Seriously though Simon has 2 dozen damn channels he does videos for it feels like.

He is just an actor, he is only hired to read scripts written by others

@@gotalifeanditsmine er... you mean he's a narrator. Clearly a successful one and a hard working one. Not sure what the problem is.

Simon has several twin brothers, that's how they can mantain so many channels.

And he puts out videos on a few of em daily of not all of em

Do it

It is your destiny John ,

You need to get your people up to speed first, start them out with tamagachis and cartons of marlboros, work your way up to fidget spinners and vape pens. Act totally surprised and oblivious to things like smart phones and the internet, it will keep you in power longer. God speed.

Livestream 🤣😂🙏💯💯💯

@@attemptedunkindness3632 🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂

Headcanon: these people are actually the descendants of the Mechanicus in the far future.

Link?

"If you build it, they will come."

Wild

That's freaking azycray

@@zappyapp Have you tried google?

What a waste of tasty coconuts.

The soldiers didn’t like coconuts?

@@JessieHTX , it was about seeing the islanders climb the trees.

@@robertwalker-smith2739 Yikes. That's kind of like asking someone to grab some food from a store to watch them drive there/buy it and then tossing it out; I'd be pissed if someone pulled that

@@Gigawolf1 , what if they paid you for the food, then tossed it out?

As though the Enterprise crew ever followed the prime directive.

The Prime Directive doesn't seem to apply to accidents or crashes. On the flip side, "Mimsy Were the Borogroves" by "Lewis Padgett," a classic sci-fi short.

US GIs in particular were well-known for handing out candy bars and other treats from "back home" to locals, especially kids. It came pretty problematic in Viet Nam if I recall correctly, because the VC would give kids grenades or whatever to drop after interacting with solders. You could probably trace the more atrocious actions against "civilians" during the conflict to this weaponization of children.

I think cargo cult programming sums up the entirety of Microsoft Office perfectly. I guess its remnant code from the 90s is already older than most of its current devs.

Maybe we could make a movie, "Saving Private Frum."

Or he said I'm John From.. America

If someone checked American military records in the Pacific for a John Frumm in the New Hebrides, then traced their lineage, maybe these people would have their next Messiah

thank you Captain Obvious.

A guy with the last name Frumm commented that he wants to go there.

You might like "The Spiffing Brit" then lol. He mostly does video game exploits though.

Like John “Froome.”

Brady- 😂 "audible chocolate"- yes! I shall be stealing that.

@@SeraphRyan I love the spiffing brit! He's the one who taught me how well skyrim works, and the legend of Reanu Keeves.

Simon's videos from all channels make home schooling almost feasible, at least way more palatable/effective than Zoom classes.

How's that working out for him?

When the only " English" you know is actually German...

Lol what the fuck.

There's only one English word in that phrase and it's not part of the lyrics. Danke schoen, darlin', danke schoen. I can tell where in the US you don't live since you don't seem to even speak the tiniest bit of German. What are we teaching in schools these days?

He said "Thank you a lot." In German 😂

About 70 percent of American Christianity functions like a cargo cult. Particularly the “prosperity gospel.”

@@brianarbenz1329 Citation needed.

Qanon?

BEZOS! BEZOS! BEZOS! =)

RTX 30xx cult

Psht. You just need a few pallets of govt surplus auctioned goods & a Cessna. Like $500 for the pallets & maybe $50k for the plane & pilot training. Less if you can find someone who already has a plane and wants to be a tribal god.

@@SpencerGD 😂😂😂😂😂

I looked online to see if one existed. Sadly not.

Applying the same logic to the Cargo Cults as to other more established religions, like Christianity, doesn't have to end up with people saying Cargo Cults should be given the same reverence, it could just as easily go the other way, that Christianity should be just as dismissed as the Cargo Cults are.

@@QBCPerdition Agreed

Still waiting for dad to come back from getting that pack of smokes.

The term "Cargo Cult Science" has indeed been used to define these kinds of pseudoscience for quite a while now.

Lemme guess you haven't had to cooperate with a lot of off-shore outsourcing providers so far

@@sageinit If I exclude my level2 teams in Morroco, Egypt, Maurice island and France, I see you've guessed right. Oh, wait...

Cargo cult programming is what management people without ethics prefer because it produces quick solutions that somehow work. It allows for hiring cheaper, less experienced developers which makes management even more happy.

@@MetalheadAndNerd Sometimes the difference between examples from the documentation and example from stackoverflow is so tiny one cannot make the difference between copying the doc or cargo cult. Anyway, the purpose of an enterprise is to survive by earning money. At the end, the result is more important than anything else

@@CaptainDangeax Of course you only mean the monetary result. That your application has 3 different implementations of the same function, pasted together from 3 different forum posts, making the app behave differently depending on where the user triggers the function, you can easily explain with "Well, a computer can make a million mistakes per second."

I'm sure they must have treated him very well. They believed he was a God descended from heaven after all.

That Captain Walker, his name wasn't Riddley was it? He's probably off being chased by his auntie if so.

Were off to never never land

Bob Dobbs

The illuminated circuit diagram was pretty adorable, I've got to admit.

those are very common in American military bases. It absolutely has everything to do with cargo cults.

@@2Pi100 Radio Telescopes are a common feature of American military bases?

@@chrissugg968 have you ever seen an airfield?

@@2Pi100 haha they don't have radio telescopes on them. Those are for looking at space.

@@chrissugg968 not every radar dish is a radio telescope lmao

I think you're underestimating the technical knowledge that existed in the US at that time. The transistor itself was invented in 1947, but semiconducting materials and quite a few of their properties were known in the 19th century. The first IC's ("chips") weren't invented until the late 1950's (commercially produced in the 1960's), but the basis for the photolithographic techniques used to produce them was developed well before, and those techniques are not at all dissimilar to early photographic techniques known for over a hundred years. There were no doubt a few technical hurdles to overcome and some missing pieces, but the most important missing piece was just putting all the ideas together--something a working example would have provided. That is in no way comparable to the difficulty of developing aviation with no understanding of physics, chemistry, or metallurgy and no industrial infrastructure or means of obtaining the required resources. A working example would be useless magic in that case. I do agree that any claim starting with an allegation that something came from an alien spaceship can be dismissed out of hand, though.

And how religions are formed😂

Tbf they are primitive.

@@eadweard. no the are not

Why?

This channel has been around for years. I actually didn't notice how many channels Simon was on until I read all these comments.

It's really irrelevant if other people also believe silly things. Cargo cultists are still primative and irrational.

@@eadweard. yes. They believe a messiah who was killed by the Romans will return and save them. It’s quite pathetic.

@@TesterAnimal1Who cares? It's also quite irrelevant.

@@eadweard. Did you notice, that they have a political party, with some seats in the assembly? What is primitive about them that is not also evident in our culture? We have enthusiastic religous zealots that organize political parties or blocs in many of the western nations. As for "primitive," the point many in then vid were making is that the massive influx of materials goods stiunted their development, because it prompted some to believe they did not need to work. Compare to the rise of lotteries and the decline of working and saving here in the U.S that has accompanied the irrational belief that one can get rich by lucky numbers. I see parallels.

@@TesterAnimal1 And they hoist handmade icons in their yards in shapes of the symbols of that messiah. We''d never see that here in the rational and advanced U.S.!

How so?

Given they are a 20th Century construct, I'm interested in your take.

@@eadweard. When the aliens visited of course ;-P

Are you trying to imply this is how mythologies and such got started? Because these cargo cults only happened because these people all ready had such beliefs

A cargo cult approach to history certainly does explain how people can look at aspects of the ancient world and conclude it must have been the work/influence of aliens.

It sounds like a premise for anti-western, ideological drivel. And there's already enough of that.

@@eadweard. I’m firmly against all ideological drivel. Its origin or target really don’t matter to me at all.

Dang, how'd you miss out on "Christians are waiting for their non-existant savior too" as a the comparable western practice.

@@ClockworkEngineer It was in the video.

@@ClockworkEngineer sorry, I had that in response to a different comment. “Doesn’t sound much more superstitious than praying to a representation of a tortured and murdered man and expecting him to pop down for round 2 at some point.” I considered adding a reference to Bill Hicks’ JFK memorial rifle pin badge joke, but thought that might be going a bit far.

There is one key mistake here, and it's not about the natives but the Missions. The missionaries didn't only want to spread Christianity, not even mainly, at all. At least not the southern european ones, the British and French were more religiously motivated. Thing is, while missions came from well before America, since the reforms by Hernán Cortés under Charles the I and V the missions were based on the Santas Hermandades, which were a sort of proto guild. And these reforms quickly spread to Portugal and Italy, and from there everywhere outside of France, England. Point is, the Santas Hermandades and the Missionaries that copied them used the bible as a teaching tool, the reason being that back during feudal times teaching serfs what they called "liberal arts" (literature, mathematics, logic, etc) was banned, but NOT teaching them the bible, so they used this legal workaround to teach serfs to read and write by teaching them the bible, and once they knew that they counted as "literate", and therefore "freemen", so teaching them "artesanias" and "liberal arts" was legal. Hence the entire education system sprung from there. In medieval europe and later, this is what shaped primary education, indeed once you were taught "liberal arts" you were given a bachelor diploma and could access to Escolastica to become a "Magister" which in turn let you access further careers to become a "doctor", that's where our education system comes from. But the bible WAS the only way they knew how to teach primary education. Most missionaries came from liberal orders like the Jesuits which actively advocated for more secular societal systems, and saw education as a universal right. But learning through the bible was a legal and technical necessity, they didn't have another way to teach you the basics. And so, by rejecting the bible, the natives also rejected literacy. And indeed their mentality often proved it wasn't necessarily christianity that was the issue, but literacy. Even as close to the current conflicts in the middle east, NATO officers often protested because they found arab officers would take the books away from the soldiers they were given to, and most arab soldiers not only weren't literate, but would reject being taught as much. The reason was societal, when interrogated, egyptian officers simply pointed out if the soldier knew what NATO was trying to teach him, he would be a liability, because he wouldn't need the officers to tell him how to do it. This is how they keep control. Cargo cults in the conflicts we have observed between them show this exact mentality, a strong authoritarian bent where those at the top keep control by keeping those at the bottom uneducated, so they depend on them to teach them the basics. And this is how your question comes to its inevitable yet dreadful answer. Trying to bring these islands to modern times is not a matter of infrastructure. Their mentality is what is called "magical thinking", a particularly dangerous reactionary type of pseudoscientific authoritarianism. Much like Christianity was forced to adapt to more secular thought through internal strife and the rise of the Burgeoisie. These cults require strife to force the people to see the structure isn't working. Those at the top will inevitably resent and fight, through violence if necessary, any attempt to make them understand with just as much reticence as they fought the missionaries that came before. Hell, many cargo cults built literal masonic lodges, they had no issue with monotheism or jesus worship. They had problems with the methodology. You are no different from the missionaries for them, just another foreigner trying to upend their way of life to instill your own values. Their leaders would rather see you dead than see you teaching their people how planes work and cargo is made.

Have they found the 'Japanese Gold' yet?? They are still convinced in the Solomon Islands that there is a pile of gold waiting to be found.

LOL One cargo cultist trying to convert other cargo cultists to his cult.

​@@niccolomChristianity created the technological and societal changes so vast and great they flabbergasted the Papuan people into creating cults like this

Half of my free time is spent listening to Simon.

@@techfixr2012 Lol me too, and the killer is I subscribe to Netflix and a few other's. But I mostly watch Simon on KZfaq for free..

That's like saying there should be a Ugandan Shaman Simulator game...

South Pacific Big Man would be a good economics game. Traditional Big Man economics, not cult economics. Native Americans in the Northwest and he Greeks of the Iliad had a similar system.

Except that there was little tangible evidence of intelligent design. At least the cargo cults actually had evidence their 'gods' would actually do shit like this.

@@felixhenson9926 Very true. They actually saw the results, they just misinterpreted how those results were achieved.

Yeah. They spent part of the video denouncing him, but to me it felt more like a greatest hits compilation.

He was a pos

@@tignight3645 Oh I think this will make you reconsider: "You’re too fat to be an astronaut" - said to 13-year-old boy who said he wanted to go into space.

He married his cousin

What about waiting and preparing to distract and starvation. I would not say ignorance is bliss.

"But they're different from mine, so they're wrong."

And that human beings are silly, silly animals with very active imaginations.