Dan Carlin's Hardcore History 71 - Mania for Subjugation

December 7th 1941 a date which will live in infamy it's history one small step for man one the [Music] events would have not quite to the mo man let the word go from this time and place take pride in the words ish Bina Mr gorbachov tear down this world the drama urgent Marine six power 2 has had a major explosion and what appears to be a complete collapse surrounding the entire area I welcome this kind of examination because people have got to know whether or not they president TR the if we dig deep in our history and our doct and remember that we are not descended from fearful men it's Hardcore History like many of you I am a fan of ancient mythology the stories of creation or how human beings came to be or tales that involve gods and heroes and monsters and sometimes just regular people who go through interesting sorts of events or travels or whatnot and often times these mythological stories are meant to impart lessons we're supposed to learn something from them what to do what not to do you're tempted to almost say at the end of all of them and the moral of the story is right what are we supposed to learn from this Hunter S Thompson used to call it in his columns the wisdom and some of my favorite mythological stories are cautionary tales examples of what can happen if we're not careful and one of my favorite versions of that kind of story that kind of mythological teaching tool is the famous story of datalis an Icarus if you know your ancient Greek philosophy you will recall that datus is a master Craftsman an inventor he can seemingly make anything he's the one who built the famous Labyrinth that held the minitar and it was the king of minoa the crean area on the island of CIT that had datalis build this for him but at a certain point he turns against datus and imprisons datus in Icarus but of course when you imprison one of the great inventors of all time he's going to try to invent a way to get out and in this case he does he creates wings for he and his son Wings made of multiple different materials including things like feathers and Beeswax and he and his son ...