Cyberpunk Will DESTROY Nationalism AND Globalism

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[@jonahnolastnameneeded3130]

Good job on getting the sponsor. Have you been sponsored before, because I’ve seen most of your videos and I feel like it hasn’t happened before. I’ll take it as evidence that the channel is growing, which is good. Seriously, don’t stop making videos-but take your time because these long videos are the best 👍

[@brig.badger2896]

Great work as usual

[@mileslugo6430]

Are you saying Racerism to get past censors?

[@edoart3722]

Very beautiful video. Sad that your channel is criminally underrated. I like to point out to this "new medievalism" with "the new rise of the infantry revolution". Infantry revolution is a definition used for the late middle ages and the rise of units like Landsknecht and Tercios, which with the shoot and pikes formations were able to stand against the high armored cavalry, caused by the rise of living standard of peasants and so could afford better equipment and the formations of various mercenary groups. And it is interesting to see this kind of rise today, were infantry soldiers can be equipped with lethal weapons able to destroy tanks, fight jets and drones. The formations of various mercenaries-groups and the possibility of normal citizen to get arms and combat education (example Taiwan and 3D-Prints made Guns). It is just funny to see that history and future is just a circle of repeats...

[@ailediablo79]

Am against nationalism especially the extreme version and am against globalization especially the type done by the west/NATO/USA/colonialism snd neo-colonialism. However am against the left bs just like am against right bs. Am against dystopia crap. Just because you are against globalization and nationalism doesn't mean you go crazy.

[@dw5523]

Personally, I look forward to joining the Fanta Army, stalking the battlefields of America in my Tiki-Punch colored power armor, and running search and destroy missions on Nestle outposts with our allies in the Red Bull and Little Debbie militias.

[@albigucko9518]

It's funny and all that but there are stories of pemmican production companies in young America going on war with each other for chunks of market, worth reading

[@thedarkgenious7967]

No no, it wouldn't be the Fanta army, it'd be the Coca-Cola armed forces. Fanta is a Coke Product, after all.

[@theinquisitionsparrot6749]

Nestlé would be the Nazis of the new world

[@victorfloresmuro958]

​@@thedarkgenious7967 it's a division

[@josetapia9606]

@@victorfloresmuro958 You filthy animal. The armies of Pizza Hut will crush your degenerate kind, and from your ashes we shall build and expand the empire of Pepsi Imperium!!

[@jsanders775]

In Star Ship Troopers, service doesn’t mean just military, that's what the movie focuses on. Service also includes delivering mail and soup kitchens.

[@PilgrimsPass]

indeed. That's for the vote though. To run for higher offices you need to have engaged in specific forms of service which are more military oriented. To become sky marshall for instance you need to serve in the navy and mobile infantry if I remember correctly. So it's still rule by warrior class.

[@barryward2128]

I believe sky Marshall was a rank in the military something akin to the Supreme allied commander type. Could be wrong it has been ages since I've read that book

[@jsanders775]

@PilgrimsPass I could see that, also the government was set up more like the Roman republic which also ruled by military veterans.

[@Warsie]

The novel explicitly says all federal service is military, even if Heinlein walked it back in later interviews.

[@CeroAshura]

​@@Warsie Okay but we have military positions today that are non combative. That's the majority of most military forces.

[@jacopoarmini7889]

my issue is that knights beating each other with swords can't do that much damage, but cyber-warriors armed with nuclear weapons may sign the end of humanity in a new middle age.

[@matthiuskoenig3378]

Nukes are closer to flinging deseased cows into enemy cities and castles. Absolutely devastating proportional to the size of populations. And also super rare due to being mutually destructive more often than not. Knights swinging swords is closer to tanks and other conventional weapons.

[@jackp492]

Nukes are real?

[@merinofanfic4717]

whitout a centralized power nukes are kinda useles why would you completly destroy your enemy? nukes would only be used if the objective is to erradicate some group but would also be a death sentence for the goup using it. it is far more likely we see more and more conventional weapons and a constant fight with multiple sides fighting at the same time for different interst

[@jacopoarmini7889]

@@merinofanfic4717 or, run rampant in the hands of irresponsible idiots

[@JacobGrim]

It's likely that mutally assured destruction is maintained no matter the condition of the world

[@MrKage-fb2wy]

The Pilgrim actually did it, he isekaied himself to Skyrim!!

[@bone6495]

Hes finally awake.

[@Stormy5533]

If he wears the suit armor, I'll watch that Anime.

[@warrioroflight6872]

I'm not Catholic, but I am a Christian, so I'll join you in praying for peace.

[@morescodesup2087]

Or we can make a Christian empire on mars

[@mythiic3198]

@@morescodesup2087 Me and the boys on our way to carve a cross the size of Texas into the surface of Mars

[@Owlr4ider]

'Europe is like the EU but with balls and a backbone' that was the best and most accurate statement in this entire video.

[@venmis137]

I mean hey, Europe still has time to grow a backbone. The collapse of the Old Order provides an opportunity. Not sure if europeans will take it though.

[@the_inquisitive_inquisitor]

So... Definitely not the French...??

[@edoardoturco8780]

@@the_inquisitive_inquisitor Have you ever read the Military History of France? It has kicked asses all the time!

[@the_inquisitive_inquisitor]

@@edoardoturco8780 that's just French propaganda.

[@edoardoturco8780]

@@the_inquisitive_inquisitor Hahaha, no

[@reviewspiteras]

The classes you propose are so useful to understand the current affairs and also a great fundation for a fantasy story. Great video pilgrim

[@knuklz212]

*foundation, But my thoughts exactly

[@EdiTheDon]

King runs the warriors, prime minister runs the bureaucrats, the pope runs the priests, and the guild master runs the merchants.

[@bellphorusnknight]

@@EdiTheDon all are gay compared to us nomadic steppe chads. We huns, mongols, and turkic people dont follow "civilization"

[@chrystianaw8256]

@@EdiTheDon ?

[@Ttegegg]

@@bellphorusnknight then why are you all either Buddhist or Muslim

[@thewayfarer8849]

I'm glad this wasn't a joke video and you're discussing the topic, because your thoughts on neofeudalism and current trends have been fascinating. I will definitely read that book. You're both original and serious with facts. It's not hyperbole and quite clearly stated, and I find there's much to appreciate with a re-watch.

[@darthjekyll3648]

neo-feudal lords & ladies

[@knightofarnor2552]

Our new Lingua Franca, English, even became popularized because of an Empire that technically still exists but has fallen to dust.

[@exaggeratedswaggerofablackteen]

Americans took up the British's torch, I guess.

[@RomanumChristum]

Kinda like Latin in the aftermath

[@fistofice]

“You better start believing in cyberpunk stories, you’re living in one.”

[@pleaserespond3984]

I would argue that the real world is *more* dystopian than Cyberpunk 2077. Why? Bank transfers. In the real world your transfers can be blocked and you can be barred from having a bank account. Just look at what happened in Canada. In Night City however, I have never seen a single person have any trouble transferring credits to whoever the fuck they want for whatever legal or illegal service they like.

[@quantumaxe6468]

are you trying to imply that crypto might actually have a future?

[@pleaserespond3984]

@@quantumaxe6468 Not in its current form. It has been taken over by people looking to get rich from pump and dump schemes. The next iteration of crypto will have to have some sort of protection against that.

[@jonahhekmatyar]

​@quantumaxe6468 real crypto is the future, that's why anonymous systems are banned. The government doesn't care about open ledger crypto like bitcoin. They actually prefer it because they can track transactions much easier than with foreign banks.

[@pleaserespond3984]

@@jonahhekmatyar I haven't seen a working decentralised anonymous currency. The best we have is cash and that relies on a central mint with monopoly on minting cash. Bitcoin has a distributed ledger and mint, but all transactions are public (not anonymous). I haven't seen a system where two parties can exchange digital cash without involving a third party observer to validate the transaction. That seems logically impossible. Would love to be proven wrong.

[@riblix4744]

@@pleaserespond3984 Monero

[@orboakin8074]

One thing I greatly appreciate in this video is how you correctly distinguished between Globalization and globalism. The former is the interrelatedness of countries and regions based on trade, economics, and bi-lateral ties. This has always existed. While globalism is the recent and destructive ideology that aims to homogenize world culture, institutions and do away with national borders, identities, liberalism and centralize political and economic power.

[@Andy_Paluzzi]

Bro, I discovered this channel recently and let me tell you: you're a godsend to the internet! Your analysis are brilliant and eye-opening, together with your humor and references to anime and pop culture... like, dude xD Fellow Brazilian here btw

[@Blazingwaffles123]

Great content here!

[@juanlulourido548]

I just realised. If we got the warrior, the priest, the bureaucrat and the merchant... what about warrior priests?

[@aaronlatif52]

My working theory is as time goes by a group gets denouced - such as warriors being barbaric and engaging in gang behavior - so another group has to absorb their role to create order. But then it becomes a bit of a paradox as having both traits and filling both roles might make you prioritize one principle for another which then leaves room for them to be criticized and replaced.

[@CantusTropus]

Blurring the lines between those classes is probably a bad idea. Besides, Christianity is such that the things demanded of priests conflict with those demanded of warriors (a warrior must be able to shed blood, while it is scandalous for a priest to do so. Maybe a more violent religion wouldn't have a problem with that... but those are fake and cringe. Actually, come to think of it, that's not a bad description of the Islamic Caliph. There is some space there for a Holy Warrior, though, like a Paladin or Knight of old.

[@burgamushun]

Templars!

[@somethingsomething2685]

i mean Templars or maybe even something like Taliban?

[@riograndedosulball248]

Rise, rise again, Teutonic Order!

[@littlegamer9573]

You are very right about the rise in piracy and private military. Most people may not realize, but this is becoming not only a big issue on the open sea, but also in American inner cities. I work as security in downtown Minneapolis, and people have been desperate for security since George Floyd and the collapse of the police department. I have been hired to work along side other security teams that have immerged due to the vacuum created from the lack of law enforcement. These officers are often times ex-police, ex-military or have had training like you did (Which is very smart and I need to do training like that myself) and are very competent, often times more so then law enforcement. The issue hasn't reached extremes of vigilantism... yet. The nice thing about a private security as opposed to law enforcement, is that private security/military do not have to deal with bureaucracy, especially an over bloated bureaucracy that has caused more harm for the community and aids the spike in crime. Private security and military will be in the future for sure, and the west will probably collapse in the next 15 or so years.

[@joriankell1983]

We're not collapsing in 15 years. This is going to unfold over a century

[@littlegamer9573]

@@joriankell1983 Fair, but with the speed in which information spreads now a days, especially when compared to other eras in history, technology of the "Information Age" will speed up the process. This is observable with how fast present culture shifts, in centuries past it would take decades, but now it's only a matter of a few years, and only getting quicker. Maybe not 15 years, but not over the entirety of a century. I'd say, at most, within my life time.

[@joriankell1983]

@@littlegamer9573 that's only accounting for the benefits of the internet and not it's drawbacks. Not all of the information being spread is even true. This provides a rather proportional problem.

[@peterdunkel8646]

In st Louis the city shutdown "shoot up station", a gas station that allegedly had frequent enough shootings that you'll see random dead people lying in the aisles occasionally. The shell co didn't hire private security to police the station so the city shut them down. Not sure legality of it etc, but interesting situation a city required a company to defend themselves and not rely on the cops

[@user-sm4mi8ug9q]

​@@peterdunkel8646it's because any time a private security group fucks up all blame and responsibility has to be rightfully taken by that group and the state can't be blamed for a private companys fuck ups, thus nobody would bat an eye to the local gov.

[@Zathurious]

"As a fragmented, imperfect being, yours is a never ending quest to find your purpose. To move forward into the unknown. To find the strength to continue when all strength has left you." May happiness and good tidings follow you wherever you roam. You mentioned you won't see this, but your explanation of the classes was top notch. Much appreciated.

[@PilgrimsPass]

Those of you defending nationalism and saying it's actually just about defending one's culture and people have a valid point. The trickiness of language is that literally every word has more than one definition, and the definition I'm using is that of ideological adherence to the Nation State model which has had a bit of a revival recently, but it basically is collapsing for the reasons I mentioned in the video. But my point here is that the destruction of distinct cultures and peoples in one homogenized global culture is also collapsing and not something I support either. Neo-Medievalism is a theory about distinct groups and cultures which are also integrated with each other internationally so it discourages the homogenizing borg-like mentality of globalism while also discouraging the xenophobic tendencies in nationalism. The Nation State itself is a modern phenomenon and one's people predate it and by a lot. The modern nation state itself might actually be hazardous to the well being of one's people in certain circumstances, as it's one of the major factors which encouraged demographic decline. Which is why failed states actually have a higher birth rate. So noticing it's decline on my part is not meant to be taken as criticism of the noble impulse of defending and preserving one's people and culture even if I'm critical of being too ideological in that regard or of the nation state model. However, I'm very glad you were all respectful and thoughtful in your responses, and I'm glad we can still share this space for discussions while not agreeing on every single point.

[@wvmcc82]

Xenophobia is not a bad thing, though. The current state of affairs should illustrate this for you.

[@Spur-li7ec]

Always very inspiring and surprising insights, PP. What do you suggest, how can one best feed and protect his family in new medievalism? Apart from hiring / becoming a private army 😅

[@UnknownOps]

Based, Nationalism should just be praising and defending your country's culture and identity, as these are our homes and also because there will be no other places like it, it should not be used to proclaim supremacy over others as it defeats the purpose of culture being unique to others if it needs to see itself as better than the rest.

[@TimtheEnchanter25]

@@wvmcc82 No, it is not. It is a mere human instinct. And instincts and emotions exist because they're useful. Otherwise, they'd have been selected out already. "Xenophobia" exists because the groups that were not "xenophobic" enough, were destroyed by those that were. Like what happened to the Moriori tribe. You have to be loyal to your tribe, and distrusting and hostile towards outsiders. Computer models have demonstrated that groups that are more like this, internally united and cooperative and externally hostile, always win over those that lack these traits.

[@PilgrimsPass]

@@Spur-li7ec Make sure you have access to local supply chains. Locally sourced food and supplies so you don't have to rely on china or another country a thousand kms away for stuff you need when stuff gets real. Other than that, entering a new era in general means that some skills and institutions get weaker and others get stronger. Analyze the skills and institutions associated with you and reflect on whether or not they are becoming more valuable or less, and then try making up for what you think you need. That's why I left academia and entered the private sector. I dabbled in corn planatation and now fish production and will try to sell to my local markets and I'm traveling now trying to learn how to be more self-sufficient. but deep down, the key is community and family. Neighborhood watches for instance are a good idea. Take everything I say with a grain of salt. See what works best for you. I'm just saying what I'm doing for myself.

[@wondersteve2]

As a bureaucrat I have a personal vested interest in highlighting the value of a bureaucracy in the best possible case; organization. The value a bureaucrat can bring is in processing information quickly and efficiently to be able to find and place things where they are needed when and where they are needed. Logistics networks are the quintessential example of bureaucracy done right; you first quantify what resources are needed where in lists, then you are able to track those resources in the paperwork mind of the bureaucracy to get them where they need to go. A grunt can't get bullets and MREs from the factories to the warzone, a merchant can't get those rare earth elements to the factories and then to your pocket in a smartphone across the world. Yes, you can have the bureaucracy handled as a secondary role from one of the other classes, but all that will accomplish is either an inefficient bureaucracy or a class of bureaucrats hiding in another class. "The best bureaucracy is one you barely notice is there" because it gets you what you need quickly and quietly without drawing attention to itself, while a failing one is going to cause you no end of problems. The is not to say that the current ruling class of bureaucrats is not corrupt and overdue for some dramatic shakeup or revolution, but to write off a whole class of fundamental actors because it is failing here is as silly as writing off all soldiers because most of the military class of the USA lost the civil war.

[@crusader2112]

I agree that Bureaucracy is best utilized when it is streamlined and decentralized and there are few if any career bureaucrats. Only temporary public servants. However, I do think the time of the Bureaucrat’s dominance is diminishing. What will happen next? Which class will take control next? Will they fight it out using their pawns in their wars? These are great questions and only history will tell us in time. P.S. I believe Pilgrim is right that too many people getting degrees and wanting to be apart of the system is a problem. Peace ✌🏻

[@carmensavu5122]

@@crusader2112 As long as it's not the priest class. Those nofos are worse than dead weight. They are more like trying to go about your errands while having a heavy nuke strapped on that could go off any moment.

[@crusader2112]

@@carmensavu5122 Can one be religious and against the priestly caste ruling? Personally I prefer a warrior aristocracy, specifically the Terran Federation from the book Starship Troopers.

[@Chordus_Gaius]

​@@carmensavu5122you are a bureaucrat eh? We can't be friends

[@kinghoodofmousekind2906]

Being Italian, half-Venetian half-Ligurian, I am all for the return of these ideas: wanna see the Doge back in Genoa and Venice, and serve as a Catholic agent for both while we create a Catholic league while fending off the infuecences within and without the peninsula after training with a group of gun-toting warrior monks under the Swiss Guard and Vatican control.

[@kinghoodofmousekind2906]

@Valer depends maybe by whis aspects of "cyberpunk" as a vision/genre are adopted, tbh. But the idea of that has its weird appeal.

[@aldogonzalez9731]

​@ipjorr cyberpunk city is better lífer than Haití or Ukranie

[@aldogonzalez9731]

@ipjorr África Haití. Ukranie. Are country more Bad than cyberpunk.

[@aldogonzalez9731]

@ipjorr sorry not speak English 😅😅

[@varvarith3090]

Russia: "Crimea is ours!" Ukraine: "No, it's ours!" Great Ottoman Empire:

[@derniercaesar5319]

Long live sultan erdogan 😂

[@sermer6659]

Ancient Greece:

[@simonnachreiner8380]

People actually living in Crimea:Do I get a say in this. Everyone:NO!

[@kindlingking]

​@@simonnachreiner8380they did tho

[@mymom1462]

Props for not dismissing Alex Jones and giving him the benefit of doubt for popularizing discourse about global elites. A lot of people like to think they are 'above' conspiracy theories like anti-elitism all while plenty of data supports the overarching metapolitical datapoints that Alex tries to hammer at. My hope is that we are able to give ecology the same footing as we do technology so that we're able to get to a state of biosphere-harmony but with rapidly expanding urbanization I doubt it will happen. Thank you for the impromptu video Pilgrim Pass! I love it when my favorite based channels like yours post.

[@pretty-white-lamb]

The same goes for David Icke, who is one-sided and shrill in many ways, but is at least doing a great job of reopening the discussion on the existence and nature of Spiritual Evil.

[@Darth_Bateman]

Problem with Alex is that he’s legitimately a con man who plays both games and offers no meaningful solutions to either game. Game 1. The globalism. Game 2. The culture war (and sides with the nationalists) What’s more? It doesn’t help that he’s a compulsive liar. The sad thing is, people on the left don’t even really side with globalism out of a desire to globalise per say, but out of a rightful intolerance for white supremacy.

[@hollowman9410]

My man, when most people use the word "globalist" they are talking about Jews. It is a dog whistle.

[@corneliuscapitalinus845]

Anti elitism is a conspiracy (theory)?

[@CantusTropus]

Alex Jones likes to exaggerate and uses imprecise language, but he's usually talking about something that's at least partly true (IE, the infamous gay frogs rant, which was actually about chemical dumping that messed with frogs' hormones and made them hermaphroditic). His friends take him seriously, but not literally. His enemies take him literally, but not seriously.

[@thedoctormayhemfuntimeshow3213]

It's funny that you mention the Bureaucrat as the current ruling archetype with the most power in today's age. I have heard of a book that I want to get, but have not been able to find, called "The Managerial Revolution" by James Burnham that fully describes the process of how that had come to be.

[@Warsie]

pirate it, or get it on the internet archive. Yea managerialism would be accurately be 'rule by bureaucrats'. Its what Orwell based 1984 on (especially the geopolitical outlook, its referenced in that book)

[@1lobster]

Finland? I’m jealous! I used to live in Alaska, and ever since, I’ve wanted to visit all the cold regions of the world!

[@joriankell1983]

Stay out of my heart!

[@davidogundipe808]

Whenever we get this kind of nearly an hour kind of video, it's always a banger! Another excellent essayed vid pilgrim.

[@fatcat5817]

Texans like me were on the verge of going to the border on the 22nd. Tucker Carlson even mentioned this to Greg Abbott, that Texans are very willing to join the militia. Greg, I feel still has hope in the old America that he refuses to admit we are all alone now. It is a crushing realization. Especially the dreams I had. Only states remain. America died a long long time ago. Acceptance. 😞

[@user-sm4mi8ug9q]

If there's still a centerlized gov that still has it's own power over each state then America is still alive, just under going some dark times, but if the central gov collapsed and each state became it's own nation, then yes at that point America would be dead, and only waring states would remain. The last I checked the central government is still a thing, so no America is alive but still going through some political termoriel.

[@Maddog3060]

As a Floridian I would very much like us to be allied with Texas. Y'all are alright. Plus you got Buc-ee's; that's like a cultural monument in Civilization games.

[@polemizator723]

Welcome to Poland! 🙂 Curiosity. The classics of Polish literature that I was tortured at school have one dominant theme. FIGHT FOR INDEPENDENCE FACING EMPIRES THAT WANT TO ENSLAVE US! (Only once with a mystical vibe and once with a positivist vibe) So I hope we can deal with what's going on.

[@muadek]

Ah, alright. You've been here already.

[@adamnesico]

Oh wich are those classics, apart of the Ocniem i Mieczem trilogy, Quo Vadis and Wiedzmin saga?

[@orboakin8074]

20:34 So true. As a Nigerian immigrant in North America, I have found more in common with conservatives, right wingers despite all the nonsense that tries to portray them all as racists. They value meritocracy, social conservatism, financial prudence, liberalism, and they tend to enjoy good escapist fiction devoid of wokeness like I do👍

[@wingsoffreedom3589]

We can be based together

[@orboakin8074]

@@wingsoffreedom3589 damn right, friend.

[@amcacertified2038]

Because conservatives see you as equal, and rightfully so. Not someone that needs to be protected, spoken for, and given special privileges because of your race. Further, most Nigerians that I know believe in traditional family values. Something the woke crowd and liberals are against. With some exceptions of course. IME the Nigerians I know love this country more than many Americans. God bless them!

[@noirto2]

they always have a messaging problem, didn't trump basically said your country is s and you need to go back to where you came from?

[@crusader2112]

Liberalism in the classical sense is what you mean I believe.

[@michaelnemo4593]

Great video Pilgrim Pass. It's wonderful to see a younger KZbinr such as yourself that is unapologetically catholic. I shall remember to pray the rosary for peace 🙏

[@CptTexas1]

Who wants to start a naval mercenary band in the Gulf of Mexico then ask governments and/or companies for "Protection"?

[@edgar7456]

Kinda late but I'm in for it

[@chimagamer4157]

honestly now would be the best time ever to do that, with all the mess in the red sea, your services will get a lot of demand.

[@Maddog3060]

[Raises hand] Yo!

[@crusader2112]

Yes please. ✋🏻

[@TradionalAlien]

New medievalism sounds a whole lot like a Catholic Universal Monarchy or Integralism. Let’s go!! Your videos are great man, can’t wait for more content!🇻🇦

[@skatetrooper5285]

Yes!!!!

[@user-sm4mi8ug9q]

Also sounds like a load of half baked pseudo intellectual bs.

[@ingvalder9946]

I think it sounds like exactly the opposite.... Catholicism exerting control on wayward groups (templars, hussites, German merchant guilds, etc.) led directly to Protestantism and the Dutch, German, and British financial centers. If anything it's the birth of Protestantism and fracturing all over again

[@catholicfemininity2126]

Yes! Viva Cristo Rey! Let us all, even non Christian Catholics, to pray the Rosary. Because the world is going to pits, and we need God and his saints' help with this.

[@carmensavu5122]

Lol good luck with that.

[@jake_from_state7143]

This part of the reason I dropped out of college to Become a aircraft Mechanic, I wanted to have a skill I can actually sell to people instead of a piece of paper.

[@joriankell1983]

Excellent move. If you study and know your stuff, the O&P exam is cake

[@brandonlee934]

the military recruitment crisis is because their policies are driving away recruits, demographics and fatness are secondary

[@JackSmith-xx5mi]

Yeah I'm pretty sure the military has programs for new recruits to lose weight but who really wants to fight, kill & potentially die to spread gay marriage, feminism, trans-testicle ideology or for the greed of private corporate entities or the interests of a small state that bombed the U.S.S Liberty.

[@thomascranor2668]

You might want to look into the late bronze age Mediterranean. The Kings of the bronze age empires relied heavily upon a truly massive number of beaurocrat-scribes to administrate their empires. Many bronze age empires had state-controlled farms, mines and other industries, all directed by the beaurocracy of scribes and priests who served the empire's god kings. The beaurocracies of that time are impossible to truly know, but we do know they existed in some form, and can form educated guesses based on what they wrote down in their ancient lingua-franca, Akkadian. It's not medievalism (archeo-medievalism?), but it is similar to the modern global condition in many regards. Hopefully we don't follow the same path. (Just to be safe, stock up on food, don't live in a palace, and fortify your town against the sea peoples. Can't be too careful.)

[@ClassicallyEducated]

I have been listening to your videos on and off here for a while. I want to say I have found your reflections incredible and insightful. I’m a Protestant Baptist myself and find the work you’re doing quite incredible. You’ve inspired me to try my hand at some podcast work that I’ve tossed around for a while. Once it’s up and going I would love to collaborate on an episode.

[@PilgrimsPass]

hit me up when you're ready. If I'm available, why not?

[@ThreadBareHope1234]

It's interesting you think warrior class types might make better leaders. Theoretically, they experience enough to understand the value of collectivism, hard work and sacrifice. But we could end up with warmongers and too ruthless leaders depending on the cultures' values

[@aaronlatif52]

In popular culture, we see this in game of thrones and why most people respect the starks. The leader passes the judgement of death by beheading and also the leaders all go to war making war declarations and battles more meaningful. I could be wrong/misguided but I think the warrior class is essentially rule by mafia/gangs in modern spaces. They even traditionally had a certain level of honor and codes - similar to rule by samurai. I couldnt tell you how modern gangs act but judging by cartels and terror groups - with social media, fear is easier to export and therefore brutality is more common.

[@marcoasturias8520]

Maybe not a literal warrior, plenty of awful dictatorships came from the leaders of revolutions. Not saved, but under a new administration kind of deal.

[@ThreadBareHope1234]

@@marcoasturias8520 True

[@ThreadBareHope1234]

@@aaronlatif52 I didn't know that. I haven't seen Game Of Thrones, but that's cool

[@thewayfarer8849]

The warrior mindset ironically forces a lot of people to consider when and how they should be violent. Dictators tend to be rather spineless at heart, the brownshirt types and revolutionaries come from middle class liberal academic backgrounds (often, just from my study of history). When you look at something like the Junker model or chivalric codes that rigid codification is something that enforces positive possibilities. It tells a violent character what to do and restraint, if you look at most Machiavellian autocrats or financially powerful lords; they hardly have any checks whatsoever.

[@GRIFFIN1238]

Fantastic video, it helped me to see several things I've been thinking about with greater clarity. I do think it's worth exploring how the archetypes and blend and morph into one another, but the video is already very long!

[@leesnotbritish5386]

Seeing as Catholicism thrived in the last mideval age I imagine they will do quite well in the second, this worries me a bit bc I’m Presbyterian. Also those mormans, keep an eye on them they are gonna do something wild I’m sure

[@bjehulk]

True

[@gilgameschvonuruk4982]

You will submit to ze pope, you will reject ze idea of double predestination and you will be happy

[@rogeliovaldez6594]

Not to mention the Christian Evangelicals that have coopted the word Christian, promote political disunity in the us and brazil, and label catholics as inferior in favor of american exeptionalism

[@gilgameschvonuruk4982]

@@rogeliovaldez6594 and the dispensationalism, which makes it harder for Israelis and Palestinians to make peace. Or the wokeness, which is divided people across racial lines and pitting them against each other.

[@JackSmith-xx5mi]

@@gilgameschvonuruk4982 People were already divided amongst racial lines, all differences are divisions.

[@teyrncousland7152]

In that case hopefully a Christian Neobyzantine(Or Neoroman) empire will eventualy rise to bring order to the world once more.

[@carmensavu5122]

Ew.

[@TruePT]

You should checkout G.K.Chesterton on Distributism. Specifically a book called “The Hound of Distributism” Not to be confused with Distributionism. EDIT: 45:18 One of my best friends is in seminary, and that’s the one prayer he recommends you pray when asking God anything. The Saints also agree too.

[@crusader2112]

Distributism is really interesting, especially as a Catholic.

[@TruePT]

@@crusader2112 I’m still don’t know much about it, my twin is the one who’s knowledgeable about it, plus he’s the one that has a book on it that I’ll have to read, especially after watching this vid!

[@hebercluff1665]

I'm writing a fantasy book, and the villain is called "the goddess of power". This just gave me a lot of ideas. Thanks.

[@ZowVaagNL]

Ah cool, what's the book going to be called?

[@MALICEM12]

Power isn't evil, it's just a matter if you have it or your enemies. But the villain being the feminine is definitely fitting for modernity

[@hebercluff1665]

@@MALICEM12 well, yes. If you're talking about objective evil, than the "goddess of power" isn't strictly evil. She IS the villain, though, because she's the obstacle getting in the main character's way. Basically, the relationship between Drakavar (goddess of power) and Felkala (goddess of silence / main character) is that Drakavar adopted Felkala as a child. Drakavar's insane need to be in control leads to try keeping Felkala for herself / preventing her from growing up, since growing up inevitably involves the child leaving the parent. Plus, Drakavar had a very horrible childhood, so she's convinced that Felkala can only be safe while under her thumb. Basically, the story spirals of control when Felkala starts rebelling.... So yeah. The goddess of power isn't strictly evil. She has a lot of kindness, really. However, her big flaw is that she trusts no one but herself to be in control, which leads to her losing a lot of friends and basically ruining her own life.

[@sophiagomez5619]

Thank you for imparting your political theory knowledge to us friend.

[@brendanmarks557]

MGS4's themes were eerily prophetic

[@ayoutubesaccount9927]

"Demand for PMCs is about to skyrocket... just like the good old days after 9/11!" Not to mention MGS2's prediction that people would become sedated by personalized feeds of curated information fed to them by AI.

[@Wanderer-nw2so]

That game was really ahead of it’s time Armstrongs use of the Internet is honestly what the Democrats are using now and I think that’s really impressive that they were able to predict that 10+ years before it happened

[@renren47618]

MGS2, MGS4 and Metal Gear Rising became bizarrely prophetic about the modern world

[@mbm8404]

This vid reminds me of my favorite quote from Japan. “- Without action words are just words. - Without violence laws are just words.” My second fav is: “Better to be a warrior in a guarded than a gardener in a war.”

[@Nicholas_Powell]

I truely love you my brother. God bless you and may you continue to bring clarity like this. To God goes the glory!! May you have a blessed nativity.

[@michaeloshea488]

I love the longer videos, I check this channel daily for uploads (I'm aware 1 a month is standard). Easily my favorite channel at the moment.

[@6414igor]

Hey if you wanna learn more about the Cyberpunk world, I strongly recommend that you look into the tabletop game that inspired Cyberpunk 2077, Cyberpunk 2020. Also Shadowrun, even if it's fantastical considering that there's fantasy elements sprinkled in

[@ArlindoBuriti]

Starship troopers is the future people need to go for... because cyber puck is fucked.

[@MALICEM12]

The entire point of star ship troopers is that it's fucked too. I don't know how people don't understand this. It was fucking satire. Also meritocracy never lasts and democracy is gay

[@gilgameschvonuruk4982]

@@MALICEM12 To be fair, Starship troopers is more democratic than most historic societies, so I can understand why people support it. However it was not supposed to be an utopia, but a social commentary.

[@cptndunsel2670]

@@MALICEM12 The movie was satire. Not the novel.

[@MALICEM12]

@@cptndunsel2670 yes, I was referring to the movie. No body ever talks about the book in these conversations

[@DavionLoyalist]

I recommend reading into the lore of Battletech. I think you would find it very interesting.

[@_gold_eye_2656]

The merchants have a tendency to become the bureaucrats and the warriors the merchants. It all trickles up eventually and toppled back down.

[@steveno0007]

Hey Pilgrim, you have great insights on how the world is shaping up and the way the future might be. It is a logical conclusion. I love your videos and your humor always cracks me up. I hope you become the Cyber-Baron you wish to be in Minnesota xD Also, congrats on training yourself with weapons. If you are not ready for War, then you are not Peaceful, you are harmless! Stay dangerous. Peace! ✌️

[@xenophon5354]

I would move most CEOs into the bureaucratic archetype, as few are actually the entrepreneurial types anymore. They mostly serve as chief manager. See James Burnham’s the Managerial Revolution for more

[@PilgrimsPass]

Fair point

[@anon9579]

@@PilgrimsPass I’m thinking the CEOs of the future will be more like mob bosses

[@SahnigReingeloetet]

That‘s… the point of being a CEO. I think you‘re mixing up CEOs and company founders a little bit. Sure, there is overlap, but a CEO‘s job is to administer funds and lead the developmental trajectory of the company (roughly speaking). The CEO is by design an administrative role. Like a souped up controller.

[@xenophon5354]

@@SahnigReingeloetet Yes... that would be the point I'm making. Edit: to clarify, you are spelling out the point of my original post. I disagreed with pilgrim about the nature of CEOs, arguing as you have they are mere managers. They do not create, they are not Great Men. They are here to manage what was created by others. But we aren’t in a position of requiring maintenance, we’re in a position of requiring renewal. And so looking to the CEOs for the path forward is folly in my view.

[@moristar]

From you description of New Feudalism - it's already here. I'm pretty sure every country already has what you named: powerful cities which are a state in itself, families and corporations.

[@gauntlettcf5669]

Brother, I am a Catholic, too. You are absolutely right about the Rosary, we should pray more often for world peace. Sincerely thank you for reminding us that. God bless you.

[@AgustinaNaldiSenk]

thank you for existing and talking about these issues

[@Kayjoir]

What are your thoughts on gratitude and it's lack of representation in modern media?

[@Dogmelter42]

Welp. Better get the headwinds on my barbarian fiefdom, before someone else can get "Holy Roman Empire 2: Boogaloo Edition" trademarked.

[@nakoskyranos4080]

Best youtuber out there. Humble, insanely insightful, wildly entertaining with how he ties in actually good pop coulture referances in, and so tasteful in how he incorpirates spirituality in a graceful, likable,, approachable way without pushing it in your face. Truly awesome work my friend. Hope to run into you one day when we are both rulers of some crazy faction in europe striving for good.

[@thenightwatchman1598]

to the uninitiated, anything spiritual sounding can sound profound despite meaning very little when you know more than them... that's not arrogance. thats fact. dont idolize talking heads on KZbin. you will only end up being another sheep for the slaughter.

[@nakoskyranos4080]

@@thenightwatchman1598 you're sooo right oh 'initiated' one..... oof

[@tristanpanke2468]

I hadn't heard about neo-medievalism before this video, but it's good to learn something new! Would love to see a video on Starship Troopers (the book specifically).

[@czwartek565]

I guess the bureaucrat has a role. He manages better than the rest. A warrior administers a country like an army, that is, he gives orders, which is not conducive to development. The priest administers, like a ritual, giving importance to ideas, not practicality. The merchant administers so that it is only profitable. (Mainly for him and the like). People don't want to live in the barracks, the temple and the market all the time. A good bureaucrat knows how to reconcile conflicting interests and see the bigger picture. His virtue is understanding. But when it fails, it won't be able to hold back the others.

[@bellphorusnknight]

Let me guess anon, you have an mba and want to justify your own job?

[@the11382]

The Bureaucrat includes scientists, lawyers and judges too. Control/understanding are the same thing, there is just more to it than Pilgrim says. The warrior is trained to find the enemy and destroy it, without which they either turn on society or turn on themselves. However, all classes have smaller versions of each other in themselves. What is a king if not a warrior-bureacrat?

[@jellophant9716]

​@@the11382I don't want scientists to be bureaucrats bro

[@VenomBGR]

The fact of the matter is that we are currently falling into the exact same things that we were supposed to be avoiding by opposing communism - centralized power, centralized ownership (we no longer own stuff, we just rent them), corporate (instead of government) monopoly and so on, which is a direct result of taking capitalism to the extreme. Any system taken to the extreme will always lead to the same end. Given enough time, people will learn to exploit it, which leads to the same downfalls, meaning, it's not the systems we choose to govern ourselves that are the problem, it's the people in them. Unless people change and start wanting a better future for their children instead of being selfish, greedy pricks, no matter what system we choose, we will always end up getting fucked.

[@algorithmgeneratedanimegir1286]

Capitalism is a word invented by Communists to frame the world in a leftist perspective. It doesn't mean anything. What are you even referring to when you say Capitalism, other than not Communist? Is capitalism the free market? Is it the regulated market? I've got news for you, a market exists even in Socialist or Communist countries. Even if mostly in a black market form. Trade is just something that humans do. Capitalism doesn't mean anything. We have a highly planned and regulated economy even if it's not Communist, is that capitalism? If so, then what is the point of the Capitalism-Communism dichotomy? Stop blaming a concept that doesn't even makes sense or have a clear definition for our problems and start thinking.

[@VenomBGR]

@@algorithmgeneratedanimegir1286 i completely agree with you and perhaps you did not read my comment all the way through? I said the problem is not in the economic system that we choose but in the people that exploit it.

[@jonathanhoward1499]

NO. If the government wasn't involved then there would be no public schools to teach the kids to give their money to b anks that multiply it 10 times and give it to the rich. True capitalism wouldn't have that rich people because they would have EVERYTHING. Which the government can then stop. INstead, nt capitalist enough. YOu monkey losers have ruined it. shut up and leave this planet to the rest of us.

[@JackSmith-xx5mi]

@@VenomBGR In the U.S they teach or use to teach capitalism & I was taught selfishness & greed were good because that's the motive of capitalism which is also another word for rule of the rich (plutocracy). What we need is Fascism

[@sockpop]

what about the greedy pricks that exploit the system FOR their children and their future?

[@Janovich]

39:20 The value of the bureaucrat archetype is that they regulate for regulations sake, rather than serve ulterior motives like conquest (warrior), religion (priest) or money (merchant). For example two priests of different religions can not regulate together, while two bureaucrats of different religions can.

[@rolandrush5172]

“Modern era created a class of Indulgent academic sophists” That’s a bar

[@Snagabott]

I am a bureaucrat. I think you are touching on the "use" of a bureaucrat and why it is in everyone's interests to let us (the bureaucrats) continue to rule, without fully getting there - what Fukyama calls The Bad Emperor Problem*: essentially that the downside of "strong direction" (if the emperor is wrong) is always greater than the upside of "strong direction" (if the emperor is right). This is because most people, most of the time, are good and want to help, heal and promote the happiness of themselves and their friends without making too many enemies, a fantastic leader can't really direct people into making _that_ much better decisions, but a horrible one can direct people into making decisions that are _that_ much worse: convince people that stupid and self-destructive practices will get some payoff in the afterlife, pick fights they can't win or ruin basic food security through malice or neglect: It's easier and quicker to destroy a functioning society than it is to build one. So in other words, we rule as an alternative to priest, merchant or warrior - not because our highs are higher (they probably aren't), but because our lows aren't quite so low. * (said in the context of democracy v autocracy, but applies here too)

[@maninblak1941]

The anime Steins Gate also gives a glimpse into a very dystopian vision of globalism, where the common people are essentially no more than mindless drones and any hint of rebellion or even defiance is met with swift, deadly action.

[@Warsie]

I didn't remember seeing this when I watched Stein's Gate

[@maninblak1941]

@@Warsie it was very brief. It was shown in a flash back of the girl who went back in time to prevent Cern from unlocking the key to time travel. It just showed lines of people walking and one guy decided to stop he was shot immediately

[@stanisawzokiewski3308]

Shit you just made me realise that capitalism and communism merged in a hegelian synthesis. That explains why it feels like fascism is becoming so... normal. Fascism was the original attempt to merge the two.

[@assortmentofpillsbutneverb3756]

facism and communism both are liberal attempts to solve issues with liberalism and issues of the 1900's global meta which was partly due to traditionalism waining. Just saying your realization is a pretty acurate one to what it actually was compared to the evil commies/nazis just springing up out of left field. Theyre children of liberalism and enlightenment ideals

[@ForwardSynthesis]

Which is kind of a black joke on Marxism, the most well known ideology that utilizes hegelian synthesis. Since Marxism only sees two classes (proletariat and bourgeoisie) and not the four true ruling options (warriors, priests, merchants, and bureaucrats), it supposes that capitalism, which produces the modern proletariat, will give rise to its own end, and the synthesis produced is the global, classless, moneyless, propertyless end state of pure communism, and the end of history. Of course, since in reality this was a false narrative, actually existing Marxist states just became state capitalist entities run by the bureaucrat class who became increasingly divorced from reality. Since it is impossible for workers to rule directly, there must be some intemediary ruling class. The Hegelian model is correct in that systems give birth to their own contradictions, but incorrect that these will eventually lead to a final end of history. The circular model of the Greeks and Romans is more accurate (the anacyclosis). Our systems collapse into neo-medievalism is simply a new beginning, and far in the future you may get a cycling back round to our large bureaucratic empire.

[@corneliuscapitalinus845]

Forward synthesis You familiar w James burnham? His managerial thesis seems to have alot of explanatory power for where both the capitalist and socialist systems veered and why.

[@ForwardSynthesis]

@@corneliuscapitalinus845 I've heard of him, but I've never read his work, The Managerial Revolution.

[@dagon99]

@ForwardSynthesis the greek, roman, and hindu concept of secular cycles helps make sense of why certain patterns throughout history repeat themselves. I've just recently discovered the idea of the four ruling options, and it seems fascinating. Nothing new under the sun eh?

[@fgregerfeaxcwfeffece]

Hey, that's actually somewhat optimistic for me. With the merchants I get along a lot better then with the bureaucrats. Because the latter only care about black numbers. That's something I can get behind. I mean I learned to be soul drainingly okay with bureaucrats. But that state had me constantly weighing my Sudoku options. With the merchants it's really easy, there is price tag for everything. For the other option you also need to be born into the correct caste. Otherwise you will always be lesser in many ways. And you will just have to deal with their bs. Which even in the best case is soul draining to me. The change to the private sector really improved my situation.

[@zj871023]

If you only look at the numbers, you get child miners. We sadly need a good mix of everything :/

[@anon9579]

I’d be a nomad or a scav in this future

[@_gold_eye_2656]

@@anon9579Genghis Khan 2.0 incoming.

[@Jupiter__001_]

​@@_gold_eye_2656Techno throat singing

[@WuWeiAllDay]

You are rapidly becoming one of my favorite channels

[@sphyrnazygaena2690]

First, greetings from Argentina Pilgrim, loved you videos since I subscribed some time ago! What a coincidence to find this video as I finished Edge Runners earlier today. Also being a Gibson fan besides the CP. Its amazing to grasp the idea of neomedivalism to fit the cyberpunk forshadowing of our future. the first thing I recall from history were the cossacks as an example of the CPs Nomad nations, how cossacks had relationships and divided loyalties with their neighbours just like the corpos employ Nomad workforce in CP. This video goes a long way in building a synthesis of this post modern era of geopolitics and ideologies! Thanks!

[@scotty4189]

The advantage of bureaucrats is scale. None of the other classes can control like they can - while usable for evil, or waste, it also can organize things on a larger scale and obtain efficiency from it

[@PilgrimsPass]

That's true. I'm analyzing this in my next video. thank you for commenting.

[@ominousbiscuit]

The picture you paint of the future is actually somewhat more hopeful than the one I've been dreading (runaway neo-feudal globalism), so thanks for this. You predict the kind of future that is, if not exactly just, then at least decentralized enough that a small person can go unnoticed enough (if you're lucky) to eek out a fulfilling life. Still, we all deserve God's righteous judgement for the evil we've covered the earth in. Lol.

[@mikexhotmail]

"small person can go unnoticed enough (if you're lucky) to eek out a fulfilling life." word

[@LucasDimoveo]

What evil are you talking about?

[@adamnesico]

Tell me, how are we gonna avoid to be replaced by robots?

[@Wanderer-nw2so]

That globalization happens if the democrats get their way

[@reinhardtc.p]

​@@adamnesico Worry about not being replaced by the 'groids and the Allan Snackbars first.

[@baivesan]

Well, that puts to words all the insanity of recent years pretty well. I've been pondering over those same issues recently myself and never quite got to putting it to word so... Coherently. My thanks, good sir!

[@thewayfarer8849]

Fortress Monastery at the end, a man of culture

[@ronaldp7573]

The most important video on youtube. It is like Cassandra telling the Trojans about Odysseys' horse and not enough listening to prevent the tragedy.

[@Rajoovi1]

> Wake up at 5AM in my civilian habitation unit > Take shower, brush teeth, get dressed > make sure my corporate issue Disney(TM) self-defence handgun is loaded > Exit into the hallway of my Tower Habitat, taking the lift down to ground level > 15 ads about play on the screen inside, Microsoft Bionic arm, Colgate nutrition gel, Honda home defence landmines, etc > Walk past the local lab-grown-meat and chips vendor setting up for the day > Take my autonomous Tesla Driverless car that auto-routes me to my workplace at Mistubishi Electric > Quality control of the new military grade neural-link chips coming off the production line for the British Augmented unit > Boss says report only 1 in 5 faulty chips to make the company look good, soldiers have insurance and it will be fine > suddenly the loading bay door explodes inwards, boss is thrown backwards across the room with his arm components flying into 2 co-workers as impromtu shrapnel > think to myself "lol that's coming out of his paycheck" half a dozen armed gunmen enter shouting "EVERYBODY GET THE FUCK DOWN, THIS IS A RAID *brought to you by Pepsi Co*" > Comply as even I know my caseless 27mm sidearm won't match up to their after-market sub-dermal armour > co-worker loses his shit and draws on them, gets cut in half by 1 blast of concentrated molten metal > All hell breaks loose, sprint to cover > Don't make it before a chunk of my leg is taken off by an electified 12 gauge slug > Collapse around the corner to see the side door being breached by heavily armed and armoured cyborgs >Robotic voice from modulator loudly blares "Coca Cola(TM) presents THIS IS THE POLICE" > cover my eyes and curl up as absolute hell fills the room > eventually everything goes quiet, look around to see police units have disabled the intruders by disabling their servos via EMP > a Bupa medic arrives on scene and holds out a card reader saying "that'll be 0.32 bitcoin" > "add it to my life repayment plan" > medic swipes my card and picks up a compressed canister, inserts nozzle into my open wound > I yell out, but quickly feel better as unregulated Pfizer medigel is sprayed all over my open wound > my leg reconstructs itself within seconds, but turns a pale shade of green. Medic tells me not to worry about that > Life is good.

[@caim3465]

This made me smile

[@Sir_Skittles]

Oh no he has escaped Brazil

[@THNKKY]

What would keep the Asian oligarchs manufacturing in America once America stops being their main consumer? With the boomers going into retirement and dropping their consumption demand in the us is sure to drop over the coming decade. Manufacturing in the us seems too expensive to me.

[@PewKittens]

I have been wondering what the next structural phase of society would look like when the really strong disdain for globalism started happening. This was a really fun analysis. I think you are in the right track. I too would much rather suffer a neomedieval society than globalist bureaucracy

[@Rivershield]

Your video is excelent but I think you downplay the idea of racial solidarity. People from homogenous populations are simply more likely to function in an orderly way than miscigenated peoples, like we see in Brazil (I'm brazilian too btw). Sure an american, a german, a japanese and a brazilian nationalist can and WILL become allies/friends, but they will still naturally want to segregate themselves withim their racial groups (except maybe us brazilians, because we have no racial group). And don't come saying that most nations aren't racially homogenous enough because that's an oxymoron. When ethno-nationalists talk about "nation" they mean the racial community, not the nation-states. Germany and Austria, as well as half of Switzerland and Belgium are one nation. Civilization has always been comprised of largely homogenous racial groups or divided in several micro-racial groups which are ruled by one more powerful and largely homogenous group (like the Roman Empire). Nations like Brazil, with rampant miscigenation, are and will continue to be exceptions. Therefore, you are right when you say that nation-states are going to die. But nationalism won't.

[@dr.strangelove9815]

^ this 100%

[@MilesMariae]

Great video, praying the rosary every day. I'm learning a lot from your videos and understanding the present state of play far better. I'm a Catholic priest, and I notice how the vatican itself seems to be caught up in this same conflict. Ultimately, as you have said it, a new medievalism would be to teh church's advantage rather than globalism.... yet, contrary to this, the church at least in terms of the vatican is more tied up to the globalist stuctures.... at least thats how it seems.

[@Charlie-Em]

Damn brother this was good. I might use portions of it to teach on these ideas, as I've converged on similar thoughts.

[@TruePT]

Good seeing you too😊 If your around Spain at all, please go to Monserrat! It’s in the mountains and has the most beautiful church I’ve ever seen! But since you said you were in Poland you probably aren’t around there😅

[@peaceribbon8322]

If you get a fiefdom in Minnesota, invite me to your court. I used to live in a small town there during my high school days, so maybe I could help.

[@benjaminshrader2112]

I’m someone who’s quite politically active And I’m shocked this man is a genius oh my God, like I’ve seen it happen before my own eyes.

[@BluePhx17]

Always great to hear your ideas

[@Person-Man67]

31:28 when you combine the merchant, warrior and priest you get the Knights Templar.

[@egillskallagrimson5879]

3:00 So Deus Ex was right...again

[@monseurwanksalotte3477]

oy vey shut it down

[@davidvoncarstein2067]

That's a good criticism on bureau. I agree that there's a bubble of bureau than tend to slowly but surely move countries towards totalitarianism. IMO bureau have only 1 function: to ensure power is not concentrated. This being applied to companies and force. Historically, the living standards have been the highest when the merchant class rules so a merchant based society with a bureau to keep the game fair would be my go to

[@coureurdesbois6754]

I came to the exact same conclusion as you when I read the Dune Saga this year.

[@egillskallagrimson5879]

Dude I hope we end up in the Terran Federation. That I wouldn't call it Neomedievalism it's more like ancient Rome where you have a branch which is citizenship and those willing to sacrifice get to benefit from the advantages that the branch offers like the concept of Roman citizenship. Even when Heinlein was high in that kind of American Republicanism that would have give a boner to the most hardcore of the founding fathers, in reality a Citizenry class system would create something like the old greek concepts of democracy and society.

[@_gold_eye_2656]

A lot like Star Wars if it meant star trooper

[@Sephiroth391]

My dude, I asked myself similar questions when I moved from Poland to Finland. Glad you had fun in Poland

[@partydean17]

Good stuff as always. One thing I've noticed is that in general, with good reason, people have lost trust in all 4 of these institutions you labeled. While respect for the military in America is not at its all time low, recruitment is very low. The church, well, any time on the internet would show you were trust in the church is. But merchants? I mean most of the complaints I have today involve this profiteering, the cost of buying a home is skyrocketing and products are becoming cheaper and we are aware of the dangers many products have to our long term health just to benefit profits. Well yeah it makes sense people will push for the government to save them through its bureaucrats. I don't see how that's going to change. I can see that these private armies are there but I don't see how they will collapse the nation states back to fiefdoms.

[@matthiuskoenig3378]

That's the thing, rising housing costs is the fault of beurocrats not the merchants. And merchants can't force you to buy harmful things, that's a person's own choice ie stupidity.

[@Spur-li7ec]

@@matthiuskoenig3378 if the harmful product is untruthfully communicated to be unharmful (as often the case. E.g. with cigarettes, leaded fuel, asbestos, hundreds of medications aso.) and pushed onto children, then the merchant is to blame. Many companies take advantage of our high-trust societies and destroy trust for their personal gain. And about "forcing" or compulsion: maybe you've noticed that last year some companies even managed to have people lose their job and liberties if they refused to consume certain products... So yeah, many merchants are causing a lot of damage and they (among others) are to blame.

[@partydean17]

@Matthius Köenig how did the bureaucracy cause that? I understand it's just supply and demand it just seems across the world the prices did not remain competitive and low as possible as we would hope merchants to do. Instead they could just keep raising prices as enough people seem to be able to meet the price point without having merchants that are targeting the less wealthy.

[@hecku]

Dude you have some of the most ascended takes I've ever heard over the internet. Your videos are always a treat and I could listen to you ramble at length for hours, keep up the good work bro.

[@Warrior-Of-Virtue]

Two words. Go Nomad.

[@anon9579]

That will be me

[@crusader2112]

Great video, I think ethnic and national identities will still have a part to play, but interesting video. Merry Christmas 🎄 and keep up the great work. Peace ✌🏻 P.S. Can you do a video on the Terran Federation from Starship Troopers?

[@non-body1913]

Kind of agree, don't see a world where people are not proud of their culture that spans for over centuries.

[@CantusTropus]

I agree that race and ethnicity are positive goods willed by God which enrich the human race and deserve to be preserved. The most important part is that we keep them in their proper place - beneath love of God, without raising them to the level of idols.

[@crusader2112]

@@CantusTropus Agreed, well said. God family country.

[@MrMrtvozornik]

Nah, bureaucrat emerged way earlier than 200BC. There were 3 separate "eras" of Egyptian empire way way before 200BC, and they all had golden age that turned into decadence and incompetence over next 150-200 years due to insane bureaucracy, which only grew exponentially since there was outside enemy nor a big player and Egypt was largely self sufficient due to Nile, leading to both Soldier and Merchant into obscurity. Egyptian early empire is poster boy for "What happens when Priest and Bureaucrat are only rulers", one building insane monuments that still stand, focusing on the afterlife even more than on living, while the other is bogging down every facet of the society until it's bloated and weak. And this is why, as you even said, people tend to hate bureaucrat. It's the only among 4 "archetypes" that can become obsolete, other 3 are ALWAYS needed, even in stone age, it's only a matter of how needed they are. There's a clear bottom line where bureaucrat isn't needed at all, and clear top line where he's overbearing and doing more bad than good. That being said, there's a top line for all 4 archetypes, any one of them can become overbearing, but even then, I'd still rather live in a society overburdened by any one of 3 other archetypes compared to the bureaucrat one. Really, while they are needed and necessary in civilized world, bureaucrat didn't earn their hate among the plebeans for no reason. At least when a soldier, priest or merchant are f*cking you, you can largely see it, but bureaucrat does it through proxies, keeping his hands clean, until the pot boils and people first start fantasizing about the violent revolution and then perform it. It happened 2 times in the ancient Egypt too, each time Soldier+Priest f*cking the bloated bureaucrat. From what history I know, it seems that 150-200 years mark is REALLY some biological thing where what ever ideals progenitors of the systems had, turns into decadence. Been so thousands of years pre Christ, and we're seeing it now in USA too, the 200 years mark is over, and people are talking about abolishing parts of the constitution while race/gender/culture wars are omnipresent. And from what I've seen in history, it always ends up with bureaucrat dead and violent uprising. Doesn't have to be French revolution, it can be Warrior King like in Rome, or Priest revolution like in Arab spring, but it's bound to happen. If anything bureaucrat proved in the past is that he's incapable of self regulation and preventing his own downfall once he grows too large.

[@night2501]

ok let me sum it up quote: “The Society that separates its scholars from its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards and its fighting done by fools.” Thucydides

[@alangivre2474]

The bureaucrats, as detailed by the Managerial Revolution, and expanded in Ereinreich theory of the Professional Managerial Class, do have power. But I disagree in that their power is behind the Merchants. However, their power has grown exponentially, at a point that they are competing with the Merchants. What we truly are going to see is a class war between the Bureaucrats (the Left) and the Merchants -allied with the traditional Priests- (which is the Right). There is also a gender divide: women side with the Bureaucrats and men with the Merchants. The arrangement is that the Bureaucrats provide social cohesion in a situation where the traditional priests are being delegitimizing (in a collapse of commodity exporter nations); while the Merchants provide for economic growth. However, both classes have not been providing what they promised: the Merchants have destroyed social cohesion without providing for enough economic growth, while the Bureaucrats have turned into a self-serving class. The consequence for this is no social cohesion whatsoever. The solution is the creation of a new priest class from the collapse of the Bureaucratic Class. Thus, a descentralized cultural revolution.

[@aaronlatif52]

I think you said what I said in my comment better. I just wanted to add that the priest class morphed into a combination of influencer and entertainers. The bible into various narratives supported by the content of the day, mostly being things like movies and shows but certainly not limited to it. And that we are even seeing digital monastaries spring up - no fap being the one that comes to mind of men coming together to sacrifice for a higher pursuit. Mostly curious if you buy that arguement or if you think the priest class must be strictly religious.

[@edersonnico]

Idk, I see bureucrats and merchants getting along very fine. Majority of the mega corporation supports intrusive giant bureucratic governments. Just see how the majority of modern movies, games and tv series are always propaganding governmental ideologies.

[@alangivre2474]

@@aaronlatif52 The priest class is characterized by an accumulation of social capital and cultural capital linked to emotional labour. In other words, someone whose social value comes from a place where they have used their time learning how human beings work (which requires being wealthy enough to have "leisure time") will end up acting sort of as a priest. Some priests have traditional been bureaucratic in nature and some weren't. For example, the renaissance Catholic Church of the XV century is the birthplace of the western bureauratic class -not french XVIII century, as it is said in the video-. On the other hand, protestant priestly class is highly descentralized. Influencers, in a similar way to the traditional Hollywood movie stars have their power because of Social Capital (that is, human relationships). Emotional-cultural capital is usally intertwined with Social Capital. This is in contraposition to Technical-cultural capital (like learning to code), which is usually not linked to social capital (sometimes it may be related to financial-social capital; that is, business relations). Cultural Capital accumulation requires demographic growth of the religion. That is, if you have fewer people believing a particular religion, you'll also have fewer priests, who will end up converting fewer people, etc. The complete collapse of american religious establishment during the Bush era (around 2006) partly because of the delegitimation of religion because of the Iraq War implied a collapse of the social cohession that religious communities were able to create in US (this collapse had aleady occured in Europe). Social Media created a technical innovation making the accumulation of social capital cheaper: becoming an influencer is easier than being a Hollywood star. Because of this, there has been a short revival of protestantism in US and religion in general (as it can be seen in the statistics). Some influencers like Jordan peterson and Ben Shapiro were able to reconvert middle aged men who had become atheists in their youths, by reframing christianity in a more rational way (as jungian archetypes, for example). In this context, religion has been interpreted as an identitarian product, not a relation to the sacred. Usually, christianity has been confused with being white or western, which further harmed the ability of christianity in particular to create social cohesion, around 2018. However, this process is ultimately unsustainable because of the gender division of labour: women are usually specialized in the accumulation of emotional-cultural capital. Because young women do not like traditional religions anymore, the ability of them to reproduce themselves is very limited. Because people with high cultural and social capital are being coopted by the bureaucracy (both the public, but specially the private bureaucracy), and because of the extreme global economic inequality, the ability of society to develop from a religious point of view is limited. Once bureaucracies break down, people with high cultural and social capital that are not able to become part of the bureaucracies will redirect their capacities to the masses, and a new religion will be created. I hope I answered your question. What do you think?

[@aaronlatif52]

@@alangivre2474 Let me reinterpret and add my own conclusion to see if I understood correctly. I think you are saying influencers are acting in place of the priest class but are basically just eating up the cheap void of power from the collapse of organized religion. We are in a transistionally phase and getting primed for a religion to emerge or reemerge or be reinterpreted. Another way of saying it is culture has been decentralized to the point chaos (fighting between groups/lack of basic understanding between groups - I think social media is the tower of babel, where it doesnt seem like we are speaking the same language anymore) and the chaos will result in ideas emerging to reunite - or at least we will fracture and have different areas or demographics unite behind shared belief again. To say that more clearly, religion will either centralize the scraps of a broken state or the various fractured groups will find their own religions to unite behind. Obviously I have my own interpretation but to sum I took your answer as being priest need to be religious and while influencers and the such are eating into the same spaces its not the same uniting forces a religion offers (social cohesion to simplify) on its own. Because really the effects have been the exact opposite the further I think - all the random ideas are polarizing and micro polarizing even the smallest of groups where as religion unites behind certain ideas. I think your breakdown is great btw, Im just not clearly seeing what your answer is so I keep inferring and adding my own thought. Or in other words you connected why I see influencers and stars occupying the same space as priests and you broke down why things are, current trends including demographic/gender splits, and even predicted new religions growing out of when bureaucracy collapses - but Im not clearly seeing if you think the priest class is strictly religious or not, is there room for secular religion from shared culture. Like can Lord of the RIngs, Star Wars, Harry Potter, Mulan, Lion King, Toy Story, ect serve as our shared stories and point to certain concepts that go beyond the secular material world.

[@alangivre2474]

@@aaronlatif52 Yes!! Influencers are indeed acting in the place of the priestly class, but are just eating up the cheap void of power from the collapse of organized religion (and the collapse of spirituality). It is not so much that religion will centralize, but that postmodern ideologies are purely destructuve, not constructive. They are much more focused on destroying the opponent than on building something new. Once everything has been destroyed and we live in spiritual chaos, we will only be able to build something new. Not one religion, probably a myriad of very creative and distinct religions, like in the Hundred Schools of Thought era. Indeed all the random ideas are polarizing and micropolarizing, because we are developing freedom of thought, but we are not developing empathy as a society. So everyone is more focused on being heard than on hearing how people who are different feel. We have gone from children of the Gods to teenagers. So now we are free but narcissistic (sort of like Elon Musk and the way he understands "free speech"). The new religion is different, because we relate to our parents differently when we become adults than we are children: we see our parents as human. Let me add another factor so you understand where I am coming from, climate change. Climate Change has a particular component, that it is material (not cultural) and is not anthropocentric. That is, because of our power, we need to deal with cosmic forces that we have awakened. This implies we need to take ourselves out of the center of the stage, and understand that we are part of something bigger. The story is larger than our own egos. The dismantlement of society, including maybe a nuclear war will also impulse us to undestand that we need to take reality seriously, and open our hearts. This situation will create a feeling that will create social cohesion. And beliefs will be created from this social root. We need to create a story about our place in the cosmos. I do not believe either christianity as it is or "wokism" as it is will be this religion. The first is ageing and it is not finding a way to process this new world. At least not yet. The second is purely destructive (as it seeks to destroy patriarchy, white supremacy, etc), but it is not in a mood of rebuilding society. So I do think that new religions can be "secular". But in a way they have always been in many places of the world. Taoism and Confucianism are a clear example. In the western world, Stoicism and Neoplatonism were also something in the middle between a philosophy and a religion. Does it make sense?