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@Dowlphin

8 ай бұрын

17:03 Datastream error - for your convenience in case you missed it and are still fighting the battle against the green scourge. (Which is a worthwhile one. 😉)

@efafe4972

8 ай бұрын

lol nice moistcritical

@TempOne-vh4fd

8 ай бұрын

You put on a HELMET for safety. LOLOLOLOL

@jswets5007

8 ай бұрын

The higher the infant mortality rate is, the higher the average age of death will be relative to the average life expectancy. Ie, average age of death = (1 *+* infant mortality rate per one-hundred) *X* average life expectancy.

@medborgarjournalisternags4777

8 ай бұрын

How refreshing to see your videos, always bringing a genuine (and above all LOGICAL!) take on history instead of the "wok3 " nonsense which is constantly forced down our throats...! 🤦🏼‍♀️ Much love from Sweden 👊❤️🇸🇪

Calling the renaissance woke is like calling Native Americans hippies.

@ScrappyXGC

8 ай бұрын

🤣👍 I was laughing so hard I had multple tries to get those two emojies right, still can't spell 😂

@JackHicks

8 ай бұрын

Well, they both had long hair, wanted to live in some kind of paleolithic way of life, smoked "weed"... 😋

@caesarortega5249

8 ай бұрын

As a Native American I can say the key difference is that hippieism is a response to a certain type of societal expectation as opposed to Natives in which it was just simply a way of life absent of any political or subversive social ideology. @@JackHicks

@JackHicks

8 ай бұрын

@@caesarortega5249 I don't know if I'd been understood, but just in case, I must say I was joking. I apologize if you found it offensive; that was not my intention.

@ScrappyXGC

8 ай бұрын

@@JackHicksI'm part native, I started laughing at the joke immediately. "Peace pipes man" came to mind. Lest we forget, we can bind stones to sticks and throw them and bash each other's head in 😂Total hippie move 👍

"Were the people of the renaissance woke?" is something I'd expect Philomena Cunk to ask an historian

@deutschesvaterlandfankanal

8 ай бұрын

Nope,because we're talking about the fucking renaissance,the opposite of woke modernity

@johnnygreenface4195

8 ай бұрын

​@@deutschesvaterlandfankanaleepy past

@alexanderwhite298

8 ай бұрын

Woke = progressive and progressive = woke. Must remember that what drives society forward is the progressive movements.

@Gilbrae

8 ай бұрын

And she would probably ask: "Is it true that the woke culture spread at the time in the West partly thanks to the travels of Marco Polo?"

@brawndothethirstmutilator9848

8 ай бұрын

@alexanderwhite298, Progressing right toward absurdity and authoritarianism.

Don't we all love it when history is rewritten and reinterpreted to further a political agenda

@Fuk99999

8 ай бұрын

You either get “Greeks were all totally homosexuals and that’s why homosexuality is totally normal” or you get “Atlantis was real and was the home of the white race” It’s wild

@diannt9583

8 ай бұрын

From Left or from Right - it is entirely a horrid shame. Don't kid yourself - they all do it.

@atom6799

8 ай бұрын

history has always been an interpretation through the bias of those who write it no matter if it was just yesterday, or a 1000 years

@correctpolitically4784

8 ай бұрын

​@@actuallyKriminellno . R1b hunted Mammoth in Russia and found its way all the way to the west of ireland. From there we covered the planet. Those are verifiable facts.

@6Haunted-Days

8 ай бұрын

Yea we’re seeing a TON of that in lovely FloriDUH 🙄😂…..just unbelievable BS ignorance…..

"Those who cannot conceive Friendship as a substantive love but only as a disguise or elaboration of Eros betray the fact that they have never had a Friend." -C.S. Lewis

@keriannelester4046

8 ай бұрын

C.S.Lewis for the burn.

@patricialavery8270

8 ай бұрын

I need this quote for my Tolkien groups when the subject of Frodo and Sam comes up

@ScrappyXGC

8 ай бұрын

@@patricialavery8270🤣Yea that whole subject matter is stupid. Stupid from people who've never had to fight together.

@shteatinggrin

8 ай бұрын

@@ScrappyXGCThats the key thing, they’ve never had a struggle that made eachother bond

@ScrappyXGC

8 ай бұрын

@@shteatinggrin Preach! Even if you don't like the person, you are dead on about struggling together. You can smile into your brother's eyes after you both survived the crap

When he said woke I spat my tea across the room then the rubbish started spouting you are right for calling this out👍🇬🇧

@metatronyt

8 ай бұрын

Thanks and I can imagine

@richber

8 ай бұрын

Coffee here.

@redhen2123

8 ай бұрын

I had to replay it, I thought he said Baroque.

@collinnicolazzo2065

8 ай бұрын

​@@metatronytwhat channel is this

@patrickancona1193

8 ай бұрын

@@collinnicolazzo2065dipship McGee & password alliance for grade schools….. I’m taking a wild stab at er

Thats the guy who would refer to the Zulus as African Americans.

@CHLangley

8 ай бұрын

I don't know why, but I find this comment hilarious.

@batteredwarrior

8 ай бұрын

*Zulus

@maryhildreth754

8 ай бұрын

@@batteredwarrior thanks. I'll correct that. Didn't notice the mistake.

@girl4granted

8 ай бұрын

😂

@SRBOMBONICA86

8 ай бұрын

Omg yes 😂😂😂

>The LGBT community saying that you're only born gay. >The LGBT community also saying that training with, battling with, and having genuine friendships with other men in the military made you gay. What do you want? What. Do. You. Want?

@NuLiForm

5 ай бұрын

True Gay is from birth, the Science says so....but if you Choose that lifestyle it is a Preference....lol. Most gay folks i know also insist on this.(some of them go out of their way to hunt down & go ape shyte on pedos too, just because)...& we have all had our run in's with the 'woke' crowd who seems to ebb & flow whatever direction the wind blows....arg. What do they want?...seems obvious what they want...attention...and Lots of preferential treatment...which aint right.

We live in a very weird time, where we have the ability to learn about almost everything, yet so many choose to wade in falsity.

@arcwiz

8 ай бұрын

Brave New World

@frocoshake2107

8 ай бұрын

I think that it ultimately comes down to a fear of reality. I know that sounds absolutely crazy, but it's the only explanation that makes any sense at this point. Like you see these people, these conspiracy theorists, who say something like aliens exist or there's a cabal of rich people who diddle kids, then when there's credible evidence that comes out that those are both correct, they never talk about them again. Rather than having their beliefs vindicated, they just act like they never had those beliefs in the first place or they handwave them away.

@jamesr123

6 ай бұрын

Many (most?) people prefer comfortable fictions to uncomfortable facts.

@deeh5126

6 ай бұрын

@@jamesr123Yes. I think this permeates much more than just this part of existence. I do believe it is at least part of the meaning behind the teaching of Jesus that "narrow is the gate and hard is the way". Not at all implying that I am going to make it through. In fact, the more I learn, the less I think I will. But I am still striving. (Also, for context, I don't ascribe to the traditional Christian idea of most of what Jesus taught and said, but I do consider him a great teacher and example.)

@RetroProg

6 ай бұрын

To be fair, we have never lived in a time where falsity has been so prevalent. The Brave New World many thought the INternet would be was soon dragged down to the ninth circle of hell.

I once had a coworker that believed that no one lived to old age in past periods. I tried to explain about infant mortality and how that would skew the stats regarding life expectancy. It was like talking to a rock.

@joejones9520

8 ай бұрын

yes, average life expectancy thruout most of human history was 10 yrs old, if that meant everyone died around ten we wouldnt be here.

@IamOutOfNames

8 ай бұрын

True, lot of people are lacking in general education and don't understand basic consepts like averages, can't have discussion with someone like that.

@RebeccaOre

8 ай бұрын

It’s all too common a belief. If you survived infancy and for males adolescence and for females, too early childbearing, you’d probably make to your sixties or older.

@willfakaroni5808

8 ай бұрын

Even without infant mortality people still died relatively young, if you lived in England or wales during the 1841 the average life expectancy was 57, that during the middle of the medical revolution and in the most prosperous nation in the world at the time

@minizimi3790

8 ай бұрын

@@willfakaroni5808 I assume that stat is ignoring infant mortality rates? That isn't too clear with how you wrote it.

The irony is that this person mocks medieval people for their supposed ignorance and yet his commentary exposes his own profound ignorance.

@joebloggs5318

6 ай бұрын

There are people who are more determined to cause arguments than engage in discourse. Years ago I was talking to a guy; I was saying about how in the Holocaust loads of Jews were shot or worked to death or died from starvation or subjected to medical experiments and died in a bunch of different other ways. He accused me of hating Jews and denying the Holocaust happened because I didn't say six million people were gassed.

@Bdfhvj

6 ай бұрын

Yes 😂😅

@ryandevan2793

5 ай бұрын

Plus no reputable historian talks like that!

It's worth pointing out that an Islamic missionary (or their equivalent) visited Vikings in the Balkans, and in his writings he described them as disgusting. So it wasn't just the English being biased. He also mentioned how striking they were visually, being tall, pale, and blond. In case anyone tries to bring up black vikings that's useful to know. :)

@davidbell1619

8 ай бұрын

WHAT! Achelles and Anne Boelyn weren't Negros?

@dreadcthulhu5

8 ай бұрын

Some have suggested that was a case of culture posturing on his part.

@moorek1967

8 ай бұрын

An Islamic MISSIONARY? Now THAT is really a revision of history.

@dbio305

8 ай бұрын

@@moorek1967it is just history my friend

@moorek1967

8 ай бұрын

@@dbio305 there never was such a thing as Islamic missionaries. There were swords and jizya on the dhimmis.

I tried watching the channel. My first reaction was “WTF?” As a historian, I am used to finding mistakes in presentations, but this woke channel took the cake. I could hardly finish the first ones I watched. He’s not talking about our world, but some mix of fantasy, propaganda, wokeness and history. Forget it. Your presentation was spot on. I always find your videos well researched and documented. Thank you for that. An oasis of clarity in a desert of mis- and disinformation. Cheers!

@ScrappyXGC

8 ай бұрын

😂Yea, he was nicer than most of would have been. Not a historian by trade, still I was laughing so hard I couldn't type right. Dude couldn't even properly pronounce Byzantine.

@ChocolateMilk..

8 ай бұрын

@@ScrappyXGC "most of would have been"??

@danielbrunelle6709

8 ай бұрын

but but but, the channel is called madness!! "medieval madness" at that!! it is correctly named! so much madness in it :D

@ScrappyXGC

8 ай бұрын

@@ChocolateMilk.. Yea, I would have been no where near as graceful as Metatron debunking the bs. I'm a nice guy, still I can be brutal in fixing mis/malfeasants. I would have been no where near as nice as him, in comment nor if I did a response video. I'm glad he did before I ran across the channel. Ever correct a muslim about a truth and they shut up? I'm a nice guy, wrong is wrong though.

@frocoshake2107

8 ай бұрын

I mean, that and calling the Renaissance woke was like such a weird thing, as The Renaissance was also marked by things like the reconquista in Spain, arguably worse hygiene as the black plague basically closed all the bath houses, The Protestant Reformation, The Spanish conquest of the Aztecs, The start of the slave trade, and widespread religious violence.

Holy cow, it's mind boggling to see how these people are so intellectually lobotomized, and the fact that he has almost 250k subscribers to his channel is even more concerning.

@Letsfightinglov

8 ай бұрын

Why do you think Alot people act lobotomized?

@dedf15

8 ай бұрын

Well, he says Christians and Christianity are stupid, therefore he must be correct in all he says!

@andy-the-gardener

8 ай бұрын

sadly, many people think shit is chocolate

@bantakkor8039

8 ай бұрын

They do not necessarily believe his stuff, sometimes you also just find a channel so bad at its stuff, that people (or at least I) subscribe to it, just to get more lols out of it. For example the russian snake & eagle kungfu guy, it's complete bogus but looks funny.

@Asewitt

8 ай бұрын

Probably young people LEARNING their history from this shit. So super misinformed people.

One point that always gets missed is that the fact that taking baths was not very convenient for much of the year does NOT mean that they didn't WASH or cleanse themselves in other ways.

@melinda6921

8 ай бұрын

Indeed. When my parents were children they didn't have hot water and the only heated rooms were the kitchen and bedrooms, so in winter they washed with sponges in the kitchen, where there was a wood stove, using hot water in basins . They could only bathe when it was warm enough, with heated water brought from the kitchen. Modern people are too snobbish and used to every comfort, they seem unable to even conceive of the fact that there are so many ways to wash that don't include having a heated bathroom at home.

@IamOutOfNames

8 ай бұрын

@@melinda6921 My family has summer cottage in the countryside with traditional Finnish sauna, that means no running water, there's just a large bucket next to the stove for washing yourself with. If you want warm water you better chop enough firewood and start heating early...

@texasbeast239

8 ай бұрын

Yeah, I don't see Greenlandic Vikings/Norsemen taking a plunge in frozen ice water every night. If a bucket sponge bath counts for them, then so ought it for anyone elsewhere.

@charlottemuracka4302

8 ай бұрын

I have gone on pilgrimage several times in Poland. The walks in general consisted of 9 days on foot and then bedding down in barns that kind farmers lent to us on the way. Sometimes we found creeks to wash in. Sometimes we took a basin of water and sponge-bathed in private corners. The result? We did not stink too bad, at least at the beginning of the day, and my acne improved. I found out that over-washing is bad for the probiotics in your skin, and I looked much better after learning to be frugal with soap and washing when needing it. I also went to washing my hair once a week, which greatly improved its lustre.

@noneatall9060

8 ай бұрын

When I was at Mt Fuji in 1983 after an earthquake that severed our fresh water pipes, I still "showered" in the rain. I believe "medieval" people could adjust as well, if not better.

Anyone who uses "woke" as a positive description should be immediately ignored. It indicates clear bias, ignorance, and arrogance all at once.

@chickensdone1

8 ай бұрын

I agree, but would also add that it should apply to those who use it as a negative description too. Anti-woke is now just as bad as the woke crowd. When people make their entire identity revolve around being woke or anti-woke, it becomes a badge of honor for ignorance and shuts down any chance of a productive, academic discussion.

@xen6093

8 ай бұрын

@@chickensdone1 I agree with the point that anyone centering their identity on any one item is likely an ignorant zealot - but I'd have to disagree that anyone using woke as a negative should automatically be lumped into a category in the same way - mostly because of the prevalence of the "woke culture" in hollywood, and it's negative effects. This culture has negatively impacted many who otherwise have no stake in the issue.

His video “Being Gay the Medieval Way,” is one of the most misinformed things I’ve watched and all the support in the comments is shocking. People really will believe anything as long as it aligns with what they want to believe.

Truly embodies a terminal case of presentism, someone who no doubt makes countless arguments based on "It's the current year." Whenever I hear "progress," I often can't help but recall Chesterton's words, "Progress is a metaphor from merely walking along a road-very likely the wrong road."

@ImperialSenpai

8 ай бұрын

What’s that from? “The reactionary is always willing to take a progressive attitude on any issue that is dead.” ~Teddy Roosevelt

@insertnamehere8121

8 ай бұрын

The west is decades into the broad no thought conditioning that more current within the linear timeline by default equals superior to all of that which came before. If this absurd assumption were true, than no-one could make inferior life choice in the next minute, day, week, month, year, etc than they had prior. Which we know is an absurd position. But understanding that requires a understanding driven personality type and intellectual ability to analyze and deconstruct what they are attempting to condition into your skulls. A LOT of people either don't have these raw qualities, or they're too lazy to care about examining beliefs before they adopt them. Its a combination of both within the BULK of the common population. Lastly, heres a direct glaring example of the complete b.s. that is the 'progress' narrative: The west has access to more information and data than its even had, and both are more easily accessible than they've ever been to any peoples EVER. Yet America houses DROVES of citizens that cant comprehend, write or perform on a level remotely comparable to the chief founders of their own country that died over 200 years ago. 200 years of flipping _progress_ , and huge tracts of the citizenry cant even read or comprehend on a level that allows them to understand the works and intentions of the people that founded their flipping country.

@treeckoniusconstantinus

8 ай бұрын

@@ImperialSenpai Orthodoxy, chapter 7.

@ImperialSenpai

8 ай бұрын

@@treeckoniusconstantinus Thanks.

@werrkowalski2985

8 ай бұрын

@@ImperialSenpai What does that even mean? Is he saying that reactionaries want to change things that are settled (dead)? Or that they want to progress into a restoration of the old (dead) order? The first is just arbitrary, the second is true, indeed, for something to remain the same it must change. Some reactionaries who want a restoration of old ideas but in a new way call themselves futurists.

Metatron, you have BALLS of steel. You aren't afraid to fight nonsense. I'm dumb as a rock and I cannot win any arguments when I try arguing against BS online. You do and with confidence. You have my huge respect.

@metatronyt

8 ай бұрын

Thanks for the support 👍🏻

@Dack.howaboutyou

8 ай бұрын

@@metatronyt Oh exlib and Metatron, my bros... i love you, but i gotta say it, 'that old chestnut' about arguing with idiots and how it brings you down to their level where they will defeat you by being more experienced at it. HEh. Resist the temptation! I know it's hard! i see misinfo and it boils my blood and i want to shout at them, shake the world and most of all correct the spread of falsehood to promote understanding of truth-based history, so that we can make better decisions in present & future... so i know how you feel, but sometimes... sometimes it's just not worth giving any attention to such stupidity or 'problematic' people/things/actions. Any attention at all can sometimes be worse than ignoring it. I still love you though and i'm saving up to get a bronze AND a silver noble one ring; i love the design, i love the message, i love the channel and i want to have options for different outfits too. i'm not even a jewelry guy. i own a single necklace that is relatively nice and only wear on special occasions when dressed fairly nicely... that's my only jewelry currently (though i do also consider that i wouldn't mind having some rings/chains that could be dual-purpose, style as well as currency-at-need... those would be plain pieces without sentiment or much ornamentation of useful metals rather than decorative objects). i've been looking at tons of rings over the last.. i dont know +10 years, trying to find something that jumps out at me and hadn't found one really that had enough "significance", in combo with everything else, i guess you could say, till i saw the Noble One truth ring and said "that's it, that's the one i must get (besides a wedding ring, hopefully). :)

@robertmcdougall1144

8 ай бұрын

@@Dack.howaboutyou I disagree. Allow me to add another old adage "Repeat a lie often enough and it becomes the truth”. Misinformation like that espoused by Historical Madness propagated for so long because they have not been challenged and instead ignored or censored.

@ScrappyXGC

8 ай бұрын

"...dumb as a rock..." my ass. You're educating yourself on your own. That means you're smarter than most people. 👍

@BlacksmithTWD

8 ай бұрын

Well, at least you know how to give someone a compliment. A rare gift in these days, you might be smarter than you give yourself credit for.

My favored term for creators like Medieval Madness is that they are Chronological Imperialists. Note: This is not a term I came up with. It is similar to a term used by C.S. Lewis, "Chronological Snobbery". The use of Imperialism instead was used by Dr. Petter who is a professor at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary in Massachusetts, USA.

@JamesRDavenport

8 ай бұрын

Here here! I was trying to think of a more concise way to put my thoughts on Medieval Madness. The term is spot on.

@thefriesens1071

8 ай бұрын

Really? Dr. Petter was my professor at GC!! Fantastic guy and great archaeologist.

What a mess. Thanks for the warning. I hate sloppy research.

That content creator did get one fact irrefutably correct: their channel _is_ madness.

@texasbeast239

8 ай бұрын

Muh-muh-muh-muh-muh-muh mad madness 🎶

@Anti-Latinx

8 ай бұрын

​@@texasbeast239solid song

@alexeytsybyshev9459

8 ай бұрын

Madness... THIS IS SPARTA!

@ScrappyXGC

8 ай бұрын

Dis? kzread.info/dash/bejne/iXuoj5qalNzHks4.html

Man, the first thing my Uni professor told us at Medieval History class that what we heard are all myths. People had advanced engineering and art. And culture overall was developed

@GreatSageSunWukong

8 ай бұрын

We are all standing on the shoulders of giants, everything we have today is an advancement of what people created in the past, from the wheel, came the cart, from the cart came the bicycle, from the bicycle came the motorbike that sort of thing, I can't believe how anyone can argue otherwise, I did car mechanics in college and one of the first things we were taught is how rudimentary and ancient the principle of the internal combustion engine is, its not that much of a step up from Thomas Newcomens invention in 1712.

@alanmcbride6658

8 ай бұрын

We live in a Cultural year zero. All preceding history was a superstitious nonsense of hungry, dirty sub humans wasting their time before dying an early death. The arrogance and ignorance of Presentist Supremacists is 100%.

@blarfroer8066

8 ай бұрын

Nah, let's believe that medieval castles were built by troglodytes.

@justaminute3111

8 ай бұрын

Yeah, a lot of it was created by anti-Christian, anti-Catholic 19th century historians.

@LoisoPondohva

8 ай бұрын

Well, advanced and developed are very relative and subjective terms and Medieval History encompasses a millennium of societies and time periods with very disparate levels and traditions of both technological and cultural development. So I would be surprised to hear that verbatim from a professor.

I’m gay but not alphabet. And I agree with you 100%. “The Community” is a joke - has always been.

@prototropo

6 ай бұрын

I'm gay, too, and I think our history deserves more than a take-down because of the use of an imprecise word. We just spent the last 50 years proving to historians that we exist, and that we were often erased from history. That's been slow to change, and Metatron seems sorta on the "erase" side rather than "recognize" side. Is that the worst crime anyone committed-to use the word community incorrectly?

@EroNekoKun

6 ай бұрын

I mean.., the LGBTQ+Whatever community is a specifically political movement, with a very dogmatic, almost cult like, set of rules for behavior and thought. As a bisexual myself I don't belong to it either, because I'm not going to politicize my sexual preferences or other such arbitrary nonsense like some kind of weirdo. What you do > Who you do

@prototropo

6 ай бұрын

@@EroNekoKun You have your experience, of course, but it's pretty ridiculous to say the LGBT community is a dogmatic movement. For one thing, most gay folk do not identify as activists, or even as politically alert. I have worked in many, many organizations and projects over the years and have mostly been surprised at how flexible and welcoming queer people are, compared to other demographics. I'm really sorry if you were not welcomed in a warm way, or in any way, but around the world gay and trans people may constitute 300,000,000 people! That's a conservative number, but it makes us the largest single minority on Earth, and in history. That's far too many minds, ideas, hearts and souls to justify the summary dismissal in your comment.

@Quandry1

6 ай бұрын

​​@@prototropooh look. Another political propagandist. By the way no math anywhere supports you're claim of being about 4% of the population, particularly as a conservative number.

@AoIndigo

6 ай бұрын

@@prototropo There is a beautiful irony in the term "largest minority in history" that I hope you can see. In my personal experience, "bigoted" groups have been more welcoming than "inclusive, LGBT+ friendly" groups. Alas, it's your annecdote versus mine and that's pretty much how I see it going around more often than not.

There is a big difference between bathing and washing. A bath implies filling a bathtub with hot water, climbing in naked and scrubbing yourself with a bar of soap. How often did this happen? Depends on how rich you were, how much clean water you had access to, how much valuable firewood you could divert to heating that 20-gallons of water. Once a month? Once a year? Once a lifetime? We DO NOT KNOW because no one wrote it down. BUT, a daily sponge-bath with a pail of warm water was proabably common, weekly to daily if possible. People DID try to remain clean if only to keep the demons away.

Metatron: “I’m not gonna do it…” Also Metatron: *goes full Crusader*

@ScrappyXGC

8 ай бұрын

He wore a helmet and sword was there for ready 👍

@NuLiForm

5 ай бұрын

also me...🙄...got me in trouble with youtube too...they filed a complaint against me even though i was very polite & the channel owner was Not. i took a screenshot to prove i was nice about it but...didn't matter..i didn't report them, i'm the one who got 'reported' thus..Daily harassed with censorship & popups...so..if you decide to go down those rabbit holes & correct anyone...be aware..they can bite ya in the arse....seems..truth is subjective here on youtuby. **falls on sword now**

We tried to warn you.

@drip369

8 ай бұрын

🥇

@SchizophrenixTheGaul3478

8 ай бұрын

And yet, he still does it. He suffers for us. Like Jesus but it's for our entertainment instead of sin.

“…early renaissance WOKE culture…” I was sipping on some tea and almost did a spit take. 😂

@ryandevan2793

5 ай бұрын

And any rational person would go: kzread.info/dash/bejne/Z3qeucdsYbbFYMo.html

Keep up the great work Metatron. Maybe in 1000 years someone will study your videos and correctly conclude that people in the past were not all idiots.

The heinous crime of the Templars was not handing their wealth over to Phillip the Fair.

@kittehgo

8 ай бұрын

Also some people had borrowed money from the templars, and didn't really feel like paying back.

@williamgunderson7365

8 ай бұрын

According to some they (the Templars) got their ultimate revenge against the French Monarchy in the form of the first French Revolution. Jacobins perhaps??? 😅

I'm glad channels like Metatron exists to fight misinformation with facts.

One of the most infuriating things, is when people say that medieval people were essentially neanderthals. Just because they didnt have phones or modern tech back then, doesnt mean they were stupid. It pisses me off to no end.

@metatronyt

8 ай бұрын

I’d argue phones are making us more stupid if anything

This is exactly the reason I dumped Facebook. Debunking the stupid shit people brought up (this was during the Build Large Mansions riots) and all they could say was: "Yea, you have your facts we have ours."

Stupidity truly has no limits. 😑

@Rekhan4242

8 ай бұрын

I'm impressed, I didn't realize how dumb it could get and I'm only at 5:35 !

@zeehero7280

8 ай бұрын

Einstein said it, so it's science!

@censoredbybigbrother1175

8 ай бұрын

"But wait! There's more...."

@Sephiroth144

8 ай бұрын

@@zeehero7280 "Two things that are infinite: The Universe and (Human) Stupidity... and I'm not sure about the first one." ~ Einstein, at least, according to Fritz Perls (German psychologist who know Albert)

@IAteTheAntiChrist

8 ай бұрын

In this so called 'information age' people seem even more ignorant than ever.

My Medieval and Renaissance professor basically told us that if a person made it to age 30, they would probably make it to their 60s or 70s without much problem. Childbirth and child mortality skews the shit out of averages. One of the papers I wrote was on Gregorio Dati, who demonstrates that skewing of averages. Three of his four wives died from pregnancy/childbirth issues, and only seven of his 26 children were still living by the end of his diary, with the vast majority dying in childhood.

@WickedCool23

8 ай бұрын

@ConontheBinarianmy maternal grandparents lost 3 of 11 children in infancy/early childhood. This was in the 40s-50s I never even knew about until I started doing family research

@KnightofAges

8 ай бұрын

It's more nuanced than that. People didn't really do 'averages' back then, and certainly didn't count infant mortality in it. And we can easily see that people DID die young - we have the parish registers of lots of places in Christian Europe, the Curch was very stringent in recording everyone that was born, married or died. And the death rates are horrendous. In fact, you can do the test yourself: just go to a list of monarchs of any country and see at which age the medieval Kings and Queens died (and they were the most protected people of the time). You can discount the assassinated or killed in battle if you want, it makes little difference, people didn't live long. And woman's lower life expectancy came from the excessive deaths from childbirth. In fact, even when I was a kid back in the 60s-70s, we considered someone in his mid-50s or 60s as 'old'. And it was quite a feat for people to reach 70. This was even worse in earlier centuries. Heck, just check the lifespan of nobles in the 17th and 18th centuries. The French King Louis XIV, for example, died four days short of his 77th birthday. This was enough for his successor to be his greatgrandson Louis XV, since his son had died at 49 and his grandson at 29. And Louis XV died at age 64, with was enough to be succeeded by his grandson Louis Auguste (Louis XVI), as his son had died at age 36. And none of them died assassinated or in battle. Check all the lists of monarchs or nobles from all the countries you want. Before the 19th century, the death rate was very, very high.

@Steve13C

8 ай бұрын

Similarly to the information we have about life expectancy in Victorian London where the average life expectancy was 19.

@alanmcbride6658

8 ай бұрын

Present day abortion of children reduces life expectancy in contemporary culture.

@stefanvas6984

8 ай бұрын

Three factors pose dangers to an adult: childbirth for women, war for men and famine and epidemics for the rest, especially the poorer population. It still did not mean people died in their 30s,. Based on the lives of some rulers they usually reached about 50-60 years of age. There were rare cases of people (usually hermits as pointed out by a certain Byzantine writer whose name I forgot) reaching 80 and 90

it’s very noble of metatron to assume that everyone is as honest as he is about uncovering the truth..

Honestly at this point, KZreadrs like Medieval Madness make me wanna start making my own history videos.

@dioniscaraus6124

8 ай бұрын

Go ahead I already subbed

@scenariiecranizatecu

8 ай бұрын

Go ahead mate!

@AyeliaGDoren

8 ай бұрын

Same, I'm hardly a historian, just someone who loves to read and I could do better than that.

@williamhall3043

8 ай бұрын

Do it, belled subbed!

@scenariiecranizatecu

8 ай бұрын

@@AyeliaGDorengo for it! we need more history content from passionate people!

Very spot on Metatron! "Just because technology is improving doesn't mean our humanity is." -John Lovell (Warrior poet)

@laisphinto6372

8 ай бұрын

to that stupid Argument i always show nazi germany because despite all the lies about going back to roots ( that never existed in the first place) it was new an progressive compared to the Weimar republic.

@nicolethompson8613

8 ай бұрын

If humanity would understand this point they might actually learn from history instead of repeating the same mistakes ad nauseum, and telling themselves it is something different just because the packaging isn't the same. We can't have objectivity in looking at our own times and current events if we start from a viewpoint that we are so different from the ones who came before us. Thanks for being one of the (sadly few) people smart enough to know this.

@revilokid

8 ай бұрын

I mean we are better as a society then used to be. Our standards have changed quite a bit.

@j.v.7451

8 ай бұрын

​@@revilokid"better" is subjective. But i think i understand what you mean.

@BlacksmithTWD

8 ай бұрын

@@revilokid How are you able to make the comparison of the wholes of societies while not even knowing about the whole of one of the two you compare? You may be able to compare certain aspects of both societies, but to compare them as a whole is an extraordinary claim required extraordinary evidence. Claims made without evidence can be dismissed without evidence.

"Presentism" is one of my biggest pet peeves, but I've never had a word for it. Thanks, Metatron!

I am 100% convinced the Anglo-Saxons washed every time they went in the house after finishing the chores. The probably had separate clothes for inside the house and for working outside, like most peasants. I lived on a goat farm. Dou you think I went inside smelling like a goat? I showered outside of the house 5 times a day. The people in that era probably washed in a backet or used a cloth/sponge and did the same.

@Annokh

8 ай бұрын

I lived at the countryside for months where not everyone had actual showers, I worked restoring a windmill in the middle of nowhere we didn't have any telecommunications or even electricity (besides the generator we only used to power up tools). And somehow nobody turned into a piece of filth. We still had somewhat better conditions than people in the past, but those folks who cannot imagine hygiene without running hot water need a reality check.

Thanks a million for this video, honestly I can't thank you enough. I'm Nigerian and have been very interested in history from my childhood. I was very fond of Western medieval history in my teen years. I'm in my fifties now and a professor in a university in Nigeria. I can assure you that the amount of outright lies and ideologically directed misinformation about ancient, medieval and early modern European history that passes for academic work in my country is mind boggling. Videos like yours help me point students to content that helps them see that reading the present into the past is simply poor scholarship. Thanks for your work..

@stalhandske9649

8 ай бұрын

Keep up the good fight Sir. The nice thing about truth is that however downtrodden, mutilated or subverted, it can never be completely killed. Some residue will always remain to bloom when the times are more fortunate.

@nickkorkodylas5005

8 ай бұрын

The West has fallen, people in the developing (free) world is the last chance of truth to persevere. You are responsible for humanity's future now.

@biggerdickus

8 ай бұрын

​@@nickkorkodylas5005 Stop your melodrama, it will be fine, we fall and grow.

@nickkorkodylas5005

8 ай бұрын

@@biggerdickus You stop growing past puberty and the West is doing so hot in the youth department.

@Fuk99999

8 ай бұрын

You should also look into the material culture from the region. I think it was the “Nok” culture? The best example of actual west African civilization actually existing in antiquity, but nobody knows about it.

19:07 some time ago I was talking with my brother he expressed this beautifully, he said: "yeah, infant mortality was really high but if you somehow managed to survive that stage, that'd meant you were basically super human"

@Iluvantir

8 ай бұрын

There's a reason why, 3200 years ago, a certain Hebrew man of the Tribe of Levi wrote down that mankind was given three score years and ten to live, or four score with strength - 70 years for a normal life, or 80 if you were blessed by the Most High. Moses, his name was. Now, whether one believes or not, that's certainly a sign that living to 70 was normal. In fact, the average for those who survived infancy. Infant mortality affects the overall average, but not the average of those who survived that short period.

Dear Metatron, the channel is called "medieval madness" at that!! it is correctly named! so much madness in it :D

Does this guy realize that you can have brotherhood without sexual attraction?

@jameswitt108

8 ай бұрын

Those who cannot conceive Friendship as a substantive love but only as a disguise or elaboration of Eros betray the fact that they have never had a Friend. Cs Lewis

@mark5222

2 ай бұрын

It's quite sad that they cannot perceive the idea of having real friends.

I'm 44 years old _(feels so weird typing this number and realising....whatever...)_ and I'm learning so much thanks to your channel. I never really cared for history when I was younger. I wish I had a teacher like you back then!

@acekoala457

8 ай бұрын

+44 is my Favorite Blink-182 band.

@noneatall9060

8 ай бұрын

I did have a teacher as passionate in high school (and he actually traveled to those countries, especially East Europe/Russia in the 70/80s), and I am 60 years old. I appreciate that teacher for my own passion for history. His experience added to the "official" histories the text books mandated. My subsequent military service helped as well.

@bibleskeleton

8 ай бұрын

Jesus loves you

@AndyJarman

8 ай бұрын

Wait till you're 62 now that IS weird.

@jonfernandez8027

8 ай бұрын

Agreed. This platform is delightful, compelling, and holds infinite value. ❤

At this point half the reason I come to this channel is to see what kind of insanity other channels are spewing without having to suffer through scouring their videos myself. And "Renaissance woke culture" is definitely one of the kinds of insanity ever

I’m not sure if this is your field or not, but I’d LOVE for you to do a video on the theory of “two spirited” Native American people. As a half Native American myself (Apache and Cherokee) I’ve NEVER heard of this “being” or myth from my elders. And trust me, the elders LOVE to talk and spread the truth about our tribes histories, customs and myths. For example; I’m very well aware of Deer Lady, or Stakinis, or Little People/Children, or the Thunderbird, or even skin walkers (although my tribe calls them by a different name and honestly I’m not supposed to talk about them or even mention their name or it’ll bring misfortune to me and I’ve had a bad string of luck lately as it is lol I’m not risking it) There’s many more myths and legends, yet I’ve NEVER heard or read or been told about this “two spirit” being. But the LGBTQs have latched onto this “new” myth (new to me at least) and use it relentlessly. They’ve even added it to their lgbt alphabet soup! WTH?! Natives are very protective of their culture and legends and I’m sure they wouldn’t want this one, if it’s accurate anyway, used as a political symbol and a part of their agenda and rhetoric. It’s very disrespectful frankly. But what’s even more weird is this, NOW, all of a sudden, when you google this “two spirit” being, there’s all kinds of articles and explanations. And even a native tribes website has information about it now but it’s obviously been recently added. I guess this particular tribe wants to be hip to the woke mob? And to be clear, I have NOTHING personal against the LGBTQ+ community. At all. You do you. If your happy? Great. Happy for you. Just don’t seek MY approval or affirmation. My opinions and beliefs are my own. Yours are yours. Respect that. But I do believe as US citizens, we all have a right to express ourselves as we wish, love who we wish, and believe in whatever we wish. Just don’t push that onto people who are unwilling to accept your own views and reality, and DO NOT attack them if they don’t succumb or “bend the knee” Anyway, I recently discovered your channel. And as an avid history fanatic myself (ESPECIALLY ancient histories) I think this channel is amazing. I’ve been binging your videos since yesterday. Indigenous American histories such as the Aztec and Mayan empires and my own ancestral Native American histories are my favorite. But I also LOVE European and Egyptian history. (Especially Egypt, I find it fascinating how their empire being so far in distance and time to the Mayans and Aztecs but still have so many similarities.) Just thought I’d make a request as a new subscriber. This whole two spirit being has myself and even my Uncle (one of the many story tellers I know) baffled. Who knows? If this is indeed true and exactly as the LGBTQs say, then im happy to learn something new… and it would be pretty awesome to school my uncle on our history for once too lol Have a great day!

I studied biblical criticism in undergraduate and graduate contexts…it genuinely baffled me that ppl would so effortlessly dismiss ancient people as stupid or beneath them…or, because we were studying a sacred text, mythologize ppl to the point of absurdity…I appreciate your thoughts on approaching historical figures realistically, thank you 🙏🏼

@thefriesens1071

8 ай бұрын

Exactly. I studied many of the same things.

Even when you’re passionately tearing someone down you still come off as wholesome. That’s skill! 😅

@TimmsMJ

8 ай бұрын

That's truth.

@some_random_wallaby

8 ай бұрын

Or rather, it's integrity.

@ozramblue117

8 ай бұрын

@@some_random_wallaby you can have integrity and not be likeable. Quite a different thing. Though I agree he does.

On the topic of "LGBT" in historical eras, Linfamy (great channel about lesser talked about subjects in Japanese history) brought up a good point. To people in historical Japan (as well as probably most pre-modern places and eras) sexuality was not an identity. It was an action and/or a preference. A man may have preferred sleeping with other males (often times, much younger males) but he didn't identify as gay. He just liked what he liked, there was no question about his sexuality because people back then didn't think that way. He probably still got married and slept with his wife to have kids because that was his duty and it what was proper for a man. But he could still visit a male brothel (tea house)

@sonoftheway3528

8 ай бұрын

@@PipeRhymes Nah, don't deny how it was taboo to do anything gay in most Abrahamic cultures for a lot of history. It was straight up illegal to commit homosexual acts in some US states into the 21st century. And still is in many places like the Middle East.

@ramoncruz1007

8 ай бұрын

The whole identity thing is a very new phenomenon, done specifically during a time where categories offer protected status from moral inquiry and/or moral condemnation. People today are more or less inserting their current political and moral beliefs into the past in cases where this is discussed.

@spacelinx

8 ай бұрын

@@ramoncruz1007: In part, behaviors of any kind were classified during the developmental periods of the behavioral sciences like psychology and sociology so they’d all know what they’re discussing within their studies, circles of research, and later, patholigizing these classifications for therapies and treatments. Politicians and community grassroots movements politicized it all for their own gain.

@Iluvantir

8 ай бұрын

It's a sad state of the world where ones identity is defined by ones preferences rather than ones whole character. It's a very narrow way to think about yourself. "Oh, I like men. I'm gay. Ergo, if you don't like homosexuality you have to HATE ME! WAAAA! That's not right! I'm being attacked!" Rather than just accepting it as a small facet of ones existence it becomes the whole of it. The only thing I "identify" as is a human male who believes in the Lord Jesus Christ. Everything else is just small, tiny pieces that make up the patchwork of my life. Some of it colourful, some in tatters... but it's still MY life. I wouldn't be grounding my self-worth on any one small part of it. That leads to complete unstableness in everything else that I could do or want to be.

@Numbll

8 ай бұрын

younger males are usually children....

"These highly disciplined men and women" Just to cure my ignorance, outside of anime how common were female Samurai?

@msaoichan

8 ай бұрын

Well, the Onna-Musha were indeed women samurai and weren't a rare sight. In fact they apparently even made up entire cavalry units at times, but as far as I can tell, you weren't going to see entire armies of them. Edit: The onna-musha were part of the warrior class, and their high point as far as deployment goes was during the Sengoku Jidai. Afterwards their numbers fell off.

@sirsmithsmitherson5847

8 ай бұрын

​@@msaoichan Interesting take, Samurai were hereditary military nobility, Onna-Musha as impressive as they are may not count as Samurai... also as a number compared to peasant Ashigaru they seem like a vary rare sight.

I don't literally facepalm myself very often...most of the time, like the majority of us I'm sure, I basically do it mentally. Then I'll make a comment about something being a "facepalm moment"...the tarot cards thing actually made me damn near collapse my skull from "facepalming" so hard. It wasn't even voluntary...as soon as I saw it my palm, as if tethered to my forehead and driven by a jet engine, simply smashed itself in to my facial area...it actually still hurts.

I like that you've coined the term "presentism", which is rampant among modern scholars and college students who won't even listen to primary sources about a given topic if it disagrees with their assumptions about the past. They will literally assume that they are the one's who know better than the human being (who by and large was educated and intelligent due to the fact that he was literate and his work has survived, meaning others found extraordinary value in it) who is telling us the way things were at the time. It blows my mind. Yes, some of these things can be unbelievable, as in the case of The Histories by Herodotus, but shouldn't we at least give him the benefit of the doubt rather than dismissing him outright? After all, he was there, and we know Herodotus wasn't a fool. It bears at the least an open mind and serious investigation. Keep up the good work!

@ClockworkWyrm

8 ай бұрын

I mean, Metatron didn't COIN the term, he's using it because it's a known logical fallacy. It shockingly common so it's great to see it actually called out though.

@peterc3262

6 ай бұрын

It was actually the first thing we were taught not to do when I studied ancient history. I think it was during university orientation. It's so basic that it was drummed into before we even began to read sources.

I really find a huge respect for you, you stick to history and what happend. People take this as maybe your "opinon" where it's just fact. Thank you for your content!

@metatronyt

8 ай бұрын

Thanks

@Sleepless4Life

8 ай бұрын

An opinion backed by factual evidence is a lot more credible than someone's waffle masked as an opinion.

@TuorTheBlessedOfUlmo

8 ай бұрын

​@@Sleepless4Lifethe issue is those people really don't care and since they make assumptions on history based on their opinion and feelings they assume everyone else does. This happened with the Cleopatra nonsense.

I do this with many of the comment sections, I genuinely try not to comment and correct people on their lunacy and yet I rarely can pull myself back. The truth is the truth and should be defended.

Astroturfing history sounds like something straight out of 1984.

This fella literally just went "Knights were a bunch of dudes doing stuff together... Seems kinda gay". Getting really sick of people acting like when a bunch of blokes get together they just start stuffing their salami in each other's choccy starfishes. Like god damn, not everything has to do with, or lead to, sexual gratification.

@Moses_VII

8 ай бұрын

People in Non-Muslim countries are now becoming very dirty minded and associating everything with sex. In Muslim countries, people's minds are much more focused on football and food, but in other countries, it seems all their jokes and memes are about sex.

@rushthezeppelin

8 ай бұрын

Unfortunately we live in a hyper sexualized society so people gonna project...

@ne0nmancer

8 ай бұрын

Well, the guy making that video is gay, so there's a good chance that whenever he's in a room with one or more dudes, that actually happens, so he can't help but project that onto others.

@Player-re9mo

8 ай бұрын

I've noticed a trend with these type of people: Any type of male friendship is gay according to them. They are obsessed with sex too

@asideofsalt.6645

8 ай бұрын

@@Player-re9mo Looks at the nonsense that people spew about LOTR

I like when he calls me noble

My understanding of the Dark Ages is that it was the time between the fall of the Roman Empire and the start of the Middle Ages. It is called the Dark Ages because no written records for the time can be found and we know very little about it.

The Tarot sponsor had me... my belly aches a bit right now from laughing!

How does Metatron not have 1 million subscribers yet?! His content is pure EXCELLENCE!

@metatronyt

8 ай бұрын

I appreciate that. To the million!

@ark1567

8 ай бұрын

​@@metatronyt...and beyond!

@varyokh

8 ай бұрын

yea

@Ext3rmin4tor

8 ай бұрын

Because he is rational, a man of culture, and tells the truth. A combination of things that many despise.

@achimdemus-holzhaeuser1233

8 ай бұрын

He is close, and I am sad, I can only subscribe once. But I am spreading the good word.

As soon as I heard the word woke I knew... Metatron, we Thank you for your sacrifice and fighting the good fight.

I like that you mention the myths invented relatively recently (1800s) and applied to the past. So many of these things we were taught in school were just successful fabrications of people with some sort of agenda.

Thank you dude, this guy’s ridiculous lack of real reasearch is so evident, as well as his lack of c4itical thought, your rebuttals especially of his application of modern bias and trending popularisms to past cultures was measured and fair. You got a new subscriber here.

I felt part of my brain die when he said Medieval Woke Culture. That made such little sense the cells could not handle it.

Hating people of the past for not knowing something we know now is the same as hating myself for not knowing how to do math when I was five. Both individually and collectively, we are who we are today only because of what we used to be. The past is part of us, whether pleasant or unpleasant. Denying the shadow denies the light, denies our very beings. The only thing we can do is embrace it all and choose which side to nurture, not which to deny. This should be the basis of all education.

@slimynaut

8 ай бұрын

Even better, assuming that what we know now is always correct and objectively better when society is on the brink. The next civilization will likely look at us with disgust.

@insertnamehere8121

8 ай бұрын

Imagine hating your grandparents for not being who you are

@ark1567

8 ай бұрын

Let's say...maybe someone can be entitled to look down on them for their lacking in civilization on a certain degree...But yeah: it would be a little arrogance to do so 😂

@PoetofHateSpeech

8 ай бұрын

You're doing a similar thing... you think we are better, but the West is about to collapse...I think in a lot ways, we are worse

@justaminute3111

8 ай бұрын

But, but, but most of what that guy said were lies. Did you miss that part? Homosexuality was certainly not approved of but the source of that was as much dynastic as 😊religious. All sex outside of marriage was condemned. Marriage, was well as a religious ceremony was a legal requirement which provided for the orderly transfer of wealth and social obligations to the next generation. Gays don’t have kids.

Thank you, Metetron, for continuing to hold the line. You remain a becon of reason and truth in a time of ideological obfuscation. And as someone who has personally experienced the frustration of being involuntarily lumped into the current highly politicised concept of the 'LGBT Community' I truly appreciate and commend you for your sense, accuracy, honesty and courage.

@Quandry1

6 ай бұрын

The community as we call it in modern terms was formed specifically for political clout and it's why other groups latch onto it. Groups that realistically probably be rejected for their subversive or blatant opposition to the group they are latching onto.

Also, how does the guy explain the unprecedented number of deaths of despair we're witnessing right now? That's a first for the world. And that's a product of our modern world.

Funnily enough, the way he presents Scotland is more accurate than the way he portrays England and Europe. Granted, he only accomplished that by not mentioning Scotland at all. Which is probably a good thing, seeing as how he’d probably start citing Braveheart as a primary source if he did mention Scotland.

@Iluvantir

8 ай бұрын

Has he mentioned Wales at all? I dread to think, and certainly don't want to go check. I'm already annoyed at having been exposed to the little of his content that Metatron forced on us

@Steve13C

8 ай бұрын

*clears throat* FREEDOM! sorry, obligatory.

@caroleecochard9123

8 ай бұрын

😂

@lowlandnobleman6746

8 ай бұрын

Goodness, I hope that channel has not butchered Welsh history. Cymru deserves better than that! Though I wouldn’t mind seeing Metatron cover Welsh or Scottish history. But truthfully, I am most excited for his next video on the ancient Celtic tribes.

Metatron, the fact you had to wear a helmet to start watching this spoke volumes 😂😂😂

@ghostgate82

8 ай бұрын

It protects the brain from swords and also trash ideas. ❤️

@paulshri8609

8 ай бұрын

100% 👍 Agree

@kingleech16

8 ай бұрын

He really needs to start bringing a spear too so he can go full Elmer Fudd.

This is why I can trust The Metatron, He does his homework, and calls it the way it was w/out injecting Modern political culture into it!!!!!;);)🙏🙏🙏

Somebody has to watch these ridiculous videos, and respond to them. You are doing great work Metatron. It sucks, but it must be done. Thank you for doing it.

"People in the medieval age were stupid and dirty and superstitious. Thankfully we're so much smarter than them. They were also accepting of homosexuality. We could learn a lot from them."

@logicplague2077

8 ай бұрын

"Use promo code "woke" to get 5% off your first psychic taro card astrology reading!"

@PedroCouto1982

8 ай бұрын

I'm curious: What's the point of sending "comments" that only have excerpts from the video (found in the transcription)?

@valhallamma687

8 ай бұрын

​@@PedroCouto1982they feel it's an important thing to highlight which is okay

@user-wi9hv2pb2q

8 ай бұрын

😂

@sm5574

8 ай бұрын

@@PedroCouto1982, my comment is a paraphrase. You will not find it in the transcript.

As usual, a decisive, accurate and perfect analysis of the idiots trying to shape us and our world.

As someone who has studied HEMA and carries gradings in Iaido I can say that there is nothing superior about Japanese Martial Arts as I've said and heard many times "there are only so many ways you can swing as sword". I transcribed Cavendish "Truth of the Sworde" with David Rawlings and some of the techiniques are extremely complicated and my father agrees whom has studied Japanese sword for over 40 years!

And the messed up thing is I bet Medieval Madness probably doesn't have any problems with the algorithm or mysterious demonitizations.

I don't recall ever seeing his videos. But I was subscribed to his channel. I corrected that situation. Thank you Metatron

Thank you for this video, because the guy’s section on Knights brings up something sinister about our age. While of course there were some historical cases of pederasty between younger boys and older men that were meant to be their mentors, the vast majority of history, especially European history, was not like this. This is something that has been happening since I was in school, but it’s so much worse now. Let me use LOTR for example. (SPOILERS) There’s been a running gag about the end of LOTR where Frodo and Samwise’s relationship had to be some kind of gay one because they show visible signs of affection towards each other. Now, any male affection or bonds of brotherhood, comradery, or of even love, is seen as male gayness. The left has essentially wiped out the concept that men could have bonds that are deeper than just activity sharing or friendship, and it’s done major damage to the concept of males bonding over significant events. It’s really terrible.

@Iluvantir

8 ай бұрын

Agreed: all the more angering to me as LOTR was written by a devote Catholic who had very high moral and sexual standards... and they wish to insinuate that two of his most beloved characters were in a gay relationship. Infuriating. One can agree with JRR's stance or not: that's personal choice. But to have others accept your own opinions and choices, to turn around and force a change into a dead man's opinions and choices is beyond disgusting and hypocritical.

@Steve13C

8 ай бұрын

You see the same with the film versions of Captain America and Bucky, and of course, it's empowering for the LGBTQ+ community as it gives them more heroes on the big screen, but it's also incredibly sad and says so much about our era that any form of male friendship that goes beyond sarcasm and snark is considered to be a sign of homosexuality. Our model of masculinity is broken, frankly.

@catomacro1950

8 ай бұрын

As a female, and having read LOTR, I just love how Tolkien describes the deep bond and friendship between all the members of the fellowship. The movie did it credit. Not once did I ever think for a moment that there was any suggested homosexuality. On the contrary, I loved the bromance and deep loyalty and friendship. I was utterly appalled, shocked and angry when, few years later, I came across this whole effort by a small minority to twist Tolkien's work to suggest there was all this gayness going on. Power to all men who should be getting on with their male friends and comrades and get on with each other with deep friendship.

@jimmyalfonda3536

8 ай бұрын

That goes beyond the left tbh. Our understanding of masculinity in America is a broken one that makes life miserable for men. It's been that way for a long time.

@zerobyte802

8 ай бұрын

To me, it's more the advancement of hookup culture. Everything is about sex now. The concept of a deep emotional connection WITHOUT any copulation is incomprehensible nowadays. So no, you're not good friends you're gay. Same for women. If you've got a deep bond then you MUST have sex together. What's the point otherwise? 🙄

"People thought the world would end in year 1000". Hold on what was that thing about 2012?

@whiteeagleboneguard

8 ай бұрын

1000 year reign of Christ from Revelations(nobody knows when this is) 2012 mayan calendar

I can vouch for your sponsor of this video. CuriosityStream is actually pretty good. Lots of interesting stuff to watch.

Metatron is, as always, very informative, caring, and well spoken. As an amateur historian, SCA Heavy Fighter(polearmer and spear) and fencer, and occasional referee for Armored Combat League events( similar to Battle of the Nations, or the History Channel's Knight Fight) I am very glad that I have found this site. Cheers...

People can lie through their teeth about history and have an audience and a sponsor What a time to be alive 😢

@quillclock

8 ай бұрын

post truth society baby! entertainment and emotional connection is more profitable than truth. this especially applies to math, science, and history

@chrismillar7593

8 ай бұрын

Meanwhile they literally try to cancel metatron for nothing other than telling the truth about his area of expertise

@I_Don_t_want_a_handle

8 ай бұрын

Hasn't that always been the case?

@chrismillar7593

8 ай бұрын

@@I_Don_t_want_a_handle man I’m an 80s kid I don’t remember this much willful ignorance and propaganda. Sure there were misconceptions and propaganda back then but our teacher taught us to think critically- to argue and debate civilly. What you did not have was a Woke movement to rewrite history according to an adgenda.

@I_Don_t_want_a_handle

8 ай бұрын

@@chrismillar7593 They were called 'Right On' in the 1970s, 'Politically Correct' in the 1990s. There were plenty of history professors re-writing history. All according to Marxist rules. The people may have changed, but the Marxist agenda stays the same. Re-wring history has gone on since people started writing it down. Look at Suetonius ... pure propaganda.

I've come across Medieval Madness before, and you're exactly right. His historical accounts are littered with this kind of hubristic presentism. It's one thing to make comparisons between eras of history and now, I think that's okay to an extent, as it can help give one's audience a little perspective. It's quite another to make sweeping moral/ethical judgments about history based on modern ideologies. These judgements tell the audience much more about the creator's beliefs than they do about history, which in turn tells us rather a lot about the motives of said creator... And those motives aren't really about history at all. Sadly, this seems to be a very prominent characteristic of modern British historians (eg David Olusoga). I'm not a qualified historian, just a pleb with interest in the subject... But I would much rather watch someone like, say, Histocrat, than someone like Medieval Madness. This is because Histocrat, despite his frequent mispronunciation of names and places, seems to be engaged and thorough. Most importantly, I never feel like the events he discusses are being used as some kind of cheap allegory to promote his own worldview or ideological leanings. Even if at times he might be inaccurate, it's always an honest mistake, not a contortion. Medieval Madness, in comparison, often has this feel of assumed, unthinking superiority, like he is better than the historic peoples he discusses (particularly historic Britons, for some reason) while making massive general assumptions based on mostly inaccurate modern myths about the past, a lot of which can be debunked with extremely minimal research. This appears (at least to me) to be an exercise in mild propaganda, used in order to prop up (and highlight the 'superiority' of) certain fashionable beliefs of the present Western world. Perhaps he is just very young. Things are always much more black and white at that age...

@michaelstearnesstearnes1498

8 ай бұрын

Medieval Madness is there to make The History Channel look good.

@ScrappyXGC

8 ай бұрын

Little things like "bi - zantan" piss me off to no end. It's Byzantine! I knew how to say it correctly in elementary school.

And this, Metatron, is why I'm so happy I found your channel. I've learned so much of real history from you. Keep teaching us. For example, I didn't know a knight could maneuver and run in a full suit of armor. You proved that they could. Again, thank you for your channel.

Thanks for these videos, Metatron. I am using them in my English classes with my students for discussion. Your material is helping many of them to be critical thinkers and to be more cautious about believing everything people and media tell them. Great Job!

It’s because you’re the most noble of all noble ones Metatron!!! You’re the inspiration to millions, no, billions of people around the world who’d all be dead inside without your glorious wisdom!!!!!

@josephkania642

8 ай бұрын

The brilliance of his majesty outshines a billion suns and his wisdom puts the gods of old to shame!

@YellowKing1986

8 ай бұрын

@@infectedrainbow divine

@jhoughjr1

8 ай бұрын

Truly the metatron spreading his wings lead me out of some dark times.

@spyrofrost9158

8 ай бұрын

I don't think billions of people watch this channel 🤣 But they should.

@jimboscooter432

8 ай бұрын

Hi metatrons mom 👋

That comment about the samurai being known worldwide made me wonder when he was talking about. Like, how would anyone know what skills the samurai had when they had no contact with most of the world for most of their history and even no contact with any part of the world in some centuries?

@clown134

8 ай бұрын

by reading history books duh!

People at every possible point in history always think they are the most advanced and progressive. For people in middle ages they were the most advanced. For people couple hundreds years from now we will appear quite primitive. Anyways, Metatron, if by a chance you read this comment and you are looking for a subject for some of your next videos - it would be great to hear about longevity of people in Middle Ages. I really love your videos - very well researched every time! Greetings from Mexico!

@thefriesens1071

8 ай бұрын

And this is why Progressivism doesn't work. It's not based on any eternal foundation. It's based on the last thing they know.

This noble one is my most shared channel to my children and they love it. Truth, logic and reason are the benchmark we should all be striving for. Thank you sir.

Bottom feeders like this are a gold mine of easy content. Look at it that way, Met.

Well done Metatron for debunking that steaming mound of bullsh!t. The myth that all medieval people died young shows a profound lack of understanding of how life expectancy is calculated. Even the bible states that a person lives for "three score and ten years"!!!

@exantiuse497

8 ай бұрын

The bible was not written in the middle ages though, the verse about human age is from the Psalms. It is possible that people living in the kingdom of Israel lived longer than people in the medieval period due to differences in lifestyle, the amount of wars and disease etc. The Bible verse "three score and ten years" means 70 years, which is longer than the life expectation of a medieval person that survived childhood (iirc less than 60 years), it is likely people in the Biblical times lived longer than people in the medieval times

@Steve13C

8 ай бұрын

Well, we know that Robert Curthose (William the Conqueror's eldest son) lived to the age of 80, but he spent a lot of his life in a monastery after his brother, Henry, defeated him in battle. You could argue that he was protected from the diseases and lack of food that many peasants would have struggled with.

@alanmcbride6658

8 ай бұрын

Indeed Stum. Factor in children aborted and modern life expectancy goes down.

@disnonn

8 ай бұрын

People don't know which data to use when. For things such as life expectancy, for most the more useful information would be the median . Same goes for income and the like. If one resilient grandpa or one single billionaire significantly changes your statistic that much, it is fine for research and academia, but is not illustrative for the layman anymore.

@ramieskola7845

8 ай бұрын

​@@exantiuse497 why is it likely?

Huge shout out to Metatron! I’ve learned a wealth of information from you. I enjoy listening to you as I learn so much and wanted to say Thank You.

You are doing important work my man. Thank u for doing whatt you do!

Regarding the LGBTQ community part of the discussion I'd add that there wouldn't have been a "community" back then. At least not that I am aware of or can imagine. The danger of openly admitting your sexuality would have made it impossible to come into fluent contact with anymore than one person at a time who shares your sexual orientation.

@metatronyt

8 ай бұрын

Absolutely, the community aspect of it is a 1990 thing, and even compared to that one, the current one has changed considerably.

@Saeronor

8 ай бұрын

It fails to fulfill requirements of "community" even today, especially with arbitrary letters multiplication. "Subculture" is a much more fitting word.

@fattiger6957

8 ай бұрын

Even in places where gay relationships and/or action were tolerated or even accepted, there was no "community", unless you count Japanese monasteries or male brothels.

@4rtie

8 ай бұрын

Yeah, LGBTQ+ *people* have always existed, but being part of an LGBTQ+ community to achieve collective action and protection is a modern concept

@4rtie

8 ай бұрын

@@mr.hazamayukiterumi sure, bud. There are definitely zero historical figures who didn't feel sexual drive and for sure none who'd presented themselves as the cultural gender opposite the one expected of them. With that attitude, if you were born in the 50's you'd likely be ignoring that historical gay and lesbian people existed at all while saying those who practiced homosexuality were simply misguided deviants. Be better than our forefathers. Have some sympathy. You've at least got it for some LGBTQ+ people.

KZread would benefit from a community notes tab controlled by the actual community so that knowledgeable people can add proper context to these wild exxagerative claims being made by so called history channels like medieval madness.

@NefariousKoel

8 ай бұрын

Nah, man. Just imagine the cause & effect. We know how much YT, and media in general, discriminate based on their own stances. This would just result in a bunch of fact-based peoples notes getting canned and the Intersectionalist cult being left to freely post their propaganda notes instead of facts. We all know it would go that way.

@logicplague2077

8 ай бұрын

Can't have anyone undermining "tHa meSSaGe". I really hope we get this "private company, no 1A" BS hashed out in the next few years.

@robertbeisert3315

8 ай бұрын

I would love it if we could have notes like: "Note from Metatron and other historians: No lol"

@Overlord99762

8 ай бұрын

Reply videos back in the day were similar in nature

@jamestarbet9608

8 ай бұрын

Most 'tubers will also say there needs to be a real way for them to work WITH KZread, talk with living humans and actually resolve issues.

Dude, you had me literally laughing out loud, really loud! 😂🤣🤣

Thanks for this video. In other circles this would be called a peer review.

13:50 "Did you know training with men makes you gay?" Tell that to a Marine. I DARE YOU.

@rushthezeppelin

8 ай бұрын

Ikr, what happened to the born this way rhetoric lol. On the other hand, the Navy......

@kingleech16

8 ай бұрын

These are the same kinds of folks who can’t understand the idea of friendship. If two guys are friends or comrades, one or both of them simply MUST be gay.

@socalchago

8 ай бұрын

You dare us? Why? How does this imaginary Marine respond in this lurid fantasy of yours?_ I suppose this imaginary Marine is male? Straight? So insecure that when a stranger asks him a ridiculous question that he responds with reflexive violence?

@Theiscariotsin

8 ай бұрын

@@kingleech16alright, cat’s out of the bag guys. The entire boy scouts is gay apparently

@lc3853

8 ай бұрын

Infantry taught me that training with men doesn't make you gay .... I MAKE YOU GAY.

Metatron, I applaud you for presenting your arguments with logic and research. And, I understand the amount of work that you do to be as factually complete as possible... So thanks for that as well... Oh... And as far as that a$$hat calling you a cult leader... If you're leading a cult based on logic and common sense, sign me up!

@metatronyt

8 ай бұрын

I appreciate thanks

@logicplague2077

8 ай бұрын

Wait, what? The guy who runs that channel called Metatron a cult leader?

@NefariousKoel

8 ай бұрын

The irony of calling someone a 'cult leader' when the creator has obviously been indoctrinated into a cult.

@shnorkeythefourth4572

8 ай бұрын

So when’s the sacrifice brothers? My week is lookin pretty boring

@logicplague2077

8 ай бұрын

@@shnorkeythefourth4572 Bob's gone to get the pig now, but we're having trouble rounding up the consecrated Earth.

Just found your channel and find it interesting and wanna say great work♡