It's not stupid - it's a deliberate policy to destroy all the positive contributions our country has made

@Olivia-io9sb

22 күн бұрын

you said exactly what I was thinking. Do we need any more evidence of their intentions?

@mjones4083

22 күн бұрын

It really does seem so . Only a naive fool would now think otherwise .

@b.alexanderjohnstone9774

22 күн бұрын

How else to justify its total transformation into something very different? Soon only a small minority will know or care about the English speaking civilisation our ancestors fought to preserve in the last century.

@davidmiller4078

19 күн бұрын

Its an old KGB psyops from the days of Lenin and Stalin to undermine a powerful enemy ie Democracy ? Ie Assymetric warefare as proposed by Sun Tzu 2500 years ago ? Douglas always is great to hear is knowledgable observations

@Nick-fg4dq

18 күн бұрын

@@Olivia-io9sb funny

The BBC is no longer fit for any purpose

@summerman2

21 күн бұрын

never was fit. You now see it

@fanfeck2844

21 күн бұрын

@@summerman2it was good in the seventies when I was growing up. They’d bend over backwards to get different views on, and comedies didn’t give a shit about anything. Now all these old shows are edited or given a warning

@AnonJohn143

21 күн бұрын

Sign of the times. Lamentably.

@marieparker3822

21 күн бұрын

Some of its investigative journalism - heard on Radio 4 - is very good. However, its treatment of Brexit and the result of the Referendum was particularly reprehensible. It has also followed political orders re every aspect of Covid, in other words lies.

@ianashleigh

21 күн бұрын

time to defund the BBC, make it subscription only

Gilbert & Sullivan long ago nailed these people in the Mikado: "The idiot who praises, with enthusiastic tone, all centuries but this, and every country but his own."

@CatsJP

22 күн бұрын

It’s simply an opera about fun…silliness…mocking the powerful…and the fundamental absurdity of life..

@moodyb2

22 күн бұрын

​@@CatsJP So does it contain those lines or not?

@oldfella3919

22 күн бұрын

@@moodyb2 It certainly does!! And needs to be quoted more often, especially to the BBC - when they ban Kipling's Mandalay or attempt to ban (again) Rule Brittania from the Proms.

@CatsJP

22 күн бұрын

@@moodyb2You do know what…”description” means…because that is exactly what G&S describe it as.

@Gyggz

22 күн бұрын

Very true , these people must have been irritating for a long long time

TRIGGER WARNING: Western Civilisation is superb and this might cause offence.

@mjones4083

22 күн бұрын

Envy/jealousy often causes "offence " .

@sillysod33

22 күн бұрын

Oh my god, that's transphobic hate speech or something.

@paulmorgancollings7833

21 күн бұрын

@burting...etc, also "trigger warning, Mary Beard may resemble a withered old hag" , so brace yourselves! Harsh, I know, but fair. Just saying.

@sebastiennesp1978

21 күн бұрын

Well Said!!

@robkeeleycomposer

21 күн бұрын

@@paulmorgancollings7833and the elephant in the room is that she has made a career on Roman (ie European) history

I'm keen on Roman history, but I wouldn't count Mary Beard as a reliable authority. She's a historicist with an agenda trying to impose a modern viewpoint on the past, she's highly selective with facts. She distorts and misleads rather than enlightens. That's why the BBC love her.

@clivebaxter6354

22 күн бұрын

Spot on

@larx4074

22 күн бұрын

A racist as well...............

@jax9349

22 күн бұрын

Not why they love her ..... why they employ her.

@jamesdunn9609

22 күн бұрын

@@jax9349 Yes. She is a useful tool for them. But she does their ugly work with the approval of her own conscience, so she is accountable as well.

@PavlovsDawg79

22 күн бұрын

Got that feeling reading SPQR even though I knew little about Roman history. Not sure I know more now.

If anything needs a 'Trigger Warning' it is the insufferably sneery Mary Beard!

@mjones4083

22 күн бұрын

Totally agree . A leftie from "Central Casting " if ever there was . She looks the part , she talks the part . She is the part .

@grahamhodge8313

17 күн бұрын

So, no actual arguments about why she is wrong; just the ad hominem? Says much more about you than it does about her.

@klausbinn777

16 күн бұрын

If anything needs a 'Trigger Warning' it is the insufferably sneery Douglas Murray!

Reparations, - I got mugged by 10 black men when I was very young aged 11, does that mean every single black man and woman in the world OWE ME, for this cowardly attack,..??

@anonygent

22 күн бұрын

No, no, collective guilt only applies to white people, collective oppression applies to blacks. Oprah Winfrey is oppressed, donchaknow.

@rogerdecoursey8341

20 күн бұрын

None of em have a pot to pee in

@spikefunakoshi5667

19 күн бұрын

Yes.

@rogerengland7692

19 күн бұрын

There were 5 black lads in my area growing up. In my year of over 100 white lads, every single one of them had been attacked by a black lad. That 5 lads attacks so many whilst being oppressed says a lot.

@Brucemcleod2345

18 күн бұрын

My Chinese coworkers are thrilled that this is happening as they see China getting stronger. I want to say send them back to China but would be the one arrested by liberals for being racist. It’s making me sick how left wing institutions are destroying western civilisation while Chinese people cheer them on

Western civilisation has lifted so many people out of poverty around the world, did Islam, Africa or cannibals in the jungles etc do that.

@jeffvalona909

22 күн бұрын

Right. So much so that a man can marry a man and they teach your children that a man can fall pregnant & if you're a boy, you can be a girl if you want.... The kind of Western civilisation you are talking about has been dead for decades. Very sadly.

@d-munn

22 күн бұрын

Its taken centuries to lift those people out of poverty. It's taken China 70 years to lift over a billion out of theirs. Now THAT is impressive.

@d-munn

22 күн бұрын

Exceptionalism & hubris in the extreme

@YUDNSAY

22 күн бұрын

Thats a very narrow point-of-view.

@ShanghaiRooster

22 күн бұрын

Europe was fortunate in being spared the ravages of the Mongols in the 13th century by the death of the great Khan. The Islamic golden age was ended by the same scourge, and being honest, has never really recovered. China went from being an outward looking culture at the start of the Ming, with ships sailing as far west as Africa a century before the Portuguese entered the Indian Ocean, to an inward looking culture because of the conservative Confucian bureaucracy. It would take the best part of seven centuries to reawaken. I think it was Napoleon who called the country 'a sleeping giant' which would make the world tremble when it awoke. It wasn't some mystical European superiority which gave us the world of today so much as the rest of the old world fell into decay at a crucial point in history.

The incredible thing is that, in my lifetime, in the eyes of the UK government, I went from being an average, law-abiding citizen to a potential extremist.

@cameronjones8641

21 күн бұрын

Bang on. Insanity reigns.

@colinstewart1432

19 күн бұрын

You & I haven't changed, the government has. It's been totally captured. Normal British values are now the threat. Governments now see their own native population as their greatest threat and will act accordingly. We're through the looking-glass.

@bobomac8330

17 күн бұрын

Well done

The Tories are about to pay dearly for their lack of stewardship of our civilisation over the past 14 years. 😜

@user-pj5ub5cp9k

22 күн бұрын

Yes. Vote Labour. 😂

@edwardoliver3473

22 күн бұрын

How…? By going on to much better/higher paid jobs whilst watching a bunch of communists and racial self interest groups (aka:”the Labour Party”) run the country completely into the ground..?

@bazhilton9527

22 күн бұрын

Hopefully not,why walk backwards

@DJCallidus

22 күн бұрын

Ha ha ha. Not one of them will pay the ultimate price. It's just the other side's turn to bat. It's a false dichotomy and everyone falls for it every time. Politics is theatre for ugly people. Enjoy voting all the same if it makes you feel special. 😅

@angelh5762

22 күн бұрын

They are both globalists. 😢

It's left-wing hatred.

@mjones4083

22 күн бұрын

& envy . I honestly think much of the hatred comes from envy.

@amialal4510

21 күн бұрын

@@mjones4083 True. But they are winning. And I don't want to live in Africa.

@robkeeleycomposer

21 күн бұрын

From MB’s safe, comfortable, unassailable, well-paid Cambridge position ( although I think she’s retired now)

@jamescollins3647

20 күн бұрын

I'd say left wing self hatred.

As Thomas Stowell has said, even those countries colonised by Europeans, after independence, have generally benefitted from what was left behind.

@anonygent

22 күн бұрын

*Sowell Dinesh D'Souza made a similar point in one of his books, looking specifically at India, where they have a parliamentary government, good trains, and speak English, giving them a significant advantage over other countries.

@michelleburke5674

21 күн бұрын

He is a great scholar and deep thinker. A very wise man.

@cameronjones8641

21 күн бұрын

​@@anonygentBoth great men.

@28pbtkh23

18 күн бұрын

@@anonygent - maybe, but Indians hate to be told that. They just hate it.

BBC has to appease the 2,000,000 + muslim viewers.

@rufuscoppertop330

20 күн бұрын

Appeasement should stop.

I do social rental maintenance work for a North London council. It's spot the Englishman. The lack of pride, intelligence, and entrepreneurial spirit is demoralising. I can see how Europeans, particularly Anglosphere shaped the world. Intelligence and originality.

@cameronjones8641

21 күн бұрын

I work on the railway and in some areas of it, the same can be said.

@graememorrison333

19 күн бұрын

Haha - me too in the recent past. And I'd frequently get treated like a servant in the flats i went into by tenants whose English was usually pretty poor and who 1) pay hardly anything for in rent and 2) rarely seem to have 'regular' paye-type jobs.

@davymyboy7966

19 күн бұрын

You need to learn history and travel further than your own backyard.

@cameronjones8641

18 күн бұрын

@davymyboy7966 I've travelled the world mate but being on holiday isn't a reflection of a working environment. Also my job takes me all over the south of England and its the same wherever I go.

@cameronjones8641

18 күн бұрын

@davymyboy7966 What the hell has history got to do with someone's lived experienc? You are fumbling through an argument rather than giving a coherent rebuttal.

You only have to look at Beard to know why she would hate the world she lives in.

@amialal4510

21 күн бұрын

@paulgreen9618 Most likely patriarchy didn't work out for her! LOL

@Humanity101-zp4sq

21 күн бұрын

What's that supposed to mean?

@adrianjohnson7920

20 күн бұрын

@@Humanity101-zp4sq Try Smug, supercilious snob. 😁

@useruseruseruseruser790

20 күн бұрын

@@Humanity101-zp4sqI know exactly what he means. It’s not hard to work out.

@Humanity101-zp4sq

20 күн бұрын

@@useruseruseruseruser790 So elucidate then, or are you chicken?

It’s insidious propaganda ! Really worrying - akin to book burning in the 30s !

@heathclark318

21 күн бұрын

Or book banning in 2020's

@cameronjones8641

21 күн бұрын

It is no doubt a serious concern.

@mancyank564

21 күн бұрын

@heathclark318, which books have been banned in this decade? Please list a few.

@heathclark318

21 күн бұрын

@@mancyank564 Alexander Duskins books were just removed... That just happened.

@mancyank564

20 күн бұрын

@heathclark564, please who is Alexander Duskin or Duskins? I've looked for information on him but can't find anything.

I have always been taken aback by people and their dotty views, Mary Beard isn't one of them, She is Just an old Lady who spews out unintelligible nonsense at all times, Why she was put forward by the BBC as a voice that is listened to, says everything about the BBC, They have run out of intelligent Men and Women To Narrate on their behalf. Numbtys.

@mjones4083

22 күн бұрын

Agree . Useful idiots used to promote anti-western/anti British agendas .

If it wasn't for this country and Europe more widely the world would be a starving hell hole were life expectancy would be less than 40 years of age.

@rob5197

21 күн бұрын

Europe first UK only in the last 300 years nothing much before that

@28pbtkh23

18 күн бұрын

@@rob5197 - I’ll take leading the world for 300 years any day. Prior to 1700 Europe was no more advanced than Britain and probably had more wars and strife than Britain.

I'm dismissing anything from Mary Beard on even her specialty Rome. One can only imagine how much her red painted glasses affect her "thoughts" on ancient rome.

@clivebaxter6354

22 күн бұрын

She would not have lasted a day in ancient Rome!

The question is, who is pushing to minimize british / christian culture - we need names its time to make things public - no more hiding behind the brand BBC.

I have nothing to do that is the BBC. It and what it stands for is over, so say the common sense majority population!

@cameronjones8641

21 күн бұрын

Here, here!

I have CS Lewis, Tolkein and Douglas Murray on my bookshelves. I only need Clark's 'Civilisation' to complete the submersive set!

Clarke's series is an absolute gem! Mary Beard is an inane dolt!

@robkeeleycomposer

21 күн бұрын

And one delicious irony is that Kenneth Clark was a Labour voter. He wanted to share beautiful things with as many people as possible

For years they have put a warning before Steptoe And Son, why!

@clivebaxter6354

22 күн бұрын

eg Steptoe and Son 1965- 'im entitled not to like who i like, and I don't like wxgs- Albert.

@anthonycody4396

21 күн бұрын

Because it's funny, and that's not allowed.

Surprising that the BBC didn't get David Olusoga to do his usual hatchet job on this fabulous series. He's their favourite pet usually.

@cameronjones8641

21 күн бұрын

Quite the exceptional liar and distortionist. BBC perfection by all accounts.

He mentions Mary Beard ‘framing’ the programme through a far left lens, basically telling the viewer what to think while watching. I saw the same in communist China. When showing Western TV shows a commentator would appear during the commercial break and tell us the ‘correct’ opinions and viewpoints to follow while watching. Both BBC and CCTV are state sponsored broadcasters whose aim is to shape public opinion, not reflect it.

@cameronjones8641

21 күн бұрын

Well said!

Watched this and immediately purchased Civilisation by Kenneth Clark.

@paulandsueroberts4121

21 күн бұрын

Me too.

@robkeeleycomposer

21 күн бұрын

The DVD and the book?

@marklewis1750

19 күн бұрын

The folio edition of the book is quite something.

@maggan82

18 күн бұрын

Where can I buy it?

@28pbtkh23

18 күн бұрын

@@maggan82 - The Folio Society.

Compared to Kenneth Clark, Mary Beard is a lightweight. The BBC's lost all its confidence.

Shouldn't the same trigger warning be applied to the remould of 'Civilisation' by the BBC....created by people reflecting the “standards and attitudes” of their time.

Simpler, cancel your licence

By all means criticise mistakes and failures of the past, but ignoring everything unquestionably positive is just lying to people.

It's not the first civilization that has done this. Other's have died out that's it. This is a sign if anything

@amialal4510

21 күн бұрын

@nandans2506 I disagree. This is an unprecedented top down manufacturing of outcomes.

I am so glad that Douglas Murray speaks out against the BBC. It seems he is the only sane person in the western world. I listen to him every day and pray nothing happens to him, because there are a bunch of very scary people out there.

My son working in a Chinese University found Lord Clark's "Civilisation" was swallowed up whole by his students wishing to know as much as possible about European history. He hadn't heard of it but is a complete convert to Clark's erudite love of his subject. A positive, unashamed view of our civilisation's achievements. Mary is just a product of her time, her views are almost late Roman!

An attitude of our time is that the BBC needs to go away.

I treat Mary Beard rather like the pub drunk, a fool, not to be taken seriously.

I watched Clarke's 'Civilisation'.A truly refreshing and absorbing look at the history of man's philosophical,spiritual and political evolution.

This happy breed of men, this little world, This precious stone set in the silver sea, Which serves it in the office of a wall, Or as a moat defensive to a house, Against the envy of less happier lands, This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England - Shakespeare, Richard II, Act 2, Scene 1. 'The envy of less happier lands' explains a lot, doesn't quite explain the self-loathing though.

@stracepipe

21 күн бұрын

The Telegraph said years ago that the middle class left wing think that despising their own culture makes them appear intellectual.

I’m English 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 , British 🇬🇧, I despise the BBC

It has become impossible to be patriotic, or proud of British culture, without being labelled as 'far right' or a gammon.

Mary Beard has a dislike for marcus aurelius- that says it all . She also needs to sort her teeth out .

@clivebaxter6354

22 күн бұрын

As well as her hair and clothes, scruffy old bag!

@AlMondO93

22 күн бұрын

She also has the hots for Caligula which really does say it all about that wretched woman.

@britanniau.k.4352

22 күн бұрын

And her hair-- unfortunately ..

@cristinaborger83

21 күн бұрын

And wear a brasier when she is presenting a program….

@cherryseptember8697

21 күн бұрын

Marcus Aurelius is one of the great Roman emperors and his reflections on philosophy and just how to live a positive and decent life is still of great relevance today.

We all watched it back in the day and loved it. Highly educational. Mary who?

I wonder which esteemed academic, in 30 years time, will be chosen to 'frame' Mary Beard's tv documentaries, and apologise for her early 21st-century prejudices?

I’m a 65 year old British grandma and I’m a proud owner of all Douglas’ books ! 👍🇬🇧 ………arrest me ! 🤣🤣

Mary Beard, the trained classicist. I'd say pretty much all her work is Euro centric 😂😂😂

@robkeeleycomposer

21 күн бұрын

She is SO unaware

@frankyyaggabot6222

20 күн бұрын

Woke-centric more like!

Mary beard .....was never my cup of tea. Very BBC insider.

Go buy the original dvd now! £14.99 bargain.

The BBC's trigger warning that the series expresses attitudes of its time should come with a second BBC trigger warning that its first trigger warning expresses attitudes of its time.

Let's stop funding BBC. We talk about it but nothing happens. I am sick of paying for my licence fee for the money to go to an organisation that despises me.

BBC won't even repeat the classic Fawlty Towers episode, The Germans. Yet German people loved it. I wonder if they still repeat the Bigot game show from Monty Python - prize for the best thing to call people from belgium.

Maybe they missed the part where the series isn't just called "Civilisation" - the full title is "Civilisation: A Personal View by Kenneth Clark." Ignore those other words at your peril. Carl Sagan's equally famous series isn't just called "Cosmos" but "Cosmos: A Personal Voyage." The key word with both is _"personal"_ - other people's views of civilisation, or indeed the cosmos, will vary.

I did Clarke’s book in grade 12 Western Civilization class in Canada. Excellent book and documentary series. I suspect JT - son of FC - will have banned this course. I read The Communist Manifesto and Mein Kampf one summer when I was 14. I became an anti communist and anti facist. I read The Wealth of Nations and Free to Choose that same summer. I read a lot of radical shit as a child and it cemented me as a heterosexual Christian Conservative who loved Western Civilization but recognized its fragility and limitations. The world today is run by people more dangerous than Nazis and Communists - Progressive Neo-Liberals!

"The unweary, unostentatious and inglorious crusade of England against slavery may probably be regarded as among the three or four perfectly virtuous pages comprised in the history of nations" William Lecky

I watched a few episodes of this series a while back and although it was a bit dated, obviously, I quite enjoyed it. Just to say, I'm completely sick and tired of all this bo * * * cks now, we're not children and can make up our own minds, surely?

Am I still allowed to read Jane Austen and the Bronte sisters masterpieces?

Mary Beard should show a little humility. I've always thought her scholarship very poor and gave up listening to her ill informed opinions long ago. I got fed up of saying 'no they didn't' . The curse of knowing a subject as well as the presenter and realising they're winging it.

@clivebaxter6354

22 күн бұрын

Only the poorly educated on her subject are easily impressed by her. She's the pound land Kenneth Clark!

@robkeeleycomposer

21 күн бұрын

She’s the stupid persons idea of a scholar. I can’t bear her

The Goon Show, Steptoe ans Son, Tony Hancock, Alf Garnet and many more are all preceded with a trigger warning on BBC Radio 4 Extra

@winifredrobinson5132

21 күн бұрын

Don't forget Monty Python series and their films. The woke brigade would need to be hospitalised if they watched them!!!!!!😂😂😂

What a pity BBC used to be a great Organisation

A marvelous programme. First watched it as a boy in Scotland. After seeing this, I've dusted off the DVDs and will be watching it again, instead of the adulterated new version. That the once rightly respected BBC continues to sink to new lows is truly disappointing.

Why are you lemons still paying the tv licence fee. If you just watch netflix or youtube you don't have to pay. Cancel your tv licence today.. defund the bbc.

@mjones4083

22 күн бұрын

Agree , I "activated" by deactivating my licence payments last year . Feel so much better , dare I say "cleansed" by now not helping fund anti-British , anti-western broadcasting propaganda .

@cherryseptember8697

21 күн бұрын

Yes, I cancelled my TV licence several years ago after my husband and I realised we just hadn't watched any TV in the previous year. We just couldn't stand the biased reporting of news, the propaganda and the lies, even in their dramas. I'm sure the BBC etc have sunk even lower than they had done in those days and we do not miss any of it for a second. To not have to watch the cursed BBC is a liberating experience and contributes to a positive mental health.

@stracepipe

21 күн бұрын

I cancelled the TV licence a couple of years ago on principle. I've had to amend my viewing habits slightly but I am just not prepared to fund the anti British and morally bankrupt BBC anymore. It frustrates me that so many people complain bitterly about the BBC, and rail against the TV licence, but aren't prepared to so much as mildly inconvenience themselves in order to change it.

Douglas Murray is a voice of reason.

Coincidentally, I only recently discovered and watched Clark's 1969 series, and agree with Douglas 100% that it's a gold standard. Highly recommend.

I have a signed copy of Clake's Civilization. It is one of my most priced possessions. The Western World, and especially every subsequent Documentary Maker, owes a tremendous debt to Clake's Civilization (1969), Attenborough's Life on Earth (1979) and Sagan's Cosmos (1980). By the way, I own works by every author they mentioned, including Murray, and I am a very peaceful left wing person. Something is very very wrong with the BBC and the British Right Wing but somehow Woke Government.

@adrianjohnson7920

20 күн бұрын

The BBCs current mandate is to dumb down the populace to be an easily governed flock of sheeple.

@chrisikaris5891

17 күн бұрын

So glad you mentioned the other series. Growing up in the States in the 1970s and 80s, I considered the BBC to be the gold standard. Sad to say, that no longer seems to be the case. BTW, I would add three more gems: Bronowski's "The Ascent of Man", "Connections" by J. Burke, and Jonathan Miller's "The Body in Question".

The queen of "smug" goes up against a worthy contender, no clear winner

Why is Sky News Australia the total opposite to Sky UK?

You would never guess from this discussion that I said in that 10 minute introduction how influential Civilisation had been on me, and that it was this series that in a way launched me on my intellectual career. If you have access to it, do look at what I actually said! I did point out that it was striking that Spain did not figure in the series (I also said that one should not watch these programmes only concerned with the absences, and that Clark himself had wanted to go to Spain)

Since I don't pay the TV licence tax any more, I don't watch the Big Brother Channel (BBC), so I have no idea what they are up to, unless articles like this expose it. I'll have to see this 'list' and see what interests me. Great work as always from both Rita and Douglas.

Mary Beard and Anne Applebaum (recommend her book GULAG written before she went woke) view history through a left lens which diminshes them IMO. Good news is, the original series is free to watch online.

@StefanMochnacki

16 күн бұрын

No way is Anne Applebaum "woke"! She has, for example, written an extensive essay against woke cancel culture. I guess you define "woke" as opposition to national populism as embodied in Donald Trump, Jarosław Kaczyński and Victor Orban (and perhaps Vladimir Putin). She is one of many conservatives who oppose both national populism and wokism, just as many leftists have come to oppose these dangerous distortions of reality and human decency.

The non western world should thank us for almost everything......

@amialal4510

21 күн бұрын

@nielsvnedsen2028 They are thanking us. By coming to our countries and scream racism. And we are 💩ing our pants groveling.

@bonzodog6872

18 күн бұрын

Yes indeed Thanks for stealing our gold, art treasures and oil and for putting our people in bondage for centuries

When I was studying A Level Classics, I watched Mary Beard's debate with Boris Johnson over the ancient civilisations of Rome and Greece in which she dismissed all of Greek civilisation as racist. Needless to say, I never read anything she ever wrote despite the fact that my tutor recommended her to me as the greatest Classical scholar.

@graememorrison333

19 күн бұрын

Oh, so THAT'S why she 'won' the debate!

@abigailslade3824

18 күн бұрын

We had to study her as well, she is the definition of a cherry picker.

Mary Beard lost me when she compared a Roman Emperor to Donald Trump - because of his hairstyle as I remember. She's somewhat obsessed, and therefore not a reliable contributor. She sees history via a very narrow set of the values of her time...

@piper081147

21 күн бұрын

I'd be interested to know which Roman Emperor she would compare to Biden.

@frankyyaggabot6222

20 күн бұрын

@@piper081147 I don't know if they had one - the Romans would exit clueless incompetents by a side door (a necessary function of a healthy Republic that seems to have gone amiss in our Age).

Presentism. Real problem.

This is incredible

Thanks for sharing this video. 🙏🙏👍👍🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

The definitive example of sawing your own legs off to walk tall in the new paradigm.

Mary Beard on telly - where’s the off button

@robkeeleycomposer

21 күн бұрын

Or a large paper bag.

By amazing coincidence, just last week I was chatting with someone and brought up the "Civilization" series I loved to watch on PBS back in the 70's which he also loved to watch. Knowing the political rot that is going on today, I casually mentioned that I'd bet "Civilization" would never be allowed back on the air in this day and age if anyone suggested showing the reruns because it would be deemed too politically incorrect and too pro-Western civilization. Now I just came across this clip. As surely as night turns to day ...

"The idiot who praises, with enthusiastic tone, all centuries but this, and every country but his own." (The Mikado)

Yeah... I can totally see Muslim countries discouraging and even berating any Tv series about the great cultural contributions of Islam - NOT! Why are Western leftists so ashamed of the contributions of their country's?! It totally boggles the mind!

@daveglover6115

22 күн бұрын

The Doctrine of Demons - it's worldwide and going to get worse...

@anonygent

22 күн бұрын

That would be a very short program or filled with fiction.

@shtroizn

22 күн бұрын

@@anonygent Well - I agree on most accounts. There are some extremely impressive buildings but that is about the extent of Islamic contribution

She’s got the same outlook as the pro Palestinian mob

Who were the "advisors/experts" to the security dept.? If one owns books on middle eastern art, Persian poetry, a King Tutankhamun coffee table book, and T. E. Lawrence and his 1926 book Seven Pillars of Wisdom, does not equal radicalization. Owning Chinese pottery, silk, & cookbooks doesn't make you a communist. Studying art, literature, and history of all cultures is not a gateway to scary radical anything.🤦‍♀️🤷🏽

@adrianjohnson7920

20 күн бұрын

Dangerous words, my friend! WE will soon be living in the society described in "Fareinheit 415" and they'll come for those books. . . . 😳

Instead of pulling down Western culture why don't people celebrate their own? Or is it a question of sour grapes? As for Mary Beard, what an opportunist!

Mary Beard never strikes me as a serious historian . & to me "trigger warnings " mean something worth watching ie grown up, factual and informing .

@adrianjohnson7920

20 күн бұрын

Mary Beard is an ignorant person's idea of an intellectual. She's a condescending, woke snob.

Kenneth Clarke's wonderful series is currently available on KZread. I've just been re-watching it over the last few days. It's a feast for the senses as well as a great learning experience. Watch the first episode "By the skin of our teeth" about the fall of great civilisations, and then look around you and wonder: how close are we in the West to Midnight now?

The unappetizing Mary Beard appeared in a much more recent series on the same subject. When the Americans bought that series they insisted on cutting most of Beard's contribution - because they perceive her as a tatty weirdo with little to say.

I stumbled upon the marvelously restored reissue of the series on KZread. The text on which it is based was required reading for a European study tour during my second year at college. The tour included many of the sites featured in the video. In Dame Beard's defense, I rather enjoyed her videos on ancient Rome.

I'm old enough to remember when Sir Kenneth Clark's "Civilisation" first came out. I didn't have any means of recording it (there might have been VCR's then but I didn't have one) so it became a ritual to gather in front of the TV every week to watch the next episode. This is the first I've heard of "trigger warnings" about it. That's horrible.

if you liked ‘Civilisation’ then also check out "The Ascent of Man" 1973. Also BBC, also commissioned by David Attenborough. Personally thought 'the ascent of man' was way more interesting.

@ncmcdonnell5486

15 күн бұрын

I agree. Both excellent but The Ascent of Man the better of the two.

English self-deprecation: a virtue or a defect?

@garysmith1931

22 күн бұрын

A virtue, it helps us avoid worse errors like hubris.

@cherryseptember8697

21 күн бұрын

English self-deprecation is usually done with humour and modesty and is a great strength and virtue.... but that is not what is happening here with the BBC...the BBC is full of self- hatred of Britain and its history and has utter contempt for the ordinary British citizen. It is trying to commit cultural suicide and take their viewers with it.

@amialal4510

21 күн бұрын

@@garysmith1931 we're losing as we speak.

@garysmith1931

21 күн бұрын

@@amialal4510 Relax, it's a marathon not a sprint, the Roman Empire left it's mark, even to today. Latin and Greek as Languages left their mark, English and the Internet are leaving theirs too.

@amialal4510

21 күн бұрын

@@garysmith1931 Do you really think it matters when our world is collapsing before our very eyes?

-attack- criticize everything. If it exist, criticize it. If it's popular, criticize it until it's dust. There is no rhyme or reason to it. Just relentless blind senseless criticism, wrapped up in impenetrable jargon and babble and disguised as "compassion" or "fight for justice".

I absolutely love Kenneth Clarke and the Civilisation series and cherish my DVD boxset! I mentioned it to my history lecturer as a favourite of mine, and the look of horror on his face said it all. This was 20 years ago, but I think I would be thrown out of university for daring to mention it now.

Mary Beard . Whose bread I eat,his song I sing ?

Brilliantly expressed, Douglas! I look forward to a MARY BEARD series on the Art of China; and its influence on Western Civilisation. Professor Beard is a minor TV 'academic'; who loathes and despises her own culture: except that she accepts the salaries for being a complete PRODUCT of that same Civilisation. What a trite little 'feminist'!

I’m a postwar child who read physics in the late 60s and well remember Kenneth Clark’s visit to my university in ‘69 (I think). An extremely polite, well educated and highly knowledgeable (to a stellar standard), I and my compatriots found him to be one of the intellectual giants of the time. Later in the year, ‘Civilisation’ crammed endless minutiae of wonderful knowledge into my postgraduate world - the programmes made me want to find out more, and I haven’t stopped!! I tried to watch some of Beard’s dirges on TV and, unlike Kenneth Clark and his omnipotent knowledge, I found her to be a vacuum trying to expunge my brain of any worthwhile knowledge. If that woman is ‘introducing’ the repeats of ‘Civilisation’, then it’s not for me. I suspect that hundreds of thousands of intelligent people will follow me and, instead, sit in the garden watching slugs destroy their lettuce and radish. Much the same thing, actually. 👍🇬🇧👍🇦🇺👍

Verification needed for the B.B.C. I have read a lot of history books and see the reality of civil evidence starting from ajudeo Christian ethic,

Thanks for the heads up. Ingratitude and rebellion are cheap fashion accessories for the terminally insecure

I can’t stand Mary Beard she has a huge following, but I think she sees what she wants to see.

Calm down, Douglas! It's not a big deal. I have the series on DVD and realised that it is a product of it's time. Many people might not realise this, so it helps to clarify it. I don't agree to changing the content of the video, though, but I assume the BBC hasn't changed it. It doesn't offend me, and I agree that it is very good. Clickbait Doug is at it again. 🙄

mary beard should be embarrased

Dear Mary beard weren’t the romans western dear ? You won’t be able to study them anymore as they’re WESTERN dear.