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*[reserved for errata]* Commenters claim Pat Buchanan wasn't a neocon. Today he's considered a paleoconservative, but the term didn't exist in 1992, and Buchanan has become progressively worse since that speech. He was a neocon then. That is how history works = change over time
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This is the story of my life, from beginning to now. There's one big push that you only barely scratched the taking away of power from judge's and placing it with the prosecution and police making judge's little more than a rubber stamp. Which is exactly why most people in prisons never have a trial or a competent defense. Just an accusation can bankrupt a family costing jobs and shattering families.
While I'm sure you meant it in jest, I can't help but think of stories I have heard here and there about family members that stop speaking to one other because the culture war. Stories of people you just turned their backs on their family because they thought they had gone nuts.
I'm kind of in the middle. I acknowledge the bad things the United States has done, but I try to lay all the blame for them on an elitist minority that blocked both men and women, and both whites and people of color, from achieving progress.
Sounds about right in a US American context. However, I don't think being an Irish nationalist for instance requires you to deny any Irish wrongdoings.
Not really anything new this goes back to atleast montaigne who basically said the same thing in the 1500s. Thats where the noble savage motif comes from. But the leftists will write it off as racist even though it was supposed to be a counter to exceptionalism.
@@seanhovan7426 lol that's ridiculous. It's like Santa Claus. If you never insist that your child believes he is real, you won't have to worry about your child being upset when they learn the truth. Patriotism in the USA is fine as long as it doesn't require cult-like blind faith and a denial of truth for the sake of someones fragile belief in fantasy land. Patriotism is fine. Nationalism is for the weak and/or stupid.
Thoughtful patriots acknowledge the country's sins but also recognize that it has positive attributes that are worth preserving; whereas SJW's want to tear down the country because they see it as irredeemably capitalist, racist, sexist, homophobic, etc.
I love my country. I love the opportunity it gave to my parents and the myriad of freedoms it gives us. I would consider myself a patriot. But that dosent mean I will ignore the flaws we have in place. If you truly love this place, you would acknowledge its flaws and help it move forward. Living in ignorance because the truth makes you uncomfortable or mad is one of the worst ways to live out your life.
That will not be possible until those bringing up issues with the system start being honest with themselves and allow examination and scrutiny of their policies. We harp on and on about police brutality and poor minority communities, but never want to acknowledge the factors that create those systems. They just say it’s White people’s fault and leave it at that. The uncomfortable truth is that the political system does not want these issues resolved. Until we acknowledge this, it’s a complete waste of time.
@@EdmacZ except people do talk about the systems behind the causes of all these problems. People are now more than ever specifically using the terms “institutional” and “systemic” to describe these problems and how it’s not just some people being bad on an individual level. You’re only half right here. Also how often do you actually hear people literally say “it’s white peoples fault”? Or is that just a strawman people throw out to excuse arguments like how slavery still has effects felt now and how conservatism has held back civil rights . Also “it’s white peoples fault” isn’t even entirely wrong considering they are still the dominant economic and political group of this country who instituted the policies of Native American reservations and Jim Redlining for example. Very much against the wishes of these other races.
As someone with a science background I would like to make the point explicitly that it tends not to be the actual scientists who perpetuate this science vs. humanities narrative. Most scientists are quite willing to engage with meta-analysis, discussions of systemic and personal bias the argument more often comes from people who want to speak for science, politicians and pundits.
Well duh? The sciences were taken over by the morons back in the 90s and 2000s. Nowdays the smart people go into TEMC technology, Engineering, Math and Computer science
History doesn't stop existing just because its ugly, gruesome, and makes us remember not only the good but our worse points in humanity and in ourselves with out own ideals. Those who do not remember history are doomed to repeat it.
As a Brit, I learned a lot about Pat Buchanan today. To summarise: "I stand for the freedom to choose, so long as you choose what I say is the right thing." That about right?
@@paisleepunk Actually, the quote is supposedly from Henry Ford regarding some of the early Ford cars. They were only available in black and customers were starting to ask for a bit more variety. Not trying to be pedantic or anything, I just grew up in the Detroit area and that phrase got used a lot!
I actually wonder, how would anti-trust fix something like RUclips? Wouldn't it probaly still run the same since the main problem is advertisers refusing to run ads if they don't? Iirc doesn't RUclips tend to run at a loss, and so can't be split off without collapsing in on itself? RUclips requires access to Google servers and funding to survive, and I don't see how breaking it up would benefit it or the creators using it at all. But I am also uneducated as to what trust busting would entail, and would be very interested in learning in how it could work out in favor of those who rely on youtube.
@@zachantes1161 as of now there aren't really any other sites that really offer any kind of reach, so RUclips can do as it wishes. If there was actually opportunity for others to compete with it, then I think RUclips or other sites would be more willing to tell those advertisers to piss off, as people would flock to the other sites that didn't have draconian censorship. Just a theory, but it's one I like
@@nxthy6978 that is quickly changing on the right wing while people on the left are becoming the private companies defenders as long as the companies out BLM or a pride flag on their door and website they will defend them
@@dubvuchyea502 the problem is for a service like what RUclips provides its very easy for it to conglomerate into just one thing being what most people use, it’s not as if RUclips or Google has never had a competitor, there are competitors out there right now actually, people just don’t use them. I think it’s human nature more than anything else, people want to be on the same platform interacting with each other across the world, people also like familiarity and simplicity. It’s really hard to actually replace something like RUclips with anything else. Which don’t get me wrong, I’m a socialist, so I don’t think RUclips should exist as it does now either. Maybe the answer circles back to who owns RUclips and how it runs, if RUclips is like a “central square” so to speak, maybe it should be owned instead by the people who use it? Like a consumer cooperative? You could pay for a share to opt into owning RUclips which would allow you to create content and Democratically set the rules with other members. If you just want to watch videos you wouldn’t have to pay, just watch advertisements like you do now. But to create content and/or to play a role in making the rules of the site you would buy a single share of RUclips stock that would have voting privileges with it (in case you wanted to also sell stock to investors without voting privilege) each person would be limited 1 and would have equal weight in setting a lot of the rules. There could also be a tiered system where you could gain the ability to purchase a higher tier of stock when you’ve been a big creator for a long time, which would allow the big creators who have been here since the beginning and really built this website to decide, who the CEO is for example. And to limit other private companies or governments from influencing it too much there could be rules and structures set to prevent them from trying to control it all or buy stock. You won’t just be able to buy your way into defining the rules, and since each person is limited to only one of the entry level stocks you can’t buy extra votes. The only way to get more power is to dedicate yourself to the website. There could even be a constitution of RUclips drafted by human rights experts designed to protect internet freedom and set basic rules for how things would operate. Just a basic outline of a thought I’ve had on this.
@@christiandauz3742 For 1: The US will lose its allies if they don't support them. 2. That would piss too many people off for too little gain. 3: We are already doing that.
“His most regal and purrfect Majesty, Lord of Meowland, King of the Kittons, and Holy Emperor of Litterbox, King Richard hereby declares to His Commons that all Conspiracists, Racists and Bigots shall be banned from this Comment Section. Issued in the year of our lord two thousand and one and twenty, and witnessed by His Majesty’s most leal servant, Cypher the Cynical Historian. Amen.”
The frustrating thing about RUclips’s obvious attempt at censorship is that they’ll still gladly air ads before and during your content. They just try to gag you by keeping all the money instead of merely most of it. It’s not, and never was, about being advertiser friendly.
The technocrats do this, not for the money, but because they believe themselves to be the makers of taste. So, they believe that, if they remove anything that has even the trace scent of "bigotry", including the "bigotry" of *not* messenging their non-bigotry, they could somehow make the culture more progressive.
And the utter gall of a platform that LOSES MONEY hand-over-fist for their Corporate Daddy, Google, to demonitize channels like Cypher's while trying to justify that CD's undeserved philanthropy of it -- without Google RUclips would no longer be around -- is beyond my comprehension. I'm 53 and have a 143 IQ (Stanford-Binet), so I have a pretty broad comprehension of things.
@@jasonbelstone3427 It's the advertisers that keep pushing RUclips around to moderate the content. I'm pretty sure RUclips would happy to host porn if it could get away with it.
you should enable channel memberships. Downside: on platform, which gives google control but huge benefit would be a much higher conversion rate than off-platform sites like patreon. Idk, maybe patreon has a stronger pull in youtube history communities, but i know in general memberships drive higher rates
I think the issue with channel memberships is that you remain at the mercy of Team RUclips. Tomorrow they could decide in a board meeting that they need stronger means to fight "inappropriate content", and channel memberships could be used as a new point of attack. For creators to be safe, they need their monetization to be 3rd party.
The one issue where I might be a little right leaning is PC culture. Some people are just searching for things to be offended by. But other people have completely abused the terms 'PC', 'Woke', and 'SJW'. Like wearing a mask isn't about being PC; that has a practical function. I'm sick of people telling me I shouldn't like classic movies cause they're "problematic", but I don't wanna be associated with the guys who screams "woke hollywood" at every female-led action movie. I think it's absurd to go digging through someone's old tweets and try to cancel them for a racist joke, but the right would still call me an SJW for wanting police accountability for murder. Bottom line, I think the culture war is being fueled by people on both sides whining about shit that doesn't matter and ignoring shit that does.
@Emilie Bouchard Spot-on. I like to believe the hyper-PC left is just the minority of the left, but sometimes it feels like they're taking over. I hope you're right that it's mostly a teen phase.
@@TheTocuba right on it is a very vocal Minority on both sides and hell we know money plays a part and I believe some of this is amped up by parties who have an interest in splitting us apart. the vast majority of things I hear people are enraged about can be easily debunked or reasonably discussed but most do not take time to do either.
Blind nationalism is dangerous, that's how China became the world's punching bag when they refused to modernize in the 1800s. You must be able to point the flaws in your nation to able to fix them. You don't need hate your country to do this, in fact it is necessary to love your country because other wise you have no incentive to fix it. That is the difference between loving and hating your country, those that hate look at America's mistakes and say how evil we are. While those that love America look those same mistakes and say that we will fix them. The greatest example of this is slavery. Those that hate America say it is proves that America is an evil country. Those that love America say that is America's greatest mistake. And it those people that loved America that ended slavery, it those people who kept fighting the systemic inequalities that persisted the end of that horrid institution. And were resisted the whole way, by those that hated America for personal gain, along with their useful idiots. Even today the most necessary reforms are resisted and blocked at every turn by those who hate America, they don't want to fix any actual problems because to so would weaken their support. They continue to lie, cheat, and swindle this country so that they be given power. Those love America should resist the encroachment of these radicals and attempt to fix the systemic issues that have helped bring us to this point.
No what I’m gonna say something about myself born 1998, California. My parents were born in Vietnam and escape Vietnam war, I didn’t know what The hell happened so I decided to search for myself I already learn this on USA on Vietnam War point of view during high school did very bad things like my lai Massacre and agent orange, South Vietnam Committed war crimes, and North Vietnam did something like I don’t remember what it’s call hue massacre so yeah it’s a boring comment and wanted to say I believe there’s good people around the world and Cynical dude I think you cool dude and have good heart.
I grew up in southern California and knew some people of Vietnamese descent. It's good to see other people's point of view and call out injustice regardless of the country or cultural background
@@justinwatson1510 I mean, I won’t argue that the US isn’t responsible for some pretty fucked up shit, but when you put it that way, it seems like you’re discounting the achievements that the US has also accomplished.
@@CynicalHistorian I can understand. I got the idea from watching Cody's "What if Germany Won WWII?" videos. and I also understand if you're afraid of another toxic comment section.
@@jwil4286 it's also the inevitable demonetization and suppression. I just don't want to deal with a video whose viewership congress solely via hate-sharing
@@CynicalHistorian I think getting the truth out is more important, not many history channels really convey it with the level of objectivity and facts as you have. It might seem pointless at the start but it sets a role model for other possibly bigger channels out there to run the risk of popularizing actual logic in the world instead of leaving the lid on it until they've already found a shitty counterargument against it.
I'm a liberal and I love this country, and I want it to do better. It's a shame that the other side thinks this nation only belongs to them, and to them change always=loss.
It’s always confused me that the American flag is associated as a right wing symbol now, even though the right consistently and adamantly defends the people that betrayed America.
What you're saying is the Culture Wars should be renamed the Strawman Skirmishes. Everything out of it from the arts vs. science and being PC reek of strawmen fighting other strawmen because people lack an understanding of anything.
@King Sobieski Historical revisionism to push an agenda based in what is inarguable falsehood and smearing anyone who disagrees as "unpatriotic" isn't a right. No ifs, ands or buts.
Sir! Your visual components have got to be the best I’ve seen on pretty much any channel/genre on RUclips. The amount of pausing I have to do is crazy! (In a good way) 36 minutes of great content, and so much more sprinkles throughout. Thank you!
As a patriot I’m all for criticizing the government we live under. My main issue is looking for the right sources of information. Luckily King’s servant Cyber has grant us such information :)
@@paisleepunk Storyblocks for stock footage, youtube and archive.org for other stuff, documentaries for some footage, wiki for a lot of imagery, and tons of google-image-searching. Sometimes I dig into media stuff, so I've got a huge library of films to use as well. Just a lot of stuff
Dee Snyder's slap in the face of Al Gore is the most statisfying thing a person can see; the full hearing exists on YT, and it's a pleasure. Don't care which side you claim to be, viewers; censorship is the worst thing you can support. Free speech is paramount.
All three - Frank Zappa, Dee Snider, and John Denver at the PMRC - were brilliant and each played a crucial role in the proceedings (as I posted at greater length under a different comment on this subject, so I won't annoy everyone by copy-pasting here).
Dee Snyder is so desperate to stay relevant after his fifteen minutes of fame making songs for eleven year old boys in the early 80s, 😂🤣 it’s pretty funny. The free speech angle was a good move for his career, but I still think he’s completely cringe and ridiculous. Master of the cheese 🧀
Arguably we entered a new "party system" in the election of 2016, when Trump, Clinton, and the voter base emphasized culture war over policy to the point that people started brawling in the streets. Trump's economic ideas also recognize the GOP's only major deviation from Reaganomics since the 80s, thanks to his administration's emphasis on protectionism and home grown industry over international "globalist" capitalism.
Nothing fundamentally new happened in 2016, including the name "Clinton" and its role (except Hillary was less smooth than Bill at selling the same crap 24 years later). The only difference is that the Democrats' "triangulation" strategy has resulted in chasing the Republicans ever further rightward.
Interestingly enough Biden is now also deviating from Reaganomics with massive public investments and "growing the economy from the bottom and middle up". He also straight up attacked trickle down economics and said it has never worked in his State of the Union Address.
Isolationist economy isn’t a good idea. If the US solely relied on its own materials and industry, it would increase consumer prices, which would reduce buying and money circulation. Isolation may have worked in the past when there wasn’t an efficient way to quickly harvest resources and churn out products, but in todays modern world, international trade and foreign manufacturing is more financially stable.
I really appreciate Buchanan's speech as a source. Unlike Reagan where you need to look through various speeches to find his opinions on various cultural topics, Buchanan just lays it all out in a single speech. The fact that he goes straight past real criticism to a near conspiratorial separation of reality is very interesting to watch.
@@CynicalHistorian Reagan was far to the left of Buchanan on immigration and maybe even to the left of Biden. This is one of the most pro-immigrant speeches ever made. www.reaganlibrary.gov/archives/speech/remarks-reagan-bush-rally-elizabeth-new-jersey
One correction. While the Reagan administration moved slowly on AIDS, Reagan himself was remarkably silent on homosexuality (he was, after all, an actor from Hollywood, an industry long known for tolerance of gays). Even appointees like C. Everett Koop were criticized by their Evangelical peers for their failure to condemn homosexuality in the most odious terms.
I'm late to the party, but I thought I'd chime in. Having lived with HIV for over 30 years, I'll introduce you to an old ACT UP slogan " Silence = Death"
interesting stuff....but you really should give us what we all really want......AN ENTIRE VIDEO OF NOTHING BUT HIS MOST SERENE AND MAJESTIC MAJESTY KING RICHARD THE FIRST!!!!!!!.........right people? like if you agree and let's make Cypher work..... :D
Just one thing about drugs and politicians harping on not taking them. In 2020 there were 93,000 deaths from drug overdoses in the United States. More Americans died in that one year from drug overdoses than were killed in the Korean and Vietnam wars combined. I am a very old man and this is not an immediate problem for me, but I can understand why it is an issue for any concerned citizen.
A very interesting dive into the culture war. I alway appreciate you giving us the information straight. I've been drowned in the culture war for a while now. I'm trying my best to escape it, and I hope we all can find our way out of this mess and discuss our issues rather than just shouting at each other. Looking forward to the rest of this series.
Oh we will. Maybe not in our generation but people little realize that man is a being in transition and constantly shifts in reaction to our environment and vice versa. Eventually people will bang or die so much you won't be able to tell one group from another. What we bleeding need is a species wide identity. We need to make an Ur-culture made of every bit of man melted into a pot, because alloys are stronger.
This is probably one of those, "people on each side think it biased", videos. I don't agree with everything you said, but I shall cool my conservative jets hahah. Thanks again Cypher, you're a man of discipline and courage. Cheers mate!
"Do we really need to weave America's sad, long history of racism throughout the entire story?" "Yes we do...because it happened." Drop the damn mic, bro!
The debate is when does a clump of cells become a human being. The longer the pregnancy lasts and the more the baby develops the harder it becomes to get an abortion.
@@MaelPlaguecrow6942 What’s wrong with pointing out the truth, the truth hurts. America has done a lot of good things, but that doesn’t mean we haven’t made bad or even horrible decisions. The point of pointing out the bad is to instill critical thinking in young minds. That way people have a larger understanding of our history.
I'm looking forward to this. There are few topics as essential for understanding present politics (across the developed world as well as the US) as the culture wars.
Amazing video as usual! Just a hint from a euro: you use "Jim Crow" quite a lot, while most international viewers are familiar with the concept of those laws a lot of us don't know them by that specific name, putting a quick definition would be very helpful, thanks a lot!
While the PC principal references are ok. I think the 1990s PC culture that shifted the House into Republican control under Newt in 1995 needs a deeper dive. By that time, the Baby Boomers were becoming parents of teenagers. The 1990s featured emerging technology and pop culture that scared this large group of voters. The movie "PCU" really captures this culture war taking place on college campuses. For parents of younger children, the emergence of AOL chatrooms, video games like Mortal Kombat, television like Bevis and Butthead, clothing like Big Johnson and CoEd Naked, and music like gangsta rap gave worried parents something to censor and blame for their kids misbehavior.
And now it's being scared of "influencers" or "LGBTQ+ people" being visible. But they project it on to everyone else and claim they aren't the ones who are "oversensitive"
The difference is, in the neoliberal culture wars, they take higher precedent and have helped moved political discourse into what is effectively a simulation of politics, mostly as a result of almost no class consciousness or class interests being in the discussion of politics in media, and thus, at the dinner table. Material interests have been removed entirely for idealistic posturing. I'll end on the note that although we do see a return of class demands and discourse, it does not yet seem we have left simulation behind at all.
@@ethanmcfarland8240 race in America was primarily made up by conservatives to justify having a White ethnostate after banishing natives from running the country. How can they divide a country, that's already been divided centuries in advance, when you jackasses do little to nothing in resolving them?
I'm not sure the Civil Rights movement was entirely nonviolent - the nonviolent protests worked with the Liberals watching on TV, but they only avoided repeats of Greenville by supporting the non-violent blocs with some pretty tasty Black militias marching with them; lots of them battle-tested veterans of armed defences against local Klan chapters
@@_bane_7742 Exactly. It pisses me off to no end when people point MLK and the civil rights protest in order to dispairage BLM as "violent thugs" when those same people would have said the same thing about MLK back then. Conservative media always points towards the worst in any civil rights group to paint it as violent, all so they can try and get support for gunning them down in the streets.
I think it's worth distinguishing between the counter culture and the new left. Where the counter culture was focused on personal empowerment and freedom (i.e., the hippies) the new left was much more about organisation and activism. There was an element of race in this, too (e.g., Malcolm X, Black Panthers, etc), but there was also plain old Marxism in the new left. The two were often antagonistic.
I think this has a couple of significant simplifications that do it a considerable disservice which I'd like to address. 1. The idea that the culture wars is merely set dressing for the real issues is ultimately incorrect for nuanced reasons. In fact, it's intimately tied with the resurgence of neo-liberalism itself. You correctly note the neoliberal consensus is a both party thing. But you're not recognizing how intimately this consensus was tied with specific elements of the culture war, white america's consensus on the welfare queen myth directly contributed to a consensus on dismantling social safety net programs contributing to electoral victory for the GOP during the Reagen era and the realignment of the democrats to becoming more moderate under Clinton and the third way democrats. The culture wars should not be treated as a side-show because in general, especially in a capitalist society where everything is commodified, social hierarhcies have economic implications. I'll note that I'm aware you do address the welfare queen myth to a degree, but i don't think it does justice to the import of the seismic shift that was the WWC turning so anti-social safety net and supporting politicians that supported the same which is supported by the scholarship on the welfare queen myth, especially in context that the challenges to the the southern strategy explanation from academic historians have primarily been the theory that instead of being top down (political elites radicalizing population), it was bottom up (population seeking political elites that fit their views), eg Dr. Kevin Kruse's work. 2. There's no mention of Coit V. Green or in general the religious right being primarily a pro-segregation movement. The narrative about them primarily organizing around Roe V. Wade is false, it was specifically a Catholic issue with plenty in the evangelical circle hailing it since it ALSO protected the right not to have an abortion. Falwell didn't start preaching on it til 1978, but it ended up being wildly successful at energizing evangelical voters.
Good video, I would recommend though with your comments at 25:44, talk about some modern examples of your argument about how many of those who are 'Anti-PC' are criticizing ideas that actually have good intentions, do you think conservative commentators like Ben Shapiro, Michael Knowles are examples of that?
Overall good vid. I would quibble with Pat Buchanan as neoconservative. He seemed (at least claimed) more of a paleoconservative. Neocons always saw a foreign conflict to be involved in while the Peleos, like Buchanan, tended to be isolationist, even to immigration and trade. Buchanan was so isolationist it went into the realm of conspiracy and antisemitism.
It seems the problems arise all the time. I mean think of today compared to then. I dont see that much of a difference in arguments or what people fight for. But we need progress. Pushing for things to remain the same or to go backwards in completely wrong. Everyone needs rights.
"I may disapprove of some of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it" To parra phrase Voltaire, and keep the content coming I truly due enjoy having my preconceptions challenged.
Not be that guy but Voltaire didn't actually say that it's rather a summary by a woman going over voltaire's opinion on the censoring of one of voltaire's contemporaries
Great video. I thought I heard you call Pat Buchanan a neconservative in it though, and that struck me as funny. My understanding is he's generally described as a "paleoconservative" or someone who is much more socially traditional and skeptical of foreign military adventures than the neocons. I'd be curious as to why you labeled Buchanan this way.
I'm not at all a conservative or religious, but the reason why I no longer side with Democrats/liberals is because they use "equality/diversity/inclusion/etc" as shield against being criticized. Calling out conservative hypocrisy won't get you banned or cancelled, but actually question leftwing/Democrat talking points and it's "hate speech". And I realize if the right wing were in control of most media and tech platforms they'd likely be censoring and banning liberals, but the liberals are the ones in control of social media and they use that control as a bludgeon to push their politics on me in movies, music, TV shows, comics, ads, video games, etc. I'm just sick of it. I'd be equally sick of it if it were the right wing, but it's the left wing always trying to speak for me or be offended on my behalf because they think they know what's better for me than I do like I'm a dumb child. And look, America's not perfect, I fully realize 200 years ago I'd be someone's slave, but it's 2021, this country has given me the freedom and the opportunity to have a good life, a better life than I'd have in virtually any other country. Constantly crapping on the US instills in people that you can't succeed so don't even try, so they don't and they blame sexism/racism. I've since learned that's the mantra of people who are too lazy to take responsibility for how unhappy their lives are.
Would you care to give an example, or are we just generalizing? Because the vast majority of the time that someone is called bigoted for criticising left wing talking points the person has either said something that is legitimately bigoted, has said bigoted things that would lead people to assume they are bigots, or it's like 5 people complaining and people pick up on it cuz it's a slow news day.
An excellent analysis of post-war American culture. Thank you. To be honest, the amount and scope of social contradictions within the American society is fascinating. If the United States comes out of this crisis, then it has a chance to maintain its status as a world power. If not, then the end will be sad.
Tardy to the party on this but I think it's relevant so... The Roe v Wade case did not argue that bans on abortions were unconstitutional because they violated a woman's right to control her own body. That case, the legalese involved, argued that abortion bans violated a woman's right to "privacy" which is the weak link that got Roe V Wade overturned. The underlying argument of bodily autonomy is still unanswered. Also, the evangelical's attacks on Disco didn't cause it's demise, Disco sucked & died of lack of interest. Ironically the religious attack on Disco, then their continued attack on music in general i.e., the PMRC is what led to the loss of support for the Evangelicals in America.
While you should teach about the bad parts of your country’s history, what’s wrong with promoting a form of patriotism for your country? If the US is suppose to be “the land of the free and the home of the brave,” why kill that sentiment to continue to progress under that sentiment? In my opinion, focusing consistently on the scars of US history has taught resentment to this country and keeps young minds focused on the wrongdoings and not reminded what this country stands for and why.
All what you said is crappy, I want to know every part of my country from it's worst abd it's best in the most objective way possible with the goal to progress ourselves and to keep charging forward. I can be prideful and shame for what my country has done and doing now.
"Because it happened". You can't sugarcoat over attrocitites just because they make you uncomfortable or make you think differently about your country. History isn't about making you like your country more, it's about showing you the faults of the past so you can hopefully prevent them in the future. Without teaching what America did wrong we can't even attempt to fix any of the long tem consequences. You need every single detail, otherwise nothing actually get's solved.
I am always a bit surprise that so many Trotskyist went to the right and had such an influence there. Even in the Tory government in the UK currently, the head of the Policy Unit; Munira Mirza; which advises the PM was a former Trotskyists.
Must be nice to have to have your culture, history, and interests seen as “patriotic” meanwhile the rest of us have to dig ours out of the trash. I’ve been searching for good sources on disabled history for years now and I can still count them on one hand (a lot of them aren’t even in the history or sociology section- they’re in the “science” section next to medical textbooks!)
As an Australian, I love the country I'm in and I'm proud of it. Also I am willing to admit that my country has an incredibly dark past and roots in genocide of original owners of the land. There is such thing as a middle ground and more work needs to be done to rectify hurt relationships.
You have a new subscriber. I appreciate how you embrace looking for the context in these historical events. Most researchers think facts only matter when context is what makes those facts much clearer and for that I thank you
It wasn't just right wingers that scapegoated video games in the 90s, plenty of democrats jumped on that bandwagon as well. Granted this was partly due to the Democratic Party making a turn towards the center in the 80s and 90s, but still. The bottom line is most politicians regardless of party are opportunists that are perfectly happy to scapegoat and fearmonger if it suits their agenda, the culture wars are part of that.
As someone that was born in the late sixties but still identifies with hippy culture, this is fascinating. When I think of the hippy culture my first thought is peace, love and the piercing of taboos. I associate the green movement with the seventies. Greenpeace and Friends of the Earth were born from that era. I have hippy friends that are still super-chill and on the right track. There is this one guy that was and is super into the culture that is a total reactionary. He does not believe the science on climate change, and cannot back up his claims with anything but blatant propoganda, that uses freedom of thought as his ultimate defence. What you say about neo-conservatism coming from inside the hippy movement rings true. If you are conservative your instinct is to conform with your peers, regardless of the direction they take. When the peer group changes, the language you use does not necessarily change, and you may still identify with that group but your priorities change. What I think makes mass media so influential, is their ability to influence in group norms. They form a bridge between groups that can outweigh any common connection between people. When the media agenda becomes the "common sense" view that is hard to displace.
Hey Cypher. I really loved the video. I'm a Progressive Immigrant myself who's VERY interested in US history, (learning as much as I can about the country). but something about this video just felt off I feel this video doesn't project an accurate view of the cultural conflict that developed in the US following the 2nd world war. It started out as a crucial yet objective analysis of the origins of the new left, it's motives and it's outcomes but slowly descended into a tirade of attacks on the rise of conservativism in response to it. I know you're not aiming to be objective and you have your own beliefs but I don't think this video was as good an analysis as it could have been had you left some of your personal disagreements with Neo Conservatives by the side. There appears to be a startling misrepresentation of conservatives and a drive to associate everything that went against the new left with ill intent from Trotskyites, to the STEM establishment, to Neo cons etc. It seem more like defense of the New left and a criticism of all the reactions in opposition to it than an honest evaluation of why there was such a backlash and why it was and still is so successful. You even display the new left with a divine dove associated with "The Good" in Traditional Abrahamic Faiths and Show 'The Others" as violent predators as, "The Bad". and you make this comparison of New Left=good, Others=bad many times over the course of this video than you usually do. I assume you have a personal issue with the ahistoricism and the attacks on your field with their BS which i deeply understand. But I think you're not really trying to understand conservatives and good faith and if we can't understand why this movement has not just gotten stronger but has actually morphed into full on Nationalist populism, this crisis the US faces will keep getting worse cause people with a platform like yours and a high degree of professional credibility just don't bother to and would rather demonise... Hence the culture wars. I know you're unlike to see this unless it gains a lot of traction and much less respond, But If you do, Id like to hear from you. I Just wanted to share that respectfully from an outside perspective if that helps any for further reflection. I'm really looking forward to your NeoLiberalism Video. More Modern Historians need to talk about it's impact.
I enjoy the cynical Historians content greatly. He definitely approaches American history from the run of the mill neo-liberal boilerplate perspective. We all have our innate biases it’s unavoidable. Regardless, This was very enjoyable. Thank you. I am loving this series.
I'm decently liberal myself but this still comes off as refreshing. It's nice to feel that someone is just biased instead of trying to force they're opinion down my throat.
The underlying theme of this historical account is that starting from the 70's, the demagogues who promote the American Culture Wars have consistently emerged from the authoritarian right-wing of the Republican Party. The last of the 60's Democratic Party demagogues was George Wallace, who bolted from the party to run for President as a third-party candidate. From that point on, prominent Culture Warriors Nixon, Reagan, Falwell, Buchanan, Gingrich, Cheney, O'Reilly, Limbaugh, Palin, Hannity, Carlson, and Trump have all been closely aligned with Republican Party politics. Their Progressive counterparts, however, have only rarely risen to prominence in the Democratic Party, which has consistently demurred from promoting strident Progressive politics since the failure of the Equal Rights Amendment in the 80's. Thus the national political struggle has been waged by vehement right-wing demagogues versus conciliatory centrist bureaucrats, which explains why American politics has repeatedly ratcheted rightward, while persistently drifting to the left.
I'm sorry your stuff keeps get demonetized. I've always been a history buff and quite enjoy your channel. I always foresaw myself becoming a history teacher, but ended up joining the army and then getting out and becoming a diesel mech.
I want to make my country better for the benefit of my future children. I would not be here if it were not for the history of this country unfolding the way it did. Because I owe my existence to this country, it feels wrong to despise its past actions which formed it to my benefit. I’m not going to feel ashamed about the country that gives me the only identity I can rightly claim- as an ethnic mutt with numerous nationalities and races contributing to my bloodline, how am I to identify with any one over another? I despise racism and racial identitarianism in America because it robs the American people of their only true identity as Americans. I consider myself a nationalist as a result of these beliefs. Anyone who professes to love this nation and benefits from it and yet feels shame or regret over the history which built the nation is a hypocrite. You regret the past because you’ve been taught that you should be, despite having nothing to do with it, but this education is selective; despite living in a Western world that relies strongly on its Roman heritage, I doubt you feel anything at all about the mass murders the Romans perpetrated on the people of Gaul, Carthage, Palestine, and other lands- this is because it is in the past and because no one has repeated to you throughout your childhood that you should feel bad about it. Our true history is this: America conquered or purchased all of its territory from Native Americans, fighting numerous wars over the land and its resources in which atrocities were committed by both Americans and Natives. As a result of these conflicts, the population of pre-Colombian people within the United States is a small fraction of the population. There was no sustained effort to completely eradicate all Native Americans over the course of these wars on the part of any colonial government, but periodically deliberate acts of ethnic cleansing were undertaken in order to make lands they laid claim to safe for settlement by colonists. Some Native leaders desired to do the same unto colonial settlers, but lacked the resources to do more than eradicate some frontier settlements. The Native American nations lost this period in history, being completely conquered by colonial governments, but have been allowed to persist in an unprecedented act of historical mercy as protectorate quasi-states within the borders of these nations, whereas throughout most of history they would have likely been exterminated or assimilated completely. Despite this, further injuries have been visited upon these people due to prejudice, including renewed acts of ethnic cleansing in the form of forced sterilization even into modern times. The American nation would not exist without these events having occurred; we owe our wealth to the lands we won through bloody conflict and all of us also owe our lives to it, because without it we likely would not have been born. Regarding slavery, American colonists used Africans as a last resort after Natives and European serfs proved capable of escape either back to their homes or to European settlements where they could blend into society- only Africans were easily identifiable and could not flee home. The Africans who were enslaved largely entered bondage at the hands of other Africans, who traded slaves among themselves often after capturing them in warfare, and Europeans were simply another trading partner for them. The unusual atrocity of chattel slavery which developed was an American invention, and led to Africans as being considered less than human by many Europeans, like cattle or horses. Centuries of suffering were endured by African descended slaves in America until the institution was ended by a war predominantly fought by European descended Americans to reunite regions of the country which had rebelled to protect slavery as an institution. Despite no longer being enslaved, the view of African descended Americans as being less than human persists to this day, with laws being passed to prevent them from fully enjoying freedom. Nearly all overtly oppressive laws have been repealed or made null since, but the residual effects of decades of oppression following centuries of slavery remain. No American alive held slaves or was enslaved by other Americans, but all Americans today benefit from the work of slaves including the descendants of slaves which would not have been otherwise possible. There is no rewriting history. There is no sense in eschewing the benefits you receive as a result of history from yourself. All Americans today seek to have a better life, let us do so together as Americans in common pursuit of this simple goal free of the conflicts and prejudices which afflicted us in the past. All great cities are built on the bones of older iterations of cities built in the same spot, and the people which lived in them, but we’ll not weep for their being dead and gone or for their struggles and sufferings. Rather, let us thank them for giving us a solid foundation to build on and praise them for their good sense in building location, because that is all we can do to stay sane and push forwards. One day, we’ll likely have new people build their houses on our graves, and why shouldn’t they if it’s solid soil and we aren’t around to complain? If they’re our descendants, we can consider ourselves a success, but if they aren’t then we failed to hold onto what was ours and someone better came along to do so. That’s history.
You mention that the Religious right was plastering over racism, but is that really the case though? I thought Billy Graham was pro civil rights when it came to issues of race. And wasn’t he a democrat?
those little Parental Advisory stickers ended up being a huge gift from the “squares” in DC! When I was a kid in the 90’s the only way to sell a record was to make sure it had that little sticker! Lol It’s funny how a bunch of crotchety old paranoid politicians in DC never seem to understand that the way kids n teens think at any given moment is pretty much indecipherable to them. I’m almost 40 and there’s no way I’d stick my nose in and try to censor anything but CP. then again, as an out of touch older millennial, I can’t really understand the strange more recent desire for censorship by students themselves. Coming from my anti-censorship era, the yearning for trigger warnings and constant protest against all kinds of speakers and even comedians by the active young ppl is bizarre but I guess the pendulum swings back n forth and in different ways. Confusing the ever living crap out of me is the concern over the objectification of women and the self-exploitation of the most popular female singers/rappers isn’t seen as a bit of a contradiction, but that’s why Im old and not running for office to sort this shit out! But I support the insane whims of kids anyhow I guess 😂 so….end the exploitation of women AND great job with the porn music videos nicki! 🤷🏻♂️
Something ive noticed lately is that since youtube started arbitrarily cracking down on history youtubers that many of them have been skewing more and more towards conservative/christian biases and more cynical/contrarian and political views in their videos as opposed to being as impartial and objective as possible, whats your take on that?
If conservatives don't like popular culture than why don't they go out and make their own? I think it is absurd to expect artists to be "unbiased" whatever that means. Freedom of expression doesn't equal being as neutral as possible. It means allowing for multiple perspectives, which should be individually as biased as possible. Bias is just having an opinion. Or at least that's what it has come to mean thanks to right wing pundits. Frankly it pisses me off whenever I here politicians weighing in on popular culture because it isn't their f#%king job to do this. They are elected to pass or oppose legislation and deal with things appropriate to government. They are not there to tell me what to believe religiously, philosophically or ethically.
One day the people will rise up and we’ll game back or feed him to see what we want to see on the Internet with no censorship in with no intervention one day, one day
You are funny Cypher! I like this new creative direction you're taking, the costume and voices. Oh wAIT THEY DID NOOOOOT JUST DEMONETIZE YOUR VIDEO BC A QUOTE. Now, it's war.
Wow and the focus on policy is subverted by the same means today. Because I just started learning about the phenomenon that is America, which is fascinating to outsiders like me, I didn't know that today's disgusting state of affairs was nothing new.
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Commenters claim Pat Buchanan wasn't a neocon. Today he's considered a paleoconservative, but the term didn't exist in 1992, and Buchanan has become progressively worse since that speech. He was a neocon then. That is how history works = change over time
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Keith Beattie, _The Scar that Binds: American culture and the Vietnam War_ (New York: New York University Press, 1998). amzn.to/389otNd
Jefferson Cowie, _Stayin’ Alive: The 1970s and the Last Days of the Working Class_ (New York: The New Press, 2010). amzn.to/2KQT8Tb
Christopher Gair, _The American Counterculture_ (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2007). amzn.to/3uQDiy2
Andrew Hartman, _A War for the Soul of America: A History of the Culture Wars_ (Chicago, Ill.: University of Chicago Press, 2015). amzn.to/30wqyiW
Ezra Klein, _Why We’re So Polarized_ (London: Profile Books, 2020). amzn.to/31sqFLB
Edward T. Linenthal and Tom Engelhardt, _History Wars: The Enola Gay and other Battles for the American Past_ (New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1996). amzn.to/2pHmglK
Rick Perlstein, _Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus,_ reprint (2001; New York: Nation Books, 2009). amzn.to/3rre0od
Rick Perlstein, _Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America_ (New York: Scribner, 2008). amzn.to/3sLTDlQ
Rick Perlstein, _The Invisible Bridge: The Fall of Nixon and the Rise of Reagan_ (New York: Simon and Schuster, 2014). amzn.to/306XMo9
Rick Perlstein, _Reaganland: America’s Right Turn, 1976-1980_ (New York: Simon and Schuster: 2020). amzn.to/2NZ4f1R
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34:26 are you sure trump was a neoliberal? He was quite protectionist and also for reduction of immigration?
RUclips censoring far more effectively than Tipper Gore dreamed of.
This is the story of my life, from beginning to now. There's one big push that you only barely scratched the taking away of power from judge's and placing it with the prosecution and police making judge's little more than a rubber stamp. Which is exactly why most people in prisons never have a trial or a competent defense. Just an accusation can bankrupt a family costing jobs and shattering families.
Maybe the real culture war were the friends we didn’t make along the way
or the friends that we would inevitable lose along the way
So Puff the Magic Dragon was never real? Dammit!
@@legoworksstudios1 you never catch the dragon if you get that South Park reference
It really makes us think. Don’t we all?
While I'm sure you meant it in jest, I can't help but think of stories I have heard here and there about family members that stop speaking to one other because the culture war. Stories of people you just turned their backs on their family because they thought they had gone nuts.
“A true patriot acknowledges their country’s wrongdoings, whereas nationalists prefer to deny it” love that quote
I'm kind of in the middle. I acknowledge the bad things the United States has done, but I try to lay all the blame for them on an elitist minority that blocked both men and women, and both whites and people of color, from achieving progress.
@@unclesam5230 that would be nationalists youre thinking of
@@unclesam5230 again, that is nationalism homie 😂
@@unclesam5230 hightened nationalism in 1930s Germany is how the Nazi party was able to successfully create their fascist regime
Sounds about right in a US American context. However, I don't think being an Irish nationalist for instance requires you to deny any Irish wrongdoings.
I like that phrase : "A true patriot acknowlegde their country wrongdoings , while nationalism prefer to deny it" Man , you ´re cool.
@@seanhovan7426 no...it means you need to recognize that your country is not perfect and sometimes it fucked up.
Insert side that’s disagrees with me needs to admit their wrongdoings
Not really anything new this goes back to atleast montaigne who basically said the same thing in the 1500s. Thats where the noble savage motif comes from. But the leftists will write it off as racist even though it was supposed to be a counter to exceptionalism.
@@seanhovan7426 lol that's ridiculous.
It's like Santa Claus. If you never insist that your child believes he is real, you won't have to worry about your child being upset when they learn the truth.
Patriotism in the USA is fine as long as it doesn't require cult-like blind faith and a denial of truth for the sake of someones fragile belief in fantasy land.
Patriotism is fine. Nationalism is for the weak and/or stupid.
Thoughtful patriots acknowledge the country's sins but also recognize that it has positive attributes that are worth preserving; whereas SJW's want to tear down the country because they see it as irredeemably capitalist, racist, sexist, homophobic, etc.
“The only sadomasochism, bondage, and rape in this song is in the mind of Mrs. Gore.”
And like that, he was arrested for murder.
I'm a little surprised they didn't make Dee Snider cut his hair for the hearing.
@@SeasideDetective2 I think it was actually a strategy by congress to make him look as dumb as possible.
@@thevoidlookspretty7079 I recall being young at the time and it backfired huge.
@@gingerkid1048 Congress be like, “Crap, he’s eloquent and intelligent!”
Fun fact. Wasp's singer was originally ment for that hearing.
I love my country. I love the opportunity it gave to my parents and the myriad of freedoms it gives us. I would consider myself a patriot. But that dosent mean I will ignore the flaws we have in place. If you truly love this place, you would acknowledge its flaws and help it move forward. Living in ignorance because the truth makes you uncomfortable or mad is one of the worst ways to live out your life.
That will not be possible until those bringing up issues with the system start being honest with themselves and allow examination and scrutiny of their policies. We harp on and on about police brutality and poor minority communities, but never want to acknowledge the factors that create those systems. They just say it’s White people’s fault and leave it at that. The uncomfortable truth is that the political system does not want these issues resolved.
Until we acknowledge this, it’s a complete waste of time.
@@EdmacZ except people do talk about the systems behind the causes of all these problems. People are now more than ever specifically using the terms “institutional” and “systemic” to describe these problems and how it’s not just some people being bad on an individual level. You’re only half right here. Also how often do you actually hear people literally say “it’s white peoples fault”? Or is that just a strawman people throw out to excuse arguments like how slavery still has effects felt now and how conservatism has held back civil rights . Also “it’s white peoples fault” isn’t even entirely wrong considering they are still the dominant economic and political group of this country who instituted the policies of Native American reservations and Jim Redlining for example. Very much against the wishes of these other races.
@@VMohdude- judge people on the content of their character and not race.
@@truanashabadapressure6621 if only conservatives believed that...
@@VMohdude- You have to be kidding right?
"Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past."--George Orwell
In the name of Kane
“The ability to quote someone does not make you intelligent” -me
actualy. rage against the machine
Say it with me everyone:
“War is Peace
Freedom is Slavery
Ignorance is Strength!”
@@warlordofbritannia Demonetization is watching you.
Historian: it's important to think deep about these things...
Team RUclips: *IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH*
or "IGNORANCE IS BLISS"
@@jurtra9090 that too
All hail the RUclips Ministry of Truth
For the Emperor!
Blessed is the mind too small for doubt, to the ignorant I bring faith.
As someone with a science background I would like to make the point explicitly that it tends not to be the actual scientists who perpetuate this science vs. humanities narrative. Most scientists are quite willing to engage with meta-analysis, discussions of systemic and personal bias the argument more often comes from people who want to speak for science, politicians and pundits.
Well duh? The sciences were taken over by the morons back in the 90s and 2000s. Nowdays the smart people go into TEMC technology, Engineering, Math and Computer science
History doesn't stop existing just because its ugly, gruesome, and makes us remember not only the good but our worse points in humanity and in ourselves with out own ideals. Those who do not remember history are doomed to repeat it.
Something RUclips down the line is gonna learn harshly
As a Brit, I learned a lot about Pat Buchanan today. To summarise: "I stand for the freedom to choose, so long as you choose what I say is the right thing."
That about right?
That's not unique to Buchanan.
You can have any colour you want, as long as its black.
@@paisleepunk Actually, the quote is supposedly from Henry Ford regarding some of the early Ford cars. They were only available in black and customers were starting to ask for a bit more variety.
Not trying to be pedantic or anything, I just grew up in the Detroit area and that phrase got used a lot!
I believe that's the Buchanan speech that the late great Molly Ivans said “probably sounded better in the original German.”
Buchanan was just a Catholic Rad Trad extremist and a paleo-conservative. A real piece of work.
Whether left or right, we can all agree that RUclips censorship is cancer. Call your congressmen and push for anti trust to be put upon them
I actually wonder, how would anti-trust fix something like RUclips? Wouldn't it probaly still run the same since the main problem is advertisers refusing to run ads if they don't? Iirc doesn't RUclips tend to run at a loss, and so can't be split off without collapsing in on itself? RUclips requires access to Google servers and funding to survive, and I don't see how breaking it up would benefit it or the creators using it at all. But I am also uneducated as to what trust busting would entail, and would be very interested in learning in how it could work out in favor of those who rely on youtube.
@@zachantes1161 as of now there aren't really any other sites that really offer any kind of reach, so RUclips can do as it wishes. If there was actually opportunity for others to compete with it, then I think RUclips or other sites would be more willing to tell those advertisers to piss off, as people would flock to the other sites that didn't have draconian censorship. Just a theory, but it's one I like
It’s a private company. This is what the majority of conservatives and libertarians advocate for so it’s what they get
@@nxthy6978 that is quickly changing on the right wing while people on the left are becoming the private companies defenders as long as the companies out BLM or a pride flag on their door and website they will defend them
@@dubvuchyea502 the problem is for a service like what RUclips provides its very easy for it to conglomerate into just one thing being what most people use, it’s not as if RUclips or Google has never had a competitor, there are competitors out there right now actually, people just don’t use them. I think it’s human nature more than anything else, people want to be on the same platform interacting with each other across the world, people also like familiarity and simplicity. It’s really hard to actually replace something like RUclips with anything else. Which don’t get me wrong, I’m a socialist, so I don’t think RUclips should exist as it does now either. Maybe the answer circles back to who owns RUclips and how it runs, if RUclips is like a “central square” so to speak, maybe it should be owned instead by the people who use it? Like a consumer cooperative? You could pay for a share to opt into owning RUclips which would allow you to create content and Democratically set the rules with other members. If you just want to watch videos you wouldn’t have to pay, just watch advertisements like you do now. But to create content and/or to play a role in making the rules of the site you would buy a single share of RUclips stock that would have voting privileges with it (in case you wanted to also sell stock to investors without voting privilege) each person would be limited 1 and would have equal weight in setting a lot of the rules. There could also be a tiered system where you could gain the ability to purchase a higher tier of stock when you’ve been a big creator for a long time, which would allow the big creators who have been here since the beginning and really built this website to decide, who the CEO is for example. And to limit other private companies or governments from influencing it too much there could be rules and structures set to prevent them from trying to control it all or buy stock. You won’t just be able to buy your way into defining the rules, and since each person is limited to only one of the entry level stocks you can’t buy extra votes. The only way to get more power is to dedicate yourself to the website. There could even be a constitution of RUclips drafted by human rights experts designed to protect internet freedom and set basic rules for how things would operate.
Just a basic outline of a thought I’ve had on this.
Lets see we've declared war on drugs, poverty, terror and now each other. Good luck America.
All the US has to do is decrease military spending by 2/3rds, heavily tax churches and start colonizing space!
That's why I am leaving the country as soon as I get off of Federal Supervised Release. 🇺🇸 = 👎
@@christiandauz3742 the military industrial complex will stop 1, the religious right will stop 2 and for 3 i think china will get there first.
@@christiandauz3742 For 1: The US will lose its allies if they don't support them. 2. That would piss too many people off for too little gain. 3: We are already doing that.
Had to rewind three times to confirm she didn’t say “libary” instead of “library.” This video has a lot. Thank you.
Troy: “Your face is as red as a strawbrary!” Janitor: “Don’t have kids, Troy.”
“His most regal and purrfect Majesty, Lord of Meowland, King of the Kittons, and Holy Emperor of Litterbox, King Richard hereby declares to His Commons that all Conspiracists, Racists and Bigots shall be banned from this Comment Section.
Issued in the year of our lord two thousand and one and twenty, and witnessed by His Majesty’s most leal servant, Cypher the Cynical Historian. Amen.”
Amen.
Alex Jones is king! Amen 🙏
Praise be, and God save his holy majesty!
Deus Vult, the Lionhearted has spoken, by the Power of the Catperor of Mankind we shall bring judgement upon these heathens, Catperor protects.
Cringe
21:48 Holy shit, somebody tell that man that we don't burn witches anymore because he straight up immolated her!
The frustrating thing about RUclips’s obvious attempt at censorship is that they’ll still gladly air ads before and during your content. They just try to gag you by keeping all the money instead of merely most of it. It’s not, and never was, about being advertiser friendly.
The technocrats do this, not for the money, but because they believe themselves to be the makers of taste. So, they believe that, if they remove anything that has even the trace scent of "bigotry", including the "bigotry" of *not* messenging their non-bigotry, they could somehow make the culture more progressive.
And the utter gall of a platform that LOSES MONEY hand-over-fist for their Corporate Daddy, Google, to demonitize channels like Cypher's while trying to justify that CD's undeserved philanthropy of it -- without Google RUclips would no longer be around -- is beyond my comprehension. I'm 53 and have a 143 IQ (Stanford-Binet), so I have a pretty broad comprehension of things.
@@jasonbelstone3427 the term you’re looking for is “plutocrat”
@@jasonbelstone3427 It's the advertisers that keep pushing RUclips around to moderate the content. I'm pretty sure RUclips would happy to host porn if it could get away with it.
you should enable channel memberships. Downside: on platform, which gives google control but huge benefit would be a much higher conversion rate than off-platform sites like patreon. Idk, maybe patreon has a stronger pull in youtube history communities, but i know in general memberships drive higher rates
I think the issue with channel memberships is that you remain at the mercy of Team RUclips. Tomorrow they could decide in a board meeting that they need stronger means to fight "inappropriate content", and channel memberships could be used as a new point of attack. For creators to be safe, they need their monetization to be 3rd party.
What an odd place to see you
The one issue where I might be a little right leaning is PC culture. Some people are just searching for things to be offended by. But other people have completely abused the terms 'PC', 'Woke', and 'SJW'. Like wearing a mask isn't about being PC; that has a practical function. I'm sick of people telling me I shouldn't like classic movies cause they're "problematic", but I don't wanna be associated with the guys who screams "woke hollywood" at every female-led action movie. I think it's absurd to go digging through someone's old tweets and try to cancel them for a racist joke, but the right would still call me an SJW for wanting police accountability for murder. Bottom line, I think the culture war is being fueled by people on both sides whining about shit that doesn't matter and ignoring shit that does.
@Emilie Bouchard Spot-on. I like to believe the hyper-PC left is just the minority of the left, but sometimes it feels like they're taking over. I hope you're right that it's mostly a teen phase.
Wearing a mask makes you a PC communist bro
@@TheTocuba right on it is a very vocal Minority on both sides and hell we know money plays a part and I believe some of this is amped up by parties who have an interest in splitting us apart. the vast majority of things I hear people are enraged about can be easily debunked or reasonably discussed but most do not take time to do either.
So your a centrist which is cool
Blind nationalism is dangerous, that's how China became the world's punching bag when they refused to modernize in the 1800s. You must be able to point the flaws in your nation to able to fix them. You don't need hate your country to do this, in fact it is necessary to love your country because other wise you have no incentive to fix it. That is the difference between loving and hating your country, those that hate look at America's mistakes and say how evil we are. While those that love America look those same mistakes and say that we will fix them. The greatest example of this is slavery. Those that hate America say it is proves that America is an evil country. Those that love America say that is America's greatest mistake. And it those people that loved America that ended slavery, it those people who kept fighting the systemic inequalities that persisted the end of that horrid institution. And were resisted the whole way, by those that hated America for personal gain, along with their useful idiots. Even today the most necessary reforms are resisted and blocked at every turn by those who hate America, they don't want to fix any actual problems because to so would weaken their support. They continue to lie, cheat, and swindle this country so that they be given power. Those love America should resist the encroachment of these radicals and attempt to fix the systemic issues that have helped bring us to this point.
No what I’m gonna say something about myself born 1998, California. My parents were born in Vietnam and escape Vietnam war, I didn’t know what The hell happened so I decided to search for myself I already learn this on USA on Vietnam War point of view during high school did very bad things like my lai Massacre and agent orange, South Vietnam Committed war crimes, and North Vietnam did something like I don’t remember what it’s call hue massacre so yeah it’s a boring comment and wanted to say I believe there’s good people around the world and Cynical dude I think you cool dude and have good heart.
I grew up in southern California and knew some people of Vietnamese descent. It's good to see other people's point of view and call out injustice regardless of the country or cultural background
The US has been a force for evil for about as long as it has existed.
@@justinwatson1510 I mean, I won’t argue that the US isn’t responsible for some pretty fucked up shit, but when you put it that way, it seems like you’re discounting the achievements that the US has also accomplished.
Yeah, the Vietnam War was ugly. Every side was terrible.
@@kadecase7470 yeah we invented the tweenkie. And other boring shit but my god the tweenkie the piniccal of human knowledge.
Cynical historian: makes great and informative historical content
RUclips: *WAIT THATS ILLEGAL!*
idea for a new video (if you are willing to potentially go through another Dead Sea of a comments section): 10 Nazism Myths Debunked
yeah, that's actually one I've thought of doing, but it's gonna take a long time before I'm willing to do that
@@CynicalHistorian I can understand. I got the idea from watching Cody's "What if Germany Won WWII?" videos. and I also understand if you're afraid of another toxic comment section.
@@jwil4286 it's also the inevitable demonetization and suppression. I just don't want to deal with a video whose viewership congress solely via hate-sharing
@@CynicalHistorian oh ok. I should have guessed.
@@CynicalHistorian I think getting the truth out is more important, not many history channels really convey it with the level of objectivity and facts as you have. It might seem pointless at the start but it sets a role model for other possibly bigger channels out there to run the risk of popularizing actual logic in the world instead of leaving the lid on it until they've already found a shitty counterargument against it.
I hate how the US flag is seen as a right only symbol
I'm reluctant to wear shirts with patriotic imagery because I don't want to be mistaken for a Trump supporter.
I'm a liberal and I love this country, and I want it to do better. It's a shame that the other side thinks this nation only belongs to them, and to them change always=loss.
It’s always confused me that the American flag is associated as a right wing symbol now, even though the right consistently and adamantly defends the people that betrayed America.
It is pretty much the lefts own fault since they burn and deface it all the time.
The flag is almost seen as evil at times.
@@ricardoaguirre6126 just tell people that you are not. If they don't believe you, there is something wrong with them
What you're saying is the Culture Wars should be renamed the Strawman Skirmishes. Everything out of it from the arts vs. science and being PC reek of strawmen fighting other strawmen because people lack an understanding of anything.
Not exactly. There is a distinct lack of strawman production on the left.
@@mechanomics2649 because the means of argument production are owned by the people, not the billionaires
@@mechanomics2649 That's a bad joke.
@@mechanomics2649 I digress
Candace Owens ad interrupted my viewing enjoyment :(
LOL
Ah, yes, Charlie Kirk's black friend.
God I hate that b*tch. I’m just realizing that the right has amount of money.
Ooof, that's nasty :/
Pat Buchanan: it’s about our rights to choice and to restrict their rights.
@King Sobieski Except the New Left was only restricting his right to... Restrict otthers' rights.
Think you forgot about that part.
@King Sobieski Historical revisionism to push an agenda based in what is inarguable falsehood and smearing anyone who disagrees as "unpatriotic" isn't a right. No ifs, ands or buts.
Sir! Your visual components have got to be the best I’ve seen on pretty much any channel/genre on RUclips. The amount of pausing I have to do is crazy! (In a good way) 36 minutes of great content, and so much more sprinkles throughout. Thank you!
Thanks. I'm glad you noticed
As a patriot I’m all for criticizing the government we live under. My main issue is looking for the right sources of information. Luckily King’s servant Cyber has grant us such information :)
The Second Gilded Age with our new robber barons. Exactly. Tea Pot Dome looks so quaint.
I think we ignore how good his stock footage finding and usage is
you're the first to say anything, ever. thanks
@@CynicalHistorian omg really, damn you need better subscribers. Love your content btw
@@CynicalHistorian Which site(s) do you use?
@@paisleepunk Storyblocks for stock footage, youtube and archive.org for other stuff, documentaries for some footage, wiki for a lot of imagery, and tons of google-image-searching. Sometimes I dig into media stuff, so I've got a huge library of films to use as well. Just a lot of stuff
@@CynicalHistorian You have reached Editing 100 for sure.
Dee Snyder's slap in the face of Al Gore is the most statisfying thing a person can see; the full hearing exists on YT, and it's a pleasure. Don't care which side you claim to be, viewers; censorship is the worst thing you can support. Free speech is paramount.
All three - Frank Zappa, Dee Snider, and John Denver at the PMRC - were brilliant and each played a crucial role in the proceedings (as I posted at greater length under a different comment on this subject, so I won't annoy everyone by copy-pasting here).
I find it hilarious that a group affiliated with the idea of "personal choice" would try to take the "choice" away from that phrase...
Dee Snyder is so desperate to stay relevant after his fifteen minutes of fame making songs for eleven year old boys in the early 80s, 😂🤣 it’s pretty funny. The free speech angle was a good move for his career, but I still think he’s completely cringe and ridiculous. Master of the cheese 🧀
Arguably we entered a new "party system" in the election of 2016, when Trump, Clinton, and the voter base emphasized culture war over policy to the point that people started brawling in the streets. Trump's economic ideas also recognize the GOP's only major deviation from Reaganomics since the 80s, thanks to his administration's emphasis on protectionism and home grown industry over international "globalist" capitalism.
Nothing fundamentally new happened in 2016, including the name "Clinton" and its role (except Hillary was less smooth than Bill at selling the same crap 24 years later). The only difference is that the Democrats' "triangulation" strategy has resulted in chasing the Republicans ever further rightward.
@@TTFMjock ) "never made abortion an issue"
lol, stop lying....
Interestingly enough Biden is now also deviating from Reaganomics with massive public investments and "growing the economy from the bottom and middle up".
He also straight up attacked trickle down economics and said it has never worked in his State of the Union Address.
Isolationist economy isn’t a good idea. If the US solely relied on its own materials and industry, it would increase consumer prices, which would reduce buying and money circulation. Isolation may have worked in the past when there wasn’t an efficient way to quickly harvest resources and churn out products, but in todays modern world, international trade and foreign manufacturing is more financially stable.
@@pemdemica1712 But too much of it can have bad consequences, like what we are dealing with right now in the U.S.
I really appreciate Buchanan's speech as a source. Unlike Reagan where you need to look through various speeches to find his opinions on various cultural topics, Buchanan just lays it all out in a single speech. The fact that he goes straight past real criticism to a near conspiratorial separation of reality is very interesting to watch.
I actually assign that speech in my US history course
@@CynicalHistorian Reagan was far to the left of Buchanan on immigration and maybe even to the left of Biden. This is one of the most pro-immigrant speeches ever made. www.reaganlibrary.gov/archives/speech/remarks-reagan-bush-rally-elizabeth-new-jersey
25:34 as a disabled person, I’m offended by the fact that they’re trying to portray the word “disabled” as offensive. It’s just ridiculous!
One correction. While the Reagan administration moved slowly on AIDS, Reagan himself was remarkably silent on homosexuality (he was, after all, an actor from Hollywood, an industry long known for tolerance of gays). Even appointees like C. Everett Koop were criticized by their Evangelical peers for their failure to condemn homosexuality in the most odious terms.
I'm late to the party, but I thought I'd chime in. Having lived with HIV for over 30 years, I'll introduce you to an old ACT UP slogan " Silence = Death"
interesting stuff....but you really should give us what we all really want......AN ENTIRE VIDEO OF NOTHING BUT HIS MOST SERENE AND MAJESTIC MAJESTY KING RICHARD THE FIRST!!!!!!!.........right people? like if you agree and let's make Cypher work..... :D
The more things change, the more they stay the same. Humanity is a slow learner.
Unless you’re in sci fi and create things that’s not pass their due date
Unless you are in a Time-travel Alternate Earth like Lest Darkness Fall
A guy from 1938 ends up in 535 Italy and jumpstarts the Revolution!
Just one thing about drugs and politicians harping on not taking them. In 2020 there were 93,000 deaths from drug overdoses in the United States. More Americans died in that one year from drug overdoses than were killed in the Korean and Vietnam wars combined. I am a very old man and this is not an immediate problem for me, but I can understand why it is an issue for any concerned citizen.
A very interesting dive into the culture war. I alway appreciate you giving us the information straight.
I've been drowned in the culture war for a while now. I'm trying my best to escape it, and I hope we all can find our way out of this mess and discuss our issues rather than just shouting at each other. Looking forward to the rest of this series.
Oh we will. Maybe not in our generation but people little realize that man is a being in transition and constantly shifts in reaction to our environment and vice versa. Eventually people will bang or die so much you won't be able to tell one group from another.
What we bleeding need is a species wide identity. We need to make an Ur-culture made of every bit of man melted into a pot, because alloys are stronger.
This is probably one of those, "people on each side think it biased", videos. I don't agree with everything you said, but I shall cool my conservative jets hahah. Thanks again Cypher, you're a man of discipline and courage. Cheers mate!
"Do we really need to weave America's sad, long history of racism throughout the entire story?"
"Yes we do...because it happened."
Drop the damn mic, bro!
I have to disagree with you on one major point: Abortion IS murder.
Nope
The debate is when does a clump of cells become a human being. The longer the pregnancy lasts and the more the baby develops the harder it becomes to get an abortion.
@@seanmurphy3357 you are correct because murder is the UNLAWFUL killing of another, it is still killing.
Interesting you didn't talk about the Kanawha County textbook war, I would've thought it would've been up your alley.
When Gary Nash says that racism happened and that it defines much of American history and that the history of racism shouldn’t be ignored: 😎
20:30
So we should turn cynical and hate America for it? This kind of thinking will doom us.
@@MaelPlaguecrow6942 What a straw man
@@MaelPlaguecrow6942 What’s wrong with pointing out the truth, the truth hurts. America has done a lot of good things, but that doesn’t mean we haven’t made bad or even horrible decisions. The point of pointing out the bad is to instill critical thinking in young minds. That way people have a larger understanding of our history.
I'm looking forward to this. There are few topics as essential for understanding present politics (across the developed world as well as the US) as the culture wars.
thank you for making A clear distinction between patriotism and blind nationalism
Amazing video as usual! Just a hint from a euro: you use "Jim Crow" quite a lot, while most international viewers are familiar with the concept of those laws a lot of us don't know them by that specific name, putting a quick definition would be very helpful, thanks a lot!
thanks, I'll keep that in mind. Maybe I'll turn my Jim Crow lecture into a video
You must really hate monetization...
@@filippoformoso9690 or team youtube hates history
Just substitute "apartheid"
@@dwc1964 Nurnberg Laws might work too since they were based on Jim Crow
My god what have we done.
This is so depressing and it's never going to get better.
Only time will tell
Exactly
Complacency and submission ensures the status quo. I'd rather be active than defeated
While the PC principal references are ok. I think the 1990s PC culture that shifted the House into Republican control under Newt in 1995 needs a deeper dive. By that time, the Baby Boomers were becoming parents of teenagers. The 1990s featured emerging technology and pop culture that scared this large group of voters. The movie "PCU" really captures this culture war taking place on college campuses. For parents of younger children, the emergence of AOL chatrooms, video games like Mortal Kombat, television like Bevis and Butthead, clothing like Big Johnson and CoEd Naked, and music like gangsta rap gave worried parents something to censor and blame for their kids misbehavior.
And now it's being scared of "influencers" or "LGBTQ+ people" being visible.
But they project it on to everyone else and claim they aren't the ones who are "oversensitive"
The difference is, in the neoliberal culture wars, they take higher precedent and have helped moved political discourse into what is effectively a simulation of politics, mostly as a result of almost no class consciousness or class interests being in the discussion of politics in media, and thus, at the dinner table. Material interests have been removed entirely for idealistic posturing. I'll end on the note that although we do see a return of class demands and discourse, it does not yet seem we have left simulation behind at all.
They use race to divide the working class
@@ethanmcfarland8240 So they are no different than conservatives? Ahhhh failures the lot of you.
@@ethanmcfarland8240 race in America was primarily made up by conservatives to justify having a White ethnostate after banishing natives from running the country.
How can they divide a country, that's already been divided centuries in advance, when you jackasses do little to nothing in resolving them?
I'm not sure the Civil Rights movement was entirely nonviolent - the nonviolent protests worked with the Liberals watching on TV, but they only avoided repeats of Greenville by supporting the non-violent blocs with some pretty tasty Black militias marching with them; lots of them battle-tested veterans of armed defences against local Klan chapters
(not in any way a criticism - justified and...er...effective?)
@@_bane_7742 Exactly. It pisses me off to no end when people point MLK and the civil rights protest in order to dispairage BLM as "violent thugs" when those same people would have said the same thing about MLK back then. Conservative media always points towards the worst in any civil rights group to paint it as violent, all so they can try and get support for gunning them down in the streets.
I think it's worth distinguishing between the counter culture and the new left. Where the counter culture was focused on personal empowerment and freedom (i.e., the hippies) the new left was much more about organisation and activism. There was an element of race in this, too (e.g., Malcolm X, Black Panthers, etc), but there was also plain old Marxism in the new left. The two were often antagonistic.
I think this has a couple of significant simplifications that do it a considerable disservice which I'd like to address.
1. The idea that the culture wars is merely set dressing for the real issues is ultimately incorrect for nuanced reasons. In fact, it's intimately tied with the resurgence of neo-liberalism itself. You correctly note the neoliberal consensus is a both party thing. But you're not recognizing how intimately this consensus was tied with specific elements of the culture war, white america's consensus on the welfare queen myth directly contributed to a consensus on dismantling social safety net programs contributing to electoral victory for the GOP during the Reagen era and the realignment of the democrats to becoming more moderate under Clinton and the third way democrats. The culture wars should not be treated as a side-show because in general, especially in a capitalist society where everything is commodified, social hierarhcies have economic implications. I'll note that I'm aware you do address the welfare queen myth to a degree, but i don't think it does justice to the import of the seismic shift that was the WWC turning so anti-social safety net and supporting politicians that supported the same which is supported by the scholarship on the welfare queen myth, especially in context that the challenges to the the southern strategy explanation from academic historians have primarily been the theory that instead of being top down (political elites radicalizing population), it was bottom up (population seeking political elites that fit their views), eg Dr. Kevin Kruse's work.
2. There's no mention of Coit V. Green or in general the religious right being primarily a pro-segregation movement. The narrative about them primarily organizing around Roe V. Wade is false, it was specifically a Catholic issue with plenty in the evangelical circle hailing it since it ALSO protected the right not to have an abortion. Falwell didn't start preaching on it til 1978, but it ended up being wildly successful at energizing evangelical voters.
Good video, I would recommend though with your comments at 25:44, talk about some modern examples of your argument about how many of those who are 'Anti-PC' are criticizing ideas that actually have good intentions, do you think conservative commentators like Ben Shapiro, Michael Knowles are examples of that?
Fellow D&D players in the 80's, you remember the Satanic Panic?
My dad was a D&D player in the ‘80s and he told me about that.
I've always laughed about calling people punks. I've been a punk rocker, a libertarian, and a patriotic American, most of my life.
Overall good vid. I would quibble with Pat Buchanan as neoconservative. He seemed (at least claimed) more of a paleoconservative. Neocons always saw a foreign conflict to be involved in while the Peleos, like Buchanan, tended to be isolationist, even to immigration and trade. Buchanan was so isolationist it went into the realm of conspiracy and antisemitism.
It seems the problems arise all the time. I mean think of today compared to then. I dont see that much of a difference in arguments or what people fight for. But we need progress. Pushing for things to remain the same or to go backwards in completely wrong. Everyone needs rights.
I gain 50 IQ every one of these videos I watch. Thank you Cynical Historian! This series is so good.
Isn't it kind of ironic to censor those anthrax lyrics while talking about the pitfalls of censorship?
And I'm here as a foreigner just eating popcorn watching how it all develops in the US.
"I may disapprove of some of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it"
To parra phrase Voltaire, and keep the content coming I truly due enjoy having my preconceptions challenged.
Not be that guy but Voltaire didn't actually say that it's rather a summary by a woman going over voltaire's opinion on the censoring of one of voltaire's contemporaries
@@highcouncil1302 So Voltaire is still involved somehow. Okay then.
@@paisleepunk yes
I’ve been waiting for part 2 forever... finally what I’ve been waiting for.
Great video. I thought I heard you call Pat Buchanan a neconservative in it though, and that struck me as funny. My understanding is he's generally described as a "paleoconservative" or someone who is much more socially traditional and skeptical of foreign military adventures than the neocons. I'd be curious as to why you labeled Buchanan this way.
I'm not at all a conservative or religious, but the reason why I no longer side with Democrats/liberals is because they use "equality/diversity/inclusion/etc" as shield against being criticized. Calling out conservative hypocrisy won't get you banned or cancelled, but actually question leftwing/Democrat talking points and it's "hate speech".
And I realize if the right wing were in control of most media and tech platforms they'd likely be censoring and banning liberals, but the liberals are the ones in control of social media and they use that control as a bludgeon to push their politics on me in movies, music, TV shows, comics, ads, video games, etc. I'm just sick of it.
I'd be equally sick of it if it were the right wing, but it's the left wing always trying to speak for me or be offended on my behalf because they think they know what's better for me than I do like I'm a dumb child.
And look, America's not perfect, I fully realize 200 years ago I'd be someone's slave, but it's 2021, this country has given me the freedom and the opportunity to have a good life, a better life than I'd have in virtually any other country. Constantly crapping on the US instills in people that you can't succeed so don't even try, so they don't and they blame sexism/racism. I've since learned that's the mantra of people who are too lazy to take responsibility for how unhappy their lives are.
Would you care to give an example, or are we just generalizing? Because the vast majority of the time that someone is called bigoted for criticising left wing talking points the person has either said something that is legitimately bigoted, has said bigoted things that would lead people to assume they are bigots, or it's like 5 people complaining and people pick up on it cuz it's a slow news day.
Was it the Reagan quote about people walking around with loaded weapons?
An excellent analysis of post-war American culture. Thank you.
To be honest, the amount and scope of social contradictions within the American society is fascinating. If the United States comes out of this crisis, then it has a chance to maintain its status as a world power. If not, then the end will be sad.
Tardy to the party on this but I think it's relevant so...
The Roe v Wade case did not argue that bans on abortions were unconstitutional because they violated a woman's right to control her own body. That case, the legalese involved, argued that abortion bans violated a woman's right to "privacy" which is the weak link that got Roe V Wade overturned. The underlying argument of bodily autonomy is still unanswered.
Also, the evangelical's attacks on Disco didn't cause it's demise, Disco sucked & died of lack of interest. Ironically the religious attack on Disco, then their continued attack on music in general i.e., the PMRC is what led to the loss of support for the Evangelicals in America.
Disco didn't suck
While you should teach about the bad parts of your country’s history, what’s wrong with promoting a form of patriotism for your country? If the US is suppose to be “the land of the free and the home of the brave,” why kill that sentiment to continue to progress under that sentiment?
In my opinion, focusing consistently on the scars of US history has taught resentment to this country and keeps young minds focused on the wrongdoings and not reminded what this country stands for and why.
All what you said is crappy, I want to know every part of my country from it's worst abd it's best in the most objective way possible with the goal to progress ourselves and to keep charging forward. I can be prideful and shame for what my country has done and doing now.
"Because it happened". You can't sugarcoat over attrocitites just because they make you uncomfortable or make you think differently about your country. History isn't about making you like your country more, it's about showing you the faults of the past so you can hopefully prevent them in the future. Without teaching what America did wrong we can't even attempt to fix any of the long tem consequences. You need every single detail, otherwise nothing actually get's solved.
"It hides real issues behind nonsense... which is the essence of the culture wars."
I am always a bit surprise that so many Trotskyist went to the right and had such an influence there. Even in the Tory government in the UK currently, the head of the Policy Unit; Munira Mirza; which advises the PM was a former Trotskyists.
Must be nice to have to have your culture, history, and interests seen as “patriotic” meanwhile the rest of us have to dig ours out of the trash. I’ve been searching for good sources on disabled history for years now and I can still count them on one hand (a lot of them aren’t even in the history or sociology section- they’re in the “science” section next to medical textbooks!)
As an Australian, I love the country I'm in and I'm proud of it. Also I am willing to admit that my country has an incredibly dark past and roots in genocide of original owners of the land. There is such thing as a middle ground and more work needs to be done to rectify hurt relationships.
why are you proud of a country called australia ?
You have a new subscriber. I appreciate how you embrace looking for the context in these historical events. Most researchers think facts only matter when context is what makes those facts much clearer and for that I thank you
Dee Snyder was awesome at that hearing. The song that Gore accused of being about BDSM was about his friend's throat surgery.
It wasn't just right wingers that scapegoated video games in the 90s, plenty of democrats jumped on that bandwagon as well. Granted this was partly due to the Democratic Party making a turn towards the center in the 80s and 90s, but still. The bottom line is most politicians regardless of party are opportunists that are perfectly happy to scapegoat and fearmonger if it suits their agenda, the culture wars are part of that.
You should finish the video
Do me a favor, remove the American flag from the Right arm, and put the Confederate one.
Cause that's the flag theyre always defending.
Pragure U add about 3/4 way through the video. Ok RUclips 👍
As someone that was born in the late sixties but still identifies with hippy culture, this is fascinating. When I think of the hippy culture my first thought is peace, love and the piercing of taboos. I associate the green movement with the seventies. Greenpeace and Friends of the Earth were born from that era. I have hippy friends that are still super-chill and on the right track. There is this one guy that was and is super into the culture that is a total reactionary. He does not believe the science on climate change, and cannot back up his claims with anything but blatant propoganda, that uses freedom of thought as his ultimate defence.
What you say about neo-conservatism coming from inside the hippy movement rings true. If you are conservative your instinct is to conform with your peers, regardless of the direction they take. When the peer group changes, the language you use does not necessarily change, and you may still identify with that group but your priorities change.
What I think makes mass media so influential, is their ability to influence in group norms. They form a bridge between groups that can outweigh any common connection between people. When the media agenda becomes the "common sense" view that is hard to displace.
"Muh Judeo Christian values"
So that's where PragerU comes from
Terrific work Cypher.
Science is subjective? Well, yeah, that's just like, your opinion, man... :-P
Left? Right? Man who cares, I just wanna Game 🎮
Your privilege is showing.
@@Spiritfba Sorry
Hey Cypher. I really loved the video. I'm a Progressive Immigrant myself who's VERY interested in US history, (learning as much as I can about the country).
but something about this video just felt off
I feel this video doesn't project an accurate view of the cultural conflict that developed in the US following the 2nd world war.
It started out as a crucial yet objective analysis of the origins of the new left, it's motives and it's outcomes
but slowly descended into a tirade of attacks on the rise of conservativism in response to it.
I know you're not aiming to be objective and you have your own beliefs but I don't think this video was as good an analysis as it could have been had you left some of your personal disagreements with Neo Conservatives by the side.
There appears to be a startling misrepresentation of conservatives and a drive to associate everything that went against the new left with ill intent
from Trotskyites, to the STEM establishment, to Neo cons etc. It seem more like defense of the New left and a criticism of all the reactions in opposition to it than an honest evaluation of why there was such a backlash and why it was and still is so successful. You even display the new left with a divine dove associated with "The Good" in Traditional Abrahamic Faiths and Show 'The Others" as violent predators as, "The Bad". and you make this comparison of New Left=good, Others=bad many times over the course of this video than you usually do.
I assume you have a personal issue with the ahistoricism and the attacks on your field with their BS which i deeply understand. But I think you're not really trying to understand conservatives and good faith and if we can't understand why this movement has not just gotten stronger but has actually morphed into full on Nationalist populism, this crisis the US faces will keep getting worse cause people with a platform like yours and a high degree of professional credibility just don't bother to and would rather demonise... Hence the culture wars.
I know you're unlike to see this unless it gains a lot of traction and much less respond, But If you do, Id like to hear from you.
I Just wanted to share that respectfully from an outside perspective if that helps any for further reflection.
I'm really looking forward to your NeoLiberalism Video.
More Modern Historians need to talk about it's impact.
I enjoy the cynical Historians content greatly. He definitely approaches American history from the run of the mill neo-liberal boilerplate perspective. We all have our innate biases it’s unavoidable. Regardless, This was very enjoyable. Thank you. I am loving this series.
I'm decently liberal myself but this still comes off as refreshing. It's nice to feel that someone is just biased instead of trying to force they're opinion down my throat.
The underlying theme of this historical account is that starting from the 70's, the demagogues who promote the American Culture Wars have consistently emerged from the authoritarian right-wing of the Republican Party. The last of the 60's Democratic Party demagogues was George Wallace, who bolted from the party to run for President as a third-party candidate. From that point on, prominent Culture Warriors Nixon, Reagan, Falwell, Buchanan, Gingrich, Cheney, O'Reilly, Limbaugh, Palin, Hannity, Carlson, and Trump have all been closely aligned with Republican Party politics. Their Progressive counterparts, however, have only rarely risen to prominence in the Democratic Party, which has consistently demurred from promoting strident Progressive politics since the failure of the Equal Rights Amendment in the 80's. Thus the national political struggle has been waged by vehement right-wing demagogues versus conciliatory centrist bureaucrats, which explains why American politics has repeatedly ratcheted rightward, while persistently drifting to the left.
I just read Sokol’s “Trangressing the Boundaries” this past week. Small world.
As always
Another good video
Pat Buchanan is a paleoconservative, not a neocon.
I won't ever forget that there was a Garbage Pail Kid called, Trippin Gore.
I'm sorry your stuff keeps get demonetized. I've always been a history buff and quite enjoy your channel. I always foresaw myself becoming a history teacher, but ended up joining the army and then getting out and becoming a diesel mech.
I want to make my country better for the benefit of my future children. I would not be here if it were not for the history of this country unfolding the way it did. Because I owe my existence to this country, it feels wrong to despise its past actions which formed it to my benefit.
I’m not going to feel ashamed about the country that gives me the only identity I can rightly claim- as an ethnic mutt with numerous nationalities and races contributing to my bloodline, how am I to identify with any one over another? I despise racism and racial identitarianism in America because it robs the American people of their only true identity as Americans.
I consider myself a nationalist as a result of these beliefs. Anyone who professes to love this nation and benefits from it and yet feels shame or regret over the history which built the nation is a hypocrite. You regret the past because you’ve been taught that you should be, despite having nothing to do with it, but this education is selective; despite living in a Western world that relies strongly on its Roman heritage, I doubt you feel anything at all about the mass murders the Romans perpetrated on the people of Gaul, Carthage, Palestine, and other lands- this is because it is in the past and because no one has repeated to you throughout your childhood that you should feel bad about it.
Our true history is this: America conquered or purchased all of its territory from Native Americans, fighting numerous wars over the land and its resources in which atrocities were committed by both Americans and Natives. As a result of these conflicts, the population of pre-Colombian people within the United States is a small fraction of the population. There was no sustained effort to completely eradicate all Native Americans over the course of these wars on the part of any colonial government, but periodically deliberate acts of ethnic cleansing were undertaken in order to make lands they laid claim to safe for settlement by colonists. Some Native leaders desired to do the same unto colonial settlers, but lacked the resources to do more than eradicate some frontier settlements. The Native American nations lost this period in history, being completely conquered by colonial governments, but have been allowed to persist in an unprecedented act of historical mercy as protectorate quasi-states within the borders of these nations, whereas throughout most of history they would have likely been exterminated or assimilated completely. Despite this, further injuries have been visited upon these people due to prejudice, including renewed acts of ethnic cleansing in the form of forced sterilization even into modern times. The American nation would not exist without these events having occurred; we owe our wealth to the lands we won through bloody conflict and all of us also owe our lives to it, because without it we likely would not have been born.
Regarding slavery, American colonists used Africans as a last resort after Natives and European serfs proved capable of escape either back to their homes or to European settlements where they could blend into society- only Africans were easily identifiable and could not flee home. The Africans who were enslaved largely entered bondage at the hands of other Africans, who traded slaves among themselves often after capturing them in warfare, and Europeans were simply another trading partner for them. The unusual atrocity of chattel slavery which developed was an American invention, and led to Africans as being considered less than human by many Europeans, like cattle or horses. Centuries of suffering were endured by African descended slaves in America until the institution was ended by a war predominantly fought by European descended Americans to reunite regions of the country which had rebelled to protect slavery as an institution. Despite no longer being enslaved, the view of African descended Americans as being less than human persists to this day, with laws being passed to prevent them from fully enjoying freedom. Nearly all overtly oppressive laws have been repealed or made null since, but the residual effects of decades of oppression following centuries of slavery remain. No American alive held slaves or was enslaved by other Americans, but all Americans today benefit from the work of slaves including the descendants of slaves which would not have been otherwise possible.
There is no rewriting history. There is no sense in eschewing the benefits you receive as a result of history from yourself. All Americans today seek to have a better life, let us do so together as Americans in common pursuit of this simple goal free of the conflicts and prejudices which afflicted us in the past. All great cities are built on the bones of older iterations of cities built in the same spot, and the people which lived in them, but we’ll not weep for their being dead and gone or for their struggles and sufferings. Rather, let us thank them for giving us a solid foundation to build on and praise them for their good sense in building location, because that is all we can do to stay sane and push forwards. One day, we’ll likely have new people build their houses on our graves, and why shouldn’t they if it’s solid soil and we aren’t around to complain? If they’re our descendants, we can consider ourselves a success, but if they aren’t then we failed to hold onto what was ours and someone better came along to do so. That’s history.
You mention that the Religious right was plastering over racism, but is that really the case though? I thought Billy Graham was pro civil rights when it came to issues of race. And wasn’t he a democrat?
Overlap between the religious right and southern Dixiecrats. Doesn't mean all the religious right was racist just a significant part of it.
those little Parental Advisory stickers ended up being a huge gift from the “squares” in DC! When I was a kid in the 90’s the only way to sell a record was to make sure it had that little sticker! Lol It’s funny how a bunch of crotchety old paranoid politicians in DC never seem to understand that the way kids n teens think at any given moment is pretty much indecipherable to them. I’m almost 40 and there’s no way I’d stick my nose in and try to censor anything but CP. then again, as an out of touch older millennial, I can’t really understand the strange more recent desire for censorship by students themselves. Coming from my anti-censorship era, the yearning for trigger warnings and constant protest against all kinds of speakers and even comedians by the active young ppl is bizarre but I guess the pendulum swings back n forth and in different ways. Confusing the ever living crap out of me is the concern over the objectification of women and the self-exploitation of the most popular female singers/rappers isn’t seen as a bit of a contradiction, but that’s why Im old and not running for office to sort this shit out! But I support the insane whims of kids anyhow I guess 😂 so….end the exploitation of women AND great job with the porn music videos nicki! 🤷🏻♂️
Something ive noticed lately is that since youtube started arbitrarily cracking down on history youtubers that many of them have been skewing more and more towards conservative/christian biases and more cynical/contrarian and political views in their videos as opposed to being as impartial and objective as possible, whats your take on that?
If conservatives don't like popular culture than why don't they go out and make their own? I think it is absurd to expect artists to be "unbiased" whatever that means. Freedom of expression doesn't equal being as neutral as possible. It means allowing for multiple perspectives, which should be individually as biased as possible. Bias is just having an opinion. Or at least that's what it has come to mean thanks to right wing pundits. Frankly it pisses me off whenever I here politicians weighing in on popular culture because it isn't their f#%king job to do this. They are elected to pass or oppose legislation and deal with things appropriate to government. They are not there to tell me what to believe religiously, philosophically or ethically.
When you said "4th great awakening" I heard "4th grade awakening" and it was somehow even more accurate
One day the people will rise up and we’ll game back or feed him to see what we want to see on the Internet with no censorship in with no intervention one day, one day
You are funny Cypher! I like this new creative direction you're taking, the costume and voices.
Oh wAIT THEY DID NOOOOOT JUST DEMONETIZE YOUR VIDEO BC A QUOTE. Now, it's war.
Wow and the focus on policy is subverted by the same means today.
Because I just started learning about the phenomenon that is America, which is fascinating to outsiders like me, I didn't know that today's disgusting state of affairs was nothing new.