"There's Nothing We Can Do"
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- Опубликовано: 27 сен 2023
- "There's nothing we can do" Is allegedly what Napoleon said after being exiled to the remote island of S:t Helena. But what does it mean? Why did he say it? And what can we learn from it?
Or is there nothing we can do?
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Fun fact: Beethoven was initially disappointed by Napoleon for crowning himself Emperor as many people know, what they dont know is that Beethoven changed his mind again, understanding that the "French Empire" was just a way to spread the Revolutionary values and defeat the Ancien Regime tyrants, not a way to be one, that's why Napoleon crowned himself instead of being crowned by some old aristocrat. Later, in 1820, a friend had the following to write in Beethoven’s conversation book (something that was used for communication after the composer went deaf),
“I was [Napoleon’s] greatest enemy, but with the passage of time I have come to terms with him. If Napoleon were to return now, he could expect a better reception in Europe. He understood the spirit of the times and knew how to keep a firm hold on the reigns… He had an appreciation for art and science and hated darkness. He would have valued the Germans more and would have protected their rights… He fought the feudal system and was the protector of laws and rights.…” . Again it comes up in 1824, when Karl Czerny went to a coffeehouse with Beethoven. On the table they discovered a newspaper mentioning Napoleon, to which Beethoven remarked, “Napoleon! Formerly I disliked him. Now I think quite differently.”.
While it's true that Napoleon did do a great deal of good in his reign (like implement public education free from religion), he WAS corrupted by absolute power just as every tyrant is. He had plans drawn up for a renovated Paris later in his rule that involved decorating the city with glowering busts of his head, styled in the fashion of Roman gods.
@@PotatoPatatoVonSpudsworth Had he not taken the measures paramount to secure his grip in times of struggle and hardship, his enemies would have an easier time dealing with Napoleon, and besides, what's wrong with decorating Paris with glowering busts of your head? I'm 100% sure the people wouldn't mind, after all, THEY chose Napoleon, do you think the French folk wouldn't organize an overthrow if they were even slightly dissatisfied with Napoleon's rule?
@@blorb32 it is wrong because the republic is for the humans not for the emperor. he was fake. if he wasn't fake he wouldn't lose to the british and die in an island pathetically. he might have progressed some values but that just makes him more like a pawn. he couldn't even die on the battlefield to escape the truth, he faced the real darkness inside him. after centuries, please still try to run away from the truth after so much has been revealen. it's your loss though. join the romans to collapse with if you wish..
@@PotatoPatatoVonSpudsworthhe was a narcissist. But then again he could walk the walk. And at the time he was surrounded by enemies who saw him as a nobody peasant compared to their divine monarchy. He had something to prove and the talent to do it. Perhaps the French empire was simply a tool for napoleon to tell the foreign monarchs to suck it. It might be wrong, but it was the spirit of the revolution, that any person can be great if the had the will.
@@melt6894that's the thing tho. Napoleon was the living evidence that you may not been chosen by god, but you and your own passion and sheer will was enough to be HIM.
'Don't give up hope and become nihilistic like Napoleon' what was he meant to do? Man was exiled to a small island with no hope of escape or return home, ever.
Exactly. He had taken a fall from a great height.
@@AesirUnlimitedeven so you shouldnt die a hopeless depressed man i believe you should die with your head held high and never lose your hope no matter the situation
@@AesirUnlimited bro what??? I said it was good to die with your head held high I didn’t say the people from the concentration camps were weak for dying a painful death you didn’t need to bring this up to prove a point
Not to mention, he escaped the island once, and ended up failing another war after that, causing him to be re-exiled.
Napoleon should be the example of: fight as long as you can, but not as long as the chances of victory become 0...
He lost and came back... Thats I think enough for him to do to show he gave up knowing that there is nothing he can do.
Second interesting fact: Often, you will see Napoleon haters accusing him of dying while supporting slavery, but Napoleon like all humans changed through time . The decree of 29 March 1815 abolished slavery in all colonies and Napoleon completely understood how immoral it was to try to supress the Haitian Revolution before. In St Helena, Napoleon became friend of "Toby" a man that was supposed to be serving as his slave, Napoleon even offered to buy Toby's freedom but the British refused TWO times. The sadness of Napoleon brought him to write "As for poor Toby, he endures his misfortunes very quietly: he stoops to his work and spends his days in innocent tranquility. Certainly there is a wide step from poor Toby to a King Richard. And yet, the crime is not the less atrocious, for this man, after all, had his family, his happiness, and his liberty; and it was a horrible act of cruelty to bring him here to languish in the fetters of slavery." Napoleon was not a bad man, he was a man of his time who tried the best for people, and understood his mistakes.
Also the reason why Napoleon restarted slavery in the colonies was because when the revolution outlawed it the plantation owners in the colonies were pissed about losing all their free labor, when the Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars started, France sent most of its troops (including colonial garrisons) to Europe, meaning that now there was no way to enforce this new law. After that the plantation owners simply ignored the law but they began to get sent fines from France for practicing slavery and so they started to defect and hand over the French colonies to the British as the British would let them keep their slaves and in return the British got the goods from the colonies and profits from the trade. Napoleon bent the knee and reinstated slavery in the colonies (though this only really applied to Haiti as the other islands in the Caribbean had already defected to the British), as an attempt to appease the plantation owners and stop them from handing over France’s colonies.
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And about the wars? I don't think a good person would start any
@@tall_guy81Just because he wasn't bad, it doesn't mean that he was a nice person. He was not. For his wars, most of the times, he was defending France against the Coalitions although he also waged 2 aggressive wars (Russian and Peninsular).
Just remember, before judging Napoleon, examine his enemies too. You'll see that his enemies were also ruthless conquerors and colonialists that weren't better or nicer than him.
@@bryanohoiledjaan2063 well, I'm russian myself and un our culture the fact we stopped Napoleon (with help of winter) is like a great legend of our ancestors' bravery. So maybe you also should dig in the history.
Sisyphus:"finally a worthy opponent"
sisyphus did not give up unlike him, fortunately
@@Born_ yeah its the opposite of him
@@Cat_on_watermelon57 giving isn’t always bad though. Sometimes there just truly is nothing we can do. I mean Sisyphus has no choice but to roll a stone so isn’t there nothing he can do as well?
we dont fall to nihilistic hopelessness because we didnt almost conquer the entire europe just to lose all that progress and get trapped in a small island
You never played Crusaders Kings right?
@@JoseManuel-is4ycI failed my world conquest.....now there's nothing I can do😢
“Waking up late eating breakfast at 10 AM”
That’s my bed time dude
Napoleon basically became Luke Skywalker in The Last Jedi
Oh dear
No it's reverse
nah don’t remind me of that luke
Jake Skywalker
OMG JUST LIKE MARVEL 😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱
"there is nothing we can do 😔" fan vs "there is always hope 😎" enjoyer
Ataturk is such a chad.
@@karetsin265well said 🙏
One must imagine us doing something.
Dude, so badass the major power of his time didn't declare war on a country but on 1 person only
fr, it's actually crazy
Since I had first seen this video, a hole in me that yearns for this type of content has been filled. not only have you filled me, but the gaps in my mind. thank you.
i honestly thought everyone knew this wth
ayo he filed u up?
@@gabrieltradio6493 lmao
ayo filled you up?
Man 💀💀💀
He did not gave up he wrote the Memorial of Saint Hélène which made him a legend forever. Giving up would be committing suicide
Basically a prison memoir, mon combat, if you will
damn so behind this meme a depressing story
The fact that you didn't already know that says alot about you.
Don't listen to the elitist above me. Learn at your own pace. Chase your curiosity.
@@blorb32 sorrry but everybody has his own knowledge ,why are you judjing me if i didn't knew that napoleon was sad ?i m more literate than you
@@gabrielherera2110 First off, let us first not forget that Napoleon Bonaparte is not only the most influential political and military leader/general in the history of the world, but has become an icon of success, and at the same time downfall, accompanied with the according emotions. Not knowing about such a well-renowned figurehead and influencer of European politics and objective progress is quite bizarre. And as for the latter part of your reply, "I am more literate you", that does seem like quite a negative discharge, don't you think? Also i highly doubt you're more literate than me lol.
@@blorb32 the fact you spell a lot “alot” says a lot about you.
The video is interesting but the ending doesn't entirely reflect reality. It's true that Napoleon fell into a depressive state when he was exiled to Saint Helena Island, but it's also true that in his last days he converted to Catholicism. He did not die without hope and in nihilism.
He said for example "I die in the Apostolic and Roman Religion, in the bosom of which I was born more than fifty years ago."
This fact is much better known in Italy than in the rest of the world because the famous poet Alessandro Manzoni, having received the news of Napoleon's conversion and death, wrote the poem "Il Cinque Maggio" which talks about his life up to his last days. This poem is still studied today in basically all italian schools.
His last words were not for God but "head" and "army" that tells a lot
@@nimahfz The last words are not something heroic like in the movies, they are semi-conscious murmurs (in his case during a stomach cancer delirium)... which don't say much.
I have my main exams starting from 9th October and YT is suggesting me There's nothing we can do
hi
btw what exams, yr 11 mocks start in november
There is nothing we can do 😭
There is always something we can do.
i never really knew anything about nepoleon untill i found out about this meme and his history is interesting
Be sure to check out the movie coming out later this month
@@ingolfringolfrson1577 don't
@@mikoajwesiora9486yep, dont. instead watch the 1970 film called "Waterloo"
You know i hate to be one of those people to say "Fr me" and stuff so Im going to put it in context. There is just something so kinda impactful about his story, like a man who had so much but lost it all, but what i find intresting that kinda reflects most teens or kids is the fact that he had a nice life on the island there wasnt torture or anything, which now there is alot of kids, teens, everyone who has a good life loving family and so much to fall back on. But in the end there is a odd feeling of sadness or emptyness inside of them from that loss or news or whatever it was. Obvious I over do it a little but in the end, He is kinda relatable. (god i sound cringy but correct me if im wrong on anything lol, seeya)
Losing a thot and losing an empire are two completely different things. Teenage boys need to move on from those heartbreaks lol
From a meme to a motivation
Thank you for explaining ❤
There really is nothing they can do 😔
Thank you, I didnt know what to do.
Bro has my English, definitely Norwegian. Good video!
That lead started getting to his brain
00:31 there was still something we could do
His last words were actually “La France, l'armée, tête d'armée, Joséphine …” (France, the army, head of the army, Joséphine)
Fake news don't believe the shitty movie of Ridley Schott
@@viewerfr4751 No, that was really what his last words were.
Curious, what did you prompt mid journey to get these images?
He's literally me fr fr😭😭😭
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all in all, a introverts dream
Atatürk spitting facts
Bro💀
i wasnt expecting Atatürk. Thank you
Getting up at 10 am is late? Bro I wake up at 1 pm
"It is what it is"
Im surprised the creator of Attack On Titan didn't used this prior to post season 3.
huh
the island of elba is actually a wonderful island in italy
Still sad they lost even more fights after that
There is nothing we can
Short answer, there was nothing we could do
There's noting we can do
Yes 😢 same situation 😮😢
No hay nada que Podemos hacer
Small nitpick: Waterloo was not "the end of French domination". That was already over and done with after the failed Russian invasion. France under the hundred days was significantly weaker by a _lot_ than it was at Napoleon's pinnacle in 1812.
Hope is an illusion. There is no hope.
Please can someone explain to me why he was exiled for the second and not killed by his enemies after he lost?
In those times in the west there was a "code" of war honor which also included respect for enemy leaders, who were generally held prisoner but in more than dignified conditions for their social status.
Because many of his enemies had developed respect for him as an opponent, and because he was so beloved in France that executing him would likely trigger revolts against the restored Bourbon French Monarchy, and the Coalition (which had placed France under military occupation.)
Post Napoleon, the powers of Europe wanted to restore monarchy and shove liberalism back into a bottle. They did not want to set the precedent that monarchs should be executed because they were aware that the same sentiment would apply to them, and they did not want to turn Napoleon into a martyr against aristocracy
They didn’t want his death to become martyrdom, which could trigger mass hatred for the newly English-controlled king as well as the British govt.
killing peasants = acceptable
killing rich people = not acceptable
the moment you start killing them too it is seen as total war. thats why the english "dragon banner" existed and why the execution of kings was seen as so horrible (but the execution of peasants as normal).
Without Napoleon france lost almost every single battle
its rly sad that we made such a tragic event into a meme anyway have yall seen the minecraft villager there is noting we can do meme
If you speak frence read this > Dôme brumeux à la rivière, confiture, poire, ne dis pas que tu es ennuyé, je n'ai pas d'air, idem, bois, ouais, tout va bien.
0:43 Fuckin Eiffel tower during the reign of Napoleon. I knew he was good, but not _that_ good.
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atatürk is beyond his time. such a man.
This man sounds like a prophet sent from God himself.
And then theres people on tiktok that takes this piece of art and makes it trash
classic tiktok
Based ataturk
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guys he's average height in his time (Napoleon Bonaparte is 5'2)
It's cope to deny nihilism
typed the coper
@@RaffieFaffie You're the only coper that's typing here
@chief8559 If you're a nihilist that means you're in a constant cope with life. Nihilists are a group of failures that fail to have to courage to bring their beliefs to the obvious conclusion of hanging themselves as life is suffering and meaningless to them. There is a binary decision of be striving to be positive until you die or be lame and negative til you die, nihilists choose the latter
Life sucks for everyone, doesn’t mean you can’t enjoy it. Embrace absurdism.
Dying is the easiest thing you'll ever do. To live every day before it is the hardest thing in the world.
"We must revolt against nihilism." - You, clearly someone who hasnt been through shit
"we must revolt against nihilism" is better than "we must accept nihilism" lmao
Sounds like you are comparing yourself and others to Napoleon. The Audacity.
Deserved
no
Ew AI art
Nihilism is the only truth.
Truly he was the Donald Trump of his age. A narcissist who couldn't handle not having power.
Nah, Napoleon actually had skills and brains.
Most intelligent American
That’s an insult to napoleon he actually did something unlock that tangerine
I've noticed people who are ignorant about history to be very rude about certain figures and make them seem one dimensionally stupid or evil
Go eat macdonalds
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@@onyxfinger7431nails
this comment is the smartest one out of any here
damn, i didn't think of it that way.