Exploring the SCP Foundation: SCP-4036 - The Republic

[@odststalker5117]

I like how he starts the story by saying slavery is vile, then immediately perks up when he finds out he can grow a workforce like potatoes

[@lukasneuner4760]

He justified slavery with Economy :(

[@misanthropicservitorofmars2116]

@@lukasneuner4760 what other justification is there? It’s not just for fun lol

[@lukasneuner4760]

@@misanthropicservitorofmars2116 :P good point! justifying it with economy is kinda the default, right?

[@misanthropicservitorofmars2116]

@@lukasneuner4760 it’s the only reason. If it’s not economically viable, it ceases to exist. You don’t enslave people because you dislike them. You enslave them because someone has to be. Egypt didn’t have slaves, but that’s because they had a religious culture based around labor and maintenance. The gods already fought their war, the earth was like a garden and it was Egyptians duty to cultivate it. If a population doesn’t have those cultural outlooks, you can’t make them do labor for cheap. You’d be forced to enslave them or create all new economic models. Which is what happened with industrialization. We created new models of wealth that make slave labor obsolete. Since the labor of machines was cheaper and more efficient. Thank you for listening to my Ted talk on enslavement.

[@misanthropicservitorofmars2116]

@@lukasneuner4760 TLDR the civil war proves that the church of the broken god > sarkicism.

[@Dracosfire14]

This is exactly what I wanted. Not making Sarkites the "good guys" but letting us understand them as a people. I am loving these tales about the groups of interest!

[@artieeverything]

Silence flesh lover

[@randomnobody8713]

@@artieeverything cringe RP

[@Dracosfire14]

@@randomnobody8713 hey, it made me laugh

[@misanthropicservitorofmars2116]

@@randomnobody8713 more cringe because they RP the wrong side. It’s Broken God 4 lyfe.

[@lucienthurston366]

Sarkics are okay, I guess, but they're no Gamers Against Weed.

[@XSpamDragonX]

Whoever wrote this did an incredible job with making the journal seem like it genuinely was written by the character.

[@wikimage]

Journal entry ends: I wish to make good on my promise to the anthropologist not to hurt the natives. New journal entry: I killed a chieftain today

[@nickoslekkas3336]

I was expecting a SCP based on Plato's republic but this quickly got to an entire different direction lol, great job on narrating this as always.

[@OGDeepStroke]

Thank you for this reference.

[@SuperMrHiggins]

Damn, I was hoping its gonna turn out to be a platos republic inspired synopsis of a sarkic society

[@nickoslekkas3336]

@Ayaan K One man's nightmare another man's dream

[@Hugh_Amungus]

The Sarkic Republic contacting the GOC is probably the worst thing they could do lmao Sarkics: Hi, we're a sovereign Sarkic nation in Polynesia- The GOC: *_E X T E R M I N A T U S_*

[@Northern_LAD]

The Inquisition would be proud of the GOC

[@sardonicspartan9343]

Suffer not the witch to live.

[@callumleask2907]

I'm a 40k fan. Good reference 👌.

[@Sweet.peach21]

Whoever thought of that idea must regret it

[@Cpint]

Brother, get the flamer. The heavy flamer.

[@Tal-br7ht]

You know this republic could actually pull off the "I am the senate" meme by merging all 10 members into 1 fleshbeast.

[@amberkat8147]

Lolz yes, indeed they could.

[@Bona_Tempora]

“I ate the senate”

[@erickamakeeaina1649]

Imagine an organic version of Darcy from Amphibia

[@johnsaints969]

"Sarkitism, son"

[@connorlane5116]

"Do it!"

[@JonDoe0212]

Oh boy, as a Polynesian, Taylor made my blood boil. Anomalous stuff aside, what he did was scarily historically accurate. Sometimes reality is as horrifying as fiction

[@Puppies03b3eleyyMichaelJackson]

I think a lot of people (at least in america) think of historically recent slavery as "Africa". The reality is... well... anywhere that colonialism touched...

[@lorenzomeulli750]

@@Puppies03b3eleyyMichaelJackson Make It the whole world. Slavery was an extremely common practice for most antiquity cultures that reached a large enough population or at times not even that.

[@michaelallen3304]

@@lorenzomeulli750 Yeah, this idea of modern colonialism as this unique evil totally overlooks the history of the world. Before 200ish years ago, everyone owned slaves, everyone was colonialist, can’t think of a single ethnic group free of some horrible inhumane practice.

[@Discotekh_Dynasty]

@@Puppies03b3eleyyMichaelJackson anywhere people could “other” a different group. Ottomans raid England, English but slaves from Africa. It’s a foul business, the trafficking of human beings. The freeing of people from bondage is the most righteous possible act imo

[@AllFlimmits]

@@michaelallen3304 You are exactly right. You don't even have to look a decade before Columbus sailed the ocean blue in 1492 to find it. On that note: Columbus wasn't a bad guy, he was friendly with the natives, he even adopted the son of one who he had befriended after his death. Hell even the day before the British landed on Plymouth Rock and started their American colonies in the late 1600's tribes of natives were engaged in tribal warfare. They killed, raped, scalped, and conquered _each other_ constantly. Eurasians just won the livestock lottery (CGPGrey has a video on it) so their civilizations progressed faster meaning they developed superior weapons. Look, I'm not saying that Europeans/Americans didn't do some messed up stuff, but quite literally the whole world did that stuff at the time and specifically England and America were the driving forces in ending those practices, namely slavery. The point is, like you say, everyone was an imperialist and colonialism back then. But now, the people who spent their entire history conquering other peoples are butt hurt that someone did it to them and did it better at that.

[@vvsPlatinum]

Found myself actually physically disgusted with Taylor from his journal entries, very well written character

[@spoonabenson8762]

same, haven't felt that gross listening to something in a while

[@kenpanderz672]

i think itd be more effective if he was more relatable to any sort of real person. but from what i gathered, he basically pushed on through being the worst possible person, while realizing he was the worst possible person, and never even tried to justify it pretty much at all. idk, maybe its just me, but i cant relate to that kind of person at all, so he feels like a simple cartoon villain.

[@Biosquid239]

@@kenpanderz672 the human mind does this _great_ thing where it'll try to justify your actions once you've made them no matter how vile they are. We are watching a man fight that natural instinct, as on one hand he believes that this will be good in the long run but on the other hand he knows what he is doing is downright evil. Its an extremely well written character in my opinion even from a psychological point of view.

[@spoonabenson8762]

@@kenpanderz672 For me him being religious, having delusions of grandeur and his sense of moral superiority, are the aspects of his character that make his descent palpable. He wholeheartedly believed that this was his destiny to "civilize the savages" that even through the most immoral actions that he recognized as immoral he still went through with it because he thought it was for the greater good of the people. He didn't need to justify the actions to himself because to him the justification was the end point. To him in the end all these vile actions would be justified.

[@michaelbulu4079]

@@spoonabenson8762 You might even say that, to him, the ends justify the means. Sorta like a certain Foundation we all know and would fear

[@jagenau4107]

Imagine being a child in that tribe and misbehaving and your mom is just like "of you don't stop this right now I'll burry you!"

[@HenhousetheRed]

Make you go stand in the flesh-corner.

[@BirdOfHermes83]

I'd rather be beaten. Like " please beat me mom! I'm really, really sorry! "

[@dfgfgh244]

There was a thing going on in Arabic areas a long ass time ago. Before Islam was a thing. Parents would bury their own daughters because they might "bring shame" to the family through adultery and whatnot.

[@docholliday9741]

@@dfgfgh244 things as bad as this still occur in the world today

[@awaitthyextinction]

Shit you haven't met My mom yet... she still says that haha.

[@theoneguyoverthere]

I’d be interested to see what happens with this SCP under the Broken Masquerade canon. Since the main reason the Foundation is maintaining containment is due to the nation’s threat to secrecy, would they just withdraw? Or would they be worried that without the Foundation holding them down, the nation might develop imperialistic ambitions again?

[@calebtesfaye3925]

That would definitely be a very interesting story, furthermore how would the public react to the foundation basically containing a republic of people and whether its ethical/humane to do so.

[@Chaosrain112]

@@calebtesfaye3925 I think it'd make for a humorous sort of "caught with your pants down" moment if it was written just as the Broken Masquerade event occurs, and then the world spotlight is on you (The Foundation) trying to play boogeyman against an entire sovereign nation of indigenous people.

[@calebtesfaye3925]

@@Chaosrain112 kek, that does sound funny!

[@BigBlackBruiser]

Don't forget the Vanguard timeline as well.

[@jakespacepiratee3740]

I don’t know what happens, but something I do know happens in that continuity is that many Furries join the GOC. You’ll know why if you’ve read the SCPs in the upper-900 number range…

[@Big_E_Soul_Fragment]

I like how the Republic now seek autonomy from the Foundation much like how various real life countries gain autonomy from the old empires and even going so far as trying to get some recognition from the GRU and the GOC though the GOC definitely wouldn't acknowledge the existence of a nation full of Sarkics.

[@CosmicFearUkulele]

SCP-1000 did something similar, they created a nation(albeit a small one) and sent a formal request to the United Nations. Declaring their independence and sovereignty and requested that they be recognized as a separate species with inalienable rights. They also proposed several additions to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights(I think, or something similar) that allows includes stuff like sacrificing humans and several reasonable and unreasonable additions. The GOC intercepted their message and destroyed it. I don’t remember anything more than that. SCP-1000 tried to use a intelligence scale but the GOC denied it on the grounds that it was inherently flawed since certain AIs and highly intelligent pets would be considered sentient as equals to humans.

[@undeadprinceofchaos3731]

@@CosmicFearUkulele Really? Where did you hear this? It sounds super interesting and I would love to read it for myself. I always enjoy articles that revolve SCP-1000. So I’d like to know so I can read it. That is when the wiki comes back up after the whole incident with the hackers.

[@CosmicFearUkulele]

@@undeadprinceofchaos3731 when the wiki comes back online, try poking around in the GOC case files around missions, tales and supplemental. I don’t remember it’s exact title but it should be there

[@RimTerm]

@@CosmicFearUkulele Seriously? As I remember, when I read it, it seemed to me that it was about intelligent animals, and not 1000, bigfoots.

[@RimTerm]

@@undeadprinceofchaos3731 Interesting. That there is a project "Great Apes". Founded in 1994, the international non-profit organization, which includes anthropologists, ethologists, primatologists and other specialists who support the UN Declaration on the Rights of Great apes.

[@Sluggadome_Rotunda_Bernardson]

I love every part of the section where he talks about wanting to hurt as few people as possible only to immediately cut to him saying he just shot a man in the head because his translator said he told them to stop pointing guns at them.

[@z0ned_out]

"I will make enterprise, I will build the empire here" *2 seconds later* "I am sin 🥲

[@SauloA333]

He did became an unholy monster. My God Taylor... What have you done?!

[@wandiriswan6116]

Johnny Sin

[@bencox3641]

After a while you have to admit that you are the evil overlord from an epic fantasy novel.

[@joshquivey6990]

Absolutely love the lore of the Sarkics and how it’s been changing over the years. It’s been especially interesting to see their portrayal becoming more than simply clear-cut evil. Thank you for doing this vid, it was great as always!

[@whackedoutcookie4393]

the music that plays in the background of these videos have become my favorite music. I have virtually all of them downloaded on my Spotify, with empty slopes being my favorite. Idk I just wanted to show my appreciation for that.

[@MathWithMozart]

Dang you and TheVolgen both uploaded within the last 24 hours!!! I got at least an hour and a half of scp stories to listen to when I get off work!

[@KarlofDuty_]

They both always upload at the same time each week

[@chazriley7075]

Volgun ain't got shit on exploring series, sorry.

[@nunsense9489]

@@chazriley7075 🤓

[@Thlormby]

@@chazriley7075 I hope this starts a fight in the comments (that’d be entertaining)

[@chazriley7075]

@@Thlormby I've been following tes for over 3 years now. No one on KZbin even comes close to his quality. My personal opinion 😂 volgun is decent too, but sometimes his voice actors get way too asmr for my liking. Also his videos are direct readings unlike tes who actually puts a lot of effort into what he says. He also doesn't read like a robot. 🤷

[@flop645]

What a fantastic article, props to the author. I adore the way Taylor is portrayed, only starting off with this vague, "innocent" vision of power and prosperity, not realising what acquiring that power entails until it's too late. I think his story is a great cautionary tale and points out problems inherent to this expansionist mindset, especially using the eloquent if not-at-all-subtle metaphor of literally growing people for the mere purpose of doing labor.

[@iivin4233]

You would think, with the Republic's institutional and true popular belief in Sarkicism and patriotism, that native biological technology would be a source of pride.

[@fatjellyfish9478]

I love the idea of a biological tech guy showing of he new spanking meat phone

[@iivin4233]

@@fatjellyfish9478 Eyephone 6. No, it doesn't have an aux. jack.

[@kaboomluong9373]

*Spanking meat* phone?

[@justadude2377]

@@kaboomluong9373 I think they meant speaking.

[@justadude2377]

@@fatjellyfish9478 yeah I agree. It'd be awesome to see Sarkic ways to recreate modern tech but also it makes sense that the human need to advance and the traditionist way of keeping things the same clashes. Especially with it being a mixed population of indigenous people who don't know or care about outside technology and the more modern society that wants to continue to expand and grow.

[@armoroftruth3166]

A proto-sarkic community which ACTUALLY uses and likes modern technology?!now I have seen everything

[@Catglittercrafts]

It’s like if the Dune universe didn’t try to destroy their advanced non biological technology

[@thebighurt2495]

I suppose, in the Sarkites' defense, the Proto-Sarkics *do* have *some* things going for them. They have a strong sense of community values, mutual support and have a surprisingly stable, functioning society. It makes sense they'd have a shot at a stable modern society. Neo-Sarkics, on the other hand, need to die in a fire.

[@jecsquire9508]

@@Catglittercrafts In fairness to the denizens of the dune universe, said technology tried to destroy the humans first :p

[@NoConsequenc3]

@@jecsquire9508 humans destroyed themselves by letting machines think for them, that is the true horror of the thinking-machines.

[@Amogusrath]

Wonder how Ion and the Klavigars would react to the place

[@masterzoroark6664]

Well. I love Broken Masquarade and other cannons where Foundation looses the grip on humanity so I would be interested in how republic based on Sarcacism (aka Nulka) fairs in world where people aren't squashing it's existance. As far as the description goes they are pretty peacfull, which I appriciate, since most people view anything connected to Nulka as inherently evil. I like how many medical marvels Sarcacism could teach when combined with far more scientific mindset- imagine surgeons using both surgerical tools and capabilities of carnomancy to heal wounds

[@masterzoroark6664]

@@Zlyxon Yeah, sounds far more soffisticated and less brutal

[@Nonameisback999]

came into this thinking it would be some political thriller of the foundation fighting against a rouge republic, but I ended up watching an excellent tale of how power corrupts and how the path to the darkest pits of hell is paved with the best of intentions, this shit hit different, honestly one of my favorite scps youve covered so far.

[@Michael-qz6ld]

Definitely!!

[@lucifermorningstar1902]

At what point did you think there were good intentions involved in colonizing this island?

[@Nonameisback999]

@@lucifermorningstar1902 the whole "rid the world of slavery" thing

[@TheMrBrosef]

@@Nonameisback999 He literally enslaved the natives and forced them to work for his desires. His "good intentions" were never anything but an excuse for his violent theft of resources, just like all colonialism.

[@ShadowPhoenix82]

@@Nonameisback999 potentially a self delusion, as those people often just want to replace those slaves with slaves that serve them. But I hear what you're saying.

[@joshbowman9481]

I really like how on this nose this is, how blatantly close to real history it is. Well done to the author

[@merlinmarten162]

how so?

[@forgingluck]

How is it close to history? 75-95% of all deaths from European arrival to Americas was from disease, not violence. Natives weren't peaceful commies, they were violent tribes with economic systems. There's more slavery today than any other point in history, primarily in communist countries. If you're interested in expanding on what it's similar to, I'm open to listening but highly skeptical.

[@coke_the_gal2813]

@@merlinmarten162 the attitude of Walker is extremely accurate to how American Republicans saw slavery and outside cultures. Sure, they were against slavery, but they were completely fine with wiping out Native groups to achieve their ideals for America. Walker is pretty much an exact clone of the old American Republicans, considering he was one, except he wants to "help" non-America based Native groups by "civilizing" them (another common idea in American history). 4036 is essentally a beat for beat retelling of America's expansion west and their treatment of native groups, except its relating to anomalus natives.

[@xaeaxaea6280]

Incorrect.

[@CLNCJD94]

Honestly I was unnerved durning the journal entries. It was pretty sick and I hated it, but that just goes to show how well the author wrote it and the slight accent TES brought to this video.

[@john-jamesoreilly5013]

I like how the 19th century MTF is mentioned as being established around 1814, which makes me picture a team of men in napoleonic uniforms with tall hats trying to contain anomalies with muskets and bayonets.

[@dasdeke]

This was an amazing tale and kind of interesting little take on imperialism mixed with an SCP anomaly. Fantastic to listen to on a cross-country trip back home

[@markslacin9242]

I always listen to these on long drives. They’re absolutely amazing and keep me awake and focused while driving.

[@undeadprinceofchaos3731]

Every nation and world power has a starting point. Starting off as a small village or community, and then expanding and spreading their culture across the world. Of course…there will always be those who don’t agree to their ways of live.

[@itschar8872]

seeing as wikidot is down right now, it's nice to have channels like yours to keep the SCP flow going

[@meowmeowmeow594]

hello fellow beeper

[@Iugtyps]

30:12 - 30:56 listening to this I felt chills, the emotion in the voice made me feel like I was watching a man’s descent in madness

[@daniell1483]

I'm reminded of the people of Sentinel Island. This SCP is like someone combined an uncontacted people with Sarkic religion and the opening up of Japan to international trade into one giant combined mess. The idea of growing people in the ground is pretty ick which somehow seems appropriate.

[@trystero1729]

Cringe: monarchy, representative democracy, technocracy, all other government systems Based: Sarkic theocracy

[@christiangauthier727]

I have to congratulate you Tess! You've always been a great storyteller, MC, Master of Horror, and your Narration + Reading have been improving nonstop over the years... BUT! Today, my friend, your rendering of the Journal Entry was simply on a WHOLE NEW LEVEL! You've put so much characterization, soul and most importantly, your TONE & INTENSITY were spot on! Your performance has taken an Olympian leap to reach greatness! Before, you wrre always reading verbatim texts in your voice, with a bit of character and a sprinkle of accent, mood, etc.. But today, the *Emotional Charge* in your voice, the work you did to choose the right Tone, expressions, feel & general way of speaking that makes us immediately forget it's you and get immersed, drawn in the story, the geographical location, culture & era! I can't give you higher praises!

[@fire_rises]

His voice acting was on point for sure. However I dont think the sorce material was doing him justice. The journal entries were written by someone trying to write like someone in the 19th century would write but they did a poor job of it. It didnt read as authentic imo. Still the core story and concepts were pretty interesting.

[@kraze251]

i really like how exploring the series and thevolgun uploads the same time. double the happines.😊

[@AnimeShinigami13]

This is a very interesting one, if mishandled, it WILL, not MIGHT result in a Broken Masquerade Scenario.

[@hawkeyestegosaurus5680]

Well that was a fairly horrifying tale as most tend to be when dealing with the Sarkics

[@shrekdaddyyo9632]

Im still in the ads. I havent been able to sleep. Guarantee this will help me 100%. Listening to this guy talk is magic yo. Meditative.

[@angelooviedomontero3142]

As a fan of yours being from Costa Rica, I did never expect to have some part of my country history related to an SCP and much less having it in your content. This was great, thank you and greetings from Costa Rica

[@Nomadith]

So American imperialists get mad and domineer a troubled but overall good/well intentioned and peaceful people, ahhhhh. God I love fiction, it's so bizzare and otherworldly.

[@jellosapiens7261]

This is genuinely one of the best fictional depictions of colonialism I've ever seen; absolutely amazing stuff

[@AstralDrumNBass]

I gotta say your narration of this log was absolutely amazing. Now it's one of my fav scp tales. You should seriously consider narrating audio books.

[@frostobrian8729]

He has done several H.P. Lovecraft and I believe he did sleepy hollow. You should check them out

[@shrimpbisque]

Sounds like this place would be more peaceful in the Broken Masquerade canon. Still a bit dismal, but at least they'd be able to trade with other nations for resources.

[@ericquiabazza2608]

A bit? A repeat of the atrocity of imperialism is a Bit "Bad" for comerce? You should rethink your moral bounds.

[@reynanlamsen2007]

@@ericquiabazza2608 Good luck imperialising that place when the foundation is protecting it.

[@ericquiabazza2608]

@@reynanlamsen2007 what? I think you took my coment backwards.

[@reynanlamsen2007]

@@ericquiabazza2608 No I didn’t.

[@julyol119]

"No one is unwanted or dying of hunger - these savages need to be civilized ASAP!" The gymnastics this guy's brain makes are astounding, but not uncommon for the time it's placed in.

[@markmulder9845]

No man commits such heinous acts as those who tell themselves, "for the greater good"

[@theheartofsouls738]

I'm still saddened that Wikidot got hacked.

[@trollstheking2636]

"They testified that a large...FIFTEEN FOOT beast" Idk why but I found the way you said that hilarious.

[@ajmeyers5661]

Good job, Banana. I really like this tale, and your version of the Foundation is more compelling than most. I also appreciate that the cult of Ion gets a little bit of a makeover and a new spin as well. And as always TES does a great job of presenting the material. 10/10 will listen again!

[@ultra824]

This is an interesting nuanced examination of the horrors of colonialism. Usually, anticolonial narratives portray colonizers as entirely selfish or outright malicious, and while those attitudes certainly did exist at the time, it's important to remember that even those with genuinely good intentions, who really, honestly wanted to help the native people of the places they were colonizing still committed atrocities as a result of a badly warped perspective and lack of regard for other cultures.

[@KomradeCPU]

every primitive culture is a potential colonizer, given the time

[@msicnnmn083]

@@KomradeCPU If by 'primitive' you mean ethically primitive, as connoted by 'imperialist' or 'capitalist' or 'expansionist', then you're absolutely correct.

[@ComradeCorvus]

"The road to hell is paved with good intentions."

[@rdf4315]

This is one of the few scps stories that stick with you especially after going back and hearing it years later it's still just as dark as I remember, in fact this story about the SCP Republic is the darkest SCP story on the channel.

[@Nielk1]

EDIT: I've changed my opinion a bit after listening to it all, explanation at the bottom. Hmm, there's a lot of errors in the design of this government. The point of a House/Senate system is that one represents the people and the other the next lowest local power base (the senate was never supposed to be popularly elected in the United States). The US Senate stands in for the UK's House of Lords. To form this government in a logical way the Senate would not exist, as its power base would instead be handled by the theocratic council. It sounds like whoever designed this system took their understanding of the modern United Stated system without the understanding of why or how it became the way it did and then bolted a theocratic system based on Sarkicism onto it. This is highly evident from several factors: 1. It doesn't make sense for the House and Senate here to have arbitrary representations of different counts of people as there's no structural basis for this. 2. The president and their cabinet having term limits is fine in theory, but the truth is that having a term limit on the cabinet wouldn't actually help anything and actually would be found to be a hindrance due to the limitation of experience. In this case, the cabinet would be used for one of 4 purposes: Nepotistic appointment to enter the political class, a retirement position, a transitional position between two political offices, or a puppet controlled by an actual well experienced shadow cabinet member. 3. The Sarkic council's power isn't structured entirely logically, given their importance they should have a veto power. They would likely start with a lot of obvious power and slowly reduce their obvious powers to a state where the House simply doesn't go against them rather than their need to actually act. Their power would still be intact however and they'd be able to use it any time, similar to the royalty of the UK and their power they almost never exercise. 4. I haven't heard anything about the Judicial branch yet but I am far from all the way through the video, but I can imagine if it's based on the current United States in any way it's probably way more powerful than it should be, where in the US we have Marbury v. Madison to thank for that, where the court granted themselves new power under their authority they granted themselves to give themselves new power (yes really, look it up, it's wild). I'd imagine that in this system such a thing should be impossible because the Sarkic power would not allow the court to become all powerful. Overall it's still a workable design, it just doesn't make sense to happen naturally in this civilization. The issues I outline only really matter if political drama actually arises but I'm only at 13:00 so far so that could change. EDIT: I've finished the video and I see that the application of this government was unnatural. If the man who wrote their constitution did not properly understand the US system fully, this would make sense. It explains the existence of a Senate and I can see the religious council getting tacked on later. The popular election of senators I think would not have happened yet when this constitution was written but it is probably irrelevant since when the constitution was written their population was too small to even have smaller levels of administration that would need representation, so the writer may have just invented the artificial numbering groups to mirror the US system at some simple level. Overall, the explanation makes these quirks of their system possible, with only the term limits on the executive and the cabinet being inexplicable. Also as expected the Judicial branch was not a factor in the story and thus their power or lack there of was not shown, though based on the time it's possible they would have similar powers of 'judicial review'.

[@sookendestroy1]

This really feels like a critique of current geopolitical situations and imperialism/colonialism reaching from the past to the modern day

[@alewis17]

Perfect timing like always, we are synced Lmao. once again bout to sleep couldn't find anything, your notifications pops up literally the second I close my eyes

[@Ray-cm3vy]

Bro same

[@spentz3082]

Saaaame

[@Swainhammer13]

Does subject matter mean nothing to yall? Lol. Sarkic stuff is most interesting, but not my particular kind of bedtime stories. Rather my morning background noise if we’re being honest.

[@alewis17]

@@Swainhammer13 who inv you?

[@lukaskassner320]

Same

[@lanterns_glow]

Out here getting entire movies of content

[@chasefrost1401]

I've been itching for some more sarkic content

[@Т1000-м1и]

5:30 and it already sounds like something from the nationstates website

[@R3DE3MER]

that reading of the journal gave me the chills

[@akramgimmini8165]

FOR THE REPUBLIC!!! oh wait wrong Universe

[@clevermcgenericname891]

Man this new Tropico is nuts

[@warriorbug35]

GUESS WHOS UP AT 3 WHO LOVES YOU EXPLORING, that’s right, it’s me, thanks again for the awesome videos, you make long days a little more fun and dare I say a lil more interesting

[@th-bk8ez]

This was really entertaining and well written. I love the idea of a modern, non-hostile Sarkic nation. I wonder if any interesting Tales are set in this nation.

[@RobSny94]

I love late night uploads like this, gives me something to do when I can't sleep

[@stanislavkino]

This scp takes inspiration from the real life story of the Sarawak sultanate, well done :)

[@LEOAUNIT33N]

What have I just listened to? Amazing story and Voice acting. I don't know why I'm crying in the club right now...

[@tango5thetargeted73]

man, the story at the beginning really hammer the "the road to hell are paved with good intentions"

[@Imaproshaman7]

Damn, I didn't really know what to expect, but it turned really dark. Makes me think existentially about skipping so many years of your life. Some kids might've not even really remembered being small either. Wild stuff. The whole "trying to civilize" them was an interesting commentary about that literally happened in real life and how terrible it was. This was really well written. The music choice was great as always. I love the character voices, too. Both of those things adds a lot to it.

[@calamaty2007]

Even Sarkicism pales in horror to colonialism. It really is a tragedy. If it weren't for the ambitions of a single man, this republic probably would have just stayed as an easy to contain group of tribes. But now they are in a very precarious positions between their culture and modernity. Having the former warped by outside forces and can't fit into the latter because they don't fit normality.

[@Brien831]

idk about that man, Sarkicism is the cause of many end of world scenarios. Like gruesome flesh abomination kinda apocalypse.

[@NoConsequenc3]

@@Brien831 yeah, and that's due to imperialist, expansionist tendencies. AKA fuckin colonialism

[@misanthropicservitorofmars2116]

Bruh colonialism is worse than sarkicism? We got through colonialism. A realized sarkic state is the destruction of all independent life on earth. It’s the death of biology.

[@misanthropicservitorofmars2116]

It only pales in comparison in the fact one is an aspect of history and one is fictional. If you treat both as reality than sarkicism is much worse than anything humanity has done to itself.

[@zen_of_chloe]

@@Brien831 what do you call climate change and nuclear war?

[@TEcho-Music]

"I have to civilize these people" This seems STRANGELY familiar...

[@Lykoz.]

Stop everything the GOAT just uploaded! Bout to drink some coffee and enjoy a good ass morning.

[@BeakedRelic]

I feel like this channel should be an SCP. something like "The StoryTeller," "The Timelines' Guide," or even "The Explorer"

[@dotty.]

'i pray to a god who's back is turned on me' is a banger line ngl

[@a_Minion_of_Soros]

"He said that they were husbands. I wished to know nothing more."

[@graysnake5332]

1st time to make it in the 1st 5 min instead of hours later

[@neutralclownpose3928]

A lot of scps are disturbing and scary, but I don't think ive ever saw a file that just disgusted me like this one. The diary actually made me feel sick. Im fine whit the baby burying, i truly dont care since i love sarkisism spcs, but the colonizing process just felt so disturbing to hear. It might just be bc my family is indigenous but jesus christ i just kept wishing their boat had sunk and drowned them all. This was foul, massive kudos for the author(s?)

[@boch2411]

Everything was up to the elders

[@KomradeCPU]

maybe grandpa forgot to tell you how your people already killed each other for land, in the vastness of America, earlier than any white man got there. Human nature, the horror!

[@DanielSan1776]

*OH BOY! IT’S 3AM!!*

[@-KiTToBuG]

This was excellent. Especially the reading of the journal. The internal conflict of a man committing such atrocities is something I've never really considered before. Did Stalin ever have a crisis of conscience? Hitler? These are men who performed acts of true evil and for the first time I ask myself non rhetorically "what were they thinking?". There must have been some delusion convincing them that their actions were just, right? I mean, no man wakes up one day and says "I think I'll just be evil for the sake of evil from now on". But that's how we generally think of history's great villains. A truly great and thought provoking SCP. As usual your breakdown is insightful and your oration, exceptional. Well done sir.

[@giuliagorini5712]

Those people probably didn't see themselves as evil*. No one thinks they're the bad guy. Hitler was, in his mind, doing what was best for Germany. As for what exactly goes through someone's mind as they commit such heinous atrocities, I can't be sure, but I never wanna find out. *PS: but they were definitively still evil.

[@Lunar994]

Good to see the wikidot hack didn't effect the upload schedule

[@michaelandreipalon359]

Why, what's going on?

[@Catglittercrafts]

@@michaelandreipalon359 some hacker dweeb shut the site down.

[@TheHunted385]

Love this one. Pretty nuanced all around, villain is hounded by his own guilt, positive-ish conclusion in sight at the end.

[@Damascusdalek]

In a broken masquerade timeline I'd love to visit this place.

[@GhostRydr1172]

The way this story is written you'd think it occurs in a broken masquerade canon.

[@Damascusdalek]

@@GhostRydr1172 yeah it's only the end part about a treaty draft that sort of gives it away that it's not. Would love to see an actual BM update on it tho

[@kaminax3456]

oh my god, i was just checking your channel to see if you had any videos I had not watched yet, and here this is! this is going to be a great hour.

[@TheColombianSpartan]

"We had the mother beat into submission" jesus fuck

[@quicksilvertongue3248]

The idea that a society of Pacific islanders (which, ethnically, means effectively East Asians), having learned a religion of flesh-crafting from a Eurasian ancestral prophet, is a nice touch, given the trend in Japan, the Phillipines, Thailand and so forth, to regard light skin as more desirable.

[@aliveandwellinisrael2507]

Perfect timing.

[@leahcole8672]

Manng, I just want you to know, that ever since this video came out, whenever I throw up, I immediately hear you at 30:52 "I threw up" and it makes me laugh every time

[@alterego9082]

honestly when i saw title and saw 4 at the beginning i thought it is next article from kaktusverse, but this one is good too

[@laggingdragons]

I like that you're using a different inflection for the journal, good job, my dude.

[@rammuertoanimations4664]

Great exploration on this one! Would love to get more deep dives on their bio-mechanical ships and other weaponries

[@FeedYourBrainChannel]

Thought this was gonna be a story about the administrator becoming supreme chancellor of the republic.

[@rickwrites2612]

Brilliant voice work as Taylor as he recognizes his fall from grace, bravissimo!

[@michaelandreipalon359]

Crikey! Right on cue! *checks title* Wait, am I on Star Wars? *later* Oh, no, more Sarkites.

[@phanCAbe]

Man that journal entry section was a tough listen, way too realistic. It was so real I wouldn't be surprised if I found out it was a modified version of a real journal....

[@grilledleeks6514]

Yeah just like when we buried the children of native Americans in order to grow adults in the new world.

[@TT-qw1bo]

Not sure what propaganda you've been exposed to but you've got a seriously warped version of history.

[@UnfictionEnthusiast]

@@TT-qw1bo Bro, colonization happened. I think its unrealistic in the way that the original colonizers DIDN'T feel this remorse and self hatred for their actions. If it was just "propoganda" I would be able to know who and what I am. But I can't. Because my ancestors history has been all but wiped because some white people got mad that they existed and wanted to "civilize them." Forced them to give up their culture and breed until the culture has been bred out. And it worked.

[@thebighurt2495]

"Slavery BAD." Wait.. is this guy even American? "WE MUST CIVILIZE THEM." Ah yeah. There it is.

[@KomradeCPU]

@@UnfictionEnthusiast oh the horror, as if it wasn't already happening in Central America by the Aztecs, or if the history of the old world wasn't based upon competition of nations for supremacy, creating in the first place the discrepancy in technology when whites discovered the natives. The most laughable aspect of your rhetoric is that the white man only got a true foothold by playing diplomacy with already rival tribes in the region, exploiting that. If you think all of indo americans were some kind of hippies, friendly dancing around, you must inform yourself better about your own history.

[@dimathebunsgann]

Loved the sneaky little nod to Moana. How Far They’ll Go indeed.

[@undercover_elk]

That one guy went full on chinese-sweatshop owner on that poor tribe. "The children will be worked to death untill the stonks reach infinity!"

[@esataleharbour3492]

Keep up the good work I love your content! Could you cover some of the Aces and Eights Canon?

[@TheMrBrosef]

"Self-determination under Foundation supervision" So not self determination? lol

[@xfom4008]

Well, they don't get to announce their existence to the world and do stuff that will reveal their existence to the world - but they can govern themselves without intervention and interact with the world with the foundation as the mediator. If someone wants to go ahead and travel, the foundation will provide that under condition that you don't go around preaching about Ion or showing tentacles to people. Wanna trade? Foundation already has a huge shadow economy, it can incorporate the Adytites into it as well. The Nälkä will be okay.

[@xavis_dad]

I'm glad I was taking a shower while listening to this...

[@ovs564]

I am too lol

[@mathieuleader8601]

the republic reminds me of Genosha from the X-Men comics

[@marinasaenz2756]

Bruh the William Walker reference. He even went so far as to try to invade Costa Rica, where I was born, but he was utterly destroyed. It's a national holiday here and all. As soon as I heard the name and Sonora/Baja California I KNEW, that was so funny and kudos to the writer for this reference, Walker was indeed and imperialistic and aggressive one so the influence and impact make sense.

[@chrisc3421]

I absolutely LOVE the voice you used for this. I could imagine the narrator perfectly.

[@michaelandreipalon359]

Not gonna lie, the narrator is just sounding a tad bit like Dr. Leonard Church during his verbatim. 54:29: And speak of the devil, somebody is actually saying THE QUESTION we all know and love.

[@sanityisrelative]

And now I cannot unhear that comparison. Does that make Ohashi Hargrove?

[@michaelandreipalon359]

@@sanityisrelative Thanks, I guess. *shrugs*

[@kjracz15]

This reminds of "civilized" groups/missionaries going into secluded tribes trying to reform into what they think is better. I'm always left with one thought, "Who the fuck are you to decide what's better for them?".

[@Catglittercrafts]

To be fair they lived in tents made of zombies.

[@sammykurtzy1056]

Well I mean the whole idea is you think your god or ideology is the supreme good, thus you believe that anything but that is evil or misguided and must be changed for everyone's sake, like dont you want to stop people doing bad things? Its perspective! :D

[@thebighurt2495]

@@Catglittercrafts Loath as I do to defend the actions of filthy Flesh-Shapers, may Mekhan have mercy on their wretched half-souls, I'm pretty sure they weren't using villagers for that. The fleshtents were probably grown for that purpose.

[@thebighurt2495]

@@sammykurtzy1056 Technically, the Sarkics would probably kill you for saying that.

[@Sluggadome_Rotunda_Bernardson]

30:35 “A child waived at me…I threw up.”

[@OskarHowell99]

Great story, bit unsure how he managed to take North Island, New Zealand in a single day. It's about the size of Tennessee