Sou brasileiro, professor de filosofia e sociologia en escolas estaduais, estou começando a estudar história para lecionar essa matéria também, seu vídeo me ajudou bastante, obrigado de coração!
See also, Howard Zinn on Machiavellianism, and A People's History of the United States. The latter is now a video series by Oliver Stone, I believe - several hours long, not several minutes, but definitely worth watching.
Did I say I enjoyed your videos very much?! I write in a very frank manner, like Thoreau. It was meant as constructive criticism, friend. Overall, as I say, excellent job. Now, please do a series on inspiring people, like Socrates, Boethius, St. Francis, Hildegard of Bingen, Spinoza, Jefferson, Blake, Mark Twain, Emerson, Thoreau, Gandhi, Rosa Parks, MLK....!!!
Good video. However, saying that subsistence workers had "very little to do" during the evenings or between harvest and planting is inaccurate. They had plenty to do, including maintenance of their own property, tools, clothing, etc., work owed to their lord (e.g. corvée labor, soldiery, harvesting their lord's fields), selling their harvest, etc. It's better to focus on the economic incentives of this system rather than pretending that they were just sitting around.
History with kid gloves and a gloss? A response to AP Euro Bit By Bit, By Paul Sargent, on youtube I've enjoyed the videos I've seen so far - about a dozen. I especially liked your coverage of the Enlightenment and the foundations of modern constitutional democracy. I do have a couple of points I'd like to make, however. A minor one is brevity. Considering kids and adults spend an average of four hours a day on cell phones, tv, internet, video games and "social media", I don't think you need to apologize for a video being "long" at 7 minutes! Considering the importance of learning, and the utter waste of (4x7=) 28 hours a week on drivel, I don't think that a 20, 30 or 60 minute history video should be viewed as onerous. North American children, youth and adults have been frankly infantilized by corporate culture, and a culture of narcissism. Playing to or speaking to the lowest common demoninator simply speeds up the downward spiral. Sooner or later our standards have to stop being allowed to slide, and instead be raised. Second, and more important, you refrain from virtually all editorial comment; but that is required of teachers, professors and social commentators. Machiavelli and Hobbes, for example, cannot ethically be painted in a neutral or positive light. There is a reason the term "Machiavellian" means an unscrupulous and dishonest person, hungry for power, and borderline or fully sociopathic. Machiavelli and Hobbes are the darlings of all emperors and most elites, along with Spencer, because they adore the justifications for their power lust, egomania and insatiable greed. It is not moral to gloss over them as if they are good guys with sound advice. Amorality is not something we should either teach or embody. It is nihilism, and nihilism is death of the soul. Thomas Jefferson, by the way, answered Hobbes self-contradictory as well as elitist and authoritarian ideology by destroying it in one line: "If you cannot trust men to govern themselves, how can you trust them to govern others?" As Chomsky said, "You're either an aristocrat or a democrat." You cannot be both. Plato, Machiavelli, Hobbes, Spencer, Lenin, Stalin, Mussolini, Hitler, Mao, and the overwhelming majority of Western business and political elites, have strongly preferred aristocracy, in the broad sense - that is to say, oligarchy, or elite rule; and they have despised democracy. (See Chomsky's, Year 501) When you talked glowingly about the Enlightenment, the American Revolution and modern constitutional democracy, you spoke as a democrat. But when you spoke of Machiavelli and Hobbes as if they were good guys and not snakes, and had sound advice, you unwittingly contradicted yourself completely, and spoke as an enemy of democracy. Which side are you on? You cannot be on both sides at once. The land enclosures, likewise, were not simply "controversial" - they were predatory and genocidal, and an act of mass theft. You cannot ethically gloss over such things. Third, what happened to the Inquisition, the slave trade, and the genocide committed across the Americas, which incidentally funded the industrial revolution, and along with the enclosure acts which produced a veritable tsunami of virtual slave labour, allowed it to occur? Good job overall, and very enjoyable, but ease off of spoon-feeding, hyper-concision, and kid gloves treatment of social, political, spiritual and ethical issues, I would urge. Look what kids watch these days! They can handle a little truth, and they need it, and deserve it. J. Todd Ring, Author of, Enlightened Democracy, And, The People vs The Elite Writings are on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Patreon, Minds and WordPress. March 2, 2021
You are very good at explaining these concepts and summing up the events quickly and efficiently. Thank you!
i am majoring in economics. This video helped me a lot in my Economics History exam. Thank you✨✨
AP Euro is death! Thanks for the explainer!
+Jairus Takes A Stand! Happy to hep.
Yup! They're helping a lot. Thanks!
Very very good video. Thanks for all. Keep going on that way!!!
Sou brasileiro, professor de filosofia e sociologia en escolas estaduais, estou começando a estudar história para lecionar essa matéria também, seu vídeo me ajudou bastante, obrigado de coração!
I wish you were around when I was in high school. I hated history. But you make it fun and quick thank God. Maybe I’ll finally won something.
love how you instantly get the sex joke out of the way like you know teenagers were gonna make jokes about it.
you have the gift of teaching sir. thank you
Thank you this was very helpful!
I just found your channel and absolutely love it!
Hello! Thank you for video! It helped me a lot with your nice and quick explanation!
0:44
"Your minds are dirty"
Shows picture of clean gutter.
i think he meant get your mind out of the gutter
Thank you so much I really needed this explanation
Wish my professor put the all things together like you
The explanation is awesome!! Thnx so much 😊
Great! Any book recommendations on the putting-out system? I'd like to learn more!
See also, Howard Zinn on Machiavellianism, and A People's History of the United States. The latter is now a video series by Oliver Stone, I believe - several hours long, not several minutes, but definitely worth watching.
Are there journals recording the dates of the put out system
I meant to reference Chomsky's, Necessary Illusions; but Year 501 is essential reading in history, as well.
Did I say I enjoyed your videos very much?! I write in a very frank manner, like Thoreau. It was meant as constructive criticism, friend. Overall, as I say, excellent job. Now, please do a series on inspiring people, like Socrates, Boethius, St. Francis, Hildegard of Bingen, Spinoza, Jefferson, Blake, Mark Twain, Emerson, Thoreau, Gandhi, Rosa Parks, MLK....!!!
Good sir I understood 🤩
Good video. However, saying that subsistence workers had "very little to do" during the evenings or between harvest and planting is inaccurate. They had plenty to do, including maintenance of their own property, tools, clothing, etc., work owed to their lord (e.g. corvée labor, soldiery, harvesting their lord's fields), selling their harvest, etc. It's better to focus on the economic incentives of this system rather than pretending that they were just sitting around.
Y was there a coffee picture when u wer explaining individuals wer able to buy things which they couldnt imagine of buying?
Coffee wasn't a necessity so without that extra money it wouldn't have been a priority
oh yeah yeah
History with kid gloves and a gloss?
A response to AP Euro Bit By Bit,
By Paul Sargent, on youtube
I've enjoyed the videos I've seen so far - about a dozen. I especially liked your coverage of the Enlightenment and the foundations of modern constitutional democracy. I do have a couple of points I'd like to make, however.
A minor one is brevity. Considering kids and adults spend an average of four hours a day on cell phones, tv, internet, video games and "social media", I don't think you need to apologize for a video being "long" at 7 minutes!
Considering the importance of learning, and the utter waste of (4x7=) 28 hours a week on drivel, I don't think that a 20, 30 or 60 minute history video should be viewed as onerous.
North American children, youth and adults have been frankly infantilized by corporate culture, and a culture of narcissism. Playing to or speaking to the lowest common demoninator simply speeds up the downward spiral. Sooner or later our standards have to stop being allowed to slide, and instead be raised.
Second, and more important, you refrain from virtually all editorial comment; but that is required of teachers, professors and social commentators. Machiavelli and Hobbes, for example, cannot ethically be painted in a neutral or positive light. There is a reason the term "Machiavellian" means an unscrupulous and dishonest person, hungry for power, and borderline or fully sociopathic.
Machiavelli and Hobbes are the darlings of all emperors and most elites, along with Spencer, because they adore the justifications for their power lust, egomania and insatiable greed. It is not moral to gloss over them as if they are good guys with sound advice. Amorality is not something we should either teach or embody. It is nihilism, and nihilism is death of the soul.
Thomas Jefferson, by the way, answered Hobbes self-contradictory as well as elitist and authoritarian ideology by destroying it in one line: "If you cannot trust men to govern themselves, how can you trust them to govern others?"
As Chomsky said, "You're either an aristocrat or a democrat." You cannot be both. Plato, Machiavelli, Hobbes, Spencer, Lenin, Stalin, Mussolini, Hitler, Mao, and the overwhelming majority of Western business and political elites, have strongly preferred aristocracy, in the broad sense - that is to say, oligarchy, or elite rule; and they have despised democracy. (See Chomsky's, Year 501)
When you talked glowingly about the Enlightenment, the American Revolution and modern constitutional democracy, you spoke as a democrat. But when you spoke of Machiavelli and Hobbes as if they were good guys and not snakes, and had sound advice, you unwittingly contradicted yourself completely, and spoke as an enemy of democracy. Which side are you on? You cannot be on both sides at once.
The land enclosures, likewise, were not simply "controversial" - they were predatory and genocidal, and an act of mass theft. You cannot ethically gloss over such things.
Third, what happened to the Inquisition, the slave trade, and the genocide committed across the Americas, which incidentally funded the industrial revolution, and along with the enclosure acts which produced a veritable tsunami of virtual slave labour, allowed it to occur?
Good job overall, and very enjoyable, but ease off of spoon-feeding, hyper-concision, and kid gloves treatment of social, political, spiritual and ethical issues, I would urge. Look what kids watch these days! They can handle a little truth, and they need it, and deserve it.
J. Todd Ring,
Author of, Enlightened Democracy,
And,
The People vs The Elite
Writings are on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Patreon, Minds and WordPress.
March 2, 2021
How in God's green earth is competition a "down side"?