This guy is just slowly morphing into Chinese Dugin
Ugh, this guy. Saw one of his anti-capitalist videos once and almost got tricked until I saw he was a Q-Anon style weirdo.
When you’re a anti-western crank instead of a pro-west crank you’re gonna be right on accident sometimes
Yeah I started watching one and then he started saying immigration was bad and not in a nuanced way
“Immigrants need to gtfo Canada except for me and my immediate family.”
Every Chinese person who only has Western social media presence is either part of the diaspora, a crank, or a reactionary. Seems like he’s all three: a reactionary crank in Canada.
I came across him a few months back and watched one of his videos where he seemed to be criticizing Chinese mid century policy, pointing out that peasants couldn’t move freely and the Chinese people desired freedom. I commented asking if the peasantry had mobility prior to the revolution and he admitted they did not but it didn’t change anything in his “analysis”.
This is really a very poor understanding/exposition of history.
Just commenting on the Warring Period, the guy said Qin - the poorest region - ended up conquering and united all of China because they didn’t care about the “rules” (礼) and just wanted to defeat their enemies with warfare lol.
First of all, by the time we get to the Warring Period (aka The Seven Kingdoms of Westeros) around 5th century BC, nobody gave a damn about the “rules” anymore (which characterized the prior Spring and Autumn period). Confucius called it 礼崩乐坏 (“collapse of the rites, ruins of the music”), meaning that nobody cared about the “harmonious” hierarchy of the class society, and nobody cared about honor in warfare anymore.
Second, this is ignoring that nearly all the Seven Kingdoms had undergone deep reforms in their society to set about military conquests.
In fact, it was Wei that led with Li Kui’s legalist reform, followed by Wu Qi’s military reform, forging the 魏武卒 (super-elite soldiers of Wei) who were practically unbeatable at the time.
Qin’s Shang Yang reform happened nearly half a century later but was far more thorough (think proto-fascistic militaristic society) and allowed Qin to forge an army that was even more invincible than Wei’s army, and allowed them to eventually dominate the other six kingdoms and the unification of China, but the militarism will also lead to its swift downfall as the economic burden and the cruel punishment was simply too much for the common people to bear.
Chu also had its reform by Wu Qi (after he was expelled from Wei).
Zhao had its hufu qishe reform (胡服骑射 aka Wearing Barbarian Clothing and Shooting Archer from Horseback) under King Wuling, which would have given them a real shot at defeating Qin.
Qi had Sun Bin (Sun Tzu’s descendent) who dealt a decisive blow to Wei’s super soldiers at the Battle of Guiling and the Battle of Maling, pretty much ended Wei’s imperial domination.
It is complex history with lots of twists and turns, and you cannot just say Qin won because they liked to fight. I really do not recommend taking anything from this guy.
IMO the Qin won precisely because they were isolated from the other warring states in the central plain in the extremely defensible Wei River Valley
Heard about him for the first time a couple weeks ago so I watched the linked interview, as soon as he said he was teaching his high school students about quantum mechanics to explain the world it was a red flag, but his closing statement was all about how humans need to connect with a vague ‘spirituality’ to change the world made it clear he was just another westerner with above average ability to present ideas. The west longs for a teacher who isn’t blatantly lying to their students
Its fking wild how all of the stuff that hes put online are all lectures in some random beijing high school lol
Hes talking about how the JFK assassination is a Judeo-Masonic conspiracy because dealey plaza looks like a menorah to like some hapless international students in Beijing lol
Also not to be Academically elitist but the guys educational background is in English Lit, how does he have any expertise in geopolitics or history lol
He seems very much ideologically in-line with the Sabine Hossenfelder kind of “science philosophers” aka neo-machistian positivists. The quantum mechanics overhype because it sounds so futuristic - is a clear indication of it.
He apparently made a video on Stalin. I fucking hated it.
If you thought him calling Stalin the true ubermensche of the 20th century was bad wait until you get to the sources he use to back up his assertions
I fucking hate freud. The PRC needs to crack down on the whacko old european idealist philosophy wankery in its intelligentsia.
You’re mixing up Freud and Nietzsche lol, Freud’s the “go fuck your parents” guy.
Oh no I just wanted to say I hate freud. Nietzsche got covered by the whacko old european idealist philosophy wankery line
Completely valid and 100% agreed, fuck fredu
Uhhh montefiore?
I mean you’re like almost there, concidering he’s used as a primary source in it
spoiler answer to what his sources on Stalin is
Wikipedia. I’m not even shitting you
Damn I actually guessed TOO academic. Brutal L
Sad day in hellworld when shitbag Montefiore is considered too high quality of a source in contrast with shittypedia
I found a YouTube link in your post. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
