Why Did I Do This To Myself...

[@metatronyt]

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[@Dowlphin]

17:03 Datastream error - for your convenience in case you missed it and are still fighting the battle against the green scourge. (Which is a worthwhile one. 😉)

[@efafe4972]

lol nice moistcritical

[@TempOne-vh4fd]

You put on a HELMET for safety. LOLOLOLOL

[@jswets5007]

The higher the infant mortality rate is, the higher the average age of death will be relative to the average life expectancy. Ie, average age of death = (1 *+* infant mortality rate per one-hundred) *X* average life expectancy.

[@medborgarjournalisternags4777]

How refreshing to see your videos, always bringing a genuine (and above all LOGICAL!) take on history instead of the "wok3 " nonsense which is constantly forced down our throats...! 🤦🏼‍♀️ Much love from Sweden 👊❤️🇸🇪

[@caesarortega5249]

Calling the renaissance woke is like calling Native Americans hippies.

[@ScrappyXFL]

🤣👍 I was laughing so hard I had multple tries to get those two emojies right, still can't spell 😂

[@JackHicks]

Well, they both had long hair, wanted to live in some kind of paleolithic way of life, smoked "weed"... 😋

[@caesarortega5249]

As a Native American I can say the key difference is that hippieism is a response to a certain type of societal expectation as opposed to Natives in which it was just simply a way of life absent of any political or subversive social ideology. @@JackHicks

[@JackHicks]

@@caesarortega5249 I don't know if I'd been understood, but just in case, I must say I was joking. I apologize if you found it offensive; that was not my intention.

[@ScrappyXFL]

@@JackHicksI'm part native, I started laughing at the joke immediately. "Peace pipes man" came to mind. Lest we forget, we can bind stones to sticks and throw them and bash each other's head in 😂Total hippie move 👍

[@BlazingOwnager]

"Were the people of the renaissance woke?" is something I'd expect Philomena Cunk to ask an historian

[@deutschesvaterlandfankanal]

Nope,because we're talking about the fucking renaissance,the opposite of woke modernity

[@johnnygreenface4195]

​@@deutschesvaterlandfankanaleepy past

[@alexanderwhite298]

Woke = progressive and progressive = woke. Must remember that what drives society forward is the progressive movements.

[@Gilbrae]

And she would probably ask: "Is it true that the woke culture spread at the time in the West partly thanks to the travels of Marco Polo?"

[@brawndothethirstmutilator9848]

@alexanderwhite298, Progressing right toward absurdity and authoritarianism.

[@cinemachef]

"Those who cannot conceive Friendship as a substantive love but only as a disguise or elaboration of Eros betray the fact that they have never had a Friend." -C.S. Lewis

[@keriannelester4046]

C.S.Lewis for the burn.

[@patricialavery8270]

I need this quote for my Tolkien groups when the subject of Frodo and Sam comes up

[@ScrappyXFL]

@@patricialavery8270🤣Yea that whole subject matter is stupid. Stupid from people who've never had to fight together.

[@shteatinggrin]

@@ScrappyXFLThats the key thing, they’ve never had a struggle that made eachother bond

[@ScrappyXFL]

@@shteatinggrin Preach! Even if you don't like the person, you are dead on about struggling together. You can smile into your brother's eyes after you both survived the crap

[@ronnychristenjoyer6778]

The irony is that this person mocks medieval people for their supposed ignorance and yet his commentary exposes his own profound ignorance.

[@joebloggs5318]

There are people who are more determined to cause arguments than engage in discourse. Years ago I was talking to a guy; I was saying about how in the Holocaust loads of Jews were shot or worked to death or died from starvation or subjected to medical experiments and died in a bunch of different other ways. He accused me of hating Jews and denying the Holocaust happened because I didn't say six million people were gassed.

[@CrimsonSlytherin]

Yes 😂😅

[@ryandevan2793]

Plus no reputable historian talks like that!

[@andrewyorke3352]

When he said woke I spat my tea across the room then the rubbish started spouting you are right for calling this out👍🇬🇧

[@metatronyt]

Thanks and I can imagine

[@richber]

Coffee here.

[@redhen2123]

I had to replay it, I thought he said Baroque.

[@collinnicolazzo2065]

​@@metatronytwhat channel is this

[@patrickancona1193]

@@collinnicolazzo2065dipship McGee & password alliance for grade schools….. I’m taking a wild stab at er

[@deeh5126]

We live in a very weird time, where we have the ability to learn about almost everything, yet so many choose to wade in falsity.

[@arcwiz]

Brave New World

[@frocoshake2107]

I think that it ultimately comes down to a fear of reality. I know that sounds absolutely crazy, but it's the only explanation that makes any sense at this point. Like you see these people, these conspiracy theorists, who say something like aliens exist or there's a cabal of rich people who diddle kids, then when there's credible evidence that comes out that those are both correct, they never talk about them again. Rather than having their beliefs vindicated, they just act like they never had those beliefs in the first place or they handwave them away.

[@jamesr123]

Many (most?) people prefer comfortable fictions to uncomfortable facts.

[@deeh5126]

@@jamesr123Yes. I think this permeates much more than just this part of existence. I do believe it is at least part of the meaning behind the teaching of Jesus that "narrow is the gate and hard is the way". Not at all implying that I am going to make it through. In fact, the more I learn, the less I think I will. But I am still striving. (Also, for context, I don't ascribe to the traditional Christian idea of most of what Jesus taught and said, but I do consider him a great teacher and example.)

[@RetroProg]

To be fair, we have never lived in a time where falsity has been so prevalent. The Brave New World many thought the INternet would be was soon dragged down to the ninth circle of hell.

[@MrLind87]

Holy cow, it's mind boggling to see how these people are so intellectually lobotomized, and the fact that he has almost 250k subscribers to his channel is even more concerning.

[@Letsfightinglov]

Why do you think Alot people act lobotomized?

[@dedf15]

Well, he says Christians and Christianity are stupid, therefore he must be correct in all he says!

[@andy-the-gardener]

sadly, many people think shit is chocolate

[@bantakkor8039]

They do not necessarily believe his stuff, sometimes you also just find a channel so bad at its stuff, that people (or at least I) subscribe to it, just to get more lols out of it. For example the russian snake & eagle kungfu guy, it's complete bogus but looks funny.

[@Asewitt]

Probably young people LEARNING their history from this shit. So super misinformed people.

[@Garret141076]

I'm glad channels like Metatron exists to fight misinformation with facts.

[@matthewconner7800]

My Medieval and Renaissance professor basically told us that if a person made it to age 30, they would probably make it to their 60s or 70s without much problem. Childbirth and child mortality skews the shit out of averages. One of the papers I wrote was on Gregorio Dati, who demonstrates that skewing of averages. Three of his four wives died from pregnancy/childbirth issues, and only seven of his 26 children were still living by the end of his diary, with the vast majority dying in childhood.

[@WickedCool23]

@ConontheBinarianmy maternal grandparents lost 3 of 11 children in infancy/early childhood. This was in the 40s-50s I never even knew about until I started doing family research

[@KnightofAges]

It's more nuanced than that. People didn't really do 'averages' back then, and certainly didn't count infant mortality in it. And we can easily see that people DID die young - we have the parish registers of lots of places in Christian Europe, the Curch was very stringent in recording everyone that was born, married or died. And the death rates are horrendous. In fact, you can do the test yourself: just go to a list of monarchs of any country and see at which age the medieval Kings and Queens died (and they were the most protected people of the time). You can discount the assassinated or killed in battle if you want, it makes little difference, people didn't live long. And woman's lower life expectancy came from the excessive deaths from childbirth. In fact, even when I was a kid back in the 60s-70s, we considered someone in his mid-50s or 60s as 'old'. And it was quite a feat for people to reach 70. This was even worse in earlier centuries. Heck, just check the lifespan of nobles in the 17th and 18th centuries. The French King Louis XIV, for example, died four days short of his 77th birthday. This was enough for his successor to be his greatgrandson Louis XV, since his son had died at 49 and his grandson at 29. And Louis XV died at age 64, with was enough to be succeeded by his grandson Louis Auguste (Louis XVI), as his son had died at age 36. And none of them died assassinated or in battle. Check all the lists of monarchs or nobles from all the countries you want. Before the 19th century, the death rate was very, very high.

[@Steve13C]

Similarly to the information we have about life expectancy in Victorian London where the average life expectancy was 19.

[@alanmcbride6658]

Present day abortion of children reduces life expectancy in contemporary culture.

[@stefanvas6984]

Three factors pose dangers to an adult: childbirth for women, war for men and famine and epidemics for the rest, especially the poorer population. It still did not mean people died in their 30s,. Based on the lives of some rulers they usually reached about 50-60 years of age. There were rare cases of people (usually hermits as pointed out by a certain Byzantine writer whose name I forgot) reaching 80 and 90

[@AdamosDad]

Very spot on Metatron! "Just because technology is improving doesn't mean our humanity is." -John Lovell (Warrior poet)

[@laisphinto6372]

to that stupid Argument i always show nazi germany because despite all the lies about going back to roots ( that never existed in the first place) it was new an progressive compared to the Weimar republic.

[@nicolethompson8613]

If humanity would understand this point they might actually learn from history instead of repeating the same mistakes ad nauseum, and telling themselves it is something different just because the packaging isn't the same. We can't have objectivity in looking at our own times and current events if we start from a viewpoint that we are so different from the ones who came before us. Thanks for being one of the (sadly few) people smart enough to know this.

[@revilokid]

I mean we are better as a society then used to be. Our standards have changed quite a bit.

[@j.v.7451]

​@@revilokid"better" is subjective. But i think i understand what you mean.

[@BlacksmithTWD]

@@revilokid How are you able to make the comparison of the wholes of societies while not even knowing about the whole of one of the two you compare? You may be able to compare certain aspects of both societies, but to compare them as a whole is an extraordinary claim required extraordinary evidence. Claims made without evidence can be dismissed without evidence.

[@theramblinmahoney2316]

His video “Being Gay the Medieval Way,” is one of the most misinformed things I’ve watched and all the support in the comments is shocking. People really will believe anything as long as it aligns with what they want to believe.

[@PSDuck216]

I tried watching the channel. My first reaction was “WTF?” As a historian, I am used to finding mistakes in presentations, but this woke channel took the cake. I could hardly finish the first ones I watched. He’s not talking about our world, but some mix of fantasy, propaganda, wokeness and history. Forget it. Your presentation was spot on. I always find your videos well researched and documented. Thank you for that. An oasis of clarity in a desert of mis- and disinformation. Cheers!

[@ScrappyXFL]

😂Yea, he was nicer than most of would have been. Not a historian by trade, still I was laughing so hard I couldn't type right. Dude couldn't even properly pronounce Byzantine.

[@ChocolateMilk..]

@@ScrappyXFL "most of would have been"??

[@danielbrunelle6709]

but but but, the channel is called madness!! "medieval madness" at that!! it is correctly named! so much madness in it :D

[@ScrappyXFL]

@@ChocolateMilk.. Yea, I would have been no where near as graceful as Metatron debunking the bs. I'm a nice guy, still I can be brutal in fixing mis/malfeasants. I would have been no where near as nice as him, in comment nor if I did a response video. I'm glad he did before I ran across the channel. Ever correct a muslim about a truth and they shut up? I'm a nice guy, wrong is wrong though.

[@frocoshake2107]

I mean, that and calling the Renaissance woke was like such a weird thing, as The Renaissance was also marked by things like the reconquista in Spain, arguably worse hygiene as the black plague basically closed all the bath houses, The Protestant Reformation, The Spanish conquest of the Aztecs, The start of the slave trade, and widespread religious violence.

[@josephanuga2543]

Thanks a million for this video, honestly I can't thank you enough. I'm Nigerian and have been very interested in history from my childhood. I was very fond of Western medieval history in my teen years. I'm in my fifties now and a professor in a university in Nigeria. I can assure you that the amount of outright lies and ideologically directed misinformation about ancient, medieval and early modern European history that passes for academic work in my country is mind boggling. Videos like yours help me point students to content that helps them see that reading the present into the past is simply poor scholarship. Thanks for your work..

[@stalhandske9649]

Keep up the good fight Sir. The nice thing about truth is that however downtrodden, mutilated or subverted, it can never be completely killed. Some residue will always remain to bloom when the times are more fortunate.

[@nickkorkodylas5005]

The West has fallen, people in the developing (free) world is the last chance of truth to persevere. You are responsible for humanity's future now.

[@biggerdickus]

​@@nickkorkodylas5005 Stop your melodrama, it will be fine, we fall and grow.

[@nickkorkodylas5005]

@@biggerdickus You stop growing past puberty and the West is doing so hot in the youth department.

[@Fuk99999]

You should also look into the material culture from the region. I think it was the “Nok” culture? The best example of actual west African civilization actually existing in antiquity, but nobody knows about it.

[@jansmith3613]

My favored term for creators like Medieval Madness is that they are Chronological Imperialists. Note: This is not a term I came up with. It is similar to a term used by C.S. Lewis, "Chronological Snobbery". The use of Imperialism instead was used by Dr. Petter who is a professor at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary in Massachusetts, USA.

[@JamesRDavenport]

Here here! I was trying to think of a more concise way to put my thoughts on Medieval Madness. The term is spot on.

[@thefriesens1071]

Really? Dr. Petter was my professor at GC!! Fantastic guy and great archaeologist.

[@4idenn]

19:07 some time ago I was talking with my brother he expressed this beautifully, he said: "yeah, infant mortality was really high but if you somehow managed to survive that stage, that'd meant you were basically super human"

[@Iluvantir]

There's a reason why, 3200 years ago, a certain Hebrew man of the Tribe of Levi wrote down that mankind was given three score years and ten to live, or four score with strength - 70 years for a normal life, or 80 if you were blessed by the Most High. Moses, his name was. Now, whether one believes or not, that's certainly a sign that living to 70 was normal. In fact, the average for those who survived infancy. Infant mortality affects the overall average, but not the average of those who survived that short period.

[@infoscholar5221]

What a mess. Thanks for the warning. I hate sloppy research.

[@DiseasedDreams]

One of the most infuriating things, is when people say that medieval people were essentially neanderthals. Just because they didnt have phones or modern tech back then, doesnt mean they were stupid. It pisses me off to no end.

[@metatronyt]

I’d argue phones are making us more stupid if anything

[@Bottle-OBill]

This fella literally just went "Knights were a bunch of dudes doing stuff together... Seems kinda gay". Getting really sick of people acting like when a bunch of blokes get together they just start stuffing their salami in each other's choccy starfishes. Like god damn, not everything has to do with, or lead to, sexual gratification.

[@موسى_7]

People in Non-Muslim countries are now becoming very dirty minded and associating everything with sex. In Muslim countries, people's minds are much more focused on football and food, but in other countries, it seems all their jokes and memes are about sex.

[@rushthezeppelin]

Unfortunately we live in a hyper sexualized society so people gonna project...

[@ne0nmancer]

Well, the guy making that video is gay, so there's a good chance that whenever he's in a room with one or more dudes, that actually happens, so he can't help but project that onto others.

[@Player-re9mo]

I've noticed a trend with these type of people: Any type of male friendship is gay according to them. They are obsessed with sex too

[@asideofsalt.6645]

@@Player-re9mo Looks at the nonsense that people spew about LOTR

[@katiemarsh4970]

I studied biblical criticism in undergraduate and graduate contexts…it genuinely baffled me that ppl would so effortlessly dismiss ancient people as stupid or beneath them…or, because we were studying a sacred text, mythologize ppl to the point of absurdity…I appreciate your thoughts on approaching historical figures realistically, thank you 🙏🏼

[@thefriesens1071]

Exactly. I studied many of the same things.

[@concretecaliban]

I've come across Medieval Madness before, and you're exactly right. His historical accounts are littered with this kind of hubristic presentism. It's one thing to make comparisons between eras of history and now, I think that's okay to an extent, as it can help give one's audience a little perspective. It's quite another to make sweeping moral/ethical judgments about history based on modern ideologies. These judgements tell the audience much more about the creator's beliefs than they do about history, which in turn tells us rather a lot about the motives of said creator... And those motives aren't really about history at all. Sadly, this seems to be a very prominent characteristic of modern British historians (eg David Olusoga). I'm not a qualified historian, just a pleb with interest in the subject... But I would much rather watch someone like, say, Histocrat, than someone like Medieval Madness. This is because Histocrat, despite his frequent mispronunciation of names and places, seems to be engaged and thorough. Most importantly, I never feel like the events he discusses are being used as some kind of cheap allegory to promote his own worldview or ideological leanings. Even if at times he might be inaccurate, it's always an honest mistake, not a contortion. Medieval Madness, in comparison, often has this feel of assumed, unthinking superiority, like he is better than the historic peoples he discusses (particularly historic Britons, for some reason) while making massive general assumptions based on mostly inaccurate modern myths about the past, a lot of which can be debunked with extremely minimal research. This appears (at least to me) to be an exercise in mild propaganda, used in order to prop up (and highlight the 'superiority' of) certain fashionable beliefs of the present Western world. Perhaps he is just very young. Things are always much more black and white at that age...

[@michaelstearnesstearnes1498]

Medieval Madness is there to make The History Channel look good.

[@ScrappyXFL]

Little things like "bi - zantan" piss me off to no end. It's Byzantine! I knew how to say it correctly in elementary school.

[@MeglynLad]

"Presentism" is one of my biggest pet peeves, but I've never had a word for it. Thanks, Metatron!

[@gordon9050]

As someone who has studied HEMA and carries gradings in Iaido I can say that there is nothing superior about Japanese Martial Arts as I've said and heard many times "there are only so many ways you can swing as sword". I transcribed Cavendish "Truth of the Sworde" with David Rawlings and some of the techiniques are extremely complicated and my father agrees whom has studied Japanese sword for over 40 years!

[@richardjohnson4052]

There is a big difference between bathing and washing. A bath implies filling a bathtub with hot water, climbing in naked and scrubbing yourself with a bar of soap. How often did this happen? Depends on how rich you were, how much clean water you had access to, how much valuable firewood you could divert to heating that 20-gallons of water. Once a month? Once a year? Once a lifetime? We DO NOT KNOW because no one wrote it down. BUT, a daily sponge-bath with a pail of warm water was proabably common, weekly to daily if possible. People DID try to remain clean if only to keep the demons away.

[@marganaapsinthia]

Hating people of the past for not knowing something we know now is the same as hating myself for not knowing how to do math when I was five. Both individually and collectively, we are who we are today only because of what we used to be. The past is part of us, whether pleasant or unpleasant. Denying the shadow denies the light, denies our very beings. The only thing we can do is embrace it all and choose which side to nurture, not which to deny. This should be the basis of all education.

[@slimynaut]

Even better, assuming that what we know now is always correct and objectively better when society is on the brink. The next civilization will likely look at us with disgust.

[@insertnamehere8121]

Imagine hating your grandparents for not being who you are

[@ark1567]

Let's say...maybe someone can be entitled to look down on them for their lacking in civilization on a certain degree...But yeah: it would be a little arrogance to do so 😂

[@PoetofHateSpeech]

You're doing a similar thing... you think we are better, but the West is about to collapse...I think in a lot ways, we are worse

[@justaminute3111]

But, but, but most of what that guy said were lies. Did you miss that part? Homosexuality was certainly not approved of but the source of that was as much dynastic as 😊religious. All sex outside of marriage was condemned. Marriage, was well as a religious ceremony was a legal requirement which provided for the orderly transfer of wealth and social obligations to the next generation. Gays don’t have kids.

[@zacharyelliott7161]

"People thought the world would end in year 1000". Hold on what was that thing about 2012?

[@whiteeagleboneguard]

1000 year reign of Christ from Revelations(nobody knows when this is) 2012 mayan calendar

[@janpost8598]

This is exactly the reason I dumped Facebook. Debunking the stupid shit people brought up (this was during the Build Large Mansions riots) and all they could say was: "Yea, you have your facts we have ours."

[@steampunkpixie2643]

My understanding of the Dark Ages is that it was the time between the fall of the Roman Empire and the start of the Middle Ages. It is called the Dark Ages because no written records for the time can be found and we know very little about it.

[@huwjmatsumura7752]

Thank you dude, this guy’s ridiculous lack of real reasearch is so evident, as well as his lack of c4itical thought, your rebuttals especially of his application of modern bias and trending popularisms to past cultures was measured and fair. You got a new subscriber here.

[@AdirondackRuby]

This is why I appreciate and enjoy your content...you simply present facts. None of this retroactive, anachronistic nonsense...none of this manipulation to draw comparisons or sever connections. Too many people get into history as a way of justifying their own morality and politics. Everything cool from the past is in line with me, I'm on the right side of history, etc. It's exhausting.

[@sirsmithsmitherson5847]

"These highly disciplined men and women" Just to cure my ignorance, outside of anime how common were female Samurai?

[@msaoichan]

Well, the Onna-Musha were indeed women samurai and weren't a rare sight. In fact they apparently even made up entire cavalry units at times, but as far as I can tell, you weren't going to see entire armies of them. Edit: The onna-musha were part of the warrior class, and their high point as far as deployment goes was during the Sengoku Jidai. Afterwards their numbers fell off.

[@sirsmithsmitherson5847]

​@@msaoichan Interesting take, Samurai were hereditary military nobility, Onna-Musha as impressive as they are may not count as Samurai... also as a number compared to peasant Ashigaru they seem like a vary rare sight.

[@stumccabe]

Well done Metatron for debunking that steaming mound of bullsh!t. The myth that all medieval people died young shows a profound lack of understanding of how life expectancy is calculated. Even the bible states that a person lives for "three score and ten years"!!!

[@exantiuse497]

The bible was not written in the middle ages though, the verse about human age is from the Psalms. It is possible that people living in the kingdom of Israel lived longer than people in the medieval period due to differences in lifestyle, the amount of wars and disease etc. The Bible verse "three score and ten years" means 70 years, which is longer than the life expectation of a medieval person that survived childhood (iirc less than 60 years), it is likely people in the Biblical times lived longer than people in the medieval times

[@Steve13C]

Well, we know that Robert Curthose (William the Conqueror's eldest son) lived to the age of 80, but he spent a lot of his life in a monastery after his brother, Henry, defeated him in battle. You could argue that he was protected from the diseases and lack of food that many peasants would have struggled with.

[@alanmcbride6658]

Indeed Stum. Factor in children aborted and modern life expectancy goes down.

[@disnonn]

People don't know which data to use when. For things such as life expectancy, for most the more useful information would be the median . Same goes for income and the like. If one resilient grandpa or one single billionaire significantly changes your statistic that much, it is fine for research and academia, but is not illustrative for the layman anymore.

[@ramieskola7845]

​@@exantiuse497 why is it likely?

[@paulshri8609]

Metatron, the fact you had to wear a helmet to start watching this spoke volumes 😂😂😂

[@ghostgate82]

It protects the brain from swords and also trash ideas. ❤️

[@paulshri8609]

100% 👍 Agree

[@kingleech16]

He really needs to start bringing a spear too so he can go full Elmer Fudd.

[@AggieAlamak]

I love how nice you are to these content creators. Shame they put so many people in wrong way of thinking about the past. Thank you for your hard work!

[@tomwisniewski8988]

He's not being nice at all. He's dismantling this dude.

[@AggieAlamak]

@@tomwisniewski8988 Yes but politely :-)

[@thebigone6071]

It’s because you’re the most noble of all noble ones Metatron!!! You’re the inspiration to millions, no, billions of people around the world who’d all be dead inside without your glorious wisdom!!!!!

[@josephkania642]

The brilliance of his majesty outshines a billion suns and his wisdom puts the gods of old to shame!

[@YellowKing1986]

@@infectedrainbow divine

[@jhoughjr1]

Truly the metatron spreading his wings lead me out of some dark times.

[@spyrofrost9158]

I don't think billions of people watch this channel 🤣 But they should.

[@jimboscooter432]

Hi metatrons mom 👋

[@costa200]

The Tarot sponsor had me... my belly aches a bit right now from laughing!

[@ianmacdiarmid1249]

Does this guy realize that you can have brotherhood without sexual attraction?

[@jameswitt108]

Those who cannot conceive Friendship as a substantive love but only as a disguise or elaboration of Eros betray the fact that they have never had a Friend. Cs Lewis

[@mark5222]

It's quite sad that they cannot perceive the idea of having real friends.

[@KAM1138a]

I like that you mention the myths invented relatively recently (1800s) and applied to the past. So many of these things we were taught in school were just successful fabrications of people with some sort of agenda.

[@haswordmaster1497]

Hi, Metatron! Thank you for clearing up the Year 1000 myth. I actually believed this myself and even used it as part of one of my college projects concerning the first Crusade. Thank you for bringing this to my attention. I will be sure to correct this myth whenever I come across it again. Once again. Thx.

[@Steve13C]

Humans being human, I assume there were some people who got excited about it but that most of the population either didn't know or didn't care, the same as they would today. I always get confused by the way some people think our ancestors were almost a different species to us.

[@erichinkle7347]

I remember reading that there was some upheaval in parts of Italy and France over the 'year 1000' but that was about it. @@Steve13C

[@sireyoursistermodernworld4244]

I've seen a couple of this channel's videos and as a historical hobbyist (I read history for fun and got a college degree in it) I have to agree with Metatron's assessment.

[@Iluvantir]

I feel your pain. I'm not even going to risk it, personally. Was ready to scream at the monitor just listening to the clips Metatron put up here.

[@scarecrow2097]

yep, I literally expected him to sound like infographic or gametheorist before you even started the video and I wasn't wrong...also...Renaissance woke...culture...wtf

[@verihimthered2418]

Lol the corporate KZbin channels. They make the Brain hurt

[@captaintitus4637]

@@verihimthered2418 fr

[@logicplague]

Woke is "Logical, intelligent and progressive" Sure it is, bud....🤣🤣🤣

[@zeehero7280]

@@logicplague Musta meant to say "Deranged, Stupid, and Regressive"

[@insertnamehere8121]

@@logicplague Wokism cant understand human biological sex classifications, while humans 100,000 years ago could. Ffs base creatures (squirrels, birds, insects, etc) outside your dwelling understand it w/o a hitch. ANY ideology that does that to portions of the most advanced species on the planet, should be treated as dangerously radioactive.

[@richber]

I'm fairly certain that Sylvester II's papal bull didn't mention the LGBTQ+ community in the US, Canada, Great Britain, or Australia ca. 2020AD.

[@jaymartinson3236]

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[@Slokkatron]

Reminds me of a quote that a former boss of mine had framed and hanged up on his office wall. While I cannot recall exactly what it said, I do remember it stated something in the lines of: "When we read history we tend to put on glasses of our current time, and thus our reading of history is always skewered."

[@Wills.musicpage]

Metatron, I applaud you for presenting your arguments with logic and research. And, I understand the amount of work that you do to be as factually complete as possible... So thanks for that as well... Oh... And as far as that a$$hat calling you a cult leader... If you're leading a cult based on logic and common sense, sign me up!

[@metatronyt]

I appreciate thanks

[@logicplague]

Wait, what? The guy who runs that channel called Metatron a cult leader?

[@NefariousKoel]

The irony of calling someone a 'cult leader' when the creator has obviously been indoctrinated into a cult.

[@shnorkeythefourth4572]

So when’s the sacrifice brothers? My week is lookin pretty boring

[@logicplague]

@@shnorkeythefourth4572 Bob's gone to get the pig now, but we're having trouble rounding up the consecrated Earth.

[@VultureXV]

Astroturfing history sounds like something straight out of 1984.

[@mansfieldtime]

13:50 "Did you know training with men makes you gay?" Tell that to a Marine. I DARE YOU.

[@rushthezeppelin]

Ikr, what happened to the born this way rhetoric lol. On the other hand, the Navy......

[@kingleech16]

These are the same kinds of folks who can’t understand the idea of friendship. If two guys are friends or comrades, one or both of them simply MUST be gay.

[@socalchago]

You dare us? Why? How does this imaginary Marine respond in this lurid fantasy of yours?_ I suppose this imaginary Marine is male? Straight? So insecure that when a stranger asks him a ridiculous question that he responds with reflexive violence?

[@Theiscariotsin]

@@kingleech16alright, cat’s out of the bag guys. The entire boy scouts is gay apparently

[@lc3853]

Infantry taught me that training with men doesn't make you gay .... I MAKE YOU GAY.

[@McCowski]

Also, how does the guy explain the unprecedented number of deaths of despair we're witnessing right now? That's a first for the world. And that's a product of our modern world.

[@sgt_slobber.7628]

This is why I can trust The Metatron, He does his homework, and calls it the way it was w/out injecting Modern political culture into it!!!!!;);)🙏🙏🙏

[@logicplague]

"Logical, intelligent, and progressive" aren't exactly things I attribute to "woke". Based on my observation it is, as he says, world's apart from those.

[@fattiger6957]

Woke is political extremism. Any form of political extremism is illogical, stupid and authoritarian. Right or Left.

[@EIA-Observer]

I had the exact same though, also a clear statement of his sociopolitical beliefs.

[@HazardousWaste-rm7ng]

Thank you, Metetron, for continuing to hold the line. You remain a becon of reason and truth in a time of ideological obfuscation. And as someone who has personally experienced the frustration of being involuntarily lumped into the current highly politicised concept of the 'LGBT Community' I truly appreciate and commend you for your sense, accuracy, honesty and courage.

[@Quandry1]

The community as we call it in modern terms was formed specifically for political clout and it's why other groups latch onto it. Groups that realistically probably be rejected for their subversive or blatant opposition to the group they are latching onto.

[@sm5574]

"People in the medieval age were stupid and dirty and superstitious. Thankfully we're so much smarter than them. They were also accepting of homosexuality. We could learn a lot from them."

[@logicplague]

"Use promo code "woke" to get 5% off your first psychic taro card astrology reading!"

[@PedroCouto1982]

I'm curious: What's the point of sending "comments" that only have excerpts from the video (found in the transcription)?

[@valhallamma687]

​@@PedroCouto1982they feel it's an important thing to highlight which is okay

[@user-wi9hv2pb2q]

😂

[@sm5574]

@@PedroCouto1982, my comment is a paraphrase. You will not find it in the transcript.

[@ryvirkelley5047]

Thank you Metatron for speaking the truth!

[@metatronyt]

Anytime

[@ArgentLeftovers]

His psychic ad read started and my brain evacuated the premises....it had quite enough.

[@tlilmiztli]

People at every possible point in history always think they are the most advanced and progressive. For people in middle ages they were the most advanced. For people couple hundreds years from now we will appear quite primitive. Anyways, Metatron, if by a chance you read this comment and you are looking for a subject for some of your next videos - it would be great to hear about longevity of people in Middle Ages. I really love your videos - very well researched every time! Greetings from Mexico!

[@thefriesens1071]

And this is why Progressivism doesn't work. It's not based on any eternal foundation. It's based on the last thing they know.

[@garthgourdon643]

The year 1000 myth can be so blatantly disproved by one thing; not everyone agreed it was the year 1000. Calendars are NOT perfectly constant, consistent, infallible absolutes that everyone keeps track of the same way.

[@GeekNewz]

14:27 It's nice that he also forget that there was no proof and that the Templars were acused of that stuff because the king of France didn't want to pay his debt

[@bigcrackrock]

"OMG they're like totally notsees" -King Phillip IV

[@sylviamaresca8852]

That's totally correct

[@KaiHung-wv3ul]

He must think they genuinely worshipped Satan and hated Christianity. The Templars of all people. Phillip IV wanted a convenient excuse to confiscate the wealth and not have to pay them money and everyone went along with it because their wealth and influence undermined the kings' authority. The rest are merely justifications.

[@juliarman]

0:44 The Dr. Strangelove impression is spot on

[@egm01egm]

As a Ukrainian living in Kyiv, I confirm that the modern world is safe and accepting. I even have the internet in the basement I use as a bomb shelter where I watch this video, isn't this a safe and accepting world we have dreamed of?

[@flameguy3416]

Absolutely! The LGBTQAIP++ community is thriving all around the world, especially in the Middle East!

[@vinz4066]

​@@flameguy3416 Even in Western societys there are still a Lot of Homophobs. Just because its legal doesnt mean that people cant be Dicks about it.

[@Asterion_Mol0c]

​@@MasakiyomiGood

[@tlavelle9232]

Slava Ukraini. Hang in there

[@longiusaescius2537]

@Masakiyomi you're not Japanese and you're not an anime girl

[@jacavaloncross6744]

Huh, Metatron likes Penguin0.

[@metatronyt]

Absolutely 👍🏻

[@LatimusChadimus]

@fI1cker well as a moderator you realistically can only delete comments and put people in a Timeout during a live stream. I'm moderate many channels, it doesn't make me a partner

[@chrismiksworld]

Channels and people like the one talked about here where Myths and falsehoods are regurgitated under Political bias are growing more and more and Channels and people like Metatron are slowly but surely being pushed aside in the hopes of Changing History as we know it. Thank God for people like Metatron and others who think Objectively Logically and with as little Bias as possible and LOVE History for what it was not what they wish it was.

[@Lerbrandt]

Why do you capitalize words when it is grammatically wrong to do so?

[@chrismiksworld]

Because I Feel Like It @@Lerbrandt

[@ArmyScoutMom]

Dude, you had me literally laughing out loud, really loud! 😂🤣🤣

[@AlisSpark]

Thanks for this video. In other circles this would be called a peer review.

[@r1madbrit]

As usual, a decisive, accurate and perfect analysis of the idiots trying to shape us and our world.

[@keturahspencer]

Thanks for the warning 😂. I died at the sponsor. 😅😂

[@metatronyt]

Anytime 😄

[@m.h.w.weckseler]

13:49 It's funny. On the one hand people from the alphabet community get upset if you suggests that a lesbian wants to sleep with every woman, including her friends. "Lesbians can have friends to, you know?" And on the other hands, they always assume that just because two women spend a lot of time together in movies or what not, that they must be a couple. "Oh, come on, they even spend the night in the same hotel room. They are clearly lovers, how dense are you?" (The same also goes for the other letters than L.)

[@elisehalflight]

To be fair that happens with straight people too, have a boy and a girl spend too much time together and people will start believing they're going out no matter how platonic their relationship is. Hell, this is why boys and girls become ashamed of hanging with each other in elementary school

[@mistsmogguru8378]

Everywhere I go there's someone claiming that the end is nigh. To be safe, I no longer associate with anyone called 'Nigh' !

[@PeterGembrowski]

Metatron, that short clip of you on the horse, flanked by men in armor, was so cool I’ve never seen it before. Keep up the good videos

[@timwhite5562]

There was a "history of" podcast about a decade ago. It focused on the UK, but i can't remember the exact name, and there were a few at the time. There was a "history of England" and a "history of Britain", i can't remember which one. What i do remember was how frustratingly stupid it became once it got to the Romano-British period. I remember it started with the creator saying "but you might say 'whatever his name was' the Romans were just a group that ripped off the Greeks and stole everything they had, and anything that was good about them they stole from other people. And to you i would say 'peach on.'"😳 This is when my face instantly went🤨. From that point on it stopped being anything close to a history education, and became one of the first times i came across true "historical advocacy." Whenever something from a ancient writer came up, be it tacitus, Cassius Dio, Herodian, etc. His process of determining what was true versus what was propaganda or myth was literally: if spoke of the Britains in a positive light, then it was clearly true, if it spoke positive of the Romans, it was myth and propaganda. I finally had enough and unsubscribed all together after hearing a round table discussion with other history podcasters to discuss whether Rome really had as much impact on the world as we think, or is it all bunk. Clearly his opinion was the latter. The entirety of his argument as to why Rome really didn't add much to Western culture as people thing was boiled down to: they were mean. All he talked about was how they enslaved people, made people fight in the arena and were (in his almost childishly narrow minded opinion) were exceptionally blood thirst, far more then everyone else. When one other person started to list off just the obvious signs of their impact, like roads, infrastructure, etc. The guys literally whining retort was "yeah but John, they put millions of people into slavery, they had gladiators killing each other." It was insanely stupid. He literally didn't present a single hard fact that lent any weight to this idea that Rome's impact was minimal, it was all "feelings." He also was under the strange idea that other people weren't as violent as Rome. Every time some comment about Britains being violent, or the druid's sacrificing Roman officers, he dismissed it as exaggerations and propaganda. This was back in 2012 or 13, before this kind of thing became something of a norm, so it was staggering to hear. The fact that pretty much everyone were just as capable of violence as the Romans were, but the Romans just happened to have been more successful in it's implementation didn't even cross his mind. He kept going over how Rome leaving Britain was such a big deal because Britannia was the "Crown jewel" of the Roman's provinces.🙄 What was most disheartening was to go read the reviews. Most were saying how they always wanted to know more about history, but most classes they found boring and how great it was to find something that made history interesting. I felt Cassandra yelling to everyone that the guy is not teaching them history, he's just advocating.

[@ossoduro7794]

Thanks for offering a balanced alternative that challenges such sophistry.

[@JonathanTRomero]

I just finished a book about the siege of Malta in 1565, and there were a lot of old men involved in it.

[@sevenproxies4255]

The town of Bath was named "Bath" for a reason

[@robert2salley894]

Have started to appreciate your channel with each video watched. Particularly enjoy your use of humor to soften your criticiziums.

[@elralinde1504]

As always, thank you Metatron

[@Umcarasemvideo]

3:38 Renaissance what!? 4:25 My boy really commited to shoot for both sides huh? Gotta keep them on their toes!

[@Sobetoolcobain]

Thank you for calling out this politicized misinformation Metatron 🙏 Also I think you should shame that channel, that person is profiting off of spreading half truths, lies and misinformation. Seems pretty shameful to me 🤷 P.s. love your videos 👍👍

[@exantiuse497]

KZbin, and social media in general, is full of people profiting massively from spreading lies. If you're appalled by this, please don't look into the finance/economics KZbinrs; you'll get a heart attack upon seeing the scumbaggery

[@Sobetoolcobain]

​@@exantiuse497 yeah I'll take your word for it 😂

[@ryanstephenson7312]

It's not an attack, you came across his channel and he's wrong. Saying he's wrong is not an attack. I'm so tired of people claiming they're being attacked because they're being proven wrong.

[@jackwu-y4u]

Bravo, Metatron.Keep up the good work, and the lucidity you often bring to the foerground.

[@lenathenurse9234]

I’ve been holding out on subscribing for a few reasons, but this one made me do it. 😄 you have my respect.

[@darkaxel1991]

I was taught in school that the Dark Ages were generally considered to be the period of time between the fall of Western Rome and the beginning of the Crusades, or if the textbook was Anglo-centric, the Norman conquest of England. It hasn't been until recently that I've started to hear "Dark Ages" used interchangeably with the Medieval period.

[@NefariousKoel]

Same. The "Dark Age" was the post-Western Roman Empire until around the end of the Viking period when they became largely Christianized and settled into the European norm. As far as I learned it. After that, the rest of the Medieval Period was the 'Middle Ages'.

[@thegodofalldragons]

You haven't heard it used like that before because only stupid people do that.

[@ShawnKavanagh]

@@NefariousKoel They didn't want to acknowledge my boys, Genghis and Kublai

[@jamesking1495]

R U gen X? That would explain it.

[@vladprus4019]

I've also heard the usage of "dark ages" as in "we're in the dark" due to decline of the number of sources in the early medieval period (or course "high" and late medieval periods weren't part of it) and also being used in the similar way to refer to some periods of the Greek history (like after the Bronze age collapse). Nowadays, historians tend to not use the term what so ever, because it is sttill painting the whole periods in the negative light which isn't a desirable thing when you try to actually understand it.

[@CatarinaAG]

I love ur channel. I am also a historian interested in Ancient History, specially Romans and Celts. It’s a very original and different channel and so intelligent and useful information I get here! Congrats man!

[@brunolima7402]

That channel was vomit inducing , seriously, woke trash mindset trying to explain the medieval age... hope no one takes that person seriously. Generally i find your debunking of these atrocious channels amusing but this one was quite sad to watch.. so many good content creators featuring historical times with less than 100k subs and that one with almost 250k... unfair.

[@GameTavern2224]

Perhaps we can fix that

[@Sir_Gerald_Nosehairs.]

You could discount him as serious the minute you heard him say Bye-zantine...

[@blindknitter]

When he marched back to the screen in full armour I cracked up.

[@str.77]

A strange reasoning: the Vikings might have been robbers, murderers and rapists but at least they bathed more often, so who are the Anglo-Saxons to call them "barbarians".

[@jeanmachine9943]

Huge shout out to Metatron! I’ve learned a wealth of information from you. I enjoy listening to you as I learn so much and wanted to say Thank You.

[@apodis4900]

Metatron I love you. To see someone like you dismantle this bollocks is glorious. I wish I could do what you do, but I’ll happily settle for watching you do it. Bloody marvellous ❤

[@dr1742]

I could watch the Metatron and listen to his wisdom, knowledge, and humor all day. A great individual with knowledge I hope is committed to every form of documentation as well as to a trusted student for history and posterity.

[@Natasha___.]

Such an eloquent, reasoned, well presented response to that sham of a channel. I'm so glad this popped up in my recommended, you've earned a sub from me! (lucky you! lol) I think I was in agreement with just about every point you made, can't wait to take a deep dive through all of your uploads and see what else is in store.

[@SuperNovaSirius]

Thanks for sticking up for gay, lesbian and bi people that are not part of the 'LGBTQ community'. We still exist and hate to be grouped together.

[@katiekittycat6140]

Thanks for another great video. It seems to be getting harder to find high quality content about history that isnt infused with modern politics and presentism.

[@SARGE11963]

I love the way you call garbage garbage with poise. Damn fine job as usual! Noble One for life!

[@lovesees4320]

9.48. Not only that, but we are constantly doing atrocities here in this modern age...must I lust them😢

[@ardynamberglow3124]

I've always personally ascribed to the idea of "You can't look at history with a modern lens--you need to look at it through the perspective of the people at the time" You can't really analyze medieval history with knowledge of 2023, or whatever, you have to analyze it with the understanding of 1000, or 1200, or whatever time frame. You can't say "Well if X had done Y, they wouldn't have had Z" because that's not what they had at the time. Or maybe, they did try it, and it didn't work.

[@LoneStarWomanInACajunWorld]

Ok, so I am fairly new to your channel. So I know off subject, but I really like that top you wear in a lot of your videos. It reminds me of them old portraits of people in paintings I have seen. I think that is perfect for you to wear while you talk about history. You have a very classical aesthetic to your look. Just been wanting to tell you that. I will go unpause the video now to watch.

[@metatronyt]

Thank you. It’s a late 15th century arming doublet based on the painting of Piero della Francesca from Tuscany. It’s what you wear underneath plate armour. So it’s Medieval military attire. Not sure how it makes me look atheist but I’m glad you like it. Thanks for commenting.

[@FtFb1]

​@@metatronytI think he probably meant classical aesthetic. Keep up the good work, I love your videos👍

[@metatronyt]

@@FtFb1 Oh I see! Yes I think you are probably right.

[@LoneStarWomanInACajunWorld]

​@metatronyt oh so sorry my spell check is awful! I meant aesthetic. So sorry. 😅

[@LoneStarWomanInACajunWorld]

​@@FtFb1thank you, you're right. I will go fix that. ❤

[@LeahIsHereNow]

I do this to myself way too often, but sometimes you have to shine light on ignorance to expose it.

[@deb9711]

It make me angry to see how many different factions nowdays are manipulating, denying or completely rewriting the past to suit their own narratives. Surely we need to preserve as much of the facts about our history as possible. How do we learn not to make similar mistakes, or appreciate what was good and simple, what they did better than us. When we make up shit were doing it to stroke our own egos or condemn others. It benifits nobody in the end. Thank YOU Metatron for always being the voice of reason. 🙏

[@RaptorJesus]

Except nigh-everyone thinks they *are* preserving the facts. Very few people set out to actively lie and misinform. There aren't a ton of organized cabals seeking to "manipulate" history. About the only one I could point to as genuinely attempting to distort the facts is nonsense like the Confederate apologists and "Lost Cause"-ers.

[@stephanieortiz6900]

I'm so happy I found this channel lol. I freaking LOVE your content! My 11 yr old son and I like to watch your videos and then set a time aside to discuss what we learned, we both like the way you give us the facts and when your opinion is said, YOU SAY THAT ITS YOUR OPINION! There's like no channels anywhere and literally anything, that isn't tainted with woke political bullsh*t

[@extofer]

as a gay guy, it is a little offensive for this Medieval Madness guy to basically say “these guys hung out often so being gay was accepted in this society”. If that was a thing, homosexually historically would never have been controversial. lol

[@Socraticstatic44]

This noble one is my most shared channel to my children and they love it. Truth, logic and reason are the benchmark we should all be striving for. Thank you sir.