Josh Hu

Video essays about the humanities, the unorthodox, and the arcane, with a specific focus on China. Occasional forays into other topics.

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Ever wondered what China's creation myth is about? In my latest video, I delve into the surprising origin of the myth of Pangu, its clash with China's orthodox heaven worship, and how eventually it became China's mainstream folklore of how the universe/world was created.

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Never has a crime so obscene been so confessed to, so endlessly, so shamelessly, so proudly

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@kenklippenstein If they do it, it’ll be such a spectacular failure that historians will be marking the Iran conflict as the official starting date of the end of Pax Americana 😂

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A bit of a hot take but “In Our Time” is the only good BBC programme.

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@CarlZha We seriously need to bring back lobotomy😂

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I think at the bottom of this is that there's something with the human psyche that prefers the simple (likely because we have limited computing power and limited number of calories). We like simple stories that explain complex phenomena, and these tend to become so simplified that they're borderline incorrect. Examples: KMT lost the civil war cause KMT did all the fighting in WW2, Israel-Palestine is a religious conflict, America's success in the 20th century is cause of free enterprise, etc.

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I think at the bottom of this is that there's something with the human psyche that prefers the simple (likely because we have limited computing power and limited number of calories). We like simple stories that explain complex phenomena, and these tend to become so simplified that they're borderline incorrect. Examples: KMT lost the civil war cause KMT did all the fighting in WW2, Israel-Palestine is a religious conflict, America's success in the 20th century is cause of free enterprise, etc.

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@AngelliAngelo @RnaudBertrand @adam_tooze I know it's a joke, but this is exactly how WSJ, NYT, the Economists, etc. argue about this stuff, all behind a paywall as well. I mean, imagine paying for that level of commentary 😂

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@AngelliAngelo @RnaudBertrand @adam_tooze I know it's a joke, but this is exactly how WSJ, NYT, the Economists, etc. argue about this stuff, all behind a paywall as well. I mean, imagine paying for that level of commentary 😂

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Watched the whole interview - it’s so clear that Lewis doesn’t consider Palestinians to be human. He constantly says shit like “…but it’s not the Holocaust though” when Hasan brings up the Gaza genocide, as if genocide is a competition and you somehow can rank the “severity” of each.

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@LBC @lewis_goodall "...comparing Jews to Nazis." Mate, he was comparing Israel/Zionists to the Nazis - unless you're saying every single Jew in the entire god damn world owes his/her allegiance to the state of Israel. In that case, who's the antisemitic one here?🤨

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@LBC @lewis_goodall "...comparing Jews to Nazis." Mate, he was comparing Israel/Zionists to the Nazis - unless you're saying every single Jew in the entire god damn world owes his/her allegiance to the state of Israel. In that case, who's the antisemitic one here?🤨

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@aeaiyo It's funny how in the minds of Japanese right-wingers, good or bad is purely aesthetics, devoid of any moral values😂

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@teortaxesTex Since it's a fantasy, why don't they Balkanize the region even further? Xinjiang should be further broken down into Hui, Tajik, and Kazakh countries; Mongolia should be broken down into all the various Mongol tribes; and Yunnan and Guangxi should turn into modern-day HRE🤣

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@GoyEmpanada He's moved on to posting primarily anti-China stuff - he'll convert to Falun Gong any day now😂

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@BasedMikeLee We are Charlie Kirk~

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Check out the full video on my YouTube channel (link in bio)🍿

[Josh Hu @JoshHuAgain]

Ever wondered what China's creation myth is about? In my latest video, I delve into the surprising origin of the myth of Pangu, its clash with China's orthodox heaven worship, and how eventually it became China's mainstream folklore of how the universe/world was created.

[Josh Hu @JoshHuAgain]

Watched the whole interview - it’s so clear that Lewis doesn’t consider Palestinians to be human. He constantly says shit like “…but it’s not the Holocaust though” when Hasan brings up the Gaza genocide, as if genocide is a competition and you somehow can rank the “severity” of each.

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@ByCoupletMade The fact that she mogged the English is sufficient reason😂

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@SecondRingSZN Got it, thanks!