tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post4525316785847309543..comments2024-03-27T03:19:11.216-04:00Comments on Assistant Village Idiot: Viral VideoAssistant Village Idiothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01978011985085795099noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-28870505089661466452014-07-29T20:03:02.781-04:002014-07-29T20:03:02.781-04:00Africa was in there at the beginning of man sectio...Africa was in there at the beginning of man section. First.<br /><br />I think you are looking for an argument.Assistant Village Idiothttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01978011985085795099noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-3162087778129787802014-07-29T08:34:32.063-04:002014-07-29T08:34:32.063-04:00The evolution of man is off. Africans did not come...The evolution of man is off. Africans did not come after Caucasians they came before. First human life was in Africa. First humans were black people, not as portrayed in the film.<br /><br />Clearly the teacher did not edit or critique this film or he or she was ignorant.mariehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15329050632224493839noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-44918738099587706372013-01-24T18:46:15.777-05:002013-01-24T18:46:15.777-05:00Sam L - true, and significant. I think there is s...Sam L - true, and significant. I think there is stock footage out of the USSR, less from China, but not as much as of Nazi Germany.Assistant Village Idiothttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01978011985085795099noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-288195581907890892013-01-23T22:54:16.936-05:002013-01-23T22:54:16.936-05:00Leaves out Roman Empire? Middle Ages? Or did it ...Leaves out Roman Empire? Middle Ages? Or did it just beat my eyes? Killings by the millions by Communists, too, without which the Berlin Wall makes no sense.Sam L.https://www.blogger.com/profile/00996809377798862214noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-36021462936694130072013-01-22T19:18:54.625-05:002013-01-22T19:18:54.625-05:00elc, it may comfort you to know that the link was ...elc, it may comfort you to know that the link was sent to me by my quite anti-conservative uncle who lives in San Luis Obispo. The others on the mass mailing are mostly liberal, including retired professors. I made comments to similar effect as those here, and a few looked again and were...disquieted.<br /><br />Too late to change minds with most of them, but I remain hopeful that others, wiser and more persuasive than I, will be able to get a larger audience to look objectively at the current world.<br /><br />I have believed for years that all it takes is that first step back in objectivity. Smart people do very well on their own after that. But the first step seems indeed to be very expensive.Assistant Village Idiothttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01978011985085795099noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-47550728197573453932013-01-22T17:33:03.957-05:002013-01-22T17:33:03.957-05:00He just blew right past the Middle Ages! Then, af...He just blew right past the Middle Ages! Then, after lingering way too long on the Sixties (which I lived through and which weren't one-tenth as cool as so many of my contemporaries thought they were, but rather were cruel, abusive, and chaotic), he showed what I presume to be the destruction of Earth either by atomic energy or some other human agency.<br /><br />Talented kid. Too bad he had such a horrible education.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-77363837859247545162013-01-22T08:42:01.145-05:002013-01-22T08:42:01.145-05:00Earl - Good point about the perspective study. If ...Earl - Good point about the perspective study. If the video's photo subjects were presented in proportion to geologic time, and you blinked, you'd likely miss all of mankind. Sponge-headed ScienceManhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12914014641719908195noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-3837914683840005002013-01-22T06:05:52.648-05:002013-01-22T06:05:52.648-05:00Such a project almost has to be a "perspectiv...Such a project almost has to be a "perspective study" in which closer objects look nearer, and then, given the brevity, you have to pick your objects. I mean, did you <i>want</i> to spend most of the film looking at stars, and most of the rest looking at single-celled organisms?<br /><br />I like how his Renaissance art was full of religious themes, thus thriftily combining Renaissance with Christianity and late Antiquity. <br /><br />The doomsdayish bit looked at least as astronomical as environmental to me. Maybe just a memento mori?Earl Wajenberghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03972213104063301125noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-41759466774674828412013-01-21T21:54:13.774-05:002013-01-21T21:54:13.774-05:00Neat job on the video. But a bit too doomsdayish a...Neat job on the video. But a bit too doomsdayish at the end. Did Al Gore write the script?Sponge-headed ScienceManhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12914014641719908195noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-87801185587574446442013-01-21T21:10:09.124-05:002013-01-21T21:10:09.124-05:00Fixed. Thanks.Fixed. Thanks.Assistant Village Idiothttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01978011985085795099noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-22930757824115619072013-01-21T18:41:16.761-05:002013-01-21T18:41:16.761-05:00http://marcbrecy.perso.neuf.fr/history.html is the...http://marcbrecy.perso.neuf.fr/history.html is the link that works.<br />Larry Sheldonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12653436584890594776noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-59302149818410164742013-01-21T18:28:30.974-05:002013-01-21T18:28:30.974-05:00Your link needs a little editing; it has a blogger...Your link needs a little editing; it has a blogger prefix.<br /><br />I suppose you have to de-weight the emphasis on WWII and 60's stuff--there was just so much more documentation (and pictures) than from earlier eras. It is hard to resist the temptation to use it.<br /><br />But yeah, there are important swaths of Western Civ missing, and some of what was included (AIDS) seems less significant that what was left out (smallpox).jameshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01792036361407527304noreply@blogger.com