A wonderful lecture, but tough crowd! Wokes wont and dont want to understand humour unfirtunately. He will have totally lost them at the reference "blamange" 🤣🤣👍 Am amazing lecture of world history in less than an hour interspersed with highly laugh out loud moments if you have a functioning and fun minded brain. Well done Dr. Scott.
Greeks and Romans probably didn't waste much time lecturing people about themselves. What they did was live and act in the present and speculate on what they didn't know. We think we can know everything about all subjects (our world, the ancient world, nature, space, etc.), but in fact we don't act politically. Hannah Arend says that every act that creates a new beginning is rich in creativity and possibility. Our civilization is paralyzed and dead. If a 2nd century BC Greek or Roman could have seen it, they would probably laugh at us.
The lecturer should focus less on contrived attempts to be witty and more on trying to weave together his incoherent mess of a story. If this is what global history looks like, then it's no wonder that no one gives a rat's ass about it outside of ivory tower academia. Now, mind you, I'm all for intelligently crafted comparative histories (e.g. "The Dragon and the Eagle" by Sunny Auyang) but that's a whole different ball game from the pointless and aimless exercise of so called "global history".
neuralvibes He seems to have confused history with story, and telling anecdotes. Commanding historians don't lose sight of the big picture and get bogged down with trivial detail. Another shortcoming is that it was still Eurocentric. Its quite clear now that the Romans were, depending on the day, either like mafia thugs or just plain militaristic colonialists.
