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With growing trillions of databytes, billions of trees, lots of whatever is in records, tapes, microfilm & the breaths of true believers- What is today's 'Largest History', and what could you derive about the shadows of the past from this living mien? and A Joke: My culture is Max Stirner; I'd have said MY name, but then you wouldn't get it!

Your voice is this mic is not good. Can you subtract some of the 100-250 frequencies, that would improve the clarity.

So Super Stoked that you are still publishing lectures!!! Love your work Wes 🙏😀💜

I think we should make a modern / historical distinction here, in the past people ignored things based on premises of survival. Shit was fucking real when you didn't have HVAC and electricity. In the modern era, people ignore things out of shame. There is I think a major psychological difference here, despite the similar outcome of ignorance.

Wth are you talking about? Even if the settlers got along with the natives and integrated the two cultures in some way the settlers would still have no ancestral connection to the natives. Their history would still begin 1607. This makes no sense. The Irish said hey look we found one of our ancestors because they are literally the direct descendants of that person. That would never be true for the descendant of the englishman who came over to America in 1607 if we found some 2000 year old native body unless he actually had a half native child when he came over which almost nobody would. Unless your saying you somehow think the current entire american population would native dna right now if only we got along with them which is dumb considering we had a massive influx of European immigrants again in the 20th century.

Finding native american artifacts is often controversial, any discovery could rewrite major things. I think people should be open minded. Have you heard of the megalithic structure in lake michigan?

The myth of Prince Madoc is quite interesting, I think a lot of people think it's just simply impossible to figure out the timeline of the Americas. I think it's quite common for native americans to as well have a limit to their knowledge of the history of the Americas. In their oral traditions, it's common for them to only have a few hundred years.

The Smithsonian is a major problem, the amount of artifacts they have "lost" is absolutely preposterous

Hegel comes to mind

The shoulders of giants aren’t the only things we stand on, but the other things are a bit too macabre to mention with pride.

This makes it so much weirder with the whole MAGA thing (which assumes that there actually is a shared past, which was GREAT). In addition... the only answer I've seen anyone come up with in regards to the "What is it you're proud of, what makes you American" is this that they refer to this assembly of a few lavish white dudes from 250 yeears ago, who wrote something the country is based upon which is (like the bible) completely and utterly outdated. Truly bizarre.

America has always been based on small, limited government and maximum freedom. We are the libertarians of the world, in stark contrast to the authoritarians and totalitarians (socialists, fascists, and communists).

America had a common culture for a long time. Then we opened the floodgates of legal and illegal immigration in 1965. We’ve gone from a melting pot to a salad bowl. We’re no longer unified.

Ridiculous and frivolous examination of Simone Weil. Lecturer sounds misogynistic at the very least.

Can someone please help Wes with the Mic setup and sound mixing?

My question is when and why did someone from lets say New York state circa 1960 didn't particularly care or was concerned about the social policy of let's say Idaho but in a couple decades not only cared but called for federal intervention to change it?

Where can we ask questions?

It's a winner take all mentality in America. Everything is transactional and whatever I gain, someone else HAS to lose. And as soon as I do better and you don't, you WILL hold me back, and I can't have that.

At the end of "Religions in Four Dimensions," Walter Kaufmann speculates that religion and landscape have a relation and specifically hypothesizes that the desert in it's singularity may have been a contributing factor to monotheism. How would you say american identity and landscape fit? I know in places like Colorado, they have higher amounts of cult activity, what about the isolation and 30 days of night in Alaska, or say the people who live deep in the Appalachian mountains- living in Canada, we don't have anything like that to compare. Does it have something to do with the sheer size of it and how generally dispersed people can be? Thanks!

33:17 And a lot of us still do. You ask how far something is, odds are good you're gonna get an answer in terms of time rather than distance. A three hour drive, Treaty twenty minutes in the bus, whatever.

I take that McCormick quote a bit differently. Cooperation is an important, even an essential part of society, you can't even talk about a suçoter if there isn't cooperation between people. But cooperation isn't an absolute, it's not a monolith. We have conflict within our cooperative society, and between societies. The dangerous thing isn't cooperation, it's the aspiration for an end to conflict. You're a philosopher, you live in a world of nuance and infinite complexity, but a lot of people genuinely hope for a future with no conflict, with perfect harmony and cooperation, and that belief is dangerous because it's impossible. The belief in a perfect world can justify anything done to achieve it, but when that rainy is impossible, the justification is meaningless. It's the old saw that the perfect is the enemy of the good writ large. EDIT: To be fair, I don't have the full context of his writing, I'm going off just the quote and my own preconceptions.

7:17 That's actually a lot like what happened with the Catholic Church. I took a course on the Peperstraat Reformation a few years ago, and one of the rings that cake up was that around that time, there had been a great deal of both unnoticeable and tolerated local diversity of practice, and improvements in communication and transportation led to investing recognition of those differences and investing conflict derived from divergences that already existed. Local conflicts between people who just disagreed with each other as well as centralizing conflicts between the Church trying to reconcile those differences into a more unified doctrine.

Enjoyed the video. I’m in the Navy and I’ve always thought the way the Navy did things made sense, namely, trained you and taught you a specific skill in exchange for “x” number of years of service (in reference to the comment on apprenticeships and the employer taking on the risk). We literally have kids right out of high school running and maintaining nuclear reactors after about two years of training. No college degree. My brother did four years of college for a job doing pay-roll…

Henry Giroux Worked with Paulo Freire in the 1980's, and got 100 professors of education tenure across the US. Source - Henry Giroux himself. He's very proud of that accomplishment. Why is this relevant? By the mid '90s, all new K-12 teachers were using Critical Pedagogy in the classroom to teach Postmodern Neo-Marxist theories to children. By 2010, they entered K-12 administration, and by 2015, all of the K-12 education was captured by the Marxists. What is Critical Pedagogy? A Neo-Marxist approach to teaching children.

Minor criticism, but you have the 13 original states highlighted, I would suggest extending the highlighting to their territory at the time (ie make Alabama and Mississippi Orange or West Virginia and Kentucky dark blue). Edit:also, you got 14 highlights, Vermont is in there

Meeting Pluto suffering grace.

I love her! ❤

This is great!

She reminds me of Maud Gonne. ❤

Liking it a lot

22 mins sounds awfully like stoicism

Yay! I love you Wes! 😻🌺😘

I think that the idea of determinism means that essentially at the core if you work in a logical didactic manner, you will find that all of your decisions which seem like free will weren't yours to have. They are all dependent on things you seemingly hadn't been afforded choice to. Whom your parents are pretty much decides 99% of your future decisions. Which original option were afforded to you etc... I'm a so to speak practicing Jew. And this concept is a huge question in Judaism. I actually think this question is hugely important because it speaks exactly to the idea of agency self competence etc

Thank you Cecil. Looking forward to the libertiniasm episode. Also if you could talk a little bit of the cultural history of Louisiana, I would be grateful..

1:27 curse that fly, gave me such a jumpscare

Truth, justice and the American way.

what's weird is that you pretend that the concept of monotheism is a human idea and not a Divine one, that that Unknowable Essence we call God, etc., is not actively trying to get us to know of Its existence and to exist in proper relationship with non-gendered Him. Does it not make sense that all major religions founded by a Prophet sent by that Non-Material Supreme Knower are the evidence of that Effort? It's not so much that Zoroastrianism originated those ideas but that God must repeat Himself throughout human history to recapitulate the eternal message and update the social laws.

I wouldn't be me if I* was a nazi..👍

He was born in 1930 in Algeria and left at the age of 19 years old.. Algeria was still French and he was originally from Spain…his family were from Spain for 500 years…. In 1830, estimates put the number of Jews in Algeria at around 15,000: this figure made it the second largest Jewish population in North Africa before Tunisia and after Morocco. With the exception of nomadic farmers and herders, very close to their Arab-Berber neighbors, Jews generally lived in cities where they occupied neighborhoods reserved for them. Either, in Algiers, Bab Azzoun, El Biar, Bouzaréah, Bab el-Oued

dope information, thank you for the great lecture.

This concept of populism is so obviously a political trick. Democracy means doing the voters'will. Every politician runs on policies his constituents want. The media will turn against a politician and label hom a populist and a demagogue once he does things not to the liking of the self appointed talking heads. Its just a smear tactic plain and simple

Conservatives aren't against movement of people in and out of countries, I.e. legal immigration, they're against illegal free movement of humans in and out of countries (I.e. illegal immigration). That's like saying that punishing theft is a move that's opposed to free markets

Very excited for this series

QUESTION #1 where is Vermont on your map? I could ask more....

Stolen land. Slavery. Oppression. Capitalism fascism..

American is abiding by the Constitution.

I like his interpretation! It sounds very logical, but how did he understand what Nietzsche thought and meant when he wrote about Zarathustra? What if he meant something else?

Как можно было назвать женщину коровой?? Что за мудрость такая? Не вижу ничего умного или философского... За что им так восхищаются?

Thanks yet again! American Nations by Colin Woodard draws a bit of a parallel. He looks at US as more just states, but distinct "nations" or mindsets. Great read and he has some lectures on YT. Factual note on your thumbnail... although Maine didn't become a state until 1820, its was part of Massachusetts since the 1650s.

Voice is breaking up on my chromebook