Around 2 hours in, I'm about 90% sure Alan Watts was in that group of post ww2 thinkers, given there's one talk he discusses how we have to watch out for the types who would use them to prevent others from using them first, & discussing other big conferences (&;some huge way ahead of his time concepts in the book "wisdom of insecurity", likely not all his ideas alone).. Love or hate him, alcoholic or not, you kind of have to thank him for helping allowing for anything you love to still exist in the modern high risk age :P
Hey dan i have listened to you for years and was wondering, is there a way to get some of your old shows . Like wrath of the khans or blueprints for Armageddon, or even prophets of doom . Cause its enjoyable to go back a relisten to them .
I remember when this used to be the best podcast ever. Then I listened to the entire library of content, and realized I had to wait 8 months for the next 2-3 hour podcast.
Decadence strikes again. Let it be a lesson to us. It would be a better world if Rome had not become a hegemon of all of Europe. The same principles are true today.
lol, charlemagne was a nobody. he's like a peetah gee to a justinian gott. 😂 history says that it was a last moment decision and not his idea, but justinian actually gathered his entire political opposition at the hypodrome in order to slaughter them to the last one in twenty minutes. what did charlemagne do, indislamist type of things? he invented persecution as a sport in le name of christ. 🙄
Finally a historical podcast that has good production quality AND, and I can't stress this enough, a host with a relevant education and background in the field. A B.A. is perfectly fine, you don't need a doctorates to be an expert on a certain topics. But you need at least some form of higher education and maybe some form of experience with the topic at hand. RU-vid is full of badly researched, if at all, historical opinion pieces from people who hardly have any clue on what they are talking about. You can read a hundred books on any given topic, without proper methodology and an understanding of critical analysis and the scientific process, you simply will never be able to form a relevant theory on any complex subject.
Glad our decrepit, puppet president is sabor rattling with Russia (might as well be USSR) by arming Ukraine. Not even a part of NATO, that could be a tipping point...
That part about going to sleep and waking up to a Roman fort on the path of your supply lines where nothing was there before is absolutely wild and terrifying to imagine
Had to write this at right wing supremacist insurgecy. Meanwhile we will be owned by china at some point but some buffoons will never stop chasing ghosts of the 60's. Ive listened to Dans common sense and it hurt to hear how into this woke bs he is. Dans shows are so great But when people never leave school- or their reading room they do not experience reality the rest of us see daily.
This is all what if. What if this happened, what if that happened, i can honestly say IFa nuclear BOMB got dropped on anywhere on the planet, this will cause out write nuclear War. All this what if really anger's me. Nuclear war will never happen because you see in Ukraine and in the GAZA strip there is multiple wars going on and not once has a nuclear warhead become relevant, the reason for this is simple. IF a nuclear warhead is launched, THIS WILL BE THE END OF ALL HUMANITY.
Joe forget to mention Joe is that Alexander's army had linen armor I watch a professor who did reconstructions of this armor it might just what the knowledge I just heard Mike could be able to resist muskets of the point in age even up to the civil war
i think i’ve listened to this episode about 15-20 times by now. my all time favorite of all of carlin’s work. epic, gripping, and terrifying. a true work of art.
1:43:34 And being an unrepentant tyrant who wished he had Stalin's power because He would bring about the utopia. Only Wilson rivals him for the decimation of the country in modern times.
This is so far the best podcast I've ever heard. I Iistened to it with several pauses over a couple of days, due to shortage of time, but it proved to be even better and more fruitful because I was always very focused and could digest it even better and remember it properly. It was so great, so deep, profound, tragic and well presented, that at the end of it, I've learned so much that I felt like I lived one more life over those few days. I won't look at the world the same way anymore.
This is such a good conversation. I mean we're doomed, but the whole thing was incredibly interesting and it ended up unapologetically personal, and that was lovely.
Roosevelt though I would say one of his biggest flaws was his 'trust' of Stalin's words and I do say and think in his last months alive Stalin took full advantage of Roosevelt's declining mental ability. Roosevelt also I feel misjudged Stalin's post war Designs for Europe as well.
when read into the english conflict with rome i was surprised that they had a very healthy amount of horses and were so called very skilled horsemen , also the effectiveness of the ancient sling
