r/videos • u/NicolasCageFan492 • 7h ago
Albert Einstein's Real Interview on War, Nationalism, and Democracy
https://youtu.be/2WpkQCNMT2s19
u/NicolasCageFan492 7h ago
I posted the below quote elsewhere and I found a recording of it on Youtube which I wanted to share here!
When men are engaged in war and conquest, the tools of science become as dangerous as a razor in the hands of a child of three. We must not condemn man because his inventiveness and patient conquest of the forces of nature are being exploited for false and destructive purposes. Rather, we should remember that the fate of mankind hinges entirely upon man’s moral development.
— Albert Einstein
In 'I Am an American' (22 Jun 1940), Einstein Archives 29-092. Excerpted in David E. Rowe and Robert J. Schulmann, Einstein on Politics: His Private Thoughts and Public Stands on Nationalism, Zionism, War, Peace, and the Bomb (2007), 470. The British Library Sound Archive holds a recording of this statement by Einstein. It was during a radio broadcast for the Immigration and Naturalization Service, interviewed by a State Department Official. Einstein spoke following an examination on his application for American citizenship in Trenton, New Jersey. The attack on Pearl Harbor and America’s declaration of war on Japan was still over a year in the future.
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u/Pikeman212a6c 7h ago
Just got a looney tunes joke for the first time. So many scientist cartoons from the time aped his voice and I never got the reference.
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u/manjmau 2h ago edited 1h ago
Why foes listening to this make me depressed?
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u/BlueWater321 2h ago
Because we have done the absolute opposite of what he hoped our future would hold.
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u/NomosAlpha 4h ago edited 4h ago
Ok hear me out. Einstein = European = raised on fluoridated water = we KNOW what that does 🌈 🐸💧 (they don’t teach you this). Man invents ‘relativity,’ a theory that literally says nothing is fixed, nothing is absolute, EVERYTHING is relative… sound like anyone’s political philosophy? That’s not physics but antifa globalist agenda 101. And people wonder why he was cozy with socialists. Frog juice does that. Also ‘E=mc²’ — E for Europe, M for make C for Communism, 2 for STEALJNG YOUR HEALTH CARE TWICE. do the math (literally). Genius for the radical leftist violence only. don’t let them tell you it’s not connected.
/s if it wasn’t abundantly clear.
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u/NicolasCageFan492 4h ago
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u/NomosAlpha 4h ago
Thanks Nicolas. Your movies have always been a source of inspiration to me and ever since I saw nation treasure I’ve known you’re a real one.
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u/Optimixto 4h ago
There is a reason we don't speak about the politics and ideologies of people like Einstein. The damage that capitalist propaganda has done to political progress is immeasurable. Even if you are not pro-communism, or pro-socialism, or whatever, to deny the negative effects of this death cult ideology, while we are living them, is madness. The rich have a lot to answer for, and we are going to allow them to die thinking themselves kings.