If you click on the image above, you will be directed to a video by a person under the alias Fredda against the much more popular YouTube channel Whatifalthist, headed by a one Rudyard Lynch. It is a former alternative history channel which is now much more focused on social commentary and sociology generally. The video actually acts as a good critique of Whatifalthist from a historian perspective. Fredda actually makes many good points in the video showing how Rudyard often seems to haphazardly make connections in history based off some rather dubious historical and political theory that only works in isolation. Indeed, many of Rudyard’s recent videos seem specifically tailored to please a typical YouTube channel schedule and reach peak engagement, which rather alarmist titles like “Why We’re Facing another 30 Years War” or “The Coming Fall of Russia”, both of which have many people in the comments already talking about various points in his videos and how they aren’t entirely factual or accurate. Fredda, made a good critique, but I also saw him punch-up on another rather popular figure on YouTube, which is Kraut. Kraut also makes historical videos, but more generally geopolitics videos, and as such many of his videos talk about political science. Again, it’s actually a decent critique, but if you look on Fredda’s channel and look through his catalogue you will see just how many videos are critiques, and about “debunking” one thing or another.
“You’ve been deboonked!”
This practice of debunking is noticeable among every single left-wing outlet I have ever seen, and I actually have a list. It is commonplace for these people to constantly deconstruct ideology, because they are students of postmodernism. Thus, they feel the need to “fact-check” everything. However, the problem with this “fact-checking” is that it’s really just nitpicking at it’s core, which is a problem.
The truth is, atheism doesn’t really have a coherent world view; quite the opposite. What these people will do instead of providing something wholesome and gratifying is they will instead just resort to an ideology of cynicism and nihilism, claiming nothing is sacred (except science™️ which they will defend ad nauseum) and end up in abject solipsism, because there’s nothing left to hold onto.
The problem with Fredda is the problem with another other channel of his ilk; he criticizes whilst giving almost nothing in return. Whatifalthist and Kraut, flawed as they might be, are liked because they offer more holistic perspectives on history, politics, and sociology. Maybe Rudyard Lynch is a bit misleading, but he’s actually willing to talk about issues like how bad courtship has become in a long form video essay, addressing issues that many would say are part of an “incel cult” or something of the sort. Kraut may be biased, but his history videos are well produced and researched (mostly) and the use of polandballs are a welcome addition to add more personality to what might be a more bland historical dump. I certainly wouldn’t know as much as I do about Turkey and Anatolia if not for his series about it.
Let me also clarify I’m not endorsing any one of these individuals or their work. This is all simply to illustrate that atheism (especially leftism) is an ideological dead end because of it’s postmodern roots. At least Rudyard Lynch, despite being some kind of spiritual-not-religious type will actually acknowledge humanity’s need for religion and things like universals. Lefties like Fredda can only specialize in one field and then eradicate everything else. Drawing connections to other fields from history seems to “taint the purity” in his eyes, but history is not there to exist in isolation, nor is any subject of study worth discussing. Many of these intellectuals believe in getting the “experts” which is good for deep exploration of subjects but not as method of sane living. Sane living consists of well-rounded understanding of many different subjects. That’s what being “well-adjusted” is typically referring to, because that kind of understanding encourages compassion and empathy.
These people are why we are in our current predicament in the first place; they are proponents of a fragmented view of the world that discourages understanding rather than promoting it.