Thomas Carlyle: An A to Z of Carlylisms

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Комментарии • 49

  • @Bluj162
    @Bluj162 2 года назад +73

    He's like a reactionary Dr Seuss

  • @monophthalmos9633
    @monophthalmos9633 2 года назад +61

    I wonder if "Bobus Higgins" may have been a reason for Tolkien coming up with the name Bilbo Baggins.

    • @britishamerican4321
      @britishamerican4321 2 года назад +8

      Could well be. It used to be the case that every educated man was well familiar with TC's writings.

  • @cannibalholocaust3015
    @cannibalholocaust3015 2 года назад +34

    Incredible. Lot of material here for a comic strip / movie / etc featuring the various characters in their relevant contexts. It’s incredibly relevant, he had the centrists nailed “Mr Facing Both Ways” 😂

    • @lorefox201
      @lorefox201 2 года назад +3

      you could make a batman analogue and have a gallery of villains based on these

    • @cannibalholocaust3015
      @cannibalholocaust3015 2 года назад +5

      @@lorefox201 Harvey Centrist and his Gold Sovereign coin(hedging for inflation). Serious though I wonder , Vox Day has comic writing team on staff. Comic set in that age would be interesting too.

    • @lorefox201
      @lorefox201 2 года назад +2

      @@cannibalholocaust3015 we could try pitching it to him but he's going full "China Stronk" lately

    • @britishamerican4321
      @britishamerican4321 2 года назад

      @@lorefox201 Yeah, can't stand his China boosterism. I want China -- the regime, that is -- destroyed, not celebrated.

    • @Pinkdam
      @Pinkdam 2 дня назад

      Carlyle was the 'radical centrist' of his day. Compare his account of the revolution in France to that of Webster, or observe his fundamental sympathy with the Chartists.
      "Why of the two near contemporaries raised under nearly identical environment, was Thomas Carlyle, the perverter of history and admirer of that curse of Europe, Frederick of Prussia, a sour, impotent "teetotaler," and Robert Burns, the National Poet of Scotland and the embodiment of tolerance in combination with traditionalism, a somewhat immoderate drinker?"

  • @user-vz1zc3fn7o
    @user-vz1zc3fn7o 2 года назад +29

    tfw AA coining the term 'Car King' was just channelling Carlyle energy.
    He's played us like a fiddle.

  • @benjamintreitz1647
    @benjamintreitz1647 2 года назад +13

    "Cheap and Nasty" - also reminds me of North American restaurants.

  • @britishamerican4321
    @britishamerican4321 2 года назад +5

    Another great one is "Patented Digesting Apparatus"; it represents a person under a materialist philosophy, such as Utilitarianism (or even Liberalism, arguably), that downplays or denies the soul. Of course, if a person lacks a soul, he is merely a (digesting) machine, an apparatus, that takes in food, processes it, and releases the resulting waste product.

  • @arklowrockz
    @arklowrockz 2 года назад +6

    Can we get "Quashee" back in to the public lexicon again? Along with Mr. Carlyle's wonderful description.
    I would pay good money to see Kay Burley read that out on Sky News,

  • @AL_THOMAS_777
    @AL_THOMAS_777 Год назад +3

    "The newer German literature captured him completely at that time, and no one did more than Carlyle to convey its knowledge to the English. In the space of a few years, he published a translation of Goethe's Wilhelm Meister: William Meister's Apprenticeship (Edinb. 1825, 3 vols.), a biography of Schiller: Life of Schiller, an Examination of His Works (London 1825), and a selection of translations from Goethe, Fouqué, Tieck, Musäus, Jean Paul, Hoffmann, et al. et al. with critical and biographical introductions under the title German Romance (Edinb. 1827, 4 vols.) as well as a large number of smaller essays, e.g. on Werner, Novalis, Goethe's correspondence with Schiller, Heine, the Nibelungenlied, etc., which are later united with others in the collection of his essays (5 vols.). "
    I only can say WOW. I am speechless. Have to dive d e e p into his works . . .

  • @lukie-world
    @lukie-world 2 года назад +4

    This has been a great etymology lesson!

  • @dzemperator
    @dzemperator 2 года назад +5

    Foundations of Carlylisms when?

  • @nudgeunit
    @nudgeunit 2 года назад +8

    Damn I had no idea how many of these terms and phrases came from Carlyle.

  • @sirnedwood8987
    @sirnedwood8987 2 года назад +4

    Do an image search for Quashee. You will not be disappointed. Perhaps a little confused though.

  • @deliusmyth5063
    @deliusmyth5063 2 года назад +9

    “Dilettante” is pronounced as if Italian.

  • @cyberninjazero5659
    @cyberninjazero5659 2 года назад +4

    16:00 I can hear Dee snickering now

  • @d74g0n
    @d74g0n 2 года назад +2

    no replay available!? how do you make AA laugh? make plans. whelp off to bed - set the alarm. I haven't got up before 8am in nearly 20 years. This better be good.

  • @benjamintreitz1647
    @benjamintreitz1647 2 года назад +7

    Carlyle is wrong as often as he is right. But when he's right, he is prophetic.

    • @Confucius_76
      @Confucius_76 2 года назад

      is that a direct Moldbug quote?

    • @benjamintreitz1647
      @benjamintreitz1647 2 года назад

      @@Confucius_76 What is a Moldbug?

    • @Confucius_76
      @Confucius_76 2 года назад +3

      @@benjamintreitz1647 a blogger from 2007 whose theories are being proven true every day :)

    • @flacjacket
      @flacjacket 10 месяцев назад

      ​@@benjamintreitz1647how is it even possible that one could be commenting on academic agents channel and not know who moldbug is?

  • @rideforever
    @rideforever 2 года назад

    Thanks

  • @johneysz89
    @johneysz89 2 года назад +4

    Morrison pilled Normies

  • @joebloggs479
    @joebloggs479 2 года назад +1

    Pueseyisms - Isn't that Women's Hour??

  • @lorefox201
    @lorefox201 2 года назад

    oh yes

  • @Confucius_76
    @Confucius_76 2 года назад +7

    Sargon's 'English Liberalism' is pretty cringe when you know what Carlyle thought of the liberals of his day

  • @user-hu3iy9gz5j
    @user-hu3iy9gz5j Год назад +1

    Carlyle, The Father of Mumbo-Jumbo

  • @cyylee5606
    @cyylee5606 2 года назад +1

    8:30 :)

    • @ra8784
      @ra8784 2 года назад +1

      Hmmm interesting

  • @Pinkdam
    @Pinkdam 2 дня назад

    Dealing in old clothes was once the stereotypical profession of the Hebrew gentlemen who had not money to lend.

  • @MeestahRossBoss
    @MeestahRossBoss Год назад +1

    *Quagmire.

  • @aaronwdraper9775
    @aaronwdraper9775 2 года назад +6

    Did 'Burning Old Hebrew' clothes mean throwing off the Christian faith?

    • @Dan_1348
      @Dan_1348 2 года назад +4

      To some extent. Carlyle recognised that there were parts of Christianity which could not be taken seriously by a scientific person. But he wanted to preserve the moral core of religion, and was worried that without the 'old clothes' religion might fall apart altogether. He was conflicted. He talks about this problem more in 'Jesuitism' in the Latter-Day Pamphlets.

    • @lorefox201
      @lorefox201 2 года назад +10

      nah he's talking of the jewishism British protestants absorbed when they separated from the Church, stuff such as puritans giving each other hebrew names and so on. An inevitability of separating themselves from their medieval history.

  • @radiozelaza
    @radiozelaza 2 года назад +1

    better with horsemeat than with horseshit, tbh

  • @drarsen33
    @drarsen33 2 года назад +1

    "...and he fills his sausages with horse meat". I see no problem with it.

  • @arthurgoodman2531
    @arthurgoodman2531 8 месяцев назад +1

    The "prophet" who didn't know he was torturing his own wife to death.

  • @TuxedoTalk
    @TuxedoTalk 2 года назад +1

    Sounds he set up and completely destroyed many a straw man in his day.

  • @2msvalkyrie529
    @2msvalkyrie529 Год назад

    Grumpy Old Gittism - the Philosophy of Carlyle .
    Orwell , quite rightly , hated everything he stood for!

    • @alexmag342
      @alexmag342 10 месяцев назад

      Orwell was a Marxist poc
      Burning in Hell right now

  • @chirongodemperorof4127
    @chirongodemperorof4127 Год назад +1

    Frank Zappa would have gotten along.