made in the 70s?
I mean the comic is based on real life events, it's not made up.
That being said idk why he's talking about it when it was said he would discuss mythology.
@@simpsondr12 it's lightly based off real life events, the vast majority of it is extremely made up though.
@@SpiritStoneWarrior94-yx3gs I'd argue the opposite. It's heavily based on real life events with a healthy dose of overexaggeration.
@@johnv6806Which isn't what he's talking about.
I think we can all agree on one historic fact: there is no shortage of revisionists who want to butcher facts in service to their agenda.
Funny thing that the revisionist is a white man revising black culture
Its like "im a black man following the lies of the white man, so im gonna subvert that and follow the "truths" of the white man"
Yeah, like Three Kingdoms. Good job on that baby smashing, Liu Bei.
I guess that I expected academics to be more subtle about it.
300 should never be used to make a statement about Ancient Greece. It's a Zack Snyder movie based on a comic book written by Frank Miller during the most troubled years of his life.
Treating it like a historical movie is like watching Bridgerton to study the Victorian Era.
Still infinitely more historical than Wanakananda; no idea why this 'professor' even talks about Marvel cr4p.
And, in-universe, is a propaganda speech being said before a big battle.
And didn't Miller base it on Herodotus' account instead of the real history?
Yes. But Herodotus's accounts, as erroneous as they are, are still historical.
It embellishes a few things like the numbers of the Greeks but for the most part it's actually pretty accurate. Leonidas and Xerxes both existed, the Greeks were heavily outnumbered and led by Leonidas I of Sparta, and they did use the terrain to their advantage to mitigate the numbers advantage Xerxes had. Even the part where Xerxes sends a messenger to Leonidas to tell him to surrender happened, but Leonidas didn't kick him down a well.
Instead when the messenger told him that Xerxes demanded the Greeks surrender their weapons, he replied "Come and take them". Wish that had been in the movie instead its way cooler. The biggest inaccuracies were the number of Greek troops and the fact that it wasn't just Spartans which I think can be forgiven under artistic license. Clearly not done for any weird political reasons.
The phrase "Come back with your shield, or on it" is indeed rooted in ancient Greek culture and is not just a creation for the movie "300." According to historical sources, Spartan mothers would tell their sons this as they went off to battle. The phrase implies that a warrior should return victorious (with his shield) or dead (carried on his shield), rather than dishonored by fleeing and abandoning the shield. This saying underscores the Spartan emphasis on bravery and loyalty in battle.
There's something inherently dangerous about a professor that's so willing to misrepresent information to sculp a narrative.
Sculpt
@@bradleythebuilder8743 no worries.
I don't know about sculpting narratives.
I think he was just looking for a payday,
It's Vanity Fair so presumably they paid him well for this cack and probably edited his script.
Yes. Misinformation. His behavior will make anyone who listens to his lies a lot less educated than they were. Fortunately Metatron is fixing the problem.
@@mnomadvfx even worse. sold out to say anything for a price.
The greatest gay army in the planet?? That would be the Navy.
Good one 😂
Except they're actual manly, strong and brave gay dudes. So I respect them
@@noxplay4906The Spartans had 10 times the testosterone the Navy has
IN THE NAVY!!!!!! IN THE NAVY!!!!!
I thought that was the airforce?
As an Englishman, I'm embarrassed to hear that this man is English, and I'm also dismayed by the state of the American education system where this man has found a home. He makes both of our countries look ridiculous.
He was most likely thrown out of English education.
@@Angus-McFife-2nd I'd like to think so.
@@Angus-McFife-2nd
The way things are at present, I wouldn't bet on it.
@@adventussaxonum448 Good point. We have been infected by Americans "leftism". My son is 9. Last year he brought home a school book on gender. The opening page read "These 2 women were assigned male at birth by a doctor". His mother and I have kept all conversations on that subject away from him because he is a child. We never mention anything around that at all to preserve his innocence as long as possible. We then are called into the school because he told his teacher "they are not women, they are men with broken brains". Qué the next 20 mins of us trying to work out where he has heard it before...
Yep
lol he's also lecturing us about Greece, thats not his culture. does he have a right to tell anyone about Greece?
The 'prof' ticked all the DIE boxs. Students are paying 60k pa and being taught BS.
The professor calling the depiction of the literal INVADERS as monsters from the POV OF THE INVADED "racist" really was the last straw for me.
Does he not see that this "rule" fails as soon as it is applied to a culture he "favours"?
That doesn't count. Anything they support is good and anything they don't like is bad. No proof needed because he *feels* it's true. They will literally hold a different stance on the exact same thing based only on who is saying or doing it. He is a dangerous lunatic who teaches his hatred and racism to impressionable young adults every day. If you want to know why things are as bad as they are, it's because of people like him.
The contradiction is not a bug, its a feature. Use any and everything as long as it suits you and then discard when it does not.
Reminds me of that LOTR meme where at the siege of minas tirith gandalf standing with theodan on the walls says looking out at the Park sea says. Well dont be racist, let them in.
@@80krauserYes, 1984 has some things to say about “double think.”
It's almost like people tend to look very unfavorably about people that are trying to kill and enslave them and the ones they love. The Germans in WWII may have been the genocidal bad guys but come on now people, we can do better than calling them Krauts. That's just rude
This guy doesn't have a degree in mythology, he has a mythological degree.
He don't need no education, his mommies said he's the smartest monkey in the cage.
😂
It's like that guy who had a theoretical degree in physics.
They said "Welcome aboard!"
@@lulzdragon7339I bet he won the lottery
I am so sick of people BUTCHERING Greek history and mythology just to fit their political agendas that don't even have to do with Greece. It is so disrespectful and I wonder what would happen if the Greeks or the Italians started crying "cultural appropriation". As a Greek, thank you Megatron, I don't know where you find the patience to do this but I'm happy someone does. On the one hand you have uneducated people who will just believe anything cause god for bid they research legit history sources, on the other hand you have "professors" like him teaching crap to young people that will go on in life believing it and spreading it. After the Cleopatra nonsense now we have Disney wanting to make a new film with Michael B Jordan as Hercules! What the actual hell.
I’m from Bulgaria, love Greece and Greek mythology despite the historical hate between our countries, so totally understand you. I’m not even shocked at black Hercules at this point, I saw it starting way back in early 2000s series about Jason and the Argonauts with a black Orpheus 😂
Its simply: sad, angry, selfhating, lifelongfailures that arerevenging on the world for beingborn. I dont participate in theirdelusions, nor do iplay theirgames. I respond by either ignoring,laughing,openingup persons depending on what theytry. Thesecreeps andcowards onlyunderstand whenreality crashestheir delusiondown. Theycant besoothed,reasonedwith, orappeased, butnoone shoulddo anyof thatanyway, ifthey cantaccept factsandreality then theyare alreadydoomed andtime willalways provethis..with alittle helpfrom saneserious andreal.
Its simply: sad, angry, selfhating, lifelongfailures that arerevenging on the world for beingborn. I dont participate in theirdelusions, nor do iplay theirgames. I respond by either ignoring,laughing,openingup persons depending on what theytry. Thesecreeps andcowards onlyunderstand whenreality crashestheir delusiondown. Theycant besoothed,reasonedwith, orappeased, butnoone shoulddo anyof thatanyway, ifthey cantaccept factsandreality then theyare alreadydoomed andtime willalways provethis..with alittle helpfrom saneserious andreal.
Its simply: sad, angry, selfhating, lifelongfailures that arerevenging on the world for beingborn. I dont participate in theirdelusions, nor do iplay theirgames. I respond by either ignoring,laughing,openingup persons depending on what theytry. Thesecreeps andcowards onlyunderstand whenreality crashestheir delusiondown. Theycant besoothed,reasonedwith, orappeased, butnoone shoulddo anyof thatanyway, ifthey cantaccept factsandreality then theyare alreadydoomed andtime willalways provethis..with alittle helpfrom saneserious andreal.
Its simply: sad,angry, selfhating,lifelongfailures that arerevenging on the world for beingborn. I dont participate in theirdelusions, nor do iplay theirgames. I respond by either ignoring,laughing,openingup personsdepending on what theytry. Thesecreeps andcowards onlyunderstand whenreality crashestheir delusiondown. Theycant besoothed,reasonedwith, orappeased, butnoone shoulddo anyof thatanyway, ifthey cantaccept factsandreality then theyare alreadydoomed andtime willalways provethis..with alittle helpfrom saneserious andreal.
Part of the movie 300 is that it's not only being told from the Spartan perspective, but it's being told by one of the Spartan troops who was sent back to warn Greece about how the Spartans would lose.
Of course the Persians are depicted as inhuman monsters the story is literally a solider trying to convince Greece to prepare for war while making his fallen king and comrades seem like heroes.
This is one thing about 300 that is almost never mentioned thanks for pointing it out.
The entire depiction and plot is a word of mouth from an unreliable narrator, who is propagandising his people/story to motivate.
This is WHY the Persians are depicted as monsters and why the betrayer is disfigured. Not because the director is a “racist” …
Not only that, the Zack Snyder movie 300 is based on the comic 300 by Mark Miller. It was never, at any poijt whatsoever meant to be historical, its an action movie with a very thin historical veneer. Its as historically accurate as Romeo and Juliet.
it was also based on a comic written by a guy known for super stylistic art
I came here to say this. Well put.
People like this are not smart enough to pick up such things
The hilarity of him continually praising the historicity of Black Panther whilst criticizing 300 😂 so blatantly political
agree, they are both comic books not meant to be taken seriously as historic novels.....even though 300 is actually based on a real event and as a few historically accurate points, a isolated country that somehow is able to be economically/militarily strong despite having backwards traditions of deciding leadership like Wakanda is not even remotely possible.
Worst still that the 300 battle were real and a recorded history while wakanda is not even a thing. 😂😂😂
@@ravezonright? Wakanda is pure comic book fiction. Its like praising the historic accuracy of Gotham City or Bikini Bottom
@@ravezon Best part about the 300 film and I assume the comic is that it's clearly propaganda. But Wakanda forever or whatever.
@@oz_jones it was something along the line about how 300 spartans alone hold the line at the choke hold long enough to unite greece againts persian invasion into greece or something along that line, while the real history was still 300 spartan but plus a few thousands more other state soldiers holding the line. Wakanda is nowhere to be seen. 🤣🤣🤣
He just gave it away right from the git-go: “ Professor of Classics in the MODERN WORLD. “ you know right from there is that his studies will be skewed towards a modern agenda.
Exactly my thought, I'm surprised Metatron did not notice that red flag.
Metatron didn't notice because he's not yet met the modern world. As a man who told his parents to go get him a wife, who married me because her father said to, 40 years ago and both very happy...neither has anyone in my family or me. We like the 1600s, minus slavery...well, marriage as slavery is good.
Oh, my oldest daughter also asked me to find her a husband. She married 21 days after being introduced.
Because in the 1600s divorce is rare and the 2 sexes actually LIKED each other.
git? github? do you english?
"Remember Africa is half of the Mediterranean." Remember South America is half of America, so clearly, lady liberty is brazillian.
If Lady Liberty was Brazilian there'd be a lot more doujins of her.
This comment made me imagine how hilarious it would be to switch the Jesus statue up to New York and the Statue of Liberty down to Rio.
Hercules did not get his power from slaying a lion. He was the son of Zeus. He strangled snakes in his crib.
Facts!!!
Shh
Not a mytho expert. I think he did get some additional powers. I don't even think the lion pelt is the only thing that gave him additional powers.
@@kylemendoza8860 He did gain additional stuff, hydra blood for example.
But to claim that killing the lion was the source of his powers is nonsensical
@@aredjayc2858 Blood of hydra was deadly itself and I do not remember Heracles using it for anything, let me know if Im wrong. Neman lion's golden fur was impervious to attack, it could not be killed with mortals' weapons, but power of Heracles was generaly inherited from his father, who was the mightiest of Gods, in the end Heracles killed the lion without having his pelt, obviously.
Notice that he is not a professor of mythology. He is a professor of "classics *in the modern world*". That's probably a literature degree or something akin to that. In other words, he has no idea what he is talking about and is like one of those dumb high school professors that over interpret everything in the way that suits them.
Good point I didn’t notice that
He's not a historian, or an anthropologist, or a sociologist, or an archaeologist or even a linguist...
He's a glorified English teacher.
Ah, the type to search for the meaning behind blue curtains.
I looked him up, he does have a Ph.D. in classics from the University of Nottingham. On his CV and the NYU faculty page: "PhD in Classics, The University of Nottingham (Thesis, Opsis: The Visuality of Greek Drama. Supervisor, Alan Sommerstein)"
@@GeneralToxicus As a Nottinghamtonion I do not condone this individuals education - in fact I’m slightly ashamed lol
that "professor" just misidentified the rod/staff of Aesclepius. that is not a symbol of death, but of healing and medicine.
Imagine being a professor of classics and not recognizing a basic mythological symbol
Tbf, metatron also missed this
@@yoeyyoey8937 I will give Metatron a pass on this one... at that point his brain may had have to rest and recover for a while.
One could interpret that symbol of alchemy conquering death I suppose.
As snakes do represent death as well.
@@robertpatter5509 yeah there’s some other stuff in there as well, there’s the idea of resurrection or being reborn, which I guess is conquering death, but all of this is associated with Asclepius and his Caduceus, so they miss the mark when they talk about this without mentioning that
As a guy who just recently left a liberal arts university, let me tell you, academic neutrality is so rare to find in secondary schools these days. There is no room for open discourse, in a lot of cases you will straight up fail a class if you don’t agree politically with your professor. It’s abhorrent. That’s why I rarely trust any university students knowledge at all unless they have viable non-bias sources to back up their claims, which they usually don’t. Their argument most of the time is: “I’m a major in *blank* so I know what I’m talking about”.
This is honestly such a massive issue and a major perversion of the institution of the university. People should be fighting back against this hard as this will - and already is - affect our society on a grand scale if it is allowed to continue. It's the exact opposite of what universities should stand for.
Also, it's nice to see another creative who doesn't subscribe to all their nonsense - it's not easy when everyone around you is totally lost in the sauce.
Did this professor just imply that being masculine and being gay are mutually exclusive?
From a certain point of view, yes. Though considering his entire lecture comes from a maybe fascist/maybe communist point of view, I'm sure he'd be fine if that was your takeaway. Afterall its 'your truth'.
that is true, gay is not manly and otherwise, a filthy opposite
Well, if you think the guys in the Blue Oyster are masculine... 😆
@@Mailed-Knight awesome. I wonder what the point of going to his lectures would be then.
@@basilmagnanimous7011 Depends on your uh... taste ;)
If I recall, Wakanda is a fictional place made up by Marvel comics. Vibranium is a fictional substance made up by Marvel comics. So this Professor is lecturing me based on fiction, about what he thinks, I think about real Africa.
This guy even lied about the Caduceus staff being a "symbol of death" as opposed to healing and peace. So much for our academic institutions...
Holy shit I actually cant anymore
Not only does he lie about the Caduceus being a symbol of death, but he confuses it with the Rod of Asclepius. The Caduceus was the symbol of Hermes / Mercury the Greek and Roman messager god.
Came here to say this. It's a symbol that was specifically chosen by people who were familiar with Greek culture.
@@JamesDunn-sk2sj
I knew sometihng was off when he didn't mention the wings or other snake lol. Both rods are a symbol of medicine in the end so I cannot believe this guy at all. Print-out PHDs be wildin'.
I caught that as well. It is a symbol of healing, and has a few different sources and thus a few different representations. Why would he do such a thing?
In the black panther this sentence: "...the panther godess Bast" is pretty wrong and lazily steals from Egyptian mythology, so not even central African mythology was consulted for this movie. Bast was an Egyptian godess represented by a cat, not a panther. At best she could be represented as a lioness, but that is more associated with Sekhmet. Though some say Bast (cat) and Sekhmet (lioness) are two sides of the same godess.
That's because the Black Panther movie is not based on african myths, it's based on the, well, Black Panther comic. Same as 300
Yeah that's the line that got me sitting upright, Bast (or Bastet) was specifically represented by domestic cats, so much so that they were said to be her eyes and ears. If they were going to so lazily copy Egyptian mythos, why not grow a second braincell and pick Sekhmet instead, I wonder.
I refuse to believe he's not an actor pretending to be a University professor and improvising the whole thing
No doubt
That's actually the credentials required to be a professor these days
Sadly he is.
By the end of the video, that was absolutely where my mind was at.
I am a professor and I have lots of colleagues just like him.
"Apart from the Greek Problem"
Sounds like something a Roman would say 😂
Ahh those Romans, always whining and complaining like it’s 500BC worse than the British honestly. Thats coming from a Persian.
@@Azrael1st And eventually forming the worlds most influential empire, kicking your ass and establishing a legacy, that we still larp as them.
As barbarian I can only say romanes eunt domus
@@HappyBeezerStudios People called Romanes they go the house?
Or a sabattean
By this mans own principles, he should be resigning from a position teaching classics when he is not Italian or Greek.
What a stupid ideology.
He can't because there's a high chance he's from a certain group.
Italian?! Why "Italian" only? The roman empire was enormous and just because for the most part its capital was Rome, not Italy in its entirety but Rome only, the only current nationality accepted as "romans" are Italians? No. You either keep it roman, as in people from the city of Rome, or you respect geography and history and anyone from Portugal to Turkey could be considered "roman" by today's standards.
The fact he is stating is he could be martian for all we care. He will be judged for his knowledge on Roman history if he is preaching this particular subject as a self Proclaiming expert.
And don't forget he's not African either...so he can't say ANYTHING about African culture or history...that'd be racist
@@DimitriMoreira In fact, yes, it is natural to consider the Italians as bearers of the Roman Empire. It's quite simple, you don't consider the Spanish as French because they were part of Napoleon's Empire, or the Chinese as Mongols because they were part of the Mongol Empire, or the Turks as Byzantines because they occupy the territory of Byzantium (Rome). The Roman Empire is a construct on the Italian peninsula that conquered almost all of Europe, North Africa and Asia Minor.
hes not JUST a hypocrite hes a racist, he truly believes its appropriate to divide people based on race and culture when deciding who should teach who.
Isn't that how America was founded based on hypocritical racist ideals
My God. It looks like this professor literally learnt about Medusa from this movie. In this movie Medusa is cast as an attractive woman, so his points seem valid from his perspective using the film as a source. In Greek mythology, which he is attributing these features of beauty and rite of passage for a man, he could not be more off. Medusa is depicted as a woman with living snakes in place of hair; her appearance was so HIDEOUS that anyone who looked upon her was turned to stone. It is NOT a sex thing.
Between his hypocrisy, his lack of knowledge, alack of understanding of the source material, and his projection of current ideals to people thousands of years ago, this guy is an absolute joke. Does he not understand that Clash of the Titans and 300 are not documentaries!?! I'm almost convinced he believes Wakanda is real. Holy shit.
Academics like this always seem to "research" just far enough to where the have what they want to validate their own bias, then stop short of what might challenge it.
There are some modern feminist and some psychoanalytical interpretations by Freud and others where the story of Medusa is likened to have something to do with sexuality, castration etc. It's possible the "professor" got his interpretations from that. Either way, it's a mistake because those are modern interpretations. He should've instead referenced what the actual Greeks wrote and thought about the Medusa mythology. Contemporary interpretations are irrelevant.
I'm surprised he didn't go with the current feminist retelling of "Medusa was the victim and Perseus was a toxic man!"
@@GeneralToxicus Even my brother who is a psychologist thinks that Freud's conclusions should be avoided. I didn't realize anyone was still using him as a source.
He should have watched the Clash Of The Titans version starring Harry Hamlin instead of the remake. Medusa was most certainly *not* beautiful in that version. 😂
The idea of that "professor" illustrating ancient Greek mythology and whatnot using a marvel movie as an example tells everything about his supposed competence
He also seam to think that all of africa is homogenius. Talking about the mix around the mediteranian and then talk about central africa as if they where the same thing.
Its also worth saying that the colonization of africa happened very late most of it during the 1890s.
Most people dont think about that, but the colonization happened several decades after slaveri was banned in the west.
I don't think you know what "" means. He is a professor. End of. No "". Now, if you'd said "intellectual", that would have been fine.
Why are so many comments objecting to the professor for talking about movies?
Obviously he has sacrificed objectivity, and rationality and all the other things woke ideology demands....but how on earth do you expect him to "review Greek & Roman mythology in movies" without talking about movies?
I don't understand why so many people are acting as if this was an academic lecture about ancient mythology and the professor used modern movies to try to illustrate the what the ancient people thought. When in reality this was part of a series by Vanity Fair about "an expert in xyz reviews movie depictions of xyz" and this one was asking the professor to review how movies portray mythology.
Please tell me that I've missed something obvious about this because I would never have expected Metatron fans to ignore context like this.
@@matsv201 colonization was usually building up infrastructure, so besides some of the cons, the alternative was mud huts and still water illnesses that cull local populations. Decolonization must imply returning to the glory of higher infant mortality rates, inferior agriculture and such, as we can witness in South Africa now.
@@Wintermute909 When I think Ancient Greece, I think Black Panther. You're on to something.
He went full-“They Wuz Kangs”. Never go full-“They Wuz Kangs”.
Lol I love that meme so much. It pisses off the really politically biased people who love wokeism
@@noxplay4906 you missed a meme: “Never go full-retard” is a quote from Tropic Thunder.
I genuinely cherish the "egyptians v israelites" diss/rap battle. Thank you for showing me that, Metokur.
That’s literally what all the white peoples saying this are doing. “We wuz filosofers”
@@yoeyyoey8937 Why?
Because of innate traits.
They must embrace the Blank Slate lie.
They cannot even think that groups are better than others. That's Heresy.
And they do see it as Heresy.
This is not incompetence, he knows he is full of sh-t. He does it to get hired on more shows. 💵💵
This "professor" chose to talk about Wakanda rather than actual African history. I guess he doesn't think the real world history of Africa is interesting so focuses on the fiction produced by Disney. I mean he talked about the history of places like Sparta and Greece (even if he got it wrong). But not Africa. An entire continent filled with many countries to choose from.
I am not sure he choose to talk about Wakanda. He was reacting to mythology in pop culture. He doesn't seem to actually know about African mythology so he can only compare it to Greek and Roman mythology.
@@PeregrinTintenfish Ok so he was shown Black Panther but had no knowledge on African mythology to draw upon so he just went off talking about Africa based on what the movie showed? The movie made by Disney. Doesn't make it any better in my opinion considering his obvious political positions.
I don’t recall him talking much about Wakanda. He spoke a bit on the mask. He spoke to a white woman lecturing a black man on African history. He spoke to another mask. His topic was mythology representation in film. Was Black Panther not a film? Is Bast not in Mythology? Is ancestor worship not in mythology? Is the use of masks in rituals not tied to mythology? So, was this not, albeit weak and oft off-point, a discussion of mythology representation in film?
I think he mentions Wakanda in bringing up the movie & as a tie to hidden/lost mythology of Africa.
Sure, I’d rather him delve into the representation of Bast/Bastet in the film. Talk about why she was a good choice due to her aspects/realms, why they chose to portray her in a certain way as opposed to more common historical representations…there was opportunity with this movie selection.
He probably thinks wkanda is real
@@jimmyfrench4722 A good choice? Not a lame choice of using the same old Egyptian mythology to represent all of Africa?
It's funny that he tries to spin Killmonger taking the mask as somehow positive or as a reclaiming of tradition, when in the movie, Killmonger himself points out he has no cultural connection to the mask, he just thinks it looks cool.
In other words, he steals something from another culture and wears it as a trophy with no regard for the object's origin or traditional use. Y'know, kinda like what he accuses the museum of doing.
I wonder if this Killmonger fellow might be... A BAD Guy?
The irony is the killmonger character is a warning not to take racial vengeance because that makes you the racial oppressor, where the black panther character shares his technology and culture, although carefully because he forgives those who have wronged his people but doesn't give them his trust.
This NYU professor is not only a shield dropper but and ankle grabber, IMHO.
Strange that the part of Africa that borders Mediterranean is more closely tied to the part of Europe that also shares that inland sea up to and including the DNA of all of its people North, South, East and West than it is to Africa of the sub-Saharan regions.
Hating on gay people is not cool. You can can refute this professor's nonsense with out dipping down into anti-gay bigotry.
@@Gobear1 waaaaaaa waaaaa 👶
@@Gobear1 wow that's a cringe take lol
@@lawrenceragnarok1186 So is calling a guy an ankle-grabber.
Egyptians and berbers are mostly west asian related, MENAs deserve their own category
Can someone tell the "professor" wakanda isn't a real place
He missed a very important point with efialtes, he's not a traitor because he's disabled, he's disabled because he's a traitor. I think that says more about the "professor's" views on disabled people than anything else
Its Ephialtes and if he'd been born in Sparta they would have left him exposed on a hillside at birth` The Spartans were not very tolerant of disabilities.
What the heck is a “professor of classics in the modern world”?
Rule number one when it comes to history is that it’s NOT the modern world.
God, I’m so tired of all this misinformation being spread about antiquity online.
from what i'm reading he's...
a professor of teathre plays witha penchant for greek mythology and social studies?
if you copypaste his title in google, his resume is the only thing showing up...
"Peter Meineck holds the endowed chair of Associate Professor of Classics in the Modern World at New York University. He specializes in ancient performance, cognitive theory, Greek literature and culture and humanities public programming. Professor Meineck received his PhD in Classics from the University of Nottingham and his BA (hons) in Ancient World Studies from University College London. In addition to his academic career he has worked extensively in the professional theatre in New York and London, founding Aquila Theatre in 1991. His national public programs have earned a Chairman’s Special Award from the National Endowment for the Humanities and numerous grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, New York State Council on the Arts, the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, The Hayden, Onassis and Mid Atlantic Arts foundations, among others. These programs include Ancient Greeks/Modern Lives, The Warrior Chorus and Shakespeare Leaders in Harlem. He has also directed, and or produced over 50 productions of classical plays at venues as diverse as Lincoln Center, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Carnegie Hall, The Ancient Stadium at Delphi and the Bush and Obama White House. His productions of classical drama have toured extensively throughout North America and Europe."
Here's a translation; "professor of turning historical classics into modern propaganda".
Far as I can tell, his job is to find some way to use historical classics to push modern politics.
@@joak9992 it’s absolutely terrifying that this is a real thing.
@@joak9992 So he's really a Professor of Presentism. Interesting. And ridiculous.
Major red flag there. I’m surprised Metatron missed it.
The purpose of the play "Persians" completely goes over this guy's head. It's a play meant not as a celebration of the victory, but as a warning to Aeschylus' fellow Athenians' hubris.
The snake in the medical logo is a symbol of healing! Ever heard of Asklipios? And he calls himself a "professor"?!
Yes:... The Rod of Asclepius (( more common rendering of the god's name _Asklēpiós_ )) is a _Caduceus_ ...and it should be rightly remembered and understood to be the prime symbol of the god of healing. But there is also another _Caduceus_ ...The sacred(( and quite magical )) staff of Hermes...
@@b_g_c3281yes, thanks. Civilian medicine has been moving towards the staff of askipolis, while the military or older medical institutes have used the caduceus for centuries.
This alone is worthy of being sacked.
@@b_g_c3281 who to be fair Hermes has also been confused for a god of healing before. mostly because they confused his Caduceus with Asclepius.
Tbf metatron missed this too
I never really understood the Black Panther museum scene.
I have a massive respect for museums, regardless of where they are, since they actively preserve history which is something I wish to do as well. So someone insulting the modern day historians who had nothing to do with the (assumed) theft of artifacts, and are only working to preserve the history and culture that's hundreds, if not thousands of years old just feels... Yikes.
I absolutely agree!
and that whole idea that artificats were "stolen" is bullshitte.
people got permission from local authoriers paying them WHAT THEY ASKED FOR in order to get the rights to dig and keep artifcacts.
ironically the truly stolen artifacts in muesem are from LOCALS who stol there on history for some easy cash during the archealogical boom.
@@housewilma4904 Wow! Have you ever been to the British museum?
That part was a cringefest
I will point out a simple fact. I do not have the money to travel to each and every part of Europe and Africa and Australia and Canada and South America and ...
If there were not any displays of artifacts from other places on Earth, then we would all be prevented from ever being exposed to anything more than pictures and videos.
That would be very ...-ist. I don't know what kind of (insert stem here)ist it is, but an extremely nasty and selfish one. IMHO.
This really concerns me how humans 100 years from now could interpret the things we do today.
It's all a cycle... history is rewritten by the politicians, and they changed based on where the cycle is.
I'm more concerned there won't be humans in 100 years. I won't be around to see that end, but it looks like the world is racing towards it.
Amazing it deleted my comment. Political will has a habit of redefining history.
He could talk about medusa's myth, but nooooo, he is gonna talk about sexism and sex differences😂😂😂😂
By his own logic even saying "African History" is racist because some African regions don't consider themselves to be heavily culturally connected to other regions, so he's ignoring their wishes with his terminology.
What baffles me about these so called "Professors/Historians/Etc." is how they nearly always exclude the fact that Sparta (and tons of cultures throughout history) lived in far more dangerous times than we do but still love to try to force modern ideas or culture into their version of the story no matter how little sense it makes, and still to this day don't expect to be called out even though it's on the internet. Good for you, Metatron, keep calling these hacks out 🙏
In the most cynical possible view you can look at is as then not wanting you to learn history.
They preach diversity and all about different cultures, but people that lived 100s or 1000s of years ago are held to the same standards as modern people in the West.
And now there's increasingly a move to say that anyone that is interested in history like that must be a bad person.
It's started happening often. In fiction too. Go look up people cosplaying as Stormtroopers and you'll get people complaining because they think being interested and entertained by something means you endorse all of their ideals.
But we don't have to fight for our existence, and we're better and more enlightened because of that.
Haven't you been keeping up with the modern views of the world- we're horrible, awful creatures, but since the previous cultures made us that way it's not our fault. Therefore, we are still better than all previous generations, because we acknowledge that we suck and they didn't so that makes us way more awesomer than everyone else.
And shinier too.
The levels of propaganda are off the charts. How people don’t see through this.
When from a young, malleable age you're continuously being spoon fed diversionary tactics you will learn to be blind to what's right in front of you. It's why so many individuals today do not recognize clear hypocrisy when with every word they prove themselves to be just that. It's also why many people fuel dividing topics thinking they're in fact doing what's best, even though the outcome is the opposite of what creates unity and togetherness. (Which is why ideologically structured schooling for children is so damaging and dangerous, as it allows for governing institutes to weaponize future generations and create a clash between generations which is a great recourse to deconstruct nuclear/strong family bonds and societal integrity/balance)
The guy saying the mask being behind glass is limiting access, but he forgets that this mask is so old that it needs to be protected so that people can have access visually to the art and history of that artifact. The museums are preserving the mask for people to admire and learn about. A lot of old artifacts are fragile which requires white glove treatments and specialized cases for them to last a long time.
"This white woman is explaining the culture to someone who actually is of this culture"
No, she isn't. Killmonger's father was Wakandan and was raised in the country, but Killmonger himself was born and raised in America.
On top of the fact that he is ignorant of the fact that Africans were equally capable of trade with Europeans so the artifact wasn't even stolen but traded for, likely for muskets, Sugar or rum. It's actually even MORE offensive that he believes that the African tribe that the English originally found the artifact in was so weak and stupid and helpless that the just let these white people likely already barely surviving Malaria just take their shit and leave.
It's like saying that the Pilgrims STOLE corn from native Americans and every white person not must upchuck any corn based nutrition they have ever consumed because pilgrims stole corn. When we all know that Pilgrims and Natives TRADED GOODS AND SERVICES LIKE CIVILIZED PEOPLE.
He obviously hasn't seen it.
Funny how the guy accuses whites of stealing black culture and selling it right before he shows her saying that the items aren't and him threatening her and stealing the stuff
oh no no no, you see, he learned it by readinggg...
from a book see...
... that was written by...
white people....
huh.
He has seen the skin color, thats all he needs to see, in his opinion.
As soon as someone uses the word "problematic", you know exactly what kind of agenda they're about to push.
Anything that opposes the gay, racially preferential, socialist revolution
The truth is problematic
He doesn’t even say the right word. He says “problematical”
ThIs cOmMenT iS sO pRobLEmAtICAl
As a professor of mine once taught me- few are as arrogant as those who put their credentials over the evidence supporting their argument.
Is he one of those guys who will just show up and say whatever is asked of him? Some of these connections are such drastic leaps that I can’t believe they occurred organically within his mind.
Yet another man "Feeding the Crocodile, Hoping It Will Eat Him Last".
Exactly.
Cool analogy, very correct assesment.
Unfortunately this mindset has become common history and archaeology academia. It’s difficult to find unbiased and neutral history being taught at many institutions.
Yes, there is an aspect of interpretation to history, but many professors take this too far just to make history more relatable to their students. This is because, unfortunately, most history classes now are taken by students who need it as an elective.
Since the college needs the student’s money, they’ll modify their classes like history and English to make them easier and more relatable instead of it being a hard history course.
How does 300 disparage against the deformed?
First, Leonidas showed ephialtes respect and even complimented his training. However, he had him do a small test and explained how his deformity is a detriment to the phalanx. Even then, Leonidas told him that he can still help in a supporting role in a respectful manner.
Even today disabled people are barred from military service due to the strain it puts on the body. Leonidas did everything right.
Screwed up part is the real Epialtes was never described as a hunchback. He was just a regular dude who totally stabbed everyone in the back.
Leonidas did everything right, in film and on life, and is still being shit on by pretentious hairplugs with a diploma
As the Spanish saying goes "Lo que natura no lo da, Salamanca no lo presta". It means: What nature hasn't given you, university/education (Salamanca's University) won't lend it to you.
Edit: I corrected the way I translated it, because I think it might've lead to misinterpretation.
black pill
La versión que conocía es más corta: «Lo que natura no da, Salamanca no otorga». ¡Gracias por poner tu variante!
School of Salamanca tho
An intelligent man will read books because he's intelligent.
Books by themselves do not increase intelligence.
I believe by “presta” it means “it pays no heed to it”. Because “presta” can mean “lend”, but the context it’s used in this sentence is closer to the meaning “doesn’t give it attention”. @eduardomolinov’s version of the phrase is closer to the “attention” meaning.
I saw that guy in the video, I lasted about 3 minutes before I thought "who the hell is this idiot"
I'm a classical archaeologist and to me this "professor" is an absolute joke. The stuff he's coming out with was ridiculous. He is definitely pandering to the modern ideals of gender and race. Thank you for taking the time to call him out!
What's truly insulting and truly worrisome is that not only does this guy have a career in "higher" education: he is portrayed as an "expert" by the media.
It almost doesn't matter how many people see through this and can tear him apart at every level , because the media will give them a platform anyway and give them a reach and influence over all demographics. It's downright terrifying
@@IronFreakV agreed
The modern, extreme leftist ideology about gender is what is insane and specifically Eurocentric.
@@IronFreakVThat’s the problem, you can’t have a serious conversation about history without at least 2-3 experts taking part. Facts are facts, but us history nerds interpret them in different ways, not to mention the sources themselves were written by other people who are bound to be biased to some extent. The truth comes out when differing opinions clash, that’s why both ancient Greeks and Romans placed such a big focus on oratory and debating. Unfortunately these days, everything is an echo chamber supporting a specific narrative
So glad you’re out here doing this. I can’t believe Black Panther a Hollywood movie is being compared to real stories and ancient mythology. Why didn’t he talk about real African mythology? SMH.
People like that are neither teachers, nor academics, they are political activists and ideologues.
TBF I'm sure his politics are the only reason he got that gig AND his NYU position
So the Spartans, samurai, viking, pirates, crusaders and cowboys were all gay, but the zulu were super straight and so hyper masculine that they never bothered to invent the wheel?
Innovation and civilization and industry and music and table manners and gunpowder and quality textiles and masonry and carpentry and marine navigation and cartography and theology and philosophy and the written word and the legal system and the rights of man and germ theory and public charity and rules of war and the printing press and property rights were too gay for them to even think about. They were too busy being hyper-chads, bench pressing 400 and 360° no-scope chucking spears.
🤔 why? would we not want to call African people gay for some reason? If they were gay we should be praising them, no? Oh right because many African cultures are deeply homophobic but we still need to appease them for some reason.
Don't forget they were also black or included black people
Wheel is gae it resembles the femminists form.
Wheels are overrated. What are you going to use them for without any animals around to draw carts?
The first alarm bells rang when he described himself as "professor of Classics FOR THE MODERN WORLD".
Same, it immediately shows he can't and won't be able to differentiate past and current day morals. Aka, a wokejoke.
These people have a very precise word pattern. So it's nice to give themselves away like in 10 seconds.
People are asking why the standards for professorships have dropped so remarkably but I noticed that when I attended university over forty years ago that some of my own professors were products of an insular environment who would never be able to survive in any other environment other than the university system.
As soon as he managed to bring january 6 into an historic discussion with an insane comparison with Spartans this is not a professor to me anymore despite his curriculum.
Brandolinis Law: The amount of
energy needed to refute bullshit is in an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it.
Law is incorrect. The emperor's new clothes is an example of when refuting bs requires minimal effort.
@@JRRodriguez-nu7po Proving the truth to the one that's spewing bs tho is almost impossible. Cause they'd rather die than to admit that they were wrong.
There is no objective truth, but there are varying degrees of "wrong". We must always strive to be less wrong.
The bad part is that there are far more ways to be wrong than to be less wrong.
@@DonVigaDeFierro If there is no such thing as truth then how could there be varying degrees of wrong? Surely something is a degree of wrong in relation to what is true?
@@EVSmith-by9no It's all in relation to evidence and other levels of wrong. "California is an island" is more wrong today than it was 500 years ago, given the available evidence. We don't need to know the ultimate truth to compare a statement against the available evidence.
"Welcome to this job interview for a professor on mythology, what are your qualifications?"
"Racism, white supremacy, LGBTP, sexism, Africa is the center of all history."
"Congratulations , you're hired!"
*fired!
Nope. That not true. You made that up.
Unfortunately I think this is how these interviews go at most Universities.
So sad that this "Professor " professes only politically motivated disinformation. Maybe he has been given his head because faculty heads thought the students would pay attention because of his accent.
@@jackmcglion8337 Well, at Harvard you can plagiarize the work of others and present papers with no actual data and become the President of the school.
"Professor" ... people are actually getting paid for these scams? It infuriates me that an average honest working Italian and Greek has to go by with his meager wage and this dishonest charlatan apparently gets paid enough to afford living in an expensive city such as New York.
It's outrageous really. Many incompetent "experts" are paid top dollars meanwhile regular hobbyists know 100 x better
Hera is not a Chthonic god, she's Olympian. Most women goddesses we know are Olympians.
Some people have started using Cthonic to refer to earth/fertility linked goddesses ... pretty sure Hera would have disliked being lumped in with most of those. Mind you, I keep wondering how something out of the Cthulhu mythos got mixed up in real mythology ...
@@scloftin8861some people have started to say women have penises, idgaf.
It is my understanding that chthonic deities were the ones *under* the ground, not *of* the ground. I.e. those of the underworld itself.
So color me confused.
Chthonic deities are defined as underworld deities, like Hades, Thanatos and Nyx.
1.all goddesses are woman
2.chthonic gods are the gods of the underworld
3.hera was the queen of the gods and Goddess of marriage so she was more a fertility goddess.
4.most people at least know the Greek/Roman Norse and Egyptian gods though the number of individual god they know is typically a lot smaller when you move away from the Greek/Roman pantheon who would be the Olympians.
The moment I see NY, IL, or CA professor/expert/teacher, I automatically don't believe they are qualified or knowledgeable enough to speak on any subject.
That's on you
@@MercuryCold Not on me. It's been shown time and time again that teachers/experts from these ideological swamps would rather push their beliefs than historical or scientific fact.
THEY ARE MISANTHROPES
The Persian were and are white.And because I am Greek I was taught History in school this professor has got it all wrong about mythology and history! He's mixed it all up!I think he's not a Greek and Roman mythology Professor!
@@craxyman9025 Persians aren't Arab! Actual Persians would be angry if you called them Arabs. Not all Middle Easterners are Arabs
They aren't Arab lol
@@tassia1954 App isn't allowing me to reply directly. Persians are Iranian. For everyone correcting me why are you not correcting the person who called them white? How does that make sense at all?
He's both racist and anti-science.
One of the core tenents of science is that anyone can acquire true knowledge about anything provided they use a systematic approach of study with reason and logic.
It doesn't matter where you're from in the world. If you study another part of the world using academic principles and disciplines, you can become just as much of an authority on the subject as a native student from that part of the world.
I know a way to respond to those people that say "you cannot teach/understand/wathever other cultures, because it is not yours". Ask them if they know about microbes.
When they say yes, just ask "So, does that mean you are an amoeaba?"
He's racist against whites.
This is a good example of how easily things can be politicized. This guy is viewing and criticizing it from a modern political perspective instead of what he is there for, which is Historical context not a lesson on racisim from the old white man who calls things “problematic”
I've followed this channel for years. Metatron has always been polite and professional. So when Metatron calls someone an idiot, they are indeed an idiot.
This professor is a disgrace. Using Black Panther, a comic book character developed by a creative Jewish guy from Brooklyn, as an example in the criticism of cultural theft is pathetic and the rankest form of politicization.
Why is he referencing a marvel movie to back up his ridiculous historical claims?
Because he is an idiot?
Why is he even talking about Black Panther? It’s a fantasy world in the Marvel universe, nothing to do with mythology, African or otherwise.
If you checked out the source it's a show where they invite experts in a field to react to movies/clips, so he did not choose to talk about black panther, he was asked to by the producers. They are asking a mythology expert, to look at modern cinema, and for him to try and make it relevant to the topics of today.
@@tine1012Black Panther is not based on any mythology from Africa, it was created by two Americans who shoved in their creation the most steretype stuff they could find on Africa
You could have stopped at “I’m professor of classics in the modern world”, literally meaning the superimposing of classic history, culture and ideology onto modern ideals and politics in order to teach it as a university course.
I mean, the Medusa's myth DOES have a symbolic meaning... just not what he's presenting.
She is a monster not much symbolism other then its a force of nature that perseus is asked to kill
Spartans made banter into an artform.
Even the young spartans were taught and encouraged to engage in banter, and the winner would be the one who made the most curt, poignant and witty comments.
However, they were also taught that if their opponent told them they had been a bit too savage with their remarks, the banter would cease right then and there.
So there was always respect.
They called it _rhetoric_ ...but... yes, you're Spot-On 🙂
@@b_g_c3281Right you are.
I often admired this in the Spartans, and it's sort of the thing I like to do as well (although social media and it's community guidelines make it hard).
I like to engage in debating, for the sake of sharpening my arguments and wit. And I think that's also what the Spartans wanted to foster in their young.
Also unlike many people who abhor ad hominems, I get a lot of entertainment out of banter mixed in with the debate. When I get subjected to ad hominems it makes me smile and think "let's dance!"
Again, something I imagine the Spartans got entertainment from as well.
@sevenproxies4255
That’s similar to the Anglo Saxons pre 1066.
Carlin brought up how little we know about the details of antique battlefields, but thought that some of it could be battle as sport or posing.
Man I guess the Spartans were gay
“The greatest scholars are not usually the most learned”
- Geoffrey Chaucer