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then whyd you click on the video?

Right,

Thank you for your encouragement!

I think they would regard our lives as luxurious and desirable. They had nowhere near the liberty we do, had their identity stripped from them, their families broken up, and were regularly deprived of food, clothing, shelter, and health benefits. They were also physically punished on a regular basis.

Thank you!

@@veritasetcaritas no sir. Thank you for all the hardwork you put into your videos. Good luck for your future endeavours 👍

@@ChUnGuShh thanks!

Popular and populist Afrocentrism often distorts history, but the contributions of academic Afrocentrism, or Afrocentricity as Asante preferred to call it, are valuable.

That isn't the critique.

i dont think ive ever heard this conspiracy theory before, maybe hollow moon comes close (i dont remember if they believe its a man-made thing or not) but that ones more conspiratorial, this ones just fun lol. sure yea humans created the moon because the dark of the night was causing them problems, that fucking rules. its so straightforward and practical too they didnt create the moon for nefarious purposes like hiding space nazis there or something, they just wanted night time to be a bit less dark lol

its got a folk lore feel to it

Yeah there are definitely diminishing returns when engaging with people like Great House. I might use some of his tweets in later videos however, as examples of common research errors, and to contrast with good research methodology.

I was thinking of WIAH, but also of channels like Kings & Generals.

I used to watch them quite a lot, then I started looking more closely and became disillusioned with their content.

To be pedantic, Mesopotamia typically isn't known as an Asian culture, and altthough there are pyramids in India, Indonesia, and China, those countries aren't known for them, mainly because their pyramids weren't built on a suffiicent scale or volume or weren't built or discovered until relatively recently. But yeah, we know TK didn't have Mesopotamia, India, Indonesia, or China in mind. He had Japan in mind.

yup. people will laugh at the idea but wage labor is slavery too

We have a vague idea, and yes from what we do know I think some academics depict these statues in far too garish colors, such that some other academics think they are far too plain in terms of what we know of Greek and Roman color use from mosaics and other art. Loopk at the shading here. i0.wp.com/www.pompeiiincolor.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/81-9249-SPINA_crouchinglady.jpg?fit=1000%2C647&ssl=1

AgaIn, look at the level of detail and color use here. It's highly graduated. upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Villa_di_livia%2C_affreschi_di_giardino%2C_parete_corta_meridionale_01.jpg

@@veritasetcaritas Anazing! Thanks for your answer

@@Heulerado you're welcome. One thing the Romans weren't good at was perspective, which wasn't really mastered in the West until the Renaissance, due largely to developments in geometry. Here's an example of Roman perspective, which is not true linear perspective. The lines are all over the place. foundinantiquity.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/fannius_synistor_1_4.jpg To be fair, the Romans had different priorities, as this article explains. "Perhaps the question shouldn’t be so much “how could a non-linear system of perspective ever look convincing?”, but “why do we put so much stock in linear perspective?” It is true that the Roman system does not appear to have been quantified mathematically, and so eyeballing involved a fair amount of guesswork and rule-of-thumbing. But that doesn’t mean it was irrational, or that the results were necessarily of lower quality." foundinantiquity.com/2013/08/09/pompeiian-fresco-painters-used-perspective-better-than-renaissance-artists/

​@@veritasetcaritas I always find it weird how entire cultures don't develop the notion of perspective for centuries. Perhaps the reason is that they are not exposed to straight, perpendicular lines on a daily basis. But I "invented" perspective when I was like 13 years old, just from trying to make my drawings look good and thinking of long, straight objects. I guess I was also exposed to perspective drawings (mostly cartoons). But Romans did see striaght lines in their buildings. Did architects not know perspective? I know architecture uses mostly face-on drawings, but a beautiful shot of the finished product probably does wonders to convince people to give you money to build it. Maybe individuals did independently figure it out, but it just didn't catch on as a culture? I do love the idea of eyeball perspective, it makes so much sense, but those paintings don't have a very good eyeball perspective either.

Yes. To a large extent Afrocentrism is a strong reaction to Eurocentrism.

@@veritasetcaritas I don't think I have ever seen anything other kind of ethnocentrism outside those two groups. Similar to how the bloods where a reaction to the crips and the crips where a reaction to the LA Police force oh how times have changed but things stay the same.

@@Zane-It here in the Far East there is Sinocentrism, Han chauvinism, Japanocentrism, Korean ethno-nationalism, and Hindutva. These aren't even reactions to oppression, they're homegrown ethno-supermacist thinking resulting from historical cultural values and beliefs.

@@veritasetcaritas when you where talking about one being a reaction to the other that's where my mind went.

@@Zane-It yeah I'd say that there are a few ethno-national mythologies which emerged as reactions to colonialism, especially those surrounding supposedly ancient martial arts which were supposedly outlawed by scared European colonials. I made a video on one of them. ruclips.net/video/7vTi6VR0L_M/видео.html&ab_channel=veritasetcaritas

Also, the writer (or someone involved with the long tomorrow idk) actually wrote the original script for Alien and the entire long tomorrow story was the inspiration for blade runner. It even has a detective with a flying car investigating a mystery about androids.

I'll get to this in the next video, but Blade Runner's set design was based on: 1. The industrial works of Teesside in the UK. www.bbc.co.uk/tees/content/articles/2009/03/30/tees_tf_blade_runner_feature.shtml 2. The real life Los Angeles in the 1982, only the Blade Runner 1982 Los Angeles is significantly LESS Asian than the real Los Angeles of 1982,, with FAR LESS Asian signage than the real Los Angeles had, and more Spanish, since Ridley Scott thought in future Los Angeles would be more Spanish than Asian.

Yes I'll be discussing the influence of The Long Tomorrow in a future video.

Yes in the late 70s and early 80s US-Japanese coroporate partnerships were the thing.

That will need to wait until a later video in this series, when I discuss the origin of cyberpunk. I will defintiely be covering Metal Hurlant and its huge impact on the emergence of cyberpumk, and Mobius will be cited.

Citing mainstream academics isn't argumentum ad populum or veracundeum. Agumentum ad populum takes the form "X is true because many people believe it to be true", which has nothing to do with citing mainstream academics. Argumentum ad veracundeum takes the form "X is true because authority states it is true", which also has nothing to do with citing mainstream academics. People who say "Don't cite mainstream academics" are usually the same people who say "I don't go to Western medical doctors, I treat my cancer at home with carrots and crystals". Then they die.

@@veritasetcaritas I just love that you A. Didnt understand my point at all. Citing without examining sources is ALWAYS ad veracundeum, unless you admit to provisionality and B. You engaged in ad hominem. I'm a professional research scientist, and although I cite academics, I do not do so unless I track down to the root ALL sources used by another academic, including looking at methodology. Roughly 50% of the time, the trail runs cold on horrific analysis, incongruent methods or just naked assertions. What your response tells me is that you do NOT do academic research. You clearly have no idea just how much junk is in peer reviewed work. None of this is to say you are wrong in your original analysis. My general understanding of the matter indicates you are being commendably rigorous. Dont let the Internet prevent you from getting tips from old timers. Be well.

@@timothyblazer1749 I don't think you've seen my video. I do not cite without examininng sources. In this video I specifically examine critically all the sources used by Twitter user Great House. I check publication dates and different editions of books, I examine footnotes, I check the sources of the sources he cites, I find the complete text of translations he only cited with ellipses. This is a followup video to the previous video I made, ihn which I did exactly the same. ruclips.net/video/UgGGJtuTPt0/видео.html I am fully aware that there is a lot of junk in peer reviewed work. That is why I check the sources I use, and I check the sources other people use. This entire video is doing exactly what you claim I don't do. I have been a university research assistant myself, so I am familiar with the academic process. I suggest you watch the video. Please provide evidence that I engaged in ad hominem.

@@veritasetcaritas not being critical of YOU, friend. I heard you use "mainstream academic" often, and I was simply warning you against having too much trust in that culture. I know you did a very good job, and perhaps I should have led with that. I had assumed you would intuit that from my accolade at the end of my comment, but I think I am a bit too GenX for my own good. :-) You did a very good job citing sources, and even being critical of them. I had no problem except you leaned on "mainstream" a lot in your exposition, and it made me wince a bit. Excellent work, excellent job disassembling your opponent.

@@veritasetcaritas oh, and your ad hominem was implying I was "like people who dont trust Western Medicine, who die as a result" ( to paraphrase ). Its fine. I have thick skin. :-)