Youtube Gleanings 2

 

I’ve had a very unproductive week. I did get a novel read (Trail of Evil by Travis S. Taylor) and I’ve been listening to a lot of Stefan Molyneux in the last couple days but other than that I’ve gotten almost nothing done. So I’m working on this as a way to get some sort of momentum going. Also the list has gotten long enough that I really need to post this one so I can start a fresh new one.

Anyway here’s a second selection of Youtube videos I’ve stumbled across during my hours of aimlessly clicking on things that looked shiny.

 

Donald Trump is LITERALLY Hitler [1:47]

Paul Joseph Watson strikes again with a blend of political commentary and humor. This really is low hanging fruit here since the leftist social media reaction to Trump is simply beautiful absurdity all by itself.

Dose of Reality: Nobody has Inherent Value [7:30]

Origin of the term “Butter Golem.”

MGTOW Youtuber Raging Golden Eagle gets little ruthless and ranty here. Posting this mainly because of the use of the term butter golem (the first time I had heard it.) I know I cracked a couple of people up using that phrase in my recent Rapid Puppies fan fiction. So giving credit where credit is due only seems like the right thing to do.

Wild Edibles: Pine Bark Flour Substitute [9:08]

And now we’re off on a strange tangent. One night I spent probably about four hours researching um… bread. Specifically the types of bread baked and eaten in northern Scandinavia when they did not always have easy access o wheat flour. I quickly came across a references to using pine bark as a flour substitute. This was done throughout Scandinavia during times of famine and was done by the Lapps and Northern Finns as part of their normal diet. Apparently pine bark flour is quite high in vitamin C.

So anyway here’s a survival video showing the collection of pine bark and it’s use in bread.

Petunteko- Making Pine Bark Flour [8:55]

Okay here’s a second video on pine bark flour. The quality is low but it’s from Finland so it’s about as authentic as you can get. Very impressed with the birchbark container he makes. The author also points out a mistake made in the first video about not grinding the pine flour with a stone as too much of the stone grit gets in the pine flour.

How Copper is Mined and Refined [10:23]

This ten minute short film from 1949 goes through the mining and refining processes starting with a open pit mine in Utah. Interesting that a different blasting procedure is used for horizontal and vertical holes.

C’mon it’s from a company named Viking Pictures I had to include it.

Someone’s Gonna Die [8:35]

Terrence Popp goes through a quick checklist of signs that you may be headed into a dangerous situation. Done mostly from a military point of view but there’s a lot of good advice here. Also the whole video is funny as hell.

Big Weapons – Why? [2:07]

Sometimes weapons are needlessly big? Why? Because killing your enemy with your bling is just good fashion sense. Also one commenter suggests that the giant spear could also be used to fry an egg.

The History of Cultural Marxism [1:30]

This a short highlight cut out of a longer video that serves as a quick introduction to the concepts of Cultural Marxism and Critical Theory. Very useful to have something like this to show to newcomers.

C96 Broomhandle: A thing of beauty [3:23]

This is straight up gun porn that I seem to be completely unable to appreciate as I lack the fully trained artistic senses required. Still I did learn what a New York reload is. I wonder if there’s a reason it’s called that?

North Korean MRE Review [7:13]

An excellent in depth review of a North Korean MRE. Although I do believe the single bullet is issued so that the North Korean soldier can shoot a wandering dog or a civilian and take their food instead.

Bonus Section.

A Short History of Finnish Bread:

http://uralica.com/leipa.htm

Bit of a long read but it’s a good window into the customs and folk lore of northern Finland in the 1920’s.

African Throwing Knife:

Iron was fairly valuable in medieval Africa so we have warriors throwing elaborate pieces of bling at their enemies in order to kill them… and yes the part that looks like a dick is supposed to look like a dick. Alpha as fuck!

Living in A Redpilled World

“In a battle between men, the most masculine will win. In a battle between women, the most feminine will win.”

—Mike Cernovich

I was chewing on that quote today and the logical follow up question came to mind.

So in a battle between a man and a woman what determines the winner?

It took me about an hour to come up with an answer.

In a conflict between a man and a woman the one who is most self-aware and adaptive has the advantage.

That in a nutshell is why the feminists are so obsessed with the vaguely defined manosphere. In a blue-pilled world the woman has the advantage in a conflict with a man. In a redpilled world things are just a little bit different. Now to explain why.

Women are ruthless, pragmatic and practical.

Men are overly romantic, self sacrificing and prone to thinking in sweeping abstracts.

Again in a bluepill world men are much more likely to simply give in to a woman. Also because the average woman is pragmatic and practical she is much more likely to be self-aware than the average man.

Game and SSH awareness changes all that. The redpilled man has a better grasp on reality than even a redpilled woman. Why? Because men have a much easier time keeping their fantasies and reality separate.

For example; I am fully aware that dancing around in my underwear, listening to heavy metal and drinking some unholy alcoholic concoction does not actually make me a Viking no matter how loud I crank the volume. (Still worth it for the look on the neighbours faces, mind you.)

Women, even very smart women can find themselves locked into Disney Princess syndrome. Chasing after Prince Charming long after the carriage has turned back into a pumpkin.

Men as Hunters and Dreamers

Men are basically hunters and lot of our latent instincts reflect that. Which brings us to the difference between big game hunting and small game hunting. Day to day life is essentially small game hunting; Making sure that there’s a rabbit in the pot every day in order to feed your family. Overall a better approach than starving for a week while you wait for the buffalo to show up but not very satisfying. Same with fishing; survival fishing is mostly about catching a lot of little fish instead of landing the one big fish you can show off to your buddies.

So in essence men set their sights and efforts on small game all the while dreaming of big game. Reality and fantasy thus are separated. Still every now and then the men decide to take a crack at the big game. After all buffalo are just damn tasty and the first guy to bring one down becomes the Chief.

Source of Mike Cernovich quote

http://www.dangerandplay.com/2015/10/15/masculinity-always-wins/

Four Books for Canadians

Book recommendations for Canadian patriots or just bored history buffs.

So what does it mean to be Canadian?

Surely there has to be more it than hockey, beer and oddly specific cuts of pork.

Since Canada’s Intellectual Elite are too busy writing slam poetry about moose farts, I suppose we’ll have to try to find answers for ourselves. I’ve picked out four books that are worthwhile reads on this account. Canadian history can be very difficult to learn since it doesn’t capture the young mind as easily as the history of more exciting nations. Still there are stories to be found and patterns to be identified and yes occasionally somebody gets shot in the face.

I’m just a hack with a blog but if I had to design a homeschooling curriculum I would work in one or two years of American history about the age of eleven or so and then go full bore into Canadian history once the student has a basic understanding and thus something to contrast the sometimes overly nice and civil history of Canada with. Now don’t get me wrong Canada has a few dirty secrets here and there but it can take an awful lot of digging to find those well buried skeletons. Anyway on with the show.

The Corvette Navy

by James B. Lamb

Date of first publication: 1977

https://www.amazon.ca/Corvette-Navy-James-Lamb/dp/1551097702

Expect plenty of World War II talk on this blog since the two topics I can really hold a confident conversation about are the WWII and Austrian economics. Economics are very boring to talk about and so many others do it so much better, I’m left with no real choice but to focus on the greatest disaster in human history. Not that I mind since learning the history of the war, then learning the revisionist history, then figuring shit out on my own has been a tremendously fun lifetime hobby.

So that said if you wanted to start learning about world war II from a Canadian perspective you really can’t wrong with James Lamb’s classic The Corvette Navy which tells the story of the small ships of the Royal Canadian Navy and the men who went to sea.

This well paced book manages to cover a lot of topics from the struggles with the dangerous weather to the constant fight between the shore bound bureaucracy and the men who were actually fighting the war. There’s a lot of humor in this book as well and the chapter Signal Log is absolutely hilarious.

In summary this is a fun, easy to read book, full of little stories, that can be given to an eighth grader without too much worries.

There’s also a second follow up book titled On the Triangle Run which covers more of the authors war time experiences. Not the brilliant summary that The Corvette Navy is but far more intimate and personal work.

https://www.amazon.ca/On-triangle-run-James-Lamb/dp/0773732551

American readers can hunt down Torpedo Junction by Homer H. Hickam, jr. If they want a collection of U-boat stories from their Navy and Coast Guard.

http://www.amazon.com/Torpedo-Junction-U-Boat-Americas-Bluejacket/dp/1557503621

Champlain’s Dream

by David Hackett Fischer

Date of first publication: 2008

https://www.amazon.ca/Champlains-Dream-David-Hackett-Fischer/dp/030739767X

“After the delusions of political correctness, ideological rage, multiculturalism, postmodernism, historical relativism, and the more extreme forms of academic cynicism historians today are returning to the foundations of their discipline with a new faith in the possibilities of historical knowledge, and with new results. This inquiry is conceived in that spirit. It begins not with a thesis, or a theory, or an ideology, but with a set of open questions about Champlain. It asks, who was this man? Where did he come from? What did he do? Why did he do it? What difference did he make? Why should we care?”

If we’re going to rediscover the Canadian identity and we’re starting basically from scratch, where do we begin? Logically at the beginning of course. With Canada the beginning starts with Samuel de Champlain the first prominent man to attempt to build a new nation in the lands of what is now Canada. Almost four hundred years later this man left a much greater mark than most people realize. I would go so far as to argue that Champlain’s vision for Canada is Canada in almost a deep metaphysical sense.

Champlain’s Dream is the first full biography written about Samuel de Champlain written in living memory. It is an intensely detailed account and a very large intimidating book suitable for squishing spiders. That said when I finally picked it up and began reading it was if a hundred pieces of a jigsaw puzzle began to snap into place. The picture wasn’t complete but I could finally see what I was working on.

Also as a sidenote; this is why you always check the bargain section of your local bookstore. I think I paid eight dollars for a hardcover and picked it up on a whim. Not bad for a book that forms the central core of my refocus of trying to pin down the Canadian identity. Maybe my luck isn’t always bad?

David Hackett Fischer has also written heavily on American history, mostly on the American Revolution.

Booze: When Whiskey Ruled the West

by James H. Grey

Date of first publication: 1972

https://www.amazon.ca/Booze-When-Whiskey-Ruled-West/dp/1895618606

“The ‘first class drinking men’ of the era adhered to rather rigid drinking code. No one drank alone– a wise precaution in face of the risk inherent in the quality of the booze and the saloon environment. No one bought a drink for himself without buying one for a friend. No one accepted a drink from a friend without buying him one in return., No one deserted an unconscious drinking companion. Through not strictly adhered to in grocery-store drinking, the drinking man’s code was not completely ignored either.”

Well I had to choose a non-WWII book in order for balance and this one seemed to fit since in 2016 anyone who publicly proclaims that they are proud to be Canadian is just assumed to be drunk.

This book tells the story of alcohol in the Canadian west. While the Canadian west was not as violent as the American west (mostly due to the Judge Dredd-like powers given to the Northwest Mounted Police) it was none the less just as drunk. Naturally all this alcohol led to some very negative consequences, including a very strong prohibitionist movement. People actually forget that there was prohibition in Canada, although nation-wide prohibition was fairly brief. In the three prairie provinces a series of provincial laws kept prohibition more or less in place from 1916 until 1924.

About 60% of the population supported prohibition. Another 20% went along with it because it was the law. However the remaining 20% rejected prohibition and fought it with every tool at their disposal. Thus begun a era of smuggling, corruption, legal loopholes and human ingenuity. Center stage in this drama was the heroic villain Harry Bronfman a multi-talented Jewish businessman who never quite broke the law and worked every legal loophole at once, all while smiling for the camera.

The most interesting part of this book however is that the author actually takes a prohibitionist stance himself although he is very careful not to let his bias affect the work or to twist the established facts around in order to support a narrative. It’s a level of professional detachment that’s rare to see in a writer.

The true beauty of this book is not the central narrative (or lack there of) but rather the hundred little anecdotes that offer a window into a past that is forgotten if not actively suppressed. Booze: When Whisky Ruled the West can be a little dry, melodramatic and snarky at points but it is highly educational. A good read for anyone interested in the history of Manitoba or Saskatchewan.

“Straight alcohol and water could be transformed into imitation rum by adding rum caramel and blackstrap molasses.”

Like I said highly educational.

One Day in August

by David O’Keefe

Date of first publication: 2013

https://www.amazon.ca/One-Day-August-Canadas-Tragedy/dp/0345807693

“We must not lose our faculty to dare, particularly in dark days.”

—Winston Churchill March 24, 1942

One of the topics a Canadian historian amateur or professional must address is the riddle of Dieppe. More importantly the question is what the hell did those idiots think they were trying to accomplish? Prior to reading One Day in August the best explanation I had been able to gather was that the entire Dieppe raid had been a feint, designed to fail from the start in order to draw the Germans into a false sense of security and into misled them as to future allied intentions. Cold, ruthless, arrogant but pragmatic; classic Winston Churchill. Thankfully there’s a more reasonable, less Machiavellian explanation behind Dieppe. One that makes considerable sense once viewed in the greater context of the war.

Not only does David O’Keefe solve the riddle of Dieppe he does so with a style and a flair worthy of the men who kicked at the darkness at a time when Britain was at her greatest peril.

It is a testament to Mr. O’Keefe’s skill as a writer that he is able to maintain a sense of suspense is this book when everyone knows the story will end tragically. I won’t completely spoil the book here but yes the Dieppe Raid had a clear objective, a chance to succeed in that objective and most importantly an objective important enough to justify the risk of the operation. In hindsight it was a disaster but leaders in peace or in war do not have the benefit of hindsight. When facing a great challenge is it better is it better to take a risky approach or to take a patient less active approach? At Dieppe the Allied leadership decided to take a chance but they did not do so out of pure folly. That should be enough to sooth the Canadian soul. It certainly helped mine.

Bonus section: because I can never finish an article without finding something interesting.

The Corvette K-225 Movie

I was very surprised to find a Canadian WWII movie; set in the Battle of the Atlantic no less. Damn good movie too and if you have eyes to see it an excellent example of storytelling and well constructed propaganda. Simple, easy to relate to characters, dozens of subtle messages (especially about ordinary men doing their duty) life lessons about leadership, friendship and an iconic lead character that you can’t help but root for. 8/10. Better than an awful lot of crap you’ll see in theatres in the modern era. Little cheesy mind you.

This 1943 movie appears to be in the public domain.

You can watch it here through the power of the internet:

http://sockshare.net/watch/OvkZ7BdQ-corvette-k-225.html

Some distortion and time synch issues around the 40-5 minute mark but otherwise watchable.

and it looks like you can buy an actual DVD here

http://www.rarewarfilms.com/Corvette%20K-225%20%20%201943%20Randolph%20Scott.html

More WWII posters ’cause they’re FUN.