![]() Politics and history is interesting to people for different reasons, but for those with legitimate interest, often the details are what are interesting. In the same way, history is supposed to be a discussion, not set in stone, however I will contend that Harris sometimes over simplifies history and politics, to a degree I've begun to find boring. Jane Jacobs comes to mind as an influential figure in the world of urban planning despite having very little formal education on the subject. I think it's good to have figures of both general interest and legitimate status, because having people question the status quo is good for progressing a field. ![]() He seems to be a generally less outspoken. Urban Planner is a qualified status, so obviously City Beautiful aims to ensure a certain amount of professionalism in his videos. Oh the Irving analogy at the end was pretty □" I appreciate the way you approached this critique. I’ll do some soul searching on how I’ll address this in the channel and series itself. I still believe in that goal but missed the mark with this one. My hope with this series was to give an highly simplified almost “story book” version of a vastly complicated 500-year history so that those who are not usually interested in history could access the broad arc of European imperialism. The research on this was overly biased towards a simplistic narrative to which most of the facts bent. I'll just say it right away: I accept your points here, and to be candid, the response to this video was a pretty big wake up call for me. I really appreciate the way you approached this and appreciate the amount of work that went into creating this discourse. To give this guy credit, he replies in the comments and agrees with a lot of points presented. ![]()
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