Fwiw, Recommending a history YouTube channel, ripping down myths we were taught [View all]

First, this is *NOT* about AI. Yes, this channel and many others might be using AI for graphics and illustrations, but the narrative content here (and others) is historically based.

I was calling YouTube "The University of YouTube" long before the nefarious ROGAN (whom I don't look at) started calling stuff his education, and I "discovered" before that that he was under-educated formally and was dredging his crackpot theories from YouTube videos. I also say that *critical thinking* is a mainstay of Liberal Arts education and that it is a canard of non-internet people to dismiss every mention of "the internet" as being ALL junk and slop, smearing us as soaking up anything we hear or see without distinguishing and discriminating stuff like sponges - the way MAGAts actually do with the Faux Propaganda Network and all their "think" tanks and podcasts and Stephen MILLER propagandists.

*** Anyway, it is a thing that our national education system purveyed rosy myths and otherwise condemnation of historical personages on a "Good" "Bad" basis, not really a graduated spectrum, more like Slam Bam. Heroes and Villains. In my last score of years, the internet and now specificaly YouTube have opened horizons in many directions - from "visiting" foreign lands and cultures, to how-to fix all kinds of things, vistas and mundanities and everything in between.

In the past 4 or 5 years I've been gobsmacked into the Greeks-Romans-Egyptians and the gritty origins of X-tianity. I was an unlabelled atheist-agnostic-LapsedCatholic before, but just knew it didn't make sense and blind "Belief" was no answer. Finding YouTubes of religion scholars has been a "revelation," cf. Mythvision.

*** But to the point: I had arrived at my No-Heroes/no-worship-individuals since the '90s, but a very specific phenomenon of YouTube has been the History and biographical undressing of all the myths and judgments of our academic brainwashing. Not only the historical personages, but gee whiz all the dirt on celebrities. Very few have been left unscathed.

The political offshoot is: Our Democratic AGENDA above everything and everyone - NO worship of individuals. Our leaders are evaluated by how effective they are in furthering our AGENDA - NOT celebrityhood or "Royalty" entitlement. If somebody in our camp does criminal or unethical things, they forfeit our Democratic label and if office holders should resign on the spot.

This history channel is *FANTASTIC*! Yes, I knew that the much maligned Herod "the Great" did some big building, and the video lays out that part extensively well, but it also goes into breathtaking detail about his personal atrocities. Same goes for their video on Alexander the Great - not your Colin FARRELL (which I didn't see). Will see the vid on Cleopatra soon.

Here's the channel: Ancestral ::

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https://youtube.com/@watchancestral?si=PwzO81C9mMO5es1J (fixed thanks to CoopersDad)
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🏛️ OUR CRAFTSMANSHIP MANIFESTO: History deserves more than just a timeline. It deserves a pulse. That’s why every documentary we produce is defined by humanized editing and deliberate pacing. We entirely reject lazy, automated AI assembly. Instead, we obsess over genuine emotional storytelling—where every cut, shadow, and soundscape is hand-placed to immerse you in the raw, unapologetic reality of the past.

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