Snyder is a historian. He combined several theories in an attempt to come up with an explanation for the rise of authoritarianism, but this is more of a working version than a finally polished historiography. There are many failures that are not supported by historical sources and professional literature. 🤔
The right perspective for our time is to stop waiting and start acting-that’s the message I hear in his words. Create a new game; don’t simply go along with the one established by authoritarians who refuse to build a more inclusive world. They evolve only to repress the freedoms we’ve achieved through years of collaboration-unfortunately, sometimes even in cooperation with autocrats, fascists, and demagogues.
In this talk, he draws on a lot of concepts from his address to the Carnegie Endowment in 2018 when he was touring for Road to Unfreedom (ruclips.net/video/4eydzJx_7jE/видео.html). I highly recommend watching that talk. I transcribed the key points from it and put them in a Google Doc if you want it.
@@123axel123everyone who is pro-freedom and democracy has a huge problem with openly authoritarian, wannabe dictators like Trump. Because so many respected experts on fascism point out Trump's obvious autocratic ambitions you have no choice but to dismiss them as 'jokers'. The alternative would be to reckon with what you're supporting, which would lead you to the realisation that if you were alive in 1930s you likely would've been a fascist supporter.
I am a huge fan of Prof Snyder. And I enjoy all of his talks, even those that are 8 or more years old. But I do wish those putting up his video’s would make note of what year (at least) the talk took place. In historical years, little time has passed but to those who are new to Tim Snyder will be confused as this talk was in 2017/18 and not 2024. Tim’s hair has turned fully silver/white since this was recorded. (And they wall has still not been built tho Trump says it has)
thanks professor snyder again. i believe in “it’s better to be happy than right”. i agree about time spent on internet , buy a news subscription etc. what i can’t seem to crack is where did all the good people go. my big let down is my own self created isolation. i do have a wonderful wife to share our common interests and hash out where we go when the shit really hits the fan. fyi: retired-spoiled californian.
I don't think a thinking person can really be happy if they are living in an illusion. The solution is to either chop off your frontal lobe or look for happiness for short periods of time in the small things and in personal relationships. The sun on a spring day. The first dahlia. The beaches on Kangaroo Island. The little fish swimming in the small lagoon near the beach on Kangaroo Island. There are some good people left - I believe most of the posters on this video are amongst them. I am a 50 year old Australian. Australians are even more spoiled than Americans.
The issue is that when we are fragmented and separate in our communities, we don't get to build a society where everyone can succeed. More specifically, equity-seeking groups in the US have long been fighting for better access to social and economic opportunities while those outside of those communities have different opinions on who is deserving. The reality is that we're all in the same boat, i.e., civil rights belongs to all of us, or in other words, injustice to one group will always inevitably reach around and bite others. We really should not be surprised.
He’s talking about themes that are very heavy in his book from around 2017 so my guess is then. If so, he was pretty prescient. EDIT: the talk is linked in the description. Looks like 2018. Definitely no later.
Democracy was invented so that the populace has a say in things concerning its destiny. If an autocracy can care of the populace, like in the case of China, the dichotomy autocracy/democracy becomes redundant and irrelevant
Sure, you just need to define populace. Just taking one issue that immediately makes your argument outlandish is the problem of Uyghurs in China. How does one reconcile the prosecution of Uyghur population in China with your statement? Perhaps then, there is the “real populace” and the “outsiders” or the “not real populace”? Once you go down that train of thought, you’re in the neighborhood of fascism.
@laimis7333 Uyghur population persecution is a myth that western elites need its populace to believe in order to justify billions spent not on hospitals and kindergartens, but on an imaginary Chinese threat. The brain washing goes like this: if China treats its own population in such a way, just you imagine what it would do to the Taiwanese if it wins the (imaginary) war. Instead of fighting poverty in say USA, they channel tax payers money to their friends in the military industrial complex. Thus western elites justify their corrupt scheme at the expense of the populace of their own lands. Some years ago China invested in their own people (Uyghurs included!) $700 billion, while 35 million people live below poverty line in US. Someone once said true democracy is being of the people, from the people and for the people. In my view, China's govt corresponds better to the definition of the ancient author in many ways than its western counterparts.
Nope. Democracy was not invented for populace.. You don't need to define populace for everyone understand where you are coming from. Yours is a very undifferentiated comment indeed.
@MariaM-fu6wm still, for the defined or otherwise populace, China is the more democratic as it takes better care of both the demos and those who do not have the right to vote. Chinese meritocracy by far surpasses western democracy as far as interests of the society are concerned
easily one of the most profound people giving insights on how we ended up in a world we live in. thank u!
He’s delusional & self aggrandizing
Prof. Tim Snyder is brilliant. Thank you for this video.
Snyder is a historian. He combined several theories in an attempt to come up with an explanation for the rise of authoritarianism, but this is more of a working version than a finally polished historiography. There are many failures that are not supported by historical sources and professional literature. 🤔
The right perspective for our time is to stop waiting and start acting-that’s the message I hear in his words. Create a new game; don’t simply go along with the one established by authoritarians who refuse to build a more inclusive world. They evolve only to repress the freedoms we’ve achieved through years of collaboration-unfortunately, sometimes even in cooperation with autocrats, fascists, and demagogues.
This man is such an inspired genius. Thank you for uploading
Could not have said it better myself.
Let me guess. You hate Trump and this joker-historian also hates Trump.
In this talk, he draws on a lot of concepts from his address to the Carnegie Endowment in 2018 when he was touring for Road to Unfreedom (ruclips.net/video/4eydzJx_7jE/видео.html). I highly recommend watching that talk. I transcribed the key points from it and put them in a Google Doc if you want it.
@@123axel123everyone who is pro-freedom and democracy has a huge problem with openly authoritarian, wannabe dictators like Trump. Because so many respected experts on fascism point out Trump's obvious autocratic ambitions you have no choice but to dismiss them as 'jokers'. The alternative would be to reckon with what you're supporting, which would lead you to the realisation that if you were alive in 1930s you likely would've been a fascist supporter.
Bright person, thank you
we need this now more than ever
I wish there was a translation into Spanish, to share it with as much people as possible.
Merci. Gracies.
Post-truth is pre-fascism. (Timothy Snyder)
Thank you
Brilliant
Love this man!
insightful and important discussion ♥♥
I am a huge fan of Prof Snyder. And I enjoy all of his talks, even those that are 8 or more years old. But I do wish those putting up his video’s would make note of what year (at least) the talk took place. In historical years, little time has passed but to those who are new to Tim Snyder will be confused as this talk was in 2017/18 and not 2024. Tim’s hair has turned fully silver/white since this was recorded. (And they wall has still not been built tho Trump says it has)
Thanks for the comment. We have included the date of the lecture in the video description to avoid confusion.
thanks professor snyder again. i believe in “it’s better to be happy than right”. i agree about time spent on internet , buy a news subscription etc. what i can’t seem to crack is where did all the good people go. my big let down is my own self created isolation. i do have a wonderful wife to share our common interests and hash out where we go when the shit really hits the fan. fyi: retired-spoiled californian.
I don't think a thinking person can really be happy if they are living in an illusion. The solution is to either chop off your frontal lobe or look for happiness for short periods of time in the small things and in personal relationships. The sun on a spring day. The first dahlia. The beaches on Kangaroo Island. The little fish swimming in the small lagoon near the beach on Kangaroo Island. There are some good people left - I believe most of the posters on this video are amongst them. I am a 50 year old Australian. Australians are even more spoiled than Americans.
The issue is that when we are fragmented and separate in our communities, we don't get to build a society where everyone can succeed. More specifically, equity-seeking groups in the US have long been fighting for better access to social and economic opportunities while those outside of those communities have different opinions on who is deserving. The reality is that we're all in the same boat, i.e., civil rights belongs to all of us, or in other words, injustice to one group will always inevitably reach around and bite others. We really should not be surprised.
Nov 2024, what can we do today? Our democracy and world are falling apart right in front of our eyes, and many of us feel useless 😞
Report War Crimes: Axis of Evil /Communist MAGA: Cease and desist malicious use of AI, death threats, poisoning, physical/emotional abuse
Date says 3.12.2018 on the introductory slide
Prof. Snyder's talk starts at 03:28
NOTE: Date 3 December 2018
Thank you. I just noticed that.
33:00 🤔
Many people voted Brexit to protect the British pound and to regain control over our laws and borders. This has yet to happen.
People never asked WHO will "take back control" in real life - the "little guy," or the superriches, banks and big corporations?
Those things 'haven't happened' for the same reason the people who responded to emails from Nigerian princes never got the money they were promised.
Excellent lecture, but this must be about seven years ago.
Does anyone know when is this lecture from?
He’s talking about themes that are very heavy in his book from around 2017 so my guess is then. If so, he was pretty prescient.
EDIT: the talk is linked in the description. Looks like 2018. Definitely no later.
Democracy was invented so that the populace has a say in things concerning its destiny. If an autocracy can care of the populace, like in the case of China, the dichotomy autocracy/democracy becomes redundant and irrelevant
Sure, you just need to define populace. Just taking one issue that immediately makes your argument outlandish is the problem of Uyghurs in China. How does one reconcile the prosecution of Uyghur population in China with your statement? Perhaps then, there is the “real populace” and the “outsiders” or the “not real populace”? Once you go down that train of thought, you’re in the neighborhood of fascism.
@laimis7333 Uyghur population persecution is a myth that western elites need its populace to believe in order to justify billions spent not on hospitals and kindergartens, but on an imaginary Chinese threat. The brain washing goes like this: if China treats its own population in such a way, just you imagine what it would do to the Taiwanese if it wins the (imaginary) war. Instead of fighting poverty in say USA, they channel tax payers money to their friends in the military industrial complex. Thus western elites justify their corrupt scheme at the expense of the populace of their own lands. Some years ago China invested in their own people (Uyghurs included!) $700 billion, while 35 million people live below poverty line in US. Someone once said true democracy is being of the people, from the people and for the people. In my view, China's govt corresponds better to the definition of the ancient author in many ways than its western counterparts.
Nope. Democracy was not invented for populace.. You don't need to define populace for everyone understand where you are coming from. Yours is a very undifferentiated comment indeed.
@MariaM-fu6wm still, for the defined or otherwise populace, China is the more democratic as it takes better care of both the demos and those who do not have the right to vote. Chinese meritocracy by far surpasses western democracy as far as interests of the society are concerned
Authoritative= U.s