Comments by "Robert Morgan" (@RobertMorgan) on "History Buffs" channel.

  1. "From the moment they wake, they devote themselves to the perfection of whatever they pursue." Ideals to live by.
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  2. 5:05 "and he loved, above all, feeling valued". And that right there is the cornerstone, the main structural element, of how gangs, mobs, cults, and even many of our institutions work and attract and keep members. It's extremely powerful and coercive to give someone who has been convinced for whatever reason that they're worthless a worth through purpose, even if that purpose is an ulterior motive to serve some self-serving goal of your own. Quite often in such situations what's not seen is that valuation comes at a price, that in most cases what you get out of the situation that makes you feel great is being paid to the 'leader' many times over. Especially in the mob. The more you make, the better you do, the more you kick upstairs to the Boss.
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  3. 150 years later: I hear you like CARS, America. Here, have some cars, have ALL the cars. In fact, shut down your car industry, buy Japanese cars. Oh, you want to sell American cars in Japan, ok, 95% tariff.
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  4. Shows the power of being willing to break out of your own traditions and ways, and take wholeheartedly the advice and guidance of others. Think about how hard it is as an individual to go "the way I'm doing things is wrong, I realize it, I accept it, tell me how to change and I'll do it". That's almost impossible for most people in reality. But the Japanese embraced that change and leveraged it for massive advancement.
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  5.  @Liquid-Snake-Foxhound  I am of the firm belief that everyone needs at least one thing in their life where they can pursue perfection. We need that to balance and center our lives. It doesn't have to be something grand, but even something simple as making what you consider the perfect cup of coffee in the morning, or organizing your closet perfectly, hell even parking in your spot perfectly centered, something. Everyone needs at least one thing in their life they can have pride in. Pursuing perfection does not imply you'll ever achieve it, that's the main realization: it's the effort you put into that goal that grows you as a person. There is no destination of perfection, there is only a journey.
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  6. "He also discovered that one of the lions had a tooth infection, an infection that would have made it difficult for the lion to kill large, difficult prey." Luckily there was a convenient local buffet of small, easy humans for him to eat.
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  7. It's very stalinist to revel in the misery of another. Don't be as bad as the people you hate.
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  8. I've witnessed a total solar eclipse in the path of totality at the point of maximum duration, and I have to say that even having vast knowledge and understanding and modern university education, it was still an intense, inspiring, truly magical experience. I can absolutely see how those without such foreknowledge or information about what is happening would be terrified and exploitable during such an event. Hate to say, but covid seems like a modern version of a solar eclipse to historical 'savages': a major event where no one seems to know what's happening, being used to control and exploit said ignorant masses.
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  9. Same. Just because we live in MO doesn't make what's hiding in those fields any less scary, lol. There are stories...
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  10. Looking back on this video from the future of 2022, we have A HELICOPTER 🚁 FLYING AROUND ON MARS.
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  11. Man, I love the music that was edited into this.
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  12. Somali pirate sentenced to 33 years in Us federal prison, and into probably the best life he's ever known.
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