"WhatifAlthist" | World History, Philosophy, Culture

Interesting takes on history and politics

Very interesting and informative historical analysis.

This guy has really interesting takes on modern societal trends wrt historical events and patterns. Listen and try not to get triggered.

“Witches were burnt because they were destroying the shared, collective health of the society through their nihilism.” 15 minutes in on the episode titled, “The Coming Psychological Black Death.” Ok, there’s a lot to unpack there. First of all, do you have any evidence that witches were nihilists? In my experience they tend to go in rather the opposite direction. Secondly is nihilism a hanging offense? This guy likes to talk about a whole lot of subjects that he clearly doesn’t have a good handle on. In his more recent episodes he has been leaning towards supernatural subjects where this really becomes obvious. In “explaining ancient forbidden teachings.” His idea of the difference between black magic and white magic is wildly incorrect. In short, the difference between white magic and black magic is much simpler than the convoluted thing he describes related to the will of God. Black magic is anything that violates the free will of one or more sentient entities. And white magic is everything else.