The Truth About the Nazis with Stephen Hicks
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Chapters:
00:00 Intro
01:53 Philosophical Roots of National Socialism
11:37 Why the Nazis Rejected Liberal Values
20:12 Were the Nazis Socialists?
30:18 The Difference Between Fascism and National Socialism
37:39 Hitler as “The Working Man’s Friend”
42:26 Nazism as a Cultural Revolution: Education, Anti-Semitism, Ethnic Feuds
47:05 Exporting Nazism Through Conquest and War
51:18 Finding Meaning in Modern Society: Liberalism vs Collectivist Ideologies
01:01:26 What Are We Not Talking About That We Really Should Be?
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@@johnmercer3571 Hitler was an artist. Did paintings for a living and sucked at it.
Where's the link to "Identity Crisis"?
Guys, someone below mentioned you getting someone on from one of the unis to talk about free speech and about getting someone woke on with them. This gave me an idea that if universities wont allow debates you guys should set them up mini style on your show. Perhaps some mini style debate on a set topic.
Oh. 😳 I was going with, Hitler used his dark charisma, intuitive genius & magnetic personality to target the only things that mattered, the perception filters of the ENTIRE German people & the common sense of HALF of the German population, so ALL of it paid attention to him & didn't filter him out, & half of them ended up common sensing that it was fine or not a deal breaker to do a Holocaust & a World War! 😳 And that it was fine to hate the Jews cos Hitler said so, or not a deal breaker to hate the Jews ONLY if done in support of Hitler! 😳 Cos Hitler had to create the cult of personality BEFORE he could destroy democracy & set up a dictatorial regime & state media & secret police! (just like Trump did with "kung flu", he made it so half the US felt it was fine but only if TRUMP said it, OR it was said in SUPPORT OF TRUMP! 😳)
@@athcnv Did Trump actually call it Kung Flu? I know he called it the Chinese virus because it was. Same as Spanish Flu or Middle Eastern Virus. My asian friend called it the Chinese Virus. But then he's Tibetan and hates The CCP.
My father went to sea in the English Merchant Navy at 14. When he was 18 his ship was attacked by German planes and was sunk, he was washed up on shore with shrapnel wounds in his thigh and the sole of his foot was hanging off from the little toe right round to the big toe and just flapping. 2 German soldiers found him on the beach and carried him to their own field hospital and a German surgeon did such a good job sewing it up that he walked for the rest of his life without any problems. he was taken to Stalag V111B and was there for 4 years till the end of the war. They could've just shot him and I'd never had life, I'd love to know who those 2 German soldiers and the surgeon were to thank them for saving his life
Wow! Wow! I'm sure that the Russians, the Jews, the French Resistance and many others will tell you that the Geneva Convention protected your father and DIDN'T protect them (because they fell "outside" the Geneva Convention) but hey, it was all "so worth it" for you to grow up and not waste life but instead; spend your time listening to whiney simps like Douglas Murray blame OTHER people instead of himself for his mediocrity. So "glad" to see that you also threw in a little of your hatred of women by blaming Trans athletes instead of yourself.
That’s the thing. The Gmans never wanted to fight a brother war. They had strong morals and never did what ”some ppl who now run the world” so claim.
The two dudes running this channel are even )ewish, their purpose is to reel dissident minds in, then muddy the waters.
”The best way of controlling your opposition is to lead it” - Cant even name the origins because of the overaggressive AI algo
Great story!
most men are civilised no matter who their masters are.
People are usually lovely, its the systemes that create evil.
My mother worked beside an ex- German POW in the 1950s. She said he was a really nice guy and couldn't understand how he could have been pro Hitler. When she asked him he said, 'It was easy. We thought we were the good guys saving the world. We all loved him.'
I had a girlfriend back in the late '70s whose mother was from Germany. She told us the same story. They all believed that they were the good guys and were saving Europe. They were obsessed with the concept of purity, both spiritual and physical. Draw your own conclusions.
Look at Europe and how it is falling apart today and ask yourself, "Is nationalism bad?"
@@rinzler9171 I think it is going to come back. History always goes in cycles.
The public motives of the German leadership were not quite the same as their private motives. Sure, the media drummed up hatred of the ‘banker race’, which became widespread, but not many ordinary people knew the full horror of what was decided at the Wannsee Conference.
@@sirrathersplendid4825 so, let's hear this Wannasee proposition?
Verbatim...
I love the way, unlike a lot of others, these guys listen and let the guest talk without destroying the flow, sone destroy their own good intentions with constant interruption and breaking of the narrative, kudos to these guys.👍
They 100% broke the flow at 35 min, which a loaded question attempting to lead him into making a parallel between vaccine mandates and 'nazi-ism making a comeback'. He very emphatically denied that this was a responsible claim to make, after which they 'broke the flow' again, completely changing the subject. Yeah, tell me more about their "good intentions" lol. They're not here to listen to the guy, they're trying to steer his words to pander to the new hoards of conservative snowflakes watching this, who equate multiculturalism with white genocide and who think being asked to wear a face mask is as bad as being packed into a cattle car and driven to the gas chamber.
I always try to give kudos to good interviews and these guys are good.
It's a real treat.
Excellent!! Jung said "people don't have idaas. Ideas have people." Mr. Hicks introduces us to how that happens.
Please keep this style of guest coming. Too many people are unaware of the underpinning histories and philosophies behind humanity's grand crimes, meaning we are all too prone to repeating those crimes again and again.
The lack of honesty in history teachings of public schools is astonishing. Even 20 years ago it was getting weird and things being done behind parents backs, utter destruction of masculinity and programming to be a work slave that cant do anything beyond repetition. When you create a stupid bias population of zealots that cant tolerate critical thinking... Well.. you get the karens, the authoritarianism, the socialism, all the toxic ideology in an echo chamber that worsens through generations and its far more likely any school will be bias against anyone not democrat in hiring and retainment. So you end up entire schools covering for each other, hiding things from the public and parents, putting ideology in their heads as fact without question, hell even asking questions is punished in multiple ways like extra homework or class ridicule. The intelligent were overwhelmed beyond reason, the arts and skills were already being gutted, and everything dumbed down for the idiots of the bunch that never tried or cared. Id go from regular class making As but bored as sht jn trouble falling asleep and so easy my homework was done before i ended the class, to gifted class making ds and cs just crushed by the expectations of 4 plus hours of homework and projects of repetitive garbage youd already mastered or all your classes dumping on you like they were your only responsibility. Oh work hard, get into a good college, burn yourself out and hate the process of learning. leaving you just sicked by it all and resentful. Youd repeat the same info as the year before 80 percent of most classes. Classes too large to move at a pace that wasnt tedious while teachers exhausted and overworked so many kids to grade and keep in line. Politics were more behind the scenes like with standardized testing, weird test questions with political or racist undertones, weird quizzes with personal information gathering, unexpected medical tests and in school vaccinations... In hindsight, creepy sht actually. ohh and i was one of those with the several years of super fluoride used as an unwitting test subject, more than just that too. Teeth from my classes are garbage in almost everyone, wonder why.
Oi. What i hear now, we need to start pooling for more private schools and get our kids out asap. Making kids a pawn in a political situation and indoctrinating/turning them against parents... Yea thats not evil at all, nah.. caughnazisdidthatcaugh ... They declare themselves our enemies but we keep conceding ground and pandering to them.. maybe we should believe them and grow a spine... History says its all downhill from here..
@@CailenCambeul There is a reason why history is being erased
I think i will remain suspicious of any ideology that has cultural hegemony...especially if its revolutionary and totalitarian. Be wary of idealism, and do not assume everything with a "progressive" label slapped on it is inherently good. They will more often than not use compassion as justification for totalitarianism. So many people get fooled by that tactic.
The true leftist roots of the Nazis th-cam.com/video/hukNex-OG4k/w-d-xo.html
Just watched 'The great escape' and 'Schindlers list' with my 14 year old daughter, who had no idea what she was about to see
Always amazes me how the ideology, behaviours and atrocities of the Imperial Japanese Army in WWII escapes these kinds of discussions. The horrors of the Japanese in Burma and The Philippines in particular never seem to warrant discussion. The abject brutality, torture and murder meted out by Japanese soldiers on those they considered racially inferior (anyone not Japanese) beggars belief.
When you say the Holocaust was the 3rd or 4th worst atrocity of the 20th century and many people don't know about the other 3.
It's because it's a subject that is so vile there's no way you can tone it down in order to teach it to Young impressionable Minds. I being a curious lad when I was younger began to look into the Bataan Death March and Nanking. It shocked me so thoroughly that I wrote it off as anti-japanese propaganda to protect my mind from breaking.
Now that I'm much much older, I don't know how I would teach that to a younger person without creating the same emotional turmoil in them.
A final point is that Japanese culture has for the most part been embraced and revered in the West for a couple Generations now. And this prevents people from looking into it further. It would be like finding out that your favorite uncle who is such a hit at parties and has a wonderful work ethic was once a rapist a murderer and a sadist.
These are just my observations.
How does one explain to a modern, secular audience how a society that regarded Its “emperor” as a divine being differs from a society such as hours? The use of the western word “emperor” is itself misleading. It come from the Latin for something like “commander of the forces”. I am not sure that Hirohita, for instance,” was a priestlike figure, or more like a Buddha-life person. or more like the Han “emperors”.
We fixed fixed them
Based Japanese Imperials.
Stephen Hicks is brilliant. Bring him back again! Give him his own show!
Yep! Very concise.
My deceased grandmother from Austria said that after the defeat of the imperial Germany and the Habsburg empire Austria-Hungary in WWI there was so much unbelievable poverty, misery, collective trauma that the charismatic Adolf Hitler tricked hope and actually improved the situation substantially for the better until January 1943. PS. The poster of a painting behind Dr. Hicks is of Caspar David Friedrich’s wanderer above the sea of fog
If you want to know the Truth find the video "The greatest story never told"
It's easy to pay for your shit socialist policies by invading and pillaging your neighbours.....yes, Hitlers policies were socialist.
...and the communist threat. That was a serious thing.
@@landofthesilverpath5823 And more than just a theoretical threat, they instigated takeovers in rebellions in cities and towns across Germany; it was for this reason that the NSDAP party called in 'reinforcements' from German nationalists who had been fighting against Poland, France, the US and UK troops left as peacekeepers, fighting in Russia and other states like Czechoslovakia, Latvia and Lithuania; against communism. Known as the Freikorps (and one A.H. had briefly been one supposedly, though records are 'patchy') these helped the NSDAP and allies - including the officials and remaining aristocracy - to remove, execute or exile, those Communists.
There were very real acts of terrorism and uprisings by the Communists across particularly southern Germany in the 20's; which led to this uneasy alliance of NSDAP and the 'old guard' in that Weimar era, as they were each 'the enemy of my enemy'.
The re-integration of the Freikorps under the NSDAP also helped them to crush dissent in their own ranks, and the Freikorps essentially became the 'Brownshirts' - the party enforcers, and the beginnings of the re-militarisation of Germany, even though they were prevented from forming an army under the treaty of Versailles.
It's also this anti-Communist stance which gained the NSDAP and it's "leader" huge US support and very strong UK and pan-European support as well - again, the NSDAP were very much 'the enemy of my enemy' as all feared a revised and re-mobilized Red Communist Army marching west against a weakened Europe, even by the early 1930's.
A strong and staunch resistance from the fiercely anti-Communist NSDAP, whether in coalition or in Governemnt, was very welcome by most of the western nations, not only Germans.
Yes the same picture was used for a description of Beethoven's personality in the magazine,"The Great Composers" series, issued in the early nineties.
So basically, we're repeating everything again. Interviews like these should be shown in schools and universities.
Everything in nature is a pattern.
Can we still call them schools and universities? My son is at uni now. A different world. Indoctrination instead of mind-opening education!
The universities are the problem. Their primary purpose is marxist indoctrination. The deep state and most federal politicians are 100% in support of this.
Doesn't fit the preferred narrative. 😑
But if they showed this in school they couldn’t do it all again.
" My body My Choice "
- screamed the Socialist in 2018
" Your body Not Your Choice "
- screamed the Pro-Vaxxer in 2021
Ingmar Bergman the Swedish director spent a year in Nazi Germany as a teen and lived with an ardently Nazi family. A kind of student exchange program. He says it was glorious. Uniforms, parades, sports, spectacles, huge bonfires, thousands singing en masse and the praise of health, cleanliness and belonging to the group. Only a year later back in Sweden did he understand Nazism.
Sounds like college football.
Sounds pretty awesome
it was@@mikejones9702
@@johnhensler4777 LOL - Exactly
So he went back home and they "explained" him, why being healthy and happy and not being a slave is bad. Ok... 🤡🤡🤡
Stephen Hicks is a fantastic synthesizer of modern philosophical, political, and economic history. As an historian myself, I have immense respect for him.
You know there's something off when you see a bunch of comments like this yet little reasoning. Sounds kinda like political propaganda, disguised as pragmatic rationalism. It's important to note people's newfound fixation on fascism not being "so bad" and people being praised endlessly for doing so might not be a great sign lol. Or otherwise implying that bad fascism somehow came from the ideological left when in reality it arose from the stomping out, and eradication of, the ideological left, They had to kill literally all political opponents to then create a space where people "voted" mr. adolf into power lol. Not to mention just the general smugness of the title of the channel in the first place made it p clear lol. I was truly hoping it wasn't as bad as I thought it would be, but I guess it's more about the plausible deniability and to sway young people who are you realize radical far right proto fascists had to kill thousands of German citizens that were socialist and communist/revolutionaries to then be able to have millions vote for Hitlr. They forced that vote, shaped it. And their idea of their own perfection of culture was just their own echoes going out and back, in the western world. Germany was very close to becoming a truly socialist/communist state and most supported communist revolution until it was stomped out by far right paramilitaries. Has little to do with left idealism turning into something bad, in fact it's exactly the opposite.
Mr. Hicks just scared the hell out of me. He described the very problem we face with Woke culture today.
Black Lives Matter Marxist philosophy couldn’t have been explained any better.
🤣🤣🤣 BLM is not Marxist lol
@@orlamcmanus9019 BLM is a product of neo-Marxist Frankfurt School critical theory. I think Angela Davis would agree.
@@pablodelnorte9746 This is really stupid. Critical theory is a post modern task, an attempt to interpretation social relations. The frankfrut school recognised Marxism lacked any discussion on this. Marxism did not address social problems, Marxist critique like the critique of many before him was of capitalism/economy.. The Franfurt school was completely disillusioned with the failures of Marxism finding it lacked sufficient critique of western civilisation and indeed they were critical of Marxim itself Frankfurt school found Marxism and Leninism philosophically inflexible systems of social orgnisation and sought a different path to realise social developlemtn of society. It couldn't be further from Marxism. The person speaking knows nothing about Marxism or the Frankfurt school, he doesn't need to, because he knows the audience on here won't know either.
@@orlamcmanus9019They absolutely are! Their website indicates as much!
@@oliveoil7642 Explain
I love listening to Mr. Hicks. He is brilliant, especially on this topic.
I grew up at a time when reading widely in philosophy was a thing. By the time I got to university, I had read a lot of these books and of course continued to be exposed to more. My field of study and professional life, by the way, is not in these areas. I studied first physics then computer science. When I started high school, if the third quarter of the last century of the last millennium, our education was broad and deep in both STEM fields as well as liberal arts. I actually dropped out of university, got a job making what university graduates were making (because of skills picked up working at school) and later went back to school. I ended up going to school while working at GE Aerospace. The company paid for it (I was very lucky). I went to Villanova University. They still had (have) a good emphasis on the liberal arts across the board. I had to take two courses in western civilization, three in philosophy, three in religious studies (it is, after all, a Catholic university), four in English literature and a foreign language. Rather than looking at all this as an imposition I reveled in it.
I bring all this up not to toot my own horn, but to contrast that with what is happening in many universities today. Many of the courses I had to take are being eliminated at present. This is a disaster! Our young people are coming out of university more indoctrinated than enriched. We proceed along this path at our peril.
🎉Well stated & so true😢
@@lenorefoxmoor9985 Thanks.
I downloaded the book, "Nietzsche and the Nazis" to my Kindle (it was even included in Kindle Unlimited, oh joy). I find it well written but hard to read. That is because I want to respond to Nietzsche all the time. Sometimes I feel like screaming. Of course, it makes sense. Nietzsche's philosophy led to the Nazis and a lot of the racist totalitarian regimes we have today.
They are turning out potential, 'Sardine Packers, an einsatzgruppen commander so known to his men because he could optimise the number of victims in an alloted space. With the rise of Anti Semitism one wonders where such thinking will lead. Both Orwell and Huxley warned of a future disdain amongst the young for past lessons of human negativity. I am a Christian,not a Jew, - nevertheless !
This was amazing! I’ve never heard philosophy and politics put into such an approachable package.
Stephen Hicks smashes the notion that professors (specifically of philosophy) educate in ways that are unapproachable to the layman. He speaks clearly in a very engaging and relevant way on incredibly deep topics. He's just that good, and MANY professors are not.
That notion was invented by philosophers to exclude the layman and his down to earth common sense approach to such questions from the discussion, for the purpose that applying common sense to what most philosophers propose makes it look very silly indeed. It’s the real reason they want to ban “ableist” insults. They don’t actually care about disabled people, they just don’t like being called stupid so they try their best to make it illegal.
@@InceyWincey all correct. Right-wing pundits have taken to calling the intelligentsia "midwits." They are smart enough to cause a lot of damage but too dumb to know better.
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We must not mistake the rhetorician for the philosopher.
I suspect this is because he is educated not only in his small area of specialisation but also in education and this subject is also relatively easy to understand if you have enough knowledge. It is a bit different with quantum physics that I suspect even the professors do not really get so how should you? Having said all this, he really is doing it well and answers the questions well. This is a skill on its own. Not an easy task especially if (which is not the case here) the questioning party misbehaves or the format forces cutting off parts of the communication. Roger Penrose is very good at it but I suspect this may be true for quite some of these big brains. It is just we are surrounded by people with a degree in gender studies or with massive conflict of interests or both.
This lesson is more pertinent now than any time before in my 38 year life. Stand strong people.
And it's amazing how illiterate about history people are beyond "Nazis bad, we good"
Yeah the similarities between now and then scare the shit out of me
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This is first-rate. Everybody should know this. Stephen Hicks is incredibly knowledgeable and a fantastic teacher.
11:52 I find this absolutely fascinating, I’ve always wondered how Hitler rose to power with such popularity. I feel that my high school education (early 2000’s) only showed me the horrors of WW2 and especially the Holocaust, however it was never taught how a progressive, forward-thinking society got to that point.
People voted for Trump, Putin, Orban, Nethanyahu in fair elections (at least the first time).
They blow up the positives and downplay the warning signs. Combined with a weak unconvincing opposition and there you have it ...
Some of them turn out worse than others afterwards.
You're lucky enough to live through it, just with a different pale group of people being villified this time around. And as things are going this time the genocide is successful.
One word: atheism!
Hitler and his political party brought a depressed post ww1 Germany out of that and put millions of Germans back to work and raised them publicly for it
@@patnor7354who’s being “genocided”?
My amazing history teacher at school taught me about this. She really explained the concepts of the master race and the fatherland. The Nazis were obsessed with their own version of purification of the world. Nowadays, we see the obsession with purification becoming a collective hysterical obsession again.
Yes. Every time I hear the phrase' we must root out" I dread.
Yeah, the current push back of political extremists on tolerance is very horrifying. And I believe it is the silence and inaction of centrists(who are in majority in every society), which empowers these extremists.
the communists agreed with the socialistic elements so that's why they could never condemn or identify the entirety of the entire nazi program. In fact the critical theory movement in the US is basically the same as nazi ideology as they seek racial (revenge) socialism. The Nazis had some elements of revenge on their mind by claiming that various groups took from them... the difference is the ethnic german was the majority in germany whereas the critical theory movements and the anti-racism movement is in the minority. The beating heart is the same.
@Paul sansonetti I missed the mass murders. Owens has his points but I think Owens would own that the mass murder of people witnessed in the next 9 years was horrific. I think he's also say that didn't dispense of america's problems in its poor treatment of african americans. It is still extremely important to point out the monstrosities of the german nation in that time frame and how it developed.
@@afuzzycreature8387look up 1 million German soldiers starved to death ,held in a field for a month without food or water till they died .This was pure evil on our part .
Whenever you hear someone called a nazi or fascist today it’s nothing more than name calling. Most of those doing the name calling couldn’t even define those words.
I didn’t realise that when I’m called a fascist, I’m really an Italian socialist.
most of those doing the name calling are projecting their own guilt
I know what these terms mean and these guys are wrong
Nazism is Radical Authoritarian Nationalism. Everything has moved so far left now that it's becoming a meaningless rock to throw.
@@endloesung_der_braunen_frage So do I. And I believe, based on history and philosophy, that they are correct.
I have an Aunt that was a reading teacher and she was part of the Clinton's administrations reading initiative. As a group they went to Cuba to study their reading programs as it was reported that the Castro Regime had brought about one of the highest literacy rates in North America. What they brought back and incorporated into the US Education system was that most people only need to have an 800 word vocabulary. In addition to use the sight reading method. So to achieve this the books were dumbed down and the students did not learn to sound out words but rather memorize them on sight. So the result is that students cannot self educate by reading the great works or other writings of history or if they do it is a dumbed down version. That was 30 years ago and now we have the product of that great experiment on our children.
Newspeak. Language cannot express forbidden thoughts.
So the mess the world is in nowadays is all your Mums fault..?!
I think you’ve misunderstood reading instruction.
I have my Masters in Reading. Sight words are very important in reading and as we become more proficient in reading that number expands greatly. There are lists of sight words necessary for primary grade levels. They appear frequently and do not always follow the rules of phonics. Phonics was always an important component of teaching as well. In addition it is routine to give students lists of words appropriate to their level to memorize. The problem may be that since computers have been so available, students are not reading books. Recreational reading is one of the critical factors in becoming proficient.
@@leoorchard5992see? There it is at work.. it was his aunt. Not his mom. You ought to be angry at the Castro's...
One of our country's top minds and I can't remember seeing him once in my life on television or published in a mainstream newspaper, it really says alot about the state of western society.
Who controls our Media, Robert? They are not likely to promote someone who so easily exposes their Marx based revitalized radically Left agenda.
ummmmm you mean American society. All of the west is not at all like the US. US is a special case, with its woke BS, see eye A controlled media etc...
Western society is moving away from the legacy media, and rightfully so. The same Internet that is causing so much division right now is also providing a way out of new monopolies dictating our conversations. This channel is just one example.
@@alexanderordinary2110
With respect, most of the west's msm is the same. U can watch BBC, CBC and english language versions of French and German news for example and they are all spouting the same thing.
@@barboglesby2162 Or their conservative religious agenda.
There's a fantastic irony in people's refusal to engage the shadow. They hide from the shadow precisely to convince themselves that others are evil or deficient in some way, and in demonising others whilst ignoring their own shadow, they are far more likely to commit atrocities and become the person other people demonise.
True.. Very True
So, as a white person , do you accept that you are a nazi hippy?
Exactly. As Jordan Peterson ( admirable as a psychologist only)said: " W all need to recognise and come to terms with the monster within us".
This man just exactly describe my experience at the University of Bristol during my foundation of arts and humanities-
My tutor, a self-proclaimed Marxist and male feminist, attempted to treat critical theory to a bunch of 19-year-olds by applying the results of the theory not by explaining it as an ideological perspective.
The whole attitude was one of hostile conflict, I was actively interrogated as to my background, so that when I was attacked, it wouldn’t breach any of their moral codes for political correctness the whole course was extremely strange.
I don’t think people can quite comprehend what is going on in the higher educational establishments there needs to be an investigation launched into all of it!
This has been going on for decades. In the 1980s I took over a job from a chap who left to do a degree in Sociology. He was forced off the course because he was a Conservative. Only he seemed surprised by this.
Similar but not as intense happened to me in late 60’s at SUNY, he told us we were asleep because we weren’t out in the streets trying to bring down the military industrial complex
I recently went to university as a mature student and was stunned to learn that gender theory is spoken of by professors as if it's factually correct that humans can change sex. Not only that, if you dare question the premise or point out contradictions then you are treated like a leppa
After spending a year at Harvard’s Graduate School of Education, I never once witnessed an honest and rigorous debate. The echo chambers of the social justice warriors are well protected. People don’t know the true meaning of ‘critical’ thinking. My fellow international students from all over the globe - democratic and autocratic countries, were truly alarmed by the propaganda and brainwashing that is occurring in the USA.
Bristol is full of left-tards
No freedom without responsibility....and responsibility is a much too heavy weight to carry for many...
Dr Hicks is a treasure.
You should get him on your show. By the way you and your team are doing a fantastic job.
@@djknox2 And SFO, too. Not an academic, but a pretty good analyst.
@@djknox2 ShortFatOtaku
True, and this is yet another reason why I'm glad I started following Carl way back in 2016 -- I've found so many amazing people on this side of YouYube.
Thanks, Carl!
Incredible educator, so informative and eloquent - learnt so much.
And me. thanks, guys. Fascism was Socialism specifically for the national collective of Italians. so Nazism was Socialism for the national collective of Germans.
Mostly just his personal opinions.
This is stealth "conservative" propaganda which works by pretending it is not.
@@Redrosewitch So, why did Hitler's earliest acts involve exterminating all Communists, Socialists and trade unionists? And in what part of socialism is the country's business contracted out to private companies. Daimler-Benz, for example. The firm avidly supported Nazism and in return received arms contracts and tax breaks that enabled it to become one of the world’s leading industrial concerns. TAX BREAKS? In socialism?
@@thepagecollective well said. Questions for which I doubt you'll receive replies
Wow thank you so much. You have just given me-an old hippie-such a succinct explanation of humanity that will help me make sense of the world + current happenings. Thank you so much!❤
after reading the incredible book IBM and the Holocaust, I realize that doctors, economists, engineers, lawyers, psychologists - in short the intelligencia - played an instrumental role and that their role generally goes unnoticed.
Thomas Sowell covers this really well in his books. And you're right, that the general public has no understanding of how those "intellectuals" steered society to disaster.
The elite always use the power of the state for their advantage or to gain greater relative advantage than rest of society. They attempt to structure government where they are in control.
You might read Wall Street and the Rise of Nazism by Anthony Sutton. Nazism had many supporters and admirers around the world, especially 1935-1938.
The US and UK do not. Many nations have a full understanding of that issue.
It is why many nations mistrust the intellectuals even today.@@SoloRenegade
@@shauntempley9757 those of us paying attention in teh US and UK, and who actually studied history absolutely do. and we still mistrust "intillectuals" and rightfully so. it's the ignorant or malicious people who trust them.
It constantly astounds me that so many people think that it is usually evil intent behind great evil, you see some great evil and behind it you will see some beautiful utopian ideas.
‘The road to hell is paved with good intentions’
Like Libertarianism.
@@globetwig4401 Libertarianism breaks down as soon as you introduce humans. Its very much like Marxism in that case. Ever notice how Libertarians are fond of saying: "There's never been a 'TRUE' Libertarian society."
@@jakebarnes28 Totally agree. I personally regard Libertarianism as a fundamentally flawed political ideology with an extremely simplistic understanding of human nature(s). In fact, I'm very much opposed to Libertarian dogma.
It's extraordinarily rare that someone who does evil things on a mass scale doesn't think they are morally justified. There is no right or wrong, only consensus. The only difference between you and the absolute monster is the number of other people who agree with you.
No one hates a collectivist quite like another collectivist of a different brand. Well done guys for having Prof. Hicks on the show.
Exactly. This is the explanation for the conservative hatred of socialism.
@@Supernautiloid can't say I know any conservative collectivists.
@@thomdrolet2624 That's because they were destroyed in the 1980s. The only kind of "conservative" that exists is a profit-maximizing liberal.
@@thomdrolet2624 I know about 75 million. Not personally of course. But that's how many voted for Trump in 2020 so I think it's a good indicator.
@@Supernautiloid how exactly are trump supporters collectivist?
Could listen to Stephen Hicks all day long. Fascinating interview.
How did the German people reject 2000 years of Christianity and descended into barbarism? The role of WW1 cannot be underestimated. Great discussion.
Dr. Hicks gets it. Wow. A philosopher who doesn't purely talk about politics, history and the lot but makes the connection to our kids and their education. Genius thinking. As a psychologist and mum I see many things about the origins of our society's current issues just there: what kind of life do our kids have and how do they get educated? Well done KK & FF. Love your show. Danke aus Deutschland. :-)
He mention that school teachers in Germany gravitated to the Nazis. That may be because the model teacher was a produced of the Prussian system. Medical doctors were also drawn to the Nazi Party.
The BBC has abandoned the production and broadcasting of this sort of content. This type of topic deserves a wider audience.
This guest is one of the most interesting men I've seen on you tube. Thank you for bringing him to the the fore, this talk is truly fascinating and an education I've never had before
My course in Philosophy of Education was one of my best memories in college. God Bless You, Sir.
It's amazing to me that every generation thinks they will be right on socialism and communism when History says differently
I'm in the middle of a really long back and forth with a socialist and it's the same old story. "That's not real socialism". "Bezos and Musk have too much money" and the best one was that "Socialism hasn't succeeded because of capitalist countries put economic sanctions on them so it's capitalism's fault".
We good free-marketeers need to be way, too, lest we sell to force acceptance of our obviously correct way of thinking, me thinks
@@jasondashneyI'm curious to know why you think those nuances are irrelevant.
Communism is an economic system that goes against human nature and therefore will never work in reality.
Most capitalistic nations have socialistic policies as a safety net.
The best social systems we have are largely capitalistic based with some socialistic policies to look after the most vulnerable in society.
Eg, disabled, poor children, neglected elderly.
Socialism and capitalism are not bad.
It’s all about getting the balance right.
Communism only ever turns into dictatorship and can only ever turn into dictatorship.
There is nothing socialistic about communism except all the broken promises.
The "not real socialism" part always gets me. Do these people think that they're just so happens to have never been anybody to try and implement actual Socialism? It's human nature itself that won't allow it to work. It's no accident that it's "never been tried".
And a couple people with obscene amounts of money is a terrible reason to take the legs out of everybody else under them. Socialist movements, don't try to lift everybody else up, they try to drag the top down. I think the amount of money billionaires have is absolutely disgusting. I would definitely be a massive philanthropist, and give away most of my money way before I reached the levels of wealth they have, but I'm not gonna try and tear down the whole system just because a tiny tiny tiny percentage of people get extremely lucky and have more wealth than some small countries. Socialists always seem to focus on tearing the extremely successful down, much more than they are concerned with bringing everybody else up. And lastly, if a socialist system needs another socialist system for it to work, then it doesn't work by definition. You can't blame capitalism for Socialism not working. That absolutely makes no sense whatsoever. It's the same logic, as when people claim they are free-market capitalist, and I always called them out because they are not. Hard-core, free-market capitalist lobby, the government to bring in cheaper labor, and they want patent protections, and all sorts of things that are not part of a truly free market. Socialists can't pound the table about how their system is superior, if it literally relies on capitalism for it to function. @@theletterw3875
I have shared your videos with all of my friends. You are performing a desperately needed service - providing long-form, rational, and informative discussions with people who are the deep thinkers of our time. It is so unfortunate that journalism as a profession is dead, but you two (and your staff) are filling a vacuum Thank you so much for all you do and please keep up the good work!
Yeah but we should avoid amateur analysis. Closer get the rise and falll or TIJ history....yes we dehumanizing the dehumanizers.....where does this get us with actual historical evidence...where is the true values..the triumph of wills and mein kampf...half of America was ok with Hitler and wanted us to avoid taking sides.....
I am just listening to a war diary of a German war reporter starting with the invasion of Poland. At 11 minutes in he quotes Nietzsche "of all writings I love only those that are written in blood". Amazing.
typical nazi misinterpretation of Nietzsche
This is by far the best most honest essessment of historical and political struggle I've ever heard! I am subscribed.
If you want to know the Truth find the video "The greatest story never told"
If you know this is "honest", this means you are an expert on the subject. Obviously your opinion about "honest" is actually unsubstantiated thus dishonest.
@@BarbarraBay Your bordering on intellectual bullshit. Go find the video "The greatest story never told" and learn something. Also "Hellstrom the rape of germany"
You may like academic agent as well. Life's complicated.
Disagree. Not once did he mention communism and the relationship between the rise of bolshevik communism and National Socialism-- which existed in opposition to it. Many people supported Hitler solely because of their opposition to communism.
This has have to been the greatest conversations you guys have ever done on you channel.
This is the reason why people should remember history not to repeat it, and not erease history to be able to repeat it.
International CIA. "When everything the American people is a lie, we will have succeeded "
Could replace most countries with the word Americans, as exact same Totalitarian Dictator has rewritten every country's history. Right after they steal all their gold & Silver and every valuable. Before they bombed 2/3 +++ of Poland infrastructure they loaded 1600 long semi trucks going one way and others going the other way. After the war they dismantled the factories and hauled to Russia, which rusted since the "REAL NAZI COMMUNIST", who say " There is no God", which were the gathering of world Satanists, wearing German & Russian uniforms.....just like today, the same gathering of same Nazi's and Mafia, and Terrorists are gathering in Ukraine.. when Putin wanted to havre a cease fire for few days for a Christian Holy Day, Britain was in Ukraine with ythe British Mafia saying NO PEACE, just like they did in WW one and WW2 when Germany and Austria sued them for peace.
WW2. Britain & France had a defense pact with Poland, as they were planning their Holocaust. Poles that escaped didn't know this and fought and died next to British, American, Russians against Hitler, while being led to believe they were fighting for " Your freedom &a ours. Death toll was high. British Norse West Royal Empire, along with their Royal family, leading the Nazi, non Germans into entire Central Europe to Holocaust every Polish Proto Slavic ethnic tribe including Iran & India etc etc. Including Prisoners of war.
British Bankers, " in the future nobody will remember Hitler, but how much free labor you got. In British controlled Russia they had already established Gulag Archepeligo long before 467 Gulags with litterally 1000's of death, torture, beat, freeze daily while forced to run all day in Siberia, 70 below zero, in mines so toxic most died in 3 months. Also took children up there. Disease rampant..from starvation & sadistic torture. Released criminally insane from prisons to be guards. Britain also ordered Italy to release Mafia from prison. Britain, Russia &US had taken over Iran. Ordered Ajerbajan, a netorious terrorist group to join in the torture and killing of Poland Muslim, Catholic, Jews & atheists. There was the Russian NKVD, Secret Service who are most excellent torturers. In Belgium, after drafting 15 year olds to Poland, and brainwashed by the BBC, British Bolshevik Communists Propaganda Dept, about how dishonest those Polish Catholics are, total criminals and as everyone in Europe and US knows, the Pope is the AntiChrist. Let's not forget British Crown Cousins, Royal Norse Swedes who Britain encouraged to massacre 2/3 of Poles in 1600's for crime of religious freedom and Constitution, Bill of rights. Freedom for British, Swedes, French, but 1000 yrs is starvation/ slavery for East &Central Europe, as Britain controls all ports. How many Germans were starved to death. BY Britain? Irish Catholics, Britain removed all food from every home, just like Bolshevik Jews did in Ukraine after massacre of 66 million German and Slavic in 1917 and 1930 Ukraine, 20 million starved to death. British Royals said, Christians don't have a right to exist. Also, if you don't speak English you don't have a right to exist. European corporations made a killing on their abused Slavic FREE LABOR. BUILT NEW factories, roads, bridges all over their World Wide Kingdom. Royal Countries don't fight wars, they let their Vassal States like Russia, US, Canada, Australia, India....45 then another 70 after Wzw2, who of for Britain & France expenses? America.
Britain made Germany pay billions in reparation fee but refused to let Poland recieve funds to rebuild. Actually, they gave it to zfrance to conquer and oppress. Ore countries. Any peaceful protests met with mowing down 100's of citizens with spray of bullets, or in Siberia they crushed five live people at a time by tanks going back &a forth until there was literrally a mountain hill of bones. The sadistic cruelty of zbolsheviks is unsurpassed. Those few who know the truth remember. Back stab double cross. Britain was cheering when Putin was going to drop an Atomic Bomb on Poland and All Baltic/ Balkan states. They have had a premeditayive genocide plan for many years. Hell is for eternity. We want no one to go there. Look up Polish Saint Faustina, Divine Mercy. Jesus said Poland was only reason He didn't destroy evil Europe. You may want to stop this war.
Professor Hicks is great. First became aware of him after he totally demolished a post-modernist in a debate
What one was that? 👍👍👍👍
@@michaelfern4079 Thaddeus Russell. It’s an interesting debate.
@@davideldred.campingwilder6481 I don't remember exactly how he put it but around the midway mark Russell claims that "nothing I say is true" and that he just tells stories that people can either agree or disagree with and that for him to say that he knows some absolute truth would be "highly arrogant." Hicks responds with "Slavery is a moral abomination" and it trips up Russell because under his own rules that opinion is just as valid as the justification of slavery. He then basically just changes the subject and ends up giving credit to religion to avoid giving the credit to the Union soldiers at the time having any sort of rational thoughts or reasons to be against slavery.
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The problem with classic liberalism is how much it depends on the autonomous individual able to subsist in the world on his own devises. This is, I think, a heroic role, and there exist few schools that aim at creating heroes. Maybe the service academies. But maybe they are afraid of creating them nowadays. I mean how awful if too many Grants or Lees appeared. Warriors, rather than bureaucrats.
Very interesting content. Thx.
Edit: what a joy it was to listen to Mr Hicks. It is an art to press so much content into an hour without deviating or becoming boring. A gem.
Almost all people who commit evil believe they are committing good while doing so.
The more sure they are, the move violent they can be.
Look at how Americans are indoctrinated with the flag salute, in school. Then they get ruled by the flag.
@@johnkawakami8395 Yeah, they all become a bunch of bloodthirsty national socialists what with their pledging their allegiance to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
Stephen Hicks is amazing, and what he's telling us just scratches the surface.
Hegel, Marx, Nietzche, the Nazis, these are just recent (200 or so years) of thinking coming out of Germany.
You can go back to 1077, when the Emporer Henry IV (of Saxony, much of which would later becone Germany) spent 3 days in a hairshirt, prostrating himself before Pope Gregory at Canossa. He did so after political battling which ended with Gregory excommunicating Henry.
This "humiliation at Canossa" was such a pivotal moment in European history, that 800 years later, in 1877, Otto Von Bismark would put a plaque on a monument that says "We will not go to Canossa".
This expression, in Germany, meant that they are their own (extremely) proud people who will not bend to ANYONE, EVER.
Hitler referenced Canossa, as well.
This is just the tip of the iceberg.
Hegel, (a strong influence on Marx, Giovanni Gentile - fathet of Fascism, and the Nazis) who wrote in the 1800s to 18teens, was embraced as the pinnacle of thought in Germany, while many other philosophers of his time and after would say that, essentially, Hegel was a Freaky Prussian Wizard. Eschewing outside religious influences, like Catholicism, Hegel drew heavily on Alchemy as a Native German spiritual underpinning for German-ness.
In my opinion, Mary Shelly's character, Victor Von Frankienstein, was an echo of these movements in thought. Her Frankenstein character, though not specifically German but Swiss/Italian, studied Alchemy. Her book, published in 1818-1820 (conflicting sources on that) comes out after msny of Hegels major published works, from about 1808 to 1818.
This was 100+ years before the Nazis.
There's so much crazy history before what Stephen Hicks is relating to us (and doing an excellent job, IMO).
Great comment. Thanks. Where did Hitler reference Canossa? In Mein Kampf or speeches etc? Thanks.
@@michaelfern4079 Hitler read a fair amount about Otto Von Bismark, and the expression "go to Canossa" was a fairly common reference, politically, in and around Germany (around, as in various nations and cultures).
He mentioned it in accounts of discussions with an Italian Diplomat (German Studies Review Volume14 Number3 Oct1991 ... available on JSTOR, if you have access... it's often free if you are enrolled in college), and apparently he described his dealings to restore the legality of the Nazi Party after his release from prison as a sort of Road to Canossa (Wikipedia entry on "Road to Canossa" which is pretty accurate insofar as I can know).
The idea of the "Road to Canossa" came up in discussions I had with some friends, one a Librarian/crazy bibleophile friend of mine, and another with a different friend from Iceland, who's done business in other countries, and with whom I was bitching about Germans, lol. I'm painfully American, very liberal, like Hicks, with a lot of American-Scots-Irish ancestry, so, there are stark contrasts I notice that rub me the wrong way, and I want to understand these things, so as to deal with them more easily, and not let them catch me on the back foot.
Anyhow, when you start connecting the dots, and really realize, to the U.S. comparitively, how deep history in europe goes, and how deeply, based on history, many Europeans still approach the present, it's hard not to be a little awed.
I mean, it's our history, too, but there's a sharp demarcation between U.S. History that emerges not long after the emancipation from Britain.
That other thread of European History, the more Germanic one, is really important to understand, because, In my opinion, anyway, it's the real dialectic the U.S. has been struggling with. Namely, American Liberalism (strongly rooted in British Liberalism) and German Hegelian Ideology, and it's many european offshoots.
Monty Cantsin Fascinating. Thanks so much. I’m guessing Somalians right off the boat are gonna have a bit of bother fitting in... 😬
@@michaelfern4079 lol. That's a whole other can of worms, and kinda outside my wheelehouse. African history, what little I've learned, is pretty fascinating, too.
I'd love to hear a Somali Scholar do some comparitive political history.
@@montycantsin8861 History is so friggin’ insane. I try to point out the same thing about how old these things are (as old as humanity itself) and how when you dig in populations that have effectively never came into contact with each other in more ancient history follow in the footsteps with the same evil ideas.
I like how these guys listen to their interviewees (quite rare in todays journalism) they never interrupt and ask well thought through questions.
Just binged both of Professor Hicks' Triggernometry appearances...Awesome! Thanks guys.
Most illuminating thing I've listened to in recent memory. Thanks very much. :)
Maybe because of his background, Hicks' focus in explaning the rise of nazism in Germany is on the country's philosophical traditions. He completely ignores the effect of Germany's losing WWI - which was huge. One of Hitler's main goals was to undo that effect.
This guy is so brilliant and eloquent. Amazing pod
When speaking about religious aspect in Germany, you should add that Nazis were winning in protestant parts, which is linked to Luther's view on Jews. In 1936 Edith Stein who was a Jewish philosopher but also a Catholic nun, writes to the Pope warning about persecution of Jews but also Catholics in Germany. This is often omitted, but this was also one of the reasons (another being the view that Slavs are subhuman, to be eliminated after Jews are finished with) why the occupation of Poland was so harsh, completely different than in the West.
Completely disagree disagree about Poland.After Ww1 in the German lands annexed by Poland they brutalised German residents.Hitler warned the Polish to stop and gave them an ultimatum either stop or he would go to war ,it is well documented.
@@JohnJohn-cu7nk German lands annexed by Poland? Careful here, are you talking about lands that were partitioned and taken by Prussia and Austria when Poland dusappeared from maps for 125 years? And Poles were routinely killed fir speaking their language etc? And then they got them back ? Well documented ? I wonder by whom.
BTW, I was talking about situation before and during WW2. Are you really trying to say that Poles brutalised Gernans after WW1 therefore I shouldn't mention what went on under German occupation during WW2? Is this for real?
@@gosiachaaban2484 As I stated the poles Brutalised the German citizens who lived in the lands that were annexed by Poland after Ww1 .Like this said it's well documented .Read any newspaper from these dates
@@JohnJohn-cu7nk what annexation are you talking about? And any newspaper is a bit vague tbh. Do you mean German newspapers, Polish or which ones?
@@JohnJohn-cu7nk YOU made the claim that it is "well documented" but won't provide anything in the way of documentation. Weird.
I don't want a honest conversation, I want flattery. I am cheap and easy.
Outstanding.
His final summation upon the importance of maintaining the standards of education is most evident among current school children. According to literacy figures to be found on google , 25% of primary school leavers in England are unable to read and write properly. I'm 81 and at age 7 went to an all boys junior school. I cannot recall any child that moved on from my small Infant school who was unable to read , too some extent. Maybe boys of my age were lucky , no video games and the Public Library was a short walk from the school. By the tine I was 11 I had read every Biggles book, ploughed through the tomes of The Royal Airforce 1939 -45 volumes 1 & 2 . And I still failed the 11 plus exam.
Because they now have to cater to the lowest common denominator, people for whom English is not a first language or with low literacy parents. From abroad.
No matter how many times you listen to SH, he always manages to explain old complicated concepts in accessible and new relevant ways. Genius.
Finished watching now, what a fantastic, lucid, logical mind this guy has. The most intelectually honest arguments that i have ever saw among this debate on fascism, identity polithics and debasament of education.
I found Stephen's argument about the grounds for the great war very different to my own understanding. My impression was that Great Britain went to war because Prussia started moving into Africa and Asiapacific, and most importantly that its industrial production overtook that of Great Britain. Moneymaking generally comes before ideology for the British elite.
With Germany's initiation of government to government foreign trade, the profits of London and New York bankers were threatened and impaired. These bankers pushed for war.
Brilliant. Describes what’s happening today with the Woke mentality
@@davideldred.campingwilder6481 Identity Politics for one.
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@@S-North . . .Identity Politics came from Communists from the Frankfurt School which Hitler and the National Socialists were fighting against.
@@RightTurnClyde They cut away from whatever leftist-roots they may have had as soon as they took over the country. Mussolini had leftist roots, and obviously so did the totalitarian communist regimes. And they all failed miserably at being true to genuine leftist ideology once in power. Fascism is fascism, regardless of which direction it comes from.
@@republitarian484 So they're heroes then?
This is why the state needs to be minimal and the church/voluntary communities are so important. People do need groups of meaning but they shouldn't be tied to something that they can't opt out of. Don't give the state power that you don't want your political opponents to have.
I'm from the government,I'm here to help you. Like the Australians are finding out.
Right. True freedom is not in receiving government help but in not needing it. Government dependence is serfdom.
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"Don't give the state power that you don't want your political opponents to have."
I say this to the leftists all the time.
I missed this when it first came out... mind blowingly brilliant! Thanks guys and thank you Stephen
The values of forgiveness and redemption are highly underrated and devalued, yet they are critical for progress.
Professor Stephen Hicks is a Rockstar! In my German immigrant family I was always referred to as the Englishman. Yes! Go John Locke, Adam Smith and John Stuart Mill. Liberty! Ron Paul 2024....
Rand Paul 2024?
I would vote for Rand. No way Ron Paul would run for office again.
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Great interview. One thing though. Nietzsche wasn't antisemitic. He occasionally used jew as a synonym for Christian as he despised the judeo christian religion. He explicitly attacks actual antisemites in his writings, essentially calling them small minded idiots. His reputation for antisemitism comes from his sister and her husband, who were virulently antisemitic, and who cared for Nietzsche and tried their hardest to reinvent the public perception of his beliefs to align with their own during his illness.
Interesting. Do you recall any reference materials for such? If you can recall, then please share.
There was such a thing as anti-judaism, which hates Jews as a kind of anti-Christian cult, rather than as a “race”.
@@JRobbySh That certainly was not Nietzsche's position as he was an "anti-Christian cult" all to himself. Anti-Judaism means hatred of the Jews as a religious group.
Nietzsche not being antisemitic, not being fond of the antisemites, does not actually matter at all. His - not his sister's - philosophy, if one can call it that, was so vile, so much engaging in phantasies of violence, that you could easily just add another target.
@@str.77 Can you say which of his books engages in fantasies of violence? I've read "The Birth of Tragedy," "The Gay Science," and "The Antichrist" and I don't remember anything like that. He did strike me as a bit emotionally unstable.
It was his eyes... Beautiful eyes that hypnotized everyone.
Bless his heart he has no idea how far intellectualism in America has fallen.
I’m really glad Stephen is highlighting the socialist bits of the Nazi ideology, especially when ‘Fullfact’ are supposedly debunking it. You can just search on TH-cam for Nazis discussing the economy to realise they were not economically right-wing at all, there was a video of Joseph Goebbels talking quite a lot about the necessity of state intervention in the economy that springs to mind.
Socialist is right in the party name, so it is rather obvious.
Communism, National Socialism, and Fascism are twigs growing of the same branch. The greatest trick the socialist/communist have pulled is that their political philosophy is diametrically opposed to Fascism. The end result is the same...a totalitarian government.
All the nutjob regimes are left wing. The other end of the table sits Milton Friedman and the like.
@@homewall744 exactly! They told us they were socialists. It’s just sort of amazing to me because having been through secondary school history classes, we were not taught of this aspect of Nazism.
This junk by this guy talking with admiration of evil barbaric people is disgusting. So they were well read monsters. Monsters are to be talked of with admiration?
Hicks is a legend, his book on postmodernism is essential reading.
It’s fucking terrible. As a philosophy student he butchers the medieval thinkers, messes up enlightenment thinkers, but worse is the counter enlightenment …Kant ? Kant? Counter-enlightenment? Hahahah
@@louisdavies8050 you don't sound like you should be taken seriously.
@@shamster7182 I'm not "of the Left" (nor "of the Right"), I like Hicks, and I think postmodernism is dogshit, but Hicks doesn't do a good job criticizing it. There are intelligent videos you can look for on youtube which go into detail how he fails (or falls short, take your pick). A test of your openness would be to look for them and learn how your legend doesn't know everything.
They wouldn’t have this man on mainstream media. Thank you for sharing this information
Why not? There’s nothing controversial he’s saying.
@@michaelfern4079 Are you kidding? When has there been a conversation about the Holocaust with everyone not being in lockstep?
@@nickgeorgiou7770 What did Hicks say about the Holocaust which would stop him from being on MSM?
Insightful, balanced, brilliant analysis! Thank you Dr Hicks & guys.👏👏👏👍👍
Hegel died in about 1830. At that time Germany didn't even exist as a nation, it was a collection of small states or princedoms. Similarly to Italy. So when he talked about the "state's divine providential mission" he couldn't have been talking about Germany as a country.
Thanks Guys, feeling well schooled with historical detail.
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@@RightTurnClyde thanks for the additional info. So much to know and so little time remaining. The real truth is out there somewhere.
Time magazine’s Man of the Year 1938.
That was an excellent discussion!!
Professor Nick's including remarks on identity with references to Shakespeare and Milton are spot on... Bravo!
Thank you for introducing me to this wonderful, brilliant man! I’m hooked!
I truly appreciate this channel allowing the guest to speak as long as he wanted to Without interruption. Very few channels have that philosophy 🎉
The distinction is between national socialism (Germans workers, Italian workers, etc) and international socialism (workers of the world).
Never underestimate the power of making people feel superior, the, "othering" of another group and the power it gives....
President Lyndon B. Johnson once said,
"If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best coloured man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you."
White Americans not only LOOOVE Black people, today, often want to date them or marry them, a number of people falsely claim Black ancestry to get college acceptance or a professorship or at least honorary Blackness for social acceptance.
White kids buy rap, buy swag, sustain musicians.
White people HEAVILY DONATE to causes which purport to help Black people, even when Black people tell them they are causing more harm by supporting the wrong things .. like reducing educational standards and treating Black people as helpless and inferior, while viciously attacking Black conservative leaders.
🤮 like any USA President is worth quoting, hideous repulsive nation.
What a brilliantly articulate professor. Quite a few concepts conveyed clearly in a short space of time. I'll be watching this twice
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This was good discourse. More guests of this caliber, please.
Unfortunately, there is an extreme shortage of high caliber faculty in our universities in the U.S. The extreme left has largely taken over.
Thanks!
In the nineteen twenties of the last century half of the scientific papers published in the world still originated from Germany or were at least fist printed in German. Therefore it is not an exaggeration that Germany was at the forefront of science in every respect.
Daily vigilance against the moral failings of others seems like a joyless existence to me. And yet so fashionable.
" By and large people are decent." That is soooo cute !
Great interview! More people need to see it.
I enjoyed this. Thank you. This level of conversation should be the norm on tv.
Stephen Hicks speaks very well and makes a lot of sense to me. Would be great to listen to him again in the future
I went to high school with a guy who was a surfer. He was also an amazing science student, and an amateur scientist even in high school. I found out years later that, some time in his 30's, I think, he came up with an invention which he then sold for $50 million. He retired, bought a secluded beach house with good surf outside, and has lived in comfortable retirement ever since; doing lots of surfing and, knowing him, continuing to study science and make inventions. I don't know all the details about his invention. He did not invent air bags for cars. He just inventing something, the sensor/computer net perhaps, that made them really practical. Now hard core leftists these days would say that his living in labor-free wealth is "unequal", which it certainly is. But they would also say that that's wrong. How many tens of thousands of lives has his invention saved? And millions of injuries? And BILLIONS of dollars in medical expenses, lost income, police and court expenses, repair and road cleanup, etc., etc? I think we should give him 500 million, not take some of his money away.
The crazy leftists want to take away the money of rich people.
The rational ones just want corporations to pay their fair share of tax instead of zero tax.
Labor free wealth is people who inherit money and live off of it generation after generation. Working on an invention is not labor free.
that has nothing to do with leftism. he sold his product in the market and is loyving off of that sale. that has nothing to do with unjust rents or exploitation
What the heck did this have to do with the topic? (No offense.)
The Leftist Communist Rainbow Flags I know are convinced deep in their souls that once Capitalism is overthrown that a corner office, title, and driver will be issued to them. They don't even consider that roads will need to be repaired, coal dug, trash hauled, and that these jobs are their future.
KK and FF you guys freekin rock, every podcast of yours I watch I learn so much.
Years ago, before the BBC went totally mental, I heard a program on R4 that was a repeat of a much older one in which those who'd voted for the Nazis were asked why. They said it was because they were Socialists - they believed the so-called International Socialism of the Soviets was too Utopian, too pie-in-the-sky, but that National Socialism was do-able. Unfortunately, they were sort of correct and would have remained so if Germany hadn't decided to 'spread the word' into other countries.
Definitely, if Hitler would have remained a nationalist, what a different outcome. There still would have been war with Russia.
That's so interesting!
The true leftist roots of the Nazis th-cam.com/video/hukNex-OG4k/w-d-xo.html
Hitler had to start the war because his socialist economy was failing. It was either invade the neighbours or have another major depression.
It's not like he tried to hide the fact that his socialist plan would require 'acquiring' more land for the German people to use, he mentions it in his writings occasionally before he was anywhere near the being dictator.
@@Arkantos117 I hadn't heard that before, but it does make sense. FDR was no different. His programs were not working. It was the war that actually gou us out of the Depression
Thank you so much for closing your interviews with the question, "What aren't we talking about, but should be?"
Of the plethora of thinkers this man is right up there..
Such clarity and breadth of knowledge imparted in a manner could be understood. Thank you
Such an interesting interview. Thank you so much for sharing
“In keeping silent about evil, in burying it so deep within us that no sign of it appears on the surface, we are implanting it, and it will rise up a thousand fold in the future.” - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, _The Gulag Archipelago_
I think we took the wrong lesson from the Nazis. We simply wrote them off as mindless barbarians who malevolently turned on minorities. But the truth is that throughout history group conflict has been a natural and inevitable part of human politics. If we wanted to reduce the chances of repeating history we would support the creation of ethnically homogenous nationstates. When people feel threatened by the growing power of foreigners they are quite likely to react