The Enlightenment: Stumbling in the Darkness 

I tried to watch that dreck but its so bad. Its hard to stomache this chanel now that karl is here. That other dude that is occasionally on is far better(not the simon)

How about you listen facts giving to you instead of giving opinions about things you don't now nothing about.

Yes, indeed... Karl, I find your history lessons very 'entertaining'. Job well done.

Or Thomas Jefferson, or Queen Anne, or King George III, or John Adams.

England in a nutshell

British thinkers north and south of Gretna played equal parts.

That's called "saucer and blow" and was quite popular all over. It allows one to drink it fast by cooling it off. It wasn't allowed to sit dormant in the saucer. Americans started thinking it was annoying because of the slurping noise that accompanied the consumption and instituted bans at individual coffee houses and the practice faded... except in the southeast US where it continued.

God's word is the truth. We ought to follow God.

Hey. You remember his name...right? Get it now?

He stopped fact fiend as he no longer enjoyed it, something he stated would happen years ago. He is showing anywhere he could be found

He's not presented this channel for months, where have you been? Karl has been presenting for AGES now... do you even biographics bro?

He died. 😂

It's history and includes biographic info on several people. I like it

The legacy of the French Revolution is a positive one. Europe benefitted in the long run from the ideals of the French Revolution.

You are a prime example of someone who hears what they want to hear. You are incapable of seeing the entire age in the totality of its circumstances. They were, at times, criminally enlightened. This was the time after the dark ages. Go look that up, and compare the two.

How about you listen facts giving to you instead of giving opinions about things you don't now nothing about.

@@Mecha82 my statement is true. Looking at it from my perspective "they" the so called "great scholars" of the time were not " enlightened" to know that the enslavement of a group of people was wrong yet still keep them enslaved for your own selfish gain is not enlightenment. That's the problem people refuse to see the wrong in history and then try and hide the truth by making excuses for the past. I stand by what I said "THEY WERE NOT ENLIGHTENED"

@@ripn929707 Defense of ignorance is complicity. You are making excuses for people who were clearly wrong in how they treated and thought of one group of people.

@@jackiegillyard758 It pointless to argue with someone who chooses to be obtuse. All you heard was the part about slavery. What you seem to ignore is that prior to the "Age of Enlightenment " having any of these opinions would mean being ostracized and the very least, and executed in any of a number of horrific ways. Enlightenment does not come in huge leaps and bounds, it is incremental. Plenty of people like yourself had enlightened ideas. The question is, would you be so cavalier with speaking truth to power if you had seen other burned at the stake for the same? I bet youd keep your mouth shut.

You prefer monarchy and theocracy?

@@TheDanEdwards Sure. At any rate it's better than what we have.

​@@caffeineoverload7773 No one should take you seriously.

Amen to that!

@@TheDanEdwards Yes, please take the meta-Marxist seriously, they represent the new theocracy insinuating itself throughout our culture. The power of story sans-fact and truth.

Give Karl a chance.

Simon isn't coming back so you need to accept it and give Karl a chance.

Simon's accent is so thick I can't understand what he says half the time. Then there's his penchant for Simon going off on weird tangents about his personal life having nothing to do with the subject discussed. I prefer Karl

Yeah bring back Simon!

@@Mecha82 I always feel like a big bro explaining myths to a younger sibling while watching Simon's vids. I have no hatred towards Karl, but he's just an another RU-vidr to me.

Britain was basically responsible for the destruction of the slave trade, since they owned the seas at the time, but this new guy knows very little about history.

I doubt indentured servants had it worse than actual slaves captured and forced from their homeland. Indentured servants chose to be employed by the people who "kept" them in order to pay for their land, or passage to a new country, etc. they were not forced to live in filth, their own waste, whipped or beaten into submission, locked in boxes, killed, raped or not allowed basic freedoms. In fact indentured servants were employed as overseers of those enslaved. And at some point they could leave freely whereas the only way a slave was freed was usually through death. Britain gained a lot of wealth through the enslavement of people from the continent of Africa and they gained a lot of wealth from the jewels of Africa i.e. "blood diamonds" which they refuse to return even to this day' so I seriously don't that indentured servants had it worse than enslaved people.

If "Slave Trade" was illegal, why did Britain make it illegal and only enforced that new law in 1807. USA did the same in that year.

You could buy a man in the USA

@@MrSimonw58 no sadly not anymore

Most of them can't even get over the fact that Simon isn't presenting this channel any more. Let's not give them more credit than they deserve, eh?

You give the audience WAY too much credit.

Adults are allowed to feel uncomfortable and are allowed to express such. It’s what you do with it that defines maturity, such as him recognizing “wow these attitudes are fucked up.”

It's because nowadays people get offended by seeing just a historical quote with a word they don't like, and they assume that the person who says the quote agrees with the one who came up with the quote in the first place.

You are proving the point