Quote from: BitterTea on October 26, 2011, 04:00:30 PM

Quote from: Hawker on October 26, 2011, 03:48:41 PM

In the first 30 seconds, he announces that the fear of death is the big problem of society. In my experience, its people who are willing to die for their beliefs are the big problem - not the ones who are afraid of dying.

Not a historical inaccuracy, a difference of opinion. Do you truly claim that humans are not alone among animals (as far as we can currently tell) in fearing death and future loss?

Quote from: Hawker on October 26, 2011, 03:48:41 PM

He descibes an "enclosure" movement as covering all Europe. It didn't - Ireland never had one and as far as I know it was an English/Scottish thing.

You truly hear exactly what you want to hear. He says nothing about Europe. Here is what he says:

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Instead of being directly owned, peasants farmed land that they could retain as long as they paid off the local warlords. This model eventually broke down due to the continual subdivision of productive land and was destroyed during the enclosure movement when land was consolidated and hundreds of thousands of peasants were kicked off their ancestral land because new farming techniques made larger farms more productive with fewer people.

Emphasized in the quote is my answer to your question of "ownership". That same model is used today, but replace "peasants" with "citizens" and "warlords" with "governments".

Watch the whole video. The enclosure mistake is later.

And the first 30 seconds is historically inaccurate. There is no record of a passive people anywhere that was taken over by malicious masters. The record is of religiously inspired militias, who's members are happy to die for their cause, taking control of territories. That's also what you see today when states break down. Its the guys who are happy to die for their beliefs are the big issue - not the guys who would prefer to stay home and watch TV.