Emmanuel Todd, Defeat of the West - the main ideas explained in English
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- In this video, I explain the main ideas of Emmanuel Todd, The Defeat of the West. This most important book on geopolitics and history has not yet been translated into English. A best-seller in France - this video will explain in easy-to-understand language the complex historical, sociological arguments that Todd uses, and translate key passages of Todd's important book.
How and why has the West been defeated and lured into a trap in Ukraine? Find out in this video.
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Excellent summary, very helpful for those of us who do not read French. One comment: I have trouble conceiving Ukraine (specifically, "Ukraine nihilism") as a trap that somehow drew or sucked the West in. Seen through the lens of realpolitiek, the Ukraine project had been fermented for years if not decades by the neocons on both sides of the Atlantic. They were not drawn in, they deliberately used that tragic country as a trap to weaken if not bring down Russia (regime change in the Kremlin). Merkel and Hollande have both admitted that the Minsk agreements were simply a ruse to stall for time in order to arm Ukraine. This foolish gambit is now backfiring spectacularly. In what sense was the West "lured into a trap"?
E. Todd live in France and write in French ;I do think he had to soften his point of view in order to be published ...and not be accused of Putinism by medias .I understand "the west 's trapped in his own trap ...Ukraine being the trap ,Russia the game ,and West the trapper ...trapped!
Self trapped
Or maybe he uses "West" as an euphemism for something else.
western citizens trapped by their own oligarchy
It is all as described, with Westernizing the Black Sea region going back to the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and then later with Imperial Germany, founding a state of Ukraine from the Russian Empire while having infiltrated Petersburg with LENIN - so the latter is already a familiar picture.
The problem is that *the West doesn't understand the East* - due to an image of man, derived from Radical Enlightenment - expecting a 'Homo Economicus' where in fact tradition still rules the hearts of men as demonstrated after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the revival of Orthodoxy - the latter reflected in Samuel Huntington's 'Clash of Civilizations' (1993).
When Brzezinski wrote the 'Grand Chessboard' (1997), outlining the integration of Ukraine into the European Union and NATO as another geopolitical milestone toward Transatlantic supremacy and 'global governance', he had in fact plagiarized British geographer Halford Mackinder's 'Geographical Pivot of History' (1904).
The problem with pivots is that they can go both ways - and while Mackinder's philosophy of history is flawed in the construction of modern sea power and pre-modern land power as contemporary antagonists - there was always a dialectic between Western and Eastern hegemony with the first empires originating in Mesopotamia, and even the successors of Alexander the Great reaching back into the Aegean Sea from a seat of power in 'Seleucia on the Tigris' (Attila the Hun and Genghis Khan as the more obvious, but short lived examples).
It is *a question of commitment* .
How much has the Transatlantic maritime periphery to destabilize the shores of the continental 'World Island' of Asia in order to stall it's political integration and modernization - by creating 'shatterbelts' of perpetuated conflicts without becoming overextended in decisive expeditionary battles that favor a concentrated land power on rails (apart from Alfred Millner who would restore the American colonies with Britain as a junior partner by forming a Transatlantic social network, see Alfred Thayer's 'The Problem of Asia' 1900 and William Yandell Elliott's 'The New British Empire' 1932) ?
Nazi Germany - inspired by US frontier expansion and Manifest Destiny - thought that it could gain all of Eastern Europe by mere dashing to the oil fields of the Caucasus until it turned out that despite taking millions of prisoners, they were not prepared enough to sustain their own losses, to force their will upon a continental power that was always regarded as culturally backward in comparison to Western and Central Europe and yet had proved resilient already when under attack by the actual genius of a Bonaparte - with a Russian Tsar marching unto Paris in 1815.
The Soviet Union had reached Central Europe in 1945 within a mere 35 months - that is the risk that was already addressed in the RAND study of 'Extending Russia - Competing from Advantageous Ground' (2019), but as a bullet point instead of a grave warning.
If one were to ask why the West risked to Westernize Asia by force of arms, instead of evolutionary soft power, one can only assume that the rise of China forced their hand.
When at the same time all Transatlantic offices are stacked with Wilsonian ideologues while all Western conventional military force is in decay (e.g. Britain's 2010 'Strategy and Security Review' that cut operational assets in half) then the 'Partnership for Peace' in Ukraine would tilt into the very fateful commitment, Russia was supposed to suffer.
It was always militarily absurd to have Kiev to do the fighting and dying, alone - NATO had to intervene in order to save the prestige of the alliance, sacrificing the same hundreds of thousands of indoctrinated recruits as from Kharkov and Odessa - until bled white and any further escalation could only be achieved by weapons of mass destruction.
Mckinder noted that a shell burst in Asia is only an event in an empty field - the same shell burst in Europe is devastation due to urbanization and population density...
In the end, European Radical Enlightenment is the trap as it's 'Modernization Theory' demands of the West to become a liberal empire - antagonizing the traditionalist civilizations in it's periphery to decolonize by whatever means necessary, turning the self-styled parliamentarian 'murderers of tyrants' into tyrants, themselves.
I have no idea if Emanuel Todd would answer the question in a similar manner - but to me this is how an exercise in a historiography of 'longue durée' can look...
I’m French, i bought his brilliant book, very interesting and full of many data.
He was one of the only one in march 2022 to predict the defeat of Ukraine, his video is still on youtube. He gave data showing that the usa and nato just could not defeat the russian army. This man predicted the end of ussr, severla years before, based on demographic data. He’s a top historian and demograph, with a lot of humour too. Tks for sharing his views.
Asian civilizations prioritized stability and peace due to their long-standing dynastic traditions, cultural philosophies like Confucianism emphasizing social harmony, centralized bureaucracies, and geographical features that encouraged internal development over external conquest. Their relative economic self-sufficiency and focus on internal trade further supported this stability. In contrast, Western civilizations emphasized expansion and domination driven by geopolitical competition among fragmented states, economic motivations such as the search for new trade routes and resources, religious and ideological factors including the spread of Christianity, and technological advancements in navigation and military capabilities. The rise of nationalism and the Industrial Revolution further fueled Western expansionist ambitions.
Western civilization defeats itself by its need for endless wars and conflicts.
Thank for a more intelligent version of events.
Despite a plethora of evidence most of the people do not even think about the possibility that the so called west has been going under in a controlled demolition manner. The unseen architets of our world have long been planning this to get from here to the one world system. This move is part of the entire process. It is not because the west is weaker or worst; it is a deliberate pre-meditated systematic re-organization of social economic and political structures that has been going on in the last centuries especially the decades prior to the present.
This is a profound point thank you. I would add some extra featues based on my reading of histories by John Darwin and Felipe Fernandez-Armesto th-cam.com/video/8zkd0Bax9Xo/w-d-xo.htmlsi=j6JYEzhPt8t08qcL but agree with you in general, certainly the incarnation of 'Western civilization' led by the USA since 1945.
I understand but tend to the view it is a stuff-up not a conspiracy
@@theburningarchive Its cos the west really admires and strives to the ideal of Roman empire while the democracy is just a facade for oligarchy.
Richard Wolff also talks about the innate tendency towards violence in US society. He traces this to the war against native Indians "the savages" and the role that played in shaping the new nation. I would also argue it is stronly embedded in Britain, and that country would have also played a role.
Even before the USA and Native Americans, there was the British Empire and slavery, coupled with British behaviour in Australia and everywhere else. It’s a unified Anglo-Saxon feature, but also present in France, Belgium, and other (especially) North-Western European empires.
Interesting. I have just started reading Richared Overy Why War? that deals with these issues comprehensively, and will do a video for the channel soon. Thanks for raising this point
Eh, I mean, empires do war. Name an empire that never engaged in wars in their periphery.
@@BusinessGamesAIExpansion was the feature, violence was found in healthy quantity internal to all the lands the empire landed upon, and the Empire brought its own superior technology with them. What the discussion here is calling for is a simple need for an enemy and actual high stakes - which is a universal group aligment feature. The really relevant question for today is - what is the group inside the west that is in charge? Who is on the inside and who is on the outside? What is the narrative?
@@raleighrmb I default back to the economic incentives to accumulate capital, when looking for key decision makers. For me, it’s always the richest families of oligarchs (choice of words purposeful).
Secondary but also powerful decision makers are large governmental bureaucratic institutions that have their own incentives to propagate themselves, and people within who want to keep their jobs and get promoted. I could take a purely Marxist view that these are all instruments in service of the capital itself, but I also think that in reality they can sometimes go against some capital for their own benefit and survival, though their tendency is usually aligned to the interests of the Big Capital (they’ll happily screw and eat small businesses).
In general, the political outcomes play out as a combination of individual actions and decisions of the actors in those two classes, in line with own incentives, but roughly they align. They don’t align perfectly, and sometimes conflict, so the summary outcomes can look somewhat chaotic, but they move in one direction: capital accumulation.
Seeking enemies without for group alignment is a narrative tool-I don’t believe anyone inside cares much when push comes to shove, but they happily use all the PR they need to get the vast mass of people to go along with the upwards wealth redistribution, and appealing to external threats is just such an awesome (and relatively cheap) mechanism to get this done.
Wars, too, are policy by other means, not an end in itself.
The Oekraïne is a goldmine, trillions of commodities, we can’t leave that to the Russia. Who said that openly in the media? Lindsay Graham. After that we go for Russia itself, unfortunately Russia has a very intelligent, brilliant President.
@johannakamstra-schickendan7380 you are all in the world of managers, and goldmines need miners...opera dirogents...ha ha
Some honesty from the West, finally 😊
very true - "loot and pillage"
Based on what I see Western leaders since early 2000 is that . Now, They even stopped pretending infront of public that they are not for elite neocon only. Latest Biden and Trump debate is actually a prank by the oligarchy on people, there is no hope who ever wins.
There is no left or right in America it is just left and Right lane on the same road.
American is not a national identity it is a condition.
I believe this book will be translated into many other languages including Chinese soon.
Chapter one.
The truth is that the "west" has defeated itself.
Chapter two.
Think of multiple self-inflicted wounds.
The End.
True, indeed he does say that.
@@theburningarchive He took 35 minutes of my busy retired life to say it. Time is not my friend. rofl
The most fruitful 35 minutes I have spent in recent memory. So glad I came across this channel. Thank you.
Thank you so much
11k views in 1 day.....FINALLY people are watching you Jeff. Awesome
Thanks Gav. Couldn't have done it without your early and ongoing encouragement. Much appreciated
Todd’s argument is obvious if anyone has been paying attention for the past 30 years.
Yes ostracized rightist authors’ points now the basis for tic tok videos
Alas so many have had history attention deficit disorder for the past 30 years. Todd provides a narrative of the past 30 years that I will summarise in my upcoming live stream. thanks for commenting
Absolutely true.
Yes it is true, but only if people have been paying attention all this time, which is the problem as most of people do not pay attention but just are happy reading lies from MSM and falsely feeling they are informed and in the know.
5:15 @@theburningarchive Hate to tell you, but John Mearsheimer already did it in 2015, and he set the bar pretty high.
Been waiting for it to be translated into English. Pity it hasn't been.
I am guessing it may get translated within a few months. I have seen a Spanish translation available.
You're not missing anything good. Todd is impressively dumb.
@@LeMAD22 HA HA I love your intelligent arguing especially the hidden nuances reflected by your choice of words.
the "western" family wasn't developed, it was just archaic and then liberal, just my undersainding of todd
the nuclear family WAS developed in order to facilitate the development capitalism. the true archaic family structure is a clan or kin grouping with inter-generational and extended family ties.
Generally, in the United States it has long been common for families to separate to either score cheap land or better career opportunities.
That is kind of right. He disputes the usual old style story about the late emergence of the nuclear family in the 19th century, arguing Anglo families were long more of the nuclear family model, and most other countries had more of an extended collective family model. In brief. thanks for picking this up.
USA had huge family structures until the pill came out followed by feminism and no fault divorce. Destroyed the American family with the stroke of a pen...
Someone needs to talk about the role of neo-classical economics in destroying western economies. It's absolutely central. Certainly in dumbing down a lot of people behind economic decision making. It assumes that society is an aggregation of individual rationalising optimising agents without proving it let alone justifing this as a starting base to understand capitalism. I am not sure Todd does. Economists were the intellectual force behind the West's deindustrialisation agenda. It is also inherently Anglo-Saxon. Someone needs to put these pieces together: the role of neo-classical economics, and how British Empire ideology was adopted by the Americans after 1945.
absolutely agree - no coincidence that the alternative German/central European counter model of a producing industry is targeted (again!) by these same players....
-> Michael Hudson
More specifically, his book, Superimperialism is great on understanding the economic order of the world set up Post WWII.
Those ideas are part of his broader critique in Lineages of Modernity
Laissez faire economics paired with materialistic atomism divorced from nature was a toxic combination in the philosophic pathology of the dominant streams of Western (especially English and French) worldviews.
Neo-classical economy is just what the upper class chooses as modrl to serve their own interests, it's purely class struggle of the elites against workers, not a mistake of the elites
Appreciate your overview of his latest work. I can see why it is a best seller in France. Can't wait for the English version. Todd captures everything I have been seeing and hearing.
thanks
I’m reading the book, lucky me, I’m french. Todd has such a great mastery of concepts that it makes one feel more clever after reading. Great benefit !!!Very pleasant to read too as Emmanuel Todd can’t help injecting a few drops of his sense of humour in this mass of extremely serious and demanding explainations. Wish you’ll get the english translation, but prepare to suffer : what he says about today’s UK is not tender…
I agree there are brilliant moments of humour, and that comes out in his interviews too.
Very interesting. Looking forward to part 2.
If an apple worm eats the apple around him and falls down to the ground it can only blame itself for the fall. This on multiple levels.
Todd's argument about why protestant countries dominated the world is mainly about the signicative push in education and literacy that this religion imply. He criticised Webber for its formal interpretation of ethic of protestantism which si minor in his analyse.
True. Good correction.
@@theburningarchive sorry my comment seems harsh/direct correction, but I want to avoid any misunderstanding. I am very pleased that you made this video clear, exhaustive of Todd’s work. Thank you for this.
Great video. Thanks
Glad you liked it!
Great analysis
Thank you, absolutely brilliant analysis.
Lovely voice and sweetly explained
Thank you A very fitting TH-cam handle for this picture of Emmanuel Todd with his cat.
Emmanuel Todd speaks very good English. There are some videos where he explains his ideas in English...
Excellent
Thanks
Todd's analysis/presentation is excellent...very well done. And very accurate. As an anthropologist (of color), the acknowledgements that he makes about how the various cultures are either emerging together or in some ways, drifting further away, are quite true. From a non-westerner, and an anthropologist that has had to live through this change or changes, the movement was in motion in the 70s. Its been slow (perhaps) but a steady move towards a more multicultural domain...with a few anglo communities such as israel, standing strongly against this change.
A very interesting video. Thanks. The issue of violence is something that really strikes a chord for me. I've become much more aware of it in the last few years notably in popular drama etc which is frankly pornographically violent compared to what it used to be. There also seems to be a growing lust for war across most of society, at least here in Australia. I wonder if this could be compared to the death drive that Freud proposed. Maybe the west is not so much defeated as suicidal.
Very interesting observation. I have started reading Richard Overy, Why War? - amzn.to/3zEKrbq - just released on this topic and will do a video on it soon
Violence is bound up with seeking material advantage.
With all the physical goods and comforts, there is an incipient undertone of violence in the US - across most demographics. It is exemplified by the hostile and aggressive driving styles adopted over the last 25-30 years. Driving vehicles that are physically enormous powered by enormous engines is one clear manifestation. Little wonder the average cost of a new vehicle in the US is about $45k.
I've seen a couple of interviews / debates of Todd, impressively smart guy with very well grounded view of the world in facts. Sad that the book is not yet out in English, I asked about it when it came out few months back, but didn't receive any concrete response. Definitely looking forward to reading it once it's out in english.
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Many thanks for sharing this, absolutely fascinating, indeed enlightening
thank you
C'est très intéressant de connaître l'avis d'un anglais sur E Todd. Merci, vous avez bien résumé sa passée. Thanks you have really well summarized is thoughts
Merci beaucoup
Passée bien vu 😏
The USA/Washington DC has always fought wars to create systemic disunity/division somewhere else on the planet, for own systemic gains, using a variety of means at its disposal (power). The only wars it has ever fought in history on the own continent (North America), was to create systemic unity/gain for itself.
Elsewhere, wars were instigated, not avoided, "false flagged" into being, funded/supported, goaded, or declared, leading to disunity in the world, for the advantage of the dividers, in the USA.
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"The primordial interest of the United States - over which for a century we have fought wars (the first, second, and Cold War) - has been the relationship between Germany and Russia. Because united they are the only force that could threaten us. And to make sure that that doesn't happen. Therefore, it's not an accident that General Hodges, who's been appointed to be blamed for all of this, is talking about pre-positioning troops in Romania, Bulgaria, Poland, and the Baltics. This is the intermarium from the Black Sea to the Baltic that Pilsudski (edit: post-WW1 Polish dream of power in the wake of Russian and German weakness) dreamt of. This is this is the solution for the United States. ... For the United States: The primordial fear is German technology, German capital, and Russian natural resources, Russian manpower as the only combination that has for centuries scared the hell out of the United States. So how does this play out? Well, the US has already put its cards on the table. It is the line from the Baltics to the Black Sea." - George Friedman, Stratfor, Feb 2015
Yes, that has always been the aim of the naval powers, Great Britain and the USA.
That includes this current war in the Ukraine" which was *not avoided* (grand strategy) by the USA/NATO even if it could have been avoided by very simple diplomatic means around the year 2000 (with a signed comprehensive European security agreement which incl. Russia).
Several historians like Richard Overy (GB) and Daniele Ganser (Switzerland) have continuously and conclusively come to this conclusion, which is that imperialism were the root causes of all European wars, as based on the study of historical data. It is not a "conspiracy theory." That IS the premier priority of the powers not IN Eurasia, and still is.
Here are the critical questions.
If that is the realization, then HOW were the naval powers going to implement such continental Eurasian/European division?
How were, both currently and historically, London and Washington DC going to (quote) "make sure that that doesn't happen"?
*Answer: Proactively implement the "divide and rule"-technique of power,* or the associated divide then gain/control technique of power.
It is to create confusion, which can be exploited.
I read Todd’s book _After the Empire_ shortly after the translated version was published in the early 2000s and found it to be one of the more prescient texts on international geopolitics I’ve ever read.
Well worth reading and checking out his video interviews on YT even through auto-translate
His thesis about American theatral micromilitarism and the Roman Empire conversion of the American plebeian are too interesting, further with the increase of the American debt that has turned American citizens into plebeians has a resonance concerning the news… The lesson of the Defeat of The West, less than the Western nihilism is to me the beginning of the failure of a Weltanschauung that has ruled the World since 1971-1973 with Nixon’s reforms. Now, contrary to the Aron’s paradigm in The Imperial Republic (1973), the sanction’s regime and the rollback of the private property are creating defiance about financial investments in US. We know that despite the debt, the elites have an important trust about the American markets, nevertheless, with our context, the economic hegemony could take a new orientation harmful the West. It is who I have perceived this important book too linked with a past historiography and Todd’s analysis in twenty years of thoughts.
Russia is the largest country in the world unified by its leadership under Putin within the diversity of its people. The resilience of these peoples is legendary with its own culture. They have yet lost a war yet. Mess with them at your peril.
They don't do so well in naval battles - eg they lost to Japan in the Russo--Japanese War (early Twentieth century).
@@simonsmatthew There is no doubt that the Japanese forces were a force to reckon with during WW2. However over the last 100 years it is the Russians won the main four land battles especially WW2. Today Russia remains a formidable power in all seven theatres of war.
@@jaswindersian3159 The Russians were annihilated by Japan in the Russo-Japanese War. A very total and humiliating defeat in a a very major pre-WWI conflict. Basically Russia is a land power (alrthough it does today have a formidable submarine fleet). But basically land wars against Russia have always been a non-starter. It's surface navy though is probably its achilles heel.
@@simonsmatthewCzarist Russian Empire and the Soviet Union might be the same people but two completely different systems. It’s not all about the people, it’s about the system. The Czar lost a bunch of wars because that government was tyrannically and incompetent and that’s why it was overthrown
@@simonsmatthew- Surface navy is becoming increasingly obsolete due to improving missile technology.
Very good review, I can't wait to read Todd's book in Portuguese.
Excellent, thank you
Thanks for this - awesome - don't think I'd be able to adequately understand the French version. Anything else out there(relatively current) that addresses these issues in such a big picture broad stroke way? Kinda reminds me of Toynbeean analysis ....
I highly recommend John Darwin, After Tamerlane for the big picture historical issues. I did a video on it here that I should update with my improved video skills ... th-cam.com/video/WNFLOpzQWWE/w-d-xo.html Glenn Diesen's book The Ukraine War and Eurasian World Order is very good too. You can also read Emmanuel Todd Lineages of Modernity in translation. He is more grounded than Toynbee I think. Thanks for the great comment.
Je viens de découvrir votre chaîne et j'adore!
Merci beaucoup
Don't confuse defeat with surrender, especially when communicating in French.
Je ne comprends pas
Thanks so much for sharing this English interpretation.
Thank you, much needed I think. I am glad it hit the mark.
Jeff Rich: a great Australian! In better days he would have gotten a weekend afternoon slot on the ABC. Great content, excellent voice and agreeable exterior to boot. My opinion is, that the decay of the West is primarily based on economic decline, which again may have been caused by factors such as collapse of value system, nihilism; possibly the final stage of the enlightenment. As there was mentioned the enormous increase in tertiary education, see also Peter Turchin's "surplus elites", eg in "End Times". Anyway, I'll get the book and will see what I think. Thank you!
Thank you!
Outstanding perspectives from someone who is obviously very widely read and with an excellent meta-perspective of history and big ideas! While nothing is an aboslute truth, I can't help feeling completely aligned with what Todd is saying.
Thank you
This is an excellent set of insights with a lot to unwrap from each of them. They clearly point at what is meant by the defeat. In my opinion, it doesn’t mean that the West will collapse, at least not immediately, but instead, it is slowly self-isolating, fortifying that bubble of self-instilled moral superiority that has blinded them to a changing world.
Yes I agree. Defeat need not mean collapse. Indeed collapse is not in the world's interests. I tried to express this view in an article in 2023 - johnmenadue.com/defeat-to-america/
8:33 Mortimer Adler sounded the alarms in 1950 that abandoning the liberal arts for specialized education would lead to stratification and a population of people with $ and leisure incapable of happiness. To me that seems to be the desired end: the perfect consumer
good point
Todd is the GOAT !!
Could we have a look backwards at The Decline of the West while waiting for English trans of this work?
Do you mean Spengler's book? I did a podcast on his book and Spengler about 2-3 years ao that you can listen/view here th-cam.com/video/xaKJjtShlYU/w-d-xo.htmlsi=3AyTXooiPQ9WZec2
@@theburningarchive yes. Thank s for the ref.
I have just discovered this channel coincidentally to just finishing Shuchen Xiang's 'Chinese Cosmopolitanism.' And, she actually discusses the impact of 'The Great Chain of Being' on the evolution of racism, subsequently affecting the development of capitalism. Perhaps amplified by Protestantism? Something must be in the air? All these sociologists/historians/anthropologists are all looking for how we got to where we are because they notice things are starting to fall apart. Good stuff! I'll be back.
Thank you. I just checked Shuchen Xiang's work thanks for the tip. We need to rediscover pluralism in many traditions don't we? Great comme t thank you
I was a Bible College taught Pentecostal in my indoctrinated youth. A lengthy separation from my religious family and debates on the internet set my mind free. I would just love for someone to show me how that leads to violence en masse. It's actually despair driving the anger in this world.
Understood... I might need to explain this especially complex bit of a book in a later video
No wokisms cog in the wheel is the same dualistic personal actors who deny the endowed by God soul agency and it is an undeniable part of evidence in historical mass sychosis in society and in socialism where monarchs aristocracy protected its wealth transformation.
Jews ,catholic, ortho, Islam,Anglican ,cast system in hindu the babylonian evolutionary cosmogony structural alignment in medechi taxation in concert with pergatory doctorine curriculum is the inadvertent mistakes it's caused throughout history even when the Bible codex was authored it's in the babylonian physical lawisms vs mosaic commandments.
It doesn't matter if it's idol worship in churches or nature blaming humanity .
Top down form and shape against the grain of nature itself. It leads to subjugation and enslavement always has always will
I once heard a pastor at the pulpit say, "We are all wonderful, and we are all pathetic." And I was just old enough to think, "Brother, ain't that the truth!" Over the years, those words have helped me more than I can measure.
@yoursoulisforever yeah, inspired by God tools of thermodynamics but those Good & evil equations makes us miss the eqaulibrium and optimization of a perfect example that tuned all precision instruments and is the soul of nation ppl places and things especially to saint paul where we now can literally see how we will destroy the flesh before we by for thru = saved reborn renormalize hook up our soul agency to sense the universe in all its glory ourselves . Metamorphosis is kinda scary to think about how we merge with the spirit of God hovering over the waters of cosmos nature building breathe of life giving for real.
It's something I didn't want to be the footwork we had to do .
It's beautiful in textualism methodology objectivism = but the literal reality of how is to close to ash to ash and our souls limbo waiting place of rest
It seems we have a similar childhood background. However, I returned to Christianity. I believe that Todd is making the case that America was formed as an ideological Protestant experiment in government. However, this gave way in the 20th century to a "Zombie" phase of outward expression without internal adherence. This has been followed by "Zero" belief and adherence leading the Washington "Blob" (i.e. the Managerial elite) to be unguided by outward spiritual or religious mores. In short, it is Nihilistic. Hence, the "Washington Village" is prone to the use of violence to achieve its ends without empathy (the willingness to understand others). Also, this Nihilistic bent can be seen in the breakdown of the Western family structure where a big percentage of young men are raised in single-mothers homes. Most mass shooters come from these homes as do violent gang members.
Better, simpler, more aesthetic thumbnail and catchy title. People immediately know what the Video is about and get curious. That's why this video gets so many more views than the other ones
thanks. I finally got the title and thumbnail drill! I do my best with my limited design skills
5 min in & its only yada yada so far... Come to your point Rich!
What about African family structure?
He does talk about that in Lineages of Modernity. He provides a breakdown of family structures around the world. But I did not discuss the details in this video. thanks for the question
The last man's home Jesus visits before heading to Jerusalem was a greedy capitalist from New Jericho. After a day with Jesus he renounces capitalism, even as these Western nations renounced their God and Messiah. Very good analysis of a very good book... Thanks.
thank you
I disagree with the lack of rationality, but an alternative I subscribe to is NOT the realist school. Rationality for whom and to what end? The actors making the decisions do NOT carry the cost of bad decisions; the costs are externalities for them, borne by the others (commoners, workers, plebs). The decision makers are making profits from wars but do not carry the burden of wars. Nor of the domestic failures. Why would they care about mass shootings, cost of living, lack of healthcare etc.? They’re swimming in profits from wars and commodities theft. This is VERY RATIONAL.
interesting point.... disccussion of this theme could be the subject of another video.... maybe on Mearsheimer's realism
@@theburningarchive I’d love to talk to you about this in detail. I have my own (much smaller) podcast and would like to explore this topic further, too 😊
Emmanuel Todd! Impressive.
I came across Todd thru the geo-political analyst Pepe Escobar. His written work is a bit gonzo, but his interviews can be quite brilliant.
the other figure similar (also found thru Escobar) is Andrea Zhok
Same here! 😂 I think gonzo a funny word but I understand your opinion. Pepe Escobar is like an encyclopaedia🎉❤
@@luizamorim1626If memory serves me right, Pepe is a Brazilian, isn't he?
yes, originally
Yes I like Pepe's style too. Thanks for the tip on Zhok
Todd’s analysis is primarily sociological - and therefore incomplete. Without an understanding of the economic underpinnings of a society and their development over time (historically), any theory (malgré que ce soit épatant) is necessarily distorted. Todd on Protestantism is particularly misleading, as Protestants do not control the majority of the financial assets of the US or UK.
Haha. Before you mentioning it, the Annals School....Fernard Braudel....came to my mind
And the late Immanuel Wallerstein.
And i am happy in discovering your great channel！
Indeed, you are well read, and thanks for turning into my channel.
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Greetings from China！
Well, i don't know many other 'schools' in France/Europe. Just due to my undergraduate degree was in Political science and sociology I read some books and many articles.
he starts with Ukraine in 2016? not 2014....? Victoria Nuland...? no?
He trces it further back and discusses their role, rest assured.
How about referring to the elephant in the room?
please tell me what that is....
Thanks for this very interesting translation insight on human development as found amongst current western peoples. I have been thinking along similar lines but from a spiritual perspective. It could be said that the western peoples culture has taken humanity into the void, cold and separation found in mass materialism. Away from religion and spiritual truths of the past. This is not essentially negative. people need to experience the cold, void and separation found in materialism.this help us to truly understand what love is.the aim then to retrace and retreat back to life of value based on love and spiritual truths. western culture is leading humanity into ,cacoon of void of mass materialism.The next stage of humanity development will be spiritual awakening and not religion. Those who have experienced the extreme void of materialism as found now,they will be able to choose a higher path due to this. individual spirit will be able to transform materialism into the warmth, togetherness and love found in spirit. Not death but a transformation.
Profound observation, thanks for sharing
Modern science and education are a sort, in many cases, are sort of religion. Obsolete in short time, while basics are forgotten. All new things are ald things on electricity...too much noise...pereland wrote that economics as science will stope to exist and that it will be good news for people. You can nor fine his books at unis...exp. 1 at mcgill.
True. I guess Todd would say they tend not to provide shared collective beliefs, but rather beliefs and norms for professional sub-groups. That is the atomisation of society that he is concerned about.
Corr. Michael perelman, see railroading economics, too steal this idea, ...we was at Chico...only one that I respect in the domen of political economics...
I have all his books. Right now, I am in The invisible handcuffs of capitalism. 2011. Pbl.
The West has defeated it self lol 😂
That is indeed a statement Todd makes in the first chapter... but a lot hinges on what that really means. thanks for the good comment
It is not defeat, it is suicide.
He uses that term in relation to Europe in one of his chapter headings
Ok lets get to the root, their once was a tribe that went east and did business with its muslim friends, they ended up in Spain, but over time the muslims were pushed out leaving their business partners behind, they were told convert to catholicism or be burnt at the stake ordered by queen Isabella, these business partners then fled to northern italy, france and Switzerland and formed the reformation, one of which is Calvinism. The problem with the west is usery as the Russians and the east never had the availability of money. Thats why the US is in debt. Todd is right as the violence of the middle east, or violent nature of the people, were in fact the founders of the protestant reformation. Great content and very well subscribed. Thanks
I disagree with some of what you say, but embrace respectful disagreement on this channel. Many thanks for your support.
@@theburningarchive ok the Sephardic Jews traveled with the Muslims during the conquest of north Africa into Spain, as the Muslims were not allowed to operate usery, on defeat the Sephardic moved to Europe to form such sects as Calvinism and the hugnouts, who in 1700,s were massacred in Paris 27,000 I believe, fled to England whereas king Charles gave them land on the borders with Scotland to quell the Scottish uprising they did such a good job the king sent them to Ulster to quell the Irish, a lot of the US presidents came from Ulster, in Ulster today in the loyalists areas they are flying the star of David and in the past were armed during the troubles by the Israeli, as coming from the protestant community in Northern Ireland I have done a fair bit of research into protestant history.
Power corrupts and total immunity power corrupts absolutely. Postscript: 'corrupts absolutely' unstintingly corrupts.
Absolutely. Powerful.
@@theburningarchive Thank you. I appreciate reply.
A turning point in the West (especially in EU) was the Russo-Georgian War in 2008.
With this event, the West began to actively prepare for the encirclement and destruction of Russia.
However, from the very beginning, the EU has been geared towards expansion at Russia's expense - see also the EU's Grand Area Strategy, which was influenced by the German constitutional/international law expert Carl Schmitt.
Carl Schmitt also influenced Leo Strauss, who is considered the forefather of the US-American evangelical neocons.
Excellent point. Todd discusses this war in his narrative at the end which I covered in the subsequent live video. The hostility for Russia is very long and deep as you say.
I think the encirclement of Russia was thought before this war. This war was just the main proof of many theories about Russian’s rollback in Europe… Zbigniew Brzezinski, in two main writings of the Post Cold War : The Premature Partnership (1994, Foreign Affairs) and the Grand Chessboard (1997), has theorized the manner to encircle Russia with two strategies : the EU-US alliance/protectorate, the so-called « geostrategic democratic bridgehead and the ex-USSR countries/regions such as Ukraine, Georgia, Azerbaïdjan… The 2008 crisis was the beginning of how Americans can apply the theory of the grand chessboard in our reality to rule, dominate Eurasia and rollback Russia towards an archaic Central Asia. However, I’m agree with you concerning neocon ideas because even if we doesn’t mentioned Carl Schmitt (Brzezinski with his opposition of sea power and land power kept Schmitt’s paradigm but it’s not the main subject). We know that Brzezinski was one of the most important thinkers that Neocon have used to manage American foreign policy.
I would add economic and class analysis. It’s simply impossible to be discussing these issues without a deep analysis of the economic realities and production relations. Family structures as well as the mass literacy push themselves came out of the need to have a workforce for the modern industries. Why is it that many serious people go to the very edge of profound understanding and then stop before having the courage and o discuss economics and production relations?
there is a discussion of these issues in Todd's books but I did not focus on them in this video. He is contemptuous of the "queen science" of economics as it is practised in the West, and his case in point is its misunderstanding of the Russian economy.
@@theburningarchive hehe, I’m a Western-educated economist with a PhD from Germany and I, too, am contemptuous of my own industry as practiced and taught in the West! 🤣
I mean, after the GFC (which according to the mainstream dogma shouldn’t have happened) I was expecting major changes, but nope.
Finally an introduction for the Anglo-sphere - the only discourse that matters as all of Europe is bound to sink with 'Nova Atlantis'.
thanks
Would we conclude that monotheistic faiths has inherent in its doctrinal belief, Supremacism. The One-God construct must mean, that all other gods/faiths are false/idolatry/cults/heretic/etc. Reflecting on itself, this must engender the notion of religious supremacism, being the One-true-faith, and the one-true path to heaven. And naturally, one imbues with one's faith, all the characteristics of virtue and goodness, which then means other faiths are corrupt, evil, debauched.
Add to this, the concept of Evangelism, which is again a common feature of monotheistic faiths, one gets the ultimate toxic cocktail of religious fascism, manifesting as an expansionist, interventionist, hegemonic entity. This is supported by the historical record since the rise of European power in the 16th century, and the germination of colonialism. Culminating in present-day United States of America, perhaps the most insidious expansionist hegemon the World has ever known, with public branding of itself as American Exceptionalism, with incessant references to itself as a Godly nation, with Messianic visions of proselytizing its model (even though this is more often done to advance its own selfish interests, rather than any genuine wish to spread its values).
17:24 Archbishop Lefebvre notes the same about Protestants.
I was unaware that Victoria Nuland and Zelensky were Protestant.
@@cyan_dreams137 fair enough. The issues raised were that Christianity would become self oriented, and beyond the tithe would ignore the plight of neighbor. That for the most part seems to be the case and is definitely not in alignment with Orthodox Catholicism
Should not the book be re-titled: "The suicide of the West"? and was driven by PEG (Power, Ego and Greed) - that is the real trap that the West fell for. PEG is universal to mankind and is why these cycles repeat themselves.
He uses that term in relation to Europe
The preamble is too long before getting to the gist of the matter.
OK noted
It is pleasure to listen English language with French wisdom, usually from this country we got cheap propaganda speech.
With all respects Russian
Спасибо
The “Washington Consensus Blob” demonstrates the taxonomy of a self-interested tribal in-group identity with authoritarian characteristics, which include exceptionalism, supremacy, and expansionism, and many shared group-level authoritarian traits that are documented by “Authoritarian Personality,” especially the in-group obsession with demonizing out-groups as subhuman, and deserving of draconian intervention. Self-interested tribal in-group identity determination is founded through evolutionary biology origins, but these attributes find institutional, ideological, and cultural representation. The radicalized crusader authoritarian expression of America has been cultivated by America’s founding exceptionalistic, supremacist, and expansionist ideological fundamentalism, spanning the primary expression of white supremacy and religious supremacy, including liberal hegemony and capitalist hegemony to encompass environmental hegemony. These same tribal identity in-group/out-group dynamics also exist between the elites (ruling class) and the working class.
You all read wrong books with you in leading role. Real world is very different. For starter, no music, movies, novels, no sport frenzy, no tourism, no brand spending, no restaurants,...start with books about practical psychology of people, word geography, demographic data, distribution of faith, ...money must have value. 1 PhD = 1000 masters, 1 Master = 1000 bac, ....ha ha you are not too far from this kind of money with value...
Does he really start off the story of Western involvement in Ukraine in 2016? Does he ignore the "Revolution of Dignity", Victoria Nuland, etc. ? Seriously????? how does that make sense?
No he doesn't. He has a whole chapter on the tragedy of Ukrainian society since 1991 and its fatal attraction to US independence.
Arrogance goeth before a fall
Indeed. Hubris.
Read Morris Berman's trilogy on the failure of the US.
OK I have sampled. Huge literature to read on this topic
Where is the largest developing market in the world? Europe and North America are no longer the centre of the economic universe. Market forces will dictate their future
very true, and it is broader than the economic market - it is the growing social and cultural influences of the global majority. Excellent comment, thank you
Capitalism then, in its pursuit of material success, utterly corrupts the doctrine of predestination, a distortion that is particularly evident in the concept of American exceptionalism.
indeed ideas have a strange way of mutating, don't they?
On “Canada Day” in Niagara Falls, Ontario, I was struck by the ability of former subjects of the Crown; Punjabis, Igbos, & Malays to spend the entire day together, picnicking & sitting together in the park.
We are living in end times. Matt 24:2-8 Jesus left the temple and was walking away when his disciples came up to him to call his attention to its buildings. “Do you see all these things?” he asked. “Truly I tell you, not one stone here will be left on another; every one will be thrown down.”
As Jesus was sitting on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came to him privately. “Tell us,” they said, “when will this happen, and what will be the sign of your coming and of the end of the age?” Jesus answered: “Watch out that no one deceives you. For many will come in my name, claiming, ‘I am the Messiah,’ and will deceive many. You will hear of wars and rumors of wars, but see to it that you are not alarmed. Such things must happen, but the end is still to come. Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be famines and earthquakes in various places. All these are the beginning of birth pains.
I understand the sentiment but as an historian feel there are no end times. At times like these we may need to tell our stories as comedies.
Emanual Todd is jewish so its odd that he overlooked the fact that most players involved in planning Project Ukraine were ethnic Jews. Victoria Nuland, Zelensky, Yellen, Blinken, as well as most of the US media.
But is it relevant?
Todd is white and he did not mention the fact that most people involved are white.
Todd is male also he did not mention that most people involved are male.
ET is also a male and he overlooked to mention that most of those involved are male
ET is white and he overlooked to mention that most of those involved are white
ET is middle age and he overlooked to mention that most of those involved are middle age
He does not overlook this point and in fact discusses their historical family connections to the area as a possible explanation for their motives. But I guess we will all need to see their private papers in 50 years time to really know the darkness in their hearts, won't we?
No. Ukraine lived at expense of Soviet union, years breznev...Ukrainian. transfer of companies etc. Now they are fighting at expense of amer. And eu....it won't last long...Russians are extremely stupide..l
This is precisely why Todd’s argument is so misleading - Protestants control neither the political or judicial reality in the US nor its economic/financial assets.
I must say that the book implies that all this is driven by fate or rather a social process, just as Protestantism gave birth to the success of the west, which I will strongly argue, but let's leave that aside for now. According to the analysis, democracy, education, individualism and so on of the masses gave the opportunity for all this to be born. And yet he barely touched on the role of the oligarchy in all of this. Let's be honest wars are fought for wealth and power and god knows Russia has by some estimates about 80 to 100 trillion dollars in natural resources confirmed right now and power as shown in the last two years is something that Russia still possesses. But the fact that such authors are part of an agenda that always transfers the fate of society to the masses is disappointing, as if the masses have the right to shape the destiny. Anyone who has lived long enough could see in their lifetime that the masses are just farm animals in the farms of the oligarchy who think they live in democracy and freedom and freedom is just a fantasy.
The most important book not yet translated into English is Female Choice by Meike Stoverock. We're not ready for it.
OK I don't know it but what I have seen is not down my alley. Thanks for suggesting though
The statement, "The world has never been more devoid of collective belief," is far from true. Today there is one global religion. Remember that a statement of sovereignty is not secular. The _global _*_cult_*_ of sovereign bankers_ has everyone in a banker uniform of monopoly.
One of the telltale signs of a cult is renaming of its members. In the lore of the cult of sovereign bankers, *everyone is given a title by the force of law.* Test this for yourself - try being addressed by your given or chosen name without the addition of titles like 'Mister' or 'Sir'.
♧ title to your body is a uniform for your mind ♧
I do not really understand or agree, but thanks for tuning into my video. Feel free to address me as Jeff... or Dr Jeff. thanks
He failed, where's money creation in his thinking?
This is not science. Not serious. Not social science. This is just a huge pile of inconsistencies from a social scientist whose only use of social science is as a business card. A man obviously driven by deep seated feelings and an ideological agenda instead of a genuine appetite for knowledge, which he seems to have unfortunately lost a very long time ago. The bias is just enormous. We would have to discuss everything stated here, one thing after the other. No time for that, sorry. No point, furthermore. Let's just see how things unfold. Let's see what is it that most people around the world will want to be fighting for. Bye!
Assuming somebody does not take the stand to fix the problem, yes all civilizations rise and fall, but for the average Asian, Russia is in the larger West, it is filled with white people and Christians,
But ROME was split into 2 parts, the Western and Eastern provinces with the Western breaking apart into smaller states while the Eastern Roman Empire, Romanion by them or Byzantium by the Greeks fell to the Ottomans, after many years of stagnation, plagues and even being betrayed by there own Christian allies,
There has never been a greater attempt to unify Europe since Charlemagne and Napoleon, but Maron is neither, don't get me wrong the sword has reigned for over 1000 years it will still reign,
this is an important point about how the Eastern Roman Empire influenced Russia. I might say the West is no longer a home for a culture as complex and rich as Russia. It is the whole diversity of civilizations theme that is so strong in both Russian and Chinese foreign policy. Thanks for commenting
As an atheist I am relieved the world is discarding it's ancient nd immoral religions. How many wars were caused by religions? How many wars were caused by a lack of belief?
I respect your opinion but isnt that a cope . Religions have caused as lot of wars but since the Enlightenment secular society has been involved in some fairly gruesome wars .World War One and Two for example . It might just be something inherent in our nature that brings about war and not just religious belief
Richard Overy has just published a book Why War? that explores this issue very deeply and I will review on the channel in a few weeks
You’re seeing right now war has nothing to do with religion
Gotta stop coping and come to terms with humanity
@@off6848 How the unholy hell can you claim the ghastly attack on Palestine has nothing to do with religion?
@@Veedon7 Secular wars have nothing to do with disbelieving in divine bullshit.
The current war and the events and circumstances in Russia nowadays are not very surprising, since they can be explained by a careful and objective analysis of comparable past historical happenings.
Analyzing similar past historical events, according to my readings and observations, I think one is able to notice that essential great powers go through the same stages or phases of rise, growth and decline, one after another.
The situation and conditions in Russia and the current war or conflict in Ukraine are comparable in many aspects to what happened to the USA during the Spanish American war of 1898. That war ended with peace negotiations, and the current war will very likely end the same way. After the Spanish American war the USA emerged as a reinvigorated great power and became more prosperous.
Another notable observation is that about three decades before the Spanish American war, the USA went through the period of the Civil War, when the nation became divided and experienced a breakdown. Similar or comparable events heppened about three decades ago in Russia and the USSR in the 1990s.
After the Civil War the USA recovered and regained its prosperity and strength. Similarly, in the last couple of decades Russia gradually got back its prosperity, influence and strength.
Geopolitical alliances and groupings change with time, which could be a century or a number of decades.
Interestingly, the word "West" in its modern geopolitical sense began to be used at the start of the 20th century, in order to bring the USA closer to European powers and to join the USA with Europe. Now that events are changing, the world is becoming multipolar, perhaps new words will be used to designate new geopolitical realities and alliances.
Indeed, there are some great books on the idea of the "West" that I have done videos on and you might want to check out including th-cam.com/video/DxfWdn-51IQ/w-d-xo.html and th-cam.com/video/kj45TaMJQl4/w-d-xo.html
Lol he's trying to explain a capitalist economy without understanding capital creation.
So he ends up relying on mystic thinking.
Is he trying to explain the failures of capitalism without talking about capitalism, and I assume avoid any criticism from Marxist thinkers?
No, not really. It is worth reading the book or watching some of his interviews.
No not really. It is worth reading the book or watching some of his interviews.
@@theburningarchive I did notice you said he mentioned the US printing money but that's not the dynamic I'm talking about. I"m interested in commentators getting at the driving force behind capitalist economies, i.e. money creation via private bank loans. If you can't work into your thinking how about 90% + demand in said economies is from this source you're missing the body of concern. Talking about a "Protestant working ethic" kinda rings hollow when you see countries like China are crushing it, wouldn't you think? They started using our system and look how quick they've been able to transform their society. As Marx laid out in his opening in Das Kapital, he wanted economics to turn into a science. And seeing how Julian Assange tried to make Journalism into a science and the push back he received it can be understandable peoples reluctance, but not being scientific isn't good enough. This brings it back to old mate, it's not good enough. The standard needs to be higher.
This has to be the most annoying accent i have ever heard. Congratulations but no prizes. LOL
Oh dear. Where are you listening from?
It's a race between Russia exhaustion and US budget imploding
I believe it's a close race to the bottom
The US budget and political system will implode sooner, I think. By a country mile. Sorry if that is bad news.
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Nahh , it's a fair assessment , however I suspect the US government will sacrifice children before facing reality
Good luck relying on Russians to get exhausted you couldn’t pick a worse group to hedge that bet on
Nah, the conflict is driving Russia’s ascent and revitalization
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Czy mógłbyś wyjaśnić, co masz na myśli?
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