Holy shit, bro actually linked CPG Grey as a source. The dude notorious for making videos based on a single book/source, and deliberately ignoring criticism of that book when making his videos. The video in question splits “rulers” into “democratic rulers” and “authoritarians” and makes no attempt to actually define these terms. Essentially, it argues that a ruler has a certain number of “keys” that they need to keep happy in order to stay in power (the people, the military etc.) and that democracies are democracies and authoritarian dictatorships are authoritarian dictatorships and one cannot be halfway between them lest it collapse or something. Dude is the epitome of the smug reddit intellectual who reads a single source and believes themselves to be an expert on a topic they didn’t know existed 5 minutes ago. Only difference is Grey makes videos rather than reddit posts.
If that isn’t enough, he also said that the Monarchy in the UK shouldn’t be abolished because of “tourism.” Yeah.
It’s not very long, so it wouldn’t be a huge waste of time, but it does the standard “lib theory” thing of simplifying everything into binaries to the point of meaninglessness, then trying to retrofit reality onto their binary. It’s worth a watch if only to see how this stuff looks when it is presented in a “slick” sort of way, and is superficially convincing, but only to those that agree with the core premise that societies can be split into “dictatorships” and “democracies.”
Holy shit, bro actually linked CPG Grey as a source. The dude notorious for making videos based on a single book/source, and deliberately ignoring criticism of that book when making his videos. The video in question splits “rulers” into “democratic rulers” and “authoritarians” and makes no attempt to actually define these terms. Essentially, it argues that a ruler has a certain number of “keys” that they need to keep happy in order to stay in power (the people, the military etc.) and that democracies are democracies and authoritarian dictatorships are authoritarian dictatorships and one cannot be halfway between them lest it collapse or something. Dude is the epitome of the smug reddit intellectual who reads a single source and believes themselves to be an expert on a topic they didn’t know existed 5 minutes ago. Only difference is Grey makes videos rather than reddit posts.
If that isn’t enough, he also said that the Monarchy in the UK shouldn’t be abolished because of “tourism.” Yeah.
Thanks for explaining the video! I’m now very happy I didn’t watch it 😄
It’s not very long, so it wouldn’t be a huge waste of time, but it does the standard “lib theory” thing of simplifying everything into binaries to the point of meaninglessness, then trying to retrofit reality onto their binary. It’s worth a watch if only to see how this stuff looks when it is presented in a “slick” sort of way, and is superficially convincing, but only to those that agree with the core premise that societies can be split into “dictatorships” and “democracies.”