Welcome to the Kings and Things Channel! This is a place where I share various things that I've been looking into and find interesting. Usually that involves historical people, historical architecture, or historical media that bridges that gap between past and present.
This author definetly had some good ideas like making Paris cleaner, low taxes, more equality, focus on science and forcing the king to be raised as commoners to understand the plight of ordinary people (he also says they have to fast and sleep on the floor for three days per year). But there are also some things he got wrong imo. I don’t know why it’s necessary to abolish all luxury goods and even ban coffee. I understand that in the context when this story was written these goods were acquired through slavery but why couldn’t there simply be a more ethical way of harvesting them instead? The fact that he ignores the role of women is also a flaw with his futuristic utopia. I also don’t see why it was necessary for them to burn so many controversial books and maintain their faith. It seems like he viewed knowledge and discourse about controversial topics as something potentially dangerous. Their religion also doesn’t seem to serve an important role in their society so I wonder why it’s necessary at all. The doctrine seems very passive and vague.
This is a refreshing and absolutely lovely film, which we are so glad ☺️ that you made. The artistic selections chosen are exquisite and our life is better for having seen them. thank you.
You didn't cover isochromatic pioneer Prokudin-Gorsky, who made series of colour photos, starting with 1903, nor Adolf Miethe, German inventor who made it possible in 1902.
We aren't advancing as fast as we were believed to be ...that similar to the Jetson's by now. With computers and media tech we have, but transportation is the same.. Manufacturing and farming is a lot the same changing slowly. The elites, government and military do have the advancements of technology about 5oo years ahead of us (society) The just gave us cell phones relatively not long ago...but we have so much not be told to us. This will be revealed soon.
Ngl if they had weed ( And i mean it’s the 1700’s they thought opium wad legitimately good for you lol ) and i could access some of that advanced technology i really wouldn’t mind, definitely better than IRL where i’ll never be able to physically own a house in my lifetime.
Wow. Btw I wonder if General Helmut von Moltke is related to the von Moltke from the 20th of July, probably yes. Anyway, their descendants might enjoy this, it's really cool.
So they build these awe inspiring structures for the world fair, just to tear them down immediately after? And you're telling me that humans couldn't have build the pyramids?
Classical style never went away though. Homes and offices always had elements of Classical styles in them, even during the modern era. We did rebuild large areas of Europe in the middle of the 20th century and although too much modern styled buildings made their way into European city centers, there was still quite a bit of traditional buildings reconstructed. Our local courthouse burned down in the 1960s and was rebuilt in even more of a classical style than the original.. which was Victorian. My parents house was built in 2002 and has Ionic style columns on the porch.
Any book recommendations related to ancient automata? I have visited the Ancien Greek Technology Museum in Athens and since then, have been really hooked to the subject
Actually, the techiques for reading that early phonograms were devised by the also french mathematician, Fourier. But both of them lacked the computing power we have today to do that matemathical analysis, which was started in the 1960's and completed in the 1990's as voice recognition, available even here for automatic subtitles
Many people believed that Bavaria became an electorate in the 1620s, it didn't. Maximilian inherited the Palatinate elector title, so he was elector of Palatinate, not elector of Bavaria. Bavaria became an electorate 1648.
I love how this guy straight up wrote about a totalitarian dystopian society where if you're not within the "correct" mentality, you're "reeducated", 150 years before it was cool, and all under the guise of extreme nationalism, ethnic superiority, and an elitist worldview where the 99% had to comform to that .1% of "enlightened", superior, philosophers Culture is dead; art is dead; society exists purely to support and perpetuate said beliefs, there is no escape
