They are both slow talkers with long pauses, because they are thoughtful. So it sounds like they are done making a point, and then the other one feels the need to say something, and then the first one starts speaking again.
@@derek4412 that's how civilized discussions happen, now contrast it to stupidity that happens in the circus that is the elections. it almost makes the technocracy that's coming seems like justifiable, those are baboons, let the AI machines run the thing already
thanks guys, this was really interesting and fun to listen to. I commented on your last convo that the turn-taking and sharing of conversational threads was way off, this time you guys held something that felt much more contiguous, and it's appreciated. Samo's a jedi. Rudyard is a samurai.
54:00 a few years ago, someone observed that our civilizational capacity to do things- almost everything- peaked in the 1960s and early 1970s, and has steadily declined since then. With no end in sight.
If anything, Colombia is a Cargo Cult, is an occidentaloid country. We adopted forms, customs and rituals that we do not understand or know where they come from. We only had one military junta after the second dictator Gr. Gustavo Rojas Pinilla (the first was Simon Bolivar).
@RudyardLynch It is known from genetics now that the Americas were settled from Beringia, but also from Polynesia, and that the settlers from Beringia were basically the same people now living in East Asia/Siberia. The cultural influences were limited since culture -20k years ago was not so developed e.g. no writing yet. When Islam lost primacy it was not due to foreign invasions and corruption which was the case of Rome. Islam, like feudal China and ancient Greece lost (to a lesser extent) lost primacy due to intentional stagnation: all those innovaters are threats to the regime! They must be suppressed to maintain social stability! This has held back human progress by at least 3000 years so far.
The Empire or the world, Long divided must unite; Long united must divide - From the first line of Romance of the Three Kingdoms probably new Jewish mantra to instigate a WW3
during the Roman republic the Sahara was not yet desert. Desertification of the Sahara follows a circa 12k year cycle. It goes from lush to desert thanks to the stellar weather, really, which is both amazing and terrifying.
The thesis that latin America is the Roman Empire 2.0 is true, but is not original. It was established by Spanish authors like Donoso Cortés, Vazquez de Mella, Ramiro de Maeztu or more recently Marcelo Gullo. You guys really need to get in to the Spanish authors, your view of the hispanic world is heavily tainted by the black legend.
Excellent debate guys.Liked the use of hands to illustrate loss of intellect, by Samo. Reminded me of the time Maggie Thatcher used this to differentiate with socialists in the House of Commons. Effective.....
Rudyard should move to Sanfran and they should make this an in loco show with a nice studio and receive week guests, which should be high IQ intellectuals they admire. I suggest Mark Adressen, a fan of Rudyard, for the first guest! Also don't forget to check Samo's Live Players ch, he up these shows there too! Really great stuff.
Although they are opposite to the Sagas they are not the same peoples, the famous warriors of those stories are not related to the masses much like a caste diffence. The Scandinavian today is a servant like person but the Viking was never the population only an extreme and small group.
Im convinced we in the Usa are in a sociocultural moment closest to the year 224 AD NOT 50 BC. The republic fell long ago in the 1930s. We just don’t realize or admit it. The Romans pretended that the republic still existed well into the 3rd century, formally until emperor Diocletian in 285.
That is to say that the Republic was better than the empire, which it wasn't. Diocletian was a solidifying of the despotic faction in the ruling dynasties not actually an emperor at all but an overlord.
Here's your zazen: This is painful. See, I love Rudyard. It's not Samo's politics. He needs to improve as a narrator. Basically he comes across as a know-it-all, Backpfeifengesicht. I'm really sorry to say this but he's tough to listen too and also tough to look at. I suspect he is not in fact smarmy, but since he seems to wish to be a public intellectual he needs to understand: lots of the public don't like intellectuals, not because of feelings of inferiority but for the above reasons: talking down to the audience. Basically he's too soft spoken. Most people who throw around words like buddha/buddhism/zen don't really know those topics. 伸道如此.
I think you guys sometimes overthink the globalism in the past. The evolution of societies as we see it in Europe (the most visible part of Europe with decent historical records) was different polises allying themselves together and forming nations, with the strongest polis becoming a capital. And even this step was made incredibly late, as late as XVIII century (France becoming the first centralized nation; and even the French had to spend some century+ after that to even develop a single language for everyone). There simply was no and could be no "global system" or "global civilization" before that. Only after the establishment of American hegemony (1945) globalism became a thing. With a lot of entirely new "nations" being just arbitrarily introduced everywhere as a result of decolonization and post-war agreements (which obviously created big problems in places like Africa and Middle East, but not only). Continuing this logic, the next step (after nation-state) would be something bigger, and we do see an example right before us: the EU. This is the first example of the next big political thing after nationalism: regional blocks or macroregions. Basically anyone with around 0.5-2 billion population can become a macroregion. Only after this stage of development is over (sometime in 2100s, i.e. around the moment of populational decline absolutely everywhere) we can start talking about a single world government and some sort of "world empire". Meanwhile, until we are there, one macroregion (such as NA or China, for example) being in severe crisis/catastrophic downfall doesn't mean a whole lot for the others.
