This man is the epitome of competence, too bad most of our higher education institutions is plagued by parasites "filling" up the equality quota spaces.
"Let's Un employ people and ruin their lives!" Then let's stop counting them as unemployed after 6 months and only count new employees so we can say we had 40,000 new jobs taken this year even though 2 million people are still unemployed.
I really wanted to listen to this lecture but right off the bat what was said about Santa Claus and Coke appears to be largely untrue. The concept of Santa wearing red existed decades before that. This makes me doubt the rest of his lecture.
He's entertaining, and highly-knowledgeable in many mainstream timelines, but he is quick to connect dots that are miles apart, and digresses like a mo-fo...
We must ask a prior question before that question which is: "Were they created from nothing or they created themselves?" This question was asked by the Quran
It’s Casagranda and chill time! I just love this man. I can listen the whole day to him! Love from a Moroccan guy living in Belgium enjoying your lectures.
i'm a muslim from Morocco , your lectures are a gold mine of precious knowledge im brought a note book to write important events so i can look into them more . these lectures really clear the mist shrouding my perspective on history
i would like to see a human history movie, like 10 parts but.. it explains history to the best we can from as far back as we possibly can. roy would be the director.
Thank you Professor Radfahrer! Our civilization is in dire straights, IMHO, Professor Casagranda's words are wise, understandable and his peppering of humor, sometimes dark, but otherwise is well enough understandable to be convincing of enough common people to be transformative a much larger segment if only "we" knew about him...I would like to see him more often and on a much larger public stage...something like George Carlin...goading and applauding the populace into demanding our governments become the leaders all of mankind's needs, if civilization is to beneficially move forward. Please promote this man when and wherever we can!
@paulheydarian1281 But I'm subscribed and have the bell turned on... doesn't seem like youtube would recommend something like this on its own because it doesn't fit their agenda.
I come from listening to Noam Chomsky every day, to listening to Casagranda every day, and boy oh boy am I lucky. This is how teaching is done! Regards from the Dominican Republic.
now we gotta take it to the next level form just listening to becoming proactive in demanding better, much better performance from our respective governments: less so for the wealth class and more so for that mythical "other 99%" of us!
Cool. School is back in session. Man the professor is nuts/great. He teaches about 99 lessons as he is going over his intended lesson for the day. Man I hope those students are appreciating his dry humor and many points of tangent. This guy has got me pausing and google'n the lecture all the way through.
Sir, What took you so long? I am from Bangladesh. I really enjoy your video. You make history come alive. Also its very interesting to listen to you. I regularly check this channel for new video. Please please upload more and if you can please make podcast daily. Would love to listen to you.
Dear Professor Roy I cannot find the words to thank you enough for your lectures. I was always passionate about history but the way it's usually recounted is through isolated events and characters. Your amazing story telling talent and knowledge of history made me binge watch all your videos. Thank you from Granada :)
My history knowledge is not bad but listening this guy he is filling so big gaps and connecting so many dots I cant believe it! I am constantly having "ahaa!!" moments!!
I thought I may be the only person who listens to his lectures while running or weight lifting. I thought wrong. What an amazing teacher. Really puts into perspective the stupidity going on in the world today.
48:40 "Our amazing, glorious, uncorrupted congress". This man is a Godsend blessing for the uninitiated across the world. Love your sarcasm Dr Casagrada.
Everybody is posting their country so I’m an Army Vet from the U.S. and have listened to about 7-8 hours of this man in 3 days. My new favorite historical/political source for sure.
The transactional nature of American society has gotten worse with the proliferation of the internet. Trust is at an all time low. I remember a co-worker was going to her friend's first book signing event in another state last year. I asked her for the title of the book so I can buy it and read it and she told me. When she came back I showed her the book and she was surprised that I actually meant it and that ' I would even care', in my mind it was a nothing burger, part course of being a human and genuinely interested in other humans, but to her it was the world.
When I was about twelve, in the era of ‘Reaganomics’ and big shoulder pads, my family and I were invited to a swanky dinner party by a wealthy business associate of my father’s. At some point during the otherwise polite dinner conversation, the talk inevitably came round to money. Asked by our beaming host what I thought about how wealth was created, without losing a beat, I replied: “you wanna make money? - you gotta kill people.” We were never invited to dinner again...at least now, with the benefit of Dr. Casagranda’s lectures, I have learned that even at twelve, I was was not very far off the mark.
This man is elite I wake up and sleep to his lectures. He does need to upload more though I can teach his lectures I’ve watched them soo much hahah. Would love to sit down and pick his brain have a conversation
I know this may be a silly question, but do you have a book on this series? I’d love to follow along on a rewatch with the sources and footnotes. I think so often we get caught up in the moment that we miss what’s really going on and this series has done a wonderful job explaining how we got here, and the real potential of where we’re going if we don’t course correct. THIS is why I love history, because it’s actually quite actionable and applicable to making choices and moving forward
Egyptian here, English second language speaker, I have never been to US, but couldn't stop watching this lecture until the end! His lectures make me feel the world is more of a cosy place to live, where we have the same problems, we understand each other, we stop respreading what the media say and reflect on our history.
missed the dutch in between spain and england. Spanish ship building in dutch colony. Dutch picked shipbuilding, and parked their ships in england to reload. English learned shipbuilding from the dutch. rest is history.
Your lectures/talks are always awesome & your knowledge and passion for teaching is incredible ! Pl record and share your lectures more frequently, request from your great fans from Pakistan
This guy has pretty blatant biases that you have to chew through. Imagine confusing the invention of the production line, independently developed a few times in history, with the industrial revolution. I get his argument about a manager setting a pace, but that's not what the industrial revolution was, it was transferring stored energy into work without humans or with dramatically fewer humans in the proceas, with far greater total output. Yes a bad deal for a lot of workers particularly before govts started legislating labour rights and the libertarian ideal existed for a brief period or misery.
I just accidentaly found this channel and oh my how fascinating leactures. I've always liked history and this litle side notes in these lectures are absolute gold. I could listen these all day long. Greetings from Finland.
Seeing these comments filled with so many different experiences around the world really shows me that as an educator this man has done the work educators need to do.
How is it leftists when, objectively, his conclusions are the correct course of action in the face of what’s to come? What would be the right winged solution? Idk about you but the reason we are on this path to begin with is BECAUSE of the trajectory the right wing has set us on, he made that clear when discussing the 60’s-80’s. Thats also the beauty of Roy’s lecture. He doesn’t advocate for a specific political ideology, but the solution is inherently anti-capitalist and left wing because (obviously) infinite greed on a planet with finite resources and people will inevitably lead to catastrophe. You don’t have to be some pinko commie to recognize objective facts.
I feel the relationship of the invaded world vs Europe and USA is like that relationship between a narcissist parent and their children, the more I watch these lectures I understand what traumas, problems and mischiefs the west white washed world went through, and I become more accustomed to how to treat them in grown up rather than a revengeable way, although sometimes I feel we should act like wise parents to the western world ( harsh and loving)
The amount of information he gets wrong is astonishing. Relationship between England and Tsardom of Muscovy, that later became Russian Empire, started in 1553 when English Royale Navy ships arrived in Arkhangelsk( that's passed Finland) while looking for new route to China. England already had a navy yard and a fleet. They were established by Henry the VIII, not Elizabeth. Europe was trading with Arab nations nonstop. Arabs controlled routes to India and Silk Road. The "tactic of scorched earth" claims is nothing but a figment of his imagination. He also conveniently forgets to mention that Arabs most lucrative trade was slaves, that not having yet established routes to Sub-Saharan Africa, were sourced from European populations during this period. The term "slavery" is derived from Hispano-Arabic "Saqaliba" coming from etnonim Slav, as in they were enslaving so many Europeans from Slavic tribes, they named the whole notion of slavery after them.
26:40 Egypt never had cotton untill the introduction of commercial cotton cultivation in the early 19 th century by Mohamad Ali pasha . Throughout its ancient history Egypt was a linen wearing country.
