WhatifAltHist / Rudyard Lynch - History youtuber, galaxy brained, no credentials and no sex

Rudyard, to me, seems like one of many modern young (Or not so young) men who upon their first taste of philosophy and history - engage moreso with their own imagination, rather than studying (In case of history) and applying (in the case of philosophy) that what they read; Some of his videos are entertaining and interesting as hypotheticals or light analysis - the one about "Steppe Anti-Civilisations" and the one where he calls veiwers to stop coping were fine. But overtime his political and philosophical analysis became either redundant (I.E he states the obvious, or information one could learn from a better source) or ridiculous. My favourite genre of this is his civil war predictions (Unless it's the Middle East he's 100% just fantasising).

In his ethics and ideas about how the world works, he reminds me of another "Enlightened" man who makes videos about history and philosphy, as well. Wisdom Warriors, or Kristian Bell. He takes better care of himself and mostly discusses ways of a person's own development, instead of making up potential historical scenarios - but he uses a lot of misinterpreted historical information. He also believes in the Kali Yuga, old European mysticism and so on. Here's a screenshot of a small selection of his videos, see and tell me what does this tell you bout the author. I don't think he deserves a thread yet, only time wil tell.
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Back to Rudyard - I admire that he tries to move away from speculation to analysis of things he sees (Mostly examplified by his newest videos just being summaries of historical events), but it's so ingrained in his mind that the results still paint him as unhinged. Like his knowledge isn't structured properly, it's especially funny when he confuses one ethnic group with another.
 
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SoleniyKraut said:
I don't think he deserves a thread yet, only time wil tell.
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He also has an order of the crimson dragon like club that you have to pay to be apart of and communicate with him.
Though personally I've found quite a few channels just like this, enough that they could be in a collection thread but most of them haven't done anything to stand out yet.
 
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Nicholas Gur said:
He also has an order of the crimson dragon like club that you have to pay to be apart of and communicate with him.
Though personally I've found quite a few channels just like this, enough that they could be in a collection thread but most of them haven't done anything to stand out yet.
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I know - his "brotherhood" how he calls it. He's not alone. I personally couldn't find much info on him, so either he has immaculate opsec or plainly hasn't done anything yet.
 
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SoleniyKraut said:
Back to Rudyard - I admire that he tries to move away from speculation to analysis of things he sees (Mostly examplified by his newest videos just being summaries of historical events), but it's so ingrained in his mind that the results still paint him as unhinged. Like his knowledge isn't structured properly, it's especially funny when he confuses one ethnic group with another.
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He's a good example of someone with a disproportionately high verbal IQ whose other facets of intelligence (especially logical) are underdeveloped.
Kinda like lawyers and streamers.
 
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Rudy finally shilling a sponsor I can actually believe he has some experience with. Big ups to the chair sponsor!

I remember having a panic attack in senior year when I couldn't sleep past midnight that if I didn't become an entrepreneur
in the next 5 years, I would be forced to work a minimum wage job forever without any social mobility since
corporate America or the universities would have no interest in me as a Gen Z white man
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Lol, lmao.
 
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Hypercop said:
He's a good example of someone with a disproportionately high verbal IQ whose other facets of intelligence (especially logical) are underdeveloped.
Kinda like lawyers and streamers.
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Idk man, Rudyard is no Harvard Law graduate, he’s just another political grifting midwit with way too large of an ego.
 
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Rimanah said:
But he is . The average age of marriage has varied significantly over history, and also depends greatly on culture and economic class. For example, people in Western Europe in the early modern period tended to marry about 27 years old, with the average age going up during the middle of the period (roughly 1650-1720) being about 29, before the average age lowering to the early 20s. But even this doesn’t give a full picture, since nobility tended to marry much younger. And different cultures within Western Europe also varied wildly (e.g. Italian city states tended to marry younger than their Northern European counterparts).

Part of what makes Rudyard such a bad historian is making such blanket statements like this. The notion that everyone before current year acted the same and all believed the same stuff is ludicrous. And making statements to that effect mark a bad historian.
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Ironic for Rudyard of all people to fall into this "everyone was the same" trap. The thing that got him e-famous was his tendency to apply the findings of cultural histories like Albion's Seed in his alt-histories, back when online historical discussion was dominated by purely materialist "Iraq was for oil" type analysis.
 
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