Hunter Maats is the co-author of “The Straight-A Conspiracy” and also co-host of The Bryan Callen Show podcast available on iTunes.
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Hunter Maats is the co-author of “The Straight-A Conspiracy” and also co-host of The Bryan Callen Show podcast available on iTunes.
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I agree with a lot of what Hunter says here. I'm a history major/anthropology minor and honestly everything said here has just added more structure to my understanding of cultural development. Specifically with Marxism, I seem to find that it manifests itself within societies that are incapable of having that sort of Japanese industrial revolution in the 20th century where they totally reworked their society to adapt to the competitive threat of capitalism. If they don't adapt, they get taken advantage of and the response to the capitalist exploitation happens to be a revolution in group unity and the idea of all for one. Look at all the nations outside of Russia that have adapted communism. Every single one of them had been taken advantage of by imperial capitalist nations before turning to communism. Capitalism combined with imperialism is a natural catalyst for developing more collective ideologies.
(Edit: I do disagree with his dismissal of the internet as a factor in the sharing of ideas. Yes, even with the invention of the internet the ideas still aren't being packaged with cultural nuances in mind, but just look at social media; I'm following amazing people from Asia and Europe and I can just use the "see translation" button on Instagram to get their messages in english. Don't have that button? Copy and paste into Google translate. The internet is without doubt the biggest innovation of our time. It has collectivized the entirety of human knowledge and compartmentalized it into something instantly accessible as opposed to collective knowledge being limited to individual nations and linguistic groups. We just have to learn to adapt the information to Target audiences by having nuanced understandings of cultural sensitivity, but to deny it's progress appears to be absurd to me.)
Not a stick, it's called a miswak and it is made from the fresh root of a certain bush. It has been proven to be much better for both teeth and breath than a toothbrush. It's only a tradition though, it's not mandatory. Islam is wide not narrow.
I'm English born & bred. I have never spoken with a BRITISH accent, it's English….. ✌🏼
“He’s called” fuckin Brit
Someone could have shaken the coconut and heard water then decided to break it open.js! Great video