History-Makers: Confucius 

“China just broke, but while it was breaking, Confucius is busy figuring out how to have good morals”

"By god I will make it work" Blue this is the kind of optimism we need

China through history: *Some assembly may be required*

"Mercenary Philosophers". That's a t-shirt right there, that is.

When he said "Mercenary Philosophers" I had this mental image of a bunch of world weary scholars with hard eyes holding their battered scrolls and pens, hanging out in a seedy bar while negotiating choice contracts. Best part? They were called the Gray Teach Legion and being hired by the Magistry of Confucius.

about to be in the middle of nowhere with no signal but Overly Sarcastic Productions just updated so ima download it

"Good governance is under short supply... gee I wonder how that feels like." Living up to the channel's name i see...

Ah, the 500BCs, the time when you can literally send dancing people as a gift

*screams* “no stress we’re thriving” IF THIS IS NOT MY MENTAL HEALTH

I love how Marco Polo was labeled "Please be less vain." Even kids know how lost and found that guy was.

Everyone who studies Chinese: *reading tests and exams flashbacks*

Confucius: Every sixty seconds in Africa, a minute passes All of China and some of east Asia: Talented, brilliant, incredible, amazing, show stopping, spectacular , never the same, totally unique

*confused screeching* “no stress, we’re thriving.” If that isn’t 2020 in a nutshell...

"functionally a ghost." The tier list killed me.

sooo- dude never wrote anything down, wasn't well-liked in his lifetime & was popularized later by his students, becoming the foundation of a whole school of philosophy. Chinese Socrates?

"Man, Confucius you're always trying to put something in its place. Why don't you tell your eyebrows they need to fit better on your face."

"Yeah our teach is lit, makes sense that we write down most if not all of his ideas and make tired students recite them for the next few millennia, NO BIGGIE."

“But for reasons including and not limited to ARSON-“ What a time to be alive

"I didn't say half the things you guys think I said." - Confucius

Thought we were having an solar eclipse, what with Blue throwing so much _shade._

Last time I was this early ancient China was dissolving into another period of regional warlordism.

Blue giving us the "the is fine" in the middle of a burning building même energy

By the word of Confucius himself, "If an Nvidia factory is currently not on fire, it will be on fire." - Confucius

Philosophers: "Hey we've got a good things going, hopefully it won't be ruined-" Qin Dynasty: *"All Books Must Be Burned, All Philosophers Must Be Buried."* Philosophers under six feet of earth: "Well shit."

Horses AND Dancing Girls, huh? More like the State of Lewd, amiright?

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA -Blue 2020

Gotta love that stern "Hmmmmmm...". He makes his point known in an instant, without sidetracking into modern day politics.

"I found a goose guys" my favourite osp quote

"A government which relies on harsh laws and punishments is doomed to fail because it's working in opposition of the people...HMM?!"

Wait, confucius the philosopher, this isn't history makers, this must be the legendary philisophical phridays!!

I feel Sima Qian would make for an amazing History-Makers video, partly because his life story is fascinating (he and his father were the court historians and astrologers for Emperor Wu/Han Wudi and hated it, and Sima Qian was castrated for speaking out against Wudi) and partly because the way he wrote history fascinating. In addition to what you mentioned there, he structured the Shiji not chronologically but based on topic (and THEN divided it chronologically within that) with those topics ranging from the history of music theory and agriculture to the biographies of merchants and assassins. In addition, he worked hard to give multiple perspectives on those he described before rendering his personal judgement (for example, showing the brutality and schemes of the Dowager Empress Lu but then praising her as an able and just ruler in his summation of her life). While he was influenced by the Spring and Autumn Annals, he went far beyond the barebones stories found there and tried to construct something grander. To Sima Qian, what he was making was a history of the world. I personally see him as a hybrid of the best of Herodotus and Thucydides (especially the spite and bitterness of Thucydides). Also, it should be important to note, The Shiji was not intended as a Court History despite being the Court Historian. Sima Qian saw his work as being for scholars like himself above all else, and includes a lot of digs at the Han (including ranking Liu Bang's rival the legendary warrior Xiang Yu amongst the reigns of Emperors rather than amongst the lives of generals or minor nobles). Overall, he (in my opinion) fully deserves his title as The Grand Historian.

"So Emperor Gaozu watched a few TED Talks on Confucianism and became a fan" Meanwhile Kim Jong Un's favorite TED Talk must've been that one from Mao Zedong

Blue: wants to make us proud. Blue: puts random goose hjonk in video. Me: Extremely Proud

A history makers on the historical Jesus of Nazareth would be dope.

Ah Confuscious, most know him for his teachings, or the fortune cookies that "quote" him, BUT i know him for having a dinosaur named after him.

Whitehead: "European philosophical tradition consists of a series of footnotes to Plato" China: *looks nervously*

Confucius: Hey got some advice. Wanna hear it? China rulers: No, I got to much on my plate. Servant get me my meal. 10 years later China in civil war. Confucius: I told u so. 2000 year later. Confucius in the grave: still told u so, but the world right now is still crack more than China when I was alive

I followed Confucianism for many years and the book that got me into it was great. had a huge section about him and his influences, the complete works collected by his followers, and a Chinese dictionary all in one.

"Most of what we know, is through his disciples." mmmmm Sounds familiar.

Confucius Quote: True stress is being early on a video and wanting to leave a comment, but not knowing what to comment.

~China is whole again... ...then it broke again~

Han advisor: a empire can’t be ruled on horse back. Genghis khan: *Challenge accepted!*

"I will make you proud if it kills me" God, if that ain't a mood, I don't know what is.

7:16 wait, a ruler listening to an underling, hearing their point, understand that they have a point, and changing their philosophy to reflect said point?! It's a miracle!

I like the "Will the be on the exam?" guy. Very true look on his face.

1:38 ‘Gee I wonder what that feels like...’ Same here, pal 😂

"So here's the real golden rule, I'm way above you weak rookies. Confucius say, YOU CAN ALL HOLD THESE FORTUNE COOKIES!"

"Good governance was hard to come by- gee, wonder how that feels like-" _shots_ *_f i r e d_*

As my old friend Confucius say "The hunter has become the hunter-ed."

I've never been this early, it's like a liminal space in here

China in the Spring and Autumn period: **aAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH** The World in 2020: **aAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH** Blue trying to find a solid source about Confucius: **aAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH**

"topsy turvy slicey stabby" 5:42 iconic

I'm going to give props for Blue for his Chinese pronunciation... I thought he'd mispronounce them as most of us did when trying to learn Chinese. I'm still bad at it though.

Ah yeah, the wise chinese man who invented confusion

6:22 i keep playing this over and over again

Blue, don’t you think that Chinese history is “Confucing” 😂😂😂😎😎😎

Last time I was this early China was one country.

6:24 That dissapointed look on Blue it's making me regret my poor life choices.

last time I was this early, China wasn't whole again yet

Confucius: is in a kingdom It’s king/lord: You have lost your living privileges here

The shade in this video is off the charts. I love it.

Confucius, one of the most misunderstood guys. Still behind Machiavelli.

Props for getting so much of the Chinese (audio pronunciation and visual on-screen characters) correct! Undoubtedly a lot of work to avoid the usual credibility-sapping sloppiness that can go over the heads of the usual viewers who are clueless (about the family of Chinese languages). That's some no-joke dedication right there and I salute you and Red, who seems to have handwritten the Chinese characters in her videos, for it!

Just like highschool, I'm early for history lol

China fractures politically: Produces Confucius America fractures politically: Produces Alex Jones

Last time I was this early trope talks weren't a thing

When you get so agitated about missing information that you sound like a old door opening

i love this serious because it teaches me about all the stuff i learned in "history of the entire world i guess" but properly

The amount of saltyness is ASTOUNDING

"Gee, I wonder what that feels like" *bitter other American laughter*

Fantastic! I just learned a lot about a great teacher I didn't know anything about! It may be the biologist in me, but I absolutely love that thing in history/genetics/paleobiology/linguistics where you have to reconstruct a long-lost Thing from the hacked-together corpses of Things that sort of kind of lasted long enough for us to understand them at least *slightly* better. Like a jigsaw puzzle that hates your guts and also might be made of actual guts! It's great! Academic masochism, here I come... ... I'm definitely here for the bards, so I'd love to see our own Bard of Ayr take to the stage. Burns didn't exactly write textbooks, but he did do his utmost to preserve an oral culture collapsing around him while providing insight into the landscapes of the day through his own poetry. While, y'know, writing diss tracks against the church and having an illegitimate kid with every bonnie lass frae Alloway ta Inverneckie, 'cos he lived that rock'n'rove life. '*' Not a perfect dude by any stretch, but he's fascinating, definitely a History Maker and I'd love to see your take! ------------------- '*' Good thing too; his other option would have been sailing off to become a slaver's clerk. From his later writings, as I recall, it's pretty clear that Burns would have utterly *despised* any version of himself that could have supported that particular institution.

6:23 Disapproving blue is my new favorite thing!! Legit laughed out loud

“The sounds of neighing and moaning” can be taken out of context in very scary ways

All right, WHO edited this video? The little captions, the cuts, the sound effects-those were freaking great! I loved it! Also all the references to “The history of the entire world I guess,” perfect.

Is it just me or did this episode have far more sass and sarcasm than usual? I love it.

One could say it was a very ‘Confucing’ period.

Video: is 9 minutes long When I started it: 2 minutes from upload Me: goes back to home and sees that this video was uploaded 6 minutes ago You bitch you wanna see some *real* speed

This couldn't have come at a better time. I'm studying the religions of Ancient China today. Thank you so much OSP! Keep up the good work!

Hmm... I can make a possible pun but I'm out of ideas... Guess I'm CONFUSIED here! I'll see myself out.

This feels a lot like half my school work after being absent because sick for two months

“good governance was in dubious supply. gee, i wonder what that feels like.” i see EXACTLY what you did there the little jabs are the best part of this

I love your videos Blue! I honestly learned so much about history through this channel

7:28 points for the stealth ad

I'd like to see this series expanded to include museums. I mean, mostly, I wanna hear Blue talk about the absolutely insane way the US got the Smithsonian, but I think the history of museums around the world would be an incredibly fascinating topic.

Insightful indeed

Great episode. I believe it would be interesting to have an episode on Paul The Apostle (Saul of Tarsus) and his influence on early Christianity

I just did a 15 mile hike and now I’m in a bathtub with sliced baguette and camembrie and wine and opened RU-vid and I see that OSP uploaded and... I’m just having the best day that I’ve had since quarantine began. I love you, Blue. I love you, Red. I love you fellow history and lit lovers. May your camembrie be soft. May your baguette be aesthetic. May your wine glass be full. I wish you all all the best.

This is, quite literally, the most I've ever learned about Confucius in one sitting 😅

I'm surprised that when you said "it was Go time" there was no cut to people playing Go...

I'd strongly suggest making an episode on Hayreddin Barbarossa, an absolutely fascinating and pivotal character during the hay day of the ottoman empire that took part in two of the most important naval battles in the Mediterranean.

‘Good governance was in dubious supply.’ ‘Gee. I wonder what THAT feels like.’ I felt that on a soul level.

There's an episode on Confucius on the Curiosity Stream series The Butterfly Effect. I think Blue would really like the series

Blue: all of China is one heck of a classroom. Me: no wonder they’re so smart

This is the earliest i will ever be and I regret nothing. I love these guys

literally just looked at Confucius in ancient history, your timing is perfect

Confucius says, "Man who runs behind bus gets exhausted." According to my dad.👍

All of his disciples wrote after his death, and the guy never wrote anything himself? Hmm...sounds rather suspiciously like a certain Son of Man we've got here over in the West...

You know, I've been watching this channel for a while now, but this is the most Overly Sarcastic I've seen either Red or Blue be!

Blue: "mercenary philosophers". I, a philosophy major in Russia: I think I'm in love.

Heard a story once that Confucius beat an old man with a cane for being lazy.