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@@Tectenitariusfor AA it’s the present that bore the past and it is the present in which we can build a future. It’s that way for me as well. It does really matter.
It was a possibility, it just wasn't deterministic; they charged those beachheads knowing damn well that the future was unknown, and that's what makes them honorable men-even if they lived in dishonorable times. You have to be a special type of cynical to look down on men willing to do that kind of work, but many do.
@@DarrellVermilionThey were hard men and they were brave men. It bothers me a great deal that people on the right don't show them the respect they deserve. Their job was to defeat the enemy Infront of them, they had nothing to do with post war politics. They didn't dismantle the empire, or throw the borders wide open, or sell of all the heavy industry etc. They defended their country and their loved ones because that's what men are supposed to do!
@@thehound9638 Yes. I see too much denigration of these men, and it's clearly out of a desire to feel superior to men who were simply stronger in nearly every way _except_ they didn't have the internet. It's pathetic.
Most of my identity, love and belief is tied into that video. Except it is not a thin line, but a thick rope, such as might hold a British warship, that goes back to Alfred the Great defeating the Danes, via Agincourt, the Armada, Marlborough's wars, Trafalgar, the Peninsular war, Waterloo, etc, etc. Technically, thanks to the 14 British overseas territories, the sun still does not set on the British Empire
@@johncorrall1739Not true bro. You’re still majority and still have power. You British conquered a quarter of the world. Have faith in you, your people. Infiltrate the established institutions and there will be change. Use what the left did. This is me who’s part black and my great grandparents moved to Britain. If me say it then you can do it
@@johncorrall1739We have been sold out, true. Tony Blair opened the borders and its continued since. Its not too late. We can still get control back. Something is happening put there. 👍🏻🇬🇧
First heard this watching Sopranos, and always found it a sad song. I'm not English - in fact historically enemies - but I lament that they are being destroyed as a people. We all are. However the heroic spirit isn't gone. We still remember who our heroes are. We haven't forgotten their deeds. As such the spirit only sleeps - and one day it will awaken.
Idk I think it’s more about the pure vanity of the Kings sending thousands to die for glory or titles or land. They might have won a thousand battles, but their kingdom doesn’t exist anymore. Why did those people die? Why did they leave their homes, families or children?
The real problem is that most of it wasn't "bombed out ruins" in the first place! Most of the destruction was simply a part of the postwar building boom. It's shocking when you look at the things they tore down and dug up! Even the vast river meadows were destroyed for raw materials to make the concrete monstrosities as the ugly, brutalist wave swept across the nation.
@@carolebarker2195 I would guess that you grew up in one of the major cities. There was very little bomb damage outside of certain places. In the area in which I live, I could name countless acts of destruction of historically significant sites, many of which would be listed had they survived to this day! Whereas the only wartime aviation related incidents I can think of are a handful of allied plane crashes that caused minimal damage. This is the case for much of the country.
Anyone remember the edit 'There's No England Now' from a few years ago? It had this song as well, thoroughly blackpilling but also very powerful, it had a substantial number of views as well if I remember correctly, until it was removed by TH-cam that is. God Save England, St. George pray for us
@@lordcharlesthomas for sure. Might have been 2018 now that I think about it. Tried my hand at a couple of montages like that myself, called them «The State of European Cities» and just recently «The Dream That Was Europe», not in his style but inspired by that sort of thing. They’re rather more obscure of course.
This is both heartbreaking, and inspiring and gorgeous. I hope the west's immune system will, at long last, wake up in time to purge its infections and become great again.
The best song about the desperation of English nationalism - what is lost can never be regained….Dave Davies wrote this song in 1984. How much worse have things gotten since then?
That was AWSOME! WOW! Great montage! I’m an American who has studied English/British history my whole life… song and vid makes me wonder what the Duke of Normandy, Richard I, Langton, Henry V, Cromwell, Raleigh, Drake, Nelson, Wellington, Victoria, Lloyd George , Haig… even Dowdy, and Sir Winston…. What they would think of England today.. it is so true That the passing of her majesty, the queen, Elizabeth II was the end of England as we knew it
Today, for the first time in about 3 years, I put the radio on in bed in the morning. (Used to wake up to radio daily.) The first song to play, and I am not making this up....... "Thiiiiings, can only get better" by D:Ream The return of the dark lord is upon us...
Some years ago, before I even had an interest in what one might term "real politics", I watched a documentary on the late nineties "Britpop" phenomenon. Seemingly unintentionally the programme makers had managed to present the entire thing as having been manufactured in a collaboration between Blair and his team and the editorial team at Loaded magazine. I remember feeling quite ill at the realisation of the depth and reach of his Machiavellian scheming.
His mechanisms have been operating in the background, and seem to running via some perpetual motion. It will unfortunately outlive his Boomer a**…like so much our scorned inheritance.
It was fine that the empire ended IMO. The truly tragic thing is the state that England has ended up in as a result. It didn't need to be this way, but then I suppose all bases of great empires seem to suffer the same fate.
Excellent, excellent choices of historical films to go along with the spirit of this tune. I think you could have added more clips from the British sacrifices made in WWI and WWII, especially the Battle of Britain and intersperse some more scenes of the modern vagaries, plagues and addictions of modern society. So many to choose from there.
Im an American and I think I have more pride and patriotism for England than 90% of English men today. Sad what is happening to our 2 countries. We will be back though!
This edit fills Me with a great sadness of a time long gone and nostalgia for times gone by when we could argue we got our society and morals right. Especially in comparison to today's topsy-turvy world. Thanks AA kids are crying now 😂
The brave men who fought in these wars became our Teachers, Police men, politicians, Fathers. They were hard, disciplined men who created order and respect on the streets and in the homes of this once great country.
Alright, put the school kids back into some form of regimented military service or guild service, shut the "intellectuals" up and reform an ascetic ideal. If you think they won't like it, I think you are wrong. Everybody wants it.
Can't think like that - if you received something you must pay it back, can't just talk of things that "won't be taken from us" ..... if you do not work the material everything is ripped from you without mercy.
I Frist came across this song on the podcast the myth of the twentieth century with Adam Smith and Hans I think it was about the Cambridge 5 this song sums up the state England well thank you AA
To be in a cavalry charge would surely be one of the most exhilarating experiences possible. Replaced in modernity by a VR piloted drone strike. Progress ?
I weep for my ancestral homeland. I weep for the brave men lost. I weep for what can never be regained. Mostly, I weep for revenge. We are the same men that conquered earth. We are them. They are us. I'm tired of knowing how disappointed they are of us. I'm ready to give my life if I make the world better for anyone who lives after me.
@@elesterb There is no 'Shakespeare of the 20th Century'. It's not my fault that your feelings are hurt by reality. Perhaps you need to go stick on a Kinks record and feel better about yourself.
@@elesterb I will agree with you that the Kinks were very good and that Ray Davies wrote some classics that have stood the test of time.....and that politically he seemed to be our guy.
Idea .... why don't you get the Scyldings people to begin a Scottish dancing thing as a sort of cultural symbol and fulcrum. It's fun and a lot of traditional culture is encoded within it. Even make it an elitarian thing. Also, I was thinking about the Masons how a small organised group that could also manifest their ideas in particular work .... came to have power. Also, I was surprised to hear that there is an Apollo club at Oxford etc... Maybe it's time for a wider sprinkling of people to get involved.
Full list of battles and sources: twitter.com/OGRolandRat/status/1697235639203217746?s=20
Thanks AA, much appreciated. I recognised many of the military clips just not all.
Fantastic nostalgia. Mind if I put it on my playlist?
@@carolebarker2195not at all!
@@AcademicAgent Thank you! I've put it on my 80s one.
@@Tectenitariusfor AA it’s the present that bore the past and it is the present in which we can build a future. It’s that way for me as well. It does really matter.
"No man is more unhappy than he who never faces adversity. For he is not permitted to prove himself." - Seneca
The most unhappy person I ever met , was a person that chose to be an extremely arrogant queer person as well
The Kinks must have really had a good education in history to put together their music the way they did
Most kids did of their generation... Have an actual education. Today, they can manipulate a screen but can't tie their shoes.
No. They had an identity. They're British
another moment in our history is brewing. . .
May God be with you all. Be intelligent and disciplined, but not cowardly. Ironically, it's a thin line lol
Only if the u.k doesn’t unchain itself to the self-righteous U.S
If those young men who were at Normandy in 1944 could see Britain today, they wouldn't of gone 40 yards up those beaches ~ DI
It was a possibility, it just wasn't deterministic; they charged those beachheads knowing damn well that the future was unknown, and that's what makes them honorable men-even if they lived in dishonorable times. You have to be a special type of cynical to look down on men willing to do that kind of work, but many do.
@@DarrellVermilionThey were hard men and they were brave men. It bothers me a great deal that people on the right don't show them the respect they deserve. Their job was to defeat the enemy Infront of them, they had nothing to do with post war politics. They didn't dismantle the empire, or throw the borders wide open, or sell of all the heavy industry etc. They defended their country and their loved ones because that's what men are supposed to do!
@@thehound9638 Yes. I see too much denigration of these men, and it's clearly out of a desire to feel superior to men who were simply stronger in nearly every way _except_ they didn't have the internet. It's pathetic.
@@DarrellVermilion 👍
@@DarrellVermilion Note the «if» in the OP, no one here is blaming those men for what they did not know. Just saying.
One of the best things you have ever done @Academic Agent
Most of my identity, love and belief is tied into that video. Except it is not a thin line, but a thick rope, such as might hold a British warship, that goes back to Alfred the Great defeating the Danes, via Agincourt, the Armada, Marlborough's wars, Trafalgar, the Peninsular war, Waterloo, etc, etc. Technically, thanks to the 14 British overseas territories, the sun still does not set on the British Empire
@@99IronDukeI saw you on the other channel lol
Dinosaur,though even a broken clock is RIGHT twice a day
I always play this song when I need reminding that England and The English still *_matter._* We will rise again, have no fear...
Not until you all realize that the common enemy Germany had is the one behind destroying the English.
We're fucked. Our country,our culture,and our identity have been sold. We've been overrun.
You've been conquered by the third world thanks to your leaders.
@@johncorrall1739Not true bro. You’re still majority and still have power. You British conquered a quarter of the world. Have faith in you, your people. Infiltrate the established institutions and there will be change. Use what the left did. This is me who’s part black and my great grandparents moved to Britain. If me say it then you can do it
@@johncorrall1739We have been sold out, true. Tony Blair opened the borders and its continued since. Its not too late. We can still get control back. Something is happening put there. 👍🏻🇬🇧
"inside we're the same as we ever were"
"All the lies we've been told" - shows Churchill.
There’s many a reason bro
Whatever colour we are 👍🏽
First heard this watching Sopranos, and always found it a sad song. I'm not English - in fact historically enemies - but I lament that they are being destroyed as a people. We all are.
However the heroic spirit isn't gone. We still remember who our heroes are. We haven't forgotten their deeds. As such the spirit only sleeps - and one day it will awaken.
Idk I think it’s more about the pure vanity of the Kings sending thousands to die for glory or titles or land. They might have won a thousand battles, but their kingdom doesn’t exist anymore. Why did those people die? Why did they leave their homes, families or children?
Their ain't no heroes in England's history, just tyrants.
It strikes me that the bombed out ruins were more 'Home' than the world is now..
John Boorman’s ‘Hope and Glory’ (1987) is his tribute to that thought.
The real problem is that most of it wasn't "bombed out ruins" in the first place! Most of the destruction was simply a part of the postwar building boom. It's shocking when you look at the things they tore down and dug up! Even the vast river meadows were destroyed for raw materials to make the concrete monstrosities as the ugly, brutalist wave swept across the nation.
@@eighteenfiftynine I'm old enough to remember seeing bombed-out buildings from WW2, back in the 60s and 70s. We used to make dens in them as kids.
There was social cohesion, in culture and community. Stronger than bricks n mortar.
@@carolebarker2195 I would guess that you grew up in one of the major cities. There was very little bomb damage outside of certain places. In the area in which I live, I could name countless acts of destruction of historically significant sites, many of which would be listed had they survived to this day! Whereas the only wartime aviation related incidents I can think of are a handful of allied plane crashes that caused minimal damage. This is the case for much of the country.
Clips from Waterloo, such a beautiful film.
Aye, Barry Lyndon too.
Anyone remember the edit 'There's No England Now' from a few years ago?
It had this song as well, thoroughly blackpilling but also very powerful, it had a substantial number of views as well if I remember correctly, until it was removed by TH-cam that is.
God Save England, St. George pray for us
Yeah I mentioned it in my own comment, it was made by You Kipper, you can find it under Two Kipper now.
@@Vingul I didn't see that comment at first but you're right about it being a DR classic
@@lordcharlesthomas for sure. Might have been 2018 now that I think about it. Tried my hand at a couple of montages like that myself, called them «The State of European Cities» and just recently «The Dream That Was Europe», not in his style but inspired by that sort of thing. They’re rather more obscure of course.
If the men who died in past wars knew how the future would look like, they would still be alive.
Just refusing to die of old age or how would that work?
Maybe you can say would todays men die in war to protect what we have now. I’d say I’m ok
@@saryakan They would fend off old age through mere arrogance and spite
Yes
Was thinking the same thing, recently. Think of the last 100 years of wars, they'd be asking themselves why they even bothered, in the first place.
This is both heartbreaking, and inspiring and gorgeous. I hope the west's immune system will, at long last, wake up in time to purge its infections and become great again.
This song has needed a video like this, well over due
The best song about the desperation of English nationalism - what is lost can never be regained….Dave Davies wrote this song in 1984. How much worse have things gotten since then?
A thing so rotten can not last. There's never been a greater opportunity than now to create something awesome.
@@samuelspiel8855 Let’s hope so.
@@samuelspiel8855so in essence, "things... Can only get better!"
Things have gotten bad enough that people are using Americanisms to describe them.
@@thebeltingbalaclava4798 "Gotten"! It makes my eyes bleed.
That was AWSOME! WOW! Great montage! I’m an American who has studied English/British history my whole life… song and vid makes me wonder what the Duke of Normandy, Richard I, Langton, Henry V, Cromwell, Raleigh, Drake, Nelson, Wellington, Victoria, Lloyd George , Haig… even Dowdy, and Sir Winston…. What they would think of England today.. it is so true That the passing of her majesty, the queen, Elizabeth II was the end of England as we knew it
"If I should die think only this of me: That there's some corner of a foreign field That is forever England."
Nice one AA, really great song. You Kipper’s edit using it in about 2017 is a DR classic.
Was just about to comment that! It's on the two kipper account now because the original was taken down.
Our new anthem
It's Friday morning and I'm back listening to this great tune and fantastic video.
Today, for the first time in about 3 years, I put the radio on in bed in the morning. (Used to wake up to radio daily.)
The first song to play, and I am not making this up.......
"Thiiiiings, can only get better" by D:Ream
The return of the dark lord is upon us...
Some years ago, before I even had an interest in what one might term "real politics", I watched a documentary on the late nineties "Britpop" phenomenon. Seemingly unintentionally the programme makers had managed to present the entire thing as having been manufactured in a collaboration between Blair and his team and the editorial team at Loaded magazine. I remember feeling quite ill at the realisation of the depth and reach of his Machiavellian scheming.
His mechanisms have been operating in the background, and seem to running via some perpetual motion.
It will unfortunately outlive his Boomer a**…like so much our scorned inheritance.
epic, brilliant, poetic. Thankyou Kinks.
although I'm all about the Revolutionary War ... it truly is depressing to watch the dystopian arc of the once great British Empire
It was fine that the empire ended IMO. The truly tragic thing is the state that England has ended up in as a result. It didn't need to be this way, but then I suppose all bases of great empires seem to suffer the same fate.
Every time England restored itself, they were forced to go rather isolationist.
Glory to all 21st century loyalists
It's so bittersweet. Really well put together.
Thank you for introducing me to this great tune! And the edit is superb!
A glorious death is to be envied -
Horatio Nelson
Excellent, excellent choices of historical films to go along with the spirit of this tune. I think you could have added more clips from the British sacrifices made in WWI and WWII, especially the Battle of Britain and intersperse some more scenes of the modern vagaries, plagues and addictions of modern society. So many to choose from there.
Im an American and I think I have more pride and patriotism for England than 90% of English men today. Sad what is happening to our 2 countries. We will be back though!
This edit fills Me with a great sadness of a time long gone and nostalgia for times gone by when we could argue we got our society and morals right. Especially in comparison to today's topsy-turvy world. Thanks AA kids are crying now 😂
The running, laughing kids at the end, in the 70's, was the world i was born into....
Great job, better than a 1/2 lecture.... Says it all
Fantastic. Always makes me think of the sopranos.
Great song and a Country that Shaped the world map 🙂👍
It’s hard to be aware of the glory and power of the past compared to the banal mass culture of the present. Winter of civilization sucks
It's not winter it is the collapse and in the morning nothing will be left
Great song, great video
I remember posting the lyrics in an old video where you were talking about the Kinks (before you did the full episode).
Wondeful song.
I listen to this song at least twice a week. Very based thank you AA for bringing it to my attention sir.
The brave men who fought in these wars became our Teachers, Police men, politicians, Fathers. They were hard, disciplined men who created order and respect on the streets and in the homes of this once great country.
Alright, put the school kids back into some form of regimented military service or guild service, shut the "intellectuals" up and reform an ascetic ideal.
If you think they won't like it, I think you are wrong.
Everybody wants it.
@@rideforever
Who are you planning on fighting?
Watching 2nd time. You absolutely nailed this about Britain and USA. Shadows
Glory to all 21st century loyalists
Bloody fookin BRILLIANT!
Absolutely brilliant, thank you!!!
Being from the U.S. this makes me fearful for the future of this country.
Brilliant. Pictures to music tells everything
Fooking brilliant edit, AA. Goosebumps.
Once we had an Empire. Now we're got a slum. May the sun never set on the Commonwealth.
Darkness falls on the commonwealth, a great tide of evil darkness
it is time for the Lion in our souls to reawaken and retake what is ours
'When war grows distant all passion and singularly all love soon dies ' video made me think of this quote from one time Anglophile Drieu La Rochelle
Very appropriate song about England right now
Great edit. Especially the last scene.
Most men of my age see themselves in those kids, the estate, the clothes, the chopper bike, it brings a lump to the throat
Wonderful song-- kudos to Dave Davies!!
Teared me up
🌞 🌞 His smile and optimism: r e s t o r e d 🌞 🌞
Very Moving AA. (must get that Kinks track)
You missed the opportunity for some Cromwell glamour shots! I'm disappointed. Well put together overall - great stuff.
When I first saw this during the livestream I thought it was an official music video. Nice work!
Hark, Drake’s drum is beating, and Sant George is calling you on!
You’ll be adding America to this list as well. It’s here. It’s embedded. It ain’t leaving.
Excellent compilation. ❤
And we did it all for that square mile
No, for blood, soil, faith, duty, honour & glory.
@GodsOwnPrototype you'd like to think so, wouldn't you, alas we're still doing it for the square mile
@@GodsOwnPrototype
That’s what the kids told to march to their deaths were told. Doesn’t make it true.
I miss AA radio soooooooooooooooooo much!!
Those last few seconds and a Raleigh Chopper comes into frame. Some things can never be taken away from us.
Can't think like that - if you received something you must pay it back, can't just talk of things that "won't be taken from us" ..... if you do not work the material everything is ripped from you without mercy.
Hang in there homies
Some how yours is the less depressing of the edits for this on platform.
Who hasn't seen the England as a conquered state video on site?
This is so touching and in tune with your content. Love it!!
Wow this song is really good, and sad! Thank you for exposing me to it.
Astounding and sad. Wonderful.
Masterpiece. simpliy beautiful video.
I Frist came across this song on the podcast the myth of the twentieth century with Adam Smith and Hans I think it was about the Cambridge 5 this song sums up the state England well thank you AA
so grim, yes, shower me with depression, let me bathe in it yes
The visionary just envisioned…
That was a good mash-up of film clips.
lol if my grandpa who was in the 82nd had to see the country of France now he would’ve stayed on the plane probably 🤦🏻♂️
Wonderful
the kinks in the late 60s were DEEPLY reactionary
Nice video. But with this song i just remember the beauty Tresse's death and BadaBing's girls.
Grim.
I'm just schizophrenic paranoid 20th century apeman named lola...
I get your point
To be in a cavalry charge would surely be one of the most exhilarating experiences possible. Replaced in modernity by a VR piloted drone strike. Progress ?
Weirdly, I just watched Zulu earlier this evening.
I weep for my ancestral homeland. I weep for the brave men lost. I weep for what can never be regained. Mostly, I weep for revenge. We are the same men that conquered earth. We are them. They are us. I'm tired of knowing how disappointed they are of us. I'm ready to give my life if I make the world better for anyone who lives after me.
Pretty much sums it up 😢
perfect
Interesting that this is from the mid 80's
Silvio Dante says HI!
Bravo!!👍🏻
Lovely 🌹🌠🌹🌠. Gets ya right here👈 doesn't it 😭🤣🤤?!
The anthem of that most old and powerful sentiments an Englishman can ever express… English nationalism.
Inspiring .
Not even suprised to hear a new Kinks songs. Davies seems to have written endless amounts
It’s from 1984, it’s not new.
@@mrsunshine6936 I know it's not "new" new but I hadn't heard it before
SOME SKILLS HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH KILLS
Ray Davies is the Shakespeare of the 20th century.
I think you can like someone without saying something so absurd.
@@Stirlingsays who would you propose? I also think you can disagree with someone with sounding like a constipated Queen.
@@elesterb There is no 'Shakespeare of the 20th Century'. It's not my fault that your feelings are hurt by reality. Perhaps you need to go stick on a Kinks record and feel better about yourself.
Sorry about my colorful language. It won’t happen again.
@@elesterb I will agree with you that the Kinks were very good and that Ray Davies wrote some classics that have stood the test of time.....and that politically he seemed to be our guy.
thanks for this!
The Ashes
children of the ashes
It'd be easy to make a much more blackpilled version of this.
Nottinghill Festival...
AA does appreciate the culture side of our struggle after all :-)
The Boers around 3 min what film is that?
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Beersheba_(1917)
The Lighthorsemen 1987 cheers
this is ashes #21
MATEEEEEEEEE
Idea .... why don't you get the Scyldings people to begin a Scottish dancing thing as a sort of cultural symbol and fulcrum. It's fun and a lot of traditional culture is encoded within it. Even make it an elitarian thing.
Also, I was thinking about the Masons how a small organised group that could also manifest their ideas in particular work .... came to have power.
Also, I was surprised to hear that there is an Apollo club at Oxford etc...
Maybe it's time for a wider sprinkling of people to get involved.
Yes do not believe people wouldn't follow ..... they are all dying for drums to be banging and the standard raised