On the first season finale, we discuss a possible way ahead to resolve the entropy attacking the institutions of the west. Everything that is old is new again, perhaps attempting the great lessons of Stoicism for all Columbia's young ones will belay the decay of the West.

Sources Used:
The Simpsons
John Adams on ... & equality under the law - The New Reform Club
On the so-called “Jewish Question” - Jordan Peterson
Some amazing findings on income mobility - AEI.org
Top Corporate Mergers: The Good, The Bad & The Ugly - Rasmussen
Why wealthy families lose their fortunes in three generations - Globe and Mail
Why You Can’t Sue Your Broadband Monopoly - EFF
After the Pogrom - Maurycy Minkowski
The Course of Empire: Destruction - Cole Thomas
Destruction of the Second Temple - Nicolas Poussin
Ivory Tower - OfTheDunes
Paupers Near the Church - Sergey Vinogradov
Portrait of a Nobleman - Sonmans
Romans During the Decadence - Thomas Couture
Signing of the Declaration of Independence - John Trumbull
Weird Wally Mix - Alex Kaminski

This week, follow me into my people's pessimistic heart. Witness the last of humanity, experiencing the entirety of life's struggles, in the claustrophobic tunnels and overcrowded stations, of "Metro 2033".

Sources Used
Cyberpunk 2077 (2020)
The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
Halo: Combat Evolved (2001)
Metro 2033 (2010)
Metro 2033 Redux (2014)
Metro Exodus (2019)
The Witcher (2007)
10 Most Lived-In Open Worlds - Gameranx
Aurora - Feel for Music
Metro 2033 Theme - Anthesteria
Abandoned Farmhouse - Edward Freeman
Dark Winter Days 2 - bachus99

This week, we explore the well, exploration, of my favorite game of all time. Get ready to be marooned on the doomed ringworld of Halo.

Sources Used
Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (2007)
Dawn of the Dead (1978)
Halo (2001)
Halo 3 (2007)
Halo 4 (2012)
Halo Master Chief Collection (2019)
Independence Day (1997)
The Lord of the Rings (2001-2003)
We Were Soldiers (2002)
Halo - Martin O'Donnell and Michael Salvatore
Under Cover of Night Definitive Addition - Jafet Meza
The Beauty of Halo - Kaidon
Halo 3 - Halo - Mission 10 Walkthrough - MrTimelessTech
Longplay of Halo Combat Evolved - LongplayArchive
Amber Waves of Grain - Ben Egbert
Erana's Peace - Wolf Kroger
Purple Mountains Majesty - Kait Thomas

Originally posted to YouTube on 30 May 2021

This week, I add an addendum to discuss in more detail my thoughts on why people love making remakes.

Sources used:
Atlantis the Lost Empire (2001)
Batman Begins (2002)
Black Hawk Down (2002)
Harry Potter 1 (2001)
Independence Day (1996)
The Island (2005)
Remember 2001 - KHJEDIMASTER
Resident Evil (2002)
Resident Evil Remake (2002)
Resident Evil 2 (1998)
Resident Evil 3 (1999)
Resident Evil 3 Remake (2020)
Resident Evil 4 (2004)
The Road to El Dorado (2000)
Star Wars Episode 1 (1999)
Star Wars Episode 8 (2017)
Starcraft (1998)
Streets of NYC - Benny Wyer
X-Men (2000)

This week, we look at a possible alternative explanation for why everything being manufactured today seems to be getting worse.

Sources Used:
How to Train Your Dragon (2009)
Workers of the Digital Harvest (2012)
Weird Wally Mix - Alex Kaminski
America's Most Abandoned Gary Indiana - RnK All Day
Army Humvee Drivers Training - Kevin McNamara
Black Hawk Helicopters 101st Airborne - Gung Ho Vids
BMW Factory ROBOTS - GommeBlog.it
How a Motherboard is Made - PCWorld
In Abrams: We Rock, They Roll - Haci Productions
New York in 8K Ultra HD Capital of Earth - 8K World
Russian Military LIVE FIRE - ArmedForcesUpdate
Soviet Science - Andrian Smith
Suicide Plagues a China Factory - CNN Business
Tour of 1940s Factory - Michael Stow
Filmmaking - shutterstock
Inspire Your Mind - Digital Native Art
Moore's Law - Our World in Data
Streaming - JBareham
Technology Through the Ages Timeline - Findel International
3 Reasons Grades are Bad for education - thnk.org
5 Reasons Why You Are Good Enough - HuffPost
Apple's Latest Laptops are the Worst - Business Insider
Chinese Selling Faulty Medical Equipment - NJ OHSP
CMS Puzzled by SAT Score Drop - EdNC.org
What is a General Studies Degree? - Learn.org
The Intellectual Decline of the Army Officer Corps - JMOBlues.com
How I Escaped the Cult of Self-Improvement - Medium.com
New Research Shows Declining Interest in STEM - GovTech.com
The Rise and Fall of Science - Ideas and Data
The Slow Death of Traditional Media - visualcapitalist.org
Stanford study suggests benefits to ethnic studies - news.stanford.edu

Originally posted on YouTube 25 June 2021

This week I complete my discussion on quality animated films for young boys and girls with the discussion of the acknowledgement of the value of the feminine in Disney's Brave. Between this film and the "How to Train Your Dragon" series, our children will have paragons of their power to look up to.

Sources used:
Annie Get Your Gun (1950)
Brave (2012)
How to Train Your Dragon (2010)
How to Train Your Dragon 2 (2014)
How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World (2019)
Wife Takes Charge of Husband's Money (1910)
Wonder Woman (2017)
Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001)
Terminator 2 (1991)
Star Wars Episode IX (2019)
Merida's Home - Patrick Doyle
Ash - WLOP
Journey - WLOP
Lady of the Lake - Vulpa
Dream - WLOP
Lean - WLOP
Piano 3 - WLOP
Reflection - WLOP
Sin 3 - WLOP
Touch the Darkness - ALCD
White - WLOP
The Acolade - Edmund Blair Leighton
Forest Woman - Anna Gorin
Forest Woman - Motta123
I need more than one Life - AquaSixio
Il cigno nero - AquaSixio
Night Elf - Edli Akolli
Tyrande of the Night Elves - Blizzard
Woman Outdoors - Wallup

Originally posted on YouTube 19 June 2021

This week, we discuss the best modern tale of manhood: the "How to Train Your Dragon" movie series. Prepare for ALL the Cozy and ALL the wholesome.

Sources Used:
How to Train Your Dragon (2010)
How to Train Your Dragon 2 (2014)
How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World (2019)

Originally posted to YouTube 12 June 2021

This week, we look at the development of civilization and civilizational hierarchies, the franchise, and the effect of immigration on the ability of the Roman and American national "soul" to resist entropic decay.

Sources Used:
How to Train Your Dragon 3 (2019)
Devil's Hole Rapids on the Niagara River - Tom Samworth
What did Rome Look Like? - New Historia
Medieval Iron Production in Holland and Thjs van de Manakker - culutuuramersfoort
Godfather Part II (1974)
Captain America: Winter Soldier (2014)
To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (1971)
Caesar III (1998)
Rome (2005)
Pharaoh (1999)
The Patriot/History Buffs (2000)
Joker (2019)
Starship Troopers (1997)
Game of Thrones (2014)
Morning Formation: A Moment with Charlie Company Virginia Tech Corps of Cadets

Originally posted on YouTube 05 June 2021

In this week's video, I look into how art criticism has split into three forms, the Normies, the Shills, and the Skeptics. How do we return to an ability to judge art in an objective matter when all sides find themselves recreating schisms at each level, splintering all the way down.

Sources used
Van Helsing (2005)
Resident Evil (2002)
Wonder Woman (2017)
Alien (1979)
Aliens (1986)
Transformers (2007)
Ivory Tower of the Dunes - Vue Fantasy
The Terminator (1982)
Terminator 2: Judgement Day (1991)
American Pie (1999)
The Fountain (2006)
The Spoony Experiment: The Thing (2007)
The Pacific (2010)
University of Michigan Ann Arbor by Drone - Nasr Abdo
An American Tail 3 (1998)
The Matrix Reloaded (2003)
Black Hawk Down (2001)
Blade Runner 2049 (2017)
Mass Effect 3: Tasteful Understated Rage (2012)
Lighthouses in a Storm - egarciaber
Citizen Kane (1941)
Star Wars Episode V (1980)
Star Wars Episode VIII (2017)
Free to Choose (1978)
Independence Day (1996)
Batman v Superman (2016)

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Originally posted to YouTube on 15 May 2021

This week's episode discusses a counternarrative to how we view the sinking of the Titanic, and how we can apply the axiom of "cycles of history" to see that 9/11 and the Titanic represent the same phase in the cycle.

Video and pictures from:
National Geographic's "Titanic: Case Closed", "Titanic: The Last Word with James Cameron", "Titanic: How it Really Sank", "Titanic" (1997), Ken Marschall's paintings of the ship, sinking, and wreck, "VHS Conflict: Invasion of Iraq" on YouTube, CBS's live 9/11 coverage, and historical photographs of the Titanic, Carpathia, Californian, and the Titanic's crew.

Credits song is my own: "Weird Wally Mix"

Originally Published 22 May 2021

This week, I look at our obsession with reworking existing content instead of developing our own. With the two prongs of "fixing" the work of others on the internet, and the Legacy Media's obsession with franchising.

Video from:
Titanic (1997), Day of the Dead (1985), Dawn of the Dead (2004), Event Horizon, Resident Evil 2 (2019), Resident Evil 3 (2020), Resident Evil (2002), Paul W.S. Anderson Interview for release of Pompeii, PewDiePie: "Livestream Fails", Troy, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, Oz the Great and Powerful, Spaceballs!, Star Wars: Empire of Dreams, The Worst Witch, 50 Shades of Gray, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, Twilight, 99%, Air Force One, Attack on Titan, Scott Pilgrim vs the World, Tropic Thunder

Originally published to YouTube in 2012

Workers of the Digital Harvest follows the everyday lives of three brothers: Phil, an office worker bored with his job; Aaron, an author facing writer's block; and Gregory, a farmer under financial stress with a baby on the way. As the film progresses, Aaron uses hard work and perseverance to overcome his problem, Gregory and his wife find support in each other to get through their rough patch, and Phil discovers that perhaps even office work can be legitimate. Within the film will be a second story: as Aaron tries to piece his next book together out of the ether, we watch its progression until finally it crystalizes as the story of a young leader's trial by fire as he leads his inexperienced army unit through a zombie-infested pharmaceuticals plant.

Originally posted to YouTube on 08 May 2021

A month late and MANY dollars short, here is my commentary on why I still rewatch James' Cameron's Titanic. I intend this short video format to be a weekly event, let me know what you think.