Civilization Requires Self Confidence

There are 13 parts to “Cvilization”. You can find Part 2 [The Great Thaw] here. From there you should be able to find the rest.


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7 responses to “Civilization Requires Self Confidence”

  1. Man Mountain Molehill Avatar
    Man Mountain Molehill

    Thanks for liking to this. I remember when it was first broadcast, on PBS of course, I think it helped start the excitement for British TV. Shortly followed by Masterpiece Theater, I Claudius and the rest. NY Times-reading liberals were creaming in their mom jeans over those posh accents. I’ve lived in England and I realized two things, one, the good programs, masterpiece etc, are the top of the heap. Run of the mill BritV is either utter bilge, (cf “Noel’s House Party”) or leadenly boring boring bor…zzzzz. And, this is big, fat, and, the English side of quality productions is funded by PBS. Watch PBS here, they beg for money and gush about how wonderful the English programs are, while in England the gush much more discreetly about the American funding. On top of one’s 70 lb per year TV license. Which they really do enforce, with RF snooper vans, and they even put people in jail occasionally.

    Where was I? Kenneth Clarke really kicked it all of. Classic, great series.

  2. Man Mountain Molehill Avatar
    Man Mountain Molehill

    To be clear, I don’t object to paying for high quality programming, it’s the sneaky underhanded manner it’s done here. I don’t ever recall hearing in the US that American money not only bought the programs from the BBC, it was funding the productions.

    If someone wanted to offer something like “The Posh Channel” with classic BBC and ITV programs I’d probably go for it.

  3. captain*arizona Avatar
    captain*arizona

    nothing about slavery as usual. but they got the violence right.

  4. Man Mountain Molehill Avatar
    Man Mountain Molehill

    whutchoo talkin bout, spunky?

  5. Man Mountain Molehill Avatar
    Man Mountain Molehill

    Eugen Weber’s show is also a good one.

    The Western Tradition

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PkZgLhtDeoU&list=PLYbocufkwRFAS80nLFShkXSblfcFTXwRH

  6. Man Mountain Molehill Avatar
    Man Mountain Molehill

    Since PBS and NPR are a subject, think about this. I had an argument with Sam Mccracken about this once. He and liberals in general like to claim that PBS et al are almost entirely funded by listener contribution, so no fair arguing that they are a waste of taxpayer’s money. Nyaaah nyaaah nyaaaah.

    The big, fat elephant in the room this specious argument ignores is this; (I’m using Boston as an example because I know this market) Nielson rated the Boston media market as 5th nation wide, recently demoted to 7th. In any case, it’s big, upwards of 2.3 million. In this big and potentially valuable media market PBS is channel 2, WGBH, and NPR is WBUR, 90.9 MHz. NPR radio is also on 99.5, 89.7 and elsewhere. Channel 2 and 90.9 FM are valuable properties in themselves, especially in a large and saturated market like Boston, where there are no free channels available. If either went up for auction the winning bid might be above $100 million. That is the taking, not just the residual tax funding. Which they should lose, anyway. Try surviving entirely on your own, you leftist tools.

  7. Simon Avatar

    Crap Tan,

    I note you made no mention of Islam’s continuous involvement in slavery. It continues even today.

    You slaver.