battlestar galactica s04 e21 the lost episode

The lost episode after the season finale of Battlestar Galactica, here, for the first time released. --- All clips used in this video are subject to the Fair Use doctrine of Copyright due to the parody and educational nature of this video---

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[JoeNietzsche]

Unfortunately, it would seem that reality has something to say about this claim. Self sufficiency, as seemingly described here, is how our species survived for all but the tiniest fraction of our existence. Clearly the creator of this video is over-generalizing from modern examples of failed attempts at such systems, e.g.: North Korea – regarding this, an argument might have merit but it fails utterly as would-be law regarding our species’ nature.

[psychoelf000]

@JoeNietzsche You seem to be unaware of all of human history. If you want to learn about self sufficiency watch "Man v Wild" (although he cheats by using machined knives and clothing. Watch Frontier House or Into the Wild. Read Paul Johnson's History of the American People or Robert Wright's Non-Zero. Study historical life expectancy and nutrition. A few quotes to follow...

[psychoelf000]

@JoeNietzsche Robert Hesson writes of the Industrial Revolution:

the introduction of the factory system offered a livelihood, a means of survival, to tens of thousands of children who would not have lived to be youths in the pre-capitalistic eras... How... before the Industrial Revolution? Locke estimated that a laboring man and his wife in good health could support no more than two children “What they can have at home... is seldom more than bread and water, and that very scantily too.”

[psychoelf000]

@JoeNietzsche Look up historical life expectancy on wikipedia ... So throughout most of world history life expectancy has been about 30 years of age (I would bet this does not count infant mortality). It was capitalism (trade) than gave the world excess food, increased lifespans, and the ability for know-nothings to exclaim the virtue of self-sufficiency. Read Joseph to see how people lived when life was cheap and food was volatile.

[psychoelf000]

@psychoelf000 Josephus*

[Roymond911]

wtf is this

[DonMikimax]

This is shit, why would you want your people to live in a stone age again?! Ridiculous. Whole series are ridiculous.

[FishTurd69]

why did they ditch the ship???

[proadmin1]

@JoeNietzsche haha - and prior to 1500AD, - yeah that was nothing really. The uncomfortable truth is that the OP is of the opinion that we can't do without global trade or some other feature provided by absurdly high 20:1 (or so) energy ratios provided by oil, now that we've effectively started running out of cheap energy in earnest with no replacement in sight, one can expect the vast majority of civilization rapidly return to a more "familiar" pattern of our historical trends.

[StimuLAZ]

@lasse2811 Did you see the final text in this video about modern commerce and technology? Some people did and, although you may think it has nothing to do with BSG, they were discussing it. The main topic was communism vs. capitalism, which I think are two sides of the same coin. That was the context of my comment.

I was responding to Tyco200 by pointing out that modern so called capitalists have turned against free trade by allowing or even supporting protectionism and monopolies.

[lasse2811]

@coletrain77silver said..not send.. ;) hehe..

[lasse2811]

@StimuLAZ Ehh...? What does that have to do with BSG??

[ilkhanX]

Yes all of you give up your guns and books and ideas.

Because in ten years I will come back into town with the only working assault rifle and a couple books on construction, farming, medicine and maybe a few other things and be elected god.

[cptmc]

Nice video. 

[scifi75]

It was a stupid ending along with the unresolved plot holes. You are telling me that over 38,000 people who had so many divisions and differences suddenly gave up thousands of years of cultural advancements to live like natives? I don't think so. I could have bought this solution if some of the Colonials refused Apollo's idea, took the best ship from RTF, and went back to Kobol to build a society with the conveniences of technology.