I used to learn about our founding fathers, greatest generals , most influential leaders and the great peoples of western and eastern culture.
Great military conflict and the greatness that it brought out in the individuals caught up in it all.
advancements scientifically of western people and the trials that men greater than me had to go through to succeed to achieve their dreams and these men inspired me.
My world and my country has turned their backs to everything that had made it so great. Now we're reduced to watching fat people pretend to sell antiques to people and gameshows and stupid ass game off thrones wannabe with "muh viking heritage" and Craig fucking Ferguson. No more stories of corrupt governments lying at the feet of brave noble men some. Patriots who died at the hands of tyranny to spare us or selfless kings and war heroes true role models to the people.
This is why Im bitter this is why Im infuriated by seemingly trivial things. I am forced to acknowledge the decay and defeat of intellectualism and liberty and western culture as a whole. The decay of my people and humankind in general.
Traded for what? Fuck you history channel i say. You're robbing people everywhere of the stories that matter.
Inb4 " i don't watch tv anymore" yeah neither do i but it's influences are still present and its an unfortunate fact we have to coexist with telezombies.
DUDE
ALIENS
>Not watching H2
kek
>>71696599
I blame the Jews
>>71696853
H2 dissolved and is now Vice. Fucking hell. AHC is the only acceptable alternative, and they do have some pretty damn good shows. Gunslingers, Ancient Assassins, American Lawmen are all pretty based.
>>71696853
>Not watching comfy Smithsonian channel
>>71697293
AHC is shit. Go to the actual military channel
>>71696599
I'm with you OP. I grew up watching the history channel. It redpilled me
any idea what channels for directv?
>>71697510
The military channel is pretty good from what I last saw. I don't really watch TV anymore though except for the walking dead
>>71696599
Spot fucking on. The only show on there worth a damn is Forged in Fire, and IT DOES NOT BELONG ON THE HISTORY CHANNEL!
>>71697693
One of their new shit I actually liked was future weapons
>>71697839
I haven't watched that. The only reason that I watched FIF is that blacksmithing is a pretty fucking based hobby/profession.
The same is true for discovery channel and national geographic i miss muh educational documentaries
I miss histories mysteries with roger mudd he had the best voice the theme music spooked me as a kid
Modern marvels is k
The history shows that I always loved were the ones where they show how ancient technology worked. I fucking love the Roman crane. It's basically a giant hamster wheel with an axle that is the first reduction, plus a massive block and tackle. Want to lift something heavy? Run some slaves in it.
>>71698277
Engineering an Empire was beast
Can't have the new generations be proud of their history or heritage.
Can't have them see how mighty we used to be.
Nope.
Look, here are some storage containers with things in them! Oooh, here is a pawnshop look at those prices! This guy will tell you about how the pyriamids were build by aliens spoooky.
>>71697492
Yes bro
>>71696599
Unfortunately most of history isn't covered on TV documentaries but some channels have WWII documentaries. The Military Channel has good stuff. They have a Hitler doc on right now.
>>71698420
Kill me
>>71696599
>channels
MFW current year, watching channels.
>>71698158
i love the voice of the guy who does the first 48 and lock up.
He's fucking clever as fuck and subtly makes viewers crack up at innmates
Completely agree. When I was young, they showed old documentaries that were not ""pc-approved" and I actually learned shit from it. Was my fav channel.
Now, most it seems to involve fishing, logging, ice road trucking, aliens, with some cultural marxism thrown in for good measure.
Just like "the Learning Channel," the jews really did a number on them.
>>71696599
I wasn't upset about this before, I just stopped watching, but now I'm upset.
>>71698930
Channels have to air things to be observed and certain channels embody certain niches. Im missing your point.
Network decay. Look it up. It's the end result of all television channels.
>tfw entropy even affects non physical material
>>71696599
hey bro heres a good documentary, look up Philadelphia experiment, they have it on youtube from the history channel, its a secret teleportation project back in ww2 Einstein was responsible.
>>71699543
>It's the end result of all television channels
Lol. Nice one.
I actually find myself enjoying Forged in Fire on History. I still agree with you OP, I want shows about fucking history not people who buy old shit and sell it marked up.
Not sure if /pol/ related though
Cancer
>>71699661
Well I mean, technically there will be new classic movies somewhere along the road. And the themes and stories of those movies will eventually change as well in keeping pace with the times they were made. It would have to be incredibly long term, but I think it would hold true even for our friend TCM.
>>71699676
The shittiest part is that Its All manufactured. Nothing is real. Pawn stars is All staged so is storage wars Im not sure about pickers But Im assuming it is. I think Its slightly pol related due to social decay and jews and the media and such.
>>71699830
Yeah. They always show the same films from the same era. A lot of channels change format and what they show but TCM is still showing films from the 20s - 60s like they've been doing since its inception. They show very rare stuff too.
>Discovery has nothing to discover
>TLC full of shows about people who learn nothing
>History has nothing about history
>no music on MTV for decades
>rednecks selling duck calls and hillbilly pawn shops on A&E
>most news and least bias from station with open bias and almost all hot women on FoxNews
>>71696853
H2 is gone, its now Vice.
>>71696599
I'm glad History Channel still had the good stuff during my formative years.
>>71697326
>AHC is shit. Go to the actual military channel
I thought the military channel turned into AHC a few years back.
>>71696599
its almost like a new technology came out that let anyone with a connection view free to low cost text, visual, and video media about history at any time they pleased.
>>71700740
There's another channel, not sure how many stations get it
Tonight's Vikings actually had Indians and Arabs in Kattegat.
>>71696599
The only channels that actually plays shit that has to do with their channel is ID channel and The Science Channel.
>>71696599
>not watching Viasat History
pleb
Circa 2001 History Channel, Discovery and even TLC had decent educational programming. TLC was the first to fall. Reality TV destroyed everything. The entertainment jew could produce it cheaper.
>>71700765
This is part of the issue. There is SO MUCH information out There of varying qualities and credibility that there should be standards in place and a way to propel higher quality information to the attention of the masses. History channel was a good example of This. The average person is not willing to invest as much time as you or i into finding quality information they instead click on the tv and allow themselves to be Fed the most available information which happens to now be trash.
>>71699323
RARE
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I used to watch the history channel all the time with either my grandpa or older brother. Mail call was our favorite, now it's my dad and I watching military channel and ahc. Both are good channels and I think military channel even does mail call reruns (lock n load doesn't compare) but still, wish the public had better access to this shit
>>71701321
These people aren't bad or evil just lazy and their laziness is frustrating but very real and Its effecting the country negatively.
>>71697293
AHC is the goyims don't forget about Hitler channel
>>71696599
Read a book if you want to be informed. TV is nothing but nonsense, lies, and propaganda.
>>71701678
>>71699323
are you on vacation or are you living there tell me about keelings islands
>>71696599
Crack a book anon. Buy some, they're inexpensive especially used.
I recommend starting with The History Of The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire by Gibbon. Based, THICK ass set of tomes that will lay out a structure for your own researches.
Yes TV will always be there but it's capricious and lame and flows with the times, which just seem to get dumber.
>>71701678
Military history channel same deal
>>71701947
I've tried a few times to get into reading but i struggle a Lot with dyslexia so reading for long or medium periods is incredibly frustrating and difficult. But i think I'll just keep at it if its all i can do.
>>71696599
Your History channel was always shit. I had it on shit on satellite 10-15 years ago before it became all about motocycles and pawn stores. Back then it was little more than "muh evil Hitler" meme shows all day. I'm glad its now just another shitty "reality" network now.
>>71696853
In America, those humongous pieces of shit sold out to Vice. Now H2 is Viceland. Mexibro, you have no fucking idea how hard I raged when I found out that that garbage millennial trash took over the last vestige of the old history channel.
They got rid of Ancient Discoveries and other documentaries for shit like "Gaycation" and "Weediquitte". I couldn't believe this shit. I thought my jew cable company moved the channel or something until I realized it was replaced. Yes, I'm still fucking mad.
>>71700673
Yee yee yee
>used to watch National geographic
>when the lions hunted you could see blood and gore
>now they edit it out
>>71701947
Neat. I'll look into this book, anon.
>>71702183
>flips onto history channel once for fifteen seconds 10 yrs ago
>this opinionated
Kek
They should have called it the future channel.
>>71701678
I gotta get me some of that Nazi UFO shit up in here.
>>71696599
But Vikings is way better than Game of Thrones.
>>71702107
>But i think I'll just keep at it
Decline and Fall is great because you can read 2-3 pages at once, then think about what he says.
This guy's amazing even today, plus with reading you can get as much content in a few pages as you can in an hour long documentary, so think of the time investment as worthwhile.
Good luck anon.
>>71702402
After that read Fomenko's History: Fiction or Science. Even if you don't believe his thesis, his evidence needs to be examined.
Plus he will blow your mind and his math all checks out.
T. amateur history fag slash crank who has extensively researched on his own
>>71696599
Preach brother.
Also guys, read this book too.
All these books I have suggested will help you out.
>>71702556
Thanks bro much appreciated. Hope Im using the right medium. Buying this with rent money kind of so i can't get hard copies.
Why do you hate the free market?
Also the reason why History Channel went to shit was because the main viewers, it lovers of history, gravitated to the Internet as soon as they could.
History Channel had to grab ratings back somehow, and they used the dedicated television watching idiots to do so.
>>71700969
>The Science Channel.
Science channel has been running these SJW-type adds under the guise of 'on this day in science' recently. They even had one about income inequality. I changed the channel.
>>71702897
>The History Of The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire
You can download it free off google books anon, it's like 240 years old.
>>71703027
Yeah i noticed that. I saw the Nu male from DNews and king nigger but other than that their programs aren't very political at all.
>>71702761
YOU MUST READ AN EDITION WITH THE FOOTNOTES ON THE ACTUAL PAGES GWAHHHHHHHH!
Gibbon can't be read without his footnotes, which provide quotes from historical documents, lectures, stories about shit that happened, etc.
You can see his thought process unfolding, he's a funny fucker too.
>>71697492
Same here Anon. I grew up with the history channel, when it played pretty much ww2. I can't stand to watch what has become of it.. now the "history" of reality television.
>>71700100
The problem is that cultured people don't watch TV anymore, they get the entertainment they want online.
So TV channels now make content for people who don't understand online streaming. Old folks and poorfags.
>>71702897
Shit I got so panicked there, don't spend your rent money on the kindle version unless it has the footnotes in place on each page.
You have to have dem footnotes anon.
>>71696599
It's not the death of western intellectualism your witnessing. It's a classic 101 jew scheme.
Jews always make productions brilliant and good in the beginning to lure the goy in. But eventually they begin deconstrucing it in the future.
Take any Jewish show on TV and compare its first season to the latter ones. The latter ones start fucking up character traits and introducing degeneracy and moral relativism.
It's most visible in the HBO shows. Game of Thrones and Deadwood are two examples.
This is what has happened to History channel but it was planned from the beginning. It's no coincidence.
>>71702698
>>71702761
Thanks but it'll take me some time for me to get to it since I have other several books I hadn't finished. Right now I'm on City of Glass and the other two from some trilogy. I appreciate it.
>>71703309
>ot the death of western intellectualism your witnessing. It's a classic 101 jew scheme.
>Jews always make productions brilliant and good in the beginning to lure the goy in. But eventually they begin deconstrucing it in the future.
>Take any Jewish show on TV and compare its first season to the latter ones. The latter ones start fucking up character traits and introducing degeneracy
The Big Bang Theory is a perfect example of this. Started off a nerdy and fun but now its all lame sex jokes.
>>71703215
I think it has them but im reading on phone bcuz poorfag and at work.
>>71703215
Notes like these?
>>71703765
>>71703765
OK that werx.
Don't feel like you need to read too much at a sitting. The chapters aren't too terribly long though.
>>71703978
Aye aye. I'll pace myself try not to get triggered by ableist books lel. Appreciate the tips!
>>71704263
Don't fuckin' skip those foot notes anon, read every single one.
I'm serious now. Otherwise don't bother at all.
>>71703365
Oh I hear you, my list of books I want to read is long indeed.
>>71704501
I will read them all. Can you link a list of other good literature so i can screencap it before bed and our final Farwell my friend?
I got banned from posting on the History Channel's normiebook
I miss when discovery channel has animals shows.
Now it's all cash cab and Canada's worst driver
>>71705516
Wild Discovery
>>71704751
Man that's tough. Soooo many to choose from.
Herodotus is the father of history and he is being vindicated more and more as time goes on.
Josephus is excellent, Gibbon cites him more than any other source.
I've kind of gotten away from a lot of historians and have been reading chronicles in their original languages, which isn't that hard if you have a good dictionary. I feel there is too much bias in modern historical study and it's impossible to just trust some guy's assessment of a Latin text or what have you.
You know you're getting obsessed when you start teaching yourself the secret Ogham. Not normal-ass Ogham, but the super secret kind. If you're interested there is a book called the Auraicept Na Neces which will indeed teach you the regular and secret kinds of Ogham.
>tfw you're in this deep
Op signing off. Goodnight! op is a fag
>>71696599
I actually also enjoyed it during it's HItlerchannel phase. now it's just trash
>>71706097
A noble pursuit as any though. I love history but you're on that next level shit. Im sure its fascinating.
We don't have cable or Netfilx or anything.
We only watch TV when we travel and my wife always lets me watch this show:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6h96CtSnuhw
It's perfect, you don't need to watch any other TV. It's about as informative and intellectual as anything. And dang this guy's got the selling Chinese knives game down pat.
>>71706304
The Nuremburg Chronicle starts with the creation of the universe and has some amazing illustrations.
>>71696599
The History Channel sourced a ton of the footage for their old actually History related content and documenteries from Smithsonian.In 2007 the Smithsonian Channel launched and kept all that shit to themselves. So to stay alive History had to transition to shit like reality shows and ridiculous shit like Ancient Aliens.
>>71706426
Is that the one with medieval UFOs?
>>71706097
I don't think I'll be ready for that for at least a year but i got this saved
>>71706471
Yep.
>>71696599
It's the publics fault as well for being shit you know. You don't care about your surroundings enough to participate and make a good history channel? Well fuck you.
>>71706506
Kick ass anon. Most of this stuff never really makes it into documentaries. I have a very different view of history than what you would call mainstream thanks to shit I have read myself, but Decline and Fall will get you going. You will be able to talk about history at a high level.
Obligatory
>>71696599
Isnt it illegal to show war/violence on TV now that isnt fictional?
>>71706658
Yes history is one of many things Im passionate about and i want to obtain a mastery of the subject and hopefully i Can meet an adept level art least by the end of the year. Im really excited to dig into this literature.
>>71706813
Lol nice saved
>>71706930
Not here.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYunIrWDANU
>>71707009
Beautiful anon, best of luck. May we debate in a year, I'll make a post about my historical revisionist outlook.
>>71706813
someone should add a 2012-1016 with all the reality shows
>>71696599
I know where you're coming from, but I have to admit, Pawn Stars and American Pickers are a guilty pleasure of mine. (yes I know they are scripted)
Bring back Ancient aliens!
Also secret numbers, there are "magic sigils" and "horoscopes" in many documents which are in reality, clear attempts to date historical events.
The Dendera Zodiac depicts a precise date that can be figured with astronomical calculation as do many other artifacts and texts. To this day many are mis-attributed as "alchemical allusions."
Fucking "pro" historians. Feh.
>>71696599
> watching television
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>>71696599
I swear, History Channel was the best when I was little. Literally the most comfy fucking channel. Daily routine when I was a kid was to get home from school, go fuck around and shoot shit in the woods, and then head inside to pop some popcorn and chill out while watching a based documentary.
Not sure when it started devolving as I stopped watching it into late elementary/middle school (was more interested in reading at this point) but I remember coming back around 2010 and seeing some conspiracy shit about Nostradamus before it eventually devolved into Aliens, Pawn Stars, and Alligators.
Can we at least all agree that PBS is still based?
>>71707812
>Can we at least all agree that PBS is still based?
You must be joking.
>>71702213
Same. I'm gonna miss America Unearthed. I'm hoping since that fucking Swamp bullshit is ending on History that they'll bring AU over and continue airing it there, but I don't have much faith in them.
RIP Sweet Prince
>>71707930
I'm not joking, saw one of their documentaries a couple years back and it was pretty okay. By far the most acceptable out of any channel that was on the TV (was at a friend's house). Based might be an overstatement, though. Are they no good anymore?
>>71696599
The history channel was always wordy, circlejerk trash aimed at dads who were too lazy to pick up a book like a man. One guy would say something about the era, the next would regurgitate again, and then some montage would play explain to you how the greatest generation defeated da bad guys. Seriously, the rate of facts and trivia to complete filler garbage was like 10/90.
>>71699323
Rarest Proxy
>>71707812
It's based because of viewers like you.
Thank you.
>>71698158
That show kicked ass. Arthur Kent and Mudd were fantastic. It's one of the History Channel's few shows I would buy the whole series of if they ever bothered to release it in its entirety.
>>71696599
Vikings is pretty awesome, Senpai.
>>71706813
>turn on TV
>switch to History Channel HD
>Hardcore Pawn is playing
CAN'T MAKE THIS SHIT UP
>>71708154
What pisses me off the most is how they try to justify it with "History is being made everyday!" or some shit like that
>>71698226
The show is basically dead, the last real season was in 2012. After that there was a whole season of "countdown" episodes with re-used footage, and a couple of one off specials.
>>71699323
RAREST
I HAVE NOT SEEN A RARE IN FUCKING MONTHS AND I'M SOON DONE COLLECTING
THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU AND I BROWSE HERE EVERY FUCKING DAY
>>71709498
At least Counting Cars has some historical value, even if it's just a prop so History can have its own Pimp My Ride show.
