Why the West is Falling

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1:55 The Necessity of Pain and Suffering to further Human Innovation
2:27 Spartan technological stagnation due to Helot Slave population Agriculture
5:08 Disease/sanitation in big cities, Plumbing and medicine
8:16 Technological Dark Age, Fall of Rome loss of technology (Plumbing, Brain Surgery)
13:17 When Survival is easy, Life is comfortable
14:47 Schopenhauer’s Will to Life, Survival in the State of Nature
15:47 Seeking pleasure/Hedonism/easy life breeds weakness
18:16 Sacrifice drives human society
19:44 Living in a safe prosperous bubble, Ignoring the reality/suffering of the world
21:18 Hard times create strong men
23:30 Strong men (Barbarians) overtake Weak men (Romans)
24:12 Brief History of Rome, Punic Wars, Carthage
25:38 Roman Republic Citizen Volunteer Army (Hastati)
26:18 Marius Reforms, Professional Army, Roman Legion
28:05 Corrupt Republican Bureaucracy, Patrician vs Plebeians
28:32 Rise of Julius Caesar, Fall of Roman Republic
29:45 Triumvirate, Augustus Caesar, Founding of the Roman Empire
31:09 Golden Age of Rome, 5 Good Emperors
34:42 Dependance on Foreign Auxiliaries, Parallels to Machiavelli
36:40 Responsibility to be capable of War, Threat of Violence creates Peace
39:45 Morality, Social Progress/Woke culture, Parallels to Christianity in Rome
41:23 Social Progressivism and Christianity being used as an excuse by the Weak
42:48 Christian Warrior Kings, Charles Martel defeating Moorish Invaders
44:44 Fake Christianity and Social Progressives
47:09 Christianity, taking on the suffering of the world
48:24 Modern man’s fear of exceptionalism
49:13 Denial of Reality, Our Enemies want to kill us, Defending our families
50:22 Economic Machine, Consumerism/Materialism, Hyper Capitalism
54:19 Social Media for Consumption
55:16 Economic Man, Western Man, Nietzsche’s Last Man
55:52 Faustian Spirit of the West, Endless land, The New World (American Exploration) Space Exploration/Colonialism
58:12 Barbaric Virile Ambitious Man, 58:50 Seeking/Simulating Suffering, Working out, Martial Arts, Sports
59:29 Creating a better world from a position of Strength
59:59 Acknowledging evolutionary biology, Human nature, Hyper stimuli/mind numbing distractions
1:01:16 Maintaining our power, Combating our rivals
1:02:20 Staying Strong, Defending what we have and our way of lives
1:02:41 Western Civilization vs New Powers (BRICS)
1:03:06 Weak vs Strong men, Seeking more, Ambition vs comfort
1:03:47 Preparing for War before it’s too late
1:04:22 The Western Spirit, Warrior Spirit
1:07:02 Conclusion, Summarizing the Video

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