What Can We Learn from the Ancients?

By competition winner: Russell Walter
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[@drraoulmclaughlin7423]

'As Tiberius Gracchus was passing through Tuscany on his way to Numantia, he observed the lack of native inhabitants in the country. The people who tilled the soil or tended the flocks were foreign slaves..... Tiberius took a stand and pleaded for the poor: "Consider the wild animals that roam over Italy. Every one of them has a burrow or lair to inhabit. But the men who fight and die for Italy, will enjoy its common air and light, but have nothing else. They have no houses or homes. They wander about with their wives and children. And their Commanders lie when they call upon the soldiers in battle to defend their tombs and shrines from the enemy. For not a man among these soldiers has a family altar. Not one of all these many Romans has an ancestral tomb. They fight and die to support others in wealth and luxury. And although they are called ‘Masters of the World’, not even a single clod of earth belongs to them." (Plutarch, Life of Tiberius Gracchus, passages 8-9).

[@vorynrosethorn903]

I was not expecting to see you here at all, love your channel, glad to know you're on our side of things, though it seems like historians generally are more so than people from any other academic subject.

[@JohnDeerePhilosopher]

That point about familial altars and tombs is very Fustel de Coulanges.

[@ThunderChunky101]

Shame their answer was communism.

[@jjcustard6378]

I like your comment, so I have subscribed to your channel, thanks

[@hibernianperspective6183]

Hello there

[@bluelamboblackpresident6111]

A retvrn of RW video essayists is necessary

[@danielcya8334]

for the existence of our people and a future for white children.

[@charlesottowilliamwade5328]

The destruction of Left wing video essayists is equally important

[@drraoulmclaughlin7423]

Roman merchants who made their money on international commerce, including trade with India, invested their profits into slave-managed landed estates. Pliny the Elder records: "Large estates have ruined Italy and they are now destroying the provinces. Half the land in Africa [the Roman province including Tunisia] was owned by six landholders, before the Emperor Nero put them to death.” ( Pliny, Natural History, book18, passage 7).

[@G96Saber]

This rather reminds me of our housing crisis today.

[@panagenesis2695]

So basically, Rome's history is being repeated in the Collective West.

[@jessicali8594]

"No political entity lasts more than 250 years in its original form."

[@happygofishing]

@@jessicali8594 it is an absolutely ridiculous American idea that the government will sustain forever.

[@joeshmoe7899]

Hopefully the nukes will be decommissioned in time, as was done in the former 1st world nation of South Africa.

[@SangiusenFerrum-wm7ch]

@@joeshmoe7899 rather b nuked than eternally enslaved

[@frosksdeadteeth5163]

It seems like it always does.

[@TheFarmgineer]

I say this, as an American who moved from the suburbs to the country, the agrarian country folk are the most compassionate, creative, intelligent people I have met. Their ignorance of the outside world is their greatest strength. They have to build from scratch all of the things needed for The Good Life.

[@russellwalter5145]

Thanks for hosting this AA

[@visionaryman3548]

Really well done man, well articulated. Subbed to your channel.

[@LawrenceTimme]

Unlike AA's mathematical skills, this video is amazing. Very well done. It should have actually got 28/30 rather than 26/30.

[@YizzTheEunuch]

A haunting, beautiful, and succinct delivery Russell. Well done, sir! 🤍

[@HarryJohnson1991]

Hi Yizz, fancy seeing you here!

[@YizzTheEunuch]

@@HarryJohnson1991 howdy =)

[@gothicwestern]

Really great, well done Russell. 👏👏 I found it especially interesting because last night I listened to Ben Boyce's guest talking about the rivalry between Jefferson and Hamilton and their competing views on the best direction for America. Hamilton's preference for national debt and central banking won over Jefferson's preference for self-sustaining farmers.

[@exnihil9746]

It was over even before it began... 🫤

[@KnownNiche1999]

@@exnihil9746Republic moment

[@vinniewedge]

I own and operate a small farm in the USA. Been here listening to AA for many years. Bravo ! Hats off !

[@roundaboutzoo]

Amazing. Beautifully put together, informative and inspiring.

[@Valencetheshireman927]

Brilliant video. Never knew this much about early Roman farmers before.

[@BuffaloKings]

If you don’t hold power, you are powerless

[@alexh2292]

History doesn't repeat but it does ryhme. Congratulations 👏

[@raspberrytreacle]

Well done Russell been following you for a while now and always enjoy your work.

[@LordEriolTolkien]

Hard Times Are Coming. Good Times May Follow

[@FirefoxisredExplorerisblueGoog]

Brilliantly put together.

[@Sensorium19]

Wonderful work. Well done.

[@Leofwine.]

Excellent. Thank you Russell Walter.

[@NZAnimeManga]

My favourite of the 3 videos: great work, Russell.

[@Trolloxfayce]

Excellent, well done Mr Walter.

[@Hereward47]

Absolutely amazing!

[@mobe7]

Top-tier content Russell, well done!

[@grayfiresoul]

This is my favorite video of the three entries. Thank you Russell, for your excellence.

[@Sensorium19]

Definitely worth saving this one.

[@user-fd8fe9hk9q]

imo russel walter is the best up and coming dissident channel, every video essay he has out is worth multiple re-watches

[@dan-t]

Very nicely done.

[@arlaban22]

GREAT PRESENTATION AND A VERY GOOD CHOICE OF BACKGROUND MUSIC...GOOD WORK.🙂

[@codybassett112]

As much as i love the video we put out for Praxia in this category this essay fairly beat it. Well done sir. Stupendous work.

[@georgeandthedragon9564]

Blew me away. Great incites.

[@mysteriousstranger9496]

It's like poetry, it rhymes.

[@madeinengland1212]

Very good and needed to be said.

[@Silphwave]

Asha Logos vibes

[@Jareers-ef8hp]

I swear, btw what’s he up to now? He uploads very little

[@Silphwave]

​@Zak-ef8hp he goes away and studies in solitude for months at a time at a remote location. He goes into this in his interview with Millenial Woes last Christmas, well worth a listen.

[@Jareers-ef8hp]

@@Silphwave Where can I watch that interview? Odysee?

[@sorrysirmygunisoneba]

@@SilphwaveYeah, where is this interview?

[@Silphwave]

@Zak-ef8hp yeah, Odysee. Just type in Millenial Woes Asha Logos 2022 and it should be top result.

[@mick5137]

"Culture is downstream from agriculture." And we've been eating petroleum since 1950.

[@harposhizzle]

In my great great grandfather's generation, everyone he knew was a small farmer. My great grandfather and grandfather lived through a great contraction of owners and became wealthier larger farmers. My parents' generation had all the more contraction and more and more farmers sold out their land to big farms. Very few farmers are left to my generation and working in a farm is completely impossible if you do not inherit a multimillion dollar estate and even if you do, margins are incredibly slim. The oligarchs own everything and we are coming to a great ruin.

[@liammccann8763]

Scholarly work Mr Walter.

[@williambentley2802]

Excellent

[@mistermelorious]

Awesome video mate.

[@sully553]

Fantastic.

[@UnevenDec]

One of my favourite guys on KZbin

[@ep5019]

What we can learn from Hadrian is no half measures.

[@Portekberm]

Great video, old school KZbin style

[@fusion9619]

This was a fantastic video, but it unfortunately still missed the mark. It's credit based money and the resulting expansion of the money supply, that is the real cause of any of these issues - that was true for Rome as well as us. For anyone that doesn't understand, it's simple : first, credit based money means for every new dollar created, more than a dollar of debt is created. Naturally, this can only end in hyperinflation, as can be seen over and over. This also means that finite assets like land gain in price much faster than things with a low marginal cost of production, like food or fake money. Thus, land and houses and stocks become too expensive for us to live, much less start businesses. Of course this leads to social pathologies - people are hopeless and they don't know why. I really enjoyed the video.

[@AttilaKattila]

That's more the effect rather than the cause. If there is no moderate inflation at all, such as seeking out new precious metals and minting new coins such as in Rome, then there is no point to conquer new land and amass more resources. If you have twice as much stuff being made compared to before but it's still only worth just as much monetarily speaking as before, there is no financial motive for expansion. However, if you do not expand, then other empires almost certainly will, at the expense of your livelihood, health and life. It's a rat race you cannot stop, there is no way out of this ride, it will go on until all the wind has been taken away from the sails at the point it cannot go on any longer.

[@AttilaKattila]

However, maybe Georgism can stop the current ride. I don't know.

[@joeshmoe7899]

Credit speeds up the inevitable monopolies. Evolution kills (almost) all participants.

[@zoop2174]

What a banger!

[@trajan3066]

Excelente Programa Amigo Saludos

[@trooperinvestor9336]

Amazing video.

[@dartharpy9404]

Great, thanks

[@davey1602]

Excellent video. It demonstrates that there is nothing new under the Sun. Obviously the pedant in me baulks at "yee-oh-man" :D

[@colourist.]

great work

[@overseer7004]

- Timaeus - is a good channel for learning a lot of the context summarized here

[@thicccontroller8610]

So glad to see RW on here. Next stop, a cigar stream please.

[@managerialelitetoaster3456]

Very good.

[@h____hchump8941]

The very last sentence is well expanded on by Aldous Huxley in an interview I saw.

[@northhugr]

Russel Walter is kino 👑

[@NotQuiteFirst]

Wow that was amazing. Holy shit.

[@Verboten-xn4rx]

Octavian Augustus the first Emperor after the Revolution that ended the Republic halted the expansion of Rome at the Rhine. 2 Roman Legions were destroyed in the Black forests of Germany. If France and Germany had been one country after the fall of Rome the history of Europe and the world would have been very different. Mean while Juvenal wrote his Satires of daily life under Roman socialism and the influx of barbarian slaves at the height of its power in the 1st Century The Roman free man sold his vote his life was not dissimilar to a lot of the British race today under the Garchy but the Empire destroyed by Churchill is barely a mocked memory now. Rome looked like Las Vegas painted in the gaudyness of reds purples and gold. But our ending is far more rapid like the collapse of the degenerate Aztecs when Cortez rocked up.

[@joebloggs479]

Over the last year or so I have thought that if we ever get in to power we need to reintroduce the guild system

[@SirSomnolent]

This description of the Roman yeoman seems to come dangerously close to venerating the original structure of America which AA seems to disdain 🤔

[@adamp8042]

Since when does AA show disdain for the original structure of America? Contemporary America, yes.

[@vorynrosethorn903]

It was liberal, liberalism is the issue.

[@DigitalNomadOnFIRE]

"Not unusual" If only we had a word for that.

[@frosksdeadteeth5163]

Absolutely brilliant! Amazing work, although I believe “yeoman” is pronounced without sounding out the “e”. Probably from old English, much of the “e”s were silent, I think maybe because Germanic pronunciation tends to pronounce “a” as “e”, noteably the queen did this, too, she’d say “het” or “cet” for “hat” and “cat”. English is such a weird mix.

[@CSSVirginia]

Based and Ted pilled.

[@LordEriolTolkien]

Such men as those farmer/soldiers are True Citizens of Their land. How far removed we are from such times..

[@tomeboaventura9054]

Cesar was a hero in perpetuity.

[@timcornish2788]

Eerily familiar to today.

[@user-ratatat]

On more on the subject - read "The Ancient City" by Numa Fustel Denis de Coulanges

[@hoos.crypto]

Shared with "The Gang".

[@dartharpy9404]

Still great on second watching - thanks

[@shmuelburrito4635]

Fabulous

[@arminius504]

Would love some history courses. Is AM still working on something?

[@GodsOwnPrototype]

I discover I am already subbed to Russell Walter but have been receiving no notifications & there is a backlog to catchup on.

[@declineofthewest.]

Excellent work. The fall of Rome II

[@gkoogz9877]

KINO VIDEO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! LOVE IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@LawrenceTimme]

Did the ancients think 8+10+8=28 or could they count better than AA?

[@blah204]

When the aristocracy becomes corrupt and loses the Mandate of Heaven, they deserve to be crushed and have a new aristocracy put in place.

[@stumccabe]

Food for thought, but the statement that "our farms are indistinguishable from concentration camps" was pure hyperbole.

[@KenMoss]

Civilisations fall but people move on, even though they mostly follow the same route.

[@MrJimMac]

Based

[@basketweaver1144]

Each part ends too abruptly. Just a second to let the information settle would do wonders.

[@areyoutheregoditsmedave]

have i just given my consciousness over to the eternal code??

[@chrisseymour2848]

They were also armed to the teeth.

[@GlasbanGorm]

How? i ask, is this not a self refutation to the carrot pill. Small farmers, and individual land owners will always be less efficient than large tenant states, or now industrial debtor farms. They will always be replaced due to money, fiat, and prductivity.

[@matthiuskoenig3378]

Large tenant estates sure maybe, but the industrial farms are unsustainable, because industrial fertilisers which they rely on cause soil degridation and erosion at already noticeble levels. We will be forced to abondon it at some point. Secondly small farms are increasley dominating asia, outcometing larger tenant and industrial farms, in recent years researchers have noticed an inverse relationship between farm size and land productivity (that is, smaller farms are more efficient). In america small farms are 10 times more productive for the same land area as large industrial farms. According to American government data. The main reason large farms absorb small farms is when the farmers don't want to be farmers (ie they want to move to the city and get an urban job) or their children did/have and they are too old to work it themselves. It is actually a detrimental process for society and the ecconomy, fueled mostly by the proganda that glamorised urban life.

[@highlandsprings5752]

They tried to warn you in 45.

[@marcusdavenport1590]

👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾🔥

[@RippDrive]

Tale old as time

[@ericp0012]

All I learned is that our (Western) ancestors were more ethnocentric than we are in todays (Western) World.

[@LordEriolTolkien]

Hmmm I hear history rhyming ....

[@barnabycole9145]

This is not AA, who is it?

[@doctorbritain9632]

I'd have doxxed a point for spelling labor incorrectly.

[@zz10arf]

carrotpilled

[@zz10arf]

also great.

[@teresazbikowska7094]

Wheatpilled.

[@Frogge.777]

Roman history asmr

[@reconquista3464]

To me is absurd the mentallity😂that dictates that only people on the present understand life and is civilised,and people who made civilization are "ignorant".that's a statement that says more about who says it,than the stetement itself

[@jrb4935]

Shame about the muzak.

[@RaHeadD10]

This is paganism. Greco Roman Paganism. People dismiss this as larp. But it’s really not if you are willing enough to understand the ancients and put time into them. The Homeric tales, the pre Socratics, Ceasar and so forth. This is masculine resurgence.

[@vorynrosethorn903]

Personally I prefer masculine Christianity, the pagans practiced infanticide and liked little boys. There was much admirable in their philosophy but much of it was carried through to Christianity or rediscover by the introduction of people like the Normans, all that without the idolatry and barbarism.

[@Vingul]

​@@vorynrosethorn903 we can always go tit for tat "this group did this and that" all day long, for every conceivable group, and thus make them look bad. Christians included.

[@bluelamboblackpresident6111]

The Republic fell several generations before Christ was even born. For that matter, I guess the American founders were pagans too

[@vorynrosethorn903]

Yeah but I think the right wing space has enough problems with degeneracy like femboys and libertarians without them being able to latch on to justifications for it, Christianity has many of the same strengths and much common origin without having to deal with trans people using mad emperors to claim right wing Roman masculine justifcation, frankly if the left want use a Christian skinsuit to justify a crusade against Israel or exclusive sexual relationships they can have at it. The fact is we are the children of Christendom, even if we can recognise Roman virtues as such there are many elements of the morality that are at odds with our sense of right, importantly many things that differentiate us from outsiders, we are not going to rebuild clan based family structures and I would argue that the mass importing and intermixing with slaves would be directly counter to our interests, it is fine to be inspired by the Romans and Greeks but we shouldn't ape them, neo-classical architecture is an achievement, helping the Greeks gain independence by reciting speeches in a tongue they don't understand and wilful ignoring the 2 millennia of change to the culture and religion is larping. Remember we already had a big period of classical obsession, and in a lot of ways we've never recovered from it, the enlightenment very clearly took the wrong lessons and made up new ones.

[@teresazbikowska7094]

​@@vorynrosethorn903We can blame Christianity for turning into protestantism, then to protestant progressivism. It's easier to cast stones in glass houses but it is hardly non hypocritical. Fix your own house first, your own person before that. Then cast stones.

[@hazchemel]

I would intone in harmony with juvens felix Thomas Jefferson.

[@DigitalNomadOnFIRE]

Rome had a cute little starter empire, nothing more.

[@lcship1905]

Are you listening Bill bloody Gates !

[@hidupsehat5205]

We waz Kangz!

[@sm2049]

jesus AA, that is a hell of a daily devotional

[@marcusdavenport1590]

can we subscribe to this user???

[@blue18404]

Never stop improving. Civilization is about ending human misery, not embracing it.

[@robertpatter5509]

And then once that's done they go all debauchery and end up making more misery and civilization disintegrates. And those that endure pain survive. And a new one is forged. One cannot end misery itself. Every civilization that tried Utopia failed.

[@CulturedThugPoster]

If you embrace the idea of civilization you also have to embrace the idea that civilizations are cyclic. We cannot escape the reality that civilizations are birthed then bloom, go to seed and then die to be reborn from the seed they leave. Therefore it is the quality, quantity and distribution of the seed left that is most important for every ongoing civilization. Ending human misery is really only a secondary consideration that if fully achieved would only remove any future motivation and end in stagnating terminal decline. Improving the human condition might be a better goal, but not the final destination.

[@blue18404]

Damn you. This belief in this cycle is nothing more than a belief. The elites who are plotting and fulfilling your destruction know it is a lie. You damn your own children and people by wanting to suffer as though it is a right of passage. There is no glory in this perpetual defeat. Be out bred and let the world be finally rid of your stupidity and evil.

[@Tect7]

You will never end human misery unless you end human existence entirely with no capacity to regenerate and sever that silver cord once and for all. One must destroy the central seed "cycle", one must annihilate all biological carbon based life-forms to end all human misery. One must rip out the very source codes of the archetypes of life powering all of this "cycle" central seed to destroy this copied version. All of your "improvements" through the psychotechnology of civilisation will only prolong the misery of human existence itself and all whom are sacrificed to prolong its existence, whether it is the animal life or the plant consciousness, all to serve man's insatiable rapacious greed to forever expand his cancerous existence. Unfortunately not even if all of today's nuclear weapons stockpiles on earth by all human nations both ready to launch and not ready and what was ready prepared at the height of the cold war is not enough to do this, for man is like a cockroach able to survive against so many odd's fuelled from the demiurgic AI parasitical ego's existential desire to procreate and maintain itself in an imagined eternalism through its biological legacies. Man is a monstrous living death machine and sooner his end, the sooner his misery shall end. While there is man alive, misery shall remain, penetrated by brief intoxications of imagined fantasies of hopeful seclusion from this nasty, brutish and short misery with fanciful ideals of regenerated childhoods and individualized "freedom" reproducing yet the same misery and ignorance implanted into the minds of cancerous offspring. If you want to see what your "rising" out of the ashes of civilisation is, at the start of the next Satya Yuga simulation cycle....it is the EBE Grey future human J-Rod whose genetics are completely fucked from extensive nuclear war radiation (soon to occur in our world timeline), in which the survivors then went underground in the deep underground military bases built since the 1950's before being changed to adapt to its new "living conditions". A soulless automaton machine hybrid transhuman final non-man "alien" whose consciousness operates on ideals, themes completely devoid of your nationalistic independent ideals because the WEF won, the regime won, and there is nothing you can do. Your children (if they should even survive the incoming limited nuclear war - controlled collapse theatre) will be nothing but techno feudal slaves of the WEF globalists, fully chipped, fully nano-tech upgraded, that is their fate if they want to continue in that New World Order and remain alive and also be able to reproduce and pass on your "legacy". Your world you fight for has already been destroyed, your god's dead and transmuted and devoured now all that remains is you and your ideals and your offspring, the noose is tightening...… can you feel it?

[@Johnb.78]

Civilisation is the end and beginning of human misery, and shall be so forever.