Civilisation EP1#3

[NIETZSCHEAN14]

"Fighting." In other words - "THE WILL TO POWER". Friedrich Nietzsche was right . Force rules the world, regardless of what the politically correct, bleeding heart liberals, would have us believe.

[Inediblehulk]

I wonder how one goes about getting a few days alone with that Celtic book. I sincerely believe far more information can be conveyed in less space and time with abstract symbols than with words, although with much lower fidelity and precision. Much of this very film teaches symbolically, whether you are consciously learning or not. The thousands of pictures in that book may be worth millions of pages.

[SHMUJEW]

now we have to defeat the muslim hordes again

[GordonMorrice]

The Vikings, once feared, now forgotten. Today we fear Muslims, yet compared to those mightly Norsemen of Old, Muslims merely bother us in an abstract way. The modern Muslim in Britain is harmless. We have pampered ourselves into a state of coddled materialism and ungrounded superiority lifted from lost Empirical dominance. Therefore, our rancourousness - not to mention our low birth-rates - makes us open to being superceded in the coming generations.

[ezelite]

@GordonMorrice We had a lot to fear from our own lords and barons as well, and the terror their knights would have inflicted on the local population, especially the Norman castles!

[drcpug]

Atlantic Man and Mediterranean Man? Gads. I more fully appreciate James Burke's desire to counter this series with one of his own. Clark does well to say this is a 'personal view': fact would run amok in his narrative. Yet perhaps he really does think that Muslims are somehow inferior to Celts...I'm glad there are now more tolerant opinions.

[RPenta]

@drcpug

I wonder if he was Catholic; hard to imagine an Englishman giving the Irish props on anything; I can already sense a deep anti-Moslem sentiment here. Islamic scholars played a key role in preserving especially Ancient Greek culture and knowledge into the time of the Renaissance in Europe.

[williamqprice]

@RPenta

He described himself as a Humanist. So, no, he was not Catholic, or even religious.

[RPenta]

@williamqprice

It is amazing that the historic religious enemies of Christianity persist to this day--Islam and Judaism--or to be precise Zionism--of course, if we did not terrorize the Moslem world for the last half century and give uncritical support to Israel.

[RPenta]

Respond to this video...

things would not be as bad. 

[NastevilsBack]

@williamqprice Lord Clark was a convert to Roman Catholicism late in his life. When this series was made he was a member of the Church of England.

[NastevilsBack]

Respond to this video... Lord Clark converted to Roman Catholicism in 1983 before he died.

[NastevilsBack]

@drcpug Oh yes, there are now more tolerant opinions of Muslims today. Too bad though that the Muslims aren't all that tolerant of the rest of us.

[zzheavensdoor]

Thank you TwoManchuTwo for uploading this great series

[2plus2is9]

Thanks for posting this series! It's great!

[2plus2is9]

there is a slight typo in the description of this video. The presenter's last name is Clark not Clarke