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 👊❤️🇸🇪

[@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

[@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

[@johnnygreenface]

​@@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.

[@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 👍

[@bilanovitch]

One point that always gets missed is that the fact that taking baths was not very convenient for much of the year does NOT mean that they didn't WASH or cleanse themselves in other ways.

[@melinda6921]

Indeed. When my parents were children they didn't have hot water and the only heated rooms were the kitchen and bedrooms, so in winter they washed with sponges in the kitchen, where there was a wood stove, using hot water in basins . They could only bathe when it was warm enough, with heated water brought from the kitchen. Modern people are too snobbish and used to every comfort, they seem unable to even conceive of the fact that there are so many ways to wash that don't include having a heated bathroom at home.

[@IamOutOfNames]

@@melinda6921 My family has summer cottage in the countryside with traditional Finnish sauna, that means no running water, there's just a large bucket next to the stove for washing yourself with. If you want warm water you better chop enough firewood and start heating early...

[@texasbeast239]

Yeah, I don't see Greenlandic Vikings/Norsemen taking a plunge in frozen ice water every night. If a bucket sponge bath counts for them, then so ought it for anyone elsewhere.

[@charlottemuracka4302]

I have gone on pilgrimage several times in Poland. The walks in general consisted of 9 days on foot and then bedding down in barns that kind farmers lent to us on the way. Sometimes we found creeks to wash in. Sometimes we took a basin of water and sponge-bathed in private corners. The result? We did not stink too bad, at least at the beginning of the day, and my acne improved. I found out that over-washing is bad for the probiotics in your skin, and I looked much better after learning to be frugal with soap and washing when needing it. I also went to washing my hair once a week, which greatly improved its lustre.

[@noneatall9060]

When I was at Mt Fuji in 1983 after an earthquake that severed our fresh water pipes, I still "showered" in the rain. I believe "medieval" people could adjust as well, if not better.

[@rogervandusen8361]

I once had a coworker that believed that no one lived to old age in past periods. I tried to explain about infant mortality and how that would skew the stats regarding life expectancy. It was like talking to a rock.

[@joejones9520]

yes, average life expectancy thruout most of human history was 10 yrs old, if that meant everyone died around ten we wouldnt be here.

[@IamOutOfNames]

True, lot of people are lacking in general education and don't understand basic consepts like averages, can't have discussion with someone like that.

[@RebeccaOre]

It’s all too common a belief. If you survived infancy and for males adolescence and for females, too early childbearing, you’d probably make to your sixties or older.

[@willfakaroni5808]

Even without infant mortality people still died relatively young, if you lived in England or wales during the 1841 the average life expectancy was 57, that during the middle of the medical revolution and in the most prosperous nation in the world at the time

[@minizimi3790]

@@willfakaroni5808 I assume that stat is ignoring infant mortality rates? That isn't too clear with how you wrote it.

[@actuallyKriminell]

Don't we all love it when history is rewritten and reinterpreted to further a political agenda

[@Fuk99999]

You either get “Greeks were all totally homosexuals and that’s why homosexuality is totally normal” or you get “Atlantis was real and was the home of the white race” It’s wild

[@diannt9583]

From Left or from Right - it is entirely a horrid shame. Don't kid yourself - they all do it.

[@atom6799]

history has always been an interpretation through the bias of those who write it no matter if it was just yesterday, or a 1000 years

[@correctpolitically4784]

​@@actuallyKriminellno . R1b hunted Mammoth in Russia and found its way all the way to the west of ireland. From there we covered the planet. Those are verifiable facts.

[@6Haunted-Days]

Yea we’re seeing a TON of that in lovely FloriDUH 🙄😂…..just unbelievable BS ignorance…..

[@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

[@Garret141076]

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

[@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.

[@exlibrisas]

Metatron, you have BALLS of steel. You aren't afraid to fight nonsense. I'm dumb as a rock and I cannot win any arguments when I try arguing against BS online. You do and with confidence. You have my huge respect.

[@metatronyt]

Thanks for the support 👍🏻

[@Dack.howaboutyou]

@@metatronyt Oh exlib and Metatron, my bros... i love you, but i gotta say it, 'that old chestnut' about arguing with idiots and how it brings you down to their level where they will defeat you by being more experienced at it. HEh. Resist the temptation! I know it's hard! i see misinfo and it boils my blood and i want to shout at them, shake the world and most of all correct the spread of falsehood to promote understanding of truth-based history, so that we can make better decisions in present & future... so i know how you feel, but sometimes... sometimes it's just not worth giving any attention to such stupidity or 'problematic' people/things/actions. Any attention at all can sometimes be worse than ignoring it. I still love you though and i'm saving up to get a bronze AND a silver noble one ring; i love the design, i love the message, i love the channel and i want to have options for different outfits too. i'm not even a jewelry guy. i own a single necklace that is relatively nice and only wear on special occasions when dressed fairly nicely... that's my only jewelry currently (though i do also consider that i wouldn't mind having some rings/chains that could be dual-purpose, style as well as currency-at-need... those would be plain pieces without sentiment or much ornamentation of useful metals rather than decorative objects). i've been looking at tons of rings over the last.. i dont know +10 years, trying to find something that jumps out at me and hadn't found one really that had enough "significance", in combo with everything else, i guess you could say, till i saw the Noble One truth ring and said "that's it, that's the one i must get (besides a wedding ring, hopefully). :)

[@robertmcdougall1144]

@@Dack.howaboutyou I disagree. Allow me to add another old adage "Repeat a lie often enough and it becomes the truth”. Misinformation like that espoused by Historical Madness propagated for so long because they have not been challenged and instead ignored or censored.

[@ScrappyXFL]

"...dumb as a rock..." my ass. You're educating yourself on your own. That means you're smarter than most people. 👍

[@BlacksmithTWD]

Well, at least you know how to give someone a compliment. A rare gift in these days, you might be smarter than you give yourself credit for.

[@Frank_Costanzas_Lawyer]

That content creator did get one fact irrefutably correct: their channel _is_ madness.

[@texasbeast239]

Muh-muh-muh-muh-muh-muh mad madness 🎶

[@Gerald-of-Riviera]

​@@texasbeast239solid song

[@alexeytsybyshev9459]

Madness... THIS IS SPARTA!

[@ScrappyXFL]

Dis? kzbin.info/www/bejne/jXjXXmuXmd6UmM0

[@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.

[@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.

[@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.

[@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.

[@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.

[@Readrose8]

Yes 😂😅

[@ryandevan2793]

Plus no reputable historian talks like that!

[@TheClassicalSauce]

I like that you've coined the term "presentism", which is rampant among modern scholars and college students who won't even listen to primary sources about a given topic if it disagrees with their assumptions about the past. They will literally assume that they are the one's who know better than the human being (who by and large was educated and intelligent due to the fact that he was literate and his work has survived, meaning others found extraordinary value in it) who is telling us the way things were at the time. It blows my mind. Yes, some of these things can be unbelievable, as in the case of The Histories by Herodotus, but shouldn't we at least give him the benefit of the doubt rather than dismissing him outright? After all, he was there, and we know Herodotus wasn't a fool. It bears at the least an open mind and serious investigation. Keep up the good work!

[@ClockworkWyrm]

I mean, Metatron didn't COIN the term, he's using it because it's a known logical fallacy. It shockingly common so it's great to see it actually called out though.

[@peterc3262]

It was actually the first thing we were taught not to do when I studied ancient history. I think it was during university orientation. It's so basic that it was drummed into before we even began to read sources.

[@TheLawDawg]

Keep up the great work Metatron. Maybe in 1000 years someone will study your videos and correctly conclude that people in the past were not all idiots.

[@treeckoniusconstantinus]

Truly embodies a terminal case of presentism, someone who no doubt makes countless arguments based on "It's the current year." Whenever I hear "progress," I often can't help but recall Chesterton's words, "Progress is a metaphor from merely walking along a road-very likely the wrong road."

[@ImperialSenpai]

What’s that from? “The reactionary is always willing to take a progressive attitude on any issue that is dead.” ~Teddy Roosevelt

[@insertnamehere8121]

The west is decades into the broad no thought conditioning that more current within the linear timeline by default equals superior to all of that which came before. If this absurd assumption were true, than no-one could make inferior life choice in the next minute, day, week, month, year, etc than they had prior. Which we know is an absurd position. But understanding that requires a understanding driven personality type and intellectual ability to analyze and deconstruct what they are attempting to condition into your skulls. A LOT of people either don't have these raw qualities, or they're too lazy to care about examining beliefs before they adopt them. Its a combination of both within the BULK of the common population. Lastly, heres a direct glaring example of the complete b.s. that is the 'progress' narrative: The west has access to more information and data than its even had, and both are more easily accessible than they've ever been to any peoples EVER. Yet America houses DROVES of citizens that cant comprehend, write or perform on a level remotely comparable to the chief founders of their own country that died over 200 years ago. 200 years of flipping _progress_ , and huge tracts of the citizenry cant even read or comprehend on a level that allows them to understand the works and intentions of the people that founded their flipping country.

[@treeckoniusconstantinus]

@@ImperialSenpai Orthodoxy, chapter 7.

[@ImperialSenpai]

@@treeckoniusconstantinus Thanks.

[@werrkowalski2985]

@@ImperialSenpai What does that even mean? Is he saying that reactionaries want to change things that are settled (dead)? Or that they want to progress into a restoration of the old (dead) order? The first is just arbitrary, the second is true, indeed, for something to remain the same it must change. Some reactionaries who want a restoration of old ideas but in a new way call themselves futurists.

[@oleksandrbyelyenko435]

Man, the first thing my Uni professor told us at Medieval History class that what we heard are all myths. People had advanced engineering and art. And culture overall was developed

[@GreatSageSunWukong]

We are all standing on the shoulders of giants, everything we have today is an advancement of what people created in the past, from the wheel, came the cart, from the cart came the bicycle, from the bicycle came the motorbike that sort of thing, I can't believe how anyone can argue otherwise, I did car mechanics in college and one of the first things we were taught is how rudimentary and ancient the principle of the internal combustion engine is, its not that much of a step up from Thomas Newcomens invention in 1712.

[@alanmcbride6658]

We live in a Cultural year zero. All preceding history was a superstitious nonsense of hungry, dirty sub humans wasting their time before dying an early death. The arrogance and ignorance of Presentist Supremacists is 100%.

[@blarfroer8066]

Nah, let's believe that medieval castles were built by troglodytes.

[@justaminute3111]

Yeah, a lot of it was created by anti-Christian, anti-Catholic 19th century historians.

[@LoisoPondohva]

Well, advanced and developed are very relative and subjective terms and Medieval History encompasses a millennium of societies and time periods with very disparate levels and traditions of both technological and cultural development. So I would be surprised to hear that verbatim from a professor.

[@fetapi]

It's worth pointing out that an Islamic missionary (or their equivalent) visited Vikings in the Balkans, and in his writings he described them as disgusting. So it wasn't just the English being biased. He also mentioned how striking they were visually, being tall, pale, and blond. In case anyone tries to bring up black vikings that's useful to know. :)

[@davidbell1619]

WHAT! Achelles and Anne Boelyn weren't Negros?

[@moralityisnotsubjective5]

Some have suggested that was a case of culture posturing on his part.

[@moorek1967]

An Islamic MISSIONARY? Now THAT is really a revision of history.

[@dbio305]

@@moorek1967it is just history my friend

[@moorek1967]

@@dbio305 there never was such a thing as Islamic missionaries. There were swords and jizya on the dhimmis.

[@Sadlander2]

I'm 44 years old _(feels so weird typing this number and realising....whatever...)_ and I'm learning so much thanks to your channel. I never really cared for history when I was younger. I wish I had a teacher like you back then!

[@acekoala457]

+44 is my Favorite Blink-182 band.

[@noneatall9060]

I did have a teacher as passionate in high school (and he actually traveled to those countries, especially East Europe/Russia in the 70/80s), and I am 60 years old. I appreciate that teacher for my own passion for history. His experience added to the "official" histories the text books mandated. My subsequent military service helped as well.

[@ChristianGrape]

Jesus loves you

[@AndyJarman]

Wait till you're 62 now that IS weird.

[@jonfernandez8027]

Agreed. This platform is delightful, compelling, and holds infinite value. ❤

[@fattiger6957]

On the topic of "LGBT" in historical eras, Linfamy (great channel about lesser talked about subjects in Japanese history) brought up a good point. To people in historical Japan (as well as probably most pre-modern places and eras) sexuality was not an identity. It was an action and/or a preference. A man may have preferred sleeping with other males (often times, much younger males) but he didn't identify as gay. He just liked what he liked, there was no question about his sexuality because people back then didn't think that way. He probably still got married and slept with his wife to have kids because that was his duty and it what was proper for a man. But he could still visit a male brothel (tea house)

[@sonoftheway3528]

@PipeRhymes Nah, don't deny how it was taboo to do anything gay in most Abrahamic cultures for a lot of history. It was straight up illegal to commit homosexual acts in some US states into the 21st century. And still is in many places like the Middle East.

[@ramoncruz1007]

The whole identity thing is a very new phenomenon, done specifically during a time where categories offer protected status from moral inquiry and/or moral condemnation. People today are more or less inserting their current political and moral beliefs into the past in cases where this is discussed.

[@spacelinx]

@@ramoncruz1007: In part, behaviors of any kind were classified during the developmental periods of the behavioral sciences like psychology and sociology so they’d all know what they’re discussing within their studies, circles of research, and later, patholigizing these classifications for therapies and treatments. Politicians and community grassroots movements politicized it all for their own gain.

[@Iluvantir]

It's a sad state of the world where ones identity is defined by ones preferences rather than ones whole character. It's a very narrow way to think about yourself. "Oh, I like men. I'm gay. Ergo, if you don't like homosexuality you have to HATE ME! WAAAA! That's not right! I'm being attacked!" Rather than just accepting it as a small facet of ones existence it becomes the whole of it. The only thing I "identify" as is a human male who believes in the Lord Jesus Christ. Everything else is just small, tiny pieces that make up the patchwork of my life. Some of it colourful, some in tatters... but it's still MY life. I wouldn't be grounding my self-worth on any one small part of it. That leads to complete unstableness in everything else that I could do or want to be.

[@Numbll]

younger males are usually children....

[@infoscholar5221]

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

[@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.

[@AoCGaming]

I really find a huge respect for you, you stick to history and what happend. People take this as maybe your "opinon" where it's just fact. Thank you for your content!

[@metatronyt]

Thanks

[@Sleepless4Life]

An opinion backed by factual evidence is a lot more credible than someone's waffle masked as an opinion.

[@TuorTheBlessedOfUlmo]

​@@Sleepless4Lifethe issue is those people really don't care and since they make assumptions on history based on their opinion and feelings they assume everyone else does. This happened with the Cleopatra nonsense.

[@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.

[@wuzzlebottom]

The heinous crime of the Templars was not handing their wealth over to Phillip the Fair.

[@kittehgo]

Also some people had borrowed money from the templars, and didn't really feel like paying back.

[@williamgunderson7365]

According to some they (the Templars) got their ultimate revenge against the French Monarchy in the form of the first French Revolution. Jacobins perhaps??? 😅

[@maryhildreth754]

Thats the guy who would refer to the Zulus as African Americans.

[@EIA-Observer]

I don't know why, but I find this comment hilarious.

[@batteredwarrior]

*Zulus

[@maryhildreth754]

@@batteredwarrior thanks. I'll correct that. Didn't notice the mistake.

[@girl4granted]

😂

[@Србомбоница86]

Omg yes 😂😂😂

[@jennifer2071]

I’m not sure if this is your field or not, but I’d LOVE for you to do a video on the theory of “two spirited” Native American people. As a half Native American myself (Apache and Cherokee) I’ve NEVER heard of this “being” or myth from my elders. And trust me, the elders LOVE to talk and spread the truth about our tribes histories, customs and myths. For example; I’m very well aware of Deer Lady, or Stakinis, or Little People/Children, or the Thunderbird, or even skin walkers (although my tribe calls them by a different name and honestly I’m not supposed to talk about them or even mention their name or it’ll bring misfortune to me and I’ve had a bad string of luck lately as it is lol I’m not risking it) There’s many more myths and legends, yet I’ve NEVER heard or read or been told about this “two spirit” being. But the LGBTQs have latched onto this “new” myth (new to me at least) and use it relentlessly. They’ve even added it to their lgbt alphabet soup! WTH?! Natives are very protective of their culture and legends and I’m sure they wouldn’t want this one, if it’s accurate anyway, used as a political symbol and a part of their agenda and rhetoric. It’s very disrespectful frankly. But what’s even more weird is this, NOW, all of a sudden, when you google this “two spirit” being, there’s all kinds of articles and explanations. And even a native tribes website has information about it now but it’s obviously been recently added. I guess this particular tribe wants to be hip to the woke mob? And to be clear, I have NOTHING personal against the LGBTQ+ community. At all. You do you. If your happy? Great. Happy for you. Just don’t seek MY approval or affirmation. My opinions and beliefs are my own. Yours are yours. Respect that. But I do believe as US citizens, we all have a right to express ourselves as we wish, love who we wish, and believe in whatever we wish. Just don’t push that onto people who are unwilling to accept your own views and reality, and DO NOT attack them if they don’t succumb or “bend the knee” Anyway, I recently discovered your channel. And as an avid history fanatic myself (ESPECIALLY ancient histories) I think this channel is amazing. I’ve been binging your videos since yesterday. Indigenous American histories such as the Aztec and Mayan empires and my own ancestral Native American histories are my favorite. But I also LOVE European and Egyptian history. (Especially Egypt, I find it fascinating how their empire being so far in distance and time to the Mayans and Aztecs but still have so many similarities.) Just thought I’d make a request as a new subscriber. This whole two spirit being has myself and even my Uncle (one of the many story tellers I know) baffled. Who knows? If this is indeed true and exactly as the LGBTQs say, then im happy to learn something new… and it would be pretty awesome to school my uncle on our history for once too lol Have a great day!

[@ozramblue117]

Even when you’re passionately tearing someone down you still come off as wholesome. That’s skill! 😅

[@TimmsMJ]

That's truth.

[@some_random_wallaby]

Or rather, it's integrity.

[@ozramblue117]

@@some_random_wallaby you can have integrity and not be likeable. Quite a different thing. Though I agree he does.

[@crimsoncutz8430]

At this point half the reason I come to this channel is to see what kind of insanity other channels are spewing without having to suffer through scouring their videos myself. And "Renaissance woke culture" is definitely one of the kinds of insanity ever

[@MeglynLad]

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

[@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

[@feasogachsionnach1872]

Honestly at this point, KZbinrs like Medieval Madness make me wanna start making my own history videos.

[@dioniscaraus6124]

Go ahead I already subbed

[@scenariiecranizatecu]

Go ahead mate!

[@AyeliaGDoren]

Same, I'm hardly a historian, just someone who loves to read and I could do better than that.

[@williamhall3043]

Do it, belled subbed!

[@scenariiecranizatecu]

@@AyeliaGDorengo for it! we need more history content from passionate people!

[@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.

[@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.

[@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.

[@gund2281]

I don't literally facepalm myself very often...most of the time, like the majority of us I'm sure, I basically do it mentally. Then I'll make a comment about something being a "facepalm moment"...the tarot cards thing actually made me damn near collapse my skull from "facepalming" so hard. It wasn't even voluntary...as soon as I saw it my palm, as if tethered to my forehead and driven by a jet engine, simply smashed itself in to my facial area...it actually still hurts.

[@mannypardo1080]

We tried to warn you.

[@LatimusChadimus]

🥇

[@SchizophrenixTheGaul3478]

And yet, he still does it. He suffers for us. Like Jesus but it's for our entertainment instead of sin.

[@MichaelM-kt2hq]

As soon as I heard the word woke I knew... Metatron, we Thank you for your sacrifice and fighting the good fight.

[@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.

[@Timenaught]

Metatron: “I’m not gonna do it…” Also Metatron: *goes full Crusader*

[@ScrappyXFL]

He wore a helmet and sword was there for ready 👍

[@NuLiForm]

also me...🙄...got me in trouble with youtube too...they filed a complaint against me even though i was very polite & the channel owner was Not. i took a screenshot to prove i was nice about it but...didn't matter..i didn't report them, i'm the one who got 'reported' thus..Daily harassed with censorship & popups...so..if you decide to go down those rabbit holes & correct anyone...be aware..they can bite ya in the arse....seems..truth is subjective here on youtuby. **falls on sword now**

[@Neformalis]

Stupidity truly has no limits. 😑

[@Rekhan4242]

I'm impressed, I didn't realize how dumb it could get and I'm only at 5:35 !

[@zeehero7280]

Einstein said it, so it's science!

[@censoredbybigbrother1175]

"But wait! There's more...."

[@Sephiroth144]

@@zeehero7280 "Two things that are infinite: The Universe and (Human) Stupidity... and I'm not sure about the first one." ~ Einstein, at least, according to Fritz Perls (German psychologist who know Albert)

[@IAteTheAntiChrist]

In this so called 'information age' people seem even more ignorant than ever.

[@mintoo2cool]

it’s very noble of metatron to assume that everyone is as honest as he is about uncovering the truth..

[@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!

[@thebigone6969]

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 👋

[@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."

[@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.

[@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 :-)

[@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.

[@brandonrossjr]

I'm glad someone is shedding light on this stuff. People watch those videos and believe false information.

[@logicplague]

Kyle Hill did a video recently on the AI generated pseudo-science channels and it got demonitized. If I didn't know better I'd think that KZbin wants this kind of misinformation out there and even promotes it, but surely they wouldn't do that...

[@BeenNoticing]

Interestingly enough, we can be assured that under Europe's new DSA(Digital Services Act) mass censorship proposal, channels like Metatron will get punished for spreading "misinformation" while channels like Medieval Madness will get preferential algorithmic promotion.

[@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.

[@jefferykubitz4510]

And this, Metatron, is why I'm so happy I found your channel. I've learned so much of real history from you. Keep teaching us. For example, I didn't know a knight could maneuver and run in a full suit of armor. You proved that they could. Again, thank you for your channel.

[@dizasteroid7]

KZbin would benefit from a community notes tab controlled by the actual community so that knowledgeable people can add proper context to these wild exxagerative claims being made by so called history channels like medieval madness.

[@NefariousKoel]

Nah, man. Just imagine the cause & effect. We know how much YT, and media in general, discriminate based on their own stances. This would just result in a bunch of fact-based peoples notes getting canned and the Intersectionalist cult being left to freely post their propaganda notes instead of facts. We all know it would go that way.

[@logicplague]

Can't have anyone undermining "tHa meSSaGe". I really hope we get this "private company, no 1A" BS hashed out in the next few years.

[@robertbeisert3315]

I would love it if we could have notes like: "Note from Metatron and other historians: No lol"

[@Overlord99762]

Reply videos back in the day were similar in nature

[@jamestarbet9608]

Most 'tubers will also say there needs to be a real way for them to work WITH KZbin, talk with living humans and actually resolve issues.

[@DeusRegum]

How does Metatron not have 1 million subscribers yet?! His content is pure EXCELLENCE!

[@metatronyt]

I appreciate that. To the million!

[@ark1567]

​@@metatronyt...and beyond!

[@_Caedwyn]

yea

[@Ext3rmin4tor]

Because he is rational, a man of culture, and tells the truth. A combination of things that many despise.

[@achimdemus-holzhaeuser1233]

He is close, and I am sad, I can only subscribe once. But I am spreading the good word.

[@craig-michaelkierce1366]

Metatron is, as always, very informative, caring, and well spoken. As an amateur historian, SCA Heavy Fighter(polearmer and spear) and fencer, and occasional referee for Armored Combat League events( similar to Battle of the Nations, or the History Channel's Knight Fight) I am very glad that I have found this site. Cheers...

[@lowlandnobleman6746]

Funnily enough, the way he presents Scotland is more accurate than the way he portrays England and Europe. Granted, he only accomplished that by not mentioning Scotland at all. Which is probably a good thing, seeing as how he’d probably start citing Braveheart as a primary source if he did mention Scotland.

[@Iluvantir]

Has he mentioned Wales at all? I dread to think, and certainly don't want to go check. I'm already annoyed at having been exposed to the little of his content that Metatron forced on us

[@Steve13C]

*clears throat* FREEDOM! sorry, obligatory.

[@caroleecochard9123]

😂

[@lowlandnobleman6746]

Goodness, I hope that channel has not butchered Welsh history. Cymru deserves better than that! Though I wouldn’t mind seeing Metatron cover Welsh or Scottish history. But truthfully, I am most excited for his next video on the ancient Celtic tribes.

[@Idahoinsider]

I like when he calls me noble

[@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

[@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

[@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.

[@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.

[@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.

[@joshuapreston7170]

I will not say what I think out of respect for metatron, but I will say that you deserve to be at 10 million subs for enduring those videos

[@TheRKG1337]

Why don't you Tell us what you think, it's the Internet , say what you want buddy

[@costa200]

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

[@martinbeckdorf4565]

Regarding the LGBTQ community part of the discussion I'd add that there wouldn't have been a "community" back then. At least not that I am aware of or can imagine. The danger of openly admitting your sexuality would have made it impossible to come into fluent contact with anymore than one person at a time who shares your sexual orientation.

[@metatronyt]

Absolutely, the community aspect of it is a 1990 thing, and even compared to that one, the current one has changed considerably.

[@Saeronor]

It fails to fulfill requirements of "community" even today, especially with arbitrary letters multiplication. "Subculture" is a much more fitting word.

[@fattiger6957]

Even in places where gay relationships and/or action were tolerated or even accepted, there was no "community", unless you count Japanese monasteries or male brothels.

[@4rtie]

Yeah, LGBTQ+ *people* have always existed, but being part of an LGBTQ+ community to achieve collective action and protection is a modern concept

[@4rtie]

@@mr.hazamayukiterumi sure, bud. There are definitely zero historical figures who didn't feel sexual drive and for sure none who'd presented themselves as the cultural gender opposite the one expected of them. With that attitude, if you were born in the 50's you'd likely be ignoring that historical gay and lesbian people existed at all while saying those who practiced homosexuality were simply misguided deviants. Be better than our forefathers. Have some sympathy. You've at least got it for some LGBTQ+ people.

[@davesmith7432]

Bottom feeders like this are a gold mine of easy content. Look at it that way, Met.

[@IAmFirstborne]

Somebody has to watch these ridiculous videos, and respond to them. You are doing great work Metatron. It sucks, but it must be done. Thank you for doing it.

[@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.

[@PhoenixRiseinFlame]

Metatron with the ironclad integrity. I need to improve my income to subscribe to his Patreon. This channel is a real breath of fresh air.

[@metatronyt]

Thanks!

[@LeonardAndHisBiscuit]

>The LGBT community saying that you're only born gay. >The LGBT community also saying that training with, battling with, and having genuine friendships with other men in the military made you gay. What do you want? What. Do. You. Want?

[@NuLiForm]

True Gay is from birth, the Science says so....but if you Choose that lifestyle it is a Preference....lol. Most gay folks i know also insist on this.(some of them go out of their way to hunt down & go ape shyte on pedos too, just because)...& we have all had our run in's with the 'woke' crowd who seems to ebb & flow whatever direction the wind blows....arg. What do they want?...seems obvious what they want...attention...and Lots of preferential treatment...which aint right.

[@matthewgordonpettipas6773]

The irony to me is how he says how we're open minded and accepting of everyone, when I feel, based on how he presents things and uses 'woke', that he probably wouldn't be too accepting of those who he disagreed with on political and social views. Presentism is annoying af. How can you take our modern way of seeing things and transport them to five hundred years ago or even before and truly believe they would agree with you? Even a hundred years from now our descendants will look back on us and think some of what we believed was backward lol.

[@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.

[@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.

[@biggerdoofus]

That comment about the samurai being known worldwide made me wonder when he was talking about. Like, how would anyone know what skills the samurai had when they had no contact with most of the world for most of their history and even no contact with any part of the world in some centuries?

[@katiebarber407]

by reading history books duh!

[@kyesickhead7008]

That intro is so painfully relatable.

[@jaymartinson3236]

I can vouch for your sponsor of this video. CuriosityStream is actually pretty good. Lots of interesting stuff to watch.

[@LatimusChadimus]

Everybody wants to create content, and get some attention, maybe some monetization, but not everybody's willing to put in the work and to keep an open mind, like you. This is why I like your Channel 👍🛎

[@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?

[@danielbrunelle6709]

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

[@MrTekdude]

I typically put your videos on in the background while I'm working or doing house or yard work and I immediately did a double take the moment I heard "renaissance woke culture".

[@flowerfield3468]

Another good term for Presentism - “Chronological Snobbery”, (conjured up by the author Louise Perry I believe)

[@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!!!!!;);)🙏🙏🙏

[@zackyoung6504]

Thank you for this video, because the guy’s section on Knights brings up something sinister about our age. While of course there were some historical cases of pederasty between younger boys and older men that were meant to be their mentors, the vast majority of history, especially European history, was not like this. This is something that has been happening since I was in school, but it’s so much worse now. Let me use LOTR for example. (SPOILERS) There’s been a running gag about the end of LOTR where Frodo and Samwise’s relationship had to be some kind of gay one because they show visible signs of affection towards each other. Now, any male affection or bonds of brotherhood, comradery, or of even love, is seen as male gayness. The left has essentially wiped out the concept that men could have bonds that are deeper than just activity sharing or friendship, and it’s done major damage to the concept of males bonding over significant events. It’s really terrible.

[@Iluvantir]

Agreed: all the more angering to me as LOTR was written by a devote Catholic who had very high moral and sexual standards... and they wish to insinuate that two of his most beloved characters were in a gay relationship. Infuriating. One can agree with JRR's stance or not: that's personal choice. But to have others accept your own opinions and choices, to turn around and force a change into a dead man's opinions and choices is beyond disgusting and hypocritical.

[@Steve13C]

You see the same with the film versions of Captain America and Bucky, and of course, it's empowering for the LGBTQ+ community as it gives them more heroes on the big screen, but it's also incredibly sad and says so much about our era that any form of male friendship that goes beyond sarcasm and snark is considered to be a sign of homosexuality. Our model of masculinity is broken, frankly.

[@catomacro1950]

As a female, and having read LOTR, I just love how Tolkien describes the deep bond and friendship between all the members of the fellowship. The movie did it credit. Not once did I ever think for a moment that there was any suggested homosexuality. On the contrary, I loved the bromance and deep loyalty and friendship. I was utterly appalled, shocked and angry when, few years later, I came across this whole effort by a small minority to twist Tolkien's work to suggest there was all this gayness going on. Power to all men who should be getting on with their male friends and comrades and get on with each other with deep friendship.

[@jimmyalfonda3536]

That goes beyond the left tbh. Our understanding of masculinity in America is a broken one that makes life miserable for men. It's been that way for a long time.

[@zerobyte802]

To me, it's more the advancement of hookup culture. Everything is about sex now. The concept of a deep emotional connection WITHOUT any copulation is incomprehensible nowadays. So no, you're not good friends you're gay. Same for women. If you've got a deep bond then you MUST have sex together. What's the point otherwise? 🙄

[@a-aron6724]

Metatron, i gain a lot of respect for you and your position on history. Youre seem very balanced in your thinking which seems rare these days

[@freddywizowski8605]

I don't recall ever seeing his videos. But I was subscribed to his channel. I corrected that situation. Thank you Metatron

[@ryvirkelley5047]

Thank you Metatron for speaking the truth!

[@metatronyt]

Anytime

[@AmyDaisy69]

I appreciate this video, we need more people like you who look at history objectively, and expose these charlatans. Rewriting history in this manner, or even at all, is very Orwellian, and it terrifies me. I get so tired of these woke people trying to shoehorn their ideology into everything. I am a lesbian and I, along with my partner, do not belong to the LGBT community. We are our own people and prefer to just get on with life and not belong to a cult. We are grateful to live in a time period where we can be ourselves without fear.

[@FlamingVaIIey]

We shall post our vigil against the waves of manipulators, what a corrupt movement hijacking noble ideals.

[@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.

[@unarealtaragionevole]

;o) "Renaissance Woke..." that's a new one. But I sill say the funniest of all time is on History Buffs review of the film Apocalypto when he says "...what I can only describe as time traveling conquistadors." I laughed so hard, I put this on a shirt!

[@defaultytuser]

LMAO!!!!

[@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.

[@pumacheyenne6823]

“…early renaissance WOKE culture…” I was sipping on some tea and almost did a spit take. 😂

[@ryandevan2793]

And any rational person would go: kzbin.info/www/bejne/a3fNiJhpZriSZsk

[@nikovidya7994]

Unfortunately channels with bad historical information aren't subject to any vetting besides other channels who might criticise them such as yours (thank you by the way!). People 200 years from now are going to be very confused about our perspectives on history.

[@KohDari]

Perfect timing. Just sat down.

[@tiffanyfree5135]

I do this with many of the comment sections, I genuinely try not to comment and correct people on their lunacy and yet I rarely can pull myself back. The truth is the truth and should be defended.

[@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."

[@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

[@analuciasequeiracastro9132]

Thanks for these videos, Metatron. I am using them in my English classes with my students for discussion. Your material is helping many of them to be critical thinkers and to be more cautious about believing everything people and media tell them. Great Job!