The gun violence has actually gone down 40% over the last couple decades but mainstream media coverage of gun violence has gone up 500% in the same amount of time kind of liberty.
ZolaMagic25 No I was merely restating the "liberty" part at the end of my sentence for ironical purposes or purpose of entertainment. In all actuality I was countering the popular ignorant narrative you were spreading that America is the worst when it comes to gun violence and that it's not a safe first world country to live in.
Oh yes I didn't miss the irony. In fact I was doing the very same thing! It's tragic that in some people's eyes owning a gun can equate to liberty. Less people being murdered now? How civilised. Keep up the good work.
My AP World teacher loves you so much that he assigned us to watch 4 Crash Courses to remedy lost time due to snow days. Honestly, this is amazing. I was expecting 3 essays.
2:08 , gotta love how he says that It's the least massacre-y massacre of all time, but overlooks the fact that it literally started because people were throwing snowballs.
For those who haven't figured it out, the reason people thought that democracy was anti-theistic was because Western religion up to that point was based around the notion that God and his creations were a monarchy, and that kings and emperors were part of that monarchical structure. Establishing a democratic society was like trying to overturn all of that.
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"We hold these truths to be self evident that all men are created equal. But when I meet Thomas Jefferson, I'm a compel him to include women in the sequel"
"If you're going to base your new society on philosophy, you should try to found it on ideals that are as inclusive and humanistic as possible - because the people executing those ideas will never be ideal" - John Green Save here for later reference
To say American slaves would have become free much sooner had the colonies been unable to succeed is a big "what if". If the British Empire had retained the colonies the Empire would have been more reliant on slave labor and perhaps less likely to abolish it in the 1820s.
I beg to differ there, but that is certainly arguable. There was William Wilberforce and other abolitionists with their own institutions in England and in Parliament that were working to abolish slavery and encourage others to think likewise, given that few in Britain depended on slaves for livelihood, which is principally why abolitionism was uncommon in the colonies and took time to gain prominence.
My AP World History teacher (who I don't like because he doesn't really teach) finally showed this video in class today, and I was so happy! It actually got kids to listen and I love using these videos to study. Thank you John Green!
'It's time for the open letter' Me (a Brit): oh brill, the fun, mocking part of the show. Wonder what's the target today? 'It's tea' Me:...tread very carefully John...
Kinda odd, my great grandfather on my moms side fought for the Continental Army and my great grandfather on my dad's side fought for the Crown... guess I'm a mix breed 😂
In the comment section or in the actual video? If you were referring to the video, well, that would probably be because Hamilton is based off the American Revolution, AKA actual historical happenings.
Oui oui, mon ami, je m’appelle Lafayette! The Lancelot of the revolutionary set! I came from afar just to say “Bonsoir!” Tell the King Casse toi! Who’s the best? C’est moi! Yeah I did come here just to quote my favourite Hamilton line...
Did anyone else sing "We hold these truth to be self-evident, that all men are created equal" in the voice of Angelica in the song The Schyluer Sisters?
1.) To be fair, the Brits taxed themselves first at home and thought it was logical to tax the colonists considering the residing British army remained to protect them against conflicts. So it seemed reasonable in their view. 2.) Boston Tea Party, yes the tea was cheaper, they got rid of all the other levied taxes except for tea, it was still cheap, but the British takeover of East India Co. for reasons to prevent bankruptcy made the colonists view it as monopolizing and thought the Brits could take over their industries as well. So the Brits thought they saved the tea co., and also repealed other taxes along with cheaper Tea, thinking it would lead to greater relations, but it was a big misunderstanding of two different ideologies and difference in way of thought. 3.) The revolution wasn't only about taxes or had nothing to do with the war. The revolution was the minds of the colonists and creating their own identity. John Adams & Benjamin Rush state that the revolution is still striving today.
@@captainbaronfluffy I'm making a comparison between ye olden days' use of a lack of traditional masculinity as an insult and today's. Kids today insult each other saying "you're gay" when the person is straight. The Committees of Correspondence claimed that a man being loyal to the British meant he lacked masculinity.
I know the show has a time limit, but I'm a bit dissapointed that he didn't even mention the role France played in making the American Revolution possible. Considering his previous episode was on England vs. France, it would have fit in with the narrative quite nicely.
I'm a Swiss history student and i enjoy john's videos which provide a nice résumé about the whole topic. Neither being British nor being American, i view the American Revolution as mostly a chain of misunderstandings and ignorance on both sides (a bit more on the english side). The UK had it's own problems with George III, Premierminister North and it's thousand commitees (like Board of Trade); every Duke had to be included somehow, so naturally, there had to be some trouble. Always, when the colonist did something to show their disapproval (like Gaspee), the English implement a law that makes the colonist even angrier (priviledge of East India Company). Ignorance and misunderstandings paired with bad timing. If the UK had a better organisation and would have been more understanding, they could have worked it out (my opinion). To me it's like a family feud
One thing to point out, Jean-Jacques Rousseau thought up of the concept of a decentralized gov't that allowed the provincial gov'ts have more autonomy, in his 1762 work The Social Contract; which is how the US of A is organized. So yeah he did have some influence on America's formation. Also, I find that America to be founded solely on Locke to be an oversimplification as Montesquieu, Aristotle, Plato, Cicero, Epictetus, Epicurus, and Voltaire had much to do with the formation of America. Also, I kind of feel that John Green seems to misunderstand philosophy as it is not a monolithic study.
+CosmoShidan And why would anyone want to go back to a nation where the sovereign is the head of a specific church instead of a secular society? I'm talking about how Britain as the former of course.
WOW! I´m from Germany and that video did surprise me: fast, understandable, in English, some good humor and damn never thought this high quality comes back from 2012. My bilingual history exam is saved!
JOHN GREEN!! Thank you!! Homeschooling a High Schooler. Struggling to garner interest in History... until today!! We found you! My DD grabbed the computer from me and willingly started to watch and was laughing a lot! THANK YOU! I owe you one! Come to Morgan Hill California, I will buy you coffee and dinner :-D You have made my job much more enjoyable!
agreed philosophy doesn't have many videos. I would like someone notable like him to inform the public about philosophy.(philosophy goes beyond sarte and Socrates)
Fun fact: The South was more loyal to England than the North. If England won the war, I doubt they would have banned slavery at the time they actually did. It would have made more profit for them. The south made huge profits from slavery, and one of their main customers were the British empire. The British Empire even supported the Confederacy during the American civil war.
First I'd like to clarify that I am in high school and by no means a qualified expert about these subjects (please don't bash me), but I'd argue that the claim that slaves would've been better off if the British won isn't necessarily true. First of all, assuming the British actually managed to keep a hold on the colonies for the next 70 or whatever years, the British could so easily get rid of slavery because they weren't dependent on them. There were very few slaves in Britain, and furthermore, they didn't exactly encourage the dissolution of a slave-culture in any of their other or future colonies (*cough cough India*). Especially if they benefited from the slavery in the Americas, it really would've been an upward climb to ban it.
+Grace McKinley I think In the long run one they would be maybe not immediately because the practice of slavery was considered barbaric part of the reason it survived as long as it did was because it was far away from home and few normal brits saw it. Maybe having it in america would awaken people earlier also they were not slaves in India, servants maybe but not slaves certainly there was nothing like the slave trade that came from Africa.
Grace McKinley the only reasons people had slaves was to make more money. They would for sure keep slaves if it would help make money for Great Britain
The deceleration of Arbroath was penned 500 years before the American declaration of independence and was the first to advocate that the government was subject to the will of the people. It also bears a striking visual resemblance to the deceleration of independence and its no coincidence that many of those who signed the latter were of Scottish extraction.
What was interesting was that in the first draft of the Declaration of Independence there was a section written that would free the slaves. The council assigned to write the document, which then promptly put it on Jefferson, said that not all of the people at the convention would agree to this and would make the convention longer than it already was. Jefferson "fixed" this after a heated argument with the rest of the council and thus we have our Declaration, also the original draft cussed a lot.
[ELIZA/ANGELICA/PEGGY] “We hold these truths to be self-evident That all men are created equal” [ANGELICA] And when I meet Thomas Jefferson [COMPANY] Unh! [ANGELICA] I’m ‘a compel him to include women in the sequel! [WOMEN] Work!
John and team Crash Course: It would be great if you guys can do a more in depth episode on the relationships between the American & French Revolutions; how the philosophies, histories, politics, etc. are intertwined. For example; one interesting note I discovered from Jon Meacham's Art of Power is the importance of per-revolutionary France on Jefferson, Revolutionary America on Lafayette, and the writing of the Les Droits..
In presenting that the British were so anti-slavery John kind-of ignores a few important facts. The anti-slavery movement didn't gain any significant force until the 1780's. They didn't stop the slave trade until 1807 and then didn't free slaves across the empire until 1833. This was definitely before the US, but to say that the British saying they would free the slaves meant that they were being beneficent is reading a little too much into it. There were a lot of slaves in the Americas, and the British wanted allies. This is like the Emancipation Proclamation that DID NOT free the slaves. It only freed slaves in states that continued to rebel (meaning the Confederacy) but didn't address at all those from states in the Union, like Delaware.
@David VazquezHe plays Alexander Hamilton in a play called "Hamilton" It's a dramatization of the story of the Revolution, from Alexander Hamilton's point of view.
+Amiel Morris You know, the weird thing with that musical is how its fans seem totally oblivious to the fact that that style of music isn't actually popular with most people.
I have been watching these video us for years and am subscribed to this channel but I just found out he's the author of The Fault in Our Stars. I'm humbled by how ignorant I've been to that for so long. John Green is incredible
Thank you these videos, they made the american and french revolution very interesting and at the same time extremely informative.. thanks again!!!! KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK!!!
Animal Farm by Orwell? It was a metaphor for the communists and more exactly to the URSS, ironically as John Green said this can also be applied to almost any Revolution, including the USA's one.
OK.NOW I UNDERSTAND EVEN MORE- THIS EXPLAINS ALOT ABOUT WHATS GOING ON NOW IN THIS COUNTRY NOW: RACISM, PROPERTY, TAXES/IRS AND POLITICS...AND WHERE ITS GOING.
am I the only person who thinks John talks at an average speed? I mean, heck, I talk faster than that when I'm trying to talk slower than I usually do.
Every comment on this video is just degrading "americans". It is just a title and no person can make such a general statement to say that Americans are ignorant or would have been better of as British. I agree America is not the greatest place but as a matter of fact no place is. So please direct your comment to the historical side instead of the opinionated side.
WRONG! everyone in the world thinks the usa ( no caps done on purpose ) SUXS! 1. Americans are ignorant/idiots. 2. You're correct, no one is better of being British. 3. You're correct, it's not the greatest place ( IT SUXS ). 4." no place is"... Wellll? yes and no. Yes, no place is perfect. No, compared to American foreign policy they ( At the least, 50% of other countries ) nearly are. 5.You're warmongers - always was, always will be.
duh I have no idea where I insulted your home country, but there's no need for criticism if you do not live in the usa. (no caps on purpose) I said the us isn't the greatest place to live, but nowhere is anymore every country is flawed and every country has done wrong in some way. There isn't a possible way to persuade every single person in your country to like you, much less in the world. I would appreciate if you had some decency to just think about what problem you have with your own country. America sucks isn't a valid insult.
no wasn't insulted. Just jumped in on the US hate bandwagon, nothing personal. Valid insult? Who cares. Your country sucks, simple. Your still warmongers, the equivalent of a schoolyard bully... I could go on
Correct me if I am wrong but didn't Jefferson's first draft of the DOI have a part that said slavery would end, but was forced to take it out or some wouldn't sign it? I don't know that is just what I thought for some reason.
literally sang 'the battle of yorktown, 1781' and 'we hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal (and when i meet thomas jefferson, i'mma compel him to include women in the sequel, work)' hamilton style
Green totally brushes over how profoundly important and unique the revolution was and just goes with the typical "hey they were white" line. It's facile. It's a willingness to overlook all of the important and incredible aspects of something because "hey their race was the same race that I like to gripe about."
He specifically said how the fact that the revolution abolished monarchy was unprecedented and unique, he's only not over-glorifying something that's already over-glorified.
I'd like to share a little history about my small home-state because it is related to this video. I see John spoke correctly that the quintessential British Tea wasn't English, but he says they were Chinese or Burmese or Indian, which should actually mean the region between these three regions, where my home-state of Assam and nearby Arunachal lies which are among the oldest tea growing states of the world and one of the first regions exploited for oil (Google "Digboi"), they are still contested by India and China. We still maintain the East India company plantations as heritage sites and they have records of the sales made for transportation to the new world colonies. But these facts are still hushed up and are not very well known because both India and Britain commercially benefited from exploitation of the region. Here is where it would be called a comedy of errors if it weren't for all the lives destroyed: Historically, mainland Mughal India could never conquer its north eastern states (Google "The Battle of Saraighat") coz we were sort of like Dorne ;), Comically, when the British charged the mainland kingdoms for their services, the idiot kings who had spent away everything said they couldn't pay them because their profits of operations in north eastern India (non existent) were recently captured by the Burmese and they goaded the British into attacking them, which the British gladly did because they were greedy enough to want Burma too beginning the costliest Anglo Indian war, Meanwhile Burma didn't know their motives, so when they lost, the British were like "Hey, you can keep your own heads of state, but we want the north eastern state operations" to which the Burmese were "Uh, ok ?" even though they didn't own anything of us they "sold" the states (google Yandaboo Treaty) and the British promptly set up shop in our home like they owned the place (which they thought they did), we first thought they were visitors so we were hospitable but then they started some old fashioned slavery and we revolted by that time twas too late and they put hundreds of us down, and India kept mum because selling tea and oil from us settled their debts.
