I watched up to 2.40 and so far the narrator has missed something important about this late 19th centruy utopia. That is was a fucking horrible place and time to live unless your were very wealthy.
@NoFaithNoPain Your use of the word "utopia" does not reflect what the narrator is saying. As for "a fucking horrible place and time to live", well, everything is relative, and nothing is as absolute as you are trying to make it. You are betraying neutral historical perspective.
You r amazing. the invention of religion u say is not true for the Biblical God of the prophets and apostles which is revealed; u r mistaken. darwin must be the byproduct of 19th c atheism u described. the rest of presentation is quite interesting and origial.
There was constant wars, rebellions, and revolutions throughout all the 1800s. Warfare wasn't all based upon religion, many were over resources and opening up new trade markets going back thousands of years. Plus this so called 'strong argument' of why we went to war with Germany is a total crock.
Could you make a post about 'Separation of Economy and State', there is a fundamental image of the near future (it's easier to think of possible policy outcomes) I can't put together? I am starting to watch more of your vids to feel out your views and I do like that you are going over history, I think hearing you and Thom Hartmann just ramble would be the best ever.
Why'd you pass the buck? I don't understand. Germans finance Lenin to take control of Russia, bu then you say it's because of America's involvement in war. I love your work, but it seems to me, that the Germans were responsible. For good or for bad. I'm not in love with American policy, by no means. But it seemed to me, an unfair "passing of the buck"...
I wonder if a closer observation of Luther might reveal a man in much the predicament you face. Namely the repudiation of entrenched [memes?] so that men might know that the government/Catholic church is not soverign. That whatever G-d/ government is, He/it only cooperates with men on the basis of grace/freewill and that He/it expects men to read/know for themselves. Where do ye differ?
I think political leadership happened within groups because it was a successful strategy. The larger your group, obviously, more likely is your success. Loyalty to aging leaders and clear pre-agreed upon succession traditions was a successful strategy. Infighting only weakens the whole. United we stand etc. Invented super beings played a role but not the central role which was organized violence and pillage. Divinely inspired bravery is useful.
...The 20th century was bloody BECAUSE of the radicals that were necessary to throw off the shackles of colonial empires, monarchies, and religion; these radicals (Communists, Syndicalists, Socialists, and even Republicans) were often violent and unstable, but 20th century violence was building during the 19th century (look at all the social unrest in the Aristocracies of Europe, and all the revolutions). The world is in a general climate of liberalization now because of these revolutions
As usual, your history is colored in a way that excludes specific fact and supports vague claims that are somehow supposed to support anarchism. Europe was at PEACE during the Rise and Fall of the Second French Empire? During German expansion under Bismarck? Italian Unification Wars? The 19th Century was filled with shorter wars between large Empires and filled Europe with cripples and orphans. Old-style slavery in the overtly chained-variety existed until 1960.
Stefbot - you were so far out with your facts here that it must have been a source of embarrassment to you when you looked back on it. I wonder whether you were genuinely mistaken or just making things up to try and validate your overall position.
Right from the off your statements were either distortions of the facts or simply incorrect.
Case in point:- your statement about the "unprecented century of peace in Europe between 1815 and 1914"
2/3 What about ..... 1913 - 2nd Balkan War 1912 - 1st Balkan War 1911 - Italo-Turkish War 1885 - Serbo-Bulgarian War 1877 - Russo-Turkish War 1870 - Franco-Prussian War 1866 - Austro-Prussian War 1864 - Second Danish-German War 1859 - Second Italian War of Independence 1856 - Crimean War 1848 - First Schleswig War 1848 - 1st Italian War of Independence 1833 - First Carlist War 1830 - Belgian Revolution & the November Uprising 1820 - Spanish Civil War 1828- Russo-Turkish War
Then there's your view that Lenin was brought in by Germany to topple the Tsar, when in fact theTsar actually abdicated months before Lenin entered Russia.
Also, in the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk in 1918 Germany imposed terms on Russia that were at the very least as 'harsh' as those you think were so unfair on Germany in Versailles.
Versailles didn't cause WW2 - it was the Allies failure to enforce the terms of the Treaty by allowing Germany to re-arm that was the problem.
@TheSmithDorian Lots of relatively minor conflicts, compare them to the 20th Century wars. States were too weak to have the all-out deathmatch that they would finally be able to enjoy in 1914.
They were minor compared to the WW's but the WW's were unlike anything ever seen before - or after. The only thing even remotely similar prior to 1914 were the Napoleonic Wars. My point is that 1814 - 1914 wasn't a century of peace - it was similar to most of the centuries preceeding it.
Freedomain Radio and Stefan Molyneux provides some of the clearest, logical analysis and critique of our contemporary world I've ever come across in my 45 years on this forsaken rock in space. Thank you. Please vote for Freedomain Radio at podcastawards com. under two categories 1) People Choice Award and 2) Education. Be sure to check your email address to validate your vote. (Voting ends Tuesday December 15th 2010)
To solve a mathematical or a physics problem, you use variables.
To solve the riddle of history and how we got to where we are now. You simply can not refuse to use a critically important variable (the jew lobby). Your solution/theory of history won't work. If out of fear you try to work around and blame others, and find other explanations you are acting cowardly. Why do they have so much power today, why? How? What's their history? What were they hated much and expulsed again and again? Why?
It´s sad. I´ve been a libertarian for 10 years, completely in defense of freedom, individual rights, but with all the respect, and I´m asking honestly, please, everybody, research the "Jewish Question". I say it with the best intentions.
Yes and no, the truth is communism is a Jewish movement.
With time I learned and read that it was a Jew coup´d etat against the Russians, they had a massive revenge, pure hate, against the Tsar family, killing their sons in front of them, killing all who oppose the jews, who were expelled, and murdering between 40 and 60 millions, mostly christians, they sucked the contry dry, as now they are using the US like a parasite to fight wars for them (Afganistan, Irak...).
I would like you to cite sources on where you read that it was a jewish coup'd etat?
Because I don't see where you could even begin to think that, considering communism is mostly non-theist. Are you suggesting that those in power during the soviet union where actually jews, which I imagine would be very difficult for anyone to prove, and even then it would mean nothing, because the way the soviet union handled things politically was authoritarian
Germany sent Lenin to start communism in Russia? Stef do you really think you can just say that without any supporting facts and still be taken seriously?
Socialism is a beautiful philosophy which doesn't work. Interest in communism is grassroots and genuine and is antithetical to a dictatorship. Neocon's hate socialism because they can't imagine non-competitive living and think it is a lie. Bolshevik revolution was not staged. Read Marx and you can see why it is something to believe in.
@TheJsdrewes Frank Zappa is right! And he rules. However it is entirely possible not to want to own things. There is no way to force people to act fairly/morally. That is why I strongly support volunteerism as a philosophy.
@lince13 To make such an extraordinary claim without reference to any evidence at all is seriously suspect...if there is validity to the claim, oversight of explanation is also suspect.
People can choose to trust, breaking that trust is easy and degenerative. Exploitation of that trust willfully with conspiracy is fact.
Defending those who chose to trust is defending honest anarchists who are the greatest optimists among us for the evolution of the human race.
Please expand your views. The story you tell is so simple. It's nowhere close to any logical argument about how, why and when. You're simply trying to loose your childhoodtrauma. The same as Richard Dawkins for example. Get real and stop misrepresenting facts about a war that didn't even happen on your continent.
I like your idea on how religion was invented. I had a very very similar idea when I was young... of course my 'elders' told me I was crazy. Lol, it kinda falls right into your theory.
The 19th century & enlightenment that you talk about the freedom of religion & growth of science & learning but i have to point out that you are only talking about Europe & parts of America. Most of the rest of world was under colony rule, part of a empire or corrupted rulers that embraced religion and keep education of the slaves down.
Church was the best preserver of knowledge and promoter of science before the industrial revolution. Remember, you have to compare it to something. Clearly, outside of the Church's walls were a barbarian culture. So even if Church placed limits on scientific inquiry, it was still the 'friend' of science and reason at that time. Secular historians have began conceding this point. Sorry Stef, you're a great philosopher, but not a historian.
@truevoice08 Sure, if you kill and burn and destroy all the other scientists outside the church you would become a very good preserver of knowledge seeing as you're the only one alive and not burnt like a crisp.
NWO Shills abound. This one is no different. Speaking about published History and spinning it to fit your own paradigm is one thing... opinion, leaving out important facts that are the real root cause is quite another... disinfo.
Sir Francis Bacon, the grandfather of modern Freemasonry and Rosicrusianism is the architect of his "New Atlantis" (America). Dr Adam Weishaupt & his relationship with the Rothschilds reshaped these plans. Later,Cecil Rhodes and Lord Alfred Milner, reshaped them again
@1tonykirk , Out of the Cecil Rhodes Roundtable grew the mechanism for World Domination in the 20th Century. This mechanism is known as "the Hegelian Dialectic" = Create 'problem' - Public outcry 'reaction' - Taxation, Control 'solution'.
WWl was created to destroy the public control of ownership & wealth, create the League of Nations (UN), create the next leg "the Israeli State"( BalfourDeclaration)
and destroy Bismarcks Germany, which was modelling itself after America.
@1tonykirk prior to WWl, actively promulgated unrest between their Royal Cousins/Family (For instance, today, the Grand Master of FreeMasonry is the Duke of Kent, Prince Charles' BROTHER)
It was the East Indies Trading Company (Rothschild) that brought Opium from India to China.
Schnickelgruber (Hitler) in WWll was created and financed by this Banking Cabal.
Read: "The Brotherhood of Darkness" by Stan Montieth, "Timeline of the Rothschilds, by DB Smith, Tragedy & Hope, by Prof Carroll Quigley
Start with the book, "Brotherhood of Darkness" by Dr Stan Montieth.
The Bibliography after every chapter totals about 250 Sources found in University Libraries and the Library of Congress.
Read "Tragedy and Hope" by Prof Carroll Quigley (Clinton's Georgetown Mentor before he became a "RHODES" SCHOLAR) most of which were destroyed and later resurrected by author Gary Allen in "None Dare Call It Conspiracy".
Hmm.... I don't know of one founding father that was atheist. Most of the primary founders were Deist but the majority were Christians. Still interesting video.
No he was a Deist. Just take a look on google. I was a big supporter of him at one time when he was my favorite founder. He was the most radical Deist and anti Christian founder though by far.
@IndividualAutonomy Deist is the socially acceptable transition to atheism/agnosticism. You couldn't call yourself an athiest back then so they called themselves deists. Go look at how thin Jefferson's Bible is.
@Hashishin13....One man's religious views or lack there of doesn't not reflect the founders as a whole. Anyone who is intelectually honest and is not trying to grind a political or philosophical axe has to acknowledge the the founders taken on a whole were overwhelmingly Christian faith based men. Deist is a nice attempt to skirt and soften the blow. You really weaken your position when not being honest about facts.
@ricosuave5150 Really? They were so "overwhelmingly Christian faith based men." that they didn't bother to write about God, Jesus or the Bible in the constitution AT ALL. Doesn't sound like the christians around today who wil fight tooth and nail to get an inscribed rock into a courthouse just because of the religious scribbles on it. I'm being totally honest, everything I said was straightforward and true, maybe you should just try being honest with yourself. Deist WAS the step before agnostic.
@ricosuave5150 Let me ask you something, do you believe that any christian would be willing to accept that God might have been nothing more thne a replacement for the big bang? How many do you think would say that prayer probably doesn't do anything at all? How many would also agree that science is the only real way to understand the universe? What? None? Then it looks like the deists gave way to the agnostics and atheists as soon as society would allow.
@IndividualAutonomy ........Was exactly my thought. He said it as if it were a foregone conclusion. Most of the founders were deeply religious and were not Deists at all. One only needs read their own comments and writings. So that was disappointing and easily refuted by anyone who knows an ounce of their true history. As far as sources....try the constitution try googling their own quotes comments and writings. It's not hard to find. It's not a secret.
older people have more experience of the world. knowledge is power. don't need to invent a deity to keep power. just need to show that your knowledge is more useful than raw power. religion may serve as a mythic explanation for the seemingly mysterious power of knowledge.
@Stefbot, Been a listener for a while now, and agree with many of your findings. Where we disagree is where the Bible comes to play. IT WAS TWISTING of the Bible that led to wars. The New Testament nowhere commands believers to go to war. True Christianity is 100% about peace and love, even to the point of loving one’s own enemies. FALSE RELIGIOSITY led to wars, as it does today still.
My God, I knew our entry into WWI was a big mistake, but THIS BIG of a mistake that it was a prime catalyst in the creation of communist Russia? Wow...wow.
6:20 "to pair superstition with absolutism" a very good reference at this point would be Isaiah Berlin's work on the two concepts of positive and negative liberty. I also want to point out to Adam Curtis's documentary film called "The Trap" and specifically on the third part; "We Will Force You To Be Free" (25 March 2007), were Isaiah Berlin talks "about the belief in an absolute Truth"
I remember asking someone else as a kid "How do you know the Bible is true?" The response was, "Why would someone go to all that trouble to write all that down if it wasn't true?"
Now I know why, thanks to philosophy and in no small part to Stefan!
The only way we could get into the war was because of the central bank. Without the central bank we wouldn't of had the money to do it. The 1st war came about because the banksters wanted it to make them richer and to get more control over the governments that had to borrow money to finance it. The so called Spanish flu came about from the first vaccine inoculations given to our troops before they were sent to Europe. It was man made.
I really don't think it affects where you're going with this, but some of the religious/political dynamics you mention were still developing in Egypt and in other civilizations of the same time period, well after civilization first began. That is, if I am remembering what very little I know about history and religion correctly.
@eulercircles My point was not that, but rather that man in the stone age should not be credited with the creation of deities to legitimize power. As far as we know we have no evidence coming from the stone age to suggest that man had created supreme god like deities which they feared, much like what Stef is suggesting. The elders during the stone age remained powerful into old age because they had more life experience and were valuable in teaching the young.
@TANSD I apologize TANSD, but my comment was for Stef. What I said is harmonious with what you're saying here as well - a lot of the dynamics mentioned were developed much later than the Stone Age. However, the detail is not really important to the central idea that Stef is developing. All that's required is that at some point in the early history of civilization it got to be that way.
Great vid as usual Stefan, but WHY did the US go into the war with germany at all? they had no interest in that war, but they still sent the troops. Benjamin Freedman tells us the international ZIONIST movement said they could bring the US into the war IF the british prime minister BALFOUR promised them PALESTINE which British empire occupied at the time.
the 'BALFOUR DECLARATION' is a letter from the brit PM adressed to 'Lord Rothschild' .
Valid theory but I did have a problem with the sudden invention of a deity to legitimize power. Your theory would have suited ancient states like Egypt, Mesopotamia or those prior to these; during the rise of cities and states. The creation and evolution of deities is a very complicated and long process. You have to understand that the first deities came from man's fascination with the natural world around him. Animals became respected and later worshipped because of abilities they had which man
@TANSD did not possess. Things like flight, speed, stealth, strength and many other characteristics of animals that humans did not possess to as great of a degree or to no degree at all. You can see how this would lead into the mystical and so on. But it's very important to remember that while there was a sense of fear towards powerful animals it came more out of respected. Man hoped to acquire such traits rather than fear them. Some of the first pieces of art made by humans depict animals.
@TANSD Some of the earliest examples of figurative art we have depict animals like bison and are said to have been figurines used in rituals. Some even depicted half animal, half human beings. Like all things even religions evolve. We can see the link between ivory carvings of half wolf half man beings (man wanting to obtain animal traits) and full out monuments of gods like Horus, with gold skin and great supernatural powers.
@TANSD My point being that religioun seems to have come more out of man's response of what he lacked yet wanted to obtain from the surrounding natural world and his respect of it (traits like flight and the vision of predators) than out of the need to legitimize power. Of course this came much later when rulers needed more effective ways of organizing their subjects (massive building projects) but it is not fair to say that the idea of a feared greatly worshipped deity came out of the stone age.
So nice to be able to watch one of your videos without the damn thing constantly rebuffering itself! I am currently reading "Everyday Anarchy", which is very well written. I love the point you make about how we accept personal anarchy, yet fear political anarchy. Thank you for clarifying what anarchy is really about.
Hanse Hermann Hoppe also has a great presentation about WW1 as the death of civilization, I'm sure that a google search would turn it up. Highly recommended.
The time when religion, (Christianity) held an iron grip on the nations of Europe is referred to as the Dark Ages. During the Renaissance, Humanists, agnostics, atheists sought secular knowledge, education for its own sake. The church has a well documented history of persecuting those who sought a secular explanation of the natural world. Despite the efforts of the religious heads, scientists persevered.
Ironically, the Bomb in the Brain series explains how one cannot change another`s beliefs with reason and evidence because the believer`s brain rejects any opposing reason and evidence only to seek out supporting reason and evidence. And here I am debating with an individual who is clearly a believer and is not willing to accept reason and evidence.
Does Stef have a vid where he speaks about the Seperation of Economics and State? if he does can some one link it in the reply? If not I would like to see Stef make a vid talking about it.
Does this mean that you don't believe in a Supernatural force that supervises everything and gives it meaning? 95% of the world population believes in God under some form. Are they all stupid? What about the countless others who were before them? Religion is a circus show, but the inner belief isn't.
@Kinkoyaburi " religioin is a circus chow, but the inner belief isnt" i believe you r wrong, that dosnt make me right, but logic and empiricism do, science agrees with me. u got any evidence for a supernatural force? plus if mass belieff means that something is true, than does that mean, that all the jews in WW2 should have been killed? the Nazis believed they should. infact what ur sayin there, is prolly what was said to them. : P think about it.
@pelucas716 No, science and logic simply have too little information to be of any use here. People always assume that we've learned everything there is to be learned about the Universe, which is just arrogant. Actually, nearly all of the brightest scientist that brought us to great leaps in science, believed in God. The stereotype image of the God-denying scientist is a false image, and most people accept it without checking if it's true. Newton believed in God, Einstein and many others too.
@pelucas716 Search for this: "Famous Scientists Who Believed in God". Also, I would recommend reading this book "The God Particle: If the Universe Is the Answer, What Is the Question?" by Leon Lederman. It's explains a lot of things about quantum theory for the average person, and while you may not understand all (I didn't), it is still a fascinating and interesting read. It will help you look at reality from a different perspective. Also, look the double-slit experiment on YouTube.
@Kinkoyaburi Less than 7 percent of scientists polled in the academy of sciences believe in a personal god. Einstein was a pantheist and used god to describe unknown forces. I would suggest reading sources that are not biased if you care about reality.
@Kinkoyaburi no people dont assume that we have learned everything there is to know, and i dont need to know everything in the universe to know that there is no god, or to accept atheism, its simple actually, tho not easy to see. NOT KNOWING, DOES NOT = GOD. simple. not knowing does not mean, that there is a being that is outside of time, consciousness withouth matter, and has no chin of evolution, which is complitly imposible by any standard of knowledge. if u r gonna assert a god, prove it.
@pelucas716 Not having a proof also doesn't disprove the absence of God. You want something that you can see, smell or touch. Our science tells us that dark matter is 80% of the matter in the universe, while ordinary matter makes up only 20% and we don't even understand fully what ordinary matter is. Scientists also begin to understand that matter consist of basically empty space, which makes us to an extent consciousness without matter. I'm not saying there is God, because I have no proof.
@pelucas716 I don't understand how can people look at everything around them and not marvel and ask questions? People have said this: "If quantum mechanics hasn't profoundly shocked you, you haven't understood it yet." And this: "Man can learn nothing except by going from the known to the unknown."
And this: "How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress". Hope at least this can spark your curiosity.
@Kinkoyaburi thats all very interesting, but that does not mean that there is a god, ofcourse i ask questions, and precisly because i have is that i cant accept a god, because no one has given me nor, a good argument, nor evidence. it is all very beautyfull, but keep in mind that beauty is in ur eyes, and not in the object. and also, u ur self said u didnt understand it, so what does that line mean than? let me ask u, are ur parents or someone who raised u religious?
@pelucas716 I live in a post-communist country, my parents aren't religious at all. Even their parents before that weren't religious. My father is not only an atheist, he can't even be bothered to discuss such topics. My mother, while more open to new ideas, Isn't religious either. She's quite materialistic, actually. In fact, I don't have a close friend who believes in God. I'm surrounded by people who would not even discuss it. Or maybe they are ashamed to discuss it.
@Kinkoyaburi You have any evidence for this 'inner belief'? 'Inner beliefs' about the world tend to have been disproven throughout history.
I say I'm an agnostic theist because hey, there's no way to be 100% sure, but I currently see no convincing evidence that supernatural forces influence my life. If that changes, so will I. What IS important to me is that I'm not just going to take someone else's word for it that it exists. I think that is foolish at best, horribly dangerous at worst.
@Kinkoyaburi and also, ironicly enough. as soon as u manage to prove that there is a GOD, than u prove that he is not a god because he comes into excistence, and his behaviour becomes testable. now r there very intelegent aliens? sure, there might be idk, but the sure as hell cant contradict the laws of physics. if u do know one however and can show ito to me? fk we ll strap courds arround it,. and do electro shock to it to see what it can pull off. Now, B4 u go on, can u define what GOD means?
it's common fact. If you take an A level history course In England you'll receive several lessons on that topic. I can probably dig out some books and give you the names if you would like? It was an easy way to de-stabilize the country, just as the CIA armed the Taliban.
@pRaIrVkEoRur I'm sure you could also dig out some history books about the Aryan invasion of India, this does not necessarily make it a common fact, I hope you didn't get a high grade in your A level history cours ;-)
The real question here is when does Part 2 hit Youtube? I don't think you should break your videos up like this, Moly. I know show biz is all about leaving them wanting more, but just do the whole lecture please. I was really enjoying it and then you called it.
This is such a great introduction Stef to what I've always considered as the West's plunge into the abyss of statism.. Looking forward to the rest of the series..
This is why I listen to you stef, though I am a christian. Through all your anti-christian rhetoric piled in with the anti-gov rhetoric (that I agree with), I believe you are really after the truth. And I agree that the more thinking we do, the closer we get to the truth. I believe in God because I think its the truth, not because I'm afraid or because my parents do.
I'm interested to hear the rest of this analysis of history.
great theory, sounds very probable, am looking forward to part two, the reason for WW1 have always baffled me. all those young guys in the trenches going along with the murderous madness.
Excellent theory, in my opinion, is it yours? Fear has been used throughout history to motivate men to serve others, I do believe the world would be better served if we all learned to control are fear better.
Don't laugh at me, but what about Ancient Astronauts who could have visited our planet?
Wouldn't that event cause some religion, simply because the people wouldn't understand the technology behind it. Some decades ago (World War 2) the US air force built bases in Indonesia, gave food to the indigenous tribes - and left after the war. Those tribes started to build planes with wood, and worshiped them. A new religion was born. (watch history channel's "ancient aliens")
@LunkwillFook Oh I do. I only don't follow this theory so much, because I don't have any 1st hand experience/evidence of it in front of me (extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof and all that), but it would be very..VERY interesting if really really turned out to be the case. It would be even more interesting if certain factions within society was always aware of this from the beginning... ;)
Real good but all religion is a man made way to control the masses blah blah blah. Jesus is unique but mans religion in the name of Jesus or any other deity is corrupted if they do not follow his CLEAR teaching..............
What you are telling is out of the history books our Masters want us to know. Nothing new to me. This is what a history teacher would tell me in a public school. But what about the true history our Masters don't want us to know. For example the Zionists movement that lead to the Balfour Declaration and the US-involvement in World War One.
I think their justification of developing the idea of an afterlife is a way for people to control power over time but not only to keep people from overthrowing the government but also to keep suicide rates and moral high enabling the leaders to keep the proletariat under the priestly class working toward state action. The controlling leaders needed an eternal threat to keep people motivated towards their current earthly goals. It is malicious due sheerly to the ignorance of the suffering created
I don't understand how this isn't what is primarily taught by intellectuals. As a college student I have been developing this set of reasoning ever since I had started really personally studying WWII in high school. It is such a logical and reasonable examination of how government interference often ultimately creates the exact opposite result than intended. It isn't some grand conspiracy theory, good people who don't understand causality are doomed to repeat their mistakes until corrected.
well, yeah, the priestly class development seems very resonable.
It starts with superstitious threats maybe during hail storms and lightning
"Evolved" into shamans.... into priests... into religious conservatism into theocracies where the superstition and and political power has but almost melded together again.
A good book to read is THE CURSE OF IGNORANCE by Arthur Findlay, to be found online and free, it's a history of humanity form Sumer to the end of the WWII
At about 4:00 when you're rattling off reasons for the beginnings of growth in the late middle ages you didn't mention the relaxation or total ignorance of anti-usury laws, interest-charging being forbidden by the church. I think this was one of the main causes and enabled the growth of the merchant class. Probably significant also are actions taken against guilds and other monopolies which allowed the emergence of industry.
There were many countries involved in that war and millions of soldiers from all over were fighting in the trenches. Neutral Netherlands supplied coke to all of those countries. This a bizarre fact and a dirty piece of Dutch history that was more or less covered up. A lot of soldiers were given a mug of rum before they went over the top and out of the trenches. And sometimes it would be rum with coke,because mixing alcohol with cocaine doubles the effects of the stuff.
I really like Stef's birth of religion ideas. It makes perfect sense...quite ingenious for men of that time to come up with such a powerfully effective plan.
The thing is, the further back in history you go, the less clear is what happened. There are ancient megaliths all over the world telling a very interesting storrrrry
If you really want to know the reason(s) for the Death of the West, read Oswald Spengler two volume masterpiece "The Decline of the West." Also read Spengler's "Man and Technics", a short work he wrote on how the third World would use Western Faustian man's technology against him and destroy what is left of the west (which is no doubt happening). In Spengler's final work, he predicted the failure of Hitler as well as WW2, on top of predicting the Third World would revolt against the West.
The American Zionist German-Jews stabbed Germany in the during the first World War. Originally the American Zionist-owned (well virtually all Zionist owned) media outlets were Pro-German as the German-Jews that owned these companies still supported their "homeland." That was until England and the Zionists made the deal known as the Balfour Declaration of 1917, the real reason America got into the second World War. Of course, England bailed out on their deal with World Zionism.
@dancewithme220 This is the root of the "Stab in the back" legend, which is certainly rooted in truth. Although they do not like to admit it now, the Zionists were Nazi collaborators. The terrorist Irgun "Stern Gang" (which many of Israel's future prime ministers were in) even offered to fight for Germany in the WW2. The Zionists considered England the #1 threat to Israel's future, not Germany. Germany originally allowed ALL JEWS to transfer to Palestine with all their wealth intact.
@ZorrisPorris Human psychology and the history of man tells us how the mind works. Every primative culture eventually falls victim to religion as they attempt to make sense of the natural world. Today, there are primative cultures in South America, Africa and Australia. We have witnessed such developments in modern times and through our own history we can see the patterns of story telling. Jesus for example is an archetype that originated from the Greek mythos. i.e. Hercules, Persues, Jason, etc
Some of your early comments made me wonder. Do you agree with Hans Hermann Hoppe's conclusion that between monarchy and democracy, monarchy is the lesser of two evils?
No one wishes to run headlong into war. France being the prime example
Reaperofwind 2 months ago
"Versailles didn't cause WW2 - it was the Allies failure to enforce the terms of the Treaty by allowing Germany to re-arm that was the problem"
This is so ignorant I don't even know what to say.
87pvincent 3 months ago
I watched up to 2.40 and so far the narrator has missed something important about this late 19th centruy utopia. That is was a fucking horrible place and time to live unless your were very wealthy.
NoFaithNoPain 3 months ago
@NoFaithNoPain Your use of the word "utopia" does not reflect what the narrator is saying. As for "a fucking horrible place and time to live", well, everything is relative, and nothing is as absolute as you are trying to make it. You are betraying neutral historical perspective.
th3giv3r 2 days ago
This has been flagged as spam show
You r amazing. the invention of religion u say is not true for the Biblical God of the prophets and apostles which is revealed; u r mistaken. darwin must be the byproduct of 19th c atheism u described. the rest of presentation is quite interesting and origial.
ethiop64 3 months ago
The West(white people's dominium) is dying. Because of socialism and democracy.
powstaniecpolski 4 months ago
This guy thinks he is more intelligent than everyone over thousands of years of civilization?!?!? It's kinda sad if it wasn't so funny.
pneumatictrousers 4 months ago
There was constant wars, rebellions, and revolutions throughout all the 1800s. Warfare wasn't all based upon religion, many were over resources and opening up new trade markets going back thousands of years. Plus this so called 'strong argument' of why we went to war with Germany is a total crock.
pneumatictrousers 4 months ago
Could you make a post about 'Separation of Economy and State', there is a fundamental image of the near future (it's easier to think of possible policy outcomes) I can't put together? I am starting to watch more of your vids to feel out your views and I do like that you are going over history, I think hearing you and Thom Hartmann just ramble would be the best ever.
donworland 6 months ago
"We neither knew nor foresaw the danger to humanity from the consequences of this journey of the Bolsheviks to Russia." - Major General Hoffman
i2aymond 7 months ago
Why'd you pass the buck? I don't understand. Germans finance Lenin to take control of Russia, bu then you say it's because of America's involvement in war. I love your work, but it seems to me, that the Germans were responsible. For good or for bad. I'm not in love with American policy, by no means. But it seemed to me, an unfair "passing of the buck"...
ShinEmperor 9 months ago
If Germany was bankrupt, how did they fund Lenin's overthrow of the Romanov's?
pretorious700 9 months ago
check this out the information and the information it leads you to,will astound you....
"the last days of the big lie" a documentary exposing the speilburgs "the last days"
and wwwholocaustdenialvideoscom both on google....part of the C.O.D.O.H
committee for open debate on the holocaust.....its all a psyche-war to control you..and take your wealth....
fuckystoat 9 months ago
I wonder if a closer observation of Luther might reveal a man in much the predicament you face. Namely the repudiation of entrenched [memes?] so that men might know that the government/Catholic church is not soverign. That whatever G-d/ government is, He/it only cooperates with men on the basis of grace/freewill and that He/it expects men to read/know for themselves. Where do ye differ?
knolram1 11 months ago
I think political leadership happened within groups because it was a successful strategy. The larger your group, obviously, more likely is your success. Loyalty to aging leaders and clear pre-agreed upon succession traditions was a successful strategy. Infighting only weakens the whole. United we stand etc. Invented super beings played a role but not the central role which was organized violence and pillage. Divinely inspired bravery is useful.
arnsboc 1 year ago
...The 20th century was bloody BECAUSE of the radicals that were necessary to throw off the shackles of colonial empires, monarchies, and religion; these radicals (Communists, Syndicalists, Socialists, and even Republicans) were often violent and unstable, but 20th century violence was building during the 19th century (look at all the social unrest in the Aristocracies of Europe, and all the revolutions). The world is in a general climate of liberalization now because of these revolutions
LordAgonis 1 year ago
As usual, your history is colored in a way that excludes specific fact and supports vague claims that are somehow supposed to support anarchism. Europe was at PEACE during the Rise and Fall of the Second French Empire? During German expansion under Bismarck? Italian Unification Wars? The 19th Century was filled with shorter wars between large Empires and filled Europe with cripples and orphans. Old-style slavery in the overtly chained-variety existed until 1960.
LordAgonis 1 year ago
1/2
Stefbot - you were so far out with your facts here that it must have been a source of embarrassment to you when you looked back on it. I wonder whether you were genuinely mistaken or just making things up to try and validate your overall position.
Right from the off your statements were either distortions of the facts or simply incorrect.
Case in point:- your statement about the "unprecented century of peace in Europe between 1815 and 1914"
TheSmithDorian 1 year ago
TheSmithDorian 1 year ago
3/3
Then there's your view that Lenin was brought in by Germany to topple the Tsar, when in fact theTsar actually abdicated months before Lenin entered Russia.
Also, in the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk in 1918 Germany imposed terms on Russia that were at the very least as 'harsh' as those you think were so unfair on Germany in Versailles.
Versailles didn't cause WW2 - it was the Allies failure to enforce the terms of the Treaty by allowing Germany to re-arm that was the problem.
TheSmithDorian 1 year ago
@TheSmithDorian Lots of relatively minor conflicts, compare them to the 20th Century wars. States were too weak to have the all-out deathmatch that they would finally be able to enjoy in 1914.
TreachMarkets 1 year ago
@TreachMarkets
They were minor compared to the WW's but the WW's were unlike anything ever seen before - or after. The only thing even remotely similar prior to 1914 were the Napoleonic Wars. My point is that 1814 - 1914 wasn't a century of peace - it was similar to most of the centuries preceeding it.
TheSmithDorian 1 year ago
"As you age you get obviously sexier and balder" LOL, classic.
Aryaba 1 year ago
All that in one take... pure genius.
xxCrazySmooth 1 year ago
This has been flagged as spam show
Freedomain Radio and Stefan Molyneux provides some of the clearest, logical analysis and critique of our contemporary world I've ever come across in my 45 years on this forsaken rock in space. Thank you. Please vote for Freedomain Radio at podcastawards com. under two categories 1) People Choice Award and 2) Education. Be sure to check your email address to validate your vote. (Voting ends Tuesday December 15th 2010)
eyejudgeeverything 1 year ago
To solve a mathematical or a physics problem, you use variables.
To solve the riddle of history and how we got to where we are now. You simply can not refuse to use a critically important variable (the jew lobby). Your solution/theory of history won't work. If out of fear you try to work around and blame others, and find other explanations you are acting cowardly. Why do they have so much power today, why? How? What's their history? What were they hated much and expulsed again and again? Why?
lince13 1 year ago
It´s sad. I´ve been a libertarian for 10 years, completely in defense of freedom, individual rights, but with all the respect, and I´m asking honestly, please, everybody, research the "Jewish Question". I say it with the best intentions.
lince13 1 year ago
Yes and no, the truth is communism is a Jewish movement.
With time I learned and read that it was a Jew coup´d etat against the Russians, they had a massive revenge, pure hate, against the Tsar family, killing their sons in front of them, killing all who oppose the jews, who were expelled, and murdering between 40 and 60 millions, mostly christians, they sucked the contry dry, as now they are using the US like a parasite to fight wars for them (Afganistan, Irak...).
lince13 1 year ago
@lince13
Err, lol what?
I would like you to cite sources on where you read that it was a jewish coup'd etat?
Because I don't see where you could even begin to think that, considering communism is mostly non-theist. Are you suggesting that those in power during the soviet union where actually jews, which I imagine would be very difficult for anyone to prove, and even then it would mean nothing, because the way the soviet union handled things politically was authoritarian
IamMrAwesome 1 year ago
@IamMrAwesome
and economically more socialist than communist.
You would be hard pressed to find a communist who agrees with the atrocities that took place in the soviet union.
IamMrAwesome 1 year ago
Riveting delivery!
magichandpuppet 1 year ago
Germany sent Lenin to start communism in Russia? Stef do you really think you can just say that without any supporting facts and still be taken seriously?
Mezocosm 1 year ago
@Mezocosm i've heard that as well, didn't know they sent him with guns and money though.
TheVikingNinja 1 year ago
Socialism is a beautiful philosophy which doesn't work. Interest in communism is grassroots and genuine and is antithetical to a dictatorship. Neocon's hate socialism because they can't imagine non-competitive living and think it is a lie. Bolshevik revolution was not staged. Read Marx and you can see why it is something to believe in.
Mezocosm 1 year ago
@Mezocosm "The problem with communism is that people want to own things." -Frank Zappa
TheJsdrewes 1 year ago
@TheJsdrewes Frank Zappa is right! And he rules. However it is entirely possible not to want to own things. There is no way to force people to act fairly/morally. That is why I strongly support volunteerism as a philosophy.
Mezocosm 1 year ago
@Mezocosm I'll be blunt but you mean you didn't want to own the computer you are currently using?
TheJsdrewes 1 year ago
@TheJsdrewes Scarcity is a condition imposed by those who hoard power. It is not the natural condition of an abundant planet.
Mezocosm 1 year ago
@Mezocosm There is a lot of evidence, you can start with Wall-Street-the-Bolshevic-Revolution-By-Antony-Sutton for example.
lince13 1 year ago
@lince13 To make such an extraordinary claim without reference to any evidence at all is seriously suspect...if there is validity to the claim, oversight of explanation is also suspect.
People can choose to trust, breaking that trust is easy and degenerative. Exploitation of that trust willfully with conspiracy is fact.
Defending those who chose to trust is defending honest anarchists who are the greatest optimists among us for the evolution of the human race.
Mezocosm 1 year ago
Please expand your views. The story you tell is so simple. It's nowhere close to any logical argument about how, why and when. You're simply trying to loose your childhoodtrauma. The same as Richard Dawkins for example. Get real and stop misrepresenting facts about a war that didn't even happen on your continent.
sowiesosso 1 year ago
ALL WARS ARE PLANNED BY BOTH SIDES ALL FAKE SO SAD
amcanmike 1 year ago
You said Marshal Petain said, "This is not peace. It is an armistice for twenty years," but it was Ferdinand Foch who said that.
TigronX 1 year ago
I like your idea on how religion was invented. I had a very very similar idea when I was young... of course my 'elders' told me I was crazy. Lol, it kinda falls right into your theory.
ritherz 1 year ago
The 19th century & enlightenment that you talk about the freedom of religion & growth of science & learning but i have to point out that you are only talking about Europe & parts of America. Most of the rest of world was under colony rule, part of a empire or corrupted rulers that embraced religion and keep education of the slaves down.
Johncalabro7 1 year ago
@Johncalabro7 That's why the video is called Death of the West. The brutality of eastern empires is a whole other bag.
AshleyKScott 1 year ago
Absolutely fascinating stuff.
nobstewartcom 1 year ago
thank you for sharing
UkrainianAntifascist 1 year ago
Church was the best preserver of knowledge and promoter of science before the industrial revolution. Remember, you have to compare it to something. Clearly, outside of the Church's walls were a barbarian culture. So even if Church placed limits on scientific inquiry, it was still the 'friend' of science and reason at that time. Secular historians have began conceding this point. Sorry Stef, you're a great philosopher, but not a historian.
truevoice08 1 year ago
@truevoice08 Sure, if you kill and burn and destroy all the other scientists outside the church you would become a very good preserver of knowledge seeing as you're the only one alive and not burnt like a crisp.
Butmunch666 1 year ago
@truevoice08 That's like saying the Church of Scientology is a great preserver of knowledge. Shall we begin looking up to modern cults, too?
MrJosephMarzullo 1 year ago
NWO Shills abound. This one is no different. Speaking about published History and spinning it to fit your own paradigm is one thing... opinion, leaving out important facts that are the real root cause is quite another... disinfo.
Sir Francis Bacon, the grandfather of modern Freemasonry and Rosicrusianism is the architect of his "New Atlantis" (America). Dr Adam Weishaupt & his relationship with the Rothschilds reshaped these plans. Later,Cecil Rhodes and Lord Alfred Milner, reshaped them again
1tonykirk 1 year ago
@1tonykirk , Out of the Cecil Rhodes Roundtable grew the mechanism for World Domination in the 20th Century. This mechanism is known as "the Hegelian Dialectic" = Create 'problem' - Public outcry 'reaction' - Taxation, Control 'solution'.
WWl was created to destroy the public control of ownership & wealth, create the League of Nations (UN), create the next leg "the Israeli State"( BalfourDeclaration)
and destroy Bismarcks Germany, which was modelling itself after America.
The British Monarchy
1tonykirk 1 year ago
@1tonykirk prior to WWl, actively promulgated unrest between their Royal Cousins/Family (For instance, today, the Grand Master of FreeMasonry is the Duke of Kent, Prince Charles' BROTHER)
It was the East Indies Trading Company (Rothschild) that brought Opium from India to China.
Schnickelgruber (Hitler) in WWll was created and financed by this Banking Cabal.
Read: "The Brotherhood of Darkness" by Stan Montieth, "Timeline of the Rothschilds, by DB Smith, Tragedy & Hope, by Prof Carroll Quigley
1tonykirk 1 year ago
@1tonykirk dude, you and stef both need SOURCES
rahulk552008 1 year ago
@rahulk552008 've spent many years doing mine.
Start with the book, "Brotherhood of Darkness" by Dr Stan Montieth.
The Bibliography after every chapter totals about 250 Sources found in University Libraries and the Library of Congress.
Read "Tragedy and Hope" by Prof Carroll Quigley (Clinton's Georgetown Mentor before he became a "RHODES" SCHOLAR) most of which were destroyed and later resurrected by author Gary Allen in "None Dare Call It Conspiracy".
1tonykirk 1 year ago
Hmm.... I don't know of one founding father that was atheist. Most of the primary founders were Deist but the majority were Christians. Still interesting video.
IndividualAutonomy 1 year ago 2
@IndividualAutonomy Thomas Paine
kurtious128 1 year ago
@kurtious128
No he was a Deist. Just take a look on google. I was a big supporter of him at one time when he was my favorite founder. He was the most radical Deist and anti Christian founder though by far.
IndividualAutonomy 1 year ago
@IndividualAutonomy Deist is the socially acceptable transition to atheism/agnosticism. You couldn't call yourself an athiest back then so they called themselves deists. Go look at how thin Jefferson's Bible is.
Hashishin13 1 year ago
@Hashishin13....One man's religious views or lack there of doesn't not reflect the founders as a whole. Anyone who is intelectually honest and is not trying to grind a political or philosophical axe has to acknowledge the the founders taken on a whole were overwhelmingly Christian faith based men. Deist is a nice attempt to skirt and soften the blow. You really weaken your position when not being honest about facts.
ricosuave5150 1 year ago
@ricosuave5150 Really? They were so "overwhelmingly Christian faith based men." that they didn't bother to write about God, Jesus or the Bible in the constitution AT ALL. Doesn't sound like the christians around today who wil fight tooth and nail to get an inscribed rock into a courthouse just because of the religious scribbles on it. I'm being totally honest, everything I said was straightforward and true, maybe you should just try being honest with yourself. Deist WAS the step before agnostic.
Hashishin13 1 year ago
@ricosuave5150 Let me ask you something, do you believe that any christian would be willing to accept that God might have been nothing more thne a replacement for the big bang? How many do you think would say that prayer probably doesn't do anything at all? How many would also agree that science is the only real way to understand the universe? What? None? Then it looks like the deists gave way to the agnostics and atheists as soon as society would allow.
Hashishin13 1 year ago
@IndividualAutonomy ........Was exactly my thought. He said it as if it were a foregone conclusion. Most of the founders were deeply religious and were not Deists at all. One only needs read their own comments and writings. So that was disappointing and easily refuted by anyone who knows an ounce of their true history. As far as sources....try the constitution try googling their own quotes comments and writings. It's not hard to find. It's not a secret.
ricosuave5150 1 year ago
All of the wars were brought about by Zionist bankers. The Russian communist were all Zionist Jews.
cchessmaster 1 year ago
older people have more experience of the world. knowledge is power. don't need to invent a deity to keep power. just need to show that your knowledge is more useful than raw power. religion may serve as a mythic explanation for the seemingly mysterious power of knowledge.
elephantinpajamas 1 year ago
I'VE ALWAYS LOVED LISTENING TO PHILOSOFERS
soloalvar 1 year ago
@Stefbot, Been a listener for a while now, and agree with many of your findings. Where we disagree is where the Bible comes to play. IT WAS TWISTING of the Bible that led to wars. The New Testament nowhere commands believers to go to war. True Christianity is 100% about peace and love, even to the point of loving one’s own enemies. FALSE RELIGIOSITY led to wars, as it does today still.
notmycity 1 year ago
@notmycity
jesus himself carried a sword, so i do too!
klined 1 year ago
@notmycity Also there is a difference between faith and religion.
TheJsdrewes 1 year ago
My God, I knew our entry into WWI was a big mistake, but THIS BIG of a mistake that it was a prime catalyst in the creation of communist Russia? Wow...wow.
migkillertwo 1 year ago
What do you think about libertarian socialism, aka anarchism? The kind we saw in the Spanish Revolution in the 30s. Do you got a vid on that?
oihhow 1 year ago
@oihhow Rothbard had an article on anarcho-communism called Death Wish of the Anarcho-Communists. It's on the Mises Institute website.
panzersharkcat 1 year ago
"a little philosophy inclineth man’s mind to atheism; but depth in philosophy bringeth men’s minds about to religion." Francis Bacon.
Finnbar01 1 year ago
@Finnbar01 "A famous quotation is merely one man's opinion and shouldn't be treated as fact." - Me, 2010
GMPresents 1 year ago
12:00
1 According to Niall Fergusan German repations were small compared to size of german GDP
2 Hyperinflation wasn't caused by reparations(workers/miners strike or smth)
3 Between hyperinflation and hitler there were golden ages in germany
4 german economic crisis that lead to hitler was caused by great depression(and american investors calling off their money)
5 in 1920s there were mostly jews in soviet foreign department. soviets weren't sponsored by germans
otherwise very interesting video.
xXdmrusXx 1 year ago
University is today's modern priestly class.....
Luckyladies100021 1 year ago
6:20 "to pair superstition with absolutism" a very good reference at this point would be Isaiah Berlin's work on the two concepts of positive and negative liberty. I also want to point out to Adam Curtis's documentary film called "The Trap" and specifically on the third part; "We Will Force You To Be Free" (25 March 2007), were Isaiah Berlin talks "about the belief in an absolute Truth"
jojofulkrum 1 year ago
I remember asking someone else as a kid "How do you know the Bible is true?" The response was, "Why would someone go to all that trouble to write all that down if it wasn't true?"
Now I know why, thanks to philosophy and in no small part to Stefan!
andrewh817 1 year ago
this is amazing video, can't wait for part 2
DickeyRogers 1 year ago
great, looking forward to part 2
notesleb 1 year ago
AWESOME!! THANX FOR THIS VIDEO STEF
ronpaulspanish 1 year ago
Bang on! Well done!
Junkyousha 1 year ago
The only way we could get into the war was because of the central bank. Without the central bank we wouldn't of had the money to do it. The 1st war came about because the banksters wanted it to make them richer and to get more control over the governments that had to borrow money to finance it. The so called Spanish flu came about from the first vaccine inoculations given to our troops before they were sent to Europe. It was man made.
cchessmaster 1 year ago
I really don't think it affects where you're going with this, but some of the religious/political dynamics you mention were still developing in Egypt and in other civilizations of the same time period, well after civilization first began. That is, if I am remembering what very little I know about history and religion correctly.
eulercircles 1 year ago
@eulercircles My point was not that, but rather that man in the stone age should not be credited with the creation of deities to legitimize power. As far as we know we have no evidence coming from the stone age to suggest that man had created supreme god like deities which they feared, much like what Stef is suggesting. The elders during the stone age remained powerful into old age because they had more life experience and were valuable in teaching the young.
TANSD 1 year ago
@TANSD I apologize TANSD, but my comment was for Stef. What I said is harmonious with what you're saying here as well - a lot of the dynamics mentioned were developed much later than the Stone Age. However, the detail is not really important to the central idea that Stef is developing. All that's required is that at some point in the early history of civilization it got to be that way.
eulercircles 1 year ago
Great vid as usual Stefan, but WHY did the US go into the war with germany at all? they had no interest in that war, but they still sent the troops. Benjamin Freedman tells us the international ZIONIST movement said they could bring the US into the war IF the british prime minister BALFOUR promised them PALESTINE which British empire occupied at the time.
the 'BALFOUR DECLARATION' is a letter from the brit PM adressed to 'Lord Rothschild' .
RIDDIMWORKS 1 year ago
Great video stef, have you ever read Hans Hermann-Hoppe's book "democracy, the god that failed"? Both of your ideas about society are pretty similar.
dieyoung 1 year ago
Magnificent video, complete with a cliff hanger ending. Can't wait for part two. ;-)
Panpiper 1 year ago
Wow Stef I have always figured that religion actually formed from the power angle but I have heard few even go down that street. You nailed it.
Mahoivlich 1 year ago
If you believe in a deity ,perhaps you should look into why you believe something that has no proof.
gosmokesome 1 year ago
Valid theory but I did have a problem with the sudden invention of a deity to legitimize power. Your theory would have suited ancient states like Egypt, Mesopotamia or those prior to these; during the rise of cities and states. The creation and evolution of deities is a very complicated and long process. You have to understand that the first deities came from man's fascination with the natural world around him. Animals became respected and later worshipped because of abilities they had which man
TANSD 1 year ago
@TANSD did not possess. Things like flight, speed, stealth, strength and many other characteristics of animals that humans did not possess to as great of a degree or to no degree at all. You can see how this would lead into the mystical and so on. But it's very important to remember that while there was a sense of fear towards powerful animals it came more out of respected. Man hoped to acquire such traits rather than fear them. Some of the first pieces of art made by humans depict animals.
TANSD 1 year ago
@TANSD Some of the earliest examples of figurative art we have depict animals like bison and are said to have been figurines used in rituals. Some even depicted half animal, half human beings. Like all things even religions evolve. We can see the link between ivory carvings of half wolf half man beings (man wanting to obtain animal traits) and full out monuments of gods like Horus, with gold skin and great supernatural powers.
TANSD 1 year ago
@TANSD My point being that religioun seems to have come more out of man's response of what he lacked yet wanted to obtain from the surrounding natural world and his respect of it (traits like flight and the vision of predators) than out of the need to legitimize power. Of course this came much later when rulers needed more effective ways of organizing their subjects (massive building projects) but it is not fair to say that the idea of a feared greatly worshipped deity came out of the stone age.
TANSD 1 year ago
So nice to be able to watch one of your videos without the damn thing constantly rebuffering itself! I am currently reading "Everyday Anarchy", which is very well written. I love the point you make about how we accept personal anarchy, yet fear political anarchy. Thank you for clarifying what anarchy is really about.
karategirl96 1 year ago
argh i can't wait for part 2... hurry! :)
imyourgod2 1 year ago
I would also say that to understand WW2, one must deal with the concept that it was merely WW1 part 2.
CurtHowland 1 year ago
Hanse Hermann Hoppe also has a great presentation about WW1 as the death of civilization, I'm sure that a google search would turn it up. Highly recommended.
CurtHowland 1 year ago
This is great! I would love to see more history from you. Awesome!
ORIGINALUSRNM 1 year ago
The time when religion, (Christianity) held an iron grip on the nations of Europe is referred to as the Dark Ages. During the Renaissance, Humanists, agnostics, atheists sought secular knowledge, education for its own sake. The church has a well documented history of persecuting those who sought a secular explanation of the natural world. Despite the efforts of the religious heads, scientists persevered.
vegetta00 1 year ago
Ironically, the Bomb in the Brain series explains how one cannot change another`s beliefs with reason and evidence because the believer`s brain rejects any opposing reason and evidence only to seek out supporting reason and evidence. And here I am debating with an individual who is clearly a believer and is not willing to accept reason and evidence.
vegetta00 1 year ago
Does Stef have a vid where he speaks about the Seperation of Economics and State? if he does can some one link it in the reply? If not I would like to see Stef make a vid talking about it.
45a14 1 year ago
@45a14 "How To Win Political Arguments." In this video, Stef explains the separation of economics and state from a libertarian point of view.
vegetta00 1 year ago
very excited for next video
karthadastim 1 year ago
Awesome.
bearing01 1 year ago
Does this mean that you don't believe in a Supernatural force that supervises everything and gives it meaning? 95% of the world population believes in God under some form. Are they all stupid? What about the countless others who were before them? Religion is a circus show, but the inner belief isn't.
Kinkoyaburi 1 year ago
@Kinkoyaburi " religioin is a circus chow, but the inner belief isnt" i believe you r wrong, that dosnt make me right, but logic and empiricism do, science agrees with me. u got any evidence for a supernatural force? plus if mass belieff means that something is true, than does that mean, that all the jews in WW2 should have been killed? the Nazis believed they should. infact what ur sayin there, is prolly what was said to them. : P think about it.
pelucas716 1 year ago
@pelucas716 No, science and logic simply have too little information to be of any use here. People always assume that we've learned everything there is to be learned about the Universe, which is just arrogant. Actually, nearly all of the brightest scientist that brought us to great leaps in science, believed in God. The stereotype image of the God-denying scientist is a false image, and most people accept it without checking if it's true. Newton believed in God, Einstein and many others too.
Kinkoyaburi 1 year ago
@pelucas716 Search for this: "Famous Scientists Who Believed in God". Also, I would recommend reading this book "The God Particle: If the Universe Is the Answer, What Is the Question?" by Leon Lederman. It's explains a lot of things about quantum theory for the average person, and while you may not understand all (I didn't), it is still a fascinating and interesting read. It will help you look at reality from a different perspective. Also, look the double-slit experiment on YouTube.
Kinkoyaburi 1 year ago
@Kinkoyaburi Less than 7 percent of scientists polled in the academy of sciences believe in a personal god. Einstein was a pantheist and used god to describe unknown forces. I would suggest reading sources that are not biased if you care about reality.
Mahoivlich 1 year ago
@Kinkoyaburi no people dont assume that we have learned everything there is to know, and i dont need to know everything in the universe to know that there is no god, or to accept atheism, its simple actually, tho not easy to see. NOT KNOWING, DOES NOT = GOD. simple. not knowing does not mean, that there is a being that is outside of time, consciousness withouth matter, and has no chin of evolution, which is complitly imposible by any standard of knowledge. if u r gonna assert a god, prove it.
pelucas716 1 year ago
@pelucas716 Not having a proof also doesn't disprove the absence of God. You want something that you can see, smell or touch. Our science tells us that dark matter is 80% of the matter in the universe, while ordinary matter makes up only 20% and we don't even understand fully what ordinary matter is. Scientists also begin to understand that matter consist of basically empty space, which makes us to an extent consciousness without matter. I'm not saying there is God, because I have no proof.
Kinkoyaburi 1 year ago
@pelucas716 I don't understand how can people look at everything around them and not marvel and ask questions? People have said this: "If quantum mechanics hasn't profoundly shocked you, you haven't understood it yet." And this: "Man can learn nothing except by going from the known to the unknown."
And this: "How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress". Hope at least this can spark your curiosity.
Kinkoyaburi 1 year ago
@Kinkoyaburi thats all very interesting, but that does not mean that there is a god, ofcourse i ask questions, and precisly because i have is that i cant accept a god, because no one has given me nor, a good argument, nor evidence. it is all very beautyfull, but keep in mind that beauty is in ur eyes, and not in the object. and also, u ur self said u didnt understand it, so what does that line mean than? let me ask u, are ur parents or someone who raised u religious?
pelucas716 1 year ago
@pelucas716 I live in a post-communist country, my parents aren't religious at all. Even their parents before that weren't religious. My father is not only an atheist, he can't even be bothered to discuss such topics. My mother, while more open to new ideas, Isn't religious either. She's quite materialistic, actually. In fact, I don't have a close friend who believes in God. I'm surrounded by people who would not even discuss it. Or maybe they are ashamed to discuss it.
Kinkoyaburi 1 year ago
@Kinkoyaburi You have any evidence for this 'inner belief'? 'Inner beliefs' about the world tend to have been disproven throughout history.
I say I'm an agnostic theist because hey, there's no way to be 100% sure, but I currently see no convincing evidence that supernatural forces influence my life. If that changes, so will I. What IS important to me is that I'm not just going to take someone else's word for it that it exists. I think that is foolish at best, horribly dangerous at worst.
SwobyJ 1 year ago
@Kinkoyaburi and also, ironicly enough. as soon as u manage to prove that there is a GOD, than u prove that he is not a god because he comes into excistence, and his behaviour becomes testable. now r there very intelegent aliens? sure, there might be idk, but the sure as hell cant contradict the laws of physics. if u do know one however and can show ito to me? fk we ll strap courds arround it,. and do electro shock to it to see what it can pull off. Now, B4 u go on, can u define what GOD means?
pelucas716 1 year ago
Really good Stefbot :)
StefanJohanssonX 1 year ago
"The Germans shipped Lennon with guns and money and materials to overthrow the Romanovs"
Could you show me your sources for this ?
RevDevilin 1 year ago
@RevDevilin
it's common fact. If you take an A level history course In England you'll receive several lessons on that topic. I can probably dig out some books and give you the names if you would like? It was an easy way to de-stabilize the country, just as the CIA armed the Taliban.
pRaIrVkEoRur 1 year ago
@pRaIrVkEoRur I'm sure you could also dig out some history books about the Aryan invasion of India, this does not necessarily make it a common fact, I hope you didn't get a high grade in your A level history cours ;-)
RevDevilin 1 year ago
The real question here is when does Part 2 hit Youtube? I don't think you should break your videos up like this, Moly. I know show biz is all about leaving them wanting more, but just do the whole lecture please. I was really enjoying it and then you called it.
IKilled007 1 year ago 2
This is such a great introduction Stef to what I've always considered as the West's plunge into the abyss of statism.. Looking forward to the rest of the series..
xelenty 1 year ago
great video as usual, thanks ever so much!
knwitham 1 year ago
This is why I listen to you stef, though I am a christian. Through all your anti-christian rhetoric piled in with the anti-gov rhetoric (that I agree with), I believe you are really after the truth. And I agree that the more thinking we do, the closer we get to the truth. I believe in God because I think its the truth, not because I'm afraid or because my parents do.
I'm interested to hear the rest of this analysis of history.
nathanjonessr 1 year ago
great theory, sounds very probable, am looking forward to part two, the reason for WW1 have always baffled me. all those young guys in the trenches going along with the murderous madness.
bruno188home 1 year ago
Excellent theory, in my opinion, is it yours? Fear has been used throughout history to motivate men to serve others, I do believe the world would be better served if we all learned to control are fear better.
BKatlittleton 1 year ago
I really got into it, then raged when you said "ill get to it in the next video"
;_;
IcWUTuDIDthar313 1 year ago
Don't laugh at me, but what about Ancient Astronauts who could have visited our planet?
Wouldn't that event cause some religion, simply because the people wouldn't understand the technology behind it. Some decades ago (World War 2) the US air force built bases in Indonesia, gave food to the indigenous tribes - and left after the war. Those tribes started to build planes with wood, and worshiped them. A new religion was born. (watch history channel's "ancient aliens")
Ask yourself - what if?
LunkwillFook 1 year ago
@LunkwillFook Oh I do. I only don't follow this theory so much, because I don't have any 1st hand experience/evidence of it in front of me (extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof and all that), but it would be very..VERY interesting if really really turned out to be the case. It would be even more interesting if certain factions within society was always aware of this from the beginning... ;)
SwobyJ 1 year ago
Real good but all religion is a man made way to control the masses blah blah blah. Jesus is unique but mans religion in the name of Jesus or any other deity is corrupted if they do not follow his CLEAR teaching..............
roykling 1 year ago
What you are telling is out of the history books our Masters want us to know. Nothing new to me. This is what a history teacher would tell me in a public school. But what about the true history our Masters don't want us to know. For example the Zionists movement that lead to the Balfour Declaration and the US-involvement in World War One.
Gebirgsjaeger1985 1 year ago
damn those cliff hangers!!!! :DDD
MaikUniversum 1 year ago
It didn't die. It was still-born
FreeSelfProject 1 year ago
Some great stuff, religion coming to be as a tool of manipulation, the black plague as the enabler of science to develop.
But the best part of course was that as you age you obviously become sexier and bolder, haha!
TossThatCoin 1 year ago
I think their justification of developing the idea of an afterlife is a way for people to control power over time but not only to keep people from overthrowing the government but also to keep suicide rates and moral high enabling the leaders to keep the proletariat under the priestly class working toward state action. The controlling leaders needed an eternal threat to keep people motivated towards their current earthly goals. It is malicious due sheerly to the ignorance of the suffering created
Selecsosi135 1 year ago
@Selecsosi135 the notion of an afterlife was brought to judaism and christianity and therefore islam by platonic philosophy
246316 1 year ago
I don't understand how this isn't what is primarily taught by intellectuals. As a college student I have been developing this set of reasoning ever since I had started really personally studying WWII in high school. It is such a logical and reasonable examination of how government interference often ultimately creates the exact opposite result than intended. It isn't some grand conspiracy theory, good people who don't understand causality are doomed to repeat their mistakes until corrected.
Selecsosi135 1 year ago
well, yeah, the priestly class development seems very resonable.
It starts with superstitious threats maybe during hail storms and lightning
"Evolved" into shamans.... into priests... into religious conservatism into theocracies where the superstition and and political power has but almost melded together again.
Paxmax 1 year ago
18:00 nice theory :)
MaikUniversum 1 year ago
are u an atheist?
kingneddy 1 year ago
@kingneddy he's an atheist.
MaikUniversum 1 year ago
A good book to read is THE CURSE OF IGNORANCE by Arthur Findlay, to be found online and free, it's a history of humanity form Sumer to the end of the WWII
EmpoweredByKnowledge 1 year ago
At about 4:00 when you're rattling off reasons for the beginnings of growth in the late middle ages you didn't mention the relaxation or total ignorance of anti-usury laws, interest-charging being forbidden by the church. I think this was one of the main causes and enabled the growth of the merchant class. Probably significant also are actions taken against guilds and other monopolies which allowed the emergence of industry.
KraljevicPavle 1 year ago
There were many countries involved in that war and millions of soldiers from all over were fighting in the trenches. Neutral Netherlands supplied coke to all of those countries. This a bizarre fact and a dirty piece of Dutch history that was more or less covered up. A lot of soldiers were given a mug of rum before they went over the top and out of the trenches. And sometimes it would be rum with coke,because mixing alcohol with cocaine doubles the effects of the stuff.
hunga224 1 year ago
I really like Stef's birth of religion ideas. It makes perfect sense...quite ingenious for men of that time to come up with such a powerfully effective plan.
DannelDoo 1 year ago
@DannelDoo it's not his idea, it was lifted from nietzsche, read the genealogy of morals by nietzsche
246316 1 year ago
Hear, hear!!
marypoppins2009 1 year ago
First, thanks for the perspective.
=====
The thing is, the further back in history you go, the less clear is what happened. There are ancient megaliths all over the world telling a very interesting storrrrry
Nomels 1 year ago
that is why i laugh when the kikes told the world
"We are the chosen people, we got palestine from god"
Ancient weirdos
bananito3 1 year ago 2
If you really want to know the reason(s) for the Death of the West, read Oswald Spengler two volume masterpiece "The Decline of the West." Also read Spengler's "Man and Technics", a short work he wrote on how the third World would use Western Faustian man's technology against him and destroy what is left of the west (which is no doubt happening). In Spengler's final work, he predicted the failure of Hitler as well as WW2, on top of predicting the Third World would revolt against the West.
dancewithme220 1 year ago
It's just a book... how gives a shit.
drew335533 1 year ago
The American Zionist German-Jews stabbed Germany in the during the first World War. Originally the American Zionist-owned (well virtually all Zionist owned) media outlets were Pro-German as the German-Jews that owned these companies still supported their "homeland." That was until England and the Zionists made the deal known as the Balfour Declaration of 1917, the real reason America got into the second World War. Of course, England bailed out on their deal with World Zionism.
dancewithme220 1 year ago 2
@dancewithme220 This is the root of the "Stab in the back" legend, which is certainly rooted in truth. Although they do not like to admit it now, the Zionists were Nazi collaborators. The terrorist Irgun "Stern Gang" (which many of Israel's future prime ministers were in) even offered to fight for Germany in the WW2. The Zionists considered England the #1 threat to Israel's future, not Germany. Germany originally allowed ALL JEWS to transfer to Palestine with all their wealth intact.
dancewithme220 1 year ago 2
I can see the similarities between the ape, polotition, priest.
"Ooh uh wah!"
"No new taxes!"
"Praise the lord!"
deadman12078 1 year ago
From where did you get your origin of religion theory? Are there any facts to back it up?
ZorrisPorris 1 year ago
@ZorrisPorris Human psychology and the history of man tells us how the mind works. Every primative culture eventually falls victim to religion as they attempt to make sense of the natural world. Today, there are primative cultures in South America, Africa and Australia. We have witnessed such developments in modern times and through our own history we can see the patterns of story telling. Jesus for example is an archetype that originated from the Greek mythos. i.e. Hercules, Persues, Jason, etc
vegetta00 1 year ago
Some of your early comments made me wonder. Do you agree with Hans Hermann Hoppe's conclusion that between monarchy and democracy, monarchy is the lesser of two evils?
priapus512 1 year ago
Love your video Keep up the good work .
MrRumba77 1 year ago
Religion is consisted of the most ridiculous, fake, false-hope spawning, ignorant statements I have ever heard.
ARagingCow 1 year ago
Very thought provoking this video is. Faved
You and your audience really give me more hope. Peace to you Stef
billybbob18 1 year ago
Oh no, thank YOU.....lol...very thought provoking.....
Motoicon 1 year ago
INTRESTING , BUT ALL WARS ARE PLANNED , ALWAYS!
amcanmike 1 year ago