The fact that this silliness passes for legit, or even entertaining, among otherwise discerning & intelligent people reveals the tremendous failure of education and the great success of the modernist mission to erase history & to start from scratch in order to stupefy the population..
Long before educational dogma abandoned the classics and civics, and before Rockefeller Interests took over medical education, similar imperial interests usurped architecture education and severed the tradition from its rich and varied past, roughly coincident with the great depression. That is why our built environment plainly does not conform to the 'arrow of progress,' and earlier generations were capable of achieving such beautiful & complex heights.
Literally, the word "beauty" has been taboo & a mark of 'nostalgia' & 'sentimentality' in arts education (architecture included) for at least 90 years. You will not graduate almost all programs (with literally less than 10 exceptions of all the world's architecture schools) if you dare to pursue beauty as a topic of discussion or goal. You will be laughed into the theater department.
The history of this transformation is fascinating, and little probed. It is the same reason why architects are not taught proportion any more, and why geometry is not taught as the most fundamental math.
And it is the same reason why Obama's and W.'s education programs abandoned the need to read fiction from a young age. A people who cannot discern fiction from non-fiction, cannot tell when their rulers are lying to them.
The Covid Op would not have been a possible grift if modernism had not first lobotomized architects 5 generations ago.
so true. Beauty has become a dirty word, even in art. All institutional galleries/museums have to tick so many boxes with their exhibition programs to secure state funding - diversity, sustainablilty, inclusivity, etc. but there are no boxes for beauty, wonder, transcendence or imagination. I recently curated a touring show of artworks I found beautiful ( https://lucent.international ) and got to speak to the directors of some of these public exhibition spaces, and they all had similar complaints. Their programming is being shaped by political agendas and not by artists just following their own muses.
With ugliness you get dull minds. The "who are they" have been working this for a very long time. When I was young, now 73, I liked visiting big cities. Didn't take too long before I lost total interest. Architecture became they all pretty much look the same, some sprawl, some tall, ugly, no beauty. Now they are trying to ruin the rural beauty.
I'm very curious to know what some of the [narrowly define] 'beauty' exceptions/disciplines are in the elite architectural schools of today.
And, I just thought of this now---as i write,... if one wants to pursue "architectural history" as a PhD academic in an institution of higher learning, do the elite architectural schools even accept those types of candidates? Or, does said candidate have to go to a non-architectural school to pursue the vein of architectural history? The Archeology sub department within the History department of a non-architectural school?!
Are you asking which schools are the exceptions, those which attempt to recover the old traditions and maintain them? Or are you asking something else?
History departments and history department deans are gate-keepers. This holds for “elite” institutions as much as it does for Community Colleges. As with archeology pedagogy, and science education, establishment authority is so stingy with feedback loops and revision, that however much new information comes to light that might challenge received wisdom, they are incapable of updating or revising their models, as if preservation of a dominant myths is their job. The final waste product of these gatekeepers is college text books and their “academic” cults of personality.
One must begin with revisions of cosmology if one is to enable all of the branches of thought that flow from it to return to the search for truth and reliable meaning.
what are the narrowly prescribed ‘acceptable lanes’ that allow an architect student at an elite architecture school to pursue an endeavor into ‘beauty’ (if at all) without being expelled?
I'd gander it's probably worse at non-elite schools. i have no idea. What would be the advantage of studying at a place that doesn't share one's aesthetic, philosophical, social, and psychological priorities? You study anywhere to learn what they teach.
That said, the lens of psychology and the framing of post-modern urban design, at least concede that nobody actually wants more austere modernism, so you can discuss "beauty" in quotes by those means. But really, you'd be better off attending one of the classicist schools, if that's what you want. There are a few.
Sadly, most of them have conservative catholic pretensions, so you're damned if you do, damned if you don't. (One shouldn't make beautiful things for some abstract idea like G-d and/or the glory of His bureaucratic church, but for the immediate and Epicurean benefit of you and your fellow man of any and all religious persuasion.)
Edgar Allen Poe was clearly thinking about it in his story “the maelstrom,” and Marshal McLuhan discusses this at length & Terrance McKenna also discussed it in the context of McLuhan. Apparently an old refrain among IBM engineers in the 50’s ran something like “Information overload yields to pattern recognition.”
I have no idea what you are trying to suggest re: freemasons & detectives, and I have less of an idea of why you would single them out. Pattern Recognition is a mode of using one’s senses in order to evaluate risk and opportunity in an environment that allows for a gestalt assessment, one that does not ignore ground over myopic views of figure. It is a means of measure that can facilitate survival in the context of otherwise invisible forces. You make it sound like something else, something nefarious.
Where I come from those that read too much tend to know too much and they demonstrate a degree of pattern recognition that is very threatening to 'whoever' and so they are labelled as insane and kept drugged for years and their opinions are maligned. Everything they say or do is conclusively diagnostic. Eventually the drugs make them unable to function and then if they are asset rich they get that taken away from them by the governments department called "Public Trust".
I don't think they do that to the police who recognise patterns.
Freemasons covet symbols and keep secrets about occult knowledge so they are not threatening.
The Tartaria musings are certainly evocative and interesting. However, as a third generation San Diegan, I can say with fair certainty that Balboa Park was not here when my great great grandparents arrived. They lived about one mile away from where it was built. Moreover, the San Diego Historical Society has voluminous photos of the Balboa Park during its construction. Yes, some of this could be faked. But I don't believe its possible to fake the entire construction. But regardless, I do find the musings of people like Lunchbreak and Question Everything (mudflood guy, "Question everything, friends"), and Eric Dubay (flat earth proponent) fascinating. I consider all of their content to be a kind of audio-visual high art, if that makes sense to anyone.
And what’s amazing about Balboa Park is that a lot of the buildings in the heart of the park were part of an ‘exposition’ and were not meant to be permanent. But they still stand and house a number of the city’s ’cultural institutions’.
(I too live in SD.)
I have been here over 49 years and have been coming to SD since I was a child. I’m a second generation Imperial Valleyite and Californian!
Yes, indeed, you and I have interacted several times, and I remember you well. We mused about San Diego's massive turn-to-the-east demographic shift in very recent years, on several occasions. It's like the entire history of California is being re-written again, with, in my estimation, it becoming a quasi colony of East and South Asia and great reset technocracy, which has zero meaning or connection to my perceptions of our once sleepy hometown. At least that's what I see occurring.
In terms of Balboa Park being here "hidden" as some connection to the "Old World" (Tartaria), I looked at many of the photos online from the San Diego Historical Society in recent years, and I can find many before and during photos of Balboa Park's construction. And there is no family stories that I am aware of an ancient city within walking distance of their original family home. I do find it puzzling, though, that my great great grandparents, and great grandparents, lived apparently far better lives than I (or even my parents,, in some respects) did.
Yes the Asian influence can be felt all up & down CA. As well as the Mexican/Latino influence.
I have cousins who live in a small college town in Western CO. (And work at the college.) Their town is 86% white, the next largest group are the Latinos at less than 14% with a few Native Americans in the mix. There are no Asians or Blacks. They live in a cultural bubble of white people.
When I discovered MLB, I binge watched. I think he is the one that did a couple episodes on the Vanderbilt wealth history and that history line was pretty shady. I think the supposed men who built America were sent here from bloodline families to take over, not build America. They did not aquire wealth here but already had it. We won't ever know the truth but we know it isn't what we are told.
He starts with the Empire State. He includes a sentence from Wikipedia saying how the famous photo of the workers on the iron girder was a “publicity stunt…to promote” the building. And we don’t know the photographer.
This is all information-less, not evidence that the building was already there, not even circumstantially. It’s just gibberish to say it is. It works perfectly well with the other theory that the building was built in the 30s.
In a video like this you have a few mins per building. You have to edit what you have to make it count. Yet this retardedness made the cut? This is sufficient to know he can’t be taken at all seriously. Because his claim requires an awful lot of people who were alive and living in NY when it was, er, not built forgetting to mention it was already there. They just stayed quiet for the 30s,40s,50s etc. ie. decades. You need evidence for such claims, not this nonsense.
It is not meant to be taken seriously, but to make us question what we are told.
Lunchbreak leaves it up to us to make our own inferences and gives his opinion.
He essentially just points out what we are told about these buildings do not make sense.
The Empire State Building was built in a year. That alone raises red flags. Nobody can build something like that in year even now with all the efficient cranes and tools we didn't have back then.
empire state building was the first large scale prefab structure
unless we buy the argument that when henry hudson arrived he found the empire state building full of indians taking the elevators up and down (although somehow their folklore mysteriously does not mention it)
This was my intro to Lunch Break. You're right. He's not meant to be taken seriously, in the same sense that dialectical arguments are one sided only and w/o factoring in the other side soon enough escalate into unsupported fantasy. This kind of adversarial argumentation is the basis of our current court system, except that it has a built in arbiter, a third pov, in the judge who can slow down any attempt to steam roller or break the written procedural rules. If Lunch Break would pause his narrative and add occasional doubts or acknowledge incomplete certainty at appropriate times, it would do much to gain my trust, alert me to his reasonableness, demonstrate that he's not just selling a new and untested model of car.
MLB often says it is his opinion in vids inhave seen, but I didn't notice in this one and assume its an opinion anyway. I don't trust anyone but he raises some food for thought.
He does raise food for thought after the fact because he's on to something. But it's easy to say "this is just my opinion." Most car salesmen will offer this, especially at the end of the spiel. What's more judicious is to allude to a different interpretation - others would say this about that bit - and here's what I respond to that. Such a thoughtful approach tends to keep the argumentation on a rational plane, slowing the rhetorical momentum, the emotional grip of a spell which is otherwise augmented by his sarcasm and ridicule for the conventional argument. Pausing for a contemplative change in direction creates a more dispassionate, Socratic approach. It invites you to participate in the thinking process yourself, not simply to be wowed by glib sophistry.
Your description is nailed exactly what he does. He has a way of inviting you to participate in his ideas combined with his inflectional sacasm has made him popular.
His socratic questioning makes you lean toward his views.
You can nit pick all you like at details but the fact remains that our history is a lie. I’m a builder with 35 years of experience & my father was also a builder so I know how long things take to build. Gigantic complex, beautiful buildings literally can’t be completed in a year now so the idea that it was being done all over the place in the late 1800’s early 1900’s is completely retarded. We will never know the truth but we can use our God given common sense & KNOW that The Empire State Building was not built in a year because it’s impossible
Nonsense. I'm not proposing we do it, but were we to undo OSHA (so we could tolerate rates of death and injury), defenestrate the AIA, make wages 'competitive' without union wage protection, demolish the DOB and LPC, train every architecture student in the Beaux Arts, and (pretend we could) restore the accumulated educational knowledge of the trade guilds that once existed everywhere in the US, quit "innovating" in building products and materials, and viola, we would see well funded projects fast track at speed and at quality you would previously have thought impossible.
I don't know in what periods you and your dad worked, but pre-WW1 high end building sets were frequently remarkably thin. 1-4 sheets. 20-100 sheet sets for a fancy residence were unheard of and unnecessary.
Moulding profiles, for example, could be designed in the field, because very millworker cut his own blades on the spot, as soon as the designer sketched a profile. A novel profile didn't require layers of middlemen and shops in other cities, or districts. Carbide tipped blades (among many other 'improvements') have only benefitted industry, and slowed everything else down, by creating learned helplessness and codependency. The over-litigiousness of our society has also been a main contributor to drag.
Societies don't just "progress"; they also stagnate & deteriorate in slow motion. And that's what we are seeing. And now we are over-estimating and misattributing the lost knowledge to make us even stupider.
Tesla's free energy model has never been implemented. Full stop.
Meh; China magic mojo? "The construction of a 57-story skyscraper in just 19 days is considered one of the fastest large-scale building projects in China. A 10-story modular apartment building was also erected in just 28 hours and 45 minutes."
So your “proof” for believing the absurd 1800 to early 1900 Wikipedia construction narratives is to cite the supposed building of a 57 story skyscraper in 19 days in China? What evidence do you have that the frame was erected in 19 days other than a Timelapse video provided by the CCP who of course would never engage in propaganda! Does the 19 days include the incredibly deep foundations that are required for skyscrapers? Does it include fitting out the 57 floors? Of course it doesn’t. We have no way of knowing how long the building in China took to build other than the words & videos of proven liars so again we must go back to our God given common sense and mine tells me that skyscrapers can’t be started and finished in a year anymore than those incredible stone neo classical structures could have been
The artisains back then came from the 'Old Country or may have been brought to the USA/Canada through the Architectural Firms of the day... there were no unions, and these structures were worked on sometimes for 24 hours at a time.
Luckily there are still a fair amount of the religious structures, dying slow deaths here in Western New York, most constructed concurrently... late 19th century when Buffalo, NY was a leader in shipping to the west and literally every ethnic area built massive old word Churches ..
... not criticizing what the person is doing with the research, but for some of those buildings in NYC and the like, there are employment records etc. and those artisans were known to work themselves to death and or died working as well... perhaps the employment records for some of those NYC firms were destroyed at the towers in NYC? .. there WERE records however...
No doubt however that there seems modern day Arson involved, those buildings are literally indestructible and the real estate is valuable these days...
so little respect for the past artisans or the art/ structure of the buildings
YES! MLB is incredible, some peoples minds work in a thousand ays my cannot create but once the creator is as clear and concise and documented as he is, O MY the world explodes!
And you know the really scary thing: all of the people involved, if they really existed, had either green, blue or brown eyes. You know who else has green, blue or brown eyes, right? Get it? Get it!?!
The Tiffany's fire has an obvious source: the Boy Scouts that these "elites" were kidnapping to train them up in the dark arts (it can't get any darker than in a "vault", or a crypt), well, those pesky Boy Scouts started the fire to communicate with other Boy Scouts who had suffered similar fates....
I was in the Boy Scouts. Whenever I see a fire off in the distance, and have people around me freak out about it, I look at it, and see that it's just Bob, down the canyon from me, and up on the bluff, saying that Saturday they're inviting everyone over for pancakes, and biscuits and gravy...so, chill out.
The human race is a race of amnesiacs, a people who has had their senses dulled by generations of subliminal messages by the magician's favorite 'medium', the tele-vision, with their enter-tainment, programming agendas; and those who watch are the programmed, which has dumbed down the masses into one hot, triggered mess, these days. Truly.
"They Live" was a documentary. Honest to God, as I am, I cannot tell a lie.... Truly.
Great article, Celia. There are definitely many aspects of history that have been hidden from us. If you need a Sunday evening movie, this documentary has lots that will make one think…
The fact that this silliness passes for legit, or even entertaining, among otherwise discerning & intelligent people reveals the tremendous failure of education and the great success of the modernist mission to erase history & to start from scratch in order to stupefy the population..
Long before educational dogma abandoned the classics and civics, and before Rockefeller Interests took over medical education, similar imperial interests usurped architecture education and severed the tradition from its rich and varied past, roughly coincident with the great depression. That is why our built environment plainly does not conform to the 'arrow of progress,' and earlier generations were capable of achieving such beautiful & complex heights.
Literally, the word "beauty" has been taboo & a mark of 'nostalgia' & 'sentimentality' in arts education (architecture included) for at least 90 years. You will not graduate almost all programs (with literally less than 10 exceptions of all the world's architecture schools) if you dare to pursue beauty as a topic of discussion or goal. You will be laughed into the theater department.
The history of this transformation is fascinating, and little probed. It is the same reason why architects are not taught proportion any more, and why geometry is not taught as the most fundamental math.
And it is the same reason why Obama's and W.'s education programs abandoned the need to read fiction from a young age. A people who cannot discern fiction from non-fiction, cannot tell when their rulers are lying to them.
The Covid Op would not have been a possible grift if modernism had not first lobotomized architects 5 generations ago.
so true. Beauty has become a dirty word, even in art. All institutional galleries/museums have to tick so many boxes with their exhibition programs to secure state funding - diversity, sustainablilty, inclusivity, etc. but there are no boxes for beauty, wonder, transcendence or imagination. I recently curated a touring show of artworks I found beautiful ( https://lucent.international ) and got to speak to the directors of some of these public exhibition spaces, and they all had similar complaints. Their programming is being shaped by political agendas and not by artists just following their own muses.
With ugliness you get dull minds. The "who are they" have been working this for a very long time. When I was young, now 73, I liked visiting big cities. Didn't take too long before I lost total interest. Architecture became they all pretty much look the same, some sprawl, some tall, ugly, no beauty. Now they are trying to ruin the rural beauty.
Hi MGC, well said!
I'm very curious to know what some of the [narrowly define] 'beauty' exceptions/disciplines are in the elite architectural schools of today.
And, I just thought of this now---as i write,... if one wants to pursue "architectural history" as a PhD academic in an institution of higher learning, do the elite architectural schools even accept those types of candidates? Or, does said candidate have to go to a non-architectural school to pursue the vein of architectural history? The Archeology sub department within the History department of a non-architectural school?!
Are you asking which schools are the exceptions, those which attempt to recover the old traditions and maintain them? Or are you asking something else?
History departments and history department deans are gate-keepers. This holds for “elite” institutions as much as it does for Community Colleges. As with archeology pedagogy, and science education, establishment authority is so stingy with feedback loops and revision, that however much new information comes to light that might challenge received wisdom, they are incapable of updating or revising their models, as if preservation of a dominant myths is their job. The final waste product of these gatekeepers is college text books and their “academic” cults of personality.
One must begin with revisions of cosmology if one is to enable all of the branches of thought that flow from it to return to the search for truth and reliable meaning.
what are the narrowly prescribed ‘acceptable lanes’ that allow an architect student at an elite architecture school to pursue an endeavor into ‘beauty’ (if at all) without being expelled?
I'd gander it's probably worse at non-elite schools. i have no idea. What would be the advantage of studying at a place that doesn't share one's aesthetic, philosophical, social, and psychological priorities? You study anywhere to learn what they teach.
That said, the lens of psychology and the framing of post-modern urban design, at least concede that nobody actually wants more austere modernism, so you can discuss "beauty" in quotes by those means. But really, you'd be better off attending one of the classicist schools, if that's what you want. There are a few.
Sadly, most of them have conservative catholic pretensions, so you're damned if you do, damned if you don't. (One shouldn't make beautiful things for some abstract idea like G-d and/or the glory of His bureaucratic church, but for the immediate and Epicurean benefit of you and your fellow man of any and all religious persuasion.)
Pattern recognition is perhaps a skill that only crime fighting detectives and Freemasons can be forgiven for developing.
Edgar Allen Poe was clearly thinking about it in his story “the maelstrom,” and Marshal McLuhan discusses this at length & Terrance McKenna also discussed it in the context of McLuhan. Apparently an old refrain among IBM engineers in the 50’s ran something like “Information overload yields to pattern recognition.”
I have no idea what you are trying to suggest re: freemasons & detectives, and I have less of an idea of why you would single them out. Pattern Recognition is a mode of using one’s senses in order to evaluate risk and opportunity in an environment that allows for a gestalt assessment, one that does not ignore ground over myopic views of figure. It is a means of measure that can facilitate survival in the context of otherwise invisible forces. You make it sound like something else, something nefarious.
Where I come from those that read too much tend to know too much and they demonstrate a degree of pattern recognition that is very threatening to 'whoever' and so they are labelled as insane and kept drugged for years and their opinions are maligned. Everything they say or do is conclusively diagnostic. Eventually the drugs make them unable to function and then if they are asset rich they get that taken away from them by the governments department called "Public Trust".
I don't think they do that to the police who recognise patterns.
Freemasons covet symbols and keep secrets about occult knowledge so they are not threatening.
Sounds like not such a nice place to come from, and an even worse place from which to be ostracized.
One of my favorite channels. 🥰
The Tartaria musings are certainly evocative and interesting. However, as a third generation San Diegan, I can say with fair certainty that Balboa Park was not here when my great great grandparents arrived. They lived about one mile away from where it was built. Moreover, the San Diego Historical Society has voluminous photos of the Balboa Park during its construction. Yes, some of this could be faked. But I don't believe its possible to fake the entire construction. But regardless, I do find the musings of people like Lunchbreak and Question Everything (mudflood guy, "Question everything, friends"), and Eric Dubay (flat earth proponent) fascinating. I consider all of their content to be a kind of audio-visual high art, if that makes sense to anyone.
And what’s amazing about Balboa Park is that a lot of the buildings in the heart of the park were part of an ‘exposition’ and were not meant to be permanent. But they still stand and house a number of the city’s ’cultural institutions’.
(I too live in SD.)
I have been here over 49 years and have been coming to SD since I was a child. I’m a second generation Imperial Valleyite and Californian!
Yes, indeed, you and I have interacted several times, and I remember you well. We mused about San Diego's massive turn-to-the-east demographic shift in very recent years, on several occasions. It's like the entire history of California is being re-written again, with, in my estimation, it becoming a quasi colony of East and South Asia and great reset technocracy, which has zero meaning or connection to my perceptions of our once sleepy hometown. At least that's what I see occurring.
In terms of Balboa Park being here "hidden" as some connection to the "Old World" (Tartaria), I looked at many of the photos online from the San Diego Historical Society in recent years, and I can find many before and during photos of Balboa Park's construction. And there is no family stories that I am aware of an ancient city within walking distance of their original family home. I do find it puzzling, though, that my great great grandparents, and great grandparents, lived apparently far better lives than I (or even my parents,, in some respects) did.
Yes the Asian influence can be felt all up & down CA. As well as the Mexican/Latino influence.
I have cousins who live in a small college town in Western CO. (And work at the college.) Their town is 86% white, the next largest group are the Latinos at less than 14% with a few Native Americans in the mix. There are no Asians or Blacks. They live in a cultural bubble of white people.
Radio & Wireless Power @ New Yorker Hotel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBp8DaeDGzA&t=11m45s Nikola Tesla & John Astor's "Astor Building". John Astor died on the Titianic, while JP Morgan & Marconi "failed to board". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V69lNjJBMBY Nikola Tesla 100 Questions ChatGPT, Deepseek, Google & Grok #FAIL https://teslaleaks.com/f/nikola-tesla-100-questions-chatgpt-deepseek-google-grok-fail
Thank you for sharing. Me and my mom had a ball watching this.
I have subscribed to the channel and will be checking out his other videos.
When I discovered MLB, I binge watched. I think he is the one that did a couple episodes on the Vanderbilt wealth history and that history line was pretty shady. I think the supposed men who built America were sent here from bloodline families to take over, not build America. They did not aquire wealth here but already had it. We won't ever know the truth but we know it isn't what we are told.
He starts with the Empire State. He includes a sentence from Wikipedia saying how the famous photo of the workers on the iron girder was a “publicity stunt…to promote” the building. And we don’t know the photographer.
This is all information-less, not evidence that the building was already there, not even circumstantially. It’s just gibberish to say it is. It works perfectly well with the other theory that the building was built in the 30s.
In a video like this you have a few mins per building. You have to edit what you have to make it count. Yet this retardedness made the cut? This is sufficient to know he can’t be taken at all seriously. Because his claim requires an awful lot of people who were alive and living in NY when it was, er, not built forgetting to mention it was already there. They just stayed quiet for the 30s,40s,50s etc. ie. decades. You need evidence for such claims, not this nonsense.
Yes, I myself am dubious about the ESB. But I don't dismiss all he says by a long shot.
Tartaria theory/questions are impossible to dismiss, as a whole. Impossible.
It is not meant to be taken seriously, but to make us question what we are told.
Lunchbreak leaves it up to us to make our own inferences and gives his opinion.
He essentially just points out what we are told about these buildings do not make sense.
The Empire State Building was built in a year. That alone raises red flags. Nobody can build something like that in year even now with all the efficient cranes and tools we didn't have back then.
empire state building was the first large scale prefab structure
unless we buy the argument that when henry hudson arrived he found the empire state building full of indians taking the elevators up and down (although somehow their folklore mysteriously does not mention it)
This was my intro to Lunch Break. You're right. He's not meant to be taken seriously, in the same sense that dialectical arguments are one sided only and w/o factoring in the other side soon enough escalate into unsupported fantasy. This kind of adversarial argumentation is the basis of our current court system, except that it has a built in arbiter, a third pov, in the judge who can slow down any attempt to steam roller or break the written procedural rules. If Lunch Break would pause his narrative and add occasional doubts or acknowledge incomplete certainty at appropriate times, it would do much to gain my trust, alert me to his reasonableness, demonstrate that he's not just selling a new and untested model of car.
MLB often says it is his opinion in vids inhave seen, but I didn't notice in this one and assume its an opinion anyway. I don't trust anyone but he raises some food for thought.
He does raise food for thought after the fact because he's on to something. But it's easy to say "this is just my opinion." Most car salesmen will offer this, especially at the end of the spiel. What's more judicious is to allude to a different interpretation - others would say this about that bit - and here's what I respond to that. Such a thoughtful approach tends to keep the argumentation on a rational plane, slowing the rhetorical momentum, the emotional grip of a spell which is otherwise augmented by his sarcasm and ridicule for the conventional argument. Pausing for a contemplative change in direction creates a more dispassionate, Socratic approach. It invites you to participate in the thinking process yourself, not simply to be wowed by glib sophistry.
Your description is nailed exactly what he does. He has a way of inviting you to participate in his ideas combined with his inflectional sacasm has made him popular.
His socratic questioning makes you lean toward his views.
You can nit pick all you like at details but the fact remains that our history is a lie. I’m a builder with 35 years of experience & my father was also a builder so I know how long things take to build. Gigantic complex, beautiful buildings literally can’t be completed in a year now so the idea that it was being done all over the place in the late 1800’s early 1900’s is completely retarded. We will never know the truth but we can use our God given common sense & KNOW that The Empire State Building was not built in a year because it’s impossible
Nonsense. I'm not proposing we do it, but were we to undo OSHA (so we could tolerate rates of death and injury), defenestrate the AIA, make wages 'competitive' without union wage protection, demolish the DOB and LPC, train every architecture student in the Beaux Arts, and (pretend we could) restore the accumulated educational knowledge of the trade guilds that once existed everywhere in the US, quit "innovating" in building products and materials, and viola, we would see well funded projects fast track at speed and at quality you would previously have thought impossible.
I don't know in what periods you and your dad worked, but pre-WW1 high end building sets were frequently remarkably thin. 1-4 sheets. 20-100 sheet sets for a fancy residence were unheard of and unnecessary.
Moulding profiles, for example, could be designed in the field, because very millworker cut his own blades on the spot, as soon as the designer sketched a profile. A novel profile didn't require layers of middlemen and shops in other cities, or districts. Carbide tipped blades (among many other 'improvements') have only benefitted industry, and slowed everything else down, by creating learned helplessness and codependency. The over-litigiousness of our society has also been a main contributor to drag.
Societies don't just "progress"; they also stagnate & deteriorate in slow motion. And that's what we are seeing. And now we are over-estimating and misattributing the lost knowledge to make us even stupider.
Tesla's free energy model has never been implemented. Full stop.
Meh; China magic mojo? "The construction of a 57-story skyscraper in just 19 days is considered one of the fastest large-scale building projects in China. A 10-story modular apartment building was also erected in just 28 hours and 45 minutes."
https://www.ncesc.com/geographic-faq/why-china-so-fast-in-construction/
It is simply civilizational, and one is going down - to its disbelief.
So your “proof” for believing the absurd 1800 to early 1900 Wikipedia construction narratives is to cite the supposed building of a 57 story skyscraper in 19 days in China? What evidence do you have that the frame was erected in 19 days other than a Timelapse video provided by the CCP who of course would never engage in propaganda! Does the 19 days include the incredibly deep foundations that are required for skyscrapers? Does it include fitting out the 57 floors? Of course it doesn’t. We have no way of knowing how long the building in China took to build other than the words & videos of proven liars so again we must go back to our God given common sense and mine tells me that skyscrapers can’t be started and finished in a year anymore than those incredible stone neo classical structures could have been
The Chinks, for specific reasons, tend to be a bit slower in Israhell, I give you that: https://www.ynetnews.com/business/article/skvweqc23
One civilization going down + one going up = disbelief galore. Just as I said.
The artisains back then came from the 'Old Country or may have been brought to the USA/Canada through the Architectural Firms of the day... there were no unions, and these structures were worked on sometimes for 24 hours at a time.
Luckily there are still a fair amount of the religious structures, dying slow deaths here in Western New York, most constructed concurrently... late 19th century when Buffalo, NY was a leader in shipping to the west and literally every ethnic area built massive old word Churches ..
... not criticizing what the person is doing with the research, but for some of those buildings in NYC and the like, there are employment records etc. and those artisans were known to work themselves to death and or died working as well... perhaps the employment records for some of those NYC firms were destroyed at the towers in NYC? .. there WERE records however...
No doubt however that there seems modern day Arson involved, those buildings are literally indestructible and the real estate is valuable these days...
so little respect for the past artisans or the art/ structure of the buildings
YES! MLB is incredible, some peoples minds work in a thousand ays my cannot create but once the creator is as clear and concise and documented as he is, O MY the world explodes!
Thx Celia! Episode 77 was amazing :)
And you know the really scary thing: all of the people involved, if they really existed, had either green, blue or brown eyes. You know who else has green, blue or brown eyes, right? Get it? Get it!?!
Surely this must be satire.
chemtrails.substack.com/p/the-worlds-fairs-impossible-history Agent 131711 has done research on buildings too, definitely worth a visit!
The Tiffany's fire has an obvious source: the Boy Scouts that these "elites" were kidnapping to train them up in the dark arts (it can't get any darker than in a "vault", or a crypt), well, those pesky Boy Scouts started the fire to communicate with other Boy Scouts who had suffered similar fates....
I was in the Boy Scouts. Whenever I see a fire off in the distance, and have people around me freak out about it, I look at it, and see that it's just Bob, down the canyon from me, and up on the bluff, saying that Saturday they're inviting everyone over for pancakes, and biscuits and gravy...so, chill out.
The human race is a race of amnesiacs, a people who has had their senses dulled by generations of subliminal messages by the magician's favorite 'medium', the tele-vision, with their enter-tainment, programming agendas; and those who watch are the programmed, which has dumbed down the masses into one hot, triggered mess, these days. Truly.
"They Live" was a documentary. Honest to God, as I am, I cannot tell a lie.... Truly.
Great article, Celia. There are definitely many aspects of history that have been hidden from us. If you need a Sunday evening movie, this documentary has lots that will make one think…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Ul0e6lw130
I love this channel too. I'm looking at old buildings around me for the first time ever. REALLY looking...
Celia thank you. fascinating
Built in a year or two. Without power tools, or Nextel or cell phones, using donkey carts and wagons. Sure.