The Midnight Kingdom Lecture Series: Episode 3 - Changing of the Guard

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First of all, a heartfelt thank you. The feedback from my ongoing MIDNIGHT KINGDOM LECTURE SERIES has been overwhelming and so appreciated. I’ve already heard from viewers that it’s fundamentally changed their understanding of modern history and that a smattering of history teachers from high school all the way to colleges are having their students watch these things.

For any students checking these out, I hope this is a decent introduction to some actual facts that have created our modern situation. History isn’t boring and it isn’t just some dusty old topic. It is so incredibly important to understand how things not only happened but how they continue to affect us in the present era.

For everyone else, please continue sending these to your family, friends, and communities. Once we get this information down and educate ourselves we’re going to be able to do the hard work of ridding ourselves of all these poisonous lies and getting to the task of making a better future.

If you haven’t already check out Episode 1: The Great Chain of Being, which begins with the merging of Christianity and state power in Rome and works its way to the emergence of the modern system of governance and the war between liberalism and conservatism. Episode 2: The Capitalist Apocalypse details the meltdown of World War I and the beginnings of our technocratic, authoritarian state.

And now, Episode 3: Changing of the Guard, a history of the rise of Nazism, Fascism, and the desperate attempt for world power.

Again, all of this is adapted from my upcoming book THE MIDNIGHT KINGDOM: A HISTORY OF POWER, PARANOIA, AND THE COMING CRISIS. If you haven’t already, please get your preorder in to ensure you’ll get your copy!