Exploring Geopolitics, Alternate History, and Culture with Rudyard William Lynch - Whatifalthist

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  • @_persianprincess
    @_persianprincess หลายเดือนก่อน +26

    I never miss a Rudyard interview. I could listen to him for hours.

    • @FeralPhilosophy_mw
      @FeralPhilosophy_mw  หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@_persianprincess what do you like about this message?

  • @matthewhewitt5613
    @matthewhewitt5613 หลายเดือนก่อน +50

    There is something genuine about Rudyard. I wish there was more content to listen to.

    • @JoeHeine
      @JoeHeine หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Generally Narcissistic. "What If NarCissist"

    • @Mark-Walsh
      @Mark-Walsh หลายเดือนก่อน +14

      @@JoeHeinewhat are you basing that on? Have you met him?

    • @Mark-Walsh
      @Mark-Walsh หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      Lots on his channel and a bunch of new interviews

    • @JoeHeine
      @JoeHeine หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      @@Mark-Walsh I’ve seen enough of his videos to know. He thinks very highly of himself.

    • @DrFeelgood1127
      @DrFeelgood1127 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

      @@JoeHeinejealous!

  • @wmdavidhamilton
    @wmdavidhamilton หลายเดือนก่อน +24

    Glad you had Rudyard on.

  • @yanx4797
    @yanx4797 หลายเดือนก่อน +24

    12:13 "one of the lessons I've learned is that slavery is not good" - Rudyard Lynch, 2024

    • @Mark-Walsh
      @Mark-Walsh หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      If you’re a historian and you look at the really big picture you get a different point of view. Ending slavery was very unusual and UK should be given credit

    • @zabooza74
      @zabooza74 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Typical christian mainstream opinion. 🥱

    • @grzegorzbrzeczyszykiewic3338
      @grzegorzbrzeczyszykiewic3338 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Another neoliberal shill trying to take away our rights to slavery

  • @richardouvrier3078
    @richardouvrier3078 หลายเดือนก่อน +16

    Rudyard is a genius. Especially given he’s very young and evaded college.
    I’d put him up there in the Pantheon with Gibbon.

    • @Mark-Walsh
      @Mark-Walsh หลายเดือนก่อน

      Smart guy right

    • @FeralPhilosophy_mw
      @FeralPhilosophy_mw  หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@richardouvrier3078 Gibbon?

    • @mitchellkirkman8629
      @mitchellkirkman8629 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      ​@FeralPhilosophy_mw Gibbon was a historian and wrote The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire which is considered the one of the best histories on Rome.

  • @kevind5026
    @kevind5026 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    I'm a big fan of Rudyard, good interview

    • @Mark-Walsh
      @Mark-Walsh หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Cheers, what did you like?

    • @kevind5026
      @kevind5026 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @Mark-Walsh Rudyard is someone that I choose to represent the younger generation. He is half my age. It's fun to listen to his thoughts and alt history takes. Rudyard allows me to think the future generation is much smarter and more thoughtful than the ones that came before him. I have children near his age and also younger than him, it makes me happy that he exists, I have some faith in our future, again. Btw, it was a great interview, allowing him to speak and sharing your opinions also, i watched the entire thing.

    • @FeralPhilosophy_mw
      @FeralPhilosophy_mw  หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@kevind5026 right. He’s done great

  • @제이앤제이
    @제이앤제이 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    This is the way to interview Rudyard - this is the best conversation I've seen with him. Other podcasters take note.

    • @FeralPhilosophy_mw
      @FeralPhilosophy_mw  หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@제이앤제이 thanks. What did you like? I sure did my homework!

  • @Th3rdknight
    @Th3rdknight หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I dont want to say Kid Rudyard but this kid's genius is scary. Keep crushing it mate. Love your channel I am a 44 year old teacher degreed in Literature and Neuroscience and speak German and taught myself others on my world travels currently live in Saudi on mountaineering in Kenya atm. Work as a Nomad and Investor. You are simply awesome at such a young age. Somehow if you had a giant stache you'd remind me of a young Nietzsche.

    • @FeralPhilosophy_mw
      @FeralPhilosophy_mw  หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@Th3rdknight thanks and pleased to meet you

  • @Captain_Sosuke_Aizen
    @Captain_Sosuke_Aizen หลายเดือนก่อน +12

    Post modern has the same feel as you roaming around a RPG game after you finished all your story and objectives. 😅

    • @Mark-Walsh
      @Mark-Walsh หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Ha! Nice analogy

    • @simonjj7397
      @simonjj7397 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      yes, that's an excellent analogy, great many people could relate to that, I shall use it.

  • @EpicMRPancake
    @EpicMRPancake หลายเดือนก่อน +10

    This was a good interview! Interviewer knows what he’s talking about.

    • @Mark-Walsh
      @Mark-Walsh หลายเดือนก่อน

      Cheers :-)

  • @prototype9904
    @prototype9904 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Rudyard is so articulate explaining these complex ideas ~ @ 16:00 the gravity and ramifications of this idea cannot be overstated (regarding natural selection, or lack there of, in a decadent society)

  • @kluafoz
    @kluafoz หลายเดือนก่อน +15

    Rudyard doing shows on youtubers with massive sub counts like several hundred thousand subs and yet still did this show with 400 subs. You can't find real like that anymore. Btw in sub 401!!

    • @FeralPhilosophy_mw
      @FeralPhilosophy_mw  หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      @@kluafoz in the words of John McLaine: WELCOME TO THE PARTY PAL! :-)

    • @kevind5026
      @kevind5026 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Someone called him narcissistic. They must not have noticed the detail you noted

    • @viktorianas
      @viktorianas หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@kevind5026 every person on Earth is narcissistic to a varying degrees. Narcissism, in a clinical sense, refers to a personality disorder characterized by an excessive need for admiration, a lack of empathy, and a sense of grandiosity. However, having self-confidence, seeking approval, or even sometimes being self-centred can be part of normal human behaviour.

  • @Matt-to3jo
    @Matt-to3jo หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    Great guest

  • @davochinomalo
    @davochinomalo หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    Not gonna lie, I laughed too when he mentioned fighting for Belgium.

    • @Mark-Walsh
      @Mark-Walsh หลายเดือนก่อน

      True story :-)

  • @mikemccarthy6719
    @mikemccarthy6719 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    The host mentioned his interest in embodiment. Does that extend to philosophy's like hylomorphism that propose A more embodied approach to the mind body problem

    • @Mark-Walsh
      @Mark-Walsh หลายเดือนก่อน

      I teach embodiment, am curious about this philosophy but don’t know it yet

  • @trogoautoegocrat666
    @trogoautoegocrat666 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    The answer to solving the ‘pomo’ situation will be a cyclical understanding that the end was in the beginning: people will return to a tribal yoga to solve the problem of individual consciousness. Maybe that’s why Dune is suddenly so popular..?

  • @chipcook5346
    @chipcook5346 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    If Belgians laugh at the thought of defending Belgium, Belgians had better shed the notion that Americans will.

  • @SenBilbo
    @SenBilbo หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    42:20 People would be considerably happier in the US if: (1) we had massive pro-worker and pro-employee legislation that revived the Middle Class by guaranteeing sound money and thriving wages (and broke the power of the billionaires and corporations and perhaps even the Federal Reserve) and (2) our laws on sex work were radically overhaled to be similar to New Zealand and Belgium.

    • @FeralPhilosophy_mw
      @FeralPhilosophy_mw  หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@SenBilbo what’s the sex work reference?

    • @CSAcrazy
      @CSAcrazy หลายเดือนก่อน

      Definitely not

    • @weston06.
      @weston06. หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Greater wealth ≠ greater happiness.

    • @FeralPhilosophy_mw
      @FeralPhilosophy_mw  หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@weston06. true enough

    • @SenBilbo
      @SenBilbo หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@weston06. I strongly disagree with this sentiment. I have been hearing for a long time that studies asking low IQed brown people in South Asia, Southeast Asia, and the Latin American countryside have found that simpletons can be satisfied with simple things. This is basically apples to oranges. The struggling sons of America's White Gentile Middle Class are not two digit IQed peasants in the equatorial regions and it is rather offensive to give this type of response. (It reeks of the haughtiness that Rudyard recently attacked on an episode under the subheading "Peruvian Conservatism".) It's like saying, "Well small children are satisfied with candy so why can't the kind of man that Rudyard highlighted in his 'Don't Cope. Your Life Sucks' Episode be satisfied with candy"? Greater wealth usually does equal greater happiness and the media driven counter-narrative to this is an elite class psy-op. (As a side note, RagingGoldenEagle, the MGTOW activist had an interesting piece on YT last month on this topic called "The Hippies Were Wrong Again: Money DOES Buy Happiness!".

  • @QuizmasterLaw
    @QuizmasterLaw หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    I don't think alt history is worthless fanfic but to be at all useful it requires a massive amount of empirical work which cannot be expected from a hobby. Counterfactual lessons and counterfactual reasoning can be really valuable, it's an untapped resource. I don't watch that crap to kill time.

  • @truee-nh2bc
    @truee-nh2bc หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    It’s already here

    • @FeralPhilosophy_mw
      @FeralPhilosophy_mw  หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@truee-nh2bc say more , what do you mean?

  • @Makaneek5060
    @Makaneek5060 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    There's no doubt that the Dune view of history is more accurate than the Star Trek view, its not even close.

  • @QuizmasterLaw
    @QuizmasterLaw หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Cyclicity in history is a fascinating concept but tough to prove. Try path dependence instead. Meanwhile, you CAN and I Have done time series regression analysis on historical events! But the megacycles Kondratiev or Spengler are into are likely as valid as the astrological megacycles. It's the age of aquarius! So will we see justice friendship electricity and the triumph of the skies become most worshipful principles? Likely not. But astrological cyclicity DOES correspond to bull worship (age of taurus) and Xtianity (pisces fish etc). It's fascinating but it's gotta have empirical grounding.

  • @JohnnyGlock-r7e
    @JohnnyGlock-r7e หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Community College History Professor phenotype

    • @FeralPhilosophy_mw
      @FeralPhilosophy_mw  หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@JohnnyGlock-r7e what does that mean?

    • @JohnnyGlock-r7e
      @JohnnyGlock-r7e หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@FeralPhilosophy_mw Rudyard is right on, he just looks like every community college history professor I have ever seen. It’s not an insult, I love the guy.

    • @FeralPhilosophy_mw
      @FeralPhilosophy_mw  หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@JohnnyGlock-r7e ah ok, I get ya

  • @sliv_dawg
    @sliv_dawg หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Is there away to contact you?

  • @coreybrenner
    @coreybrenner หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    The Internet as a data backbone, is the new Tower of Babel.

    • @FeralPhilosophy_mw
      @FeralPhilosophy_mw  28 วันที่ผ่านมา

      What do you mean?

    • @coreybrenner
      @coreybrenner 28 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @FeralPhilosophy_mw Do you know the story of the Tower of Babel? If not, go read it. We now have a "tower" that affords us instant communications between people at every corner of the globe. English is a fairly common tongue. With the Internet, humanity could coordinate and build technology that could elevate us to a high place, indeed.
      Note also that Genesis doesn't say "God came down and destroyed the Tower", but rather that "the gods" did so. The "gods" of our world also hate the Internet because we could rise above them.

    • @coreybrenner
      @coreybrenner 28 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @FeralPhilosophy_mw One more time, because gootube ate my previous comment.
      Do you know the story of the Tower of Babel?
      What did the Tower of Babel represent to humanity?
      The Internet has made it possible for me to talk instantly with someone on the other side of the planet. English is pretty much the language of the worldwide Internet. With the Internet, humanity from everywhere can strive together to elevate all of us.
      Note that Genesis does not say "God came down and destroyed the tower", but rather that "the gods" did so. The "gods" of our world similarly hate the Internet, because with it the mass of humanity can rise above those "gods" and throw them down.

  • @therealscot2491
    @therealscot2491 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    I feel like the civil war discussion isnt actually discussed?

    • @JoeHeine
      @JoeHeine หลายเดือนก่อน

      Civil War isn't in the title.

    • @therealscot2491
      @therealscot2491 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@JoeHeine the video says civil war coming?

    • @Place_to_keep_videos
      @Place_to_keep_videos หลายเดือนก่อน

      But it is. They’re discussing the fundamental motivating factors. This type of zoom out style is common among this archetype.

    • @JoeHeine
      @JoeHeine หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@therealscot2491 it’s says “Exploring geopolitics….”

    • @Patrick-vh5nr
      @Patrick-vh5nr หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      I agree. It was stupid click bait.

  • @goodnight3663
    @goodnight3663 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    1:20 nah bro which

  • @alexcipriani6003
    @alexcipriani6003 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    ohh please this guy takes the kernel of truth and extrapolates however he wants … there’s other sources that actually do a better job explains the current times without the bombastic speculations this guy brings

    • @weston06.
      @weston06. หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      This is just an interview covering a broad range of topics, he’s not gonna come into an interview with hours of prep, that’s not how interviews work. Check out his videos, he does a great job of simplifying complex topics to a general audience, and he’s far more well-read and meticulous than you seem to think. Don’t be so quick to judge.

  • @gideonhorwitz9434
    @gideonhorwitz9434 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    I watch his content but I can never get used to what I call the passive aggressive millennial accent

    • @Mark-Walsh
      @Mark-Walsh หลายเดือนก่อน

      I feel this way about all colonials

    • @brunnus-b2m
      @brunnus-b2m หลายเดือนก่อน

      he's a zoomer genious

    • @andre1987eph
      @andre1987eph หลายเดือนก่อน

      Vocal Fry

  • @N238E
    @N238E หลายเดือนก่อน

    Nope

  • @Patrick-vh5nr
    @Patrick-vh5nr หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    I really don’t understand why at the end you ask “American progressives” not to be upset with Rudyards opinions. It’s like asking the Mullahs of Tehran to introduce topless sunbathing. Maybe you should just figure which audience you want. That would also allow you to make a more interesting and focused podcast.

    • @Mark-Walsh
      @Mark-Walsh หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Encouraging listening is a good thing no? Even if it gets through to only 10%. Especially in UK not everyone is too far gone

    • @weston06.
      @weston06. หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      What the other commenter said. Why would you not encourage your viewers to be open-minded? The channel’s called Feral Philosophy, after all. There’s this idea that by an influencer being unfiltered about his beliefs, he filters out the members of his audience that disagree with him, while the ones that don’t disagree with him, or don’t disagree enough to leave, stay. This guy having all sorts of people on his show will filter out the close-minded people and leave only the open-minded people, which is a great audience to have, even if it’s small.

  • @hydroac9387
    @hydroac9387 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Sounds like a lead-from-behind or let's-you-and-him fight kind of guy. 😀

  • @DanSam48
    @DanSam48 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    There is just something so artificial about this guest. He says the same corny jokes on all his interviews. And he goes on to tout the predictive model of his computer models in predicting stuff that already happened being the reason for his predictions about our present time and the coming civil conflict he is predicting. Just the way he poses, looks off to the left when he talks, he just seems like the kind of guy who likes to smell his own farts.

    • @JoeHeine
      @JoeHeine หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      He's said everything that he has to say. He's had the luxury of growing up with the internet and nerding out hardcore. "Predicting" things that have already happened is nonsense. He says it in every interview. If it's already happened, you cannot "predict" it.

    • @krazykkarl
      @krazykkarl หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      Are you expecting different answers of the same questions he gets asked every interview?

    • @Airwave2k2
      @Airwave2k2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      He does smell his own farts. He treats history like is written by the victors as sacrosanct. It doesn't even cross his mind that most of history is omitted and if anything a clusterfuck that culd with much effort than a life time for a short period of time could be partially reconstructed showing the many ongoings, but not for what time frames he is talking about, and always incomplete. He is book smart and thinks he has figured it out. The uncanny thing is he is wright but for the wrong reasons.

    • @lordcarve
      @lordcarve หลายเดือนก่อน

      He doesn't know what he's talking about. He's young and doesn't have much wisdom. He is ignorant and thinks he knows everything. He will make a blanket statement about an entire century that is untrue and nobody questions him on it. One of his interviews he said there was no war or disease in the mid 20th century.

    • @DanSam48
      @DanSam48 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@krazykkarl No, I'm saying what about this is interesting enough to demand so many of the same interviews?

  • @AncientRylanor69
    @AncientRylanor69 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    lt

    • @Mark-Walsh
      @Mark-Walsh หลายเดือนก่อน

      ???

    • @AncientRylanor69
      @AncientRylanor69 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@Mark-Walsh I just leave a comment to boost the video & so that if I ever come back hear Ill know how long ago I watched the video.

    • @Mark-Walsh
      @Mark-Walsh หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@AncientRylanor69 oh call, FOR THE EMPEROR!!!!

    • @Mark-Walsh
      @Mark-Walsh หลายเดือนก่อน

      *cool.

    • @AncientRylanor69
      @AncientRylanor69 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@Mark-Walsh What do you mean by "oh call, FOR THE EMPEROR!!!!"?

  • @tylerthurman2366
    @tylerthurman2366 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Who was the villian in ww2?

    • @JoeHeine
      @JoeHeine หลายเดือนก่อน +10

      Churchhill, WIlson, Stalin

    • @Mark-Walsh
      @Mark-Walsh หลายเดือนก่อน

      Still Hitler. Plus the Japanese. Plus Stalin yes, and no one totally innocent. But still Hitler. Get a grip

    • @assortmentofpillsbutneverb3756
      @assortmentofpillsbutneverb3756 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Enlightenment and industrialization switching from a young and upcoming civ model to becoming the dominant global model.
      There are individual players, but that's the monumental century long conflict that set the stage

    • @tann_man
      @tann_man หลายเดือนก่อน +11

      Rothschilds

    • @JoeHeine
      @JoeHeine หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@tann_man that was World War 1

  • @ProxyMaestro
    @ProxyMaestro หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Ok you lost me with ‘What is the south won WW2 what if the nazis won the civil war”

    • @Mark-Walsh
      @Mark-Walsh หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      @@ProxyMaestro it’s a joke

    • @trogoautoegocrat666
      @trogoautoegocrat666 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      It’s a laugh line!

    • @ribps289
      @ribps289 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I swear he ALWAYS says that so it must be a joke

    • @Mark-Walsh
      @Mark-Walsh หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@ribps289 it’s very clearly a joke. Like “does the pope shit in the woods?”

    • @ribps289
      @ribps289 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@Mark-Walsh but nobody ever laughs tho

  • @rijancaffe
    @rijancaffe หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Clickbait title.

    • @FeralPhilosophy_mw
      @FeralPhilosophy_mw  หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@rijancaffe what would you have called it??