Oct. 10, 2019 - Sargon of Akkad - Carl Benjamin
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| Hello everyone, sorry I haven't updated you on this channel for quite a while, but I've got quite a lot to tell you because a lot's been going on. | |
| Just because this channel hasn't been updated doesn't mean I have been idle. | |
| I put a video up a couple of weeks ago called This Day in Stupid where I said I'd be doing daily commentaries on a new channel I have called A CAD Daily. | |
| As you can see I have been very busy. | |
| These are basically short segments that would otherwise have compiled This Week in Stupid just uploaded as individual videos because it's a lot quicker and easier to record that way and I can actually produce that kind of content. | |
| So if you're interested in more This Week in Stupid you can go over there and find it. | |
| Due to many many demands over a very long period of time I also set up a PO box, a post office box. | |
| This is something apparently you can just write on a letter and post or a parcel and post and it will find its way to my local post office department where I can pick it up. | |
| It is PO box of a CAD because I didn't know what else to call it. | |
| So if you want to send me something funny I'll probably do like an unboxing video on the thinkery or something. | |
| Count Dankina and myself were also due to do a live debate with some leftists but one complaint got that shut down. | |
| So we are going to host a live event on November the 2nd in London. | |
| A link will be in the description. | |
| We're going to be delving into the aspects of ancient civilizations and the amusing parts of them. | |
| It should be a very fun night. | |
| So Dank's planning to talk about ancient Greece and how Western civilization is predicated on but stuff and I'm going to talk about I guess I've been thinking about doing a thing on the Epic of Gilgamesh for a while because it's actually really funny if you put it into terms that the modern reader will understand because it's really not very politically correct and it's it's a genuine joy to read. | |
| Now probably do an event on this because I've had this planned for a while and I think when I'm talking about historical stuff I like I'm more effervescent than usual. | |
| As I said that will be on the 2nd of November but before then I will be going to the land of the free and the home of the brave to give some university speeches. | |
| I'll be doing one at Utah University which will be on the 21st of October and I've been asked to come and talk about tech censorship which I suppose is just one aspect of the wider cancel culture that we are all experiencing. | |
| I've noticed that everything's on a hair trigger at the moment because I've got three dates planned or I had three dates planned one of which was at Rice University. | |
| However, Rice University have decided to cancel my appearance there on the 18th of October for reasons I'm not really sure about to be honest. | |
| According to houstonpublicmedia.org there's some kind of feminist jihad against the institution for handling sexual misconduct in a negative or poor way. | |
| I'm not really sure. | |
| I have no idea. | |
| I mean I don't know anything about this. | |
| But they did see fit to suspend my visit because they were worried about controversy. | |
| And so I was kind of surprised by this as I'm not connected to their mishandling of sexual assault cases in any way, shape or form. | |
| However, there will be an alternative event hosted off campus. | |
| So I will still be there. | |
| I'll put notifications out on my various social media platforms. | |
| Primarily my Telegram account is the one I use the most. | |
| You should definitely follow me there because it's where I put all the fun and interesting stuff when I'm not just posting links to my videos. | |
| I'll also be giving a talk on the 23rd at Pennsylvania State University. | |
| Again, on the same sort of subject, but I'll probably not give the same speech twice because that would be boring to me. | |
| And why did I let Callum set this up? | |
| That is a terrible photo to use. | |
| Why did you use that photo? | |
| God damn it, Callum. | |
| But don't think I have forgotten about producing content for this channel. | |
| This channel is going to be dedicated to long-form video essays and interviews from now on. | |
| I did have an interview with a mysterious, interesting political figure, but that's been postponed, so that's going to be coming up another time. | |
| But in the meantime, I'm working on my script for the Politics of Demolition Man. | |
| As you can see, it's almost 7,500 words. | |
| It'll probably be around 8,000 or 9,000 when I'm finished. | |
| And hopefully, I'll be able to get that out fairly soon. | |
| It's definitely going to be worth your time. | |
| And if you'd like to support me and my work, and just generally the things I am doing in the world, as well as my team of three people, you can back me on Subscribestar if you would like. | |
| Like I said, I'm producing the daily videos, so I'm producing regular content. | |
| So there is definitely still something that you can watch that's entertaining and informative, as well as producing the largest-scale projects in the background. | |
| And I also have two large-scale projects that I'm not prepared to reveal yet, in addition to the Crusade one, which is it's kind of taken a there's a project I need to do first to set this one up. | |
| Um, all will become clear when I reveal it. | |
| Um, but this this is an interesting and I think should be quite important one, um, but I can't reveal it yet. | |
| I've also given Callum access to the Teespring store, so he's made a bunch of things that honestly I basically disapprove of. | |
| There have been some requests to do a t-shirt with the Sargon logo that I used in the video response to Dan of Deutschland about the German question, so that's up there now as well. | |
| And speaking of Dan of Deutschland, he did actually give me a response in a video. | |
| Now, this was a very stunning and brave response, and it was exactly as haughty as you would expect from a German. | |
| Let's have a listen to it. | |
| From the right, German anti-nationalism is often framed as a kind of self-hatred due to an underlying guilt left over from the Third Reich. | |
| And despite research showing the opposite to be the case, they seemingly cannot fathom someone viewing their country of origin in a nuanced manner and not strictly positive. | |
| Is there, Dan? | |
| It's really weird how you don't link that in the description. | |
| But my personal experience tells me that lots of Germans feel guilty as Germans for what Germany did under Nazi rule. | |
| It seems to lurk in the back of your minds like a specter. | |
| Your very channel's iconography is based on a response to the swastika. | |
| It would seem that the Nazis still loom large in your imaginations. | |
| Anyway, thank you all for your continued support. | |
| I hope you're enjoying the new channel. | |
| It's a very useful place for me to be able to put content. | |
| I hope that you're enjoying what I'm doing, and I hope you stay with me as we go into the future, because I've got some things that I think are really quite exciting planned, and it's your support that makes everything I do possible. |
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