I've recently learned that American Zoomers love to learn about politics, science, and history through YouTube videos. Kurzgesagt, CGP Grey, and many other capitalist funded trash
I've told a friend about France receiving billions in payments from "former colonies" for their "independence" every year and their first instinct was to search up a YouTube video in front of me to learn more while I was trying to Google for a primary source of the hard financial data and agreements signed
People were lecturing me about how Putin thinks and will act based on videos they've seen from CGP Grey (like Rules for Rulers LOL). As if a man like Putin can be so easily understood and predicted from a dumb tech bro who watched an 8 minute cartoon yt video, especially given the context that he is the leader of such an enormous country like Russia
I listened to some of Carlin's Eastern Front shit and it was baaaaad. Stuff like uncritically accepting memoirs of Wehrmacht officers as fact and not delineating between pre-1990 Western scholarship and post-1990 Western scholarship.
Basically high school grade "if it's in a book it must be true" methodology with a further skew towards interesting stories.
Ok, that series is mostly bad. He does have empathy for the red forces though and not all of his sources are bad. Weak defense, i acknowledge this.
His ancient stuff is good though.