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It's also currently being repeated on BBC Four, strangely enough. I think they have got to episode 7, so far, but I assume this will mean it is soon to be available in full on the iplayer. I was very surprised, as I thought they didn't approve of such things as Western Civilisation.

​@@PrincipledUncertainty I'm told they have put popular historian Mary Beard at the beginning of it to tell us that it doesn't reflect contemporary BBC values.

I have all the DVDs. (Remember those?) 🙂

Television can and should be many different and equally good things. Dont forget to take your pills, grandad. But. We love you still.

@@AndreyRubtsovRU Disrespectful & bitter woke runt...you can swap out the 'r' in runt if you like.

@@AndreyRubtsovRU one does not need to be old to recognize true art.

​@@AndreyRubtsovRU fix yourself. 😅

Silvije Pranjič.... BRILLIANT... l agree.... so sad

Low? For a bunch of monkey troops forced out of the trees and onto the savannah 250k years ago because of climate change; I think we've done spectacularly better than we had a right to expect. We've just run out the string. The traits that enabled our original survival, turn out to be downright suicidal now.

@@radman1136 Deus Vult Little Man What Now?

@@radman1136 The destruction is deliberate the aim is global slavery enforced by AI.The fall is from within via prole infighting.

Kierkegaard's leveling

Pics, or it didn't happen!

now they show coloureds on the color!

@@haltungsprechen as long as they don’t run, eh?

​@@sgtplop23 years. It is a great piece of television.

Lets go back to black and white

YES. Western Civ is like forbidden knowledge now.

Uk is on the brink of civil war now. Riots in almost all major cities and muslim mobs mobilizing

same here, as long as we ignore all the colonialism and slavery

@@zibberebbiz Why is it OK for Mongolians to be proud of the much more barbaric Genghis Khan, but Europeans must be not proud of conquering the world?

His wife was addicted to gin and hid it in unsuitable vessels top to bottom of the castle.

@@zibberebbizoh shut up.

@@zibberebbiz That has been a bi product of all the big ones.

I find introductions to be so annoying and boring. I like this.

And also no "going on a journey" BS.

That Greek poet kavafis... What a mind. "The barbarians.. they were a kind of solution "

@@Odowasaniceguy still better than being an erudite betabux simp

@@tuckerbugeater It's truly amazing to know there is a person alive on this planet who would use the term "betabux" unironically. What a fascinating creature you are. You should be in a tank in some exhibit somewhere.

Certainly recreates the incessant adverts from back then on ITV! Smfh

Jacob Bronowski was also one of these makers of just perfect (Imho) programmes - Carl Sagan also good.

Yes, I see your point but, for me the greatest is still Yes Minister and Yes Prime Minister!

@@catallaxy You may say that, but I couldn't possibly comment.

@@taxpayer1040the Ascent of Man is one of my favorites too, Bronowsky was awesome!

Hahaha

I initially thought this was going to be a critique on Sid Meier's tech tree choices...

Time to go back to my three hour Philosophy Tube video about pronouns

Redneck Haiku: Set your VCRs! / "Dukes of Hazzard" marathon / Starts at 8 p.m.

Don't make us throw up.

Yes, and he makes the point that it may seem mighty and permanent but can all be lost so quickly.

@@cthoadmin7458 Yes, and after the demise of prog. rock, civilization has fallen in much of the West-a new dark age of tattooed, feckless low achievers, or Greenies dictating our expensive futures-see episode two above and the cycle of warming and cooling that the Greenies ignore. Who is right, wrong?

Here we are in 2024 and western civilization seems to be on its deathbed.

Only bad part is that for one civilization to prosper, it seems it must be at the detriment to all others, eh?

So true Rodrigo. So much of how we feel is affected by the perpetual ego-shield that is hubris

Commonplace among a small, hysterical minority. Influential only if you allow them to be so.

Hear hear!!! Cultural Marxism is a poison infecting our whole public discourse. I remember watching this too, in the innocent days when we were not called ‘far right bigots’ for loving our Western culture!

We just call them marxists

They take the benefits of Western civilization for granted, and don’t think it will disappear if they repudiate it.

well into it

It is being shown today on BBC4. So there’s that.

one's

disagree on the latter

Ya, it's probably too broad of a term and could mean anything.

@@Hoosier765 I think infrastructure has to be part of the definition. we'd still be in the jungle

I read Clark's autobiography years ago. He said something in it that I have found true again and again. He said he thought that the level of civility in a room went down when the men went off with the men and the women went off with the women. We need more civil interaction between men and women. That's civilization too.

Great line ❤

Too bad he could never acknowledge the full barbarity of Western civilization. Some of the things he says are naive to the point of being offensive, or else just smugly offensive. I realize it was 50 years ago but not everyone was that blinkered or unwilling to see the lacunas and flaws in his "timeline". The reason to watch this whole video is to see how different the places featured looked at that time compared to now. I could weep for the amount of birdsong you can hear in the background, for example. Now it's all gone silent, the villages and old ways of life completely disappeared. Developments and pollution have taken over where in those days nature flourished untroubled by neoliberalist expansionism. I also wonder what someone who could say "cap-IT-alism" would think of Sunak's post-Brexit England. Surely even he'd have to admit British "civilization" was a thing of the unrecoverable past.

@@MAKOBITEWestern civilization isn’t barbaric. The west has been struggling to grow out of its obsession with principles of adopting monarchic, aristocratic, or oligarchic leadership. Century after century western ruling classes continue to adopt essentially selfish economic systems, as they still remain intoxicated by the privilege entailed by the conviction of their essential aristocracy, however they believe they have come by it, and have adopted such ever more clever and exploitative economic systems to enforce the socio-economic hierarchy that enables their rule. Western egalitarian justice and secular political values have been slowly growing and struggling to overcome the hierarchical aristocratic values and superstitious religions that help reinforce the hierarchy under the influence of the western truly civilizing thinkers. It’s the west that has brought these civilizing values into the world in the first place, in dialectical opposition to the ideology of the ruling class. The fact that we still struggle to overcome the exploitative values of hierarchies enforced by violence shouldn’t be mistaken for the essential nature of western civilization itself, nor should it be assumed that other cultures have some moral or ethical superiority to the west due their having solved these problems already and being the innocent victims of western barbarism. The west’s advanced material and economic technologies simply makes the impact of the failures of the west to have yet to defeat its own hierarchical aristocratic impulses to be so much more profound. Other cultures have also developed hierarchical and exploitative social structures, sometimes highly sophisticated and brutal ones. In fact the west seems to be unique so far in inventing the notion of “progress”, part of which is the encouragement of increased egalitarian social justice to overcome the aristocratic impulse itself.

@@JAI_8 Uh huh. As I don't waste time on internet comments I'll leave you to your delusions of western grandeur as the sun sets on humanity.

The barbarians replaced the exhausted energy of the romans, as the romans replaced the exhausted energy of the Greeks.

Why "Thank you Douglas" ?

@@davidt1168 ugh douglas murray i think

That's what i thought too. Just wondering.....

Yes, Douglas Murray. I have added the details in my playlist in the description where to watch the rest of the files from 6-13. Enjoy

If Clark were alive today he'd probably be in favour of said warnings.

@@nectarinedreams7208 He was a man of his time and it's impossible to think what he would have thought of today. Such a series would not even be made today as this is the the brave nu-bbc and they all follow the script nowadays, and they have learnt absolutely nothing from the series he made in the late 60s as western society repeats late Rome.

What a disgrace the west has become. Meek and weak. We have allowed the left to essentially take over. We need to speak up and fight back or we lose what so many died for.... freedom.

Bah! 🤖

Why? Do trigger warnings trigger you?

@@randyt3558 You have a searing wit. Thank you, Oscar Wilde

Life now is unrecognizable. Hard to believe in 50 years how much has changed

definitely

@@craigpoer Bring back the 1550s. God bless the real Queen Mary.

since the French revolution.

​@@craigpoernot true at all. There haven't been any major scientific discoveries since the 70s. Maths is dead, physics is dead,philosophy is dead. We now have institutes that govern these fields and have a monopoly of any new discovery. Think of going to the moon, boeing 727, DC 8, semiconductors, etc Only minor improvement... Nothing like the bi plane to jet plane in 50 years. From 90s onwards, there's nothing but financialization and monetary expansion. Western civilisation peaked!

Same here. Thank you. Unfortunately, I can't access other parts.

What year?

Yes, this old fashioned, highly educated man of his type has almost died out. He did, however, have his blind spots. He does not mention Spain's contribution-the courts of Asturias, Leon, Galicia and the vibrancy that once was the fusing of the best of Christian and Islamic cultures in Grenada, despite the persecutions, there. He would have also understood 'chivalry' if he had studied the life of El Cid and the folk legends attached to him!

Wrong. That's just CGI effects they used back then to make it look like they spent longer on such aspects. They did something called slowing down which is also known as slow motion in order to make it look like they allowed for such aspects. You can see this in the deleted scenes on the Blu Ray copy. Clark signed a few copies for my cousin, who was in rehab with him. They said he's OK but keeps talking about how how Liszt is better than Chopin

​​why are you being subversive? Let me be emphatic: Christian culture and influence is responsible for 95 percent of the architectural basis and influence in Western Civilization. Greco-Roman origins but don't try that.

He lived. He Died. He left nothing.

Greatest Generation

But they are hidden 😥😥

Did you click on the link of the website? Once on the website scroll down and click on the MPEG4 FILES. You can just watch them without having to download them. It should just open & play. I just tried it & it is working fine. Let me know how you get on. 🙂

Thank you, I'll dl them. Great. 😊

That is a rather excellent channel you have there! Thank you so much for collecting all that and sharing it.

Sama here 😅

Same here 👍

Yuck

Same here. Thank you Douglas!

@@askhams jew lover

Why should one have to apologize for celebrating western civilization in a documentary on the subject?

⁠@@johnmurdoch8534that is not the purpose of this documentary

@@agh7185 it is just a celebration. ..not an apology.

If you let it happen

@@bidenator9760 Happened when your ancestors accepter a small hat God.

That island is actually "Skellig Michael", or Michael's Island. "Skellig", or "Skerries", were Norse terms for little offshore islands.

Humans are evil

The same way they didn't listen to Uri Besmenov

and the barbarians r here now . Islam is European worst disease. ..it's a death cult disguised as religion. It's not a religion. Without doubt it's a Death cult

@@Ste2023 All religions are death cults at the end of the day. Specially the big three abrahamic ones, nothing but trouble and superstition by peasants to stupid to see they're being manipulated.

What is the chant at 45.50?

Well said. Civilization is a double-edged sword.. it is of course great for those within its walls.. but not so much for those outside the empire. Therefore, any objective and thorough examination of civilization, Western or otherwise, must include not only the great achievements of said civilization but also the great costs in mass-murder, conquests, plunder, brutality and barbarism wrought externally by those "civilizations" on the peoples outside the borders of those civilizations. To focus on simply the positive aspects of civilizations without critically examining the external human cost of creating and sustaining civilization is to wallow in simplistic thinking or indulge in propaganda.

NO.

Yes

my grandfather who was from Palestine and came to New York harbor in 1910 used to say " dem english speak funny ". i read that in London centuries ago the average person that lived in London and traveled into the countryside could not understand the speech of the rural people . I used to watch a series or soap opera called the East Enders broad cast by the BBC that were about English people in a poor area of London on the east side and i could barely understand there accent it was so thick .

​​@@markbahouth2713EastEnders is still going and is still very popular! It's an east end/cockney accent of the London working classes. It's still true that someone from London might go to Newcastle in the north or to Glasgow in Scotland and not be able to understand their accent.

Our illegitimate rulers let them all in! Primarily because in the 60’s & 70’s they decided it would be posh to reduce our fertility rates through price inflation and birth control…then they realized they were shrinking the tax base, so they began bringing in migrants in the mid 90’s so that each proceeding administration didn’t have to shrink its budget. It really is quite that simple.

The BBC still has historians.