“China just broke, but while it was breaking, Confucius is busy figuring out how to have good morals”

China through history: *Some assembly may be required*

"By god I will make it work" Blue this is the kind of optimism we need

When he said "Mercenary Philosophers" I had this mental image of a bunch of world weary scholars with hard eyes holding their battered scrolls and pens, hanging out in a seedy bar while negotiating choice contracts. Best part? They were called the Gray Teach Legion and being hired by the Magistry of Confucius.

"Mercenary Philosophers". That's a t-shirt right there, that is.

"Good governance is under short supply... gee I wonder how that feels like." Living up to the channel's name i see...

about to be in the middle of nowhere with no signal but Overly Sarcastic Productions just updated so ima download it

I love how Marco Polo was labeled "Please be less vain." Even kids know how lost and found that guy was.

Ah, the 500BCs, the time when you can literally send dancing people as a gift

Everyone who studies Chinese: *reading tests and exams flashbacks*

*screams* “no stress we’re thriving” IF THIS IS NOT MY MENTAL HEALTH

"functionally a ghost." The tier list killed me.

*confused screeching* “no stress, we’re thriving.” If that isn’t 2020 in a nutshell...

"Man, Confucius you're always trying to put something in its place. Why don't you tell your eyebrows they need to fit better on your face."

"I didn't say half the things you guys think I said." - Confucius

sooo- dude never wrote anything down, wasn't well-liked in his lifetime & was popularized later by his students, becoming the foundation of a whole school of philosophy. Chinese Socrates?

Confucius: Every sixty seconds in Africa, a minute passes All of China and some of east Asia: Talented, brilliant, incredible, amazing, show stopping, spectacular , never the same, totally unique

“But for reasons including and not limited to ARSON-“ What a time to be alive

"Yeah our teach is lit, makes sense that we write down most if not all of his ideas and make tired students recite them for the next few millennia, NO BIGGIE."

Blue giving us the "the is fine" in the middle of a burning building même energy

Last time I was this early ancient China was dissolving into another period of regional warlordism.

By the word of Confucius himself, "If an Nvidia factory is currently not on fire, it will be on fire." - Confucius

Philosophers: "Hey we've got a good things going, hopefully it won't be ruined-" Qin Dynasty: *"All Books Must Be Burned, All Philosophers Must Be Buried."* Philosophers under six feet of earth: "Well shit."

Thought we were having an solar eclipse, what with Blue throwing so much _shade._

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA -Blue 2020

Gotta love that stern "Hmmmmmm...". He makes his point known in an instant, without sidetracking into modern day politics.

"I found a goose guys" my favourite osp quote

Horses AND Dancing Girls, huh? More like the State of Lewd, amiright?

"A government which relies on harsh laws and punishments is doomed to fail because it's working in opposition of the people...HMM?!"

I feel Sima Qian would make for an amazing History-Makers video, partly because his life story is fascinating (he and his father were the court historians and astrologers for Emperor Wu/Han Wudi and hated it, and Sima Qian was castrated for speaking out against Wudi) and partly because the way he wrote history fascinating. In addition to what you mentioned there, he structured the Shiji not chronologically but based on topic (and THEN divided it chronologically within that) with those topics ranging from the history of music theory and agriculture to the biographies of merchants and assassins. In addition, he worked hard to give multiple perspectives on those he described before rendering his personal judgement (for example, showing the brutality and schemes of the Dowager Empress Lu but then praising her as an able and just ruler in his summation of her life). While he was influenced by the Spring and Autumn Annals, he went far beyond the barebones stories found there and tried to construct something grander. To Sima Qian, what he was making was a history of the world. I personally see him as a hybrid of the best of Herodotus and Thucydides (especially the spite and bitterness of Thucydides). Also, it should be important to note, The Shiji was not intended as a Court History despite being the Court Historian. Sima Qian saw his work as being for scholars like himself above all else, and includes a lot of digs at the Han (including ranking Liu Bang's rival the legendary warrior Xiang Yu amongst the reigns of Emperors rather than amongst the lives of generals or minor nobles). Overall, he (in my opinion) fully deserves his title as The Grand Historian.

"So Emperor Gaozu watched a few TED Talks on Confucianism and became a fan" Meanwhile Kim Jong Un's favorite TED Talk must've been that one from Mao Zedong

Wait, confucius the philosopher, this isn't history makers, this must be the legendary philisophical phridays!!

A history makers on the historical Jesus of Nazareth would be dope.

Blue: wants to make us proud. Blue: puts random goose hjonk in video. Me: Extremely Proud

"Most of what we know, is through his disciples." mmmmm Sounds familiar.

Confucius Quote: True stress is being early on a video and wanting to leave a comment, but not knowing what to comment.

I followed Confucianism for many years and the book that got me into it was great. had a huge section about him and his influences, the complete works collected by his followers, and a Chinese dictionary all in one.

Whitehead: "European philosophical tradition consists of a series of footnotes to Plato" China: *looks nervously*

"I will make you proud if it kills me" God, if that ain't a mood, I don't know what is.

Ah Confuscious, most know him for his teachings, or the fortune cookies that "quote" him, BUT i know him for having a dinosaur named after him.

7:16 wait, a ruler listening to an underling, hearing their point, understand that they have a point, and changing their philosophy to reflect said point?! It's a miracle!

Han advisor: a empire can’t be ruled on horse back. Genghis khan: *Challenge accepted!*

"Good governance was hard to come by- gee, wonder how that feels like-" _shots_ *_f i r e d_*

As my old friend Confucius say "The hunter has become the hunter-ed."

"So here's the real golden rule, I'm way above you weak rookies. Confucius say, YOU CAN ALL HOLD THESE FORTUNE COOKIES!"

Confucius: Hey got some advice. Wanna hear it? China rulers: No, I got to much on my plate. Servant get me my meal. 10 years later China in civil war. Confucius: I told u so. 2000 year later. Confucius in the grave: still told u so, but the world right now is still crack more than China when I was alive

I've never been this early, it's like a liminal space in here

I like the "Will the be on the exam?" guy. Very true look on his face.

1:38 ‘Gee I wonder what that feels like...’ Same here, pal 😂

Ah yeah, the wise chinese man who invented confusion

I'm going to give props for Blue for his Chinese pronunciation... I thought he'd mispronounce them as most of us did when trying to learn Chinese. I'm still bad at it though.

"topsy turvy slicey stabby" 5:42 iconic

6:22 i keep playing this over and over again

6:24 That dissapointed look on Blue it's making me regret my poor life choices.

When you get so agitated about missing information that you sound like a old door opening

The shade in this video is off the charts. I love it.

Blue, don’t you think that Chinese history is “Confucing” 😂😂😂😎😎😎

~China is whole again... ...then it broke again~

Props for getting so much of the Chinese (audio pronunciation and visual on-screen characters) correct! Undoubtedly a lot of work to avoid the usual credibility-sapping sloppiness that can go over the heads of the usual viewers who are clueless (about the family of Chinese languages). That's some no-joke dedication right there and I salute you and Red, who seems to have handwritten the Chinese characters in her videos, for it!

i love this serious because it teaches me about all the stuff i learned in "history of the entire world i guess" but properly

Just like highschool, I'm early for history lol

last time I was this early, China wasn't whole again yet

Confucius, one of the most misunderstood guys. Still behind Machiavelli.

China in the Spring and Autumn period: **aAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH** The World in 2020: **aAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH** Blue trying to find a solid source about Confucius: **aAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH**

Last time I was this early trope talks weren't a thing

"Gee, I wonder what that feels like" *bitter other American laughter*

China fractures politically: Produces Confucius America fractures politically: Produces Alex Jones

Confucius: is in a kingdom It’s king/lord: You have lost your living privileges here

“The sounds of neighing and moaning” can be taken out of context in very scary ways

Is it just me or did this episode have far more sass and sarcasm than usual? I love it.

The amount of saltyness is ASTOUNDING

6:23 Disapproving blue is my new favorite thing!! Legit laughed out loud

“good governance was in dubious supply. gee, i wonder what that feels like.” i see EXACTLY what you did there the little jabs are the best part of this

Fantastic! I just learned a lot about a great teacher I didn't know anything about! It may be the biologist in me, but I absolutely love that thing in history/genetics/paleobiology/linguistics where you have to reconstruct a long-lost Thing from the hacked-together corpses of Things that sort of kind of lasted long enough for us to understand them at least *slightly* better. Like a jigsaw puzzle that hates your guts and also might be made of actual guts! It's great! Academic masochism, here I come... ... I'm definitely here for the bards, so I'd love to see our own Bard of Ayr take to the stage. Burns didn't exactly write textbooks, but he did do his utmost to preserve an oral culture collapsing around him while providing insight into the landscapes of the day through his own poetry. While, y'know, writing diss tracks against the church and having an illegitimate kid with every bonnie lass frae Alloway ta Inverneckie, 'cos he lived that rock'n'rove life. '*' Not a perfect dude by any stretch, but he's fascinating, definitely a History Maker and I'd love to see your take! ------------------- '*' Good thing too; his other option would have been sailing off to become a slaver's clerk. From his later writings, as I recall, it's pretty clear that Burns would have utterly *despised* any version of himself that could have supported that particular institution.

There's an episode on Confucius on the Curiosity Stream series The Butterfly Effect. I think Blue would really like the series

Insightful indeed

I'd like to see this series expanded to include museums. I mean, mostly, I wanna hear Blue talk about the absolutely insane way the US got the Smithsonian, but I think the history of museums around the world would be an incredibly fascinating topic.

Fun fact Confucius has a surviving bloodline down to the modern day I think .one of his descendants is Kong rong from the late han era who is a critic of Cao Cao

Great episode. I believe it would be interesting to have an episode on Paul The Apostle (Saul of Tarsus) and his influence on early Christianity

One could say it was a very ‘Confucing’ period.

Video: is 9 minutes long When I started it: 2 minutes from upload Me: goes back to home and sees that this video was uploaded 6 minutes ago You bitch you wanna see some *real* speed

Last time I was this early China was one country.

Literally could've used this last week for college. Thanks OSP 😂

This feels a lot like half my school work after being absent because sick for two months

This is, quite literally, the most I've ever learned about Confucius in one sitting 😅

7:28 points for the stealth ad

‘Good governance was in dubious supply.’ ‘Gee. I wonder what THAT feels like.’ I felt that on a soul level.

Hmm... I can make a possible pun but I'm out of ideas... Guess I'm CONFUSIED here! I'll see myself out.

All of his disciples wrote after his death, and the guy never wrote anything himself? Hmm...sounds rather suspiciously like a certain Son of Man we've got here over in the West...

All right, WHO edited this video? The little captions, the cuts, the sound effects-those were freaking great! I loved it! Also all the references to “The history of the entire world I guess,” perfect.

I'd strongly suggest making an episode on Hayreddin Barbarossa, an absolutely fascinating and pivotal character during the hay day of the ottoman empire that took part in two of the most important naval battles in the Mediterranean.

Heard a story once that Confucius beat an old man with a cane for being lazy.

I'm surprised that when you said "it was Go time" there was no cut to people playing Go...

This couldn't have come at a better time. I'm studying the religions of Ancient China today. Thank you so much OSP! Keep up the good work!

Blue: "mercenary philosophers". I, a philosophy major in Russia: I think I'm in love.

Blue: all of China is one heck of a classroom. Me: no wonder they’re so smart

Confucius says, "Man who runs behind bus gets exhausted." According to my dad.👍

This is the earliest i will ever be and I regret nothing. I love these guys

Here's a bit of Confucius trivia. Since 1005 CE, there has been an official Confucian advisor to the Chinese court/government that survives up to this day. The post is has been held by a direct male-line descendant of Confucius for the last 1,000+ years with the current incumbent advising the Taiwanese government. The post came with the title "Duke of Yansheng", but since nobility is no longer a thing in China and Taiwan, the advisor goes by the title "Ceremonial Official to Confucius".

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