The Flawed Genius of Jan Smuts – South African 20th Century History Documentary
The Flawed Genius of Jan Smuts – South African 20th Century History Documentary
Jan Smuts is a foremost political figure in South African 20th Century History, and is recognised today by two of the world’s leading historians as being at the very centre of the vision for a new world order that emerges from the League of Nations and the United Nations.. “Few actually understand how key Smuts is in the crafting of the world…
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Smuts’ poisonous philosophy of Holism led to that failed institution, the League of Nations, which led to that useless organization known as the United Nations and is now set to try to force the nations of the world into the “New World Order” of Klaus Schwab. The central idea is that there will be a single political entity managing the entire world from a centralized authority and that ordinary people will have no say in the plan for their destiny. This despite the fact that there has been no permanent humane and centralized authority that has succeeded in creating this type of idealized fascist control that worked. Vide the Roman Empire, the British Empire, the Portuguese Empire, etc. Holism was an over-baked idea that would inspire immature intellects. I had the same philosophical outlook when I was 16 years old: If there is only a single nation on earth there cannot be a war because you need at least two nations to engage in conflict. Sounds nice, but it is nonsense and fails after practical consideration: First, natural human diversity makes international unforced unification a pipe dream. Second, far flung empires are essentially ungovernable. So at age 18, I became disabused with Holism. It obviously took Smuts a longer time to forget about Holism, a pseudo scientific idea without deep scholarship or research to buttress the philosophical content.
Smuts became a Marshall of the British Empire a mere 12 years after the conclusion of the Anglo- Boer war, a cruel destruction of the Afrikaners leaving 50,000 women and children dead in Kitchener's concentration camps. My family hated him and regarded him as a traitor. My grandfather and granduncles fought and died in the saddle, all in support of the Afrikaner cause, were captured and sentenced to death on trumped up charges or banished to Bermuda, Ceylon and India. Yet a mere decade later Smuts was doing the Empire's dirty work. This is not a man to be admired. My family has storied Boer surnames. Smuts is not one of these.
He was appointed as a Marshal of the British empire a mere 12 years after the Boer War a war that
his friend Ghandi was another racist!!!!!!!!!!!!
I think Smuts Did Recognize the Black issue, but didn't have the courage to inform the Afrikaner people of the inevitable future of sharing the country. He has seen much bloodshed, but was not violent by heart. I don't think he knew how to solve the racial politics. He was though, a brilliant man in many ways.
Good documentary. The people of South Africa is hungry for their history. More stuff like this please😊
So in 1913, they took 93% of our African Land. What a disgrace. Very selfish and cruel
He was a traitor not only to South Africans but to the world. He had the talent to do good, instead he got caught up in the Committee of 300 who will ultimately be the end of humanity.
There is a time and a place for change. God puts presidents and kings in place. Smuts was a great man. Our beloved country had to wait its time out for that hour when God chose to put Nelson in charge. We have a new South Africa now.
Hi my late Dad admired Gen. Smuts. My late Dad would many times say. That there should be given shared and same to ,so called coloured and whites. He was very wise in that thought. It would never have been this trash taboo.
Jan Smuts was a traitor he betrayed the Afrikaners to England
Our greatest statesman! Extremely intelligent a true Afrikaner, such a travesty that his own people who he fought for in the Boer War rejected him in the end. No statesman that came after him anywhere on the world stage came even close to his brilliance and statesmanship, he was head and shoulders above them.
What a documentary very interesting so much learned about such a great man.
He was my fathers hero !! SAPPE !!
In the Anglo Boer War, Smuts went into the Cape Province, essentially to escape from the real war.
I agree these wonderful old documentaries give us history we never learned in school. It all helps to understand the world of today. Thank you!!
Funny how I know nothing about this man but so many roads are named after him
Where is our money my grandpa and his 7brothers fight in world war1and 2
This was excellent. Focusing on his place in history as not just a South African leader, but as a key founding father of the world's government is a subject of immense importance in today's global world. From some of the more recent historical figures of history like William Penn, Napoleon, Churchill and others; Jan Smut's clearly saw his place in this melding process. "Spare the conquered, battle down the proud" was a maxim he was quite aware of. He knew his country was conquered. He couldn't beat em, so he joined em; like we all have had to do at some point in our people's past. Those that wish to look upon him as a traitor or racist do so only from the perspective of the moment in time and within a vacuum of ignorance towards the wholesale unifying journey of man.
The federation of the world's people was a foregone conclusion since the start. It has all been just a matter of time when all the little villages, bigger city states and then continental nations could be brought together in unity whether under the pen or sword. Seeking harmony thereafter becomes an eternal work in progress of which each and every one of us is responsible for.
Jan Smuts se poes Hulle het al die land gesteel. Wake up people
His wholesim was for Europeans and whites. Why we wont celebrate him as black south africans. His history belongs to the museums not our educational history books.
In some of the Concentration Camps graves ,,up to 8 small skeletons were found 😢😢😢😢 so ,, the numbers of deaths could be suppressed!!!!!!!