Alice Cappelle may Have a Point

in defense of wokism.
Alice Cappelle | 4 Febr. 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0G1_L5qxCo

Woke and right wing have a common opponent.

When Islam polices people.

Tell the right wing, the way to go to dis-Islamise the West is primarily to get people like the homeless freedom and dignity (in that order, otherwise someone will pretend to dignity with loss of freedom so someone can be even more policed).

14:57 I know another discourse that worked very similar.

In Copenhagen, I was among homeless. One night people had thrown stones into the night shelter where I had slept on the floor.

The ones doing that were very clearly Muslims, who thought:

• our lives will continue to suck
• but we will at least be above those lazy and alcoholic and drug addicted homeless.

23:16 Is standpoint epistemology supposed to secure the status of the good? Or of the true?

There may be some cases where it is legitimate, but first there must be epistemology simpliciter.

Standpoint epistemology is pretty much the ad hominem that C. S. Lewis called Bulverism. Unless I've misunderstood what she means by it.

Pronatalism, yes, but not the Collins' Way

the weird world of pronatalist families
Alice Cappelle | 8 Aug 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0okgr70Afq4

0:14 The quote happens to be pretty spot on.

Macron's pensions' reform is a foretaste.

1:56 I'm afraid if they started that late, their plans may be in trouble.

It depends more on the age of the wife than of the husband. Not just a matter of climacterium, but also hip bones.

My mother in gynaecology class learned, 13 and 30 are both bad for a first child. At 13, the hips are too small. At 30, too stiff. But 13 is actually safer.

This may no longer be statistically true, due to hospital resources spent on making first childbirths at 30 safer, but it is the natural bent of the female body.

In case you wonder, the safest for a first child is 17 to 25.

5:36 Apart from this, this action makes them murderers.

n embryos
1 implanted
n - 1 "disposed of." (Usually in the end means killed)

6:48 The irony is Mr. Collins had if any nominative determinism involved, the idea of being "servant of St. Columba" who was an Irish monk.

I wouldn't call monks anti-natalists, since they encourage laypeople who are married to have children, but it's a very different kind of pro-natalism, with IVF totally out of the question.

10:29 Saving sick people is not a greater cause than allowing people who aren't sick to have a fairly normal life.

Whether it means living without a mask or living without the threat of an organ transplant from them.

Speaking of which, Chinese Communist Party is targetting Falun Gong, probably 1 million transplants with unwilling donors since 2000.

11:55 I would definitely not consider abortion or contraception as rights or as happiness.

It may make someone happy at the moment. It's a recipe for a lonely old age.

There are other pronatalisms than the Collins' couple's. I highly prefer Mr. Vance. US Senator and candidate for Vice President.

12:17 If you want a saner pronatalism, as in religious conservatism, I recommend you take a look at the Cukierski family.

Hope you aren't so busy taking prompts from patreon you can't take one from an ordinary subscribed and non-paying interested viewer.

13:03 Let's not forget that anti-natalists have a tendency to be very overdetermining over the few children they eventually get, if any, and that some of them are running CPS in overdetermination over other people's children. Hardly a receipe for a healthy human experience of childhood.

Banning Social Media is an "Authoritarian" Measure

Can Radically Reduce, Partly Ban, Internet, But Not Abortion · Banning Social Media is an "Authoritarian" Measure

should we ban social media?
Alice Cappelle | 1 Aug. 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AuZgTAW1QvA

9:32 Meta has for some time been censoring my YEC blog, every time I post a link on a wall or they find an already posted one.

Happily ignorant evolutionists, for France?

14:51 [=After her citing Bardella talking of banning cell phones in schools]

My concern about National Rally isn't that Agnès Pageard is in it.

More like, why is she so far behind Bardella?

19:46 I'd say private content providing and other productive property is not necessarily Capitalist.

Not if by Capitalist you mean "big corporations" and "big divide between pdgs and employees and elimination of small independents" ... which is the only sense in which I find Capitalism reprehensible (and precursor to Communism, by the way).

Travelling's Not Radical?

I think travelling abroad would be more affordable for French if they learned languages ... maybe starting with English. For the Camino de Santiago, Spanish or Portuguese would be better.

the toxic hedonism of male travel vloggers
Alice Cappelle, 29.V.2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8Cf1-jn-zY

4:00 "they travel to get rid of the pain of a very normative society"

Two litteulle remarks. Here:

a) doing an act of pain avoidance or pleasure seeking doesn't equate to subscribing to hedonism;
b) they show that that normative society can be escaped and thus alleviate the pain not just for themselves, but also for others. Unlike someone trying to scare away from their content.

By the way, you can easily find healthier people than that guy who broke up with Alexis Ren.

asdrubalivan

@asdrubalivan18

Yeah, there is some cherry picking in that sense in my view. She's got a point though, but it's not like if you are not an activist you are not living your life to the fullest.

And regarding hedonism, unless you damage others, I don't find issues with it.

The activist against arresting undocumented migrants though, that's something I deeply admire, but it's not a contrast with travel vloggers I think. You can admire both

Hans Georg Lundahl

@hglundahl

@asdrubalivan18 Not damaging others is one criterium, not the only one.

4:41 I do not happen to see people who dump trash in the ocean ...

Tell me the name of their channel so I can avoid it, unless they have an "excuse us" video ...

[Plus, the excuse had better be good!]

5:02 It so happens, travel vloggers would arguably agree with Plato.

While they show pleasurable moments, they definitely, like all other travellers, have moments that are unpleasant, enough to provide the contrast that Plato thinks so important.

If you have ever walked a pilgrimage, you will know what I mean.

5:48 You may be doing Logan Paul an injustice.

"Il devient célèbre sur Internet à partir de 2013, grâce à ses courtes vidéos humoristiques publiées sur l'application Vine avec son frère Jake2."

If he's doing humour, he may be depicting things he doesn't approve of, like John Cleese ...

[I honestly haven't seen his content, I really couldn't tell one way or the other, but I think Alice sometimes comes off as ungenerous to people not radical enough in her way.]

Jonathan Melhuish

@jonathanmelhuish4530

John Cleese is a genius, not an oyster.

Hans Georg Lundahl

@jonathanmelhuish4530 Could this be the case for Logan Paul too?

I seriously haven't seen him.

Amanda, Panda 🐼

@HeySlothKid

@hglundahl Logan Paul once posted uncensored footage of a dead body (a suicide) while vlogging in Japan. He's no John Cleese

Hans Georg Lundahl

@HeySlothKid He may have shown some kind of attention to the Japanese propensity for suicides?

Amanda, Panda 🐼

@hglundahl he zoomed in on the body and made jokes, then posted the footage of the body publically. All this on a trip where he had already been posting footage of him mocking Japanese people and culture, causing public disruption, throwing things at people and generally behaving like an entitled ass. I'm not saying he hasn't grown or changed since then (that's up for debate) but his behaviour back then was abysmal.

Edited to add: based on your comment history I doubt you're going to pay my response much mind. I do however wonder why you felt the need to defend a person you know so little about - if you "seriously haven't seen him" how do you assume Alice is doing him an injustice?

Hans Georg Lundahl

@HeySlothKid OK, sounds like you have a point.

Alice seemed somewhat disingenious on the topic, so I would not have total confidence in her assessment.

6:27 Any travel vlogs I do reglarly watch remind of Simon, in that respect.

[It's about friendship, helping each other]

9:14 "a lot of us don't have the money to do so"

Reminds me of a Traveller inlaw to my grandparents who thought ma and me travelled too much.

Traveller, as in Yeniche, Manouche, in Swedish Tattare. You don't need to travel abroad to belong to this, shall we say, sub-culture ethnicity.

Ma and me were not Travellers, you don't inherit the ethnicity of your aunt in law, or your great auant in law or your cousin or your cousin once removed ... but we actually travelled, and people from that corner of the family wondered how we had that money.

The fact is, if you can save things during terms when enjoying a Swedish study loan, if you can baby sit, as ma certainly could, if you can make friends, as ma certainly could, if you don't need to have every penny planned in advance, you actually can travel abroad without being rich.

Case in point, the Summer in the US. Ma ran out of money while we were in California, we were hosted in a house, so food and shelter was no problem, but we needed to get on the plane for Vienna which was from New York, and so the congregation (yes, Evangelical, more Fundamentalist than Pentecostal) where we were worshipping and hearing sermons that I thought were boring (but praying wasn't), and to which our host family belonged, they made a collection to help us pay for the Greyhound bus across the US, and we arrived in Vienna when I started Third Grade (on dirait troisième année en Belgique, je ne sais pas comment on dit en France pour la troisième année du primaire). Also, living in Vienna wasn't expensive, ma had the same amount of study loan as if studying in Sweden, but Austria was a cheaper country in many ways.

"and that's why we watch that content, it's a form of escapism"

I can't see the point of avoiding Escapism at all costs.

I can definitely see a point in avoiding the wrong type of Escapism, the one you dream about living but never get around to live. But that would more often be the kind of books that are written by people who want to preach the message of some psychotherapist than watching real people have real fun. Have you ever tried to ask Jay Alvarez how he pays for the content he is showing?

10:22 Travelling isn't unaffordable.

You want young people to be more radical than that?

Fine. Tell teens to:

• not abort
• get engaged for marriage (same age or man older)
• stay engaged to when marriage can be realised, whether at 18 or by asking the pertinent authority (not sure if it would be the Prefect or the President of the Republic) to marry earlier.

That may of course involve finding a job unusually early. As I am a writer, already published 12 000 blog posts on the internet, including some commenting on your videos, the job of book publisher (maison d'édition), which is a be your own boss job (also radical) is there for the taking.

Hali G

@ahlimahs

How does marriage & motherhood give women freedom to travel?

Hans Georg Lundahl

@ahlimahs That could happen too, but I was answering about Alice Cappelle's challenge about sth more radical than travelling abroad.

Marriage and motherhood or for men fatherhood, definitely is that.

Brightspear

@brightspear

i don't believe those things are very radical when it's widely socially pushed for young people to start families, firstly by their parents who often want to have grandkids as early as possible. unless you mean young people being radical in that they don't do what is characteristic for every younger generation in history, which is to challenge the social norms enforced by older generations.

Hans Georg Lundahl

@brightspear "it's widely socially pushed for young people to start families"

When they are 25, yes.

When the girl is 15, no.

Btw, in France, prior to 2006 and beginning of 2006, a girl of 15 could marry. Legally.

Brightspear

@hglundahl no, that is not the case. I grew up in the United Kingdom and in my personal experience there were already some people in my school year that already had a child just as they came out of school at 18. Several more got married and had their first child in the first 2 years. It's very typical for families with a religious background.

I was born in Eastern Europe and I can tell you that in most non-western groupist cultures, both men and women aren't given much leeway in delaying doing their "familial obligations", since it's directly tied to status and social stigma and shame if you don't have all those things put together at the age their parents did the same (said parents not really caring about or denying that the circumstances they lived in were very different).

coolchameleon21

@coolchameleon21

that is in no way radical that’s literally what women have been expected to do for centuries

Hans Georg Lundahl

@brightspear " in my personal experience there were already some people in my school year that already had a child just as they came out of school at 18. Several more got married and had their first child in the first 2 years."

Perhaps you come from an area I would consider radical, then?

Here is more typical stats from the Parliament:

// One reason for this is that men and women have been delaying the age at which they first get married. The average age at first marriage is now 31, compared with a 20th century low of 23 in 1970. //

Some precision:

// The average age of a newlywed in the U.K. is 30.6 for women and 32.1 for men //

"said parents not really caring about or denying that the circumstances they lived in were very different"

The radical thing to do would be to push circumstances back so young marriages become feasible again.

Hans Georg Lundahl

@coolchameleon21 That's what women have been expected to do during Christian centuries, so it's radical in a post-Christian world.

Brightspear

@hglundahl I suppose I agree with your last point. I wonder though, theoretically, the goal of any activism tends to be improving the state of things until people live the better life they envisage. That in turn would incentivise comfort and support in wishing to have a family early. Except for that to happen, there would have to be social security for it, as well as a return of communal unity which is very much missing in this digital age.

Hans Georg Lundahl

@brightspear "as well as a return of communal unity"

Which could be fostered by the young marriages and children of young couples, right?

Brightspear

@hglundahl how, when their parents would be working full-time jobs to maintain their lifestyles, and the young people in turn have to do the same to offset the added financial and time burden of raising children?

Also collective infrastructure for the gathering of people and for the sake of hosting young parents and third places for young children is in shambles currently, hardly anything new is being built, and what exist has been in decline for a long time, even before COVID.

Hans Georg Lundahl

@brightspear "and the young people in turn have to do the same"

Two full time jobs are not absolutely needed to raise a new born.

Partly, studying and raising a child is compatible these days.

Plus, as mentioned, some couples could start business on my work as writer, with them as publisher.

"for the gathering of people and for the sake of hosting young parents"

What exactly do you mean?

I mean, couples that have babies tend to find some place to live, sooner or later, right? Collective or not. That shouldn't be the default.

Alice Cappelle Has a Point

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(why) i hate my country 🇫🇷
Alice Cappelle, 11 April 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oy3F1IbjdKU

1:27 I wrote in 2011 or 2012 - actually 25 of September 2011 this:

Autrefois, la retraite était normalement les enfants. Qqn qui roulait la plume pouvait bien se permettre à rester actif jusqu'à cent ans. Ou, si malgré l'aise physique le travail était mentalement pénible, investir dans une rente, devenir rentier. Qqn qui faisait les chantiers - sa retraite était la conscience et fortune de ses enfants, ou, si ses enfants n'avaient aucune possibilité ou volonté de l'aider, celle de ses camarades et voisins. Certes, l'industrialisme appauvrit le XIX S. les ouvriers tellement que c'était devenu difficile pour enfants et entourages d'aider leurs proches, tous ayant mal à faire tourner les choses en rond pour eux-mêmes, et qqs peu d'enfants. Mais ça n'était pas une fatalité, ça c'était puisque les petits entreprises se faisaient bouffer par les grandes.

Une fondation pour les retraites, que la caisse soit privée, une association obligatoire, l'état lui-même ou quoi que ce soit, n'est pas une tire-lire, beaucoup plus proche d'une banque.

Dans une tire-lire, on y met une pièce, elle y reste et on la retrouve première occasion qu'on veut, si personne n'ait volé de la tire-lire. Une banque ou une caisse pour les retraites ou une assurance n'est pas ça. Ce qui reste n'est pas la pièce matérielle, ni donc leur somme exacte par ajouts successifs, mais la somme des droits acquis pour le futur en revanche d'un dépôt présent. Car la banque ou l'assurance ou la caisse pour retraites va aussi-tôt dépenser la somme, matérielle ou idéelle, en d'autres obligations de versement et le jour qu'elle aura à vous reverser votre dépôt, elle comptera sur les dépôt qu'on faira alors. Dans le cas des retraites, les retraites futures, pour les avoir réellement, il ne faut pas juste avoir acquis les droits par cotisations, il faut qu'il y aura dans le futur suffisemment des gens qui côtisent de leur tour.

Avec la dénatalité, il n'y en a pas.

Ni avec les naissances françaises de souche, il y en a trop peu, ni avec l'immigration, car le jour que les immigrés se rendent compte qu'ils peuvent voter un autre système et ne plus avoir à côtiser aux retraites des gens qui ne sont pas leurs proches, ils changeront le système. Pas parce qu'ils sont méchants, mais parce qu'ils ne sont pas stupides. Et vivre sous leur protection peut s'avérer pénible, encore une fois pas parce qu'ils sont méchants, mais parce qu'ils sont étrangers. Ils ont d'autres expectations sur ce que des vieillards peuvent s'attendre en absence d'avoir fait et nourri d'enfants quand ils pouvaient.

This is an extract from a blog post called "L'Esprit d'Escalier" which is at the date mentioned on the blog "deretour" on blogger, with the distinctive URL-part hglundahlsblog - look it up.

[ deretour : L'Esprit d'Escalier
https://hglundahlsblog.blogspot.com/2011/09/lesprit-descalier.html ]

The title is explained as "Hier j'ai eu une discussion avec un homme qui me paraissait assez honnête. Mais je l'ai laissé parler un peu plus que de lui répondre, après il y a des choses qui me viennent en esprit."

So, if Russia had even worse problems with nativity due to even more abortions than France, why isn't this happening in Russia?

Well, it did

Putin and Medvedev faced impopularity during 4 months of 2018.

After this, Covid and Ukraine have been a very ideal diversion from the pension issue, to get Putin's popularity up again ...

Or Sweden? About same abortion rate as France and lots more contraception ... well, pension system was hollowed in 2003, before I left the country.

Now it's not one central system guaranteed by the state, it's six alternative pension funds under private management, and the state only guarantees an insufficient pension, if that's all you have, you need social welfare as well.

Me at 95 in Sweden, if I live that long and don't get an editor:
"Yes, I'm applying for social welfare this month too, I still have only the insufficient guarantee pension" ...

Meanwhile, the guys who realised the reform was our Social Democratic party, not a right wing one. Social Democrats of Sweden, more effective at making mentalities Marxist than Communism in Soviet Union and so on, but as humdrum and non-magical when it comes to making pensions work with less and less input from young people working.

And in US, which has better fertility rates than France, you will probably have the Swedish model imposed 9 years from now.

4:47 Are executive directors and major shareholders of CAC 40 really in added up wealth comparable to the losses in youth and workforce?

To me, CAC 40 suggests, it is 40 executive directors and perhaps 15 to 50 more per ultra-rich company ...

I suppose the forecast of deficit for the next ten years is such that this might cover, but what about the future after that, if feminism continues to drive down birth rates?

4:55 Yes, certainly, inflations are a bad thing ... banning price rises (and wage rises along with it) could be a solution.

When you do it without collectivisation, it is often referred to as Corporatismo - or Fascismo (io parlo del programma di Sansepolcro, 1919, no della Carta della Razza, imitazione infame del Hitlerismo) ...

I think, and I think it has something to do with immigrants and their less solidarity with 90 year old French persons than young French might have, it may have lowered purchasing power more for old age pensioners than for those still working.

5:08 225,9 milliards de dollars ... est-ce la fortune ou le revenu annuel de ce mec?

Sorry, this channel is in English, my bad ... if it is his fortune, taxing that fortune would:

• delay depletion of pension funds
• but not repair it, as fortunes are also depleted

If it is his annual income, you may actually have a point ... 207 billion € (according to the dollar euro converter on google) ... but one cannot tax away all of it.

And as mentioned, I think this kind of company counts as CAC 40, and I have a hunch this means "40 biggest companies" ...

400 000 times more than a seamstress.
* 40 for CAC 40 (probably he's in the top section)
= 16 000 000 times more

Now, 8 000 000 seamstresses (as said, one cannot tax all of it) are not comparable to all of the work force. Or wait ...

En 2017, selon l' enquête Emploi , la population active au sens du Bureau international du travail (BIT) est estimée à 29,7 millions de personnes de 15 ans ou plus en France (hors Mayotte). Elle regroupe 26,9 millions d'actifs ayant un emploi et 2,8 millions de personnes au chômage.

8 / 29,7 = roughly 27 % ... but probably less, since he's probably not just in CAC 40, but even in the top of that one, with his supergroup.

7:58 49.3 may be anti-democratic, but when Laurent Fabius used it in 1984 ...

Loi n°84-937 du 23 octobre 1984 visant à limiter la concentration et à assurer la transparence financière et le pluralisme des entreprises de presse dite « loi anti-Hersant »

XX

I would as a Distributist like a similar law against concentrating Moët with Louis Vuitton, if you get the reference ...

Sure, you can sell and buy shares, but when a company is as big as all that, not in the direction of an even bigger company ...

Though if you prefer taxing CAC 40 executives over getting more children, you might consider this as "killing the goose that lays the golden egg" ... I still don't think taxing CAC 40 is a long term solution for pensions.

9:09 w a i t ... that they didn't work during the pandemic ... who was preventing the work?

"La présidence Marine" and "le gouvernement Jordan"?

Hmmm ... I think I recall another result from 2017 ...

Could it have been a president who was called Emmanuel, instead?

9:25 On that issue, I think you might take a hint from Manu and listen to what Tucker Carlson has to say about January 6 ...

9:53 I would agree that abolishing Veil, Neuwirth and Taubira laws (I'm actually as a former convict against both Taubira laws) would be a much better hope for France, and indeed for the world.

He is right about the tendency if fertility rates stay the same though ... but prolonging the delay to 14 weeks is not fixing the root problem, it's just the contrary.

That (rather than the sole reform as such) is why, this happened: I walked towards a lycée in Paris I was going to pass. It was blocked, high school students were seated on garbage bins outside it. One of them had a cardboard which said:

- // Tu pues le Camembert, Macron //
- "C'est pas un peu le manque de respect?" (dis-je)
- "Oui, mais lui, il nous manque le respect" (dit-il)
- "Non, je parlais du Camembert" (dis-je)

If he was referring to a specific Camembert from a producer that also makes butter, I understand the joke weeks later (speaking of "esprit d'escalier" ...) ... I have a preference, when I buy Camembert, to buy Le Rustique, monarchist, as I am ...

11:22 If you ask me, World War I was a huge mistake, and with all my Germanity, though I am not actually a German, a certain paradigm in Berlin or rather Potzdam was to blame ...

One of the casualties beyond the battle field was ... a more normal way of producing things. I don't recall whether Historia said 50 % were independent or 90 % independent and within them 50 % independent farmers, back in 1900, but that kind of production was so much less concentrated that Moët + Vuitton = zéro chance. Or that meme from Princess Bride "you mean there is a chance?"

TheSorrel

While World War 1 is the genesis of basically all international politics atm, capitalism has existed before that.

Hans-Georg Lundahl

@TheSorrel I didn't say the casualty was Primeval Communism. I don't believe in that.

I said it was "a more normal way of producing things" - which very much fits the bill for France, if not England, in 1900.

In World War I, lots of small farmers were drafted, the crops weren't neglected, but confided to tractors so fewer people could do them. After the war, tractors remained and farmers started losing out.

In England, a similar process had happened in two stages - Reformation era involved "commons" (a piece of land kept in common by the farmers of a village) started to be enclosed as private property of landlords. This made it far easier to "go broke" as a farmer.

In the Napoleonic wars, many farmers then actually went broke. The corresponding moment to the Napoleonic wars in England was World War I in France.

I wonder if some Monarchist would argue the moment corresponding to Enclosures in England was the French Revolution. Certainly the "guilds" - in French "jurandes" were abolished first in England in the Reformation and then in France by "La loi Le Chapelier, promulguée en France le 14 juin 1791" ...

17:20 "exactly what Putin does"

Same problem, with some years difference in timing:

abortion -> low fertility -> bad funding of pensions

Same solution preference:

banning abortion? no

taxing the rich more? no

make people work longer? you nailed it

Same reaction to it:

riotting (in Russia it was 2018) (without, Navalny like CGT, without suggesting abortions should be banned)

Same reaction to the reaction:

harder repression

motivating the harder repression by a fake terrorist or extremist label on opponents ...

Some Agreements and Some Disagreements with Alice Cappelle

the instrumentalization of muslim women
Alice Cappelle, 1st of Nov. 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qmiya1QUkOw

4:19 Didn't you mispronounce "phobosophy teacher" or "misosophy teacher" or sth?

You are probably aware these terms means "fear of wisdom" and "hatred of wisdom" while "philosophy" (the word I thought I heard) means the opposite, "love of wisdom" which this die-hard atheist absolutely has none of!

[Here the videast had just referred to Enthoven]

Fantus Witt

Ok Zealot we understand you are to ignorant to understand your own limitations so you have to project but please dont be annoying with it ok?

Hans-Georg Lundahl

@Fantus Witt It so happens, zealot of atheism, thanks to the school system you have endured, the ignorant one is you.

As a Christian and a geek, I have fortunately been in a position to inform myself better than the obviously inadequate Swedish school system.

5:32 In 1830.

I am for 1830 taking of Algiers, since it involved slave hunters being hung in the masts of their own ships.

I am not for "les Enfumades" ... unlike the former, voted by a Parliament in a Constitutional Monarchy.

What a missed chance for poor old Maurras to make an example how monarchy is superior to democracy ... not meaning the Swiss version.

7:54 MFPF = later Planning Familial?

8:50 Yeah, I've noted how some guys object to me lunching on a pack of four yoghurt and using saved money for a beer in the evening or even more probably for a sit before a computer in a cyber, like 2 € may equal an hour ... baguette and cheese is approx 2 € or more expensive than four yoghurt.

Not to mention situations in which I had only one € and preferred a pack of four yoghurt over a baguette toute seule ...

And if I don't assimilate that way, I am obviously nostalgic of my Polish or Russian compatriots even if I am a Swede ... born in the part of Vienna held by U S Americans after the war. And a lifelong anti-Communist with mistrust for East European immigration since a few years.

9:25 You just mispronounced the Endarkenment.
It was not science, it was just bad history to say miracles don't happen.

It was not reason, just meanness to say "don't have death penalty in normal affairs, when lifelong slavery is so much more discouraging, but do chop heads of people that people could rally about!"_ (Voltaire -> Beccaria -> Robespierre).

And centralisation is the opposite of democracy, which is a flower flourishing best locally.

You recall those 19th C. "black hussars" who punished bringing rosary to school, perhaps and punished speaking Breton in school, certainly? III Republic. A model in so many ways for Hitler and yes, Ferry was a racist.

9:40 No, the two centuries culminating in the French Revolution were not liberating of people.

Peasants came into conflict with bishops over the latter agreeing to abolish holidays, so the peasants had to work more.

From year so and so 17th C to year so and so 18th C (a decade or two before the Revolution), the drapiers of Lyon got fewer and fewer independent entrepreneurs, meaning that each of them was boss over more and more people and at the end the apprentices and journeymen (it's called compagnon du devoir in French) usually couldn't hope to become masters and independent.

A n d the king or Richelieu or whoever came up with the idea of letting people chase the poor with crossbows to force them to live in the hospital and work for their upkeep by tending to the sick.

No, the Revolution did not come as a liberation and most certainly not at the end of a process of liberation.

It's a bit how the buying power had consistently decreased over the Second Empire for industrial workers. Before the Commune.

9:51 A very good description of Robespierre.

You know that disciple of Beccaria who preferred criminals to suffer lifelong slavery in peacetime, but was favourable to kill a deposed king whether he was guilty or not, just because he could become a rallying point.

Indeed, Beccaria's disciple wanted no religion in the state. It would have forced police and similar to show more piety and mercy, for instance.

Just before 11:09 "of men and citizenS"

13:33 "banned from accessing government offices, banks, public transport"

Sounds like France in 2020, after the first confinement, or sth?

Also sounds a lot like how a government of the Apocalypse 13 type would proceed to stop someone from "buying and selling" if not taking its mark ...

15:28 Not all women.

Some pretend their choice trumps that of the children they are expecting. I refuse solidarity with those.