Philosopher Explains the Deconstruction of the West | ARC Vision Series | Os Guinness

[@hibernian87]

"They reach a civilizational moment when they lose touch with the inspiration that made them what they were". Perfect.

[@arc_conference]

So good

[@fallonmassey4714]

*Completely false! The greatest Civilizations, which were African, were destroyed through Climate Change!*

[@cr-iv1el]

They think they know better and everyone else is clueless.

[@tompommerel2136]

When a civilisation is in decline (but whoever has the abilities to know that this is ACTUALLY happening?), it has two choices: a determined fight for cultural survival as in renewal or the passive resignation to a replacement. Sadly, most people are not inclined to think for themselves, so perhaps civilisations fall because the majority believe that it is not worth fighting for. I know where I stand in this 'discussion'.

[@tagesleuchter]

Excellent short video summing up what the West is facing down at the moment. A call to rise to!

[@arc_conference]

Thank you!

[@geldeddonkey7320]

Succinctly put , the slow movement was scary , I did University during which I had no idea until the nineties with “social Justice “ (by another name.) It’s really only older people who can recognise the growth in context . PC seems to most a development of Democracy when it is bells tolling for it’s end. We need more people speaking to the topic , it is growing hopefully not too late. Thanks Os!

[@gzoechi]

To me it seems corruption is the main cause for losing inspiration. The more mature a society the more difficult it becomes to really build something and get rewarded. Corruption becomes the easier path but that only rewards the psychopaths and narcissists.

[@moggadah]

Well, we've had a massive globalization but yet we live like we're in separate systems. When you play an orthogonal game you're not stopped by the silo style regulations. People expect the silos to work as they used to, but that is hard to keep up. I grew up as a naturalist but have lived a life of the consumer. We need to shift focus.

[@shield-u8f]

I would suppose maturity entails rewarding up-and-coming talent.

[@gzoechi]

@@shield-u8f Perhaps "mature" is not the right word, but societies tend to follow a cycle and with mature I mean a state where there is not much progress possible anymore and requires rather a painful revolution before further change or progress is possible.

[@unit-16]

@@gzoechi I think you understand what's happening to us Gunter

[@valdencorr2861]

Corruption is as old as time. It is part of the human condition, that is why great thinkers developed moral codes and ideals to strive for, what ideals greater than themselves do people strive for in 2024? Exactly.

[@rimescraft]

As before So again, Into war We descend. Our kings are naked, All can see Accountability passed to you and me Misplaced trust in what is too low. Now we will reap what they sowed, Fearing what others can do to us, We must first do to them, A race to what end? An eye for an eye And so put on a blind tie, Don't be deceived by the lie, We must battle what's within, Rather than murder kin.

[@RickMacDonald19]

We; those that value the great historical lessons and wisdom, contributed to this decline by abdicating our civil responsibilities. Luckily ARC and many others have been educating us and a responsibile civil response is growing amongst the western masses.

[@beepboop7543]

Love Os! Thanks for having him on!

[@arc_conference]

You are so welcome! He's someone we could listen to for hours - and we did! There is more to come from him, stay tuned 👀

[@OpenHLZFocus]

Producer: is anyone deaf? This speaker deserves VERY respectful music, not bar piano. 🙏

[@michaelweston7742]

Excellent speaker and very insightful. We didn't arrive at this point overnight. It took decades of stealthy infiltration.

[@arc_conference]

Thank you!

[@robertdargan1113]

The style & volume of the music cheapens what is being said. People don't come here for over hyped and dramatised thrills, they come for considered knowledgeable information. Please lower the volume & choose less dramatic background music.

[@andyjones1982]

Wow you got a really harsh audience here. For what its worth, I didn't find the music distracting. There is another great clip somewhere of Os contrasting the American Revolution (traditional, skeptical, law-based and faith-based) with (the devil's counterfeit) the French Revolution (innovative, utopian, atheist, vengeful and chaotic).

[@AT-os6nb]

when trying to follow closely...the music of many videos including this one, is too loud and very distracting. it distracts from the video, were are not watching it for the music after all. low back ground music is fine but it needs to be LOW. THANKYOU, GOOD CONTENT..

[@ianandresen2326]

Fascinating! Would like to hear more! Thank you!

[@barbarataylor8101]

Such a great speaker

[@arc_conference]

He is isn't he... One of the great voices and minds of our time

[@zgobermn6895]

Excellently and succinctly stated! Os Guinness is always insightful!

[@arc_conference]

He is isn't he! It was such a privilege to sit down with him. More to come from him soon - watch this space!

[@henriquecamboim]

Music is too loud

[@jobilibalawa1008]

Music's fine with me

[@nicewhenearnedrudemostlyel489]

There's music?

[@markhughes7927]

Difficult to know how music of any kind may do anything other than divert attention from an exposition of ideas - baldly: it presents as …well…not very helpful!

[@ianbevins653]

Almost all “informational” videos on this YT platform contain music that is too loud and overpowers the point of the video; namely, the spoken word, the exposition of ideas - be they historical, current, or future-oriented. Which is a pity. But people brought up with background music while they read or study are “Pavlov-dogged” and, it seems, view comments like “music is too loud” as being puerile.

[@henriquecamboim]

@@ianbevins653 lol. Lmao even.

[@marcpadilla1094]

Very good. Cultural decline lacks the inspiration that created it.

[@jf7243]

Totally distracting music. Please re-issue!

[@angrytedtalks]

That's the cultural bit...

[@heatherross928]

Thank you.

[@ata5855]

if only we'd listened to Patton...

[@FEiSTYFEVER]

Didn't listen to Yuri either...

[@draoi99]

Marx had predicted that Communist regimes would arise as a natural progression in advanced industrialised capitalist countries. Instead, all of the Communist revolutions took place in undeveloped illiterate peasant societies. Gramsci and others figured that Marx's prediction didn't come true because the culture wasn't conducive to creating the conditions necessary for the Dictatorship of the Proletariat. There is no question that all educational institutions, from kindergartens to Universities have been taken over by a culture entirely alien to traditional Western culture.

[@legalmexican]

I didn't even notice the music.

[@stevenschilizzi4104]

This was already Arnold Toynbee’s great idea: the rise, decline and fall of civilizations. And the outcome depended on how a civilization responds to an existential challenge which, sooner or later, always comes up. If it rises up to the challenge by “reinventing itself”, then it survives, perhaps as a new, different civilization; otherwise, it is taken over and destroyed by another one or it destroys itself from the inside. It is worth reading Arnold Toynbee again in today’s context. Still very relevant. Perhaps an interesting analogy today is VOTING in countries where it is not just sham window-dressing: is it seen as a Right, a Duty or an Obligation? This varies of course across countries and across people within any country. But many people, perhaps especially younger people, seem to have forgotten that the RIGHT to vote, at least for certain categories, was won only after long struggles and much fighting, and not so long ago. For example, the right for women to vote, or people below 21 years of age. According to most analysts I've heard, the Brexit outcome was in large part the result of young Britons not bothering to go and vote, but few analysts themselves bothered to ask: why didn't the young Britons bother to go and vote? What signal is this sending? The *answer to this question* may reveal a lot about what (young) people *feel* about the world or the country they are living in. Obviously, this doesn’t hold only for Britons. And not only about voting.

[@robertmarmaduke9721]

We must 'reinvent ourselves' to live in flop houses and eat day old white bread with surplus 'cheese substance'. Mmmmm.

[@Sagittariuz912]

I‘m sorry, but the music is too loud

[@angrytedtalks]

I agree. I just keep visualising incredible chocolate creations by Amauray Guichon.

[@brycepalmer9383]

Yeah it’s not mixed well. You can tell a professional didn’t do it, but, just turn the subtitles on and watch it again. I’m sure they’re working with what they’ve got. I’m assuming there’s a way to donate to this group. Designate a donation specifically for sound mixing in their videos. That might help them. For now, subtitles and back to Os!

[@kleinesgespenst7481]

Brilliantly explained! But please turn down the volume of the music, the music is really too loud and distracting.

[@JAdams-jx5ek]

Well said.

[@emcarnahan]

Excellent

[@arc_conference]

Thank you!

[@MichL_71]

This is great, please do more of these. 👍

[@arc_conference]

Thank you! Will do

[@jorjicostava3018]

to think a grandma looking old man has the balls to call them by their names! i salute you OS!

[@arc_conference]

Love this comment! We salute you!

[@einherjar2545]

Great!!

[@arc_conference]

You're welcome!

[@Early8Q]

Fantastic! I have been coming to my own terms with my life, and I have been framing it with my time. Being educated, in the seventies and eighties, I am beginning to understand this. I am not sure that it isn’t more of a perfect storm in the US. The sixties in the US were the perfect place to ferment this “third revolution”. And seems to me that it is happening and has grown from the reactions of that period. The human condition has been feeding on the idea of the individual’s hopes above all else.

[@Erik_Aegir]

interesting but the background music makes watching almost impossible. Trust the material and the human voice

[@matthewdimarcantonio4627]

This is excellent and eloquent

[@brettmatthews8061]

There are those who believe the only options are to go backwards to our roots, or fall apart. But replacement with something better is always possible, as Os suggests. The seeds have been planted. What is new always frightens people because its true form is obscured by partisan rhetoric and extremists on every side. I'm optimistic!

[@valdencorr2861]

Go on and enlighten us what you think is better than universal truths given to us by our forefathers? Truths that will stand the test of time. Post-modernists are a cancer on the West, the moral relativism they promote is the death of society.

[@invino1475]

Spot on

[@theot4077]

Well done -- Thanks so much.

[@babbarr77]

To paraphrase Bob Dylan, “You don’t need a philosopher to know which way the wind blows.” All you have to do is walk down the street of a Blue city. Besides, I didn’t know there were any philosophers left. Have there been any of note in the past 30 years?

[@babbarr77]

Don’t say Jordan Peterson or I’ll puke.

[@andyjones1982]

@@babbarr77 Puke? Really?

[@andrewnelson3681]

Jordan Peterson. Mathew Crawford. Iain McGilchrist.

[@noel3830]

Iain McGilchrist. Rene Girard, - Jordan Peterson (just to help the guy who doesn’t get him)

[@babbarr77]

@@noel3830 thanks…I beg to differ about Peterson, but we need not fuss about it.

[@andrewsheehy2441]

Excellent analysis - bravo!

[@MasculinityMindset]

00:01 🌍 The West historically faced autocracy with resilience, but current challenges from autocratic regimes find the West in a state of confusion. 01:39 📚 Cultural Marxism, a concept stemming from thinkers like Antonio Gramsci and George Lukács, gained prominence in America through the Frankfurt School, influencing the New Left. 03:14 🏛 The strategy of a "Long March through the institutions" was adopted by radicals, aiming to gradually influence academia, media, and culture, leading to significant societal change over time. 04:24 💡 The West currently faces a crisis of civilization, lacking the inspiration and dynamism that historically defined its greatness.

[@Cerberus256]

But why deploy cultural Marxism? To what end and for what purpose? What's the desired outcome of societal destabilisation and for who's benefit? I feel this needs to be addresed more. Or is it more simply a predictable cyclical process for civilisations starting from the original inspiration that turn to the constant seeking of "betterness" to the point where it starts to devour itself like we are experiencing now?

[@FrogOf4Chan]

The why matters not, the American people have been complacent at the wheel of growing threats from within for decades, the why can be asked in dimly lit rooms after the lecture halls and libraries are forcefully vacated. The ugliness of these ideologies must be met with overwhelming force - lest it rise again in 50 years. I know my children will not have to fight what I chose to ignore because I will not ignore evil on my doorstep.

[@CosmicFreedoms]

What do you mean who's it for? For those behind the wheel of the movements. Global Socialists that desire authoritarian power have usurped the values of the nations they are in and hope to grab at power. No matter the result our nations, the Western ones, are very likely to result in some for of authoritarianism though "left" or "right" depends ultimately on force.

[@stanleyrobson4622]

It is a move straight out of the communist playbook. Spread marxist ideology to eventually bring about chaos and confusion in a complacent society to set the scene for a revolution. Then right on cue appears your benevolent marxist saviors to first receive your adulation, then you hand them all your rights so they may rule all with an iron fist!

[@sarahyip2825]

​@@FrogOf4ChanWell said...if only the number of Adults like your goodself outnumber the crowd of Children!

[@FrogOf4Chan]

@sarahyip2825 Good people/adults are terrified of the consequences of speaking publicly about their own normal political beliefs - let alone taking actions against the very people they're afraid of. The white pill is this - good people see the lighthouse from miles away and instinctively know what to do, my hope is that good people will rally around good leaders as we've done across history.

[@vonBottorff]

One of the greatest ironies of history is how communist economics has nothing to do with any of the other parts of communism. I was in Berlin back when the Wall fell and I attended a party given by the GDR minister of finance. There I got into a lengthy discussion with two ministry technocrats -- who basically said what they were doing was just one big input-output matrix, i.e., turning all of supply and demand into a basically cashless logistics system. And they had high hopes having finally got some computers. In the two or so hours not one Marxist slogan was uttered by them. This was New Years 1990 and shortly after the GDR was gone, but it stuck with me all right. So this "cultural Marxism" is just craziness propagated by crazy people. Even more ironic is yes, we are heading for this "communist" economy. It's inevitable.

[@alwaysfourfun1671]

Interesting! What I notice in the west in the last few decades, the rise of autocracy in the west, copying all the methods of other autocratic movements.

[@angrytedtalks]

Good to hear it explained in the historical context. James O'Brien on LBC flat out denied it was a real thing.

[@TheLeonhamm]

US Americans even today like to imagine that they - and the systems of governance they inherited and now impose - are part of a foundational culture and its civilised/ civilising expression. They are not, rather they an integral part of its now institutionalised dissolution. What we are currently living through, easily perceived though rarely discussed, is a crisis of faith, and a specific form of 'faith' not faith of some sort, in general: 'This inner rapprochement between Biblical faith and Greek philosophical inquiry was an event of decisive importance not only from the standpoint of the history of religions, but also from that of world history - it is an event which concerns us even today. Given this convergence, it is not surprising that Christianity, despite its origins and some significant developments in the East, finally took on its historically decisive character in Europe.' Benedict XVI, Regensburg Address, 2006. This crux is indeed a stumbling stone to many, even a cause for violent indignation in some, but it is a painful if necessary truth only to a few. And fewer still .. among those for whom the Americanist Heresy - going along to get along - is the new norm .. are the souls who dare to defend that decidedly odd crossing of paths at the point of moral reason. A cross once written into the history of mankind, and even all creation, often repudiated (not least by its own ministers), is against all the odds with us still us .. requiring us only to take it up as a light yoke that is sufficient to move heaven and earth simply by being what it is, an affront to man's preferred ways. 'To all that are at Rome, the beloved of God, called to be saints. Grace to you, and peace from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ. First I give thanks to my God, through Jesus Christ, for you all, because your faith is spoken of in the whole world.' Rom 1 : 7-8. The same .. yesterday, today and for each tomorrow - whether we like it or not. Keep the Faith; tell the truth, shame the devil, and let the demons shriek. God bless. ;o)

[@stephenpeppin5537]

This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth; but thou shalt meditate therein day and night, that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success. Joshua 1:8

[@MicheleDamato-co7vh]

I love how you guys sneak under the radar with a sweet talking older guy.... with a smooth voice but nothing worthy of anything but rhetoric.

[@user-nd4mc4kw7g]

succinct and to the point! brilliant summary

[@arc_conference]

Thank you!

[@jude175]

I think the music was perfect. Who composed it?

[@donaldturner5124]

Bravo! Bravo!

[@normdyer94]

Too short. There is a lot more about deconstruction that needs to be revealed.

[@johnburnett3942]

So well said. You paint a glum story. For the western world. So what is the answer. Strong leadership, better communication, cheaper food and utilities. Better education. Maybe all of them.

[@johnnynick3621]

Less government.

[@Bay0Wulf]

In 68’ in Massachusetts I was in 6th Grade a recognized I was being taught Anti Americanism in my “Civics and Government” class. I was 10/11 and could not believe what I was hearing. In 73’ in New Jersey as a Junior I sat in a required course called the “Red Scare” and listened to the teacher make McCarthy out to be a Devil Incarnate … a Revival of the Spanish Inquisition … and could not believe what I was hearing. How could it be that such Garbage was being taught? I took a couple tries at college but couldn’t stomach the Garbage of “Liberal Arts” and the Pure Socialism / Communism message being handed to me … to the other students. Over the years I often hung out with “Intellectual College Types” and simply couldn’t understand how they could be so utterly bereft of Intelligence as they sung the praises of Socialists and Communists … I’m a lot older now and I know what was wrought and how it was wrought upon My Nation. I see today’s degradation of Our Political, Religious and Social Outlook and I find that I am glad to have lived mostly in a time where this Garbage hadn’t managed to work itself into the limelight. I’m sure I will live at least a couple more decades and I find myself saddened to realize that I will likely live long enough to see the end of the “Shining City Upon the Hill” that is the Great American Republic. I hope this is not true but, like Bob Cratchett, I fear I am being shown the likely future by a grim spectre.

[@iainlonsdale6146]

Very interesting pity I could barely hear it over the background music

[@rebeccamcclellan5284]

Stop the effing music! It's louder than he's talking and it's very, very annoying and distracting. I had to stop the video. Not interested in watching the entire video now because of the music.

[@warriorpoet9629]

I think that’s a bit harsh gorgeous.

[@laurettascalzo6900]

Unfortunately, the voice is drowned out by the music...

[@saliksayyar9793]

So how is corporate capitalism oligarchy different from Communist party central control and view of humans as economic machines replaceable like machines

[@CarlosdeFrance]

Music too loud!

[@andyjames6664]

Kudos to the editor for making his job more important than the cultural disintegration of western civilisation

[@alfred-vz8ti]

prc is not an autocracy, xjp holds office because he has led china with outstanding success. he is technically a 'tyrant' if you wish to label him with conventional words. it meant 'champion of the people,' originally. prc has evolved into a socialist state, aiming for a mix of freedom to excel in commerce, with a floor on which the poorest can survive. great progress for what was '3rd world' 100 years ago. and better than most '1st world' countries now. the west is collapsing from combined over-population and poor distribution of social assets, particularly access to education and health care. there is no cure, this is the natural result of oligarchy which strangles every civilization. humanity might do better with democracy, insufficient examples to decide. but the paucity of examples suggests we simply can not get and maintain an egalitarian society. in the meantime, prc flourishes and western 'philosophers' are made to appear foolish.

[@dehe82]

Excellent vid, terrible choice of volume for the music

[@goa9034]

Where is the film???

[@emcarnahan]

This is it here. Short film. The description indicates this.

[@goa9034]

@@emcarnahan this 4 minutes?

[@emcarnahan]

@@goa9034 yes

[@peetstf6654]

Is there an example of a civilisation that has renewed itself?

[@angrytedtalks]

Yes, that is what the renaissance was. "Rebirth".

[@ihracatkocu]

Hopefully Anatolian Lands has got Atatürk. The great Leader who took all the necessary about the Roman, Turkish, Ottoman and Anatolian Civilizations and from a dying country has built the Republic of Turkey where anyone from all ethnic backgrounds can live together in peace.

[@bertolt136]

It would nice if the person lecturing us on this subject knew the meaning of the terms he's using. 'Deconstruction' does not mean what he thinks. Really, this is the problem of open media: people with little grasp of a subject nevertheless presuming to tell us all about it.

[@AlbertaRanch]

Now what?

[@randalltilander6684]

Historically, any attempt to return to the original source of inspiration creates a zombie civilization, devoid of force or purpose. Egypt has such a crisis with the emergence of Akenaten. After Akenaten and the restoration of the old pantheon, Egypt slowly descended into servitude. Ancient Rome had such a crisis with the emergence and demise of Julius Caesar. After Caesar, the Republic was dead; a monarchy emerged. The states of Ancient Greece had such a moment of crisis with the victory over Persia. After the Persian armies retreated, hegemony followed.

[@hexagram531]

I really don’t know about this. The speaker is a good and decent man. That is a different thing from a demigod who understands cosmic amounts of information and tells us inevitable overarching truths. To say, “Every great civilization has an inspiration or a dynamic through which it rises…” is not necessarily an absolute truth, but an assertion. (Did China ever have one, other than power and a sense of its own superiority? But it has undeniably been a great civilization, even if its totalitarian controls contain the seeds of its eventual inevitable destruction. Did the Romans ever have one? I hardly think the myth of Romulus and Remus, and a load of ambitious but corrupt emperors, and a bunch of deities they stole from the Greeks and renamed, could justifiably be described as sufficient to be the “inspiration or dynamic” of a “great civilization”.). To say that past civilizations have gone BECAUSE they reached a “civilizational moment” when they lost touch “with the inspiration that made them what they were” is another assertion. It’s a kind of storyteller’s summing-up, rather than being in the midst of the chaos of, say, squabbling rival emperors while barbarian hordes are invading from the east, which is a much messier and more realistic group of “explanations”. To say that there are now “three broad options” is another assertion, less complicated than a many-threaded possible set of futures; it seems to reduce things to “oh, never mind all that science and psychology, just go back to simple minded Christianity and pretend the last two hundred years never happened”, or have a “genuine solid replacement of the original inspiration”, which sounds like caving in to some future ideology/creed rather than us having all sorts of ways of exploring the universe and how to build more little bits of heaven on earth. Or decline - which sounds like a kind of superficial way of looking at the great civilization of ancient Egypt. Actually all of these civilizations leave behind legacies and descendants and have to cooperate in building better futures. Egypt won’t be great again by going back to building pyramids and having a new generation of Pharaohs, but by moving forward with all we learn collectively as a global civilization. It may become true in historical terms that we are on the edge of the collapse of, say, American civilization. But to BELIEVE that we are is quite possibly just another manifestation of the repeatedly demonstrated love of part of the subconscious for apocalypse. We are in a process of change, and I imagine it has many trends and strains and complications, not simple alternatives.

[@andyjones1982]

Someone please tell me that Os Guinness is not actually friends with Mike Johnson as Mike Johnson wants to claim. But only if it is true. Most of all please tell me Os Guinness still has his eye on our domestic weaknesses and has not fallen for the "foreign adversaries" distraction.

[@canoedoc2390]

Such a shame this thought provoking video was marred by the totally unnecessary music that was in the foreground, as opposed to the background.

[@thelaughingphilosopher2421]

The Catholic Church made The West. Only when The West turns back to Her, will there be Hope.

[@markhughes7927]

I think divinity is the essential consideration at the root of all civilisations - their character, their preservation, and their critical moments. The French Revolution and its spawn has/have coincided with a delusive period of rationalist scientist/materialism which has perhaps been an inevitable consequence of generalising the knowledge of calculus and coupling it with technology to produce effects which divert or appear to eclipse consideration of divinity. On this assessment perhaps all historical civilisations are in the same critical cusp at the same time but Christendom as the first having travelled furthest. p.s. presenting Putin - or his image - as representative of authoritarian socialism is mistaken I think - the Soviet system was imposed from without and Marx - also Trotsky - worked closely with Wall Street. Two points about Putin - 1) under his watch Christian Orthodoxy has bloomed in Russia with even a new cathedral recently built; 2) he has controlled the oligarchs and they are in harness with the Russian state (a metamorphosis of the old Russian people destroyed by the Soviets at every level) whereas the western oligarchs are rampant in their own interest and deliberately killing their own populations in many instances.

[@sedoff1948]

I agree with Henrique. Why the music? Other videos are worse but it seems to baffle me why a KZbinr feels the necessity of having background music. Perhaps universities should take up the idea in lecture halls. Elevators (lifts) and stores have always liked the idea. So maybe I’m wrong and shouldn’t be so captious.

[@1258-Eckhart]

Either I listen to music or someone's ideas, but not both.

[@rf9871]

I think most civs were destroyed by other invading civs, not losing inspiration.

[@anonymousprofessor8096]

The PLA is always shown marching for the simple reason they don't go round the world killing and maiming, so there's no other footage.

[@mayormccheese6171]

All these philosophers don't like talking about the elephant in the room, that this is all tied into the decline of western Christianity. It won't repair until we get our faith back.

[@anthonymorris5084]

Nope. The most successful nations are secular. The decline is due to the growing power of the Left.

[@mayormccheese6171]

@@anthonymorris5084 have you studied any history at all?

[@anthonymorris5084]

@@mayormccheese6171 Certainly, and I've watched Christianity ride the coattails of secularism and constantly try to take credit for the success of secularism. Secularism embraces critical thought, the foundation of Western success. Secularism embraces and adapts to new evidence. Christianity fails miserably at both of these things. Christianity in it's intransigence is dogmatic and unwavering in it's archaic and outdated demands and concepts. It's entire foundation is based on a lie for starters. Christianity is authoritarian, utilizes coercion and is intolerant.

[@christophernewman5027]

Please, let the words stand on their own. We don't need the music at all, we didn't come here to buy washing powder.

[@liquidusblue]

This is pretty sad. The long march has given me weltschmerz, why do people continue it.

[@urbanhagman2078]

Terrible background 'music'...

[@RichardMcSweeney]

"道可道非常道" {道德經 一}

[@martinomazic8334]

We are screwed.

[@Anonymous_Whisper]

I only like channels that i can comment on 😁😁👍

[@arc_conference]

Comment away! We are here for a conversation, not for dictation

[@roc7880]

the problem is that Russia before 17 was also an autocracy.

[@robertmarmaduke9721]

...because today you can see the rise of plutocracy, USA, UK, Isreal, Saudi...the Axis of Oilvil that has destroyed seven sovereign nations in 20 years, and now turns inward to feed on its own citizens... FIFY.

[@user-dv5sn2xv2y]

Socialism, evolution, liberation theology, development economy, and Communist Manifesto are the atheism.

[@nunomuacho446]

The west is confused because of the lower standards of living, we are poorer, things must be done in that front

[@TheMahayanist]

If this guy is a philosopher, my dad is a fucking rock star.

[@angrytedtalks]

Really? Which band is he in?

[@smashedhulk8492]

It's like he's trying to have a conversation while in an orchestral event.

[@gillian6526]

There's an interview which is well worth looking up of KGB defector Yuri Bezmenov. It took place in 1984, in which he describes 4 stages of ideological subversion, via universities. It's fascinating and explains how we got to be where we are with Marxism.

[@richardt.buryan832]

TURN OFF THE DAMNED "MUSIC."

[@ejenkins4711]

CGJ 5768

[@user-jk2hd4bh2z]

Complete rubbish. This is an argument for the continuation of the oligarchy of the past. This person ignores what has happened contemporaneously from the right.

[@minhearg8331]

Unfortunately, structuring a societal hierarchy around a democratic system is unnatural. The vast majority of nation-states don't do it, nor any other species in the animal kingdom.

[@karlwheatley1244]

Reduce the degree of hierarchy

[@yogayantra]

may I give you a b it of information: The European Union is going straigth towards TOTALITARIANISM as Hannha Arendt defined it. So please, come and see what happens in france, then live for a while in Russia, live for a while in China... then come back to conclude. I remind you too that our "values" (a word that has been used, oversuded, misused) do not match other parts of the world's values. We need to be a lot more humble. From someone who has lived in Asia for 33 years and is deeply shocked on going back to France once a year!

[@johndimick1767]

Yes, the music. What, no dancers? I'll just read the transcript.

[@francismcglynn4169]

“But God raised him up, having loosed the pangs of death, because it was not possible for him to be held by it.” Acts 2:24. The very idea that what an individual has experienced and come to understand throughout his/her life will be obliterated and have no value when he/she dies is offensive to almost everyone. Yet, it is only because of the revelation of God's activity in human history that Christians have come to believe in the Resurrection and life eternal. Those who have only a belief in a material existence can hope that what they have accomplished will continue and benefit others. Yet, even that hope is proven to be faulty due to the nature of humanity which always manages to transform what is good, true and beautiful into a degenerate form. Only those who recognize that all activity, which promotes the welfare and eternal good of all, is the activity of the Incarnate Word accept that, no matter what they seem to accomplish or fail to accomplish, if done for the pure purpose of loving God and neighbour will be redemptive and salvific.

[@MrMotorchild]

Sht. WTF with the GD music. It's a documentary DA not a GD musical... it's supposed to be educational not entertaining.

[@user-pd9pv6gj5i]

Stop all the idiotic loud music that drowns the speach.😢

[@ernesthood2647]

We are f**&ed !!!

[@Richard-gp5tg]

Just look at the rulers: Biden, Clinton, Obama. Of course we are in decline.

[@karlwheatley1244]

I thought you meant Reagan, Bush, Bush, Trump. But seriously, both DEM and GOP leaders have pushed a totally unhealthy, unfair, and unsustainable vision for human civilization. And one based on American empire.

[@HoboGodfrey]

Seems to be a mini Islamic authorization now.