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

@morganrobinson8042

3 жыл бұрын

Mood

@MrTigracho

3 жыл бұрын

Good morals are often thrown away in a moment of crisis.

@nightlypiano4116

3 жыл бұрын

@@blep7943 i assume

@Jobe-13

3 жыл бұрын

😂

@QuigleTheGnome

3 жыл бұрын

Sophia Walsh Long “and then it broke again”

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

@jean-paulaudette9246

3 жыл бұрын

Hey, it worked for me, I now know *way* more about him than I did.

@whoknows7968

3 жыл бұрын

@@jean-paulaudette9246 You may want to proof read that comment.

China through history: *Some assembly may be required*

@lukecommins1096

3 жыл бұрын

China in the 21st Century: Assembly Achieved!!!

@ronanlooney3112

3 жыл бұрын

Luke Commins China in 21st century: Taiwan not included

@TheLivetuner

3 жыл бұрын

@@ronanlooney3112 Taiwan DLC, Hong Kong expansion included with Season Pass

@lukecommins1096

3 жыл бұрын

@@TheLivetuner The sequel, China 2: Tibetan Boogaloo

@darkfang797

3 жыл бұрын

but only sometimes

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.

@JustGrowingUp84

3 жыл бұрын

Loooool! And their collective teaching would be called BattleTeach? Hmm, that's too specific, would apply only to some, like Sun Tzu. Maybe PhilosoTech? Lol!

@unsapient2197

3 жыл бұрын

"Mercenary Philosophers" just reminds me of Byleth from Fire Emblem lol

@donbionicle

3 жыл бұрын

Legalist cowards! Dare you refuse the PhiloChall of Clan Jade Empire?

@rekindle7602

3 жыл бұрын

I would 10000% play this tabletop campaign

@wilagaton9627

3 жыл бұрын

Its just begging for an anime adaptation. . .

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

@AnEnormousNerd

3 жыл бұрын

That's a band name, that is.

@richmcgee434

3 жыл бұрын

"Will ponder the infinite for food"

@BlueDog241

3 жыл бұрын

I'd buy it.

@lachlancampbell6328

3 жыл бұрын

Am I the only one who could see Olly of philosophy tube wearing one?

@thumper8684

3 жыл бұрын

The Mo-ists were literal warrior philosophers. They would only play defence, but they had whole manuals on how to do it. That did not make them popular with the new Qin dynasty who, I am sure, were extra diligent in burning the Mo-ist books.

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

@bsmith952

3 жыл бұрын

Lilith Serena respect ✊🏼

@mcklinky2400

3 жыл бұрын

Have a good trip

@lilithserena342

3 жыл бұрын

Brad Smith thank

@lilithserena342

3 жыл бұрын

Mcklinky actually just heading home from one

@kittykat5090

3 жыл бұрын

n o i c e

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

@QuigleTheGnome

3 жыл бұрын

Enthusiastic Zestful Villainy hmmmm I wonder what there talking *cheeto in background supporting people to do gun violence*

@samurguy9906

3 жыл бұрын

Lucy Holland looking at either candidate (and the recent riots), the obvious course of action is to buy more guns and lots more bullets.

@pathfindersavant3988

3 жыл бұрын

​@@QuigleTheGnome Why don't you go back to burning down minority neighborhoods and destroying statues of Winston Churchill and Thomas Jefferson? Its safe to do so since many of your Democrat mayors have decided to not enforce the law on while you still support "The Party", plus add the massive increases in "Blue Flues" and there won't be anyone to stop you aside from concerned citizens who (for soooooooooome reason) don't want to see their communities destroyed by roving packs of insane zealots and cultists

@q.c8674

3 жыл бұрын

@@pathfindersavant3988 Well this is all over the place. Other that the "destroying statues" comment (do the States even have statues of Churchill), I have no clue what this comment is advocating for and I am honestly curious. Would you mind elaborating on what "Blue Flues" are and who the "cultists" are?

@Flying-Maytree

3 жыл бұрын

@@q.c8674 That commenter is an idiot but the comment about Churchill statutes is about folks in England pulling down some statues of racists (which Churchill definitely was, despite his good points) in imitation of what's going on in the U.S. "Blue Flu" is when cops call in "sick" to work, even though they aren't, as a form of protest. Cops aren't allowed to officially go on strike in many states so they do this instead if they have sick days saved up. "Blue" = cops and "Flu" = fake sickness.

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

@kevinforbesofficial

3 жыл бұрын

Marco Polo walked into China like he was walking onto a yacht.

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

@charlierosesmith3807

3 жыл бұрын

I mean you can still do that if you have enough money

@mariuchiha4664

3 жыл бұрын

Charlie Rose Smith It’s also very illegal depending on the manner in which you acquire those people.

@arnaudmenard5114

3 жыл бұрын

The 21st century, the time when you can send dancing people as gif instead.

@gustavoboscardin9351

3 жыл бұрын

@@mariuchiha4664 it's only illegal if you get caught

@debbiechan8657

3 жыл бұрын

It's more common than you may think back in ancient China. They did this until, idk maybe a few centuries ago (?)

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

@pineaplecatcat8581

3 жыл бұрын

Like we where doing this right before carona XD

@LostInTheClouds

3 жыл бұрын

Try emailing the authors of the pay-to-read essays. They get paid per essay and get no part of the money from whatever website now has the rights to their stuff so they usually have no qualms about sharing.

@daffo595

3 жыл бұрын

Yo we also had to memorise 弟子规 as children so

@darkpixel1128

3 жыл бұрын

@@LostInTheClouds works too for research papers that are paywalled, the authors get nothing from paywalled websites and are usually happy to just send the paper to you as a pdf

@kzh3850

3 жыл бұрын

I never understood why we had to learn this, no one follows his principles in China nowadays anyways

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

@AxxLAfriku

3 жыл бұрын

WOAH WOAH WOAH!!! Let me get this perfectly straight: You comment something that is completely unrelated to the fact that I have two HAZARDOUSLY HOT girlfriends? Considering that I am the unprettiest KZreadr worldwide, it is really incredible. Yet you did not mention it at all. I am VERY disappointed, dear kole

@kittykat5090

3 жыл бұрын

@@AxxLAfriku what

@kittykat5090

3 жыл бұрын

fuckin' mood

@mythichysteria124

3 жыл бұрын

AxxL you literally said something like this in the last video lol

@VashdaCrash

3 жыл бұрын

@@mythichysteria124 I think he's doing some kind of avant-garde memeing

"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."

@oceanberserker

3 жыл бұрын

I see what you did there. Nice!

@nocontextoyster5946

3 жыл бұрын

“Oh I see, you wanna make it like that? I’ll knock your warmongering forehead out of that to-go box hat.”

@illmakeupanamelater4354

3 жыл бұрын

Confucius say: you can all hold these fortune cookies

@cjsmalley5506

3 жыл бұрын

@@nocontextoyster5946 So here's the real golden rule: I'm way above you weak rookies/Confucius say: you cannot hold these fortune cookies!

@covenawhite4855

3 жыл бұрын

Epic Rap Battle of History 😁

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

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

@9051team

3 жыл бұрын

I mean during his time did the concept of 60 secs equals a min even exist?

@tuttiflooti

3 жыл бұрын

@@9051team no. They used incense

@highbahamut6188

3 жыл бұрын

and look what china has become today

@Kruppuchino

3 жыл бұрын

Every 2 incense burned a child dies in africa

@rezandrarizkyirianto-1933

3 жыл бұрын

He is speaking the language of gods

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

@krcmaine

3 жыл бұрын

I had to go back and pause it, it was worth it. 🤣

@Falxifer95

3 жыл бұрын

Marco Polo is so narcissistic and vain he gets a tier all for himself lol

@kyrab7914

9 ай бұрын

I think it's kinda wholesome? Like we don't even know if Homer was real, but still ppl venerate him

"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."

@seleneshusi3204

3 жыл бұрын

I still remembered them to this day

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

@terner1234

3 жыл бұрын

"The comment I replied to is wrong." - Confucius

@thehorseformerlywithoutana2522

3 жыл бұрын

Man who confucius me with Confucius is Confuciud.

@Kartissa

3 жыл бұрын

"Who is it who says these things they say I said?" - Confucius

@j3011

3 жыл бұрын

"You can never trust a secondary account" -Socrates

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

@richmcgee434

3 жыл бұрын

Blue is on record as having admitted to burning the Library of Alexandria to the ground, you know. It's at least as canonical as Aunt May having been a Herald of Galactus.

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?

@Duiker36

3 жыл бұрын

I mean, yes, except that he had multiple students who wrote his stuff down, rather than one student who used him as a mouthpiece.

@Fearofthemonster

3 жыл бұрын

@@Duiker36 socrates had multiple people(at least 2 of them his students) write him. It is just, other than plato they don't tell us much and plato like you have said used him as a mouthpiece.

@safahasan486

3 жыл бұрын

Either Confucius is Chinese Socrates or Socrates is Greek Confucius

@musAKulture

3 жыл бұрын

that's actually a really good comparison.

@krcmaine

3 жыл бұрын

Kinda sounds like Chinese Jesus to me...

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

@wgreywind7038

3 жыл бұрын

Don't forget about the best way to fill your heart.

@battafyuwi6760

3 жыл бұрын

Hey hey hey Confucius here

@shiningaster3871

3 жыл бұрын

@@wgreywind7038 Ah yes, no chest, all butt to fill your heart.

@soupy4099

3 жыл бұрын

Teddy?!?

@oscardelafuente8649

3 жыл бұрын

Good to see you are a man of both worlds

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

@impii552

3 жыл бұрын

1912?

@MatheusHenrique-od8di

3 жыл бұрын

Do you have any idea how little this narrows it down?

@squirrel_killer-

3 жыл бұрын

So pre-WW2. China has held together since then... Others than the little issue of of near constant civil war between two particular ideologies which have committed endless atrocities each with one of them only recently gaining near complete control of China.

"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

@2tehnik

3 жыл бұрын

What about Juche though? Wasn't that North Korea's state philosophy from the get go?

@VashdaCrash

3 жыл бұрын

@@2tehnik That may be because you are an actual cultured person, most of us are just making memes lol

@jsgwam

3 жыл бұрын

Ah hello there

@jsgwam

3 жыл бұрын

Where is the second?

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."

@Ledabot

3 жыл бұрын

On the other hand, the guy has exactly one source, and it's a guy who throws shade at the current emperor by writing about how bad this ancient emperor was. The same ancient emperor that conquered all of china. Can have been that useless if he did that after all.

@John_Weiss

3 жыл бұрын

One of those moments when the human race underwent a ruler-induced lobotomy. 😡

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

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

@1r587

3 жыл бұрын

Fun fact, there actually is one on the solstice this year.

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

@BradyPostma

3 жыл бұрын

6:23

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

@LotusHearted

3 жыл бұрын

Go say hi to your brother, he’s a bit higher up in the comments.

@Wasabi-rs5lv

3 жыл бұрын

@@LotusHearted Looks like his brother moved a few comments below him now.

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.

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

@stormrunner4081

3 жыл бұрын

I’m not saying he needs to bring them back but there’s cake in it for him if he does

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

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

@sella_love1790

3 жыл бұрын

I love that!

"I found a goose guys" my favourite osp quote

@jean-paulaudette9246

3 жыл бұрын

Man, I sooo want a copy of that Goose Game. That was one of the most entertaining streams they did. Think I'll watch it again!

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA -Blue 2020

@biliminsrlar5752

3 жыл бұрын

Such wise words.

@JAzzWoods-ik4vv

3 жыл бұрын

-Blue, always

@famoladejo3655

3 жыл бұрын

Lol No truer words have ever been spoken XD

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

@daddyleon

3 жыл бұрын

I'm sure a few other nations as well.

@JustGrowingUp84

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, I instantly thought of Socrates.

@szilveszterforgo8776

3 жыл бұрын

@@JustGrowingUp84 What do you mean?

@menpower1

3 жыл бұрын

@@szilveszterforgo8776 Philosophers who became a linchpin of their philosophical tradition without actually writing anything (their disciples did the writing for them): who do you think of?

@suddenllybah

3 жыл бұрын

@@menpower1 Jesus?

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

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

@unsapient2197

3 жыл бұрын

pun hopefully not intended lol

@InnocentNoodle

3 жыл бұрын

Hey, no bluebois allowed

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

@wackypacky6917

3 жыл бұрын

The comments section tho...

@fredpenton7441

3 жыл бұрын

@@wackypacky6917 So, the comments section in general?

@AbbeyRoadkill1

3 жыл бұрын

That would be a short video.

@John_Weiss

3 жыл бұрын

@@AbbeyRoadkill1 But it would be fun to watch all of the heads explode when they learn that, "Nazareth" was an invention to con a Dowager Roman Empress on pilgrimage to The Holy Land, all because she didn't understand that, "Nazarene" was a school of Jewish thought, not residents of a town. (The site she was taken to was a well near an old Jewish graveyard. Problem is, the Jews of 2000 years ago _never_ put their graveyards anywhere near where they lived, nevermind near the source of their drinking water! They did, however, way the bodies of their dead, so they would've had a dedicated water supply for that purpose.)

@dizzydaisy909

2 ай бұрын

Since nobody said it, I think you'd enjoy reading The Life of Jesus by David Strauss, which is exactly this.

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.

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!*

@azkon7975

3 жыл бұрын

*Except for the Huns [raiding noises] To be fair, IIRC, the they didn't so much rule as they just said "give us tribute and rule by yourselves." It was more like a loose association of territories that paid taxes to the same place.

@terner1234

3 жыл бұрын

*collapses 100 years later*

@Lightstrikers

3 жыл бұрын

Challenge Fail! Gengis Khan's Empire and Alexander"s Empire fell as soon as they died.

@Practitioner_of_Diogenes

3 жыл бұрын

@@terner1234 To be fair, during that time in history, controlling such a massive empire would've been impossible. This also happened with the Greek empire after Alexander's death, and eventually the Roman Empire. This is largely why up till the mid to late 1700s, we don't see nations and empires larger than the state of Texas a vast majority of the time, and the ones that do end up bigger generally collapse within a few decades.

@robertmiller9735

3 жыл бұрын

@@Practitioner_of_Diogenes Yeah, beaurocracy as one of the great advances of history...

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

@robopope7584

3 жыл бұрын

Like a hike to the opposite of the eastern hell. Edit: fixing dumb autocorrect

@dezopenguin9649

3 жыл бұрын

Not to mention that the practice of viewing historical regimes through the lens of their adherence to Confucian ethics sounds an *awful lot* like reading the history of Israel in the Old Testament.

@Void-cn6rn

3 жыл бұрын

And a bunch of it conflicted to boot!

@richmcgee434

3 жыл бұрын

OTOH, none of Confucius' lads claimed he came back as a zombie.

@Falxifer95

3 жыл бұрын

@@dezopenguin9649 the amount of ancient philosophers, prophets and other sages around the world that preached any form of pacifist, moralistic and ethical beliefs that are ignored by the various despots in history on their lands and beyond is staggering.

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

@Adi_Ce

3 жыл бұрын

Lol I remember epic rap battles

@rezandrarizkyirianto-1933

3 жыл бұрын

You don't wanna stand in the path of Lao Tzu today...

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.

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

@RoadkillMarionette

3 күн бұрын

I thought he was gonna say "I will make you PAY"

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

@user-vb3rv2cr4t

3 жыл бұрын

I absolutely love your comment

@gamingemail769

3 жыл бұрын

Confucius, truly a man ahead of his time. P.S. I also really like your comment.

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.

@tybuss6211

3 жыл бұрын

A WHAT, which one

@raptorus7773

3 жыл бұрын

@@tybuss6211 confuciusornis

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

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

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

@madisonstoner7405

3 жыл бұрын

THE CHASER HAS BECOME THE CHOSED

@quote6013

3 жыл бұрын

Dame fortuna has had his franking privileges revoked.

"topsy turvy slicey stabby" 5:42 iconic

“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

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.

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

@mgdsheseverywhere.3457

3 жыл бұрын

longmothman Same

@1.red.panda.1

3 жыл бұрын

Same

@mark_gerard6392

3 жыл бұрын

Oh gosh *SAME*

@alecgunson2441

3 жыл бұрын

You got a shoutout on the osp discord and I have never been so jealous.

@tybuss6211

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah its a weird feeling but a good one

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

Ah yeah, the wise chinese man who invented confusion

@remuslebeau6570

3 жыл бұрын

I love your pun.

@sebastianchavez1225

3 жыл бұрын

@@remuslebeau6570 Thanks pal It´s actually a reference to one of those "Miss Universe" like contest, where a participant was asked who Confucius was and she UNIRONICALLY answered more or less what i commented up there.

@faechan92

3 жыл бұрын

El chino-japones que invento la confusión.

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

@redwitch12

3 жыл бұрын

This is like the expansion pack. The video equivalent of clicking the links provided in "history of the entire world i guess" and ending up on a six-hour Wiki Walk.

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!

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

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

@codiegonzalez1747

3 жыл бұрын

25 bitter Americans with me whassup

@robertf3606

3 жыл бұрын

Hey man, we ain't stacking each other like cordwood yet so we're doing ok so far. It could be a hell of a lot worse

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

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

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

@corrat4866

3 жыл бұрын

Shubham Pawaskar get out

@scrumptious_bussy1037

3 жыл бұрын

This pun makes my eyes hurt I love it 😍

@thehorseformerlywithoutana2522

3 жыл бұрын

Confuscius say, I am so Confucius.

@Falxifer95

3 жыл бұрын

Cease!

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

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!

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.

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

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.

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

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

Just like highschool, I'm early for history lol

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

@hedgehog3180

3 жыл бұрын

[Sad Trumpet Noise]

@adamwu4565

3 жыл бұрын

There probably was a Chinese version of Alex Jones. He just got torched along with all the others during the Qin.

@qus.9617

3 жыл бұрын

Hong Xiuquan: Hello is it me you're looking for?

@covenawhite4855

3 жыл бұрын

China got the better deal. Imagine if hard times made amazing leaders. Leaders which convinced people of different opinions to respect each other no matter which political party they were from. Leaders who talked about human rights while embracing cultural diffences.

I love your videos Blue! I honestly learned so much about history through this channel

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

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

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

7:28 points for the stealth ad

literally just looked at Confucius in ancient history, your timing is perfect

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

The amount of saltyness is ASTOUNDING

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

@terner1234

3 жыл бұрын

this literally is the context

@richmcgee434

3 жыл бұрын

Honestly surprised the phrase popped up instead of a video about the death of Attila the Hun, or urban myths about Catherine the Great, or a scholarly discussion of the life and times of Kenneth Pinyan. Don't look that last one up at work, BTW.

@mjbull5156

3 жыл бұрын

The Emperor liked to ride.

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

You know, I've been watching this channel for a while now, but this is the most Overly Sarcastic I've seen either Red or Blue be!

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

Insightful indeed

As confusing as the life and history of Confucius was, I was actually more perplexed that it apparently took several Mengzi for that mid-sized battleship to finally sink even though it was previously shown to be hit with the four red pegs that were required to sink it.

I love this channel. Its really good for my students in social studies.

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

@galecarp

3 жыл бұрын

I have a good friend and his wife is the 83th generation descendant of Confucius. Both of them live now in Germany.

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

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

I just did a 15 mile hike and now I’m in a bathtub with sliced baguette and camembrie and wine and opened KZread and I see that OSP uploaded and... I’m just having the best day that I’ve had since quarantine began. I love you, Blue. I love you, Red. I love you fellow history and lit lovers. May your camembrie be soft. May your baguette be aesthetic. May your wine glass be full. I wish you all all the best.

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

Last time I was this early China was one country.