Last week I made a video about how a particular source “broke history” (and then I resurrected
history from the dead).
I explained how the sources we use are all written by flawed human beings, and thus all
sources are flawed, and that all the narratives written by historians are therefore flawed
too.
My conclusion was that we cannot get to the objective truth with history, it is therefore
subjective in nature.
Well, a lot of people took offence to this idea, including some of my own commenters,
like this gaslighter:
“It truly saddens me to hear TIK drop into a lame ass relativistic speech about how the
truth is subjective.
I empathize with the guy and I think he really needs a break, maybe see a therapist and process
some of the events that are going on in his personal life.
Seriously man, when faced with so many people and their demons you really can not be so
full of holes.
31:18 not exactly a picture of health.
Pet a cat, man; play with a dog.
You are not going to intellectualize your way out of despair.”
Yes, because a therapist will know the ins and outs of history theory, and is knee-deep
in the debate over epistemology (the theory of knowledge).
News flash, there’s nothing bad going on in my personal life at the minute.
I had a recent bereavement, but as you’ll see shortly, that didn’t affect the views
I expressed in this recent video.
He wasn’t the only one attacking me and saying similar things, but the irony of this
gaslighter’s comment is that I do actually dog-sit on a semi-regular basis for my friend,
who is now my editor.
And, here’s a question for you: do you know what my friends’ dogs can do?
I can tell them to sit, and they’ll not only listen, but they’ll actually do it
as well.
That’s right, they’ll sit and listen, which is more than I can say for a lot of
my critics.
The only real issues I have are all related to my professional life: Stalingrad is killing
me, I’m trying to get my new editor up to speed, then I’ve got the dirty taxman reaching
into my pocket to touch my ‘wallet’ like it did those girls on that island that didn’t
kill itself…
(Can you tell that I recently did my taxes?)
But what’s really getting to me is (specifically) the critics who don’t listen to me and then
argue from a point of ignorance.
I don’t mind if you don’t agree - but I do mind when you don’t listen, and then
spout a bunch of nonsense about what I supposedly said, when I didn’t say it.
Isn’t that right, Reddit, who’s LYING about what I actually said, again?
I did NOT say that the table talks were reliable.
That is a lie.
You are lying scum as usual, which is not surprising considering that this particular
subreddit has lied and slandered me before.
I’m not a Wehraboo, I don’t love the Wehrmacht.
But hey, you Commie-servatives don’t care about the truth, so why should I expect you
to be honest now?
Anyway, not all my critics were as terrible as the ones I just presented here.
People were concerned that I have suddenly become a postmodernist, or that I was wrong
because there is an objective truth.
Well, to all the people who said that history wasn’t subjective, and that we can get to
the objective truth, but also specifically to those that said I’ve recently gone off
my rocker, need a break, or a therapist, or that I should “stick to tanks”, I want
you guys to listen now.
In this recent video, I said the exact same thing that I said in my History Theory video
published in January 2019.
It’s also the same argument Richard Evans presents in the book “In Defence of History”,
which I read a long time ago - way before the Hitler’s Socialism thing when I was
still an Anarco-Socialist (which is apparently when I went off the rails), and even before
my original Market Garden video.
In fact, at the end of the Market Garden video, I say (quote): “Of course, history does
not stand still.
Tomorrow, new evidence or a new theory could come along and sweep away the conclusions
we make today.
But until then, I’d like to hear who or what you guys think is ultimately responsible
for the failure of Operation Market Garden.
Do you agree with the conclusions of this documentary?
Comment below and let me know.
Hopefully you don’t because that’s what’s great about history.
It’s not just about facts and figures, it’s about arguing.
And we all like a good moan.”
I said that in my very first history documentary, the first Battlestorm ever.
I didn’t say that for no reason.
It’s not yet the phrase: “history lies in the heart of the debate”; because that
particular sentence would only come later, but it outlines the exact same principle.
I’ve been saying this exact same thing from the very beginning.
So it’s not a case that I’ve recently gone off the rails or got my… you know,
personal stuff going on, or I need a therapist.
I’ve been saying this since 2015 - 7 years ago.
I’m also not a postmodernist; I’m not arguing for postmodernism.
Postmodernists believe that the sources are subjective, so we must get rid of the evidence
in favour of THEIR “objective truth”, which (unsurprisingly) always turns out to
be totalitarianism.
I don’t believe that.
I’m arguing against the postmodernist argument presented by Nilsson and the idiots in that
thread on Reddit where people were saying that ‘we not only need to get rid of the
Table Talks’ (as they said Nilsson argued) but that we also need to get rid of Mein Kampf
as a source.
I kid you not.
These are people who want to deny and rewrite history, which I’ve been warning you about
in numerous videos now.
I am defending history, and the history of the Holocaust, from these denialists.
But apparently, it’s me who needs to get therapy.
Oh wait, no it isn’t.
The narratives that historians present might all be flawed in some way, but we don’t
throw out the evidence.
We should have an open and honest debate over things: to get as close to the objective truth
as we’re capable of doing.
We’ll never get to the objective truth, but we’ll get closer the more we utilise
the evidence, interpret it logically and then debate it.
That, in a nutshell, is the overall message I was trying to convey; the same one I said
in my History Theory video.
The only new thing I added was the word “praxeology” (the study of human action - which is exactly
what we’re doing) and the idea that without a “free market of ideas” all we’re left
with is propaganda.
Other than those two additions - and they’re not really additions, they’re more like
clarifications - my views are exactly the same as they were in 2015.
So, for all of you who didn’t agree with me, my History Theory video is the video you
need to watch.
It’s 48 minutes; some people said it was the best video I’d ever done up to that
point, but either way, it will set you straight.
And the bottom line is that: I’ve not recently gone off my rocker, I don’t need therapy,
I don’t need to play with a dog…
What I actually need is for my ardent critics to start listening to what I’m actually
saying…
And I know… it’s hard, especially for people who live on Reddit and don’t believe
in work… and I have (no) sympathy.
So I’d say, if you’re struggling to listen to me, maybe you should get a therapist, which
you can’t afford because you don’t believe in earning your capital.
So I guess you’ll have to embrace your inner-playdoh and steal it off me!
And on that bombshell, thanks for watching, bye for now.