The Decline of the West?

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[@southafricanizationofsociety20]

Oswald Spengler: “Really? You don’t even utter my name!”

[@zarathustra8424]

I guarantee this was recommended to me based on my deep history of Spengler videos. The algorithm yet another shitty cog in Goethe's Machine; bad blood we gave to the devil. lol

[@user-be9ey4jb3c]

We know it before Oswald born through our fathers of the orthodox church.

[@darev6780]

Oswald Spengler brought me here

[@nikolasbickerstaff2149]

Same

[@st.michaelsknight6299]

This is just driveling propogan

[@annieh2066]

This was recommended to me after watching a couple of Spengler videos, so me too 😂

[@st.michaelsknight6299]

@@annieh2066 Spengler was great.

[@joelgrosschmidt5507]

The lion may be proud, strong, and noble. But the rat and the roach will be around far after it is gone.

[@50centpb7]

So... Jews and Turks?

[@wolfsschanze7061]

@@50centpb7 yes

[@-xnnybimb-9398]

@@50centpb7 yes

[@benweaver5042]

@@50centpb7 Moronic racist

[@radthadd]

@@benweaver5042 doesn't make it untrue

[@007mia7]

Pride (& arrogance) always comes before the fall. #TickTock

[@falcongamer5867]

Not so much pride, it's the arrogance

[@levicarvalho4389]

Tiktok, nice pun

[@suspiciouslywell-behaved8624]

👏🏾

[@NotAn_NPC]

@@falcongamer5867 Great... Double the pride, Double the fall! -Count Dooku

[@dranirbanpal]

I'm surprised the printing press was not mentioned.

[@267abhishek]

Ok

[@billhiggins6176]

The list is endless. We should have never given our technology to other races.

[@connerwilson142]

I can't agree with the last point. Evidence has shown, as Ha-Joon Chang points out, that a work ethic is developed only after the economy has developed and industrialized. Thus, a work ethic is more of a result of industrialization rather than a cause.

[@MegaAssface]

Chang is right 100x for every one time Niall is.

[@UPandComingNow]

Decadence is the key to the decline, typified by millions living off the state and politicians playing to them and invading hordes, overspending, a house divided even in respect to foreign enemies.

[@shaunrosenberg4568]

Population is the problem. Asia and Africa are going crazy while people in Europe are refusing to have kids and have to deal with shrinking populations.

[@shaunrosenberg4568]

@@silvergriffin2585 It will be a world problem in the next few decades. People are too busy looking at the tree that they don't see the forest.

[@shaunrosenberg4568]

@@silvergriffin2585 I mean that the entire world is moving to a situation where declining populations will be the norm, instead of rising populations. Granted it will take some time. We will need to start thinking about how to deal with falling populations and get people to start having kids. But currently the people in the countries that have stable or falling populations are focusing so much on how fast the world population grew in the last century that they are looking past the fact that their countries is actually having issues because people aren't having enough kids to replace themselves.

[@shaunrosenberg4568]

@@silvergriffin2585 But for my original point, I do think birth rates is what killed Europe. France during the time of Napoleon had 5% of the world's population. That would be 350 million today vs 66 million. Any discussion that talks about the decline of the west that doesn't address this is missing the main factor in their decline.

[@nikunashi3494]

London hasn't changed then, underwhelming and unsanitary.

[@Austria88586]

The work ethic came from the Benedictines before the Protestant Revolution.

[@someone-wi4xl]

the fall of Cordoba and Andalus was a huge turning point lets be real here

[@MrPastaTube1]

Egalitarianism destroys hierarchy.

[@Confucius_76]

that's kinda the point of it

[@MrPastaTube1]

@@Confucius_76 And that's why people have to figure out what kind of hierarchy is good, so they don't destroy it.

[@shavingryansprivates4332]

@@MrPastaTube1 Capitalism is inherently hierarchical.

[@Prometheus7272]

@@shavingryansprivates4332 All civilizations are inherantly hiearchical

[@bernardoohigginsvevo2974]

@@shavingryansprivates4332No, it isn't. It views all individuals as being fundamentally interchangeable economic units. Sure, some people might be more intelligent or more talented than others, but that's why we have schools, so we can give everyone a fair shot at being wealthy.

[@thearchitect27]

I definitely do agree with this Harvard historian, although I'm an Easterner myself living in the West. I think one key, overarching element to this comparative history of the West vs. the "rest" was that because everyone else was living in such opulence and relative ease, there was no real reason to colonize and compete. I actually feel sorry for the masses of Medieval Europeans, who were exploited by their version of the elite 1 percent, similar to ours today here in America, while seeking riches of Asia, Africa and the Americas. One crucial rivalry was between the monarchy and the Christian church to dominate the hearts and minds of the lay people, in addition to the competitiveness of European civilizations. But let's not forget that prior to the scientific revolution and the Renaissance of Europe, which I totally agree took place and was absolutely necessary to propel Europe into the future, the Islamic Golden Age was the predecessor for all of this new knowledge flowing throughout Europe during the "Age of Enlightenment", particularly after the two centuries of Crusades. You cannot analyze European history by taking it out of context with the rest of the world. I'm not sure if the West itself is actually in decline, because many of its institutions will still be upheld by future generations of migrants from Africa and Asia. However, changes in demographics are a real problem. Europeans are aging quickly and their younger generations are simply not having enough children to preserve their culture, and many younger Europeans are leaving their homelands for better opportunities abroad. We truly do live in a multi-polar world, and if civilizations do not adapt with the changing times, they will certainly get left behind...

[@fatimatuzzahra4036]

You are mostly right, but birth rates are plummeting all over world! even in middle eastern and asian women- and for good- they lag behing european curve by 30-50 years but it will reach level soon! The demands of modern and easy life force atleast the educated urban populace to have less kids.

[@Andy-ph6mf]

lol the middle east & east asia routinely had different established empires that were colonial/expansionist. your 3rd sentence being that deluded on such a simple thing means the rest of what you write is likely worthless.

[@someone-wi4xl]

@737PilotDocSportelloLovesShastaFay and those you mentioned also "stole" it from the Semites and their ancient civilizations whom are the backbone of Islam and other Abrahamic religions but in reality there is no "stealing" people adopt things from each other and improve on it, deal with it even the west has risen after the fall of Cordoba and after the translation of 1000's of books written by Muslims / Jewish and Christians scholars living in the Caliphate especially Al-Andalus some books were taught in universities till the late 1800's and early 1900's just to give you perspective on their impact !

[@MilanElan]

I fear for European peoples everywhere

[@bingerasder6466]

>this comparative history of the West vs. the "rest" was that because everyone else was living in such opulence and relative ease, there was no real reason to colonize and compete holy mother of copes

[@inaede]

1. Competition 2. Scientific revolution 3. Citizenship based on property ownership and representation 4. Modern medicine 5. Consumer society - textile 6. Work ethic

[@withnail-and-i]

Most of those things happened after colonialism, but yeah, the geology made it so there was never a unified power in Europe, unlike middle Eurasia or China, and so competition between countries is what enable Colombus.

[@withnail-and-i]

@user10 You're apparently not able to read. I said that most of that happened in the era of colonialism, which happened to Europe rather than China because of the geological factors that differentiate them. Please educate yourself by reading the classic Guns Germs & Steele.

[@withnail-and-i]

@user10 No we don't have it backward, your ignorance is seeping, and you did not understand my point. You said it's "due to" colonialism when I say it was incidental to, you have proved to have the reading level of a 10 years old, so permit me to laugh at your assessment of Jared Diamond while you're hating in your basement. I'm out, hillbilly.

[@withnail-and-i]

@user10 But hey one looks at the tendency of your subscription list and understand it directly. Have fun in the double digit IQ club!

[@withnail-and-i]

@user10 You're not able to read my initial comment, and bring no evidence to back a theory of macro history to explain events of micro history. It is you who isn't able to have a rational discussion really, you're a little troll who came with insults rather than arguments.

[@DocUnsane]

Did you listen to what he was talking about at all? He was listing things that made the west dominant over the last 500 years....

[@RealShamanX]

What we're experiencing right now is not a 'decline', but rather a coordinated take-down of our civilization and a transfer of power and wealth. Better start acquiring assets outside of the dollar system whose value will survive this transfer.

[@Bluudclaat]

Genuinely funny in parts !

[@simontmn]

The obvious question is what had previously given rise to the start conditions ca 1400 where 6 "killer apps" arose in short succession in Western Europe. The most plausible theory I've seen is the Catholic church's radical outbreeding programme, with a contribution from Manorialism - for centuries, only couples of proven probity would be granted manorial land by the lord or reeve and be able to marry and raise children.

[@craignunnallypurcell]

The Chinese Communist Party owns all the property does it not ? Long term leases may be a form of provisional ownership.

[@fennomanzoomer9547]

"Pseudoscience of race" Race in itself isn't pseudoscience. The way racialism was addressed in the video might be, but in reality the concept isn't.

[@johngrace320]

I know total cucked history right there.

[@ooDirtyMickoo]

It's peoples way of justifying egalitarian politics by pretending intelligence research is settled and we know all human groups have identical brains on aggregate when there's nothing in the scientific record to substantiate that. The real pseudoscience is presupposing all races are the same in intelligence.

[@johngrace320]

@@ooDirtyMickoo Exactly. Ferguson is so wrong. It's because he's married to a black woman he of course will say that the biology of race has no foundation.

[@honoraryanglo2929]

There’s no actual basis in race, at least in terms of how it’s defined today, it’s more social than biological, you can differentiate many different genetic groups in the continents which is what we usually describe as race, for example Northern Africans might be more genetically similar to Southern Europeans than they are to Subsaharan Africans, race doesn’t really exist, or at least what we traditionally define as race, that comes more from social values

[@ooDirtyMickoo]

@@honoraryanglo2929who cares if certain cross-racial haplogroups share massive amounts of genetic info. The point is human groups vary genetically. And in some cases we were separated in isolated gene pools for upwards of 40,000 years. Quibbling over what is "white" or "black" doesn't really matter. What matters is if there is a substantial genetic contribution to the test score gaps, higher criminality, and wealth inequality we see between the currently understood racial categories. Nobody has a clear answer to this.

[@ddd-ly3rv]

Culture is the way society performs. So society hasn't stop performing it is just in competition?

[@TheKovosh]

So, disovery of the American continent had nothing to do with the growth of the west, right?

[@MadKingJorge]

The Romans? The Vikings? etc. We learnt a lot from being everyone's punching bag, built up armies and ran tribes against one another. I don't think it had an awful lot to do with the city of Manchester.

[@Prometheus7272]

The core of our culture is the viking instinct to explore and trade

[@ankeralaphelt9991]

Very interesting and concise elaboration which I largely agree with. However, the west and east no longer can be delineated so conspicuously anymore. I don't think anyone would disagree with the observation that we have but one world civilization and as the erudite professor makes clear the six killer aps are used by the world over save about 46 indigenous tribes that have still managed to remain largely unadulterated by modernity. So is neoliberal capitalism, consumerism, and western civilization on it's way out? Yes, most definitely. A few facts will make this clear: 1) soil nutrient depletion, erosion, and salination- maybe 50-60 harvests left with current industrial practices 2) peak oil- globally we are using now about 93 million barrels of oil per DAY which is about 4-5% of our proven conventional petroleum reserves 3) pollution- are fetuses are stewing in a broth of hormone disruptors, organohalogens, and estrogen like compounds. 1/6 new couples now seek reproductive medical assistance and 90% of the sperm cells of young men (especially rural men) are deformed and aberrant. 4) Over fishing- We are destroying life in the oceans and our major fisheries will collapse in 30-35 years 5) Global Warming and Climate Change- We've heated the world to such an alarming degree that major planetary waves (AMOC & ENSO & Gulf Stream & jet stream) have now been disrupted and the Earth System is going through a state change 6) The Arctic is melting rapidly and within about 20 the Arctic Ocean will be ice free every summer 7) The demographic trap along with over pumping of our fossil water have catapulted population far beyond the Earth's carry capacity 8) The rise of affluence and consumerism in Asia will add additional strain to Earth's systems as they start to consume more animal protein and buy automobiles 9) Important mineral resources are being depleted rapidly 10) The Hadley Cell is moving and desertification is unstoppable 11) Extremely fast biodiversity and habitat loss- SIXTH MASS EXTINCTION 12) SEA LEVEL RISE OF 1 METER NOW Is a possibility by 2060 13) 450 expanding dead zones in the ocean 14) Mass die offs 15) Massive deforestation, millions of acres of dead or dying trees, and raging summer firestorms 16) 95% of Alpine glaciers are melting- many western SA cities which have depended on glacial melt for agriculture will be bone dry in 20 years or so 17) The photosynthetic ceiling will be reached in about 30 years. 18) 100s of millions of refugees in the near future and political turmoil as nation after nation fails. The party is over. We must now demand that governments tell us the truth and organize a Marshall like plan to cool the Arctic to buy us time, seed the oceans w/ iron, and move people back to the land where they can become independent by growing their own food. We must enact land reform, employ millions to revitalize the soil via biochar, and reforest the planet. We don't have much time left- we are now fighting for our existence. It is clear that industrial society as now formulated today is killing the planet...we go extinct along with millions of other species this century if global temps hit 6 C which will probably happen before the end of this century. With our current rates of deforestation and emissions we will race past 550 ppm CO2 as methane skyrockets to levels well beyond 2000 ppb by 2050. In this time we must also produce 60% more food...it will probably be impossible. Given the state of our soils, extreme weather, drought, and looming phosphorus depletion, grain production by 2050 may be reduced by 1/2. The US now feeds 1.2 billion. How will we feed an additional billion let alone 2 billion? We will also be running out of diesel to power all aspects of industrial life- mining, transportation, agriculture, etc. No diesel, no combines, dump trucks, loaders, garbage trucks, 18- wheelers, etc. No viable liquid fuel can yet replace diesel and neither do we have the technology to remove CO2 from the atmosphere at scales necessary enough to avoid starvation. We must return to the land...one way or another...better sooner than later.

[@AndroAlien52]

You are definetly right that the planet will go through some pretty extreme shit a lot sooner then people realize. However the current living conditions of humans are extremely good in developed nations. Humans going extinct within 100 years is impossible unless there is mass biological and/or nuclear warfare. Humans can adapt to new situations extremely well and are also super resourceful when they need to be. If nothing is done by governments to actually fix the problems you have outlined billions will probably die, but extinction is still very far off for humans considering how adaptable we are.

[@QUINT34577]

the title should have been the "Rise of the West"

[@Driftwoodgeorge]

What about colonialism?"

[@johnnydi2231]

What about, GET FUCKED, you stupid ass?!

[@tahaammari2094]

Well that was unnecessarily hostile

[@Emcfree2084]

@@tahaammari2094 yeah its disgusting when people claim one race was responsible for all the issues of the modern day and help encourage violence against us. Very unnecessary.

[@tahaammari2094]

Well I was talking about the "get fucked" comment, but what you're describing is also a bad thing

[@wezzuh2482]

Colonialism emerged as a result and in tandem with, the things he listed. In order to conquer the world a civilization must have something that gives it an edge over its competitors and that requires explanation, which the video is (partially) an attempt to do.

[@theexpert758]

Woah based? Redpilled even?

[@Prometheus7272]

Closest thing we'll get from the normies

[@karabomothupi9759]

The first point is very important

[@pjviitas]

Thanks...very interesting presentation

[@hydrolito]

Of course you need to have more than one set of clothes who wears a swim suit to walk in the snow.

[@sabrinashahab795]

Weakness in governance existed every where . Actually the rest of the world was more volatile than Europe , may be apart from China and Japan . They also must had their internal rivaliries . India became volatile after Muslim conquest . There were also huge independent business and trade operating all over the world which declined or was forced to decline after Western colonism .

[@larryrichardson6478]

Well I hope I would be more impressed and I am with this video

[@tritium1998]

Geography and literacy helped.

[@thijsjong]

1. Competition. between cities, nations, cooperations, guilds, failed monopolies 2 scientific revolution 3 citizenship representation of property owners leading into democracy. 4 medicine 5 consumer society 6 Work ethic.

[@ReturnOfTheJ.D.]

Most infrastructure projects can't go ahead in the West due to private ownership of land and buildings. Just saw a story about a couple who'd lived in the same house almost 60 years bemoaning the building of a major highway that would benefit tens of thousands of people in their city every day. They are the reason for bizarre travesties like the US having no high speed rail between major capitals. Putting the financial well-being of a tiny few above the needs of the multitudes leads to infrastructure unable to keep up with population growth and house prices that result in outmigration of the locals an inmigration of the Third World masses. This is why China is outstripping the US economically - they would never tolerate such arrogance and self-indulgence.

[@Edwardsblackk]

@@ReturnOfTheJ.D. the Chinese government is very different form the US

[@jasonwu91430]

no.7 imperialism

[@JasonFuller]

You don't think Asia had imperialism as well?

[@johnnydi2231]

You're kidding, right?! Because like the 1st thing that he did was attack us about "colonization" or whatever-the-fuck! It's bullshit, and these lefty retards should not be allowed to teach & spread their bullshit, because they are clearly not qualified! Now they've got East Asians falling for this shit? Really?! A bunch of 1 sided, misconstrued lies, to help the globalist conquer everyone while they're divided, and the intelligent people are fighting for their lives! That's all.

[@____8077]

Funny how he avoids that entirely

[@olumorganjoe]

@@johnnydi2231 maybe you white supremicist should actually go to school and learn to be teachers. It's no one fault but your own that higher educations is dominated by liberals and not conservatives.

[@bernardoohigginsvevo2974]

Imperialism was an aftereffect, and it was not exclusive to the West at the time. The five civilizations he mentions at the outset were all non-Western empires.

[@siulgonzalez]

How English it is to think of themselves as the center of the universe, or at least of the west. Please study Spanish history. For instance, in 1188 the king of León already signed a constitution with representation from the people and limited powers. And it was Portuguese and Spanish men who explored and conquered most of the world. In fact, England did well the industrial revolution and trade, but before that it was not leading the west at all.

[@franksmith16]

Don’t mind him, the English have always been this way

[@renderlessgames]

Now it's America

[@pedro.bergamo]

Funny also how he skipped completely Athens, Rome, Florence. Those cities were not important at all for the development of the west.

[@marcv2648]

@@franksmith16 He's not English. He's Scottish.

[@marcv2648]

He has white guilt, so he will dismiss the centuries of achievements of the rest of Europe in an attempt to say Europe was just a lucky lottery winner with industrialization, and no different from any other civilization.

[@levicarvalho4389]

Yes it is the end, simple as that, we're fucked

[@johndesade126]

THough he 'rambles' this is what I got out of this vieo: 1 - Competition, political and economic 2 - Scientific Revolution (or Autonomous cities?) 3 - Idea of citizenship based on propety ownership; Rule of law in a law system made by property owners' representatives 4 - Modern medicine 5 - Consumer society: the demand for spices and clothing, leading to the development of the manufacturing factories 6 - Max Weber: Die protestantische Ethik und der Geist des Kapitalismus(1904-05; The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism), the work ethic coming from Protestism but not confined to just Protestantism Anyone understand him better?

[@SuperGreatSphinx]

"The greatest disease in the West today is not TB or leprosy; it is being unwanted, unloved, and uncared for. We can cure physical diseases with medicine, but the only cure for loneliness, despair, and hopelessness is love. There are many in the world who are dying for a piece of bread but there are many more dying for a little love. The poverty in the West is a different kind of poverty -- it is not only a poverty of loneliness but also of spirituality. There's a hunger for love, as there is a hunger for God." - Saint Teresa of Calcutta

[@dogeeen]

Stella Maris Hunger As a matter of fact the silence isn’t deaf so there’s no need to shout or to be quiet or even to be Since the silence doesn’t need us and cannot be known that which isn’t the head spins from the volumes of knowledge and the hunger never ends if for the god than for nothing - really if not for the god than what? ~Lu~

[@blank4227]

yeah if you're quoting "saint teresa" you obviously don't know too much about her. she was horrible

[@Mijn24]

Spot on

[@BarriosGroupie]

There's also the mild climate which makes work possible through out the year.

[@kareemsweiti5478]

I completely agree with the competition aspect you talked about. The west's development was fueled by competition. Unlike the rest of the world. For instance, Muslims. When Muslims were united they had an empire from Spain to the borders of China and were dominant over all other empires in almost every aspect; economically, militarily, politically, and etc. An example of this is when the Abbasid Empire was in decline, other very powerful Muslim empires emerged such as the Seljuks and the Fatimids, but the Islamic World was not fully united and these powerful Muslim empires were short-lived and were replaced by other Muslim empires. Shortly before the First Crusade, the Islamic World was in political chaos (although the Golden Age was still going and many discoveries and inventions were made, and Muslims were still powerful). The weak and fragile European states took advantage of the state and started the crusades. Then in the Second Crusade when Muslim Empires allied they were successful. Same with Salahuddin Al Ayoubi (Saladin), the Muslim world was in political chaos, so he united the falling Fatimid empire and most of the Zengid territory, the Muslims were united and were satisfied with the new dynasty, and Saladin turned the area into a military and economic powerhouse it previously was. He was very successful in retaking many lands and was able to prevent the crusaders from taking Jerusalem in the Third Crusade. The Ayyubids were replaced by the powerful Mamluk Sultanate which defeated the Mongols, and when the Mamluks were weakened, the very powerful Ottoman Empire replaced it and united Muslims from Northern Africa, Anatolia, Arabia, Eastern Europe, Caucasus, and etc. The Ottoman sultan's role as caliph which started in the early 16th century gave him power over Muslims all around the world, for instance, the Aceh Sultanate (in Indonesia) was an Ottoman Protectorate. The Muslims from the Mughal Empire looked at the Ottoman Caliphs as their Caliph and the head of the Islamic worlds. Muslims were united for the last time and although the Ottomans and the Mughals had problems with Safavids, the 3 Gunpowder empires (Ottomans, Mughals, and the Safavids) were the 3 most powerful empires at their peak because they united Muslims. I must note that there were other powerful Muslim Empires that were powerful but did not unite the whole Muslims, rather they united Muslims in a specific region, such as the Delhi Sultanate (the Sultanate that was able to defeat the Mongols), and the Timurids. On the other hand, Britain and France for example became powerful due to their competitions, such as the ones in Northern America and Africa.

[@colonelcustard.9883]

You've gave a long story but it's only on the perspective of one side. The western European people didn't have a modern style news service that gave information from journalists living in the Muslims empire. They didn't hear reports about Muslim countries being in chaos and decided to take advantage. The Normans had taken many older kingdoms and Normanised them, becoming powerful. They were united under the church of Rome. When the byzantine empire asked the pope for help to defend it from the Muslim Turks , the Norman kings and Knights saw an opportunity to RECLAIM land that had been Christian and build new kingdoms for wealth and power.

[@Saracen1786]

Very well articulated.

[@wezzuh2482]

True. The reason the muslim world had such trouble fighting off the crusaders was not because of military inability but because the muslim world was so disunited and struck by infighting.

[@rosesprog1722]

It's greed, Europeans traveled the world for the riches they could plunder and profit from, unfortunately they also had a superiority complex that allowed for the worst genocides in humanity's history to be perpetrated in the name of god, king and country. Superiority? Okay but on the material side only, kindness and humanity were certainly not part of the equation.

[@withnail-and-i]

All human civilizations who gain power are like that, it was just a matter of right time right place for the Europeans. Just before that era all exploration was stopped in China because of that era's ruler's decision. Europe, because of its geology, never had a in its history a unifying ruler, unlike China, so Colombus could shop around rival monarchs to get his project funded. Could have been any other powerful organized society from the old world, such as the Ottomans.

[@rosesprog1722]

@@withnail-and-i That's the problem, some nations see power as a means to create, invent,l experiment and use it all to benefit the citizens. Others see power as the perfect reason to invade, destroy and kill as much as possible, all for profit and greed. The era of European colonies is filled with the worst crimes and genocides and honestly, it's a European thing, Japan, China and many others didn't want contact with these strangers and what happened? You can go almost anywhere in the world and you will find traces of Euro brutality.

[@seraphim-kpopdreamcorpsear5255]

Clown.

[@khr957]

“Euro brutality”. indeed, euro is far more brutal than dollar 😂

[@PonyPhuckcast]

Yeah but the thing is your 'killer apps' are proximate explanations and not ultimate ones. Ultimately genes in environmental contexts caused it all (and even beyond that the laws of physics in our physical universe), it is all a result of biology, and especially the theory of evolution. Europeans had the kinds of genes that caused them to do what they did, which was conquer, expand, invent, and anything else to do with their culture. Same is true for any other ethnicity or race but in different ways. Let's also point out that things like race and ethnicity, they refer to collections of genes that are traceable and that cluster, and these genes cause the kinds of phenotypes we can observe. Let's not forget to mention that yes these things are real and that they play a role in what we are as humans, including our moral views, political views, our personality characteristics, essentially everything that we are. You can not simply ignore them or pretend they don't exist, because ultimately they are here and they are causing things inside of you right this very second.

[@tendy6993]

I like the view of history like this.

[@jesseball4764]

Wow I read his book the war of the worlds. Possible the best 20th century war book of all time. There is so much detail and information in that book that it's mind blowing

[@stormyweathers9887]

Not only it's anything but mindblowing, it's really sad that such professional bullshitters can fool the likes of you! He conveniently sidelines the fact that guilds of London didn't have f..k all to offer the Chinese for their silk and porcelain, and exchanging gold for such products was driving the British Empire into bankruptcy! Advances in tackling contagious diseases by developing vaccines had very little to do with the might of gunboats blowing Chinese junks out of the South China Sea in the two opium wars!

[@edwardnygma3216]

We've all got to die someday, you've just gotta choose by who.

[@georgsimon1102]

isn't it cute, what he "has" to say here...

[@NotShowingOff]

Farming and geography.

[@josephsuazo5210]

Psychological warfare, military dominance and economic dominance.

[@willnitschke]

They aren't explanations, LOL. The causes of such dominance are the explanations.

[@patricksampson2944]

I think he made this up.

[@Chiefab22]

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[@bobcornwell403]

I think a lot of this is nonsense. The West took over the world because it had the best killer, killer apps--better war ships, and better guns. All of this technology was developed in the West, because before they started killing and conquering the rest of the planet, they were busy killing and conquering each other. Nothing gets one to try a new technology like a good war does. Along with technology comes its smarter twin--science. It appears to me that all civilizations routinely exploit others weaker than themselves. And white, European ones are no exception. If they are anything, they are shining examples.

[@TheSaltyAdmiral]

He ain't wrong, but he is a bit on the biased side here, only pointing out the positive "apps" that helped us. I agree with all of his points, but I think he purposefully left out an important 7th killer app: *_Violence._* Many westerners think of imperialism as just one big happy voluntary trade agreement with the rest of the world, but in reality it was often about achieving dominance through violence. Imperialism was not exactly "free trade", if it was, our "dominance" would be diminished quite a bit.

[@SurfbyShootin]

Decline of the West, Rise of *the Tribe.*

[@CaptainMartinWalker]

Lol good luck remaining white

[@dananicolay5530]

What about firearms?

[@GeorgiosMichalopoulos]

This is crude beyond words...

[@QUINT34577]

so what...

[@jesusm.candelario2859]

This human is in love with his voice.

[@briankaul1201]

He definitely likes himself quite a bit.

[@clandestinereactionary1842]

Jealous?

[@iraaus]

Jesus M. Candelario It is common queens English way of speaking.

[@jimdevalk]

So am I

[@CarlosN2]

So am I as well

[@DidivsIvlianvs]

Personal intellectual property rather than the state appropriation of it lead to incentive. That is #1. Don't underplay racism and nationalism. These spurred competition. Diversity and multiculturalism kill it, resulting in being subsumed by masses who are a dead weight to progress. The West has expanded to the whole world, first Japan, now China. The West is universal. There are some however who hate the West because of their failure to prosper in it. They become teachers and politicians dedicated to undermining the West and bringing others down to their level of mediocrity.

[@vade7424]

This guy said a truckload of words with no meaning. What really set everyone apart from the west was Christianity.

[@view1st]

Is that just of the Catholic and Protestant kind or does it also include Orthodoxy of eastern Europe, Russia and Byzantium?

[@Austria88586]

How do you omit the Catholic Church?

[@againstdrivingdrunk614]

Me no understand why west "science guy" kids no believe in story? good story no?

[@Mattimo777]

I am a realist, although i support traditional Christian values, I believe that socialism is the answer to failing capitalism

[@CornerTalker]

a realist and a Christian maybe, but certainly not a historian.

[@HateTheIRS]

Have you seen the USSR, Cuba, China, Vietnam, Cambodia, North Korea, the eastern bloc?

[@thecrusader1095]

@weißer Ritter was germany really a "socialist" country though? It seems that they just called themselves that to attract left wing voters.

[@user-td3ut4tg3v]

Really We Chinese believe it too 😀(he socialism part of cource

[@view1st]

And what are traditional Christian values? Persecution of heretics, blasphemers and non‐Christians, systemic misogyny, suppression of women's rights, support of patriarchy, holy wars and inquisitions, support of racism, classism, casteism, royalty, aristocracy, the status quo and justification of slavery, imperialism, colonialism, capitalism, fascism, as well as opposition to innovation, learning and science.... That's what I think of when I hear people speak of traditional Christian values.

[@Citizen_X.]

The West is and will still be the leader as long as it attracts the brightest minds. This is its biggest edge as the brightest engineer or a scientist in China or India still dreams of studying in a Western university. The talent pool in the West, especially the US, is immense because of this and it shows in the number of modern inventions still originating from there, no matter the race of the person behind it. When this stops or gradually fades the true decline of the West will begin.

[@TheKovosh]

Those so-called talents wont do anything to the west. They will add nothing long-term and leave sooner or later. West's declines starts when its people turn their back on it.

[@HungerSTR1KE]

I love that you pointed out the dark side of medical advancement as the justification for racism and the creation of the idea of race. There definitely is a dark side to the progress.

[@joebloggs1321]

Who behind it,

[@MegaAssface]

Niall is one of the most ridiculous and consistently wrong academics in the world.

[@ishanbansal3560]

Yup

[@DipakBose-bq1vv]

Sprit of capitalism is the Imperialism, without which there would be no Industrial Revolution in Britain. The Industrtial Revolution was financed by the LOOT from Bengal by Clive and his East India Company, which these British historians ignore. Capitalism means Imperialism, these two cannot be seperated. Even today it is going on. The USA, the UK, and France are invading one country after another on behalf of The West and occupying these countries as the only barrier against Imperialism, the Soviet Union, does not exist any more.

[@timothypfalzgraf7758]

Not impressive. That guy teaches at Harvard? What joke. He just wasted my time.

[@gsg6372]

He's a Harvard professor who also teaches "Critical Race Theory"

[@gsg6372]

@Jesus él McNuggetCunt "Critical Race Theory" is nothing but Anti-White hatred. I have no time for hatred of an entire group of people... No

[@levicarvalho4389]

The real question should be now what will happen with the Chinese domain over the world. I don't think it will last for long, there will be a huge cultural clash somewhere this century

[@tritium1998]

It's just you crying about the world for not all being your domain obeying you. Nothing you can do about Chinese culture for existing let alone succeeding.

[@zhengyangwu8289]

For me it is very simple: The idea of the individual freedom, and all the political means to secure it. This is the absolutely most important thing that made the Western culture superior. And within the same Western world, the counties that believe in individual freedom more have also been superior to those that believe less in it. Therefore it is the UK that dominated the world for so many years and gave birth of the US but not France, Spain, or Germany.

[@Cosmicwanderer101]

He did not mention the moorish influence I wonder why

[@blank4227]

AYO

[@honoraryanglo2929]

I’m not really surprised to see so many neo nazis in the comments

[@quaintdeliveries247]

he didn't mention the killer app of the art of mass murdering others...that's what really got them most of their wealth...income as he calls it...stealing is a kind of income

[@quaintdeliveries247]

happy to have my view validated. tyvm.

[@rajanikanth8263]

north america , ,south america, australia ,most of asia ,africa .....all tht to maintain the quality of their life

[@oliviastratton7097]

Quaint Deliveries How exactly do you think the Oriental empires came into being? Was all that land and wealth just donated to them?

[@brianchristopher3816]

Genghis Khan. Individually responsible for murdering more people than Hitler, Stalin, and Mao combined.

[@jimdevalk]

Slavery and murder are outcome, not input.

[@ThatOneScienceGuy]

He’s cute.

[@feelmehish8506]

Beijing was clean? Where the hell have you been living?

[@aleksandarmijatovic7805]

And what about genocide in america, asia and africa, and what about looting of the rest of the world

[@rosesandsongs21]

Very interesting but I would also add better sicker weapons and the lack of ethics and conscience needed to use them, as in smallpox infected blankets, poisoned gasses in WWI, 'depleted' uranium in Irak, etc, etc... In other words, the genius for genocide as opposed to the generalized search for knowledge of other more peaceful and unsuspecting civilisations.

[@fliegeroh]

Oh please Mr. "politically correct" idiot. Spare us. Why don't you read a little real history instead of your Marxist propaganda. Fool.

[@thecrusader1095]

"Smallpox infected blankets" is made up story. Funny thing is, the mongols deliberately infected Europeans with the bubonic plague during a siege, yet whitie still gets the blame.

[@CBaule-wm2xv]

No, it was the transatlantic slavery.

[@globalnomad1221]

global IQ differences....

[@smartwork7098]

There's not much difference in IQs of people around the world.

[@globalnomad1221]

@@smartwork7098 - have you done any research into it?