can you share the tracks you used in this video? I and these others would like to know: @tyleriverson861 @Sos_June @victorkoksbang4771 @natankozikowski889 @chloe9179 @Jonjzi @sofya6553 @cptainaut579 @sethmcclure9422 @Writinwater1281 @runedine962 @nicholasbenson3904 @Fraserhansen
“Tiger got to hunt, Bird got to fly, Man got to sit and wonder ‘why? why? why?’, Tiger got to sleep, Bird got to land, Man got to tell himself he understand” - Kurt Vonnegut
Knowledge without action is useless. We sit around considering everything but never living. Often a lesson many of us in the modern world don't learn until later until if you are more "intelligent". To be fair, I no longer consider intelligence to be ACTUAL intelligence anymore. It's like multiplying by zero. Unless multiplied by action it results in usually just depression and depravity.
"Philosophy often strives to convert reality into a problem. - In life, we accept naturally the full reality of what we see and feel in general with no shadow of a doubt. Philosophy, however, does not accept what life believes, and strives to convert reality into a problem. Like asking such questions as: 'Is this chair that I see in front of me really there?' 'Can it exist by itself?' Thus, rather than making life easy for living by living in accord with life, philosophy complicates it by replacing the world's tranquillity with the restlessness of problems." - Bruce Lee
@@coconopalito Seems like a great signal that it was : -) Maybe you're paying attention to things normally heard only when there's quiet and stillness. Awesome!
@@PySimpleGUIno, I really feel like I’ve just been repeating things that I’ve been told rather than understanding the message that was originally conveyed to me. To understand the message before spreading it; to first experience it before showing others. I need to go outside in short 😂 I truly don’t understand life and the many complexities that it contains.
I don't believe that romanticism will resolve the alienation and cynicism of our age. We shouldn't mourn the loss of meaning and values in a capitalist post-modern world or look to resurrect some old ideal in hopes of regaining something long lost. There's no hope of escaping the system, no matter what you believe you are part of it. We need to achieve cultural self-awareness, we need to find (rather invent) meaning in the constant stream of fleeting images and memes and create new myths, new symbols, new cultural movements so we can come together and have a common project and regain hope in the future. If there's anything we need to resurrect it's to bring culture back into the collective consciousness. We live in an age of spectacle and irreducible complexity and we should own up to it. Believing in simple solutions is easy, and giving up all together is easier.
i discovered your channel in the midst of a very bad period of burnout with school. your videos over the last few months have helped me keep going, so thank you.
Keep your chin up! You'll get through it, piece by piece and at a pace that will bring success. Have peace that you will get through it and have learned something (even if not positive) on the otherside of your studies.
Sir, as someone who selfishly consumes the content and thoughts of others while rarely giving anything in return I feel compelled to say something to you. You first caught my attention some time ago because of the similarities in existential thought and self reflection that you have in your videos with my own thoughts and my own personal pursuit of understanding what I can only vaguely call the truth. You further resonated with me when, in one of your previous videos, you spoke about how you too once toiled in the harsh and thankless world of the culinary industry. Like a fellow pirate on another ship as 2 pirate ships pass in the night I always feel a quiet connection with other former and current dishwashers, cooks and chefs where I can know them without asking like their work ethic, ability to commit and give of themselves and their tolerance for discomfort, stress and poverty. Sir, since finding your channel I always watch your videos as soon as I see they are posted not because I think they will solve my life’s problems or tell me how to live but because so often they stop my world in its tracks like stopping while hiking in a meadow on a hike to take notice of a blooming flower or the wind as it blows through the surrounding trees. It makes me truly think and reflect on the existence we’re all here experiencing together. I regard your videos as nothing short of works of art which I find beautiful and almost make me cry knowing how so easily lost to the infinite they will someday be as everything else must in the uncaring course of time. Sir, as a fan of Emerson who often avoids having to hear what others have to say about his work, who often feels that his words get so lost when interpreted and translated by others. I can say that this short, poignant and I dare say genuine work of art at the asks us all to stop and reflect upon the thoughts of such a beautiful thinker is the best representation of the feelings I have felt reading and considering that great man’s writings. Indeed it compelled me to stop and reflect on his words as I have so many times in the past and to reflect on this world, my life and on you. It compelled me to stop by consumption of other peoples creation and words and come here to tell you something I want you dearly to know and which I hope you will read and take to heart. I don’t know your name and so will only call you by your channel but; Horses, from one human to another lost but searching in the vast infinte of this universe, I love you. Keep creating your art. It means more than words could ever say. And if there is a god, creator or otherwise may he, she or they bless you.
lol. You wrote all that thinking someone read it. How very sad. Never trust a person in a zombie apocalypse who writes an RUclips comments essay starting with Sir…
Watching this at 1:48 on a school night and I really did not expect to get hit with a montage of my college halfway through the video. It’s a strange feeling to be half asleep in the middle of realizing the beauty of the world and then be shown flashes of buildings I see every day. “Oh, I have class there in 6 hours”
It was when I stopped looking outward, stopped pursuing knowledge and answers, stopped thinking about "how to do," and stopped thinking about my thoughts that my problems that I was looking to solve with such behavior began to melt away. It was when I took a moment to lie down on the floor and stare at the ceiling, not to think, but just because it sounded nice, that things changed. It was when I "wasted time doing nothing" that I won back so much of my time tomorrow. It was when I understood myself that I understood others, and it is when I understand a moment that I am able to create it. I'm now creating and doing more every week than the sum total of the past 4 years of my life. And I'm only doing so because at some point, I stopped *knowing* it was good, and started *seeing* it was good. And this message, in itself, is like that picture of a bird. It is just text on a screen. It is devoid of truth, just like how the picture of a bird or the description of the sea's saltiness are not the bird nor the experience of swimming in the ocean. I hope you all sleep well tonight.
As someone who has returned to college at the age of 45, so I can get a degree and do the kind of work that I would like to do. I find this really interesting. The insights that I have into daily life and how people respond to information and situations in the real world have made the academic knowledge that I'm receiving so much more powerful and actionable. I think we do education in a very backward way; by trying to give knowledge to people with no experience, they often miss the importance of what they are being taught. This was an amazing video, and as always, it gave me something to think about. Thank you.
Also, returned to high education to finish my degree. I've noticed very few professors have a clear idea of what is involved with being a working professional in the fields they teach. It's disheartening and alarming to witness.
As a student I think most of us are so riddled with anxieties *because* we have no experience. I'm so used to the school system that without guidance, I am immediately lost. Sometimes I wish I could go back to the time of apprenticeships, actually learning a craft instead of 'playing' at it in school with no idea of the actual world.
Minute 9:21 comment: "He competes for his own respect and that is the highest honor that he can achieve." That is one of the most true philosophical statements I've ever heard. I couldn't agree more.
"the artist may lose inspiration to paint having seen every piece of art that he can, but the man who lives will lose nothing at all" wow! incredibly powerful words. to me personally art is about noticing magic in things and displaying their essence in another medium. but the magic within things only becomes visible to you if you live and surround yourself with authentic beauty. you have to be truly open to the world around you to be a fulfilled artist. if it's not for your experience your art may never become authentic and your creativity may burn out.
@@Anksh0usRacingstart looking at things in a childlike way again and let your heart open. Go to movies, picnics, cafes. Bring your notebook, sketchbook EVERYWHERE. Write in the dark in the cinema. Draw at the cafe. Sing on the fire escape. Play your clarinet on the stoop. Go to museums. Get fired up. DON’T COMPARE YOUR ART (or ANY art) TO ANYONE ELSE’s! Steal and admire. PLAY. Be brave. Protect your ideas. Don’t invite ANYONE to attack or criticize when the ideas are young and tender. NEVER QUIT. Art will save you in dark times. Sending love and encouragement from the other side.
Rest in pease Daniel C. Dennet Something he said that goes toe to toe with this video, one of his big maxims. “Find something more important than you and dedicate your life to it”
love your fluid writing and the framing of each video. thumbnail choices go hard (vague enough to be bold, if that makes sense) and for the meat of it. bless you for the even sound mix (very sensory friendly), your vocal cadence. visually, you form something quietly evocative--a gentle sort of adam curtis--and there is an almost hypnotic quality to each edit. all to watch, never to only listen. it clicks just right in the brain
“Reality is a resource which can never be match by academia, books, scholarly materials; these things are finite. We may regurgitate and republish work forever.” - best described West/European liberal society mindset. As a native southeast asian, he described best how Westerners today prefer their statistics, policies, and algorithms to the actual reality of understanding human society and the world.
@@adamsmainchannel3789nah, make vague references to a sick relative (rip) and all questions cease 😊 take as much time off as you can afford to while you're young enough to enjoy it.
I was just having a discussion similar to this with my husband. Our society no longer has the social infrastructure that people of previous generations have. Even when watching old films, pre personal computers, people of all ages were OUTSIDE. Whether they were at parties, open eateries, parks or even at libraries. You would go outside and SEE people. There were still public debates and discussions, but they arent the same as the ones we have online. Being able to look someone youre arguing with in the eye is tremendously important. But now we are all miserable, which is no wonder considering we are addicted to the thing caging us in our own homes. Life is beautiful, even blades of grass flowing in the wind. But we dont even get to see it or to feel the wind pushing into us as well.
Twenty years ago, I discovered the Tao te Ching. Changed my outlook and trumps pretty much every other philosophy I’ve ever encountered: others travel far and wide and know many things, I alone know nothing. I am the fool. I do not try, I do not desire things to be other than they are. Effortless oneness with the whole. Lead people without them knowing they’ve been lead. Teach without teaching. Be like water, infinitely soft and flowing. Things are neither good nor bad. All is as it has to be.
I recently started gardening and growing my own food. This video really spoke to me on why when I wake up the first thing I want to do is check on my plants, not my phone. And when I come home from work, to check on my plants, not my phone. And when I do the opposite I feel empty. But when putting the real in charge, I feel fulfilled.
"he competes only for his own respect, the highest honour he can achieve" that is really good. I often tell myself that I "dont have the time" to do things. The view that I'm GAINING hours by doing what I love, rather than wasting them, is also really good to hear. thank you.
This is one of the most inspiring videos ive watched on youtube. Thank you, i believe im a better person having watched and processed it. Ill view this several more times in the future.
Getting through college has been a colonoscopy and there is something inherently comforting about knowing I'm not the only one overdone in the conformist trudge for social marketability. I care about the pursuit of knowledge, I care to examine personal growth through experience, I care to see the world for what it truly is, and find pockets of beauty, insight, and perspective.
as a struggling university student, one who actually learnt a trade before going as an older student, i feel connected to everything said. i thought uni was the answer but now i see it as an experience to follow until it no longer pleases me - to cherish life. thank you Plural Horse Man
What an amazing meditation this is! It made me shed a tear, as someone who tried his best at creative arts in academia for years with a great feeling of failure as a result it was my girlfriend that pointed out to me my tunnel vision on wanting to create. Now I’m studying to become a social worker as I’ve learnt and accepted the only things that matter in life is yourself, your closed ones and close community. I’m happy I’ve found this path and accepted that great wealth will not be my future, forever doubting on the path I follow, I feel like it is the right one for me. Love and understand one another, smile in the streets and keep trying to see the beauty in the little things. We got this.
I’ve been trying to push myself to cope in this miserable job, doubting and fearing the idea of changing because of the comfort and ease of stability. But having your head in the sand, while safe, is indeed not a life well lived. Thank you Horses.
I quit my last job as an engineer/lab manager against what was some seriously valid criticism from my friends and family because I was severely depressed and using cannabis to cope. Right now I'm working as a baker in the short term and while I am far less stable financially, my physical and mental health has never been more robust and confident. I don't know if this helps you at all, just my experience.
@@PepsimVideosIt does!! I’m still so scared but have started branching out to find something new. It’s comforting to know others go through the same and that the leap of faith does work out
18:09 as someone that was very successful in a k-12 setting with classes catered to people like me, im glad you brought up traditional education because i am currently in the process of getting diagnoses for “learning disabilities” so i can go back to school at 28 to gain the skills to help me in my current job as a golf caddie. its funny how i never had any problem in weightlifting/sports related classes and agricultural science classes. its almost like humans are meant to move around the earth on their own two feet and take care of the land they encounter while engaging in play with others.
I took the day off from work - a short break from the hamster wheel. Fate brought me here and you lifted my spirits. Thank you. Emerson is a tonic for the soul.
watching this video at a very appropriate time, just a few weeks away from graduation. my whole undergrad experience was, more or less, learning that i wanted to DO rather than read and write about other people doing. i still like reading and writing about people doing things, but between my junior and senior year i realized “wait, if i have the ability to analyze and appreciate creations, then why tf am i not out there creating myself?!” im a fifth year senior now, finally almost done and ready to start doing. so so so thankful that i had that realization, and so grateful that this video reminded me of it. may this give me the strength to make it through these last few weeks!!
"We eat what we are fed and do not search for what's at the buffet." Like a mouse in it's wheel we do what we can, not what we could. Thank you for the brain food horses!
Watching this as a junior film student in college, I've only become more perplexed at the gradual death of hands-on learning across all fields of study, not just my own. When professors could be thrusting me out into the world with nothing but a camera and my imagination, I'm instead paying thousands in tuition to be sat down and lectured about the "theory" of the practice. I am punished by grades when I step outside the bounds of the rubric, instead of being encouraged and assessed based on how I might pave my own road to Rome, so-to-speak. I'm not disputing that there should be standards and expectations of genuine effort towards students, but the pervasive rigidity in modern academic environments disappoints me. When the world presented to us through the classroom (as well as the approach we are expected to take towards it) becomes so bogged down by these archaic and half-dead ways of thinking, it becomes less of a wonder to me why my classmates choose to drown in the their Netflix shows and Instagram feeds at the back of the class. Thanks for making this kind of stuff, more people need to tune into it.
You consistently write essays that challenge and expand my worldview- something that is rewarding and rare. thank you, I hope you continue to find success making these videos.
I have pondered in this, how they always expect us to basically regurgitate other peoples ideas in papers. They never ask us to come up with our own ideas. We don’t even know how to have really truly unique ideas.
I think I remember reading the following idea in Pirsig’s Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: before pursuing theory (e.g. university), you gain practical experience in a trade, and if the process really starts to rev your engine, you move on to university to become a professional like an engineer. Maybe after that, you can become an academic/theoretician. Lot of virtues in this approach to hopefully minimize theoretical navel gazing and allow the life of the mind to keep in touch with a sufficient amount of real life experience.
I’ve never commented on a Horses video. But this one speaks volumes, to my relationship with academia, with my own relationship with non-traditional and higher education, and my disillusionment with the same.
This couldn’t have come out at a more perfect time! I’m graduating this month and have been trying to grapple with life after academia. Thank you Horses!!!
Knowledge without action is like multiplying by zero. If you have 1mil in knowledge but no action (0) that's still 1mil x 0 which equals zero. Focus on action - it will give you greater results and it will yield EXPERIENCE instead of knowledge. Experience is actually much more valuable. Also note that the answer is ALWAYS connection (real life connection). Want to improve your life? Connect with people, it's as simple as that (unless you're honestly a hermit - which I admit some do exist and each to their own). If you are yearning for connection you must pursue it. We all know what we NEED we just all sit around doing nothing. We aren't taught how to become action takers, only thinkers. It's like a computer with no keyboard, mouse, monitor, or even audio beeps to get feedback on errors!
Great critique of learning institutions Mr. Horses. One of the best feelings discovering a concept on your own and then finding out later that someone 100 years ago also came to the same conclusion as you instead of simply having been taught the concept. Then engaging in further reading to broaden your understanding and develop the topic becomes much more effective.
The other day I went to the library to find a book by Sartre, after looking in the catalog, all the books written by Sartre were in the archive/storage, meanwhile there were 3 biographies of Sartre on the shelf. I couldn't help but wonder what is the point of those biographies
18:30 made me wince. my experience was full of that “traveling to distant locals” and yet even with ambitious academics, I failed to be accepted by over 35 different “reputable” universities. my life experience was by the end of high school: deep, learned, pained, and complex. the system didn’t care. in fact, it rewarded the opposite: people who stayed in one place with good families with closed minds for the most part. bravery is scarce on university campuses. ironically the ivy leagues have a somewhat higher population of brave souls that i’ve seen.
I love you, i love this channel, and I hope you realize that your work is a bright spot in a dark world, and certainly reaches the people it needs to. We will survive this
Emerson was a good friend of Henry David Thoreau. During America's first national anti-war movement, during the US war with Mexico, Thoreau was thrown in jail because he refused to pay taxes that would have gone toward supporting the war (so the story goes). When Emerson met in Thoreau in jail, he asked him, "what are you doing in there?" Thoreau replied, "what are you doing out there?"
If you truly understood the message, you would not be making your pathetic uncreative "content" online or alligning yourself with other's beliefs without putting a single thought into it or blaming every problem on "the system".
"If I asked you about art, you’d probably give me the skinny on about every art book ever written. Michelangelo. You know a lot about him. Life’s work. Political aspirations. Him and the Pope. Sexual orientation. The whole works, right? But I bet you can’t tell me what it smells like in the Sistine Chapel. You’ve never actually stood there and looked up at that beautiful ceiling."
love this video. it makes me feel something that i can’t put my finger on, but it makes me desire both Divine knowledge and inner peace with the world through God. again, amazing amazing work
This game of “chmess” reminds me of the analogy Plato used commonly referred to as “Plato’s cave” where everything is merely shadows of a thing rather than the actual thing.
If I'm going to suffer difficult tasks, sometimes succeeding without praise and sometimes failing with exorbitant criticism and even outright hostility from management, I'll be damned if I don't use those empty moments of grueling effort to sneak some kind of relief for my "soul", whether learning, improving, informing, escaping, or pleasing my inner most being with the aesthetic I love.
“So if I asked you about art, you'd probably give me the skinny on every art book ever written. Michelangelo, you know a lot about him. Life's work, political aspirations, him and the pope, sexual orientations, the whole works, right? But I'll bet you can't tell me what it smells like in the Sistine Chapel. You've never actually stood there and looked up at that beautiful ceiling.” - Good Will Hunting
“If I asked you about art, you'd probably give me the skinny on every art book ever written. Michelangelo, you know a lot about him. Life's work, political aspirations, him and the pope, sexual orientations, the whole works, right? But I'll bet you can't tell me what it smells like in the Sistine Chapel. You've never actually stood there and looked up at that beautiful ceiling.” - Robin Williams (Good Will Hunting, 1997)
To be intelligent is one thing, anyone can have access to facts and logic about any number of things, but to be WISE you must also have a strong heart, and that to me is true knowledge.
Can you do a deep dive on Norm MacDonald? 11:34 Emerson quote is what I believe this well-read man was referring to whenever in his memoir he is talking about how much imagination it takes to see a really photo real painting for what it actually is instead of what landscape it is rendering, he says something like ‘it takes a powerful imagination to look at a painting and see that it is just paint dried on material.’ I never looked at this man as much more than as a funny guy that had small bits in movies and as the Weeknd update, SNL anchor, and then one of my only great friends in childhood told me to check his book out . This guy was only into math and degenerative meme culture and during our PE we would watch the Ricky Gervais show on my MacBook (oddly enough completely sanctioned by the coaches). I miss this dude and I miss Norm. Whatever you may know, even though I haven’t seen them in sometime, I know for a fact, they are not dead.
Listening to the first minutes of this really makes a case for simplicity. Today, we are like kids running up to an ice cream truck with 1 million flavor choices, withering our capacity for making well-informed decisions. Being boxed into roles is a thing we must revolt against. We are all born outside of the box. We too often fail to recognize our agency still does exist to decide our own level of containment.
I once wrote that, "the Internet brought us the sum of human knowledge, and with it the sum of human ignorance". This wasn't exactly what I had in mind at the time, yet it appears I was more correct in a way I didn't expect.
- Academic Art: Artistic endeavours within an academic environment will always be intensely iterative, whether intentional or not. The more knowledge one acquires of other artists work, the more your own creativity in novel expression and problem solving in limited. The artistic expression of a person with no knowledge will not be marred by their own knowledge of artists past. - Academic Science: As someone primarily from a scientific background with a brief experience employed in academia, it feels as if you are working with aliens. So deep in their world, their system acts like an ouroboros. As I tried to relate to my co-workers about their interests outside of work, it became painfully obvious that they have none whatsoever. They would spend their evenings reading literature and attending conferences instead of living. I truly dread how these people will feel on their deathbed. Though through this experience, I now truly understand the meaning behind "X person devoted their live to science". This is by no means the flippant phrase I once thought it was. Knowledge is critical, but knowing when to stop is also. Some knowledge is mean to be read, mulled out, and then allowed to drift away. It should be there to form and shape you, but not consume you.
I am so glad that I found your channel. I admit that some of your content goes a bit over my head but it always leaves me hungry for more. This particular video was a feast. Thank you.
this video were really nice and chill I think this type of thinking is really romantic, or maybe were the examples living is really inspiring, also death, even feeling separated, feeling oposed But also im kinda worn-out(i think this is the word, i needed the translator) of the academic mainstream of science I was reading today about Tales de Mileto and how he measured a pyramid with a stick and how he wanted to measure the radius of the sun. This didn't matter, the size of the pyramid was just "the largest known." The shadow was the shadow of Cheobs. The important thing about this case is that although he is called a beginner in astronomy, he was not relating to trigonometry, but to the sun god, the pyramid in a theological, metaphysical. I were the best in my generation in math, but i got into an art career after rambling in a humanist career. I thought that maybe I'm better doing questions, not applicating or executing knowledge. I learned well because of being really creative with basics in math, but those excercises were ludic, with no meaning more than fun, thats why i learned. if I'd studied math i would feel trapped in the borders of what is known, and obviously there are people doing it, some people have the patience, habits and harmony to be in there and also pursuing their career, but i think in my thirdworld country i would be trapped between hegemonic jobs and losed paper publications, being anonimate
These videos, even though they take time to watch on my phone when I could be living like Emerson describes, do indeed change my mind on the way I live each day. I think that makes them well worth the time.
Getting a bit burned out on this trope. Other experiences besides “touching grass” can free your soul. Take it from someone who has been locked up but sang in the cell anyway.
Damn horses, you really popped off on this one. Might just be that I’m watching it when it’s relevant for something that has been going on, but thank you.
I loved this video so much during my high school years (2019-2023). I was always looking to myself for knowledge and fed my soul and spirit. This video reminds me that I'm not the same person as I used to be, but I have the opportunity to become the person I need to be...
@@clevelandplonsey7480 Absolutely. If the weather report tells me there’s a a snowstorm on the way I lift the wipers on my car, stock up on groceries, and keep away from dangerous sidewalks. Weather reports are often wrong but why take chances?
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can you share the tracks you used in this video? I and these others would like to know:
@tyleriverson861
@Sos_June
@victorkoksbang4771
@natankozikowski889
@chloe9179
@Jonjzi
@sofya6553
@cptainaut579
@sethmcclure9422
@Writinwater1281
@runedine962
@nicholasbenson3904
@Fraserhansen
this was one of your best videos. i've been subbed to your channel for years. this is a masterpiece.
can you cite your music?
The swoooooord?????
why does this sound like it was voiced by AI?
It’s honestly a privilege to be able to access channels like Horses for free… what a treasure trove of knowledge
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@nothydropump845 look at his channel not surprising he missed it
@@SleepyParalyaclownwhat I was thinking
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“Tiger got to hunt, Bird got to fly, Man got to sit and wonder ‘why? why? why?’, Tiger got to sleep, Bird got to land, Man got to tell himself he understand” - Kurt Vonnegut
Someone's a Crash Course fan!
Nice one
Knowledge without action is useless. We sit around considering everything but never living. Often a lesson many of us in the modern world don't learn until later until if you are more "intelligent". To be fair, I no longer consider intelligence to be ACTUAL intelligence anymore. It's like multiplying by zero. Unless multiplied by action it results in usually just depression and depravity.
But we do understand these things.
Bokonon 👣❤️
Horses really making me think why I spend all this time on the internet
Constant stream of information covers up all the bad thoughts
@@bnsz8704 back in the day we became alcoholics and beat our children to deal with bad thoughts tho, things are not THAT bad
@@lucasportasio I still do those too😳
@@bnsz8704 based
@@bnsz8704mum???
"A person who thinks all the time has nothing to think about except thoughts"
Alan Watts
Sounds like double digit IQ cope to me
Accurately sums it up
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"Philosophy often strives to convert reality into a problem. - In life, we accept naturally the full reality of what we see and feel in general with no shadow of a doubt. Philosophy, however, does not accept what life believes, and strives to convert reality into a problem. Like asking such questions as: 'Is this chair that I see in front of me really there?' 'Can it exist by itself?' Thus, rather than making life easy for living by living in accord with life, philosophy complicates it by replacing the world's tranquillity with the restlessness of problems." - Bruce Lee
For some of us, you're altering our paths in profoundly positive ways. Keep spreading your message ♥
thanks man, that's too kind of you
I coulda ate for a week with that 100
It does resonate in a way that it feels like it was made for me
@@coconopalito Seems like a great signal that it was : -) Maybe you're paying attention to things normally heard only when there's quiet and stillness. Awesome!
@@PySimpleGUIno, I really feel like I’ve just been repeating things that I’ve been told rather than understanding the message that was originally conveyed to me. To understand the message before spreading it; to first experience it before showing others. I need to go outside in short 😂 I truly don’t understand life and the many complexities that it contains.
"It is possible to trespass so far down into the spiral of knowledge that we actually make ourselves less intelligent"🗣️🗣️🗣️
Read The Master and his Emissary
@@edgarramos9560fascinating premise. I will definitely
blud watched a minute of the video 💀
Yes
Its called a philosophy degree.
Romanticism and romantic thought are returning to the world, little by little. That's comforting.
No it’s not. lol. Keep lying to yourself. Just a bunch of snowflakes hipsters whining about stuff…
@@Salahudiyn777 yeah bro. Only weird artist fucks glamorize this type of thinking.
@@Salahudiyn777not everything is for everybody
@@Salahudiyn777romanticism isnt idealizing a messed up world its seeing the world for what it is in its most innate way
I don't believe that romanticism will resolve the alienation and cynicism of our age. We shouldn't mourn the loss of meaning and values in a capitalist post-modern world or look to resurrect some old ideal in hopes of regaining something long lost. There's no hope of escaping the system, no matter what you believe you are part of it. We need to achieve cultural self-awareness, we need to find (rather invent) meaning in the constant stream of fleeting images and memes and create new myths, new symbols, new cultural movements so we can come together and have a common project and regain hope in the future. If there's anything we need to resurrect it's to bring culture back into the collective consciousness. We live in an age of spectacle and irreducible complexity and we should own up to it. Believing in simple solutions is easy, and giving up all together is easier.
Horses video style always inspires existentialism
"there remains a vast expanse between what is difficult and what is impossible." If those are your own words thats a beautiful quote man
Emerson told nerds to touch grass
Hi fellow nerd
I'll be outside waiting you!
Does talking to trees suffice??
Meanwhile academics today:
"Women... One day we will know what they are."
I was thinking the same thing lmao
i discovered your channel in the midst of a very bad period of burnout with school. your videos over the last few months have helped me keep going, so thank you.
Keep your chin up! You'll get through it, piece by piece and at a pace that will bring success. Have peace that you will get through it and have learned something (even if not positive) on the otherside of your studies.
@@God-k5b instagram reels user trying to write a cohesive sentence challenge impossible
remeber that you are what saved yourself, this phrase got me through very hard times hope it does the same for you😊
@@simonecumer1673 That's a really good one!
why, leave the school.
Sir, as someone who selfishly consumes the content and thoughts of others while rarely giving anything in return I feel compelled to say something to you.
You first caught my attention some time ago because of the similarities in existential thought and self reflection that you have in your videos with my own thoughts and my own personal pursuit of understanding what I can only vaguely call the truth.
You further resonated with me when, in one of your previous videos, you spoke about how you too once toiled in the harsh and thankless world of the culinary industry. Like a fellow pirate on another ship as 2 pirate ships pass in the night I always feel a quiet connection with other former and current dishwashers, cooks and chefs where I can know them without asking like their work ethic, ability to commit and give of themselves and their tolerance for discomfort, stress and poverty.
Sir, since finding your channel I always watch your videos as soon as I see they are posted not because I think they will solve my life’s problems or tell me how to live but because so often they stop my world in its tracks like stopping while hiking in a meadow on a hike to take notice of a blooming flower or the wind as it blows through the surrounding trees. It makes me truly think and reflect on the existence we’re all here experiencing together.
I regard your videos as nothing short of works of art which I find beautiful and almost make me cry knowing how so easily lost to the infinite they will someday be as everything else must in the uncaring course of time.
Sir, as a fan of Emerson who often avoids having to hear what others have to say about his work, who often feels that his words get so lost when interpreted and translated by others. I can say that this short, poignant and I dare say genuine work of art at the asks us all to stop and reflect upon the thoughts of such a beautiful thinker is the best representation of the feelings I have felt reading and considering that great man’s writings.
Indeed it compelled me to stop and reflect on his words as I have so many times in the past and to reflect on this world, my life and on you.
It compelled me to stop by consumption of other peoples creation and words and come here to tell you something I want you dearly to know and which I hope you will read and take to heart.
I don’t know your name and so will only call you by your channel but; Horses, from one human to another lost but searching in the vast infinte of this universe, I love you.
Keep creating your art. It means more than words could ever say. And if there is a god, creator or otherwise may he, she or they bless you.
Pompous Parrot
ypu should so unlikable and pretentious, im sure it's even worse in real life.
☝️🤓
lol. You wrote all that thinking someone read it. How very sad. Never trust a person in a zombie apocalypse who writes an RUclips comments essay starting with Sir…
beautiful comment
Watching this at 1:48 on a school night and I really did not expect to get hit with a montage of my college halfway through the video. It’s a strange feeling to be half asleep in the middle of realizing the beauty of the world and then be shown flashes of buildings I see every day. “Oh, I have class there in 6 hours”
Haha
It was when I stopped looking outward, stopped pursuing knowledge and answers, stopped thinking about "how to do," and stopped thinking about my thoughts that my problems that I was looking to solve with such behavior began to melt away. It was when I took a moment to lie down on the floor and stare at the ceiling, not to think, but just because it sounded nice, that things changed. It was when I "wasted time doing nothing" that I won back so much of my time tomorrow. It was when I understood myself that I understood others, and it is when I understand a moment that I am able to create it.
I'm now creating and doing more every week than the sum total of the past 4 years of my life. And I'm only doing so because at some point, I stopped *knowing* it was good, and started *seeing* it was good.
And this message, in itself, is like that picture of a bird. It is just text on a screen. It is devoid of truth, just like how the picture of a bird or the description of the sea's saltiness are not the bird nor the experience of swimming in the ocean.
I hope you all sleep well tonight.
I wouldn't say it's devoid of truth. Just not the entire truth. Still cool nonetheless.
As someone who has returned to college at the age of 45, so I can get a degree and do the kind of work that I would like to do. I find this really interesting. The insights that I have into daily life and how people respond to information and situations in the real world have made the academic knowledge that I'm receiving so much more powerful and actionable. I think we do education in a very backward way; by trying to give knowledge to people with no experience, they often miss the importance of what they are being taught. This was an amazing video, and as always, it gave me something to think about. Thank you.
Also, returned to high education to finish my degree. I've noticed very few professors have a clear idea of what is involved with being a working professional in the fields they teach. It's disheartening and alarming to witness.
As a student I think most of us are so riddled with anxieties *because* we have no experience. I'm so used to the school system that without guidance, I am immediately lost.
Sometimes I wish I could go back to the time of apprenticeships, actually learning a craft instead of 'playing' at it in school with no idea of the actual world.
Minute 9:21 comment: "He competes for his own respect and that is the highest honor that he can achieve." That is one of the most true philosophical statements I've ever heard. I couldn't agree more.
"a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention"
"the artist may lose inspiration to paint having seen every piece of art that he can,
but the man who lives will lose nothing at all" wow! incredibly powerful words.
to me personally art is about noticing magic in things and displaying their essence in another medium. but the magic within things only becomes visible to you if you live and surround yourself with authentic beauty. you have to be truly open to the world around you to be a fulfilled artist. if it's not for your experience your art may never become authentic and your creativity may burn out.
kinda what i experienced ngl. havent felt creative since hs, just cause of all i compare myself to. it sucks, but im working on it
@@Anksh0usRacingstart looking at things in a childlike way again and let your heart open. Go to movies, picnics, cafes. Bring your notebook, sketchbook EVERYWHERE. Write in the dark in the cinema. Draw at the cafe. Sing on the fire escape. Play your clarinet on the stoop. Go to museums. Get fired up. DON’T COMPARE YOUR ART (or ANY art) TO ANYONE ELSE’s! Steal and admire. PLAY. Be brave. Protect your ideas. Don’t invite ANYONE to attack or criticize when the ideas are young and tender. NEVER QUIT. Art will save you in dark times. Sending love and encouragement from the other side.
I've watched this video like 10 times. Never in a hurry. Never paused. Just how it is.
Thank you for your work, Mr Horses
Rest in pease Daniel C. Dennet
Something he said that goes toe to toe with this video, one of his big maxims.
“Find something more important than you and dedicate your life to it”
love your fluid writing and the framing of each video. thumbnail choices go hard (vague enough to be bold, if that makes sense) and for the meat of it. bless you for the even sound mix (very sensory friendly), your vocal cadence. visually, you form something quietly evocative--a gentle sort of adam curtis--and there is an almost hypnotic quality to each edit. all to watch, never to only listen. it clicks just right in the brain
"We must remember, there exists a vast expanse between what is difficult and what is impossible" 🔥🗣🔥🗣🔥🗣🔥🗣🔥🗣🔥🗣🔥🗣🔥🗣
someone should make a meta analysis of this
"On Horses' There Are Mountains in the Clouds"
perfect chmess play
What u mean by meta-analysis of a video?
Analysis of an analysis@@herolais781
@@Joe__M based. if i do it?????????
@@herolais781basically entering a game of chmess on a video about the game of chmess
“Reality is a resource which can never be match by academia, books, scholarly materials; these things are finite. We may regurgitate and republish work forever.” - best described West/European liberal society mindset.
As a native southeast asian, he described best how Westerners today prefer their statistics, policies, and algorithms to the actual reality of understanding human society and the world.
Temporarily interrupted my regularly scheduled work output for the benefit of the capitalist system so I could watch this.
Now do that for the rest of your life
@@LuNa_097 You have no idea how close I am to doing just that, actually (well.. maybe not for life, but at least for a good while)
@@thisisfyne it should be really good for your mental health tbh
@@thisisfyneYeah but how would you actually do it? Wouldn't it be harder to get hired after that?
@@adamsmainchannel3789nah, make vague references to a sick relative (rip) and all questions cease 😊 take as much time off as you can afford to while you're young enough to enjoy it.
I was just having a discussion similar to this with my husband. Our society no longer has the social infrastructure that people of previous generations have. Even when watching old films, pre personal computers, people of all ages were OUTSIDE. Whether they were at parties, open eateries, parks or even at libraries. You would go outside and SEE people. There were still public debates and discussions, but they arent the same as the ones we have online. Being able to look someone youre arguing with in the eye is tremendously important. But now we are all miserable, which is no wonder considering we are addicted to the thing caging us in our own homes. Life is beautiful, even blades of grass flowing in the wind. But we dont even get to see it or to feel the wind pushing into us as well.
Twenty years ago, I discovered the Tao te Ching. Changed my outlook and trumps pretty much every other philosophy I’ve ever encountered: others travel far and wide and know many things, I alone know nothing. I am the fool. I do not try, I do not desire things to be other than they are. Effortless oneness with the whole. Lead people without them knowing they’ve been lead. Teach without teaching. Be like water, infinitely soft and flowing. Things are neither good nor bad. All is as it has to be.
I love seeing fellow travellers get blissed out by the Ching ☺️
I recently started gardening and growing my own food. This video really spoke to me on why when I wake up the first thing I want to do is check on my plants, not my phone. And when I come home from work, to check on my plants, not my phone. And when I do the opposite I feel empty. But when putting the real in charge, I feel fulfilled.
"he competes only for his own respect, the highest honour he can achieve"
that is really good.
I often tell myself that I "dont have the time" to do things. The view that I'm GAINING hours by doing what I love, rather than wasting them, is also really good to hear. thank you.
This is one of the most inspiring videos ive watched on youtube. Thank you, i believe im a better person having watched and processed it. Ill view this several more times in the future.
Getting through college has been a colonoscopy and there is something inherently comforting about knowing I'm not the only one overdone in the conformist trudge for social marketability. I care about the pursuit of knowledge, I care to examine personal growth through experience, I care to see the world for what it truly is, and find pockets of beauty, insight, and perspective.
Keep strong you’re part of the solution
*clears throat*
“ass f*cked”
I’ll take my leave now.
"We eat what we are fed and we do not see what is not at the buffet". Damn, you're good Horses, you're really good.
as a struggling university student, one who actually learnt a trade before going as an older student, i feel connected to everything said. i thought uni was the answer but now i see it as an experience to follow until it no longer pleases me - to cherish life. thank you Plural Horse Man
What an amazing meditation this is! It made me shed a tear, as someone who tried his best at creative arts in academia for years with a great feeling of failure as a result it was my girlfriend that pointed out to me my tunnel vision on wanting to create. Now I’m studying to become a social worker as I’ve learnt and accepted the only things that matter in life is yourself, your closed ones and close community. I’m happy I’ve found this path and accepted that great wealth will not be my future, forever doubting on the path I follow, I feel like it is the right one for me.
Love and understand one another, smile in the streets and keep trying to see the beauty in the little things. We got this.
I’ve been trying to push myself to cope in this miserable job, doubting and fearing the idea of changing because of the comfort and ease of stability. But having your head in the sand, while safe, is indeed not a life well lived.
Thank you Horses.
I quit my last job as an engineer/lab manager against what was some seriously valid criticism from my friends and family because I was severely depressed and using cannabis to cope. Right now I'm working as a baker in the short term and while I am far less stable financially, my physical and mental health has never been more robust and confident. I don't know if this helps you at all, just my experience.
@@PepsimVideosIt does!! I’m still so scared but have started branching out to find something new. It’s comforting to know others go through the same and that the leap of faith does work out
For me, this was the right video at the right time. Thank you for opening my eyes. Now it's on me to change and save my own life.
This might've been the most beautiful and inspiring way to tell me to touch grass
Always a good day when Horses drops a video
18:09 as someone that was very successful in a k-12 setting with classes catered to people like me, im glad you brought up traditional education because i am currently in the process of getting diagnoses for “learning disabilities” so i can go back to school at 28 to gain the skills to help me in my current job as a golf caddie. its funny how i never had any problem in weightlifting/sports related classes and agricultural science classes. its almost like humans are meant to move around the earth on their own two feet and take care of the land they encounter while engaging in play with others.
I took the day off from work - a short break from the hamster wheel.
Fate brought me here and you lifted my spirits. Thank you.
Emerson is a tonic for the soul.
watching this video at a very appropriate time, just a few weeks away from graduation. my whole undergrad experience was, more or less, learning that i wanted to DO rather than read and write about other people doing. i still like reading and writing about people doing things, but between my junior and senior year i realized “wait, if i have the ability to analyze and appreciate creations, then why tf am i not out there creating myself?!” im a fifth year senior now, finally almost done and ready to start doing. so so so thankful that i had that realization, and so grateful that this video reminded me of it. may this give me the strength to make it through these last few weeks!!
Would really love a video breaking down Baudrillard's
Simulacra and Simulation. Great work
Yea is interesting and complex so it would be good to have a vid breaking it down
How bout you think for yerself, partner?
@@rykwon4535 is it such a bad thing to hear an alternate perspective
well this wasnt a horse
Did you miss the game of Chmess?
Nor a Band thereof..
I rather enjoyed this comment
It was horses
a seahorse…Horse with no legs
{(america)a horse with no name}
"We eat what we are fed and do not search for what's at the buffet." Like a mouse in it's wheel we do what we can, not what we could. Thank you for the brain food horses!
for what's not at the buffet
America's buffet mentality. Eat wisely.
College years were the best years of my life. I treasure the process like no other. I was no longer in a cave staring at shadows.
Watching this as a junior film student in college, I've only become more perplexed at the gradual death of hands-on learning across all fields of study, not just my own. When professors could be thrusting me out into the world with nothing but a camera and my imagination, I'm instead paying thousands in tuition to be sat down and lectured about the "theory" of the practice. I am punished by grades when I step outside the bounds of the rubric, instead of being encouraged and assessed based on how I might pave my own road to Rome, so-to-speak. I'm not disputing that there should be standards and expectations of genuine effort towards students, but the pervasive rigidity in modern academic environments disappoints me. When the world presented to us through the classroom (as well as the approach we are expected to take towards it) becomes so bogged down by these archaic and half-dead ways of thinking, it becomes less of a wonder to me why my classmates choose to drown in the their Netflix shows and Instagram feeds at the back of the class.
Thanks for making this kind of stuff, more people need to tune into it.
Keep fighting back. If you were meant to be a copy, why make each of us an original?
You are my new favorite RUclipsr. Your insights are invaluable. Thank you
You consistently write essays that challenge and expand my worldview- something that is rewarding and rare. thank you, I hope you continue to find success making these videos.
I have pondered in this, how they always expect us to basically regurgitate other peoples ideas in papers. They never ask us to come up with our own ideas. We don’t even know how to have really truly unique ideas.
This video is an extended version of the scene on the train in Godard's La Chinoise
I think I remember reading the following idea in Pirsig’s Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: before pursuing theory (e.g. university), you gain practical experience in a trade, and if the process really starts to rev your engine, you move on to university to become a professional like an engineer.
Maybe after that, you can become an academic/theoretician.
Lot of virtues in this approach to hopefully minimize theoretical navel gazing and allow the life of the mind to keep in touch with a sufficient amount of real life experience.
I’ve never commented on a Horses video. But this one speaks volumes, to my relationship with academia, with my own relationship with non-traditional and higher education, and my disillusionment with the same.
dont normally post comments but im going through a lot right now, a bottomless pit surrounds me.
just wanted to say thank you, horses
Just came here to say you make great videos. Please don’t stop brother. Absolutely love this channel.
On shrooms in the middle of a flower's field watching to this masterpiece. Thank you Horses!
This couldn’t have come out at a more perfect time! I’m graduating this month and have been trying to grapple with life after academia. Thank you Horses!!!
Knowledge without action is like multiplying by zero. If you have 1mil in knowledge but no action (0) that's still 1mil x 0 which equals zero. Focus on action - it will give you greater results and it will yield EXPERIENCE instead of knowledge. Experience is actually much more valuable.
Also note that the answer is ALWAYS connection (real life connection). Want to improve your life? Connect with people, it's as simple as that (unless you're honestly a hermit - which I admit some do exist and each to their own). If you are yearning for connection you must pursue it. We all know what we NEED we just all sit around doing nothing. We aren't taught how to become action takers, only thinkers. It's like a computer with no keyboard, mouse, monitor, or even audio beeps to get feedback on errors!
You made me cry with this one. Amazing work, thank you so much man 💜
most beautiful and impactful video essay to go forward through fear is to experience reality and ur own self
Ur the only content creator whos videos are actual art
“Only” just means you know little about RUclips channels
@@user-yk1cw8im4h thanks for the comment 🙏🏻 u really cooked me with that one ill go educate myself
@@user-yk1cw8im4hoh, YOU again. Have fun identifying as a petty, bitter troll.
@@user-yk1cw8im4h same guy that claims this is a chat gpt generated video. Lmao how ironic.
Great critique of learning institutions Mr. Horses. One of the best feelings discovering a concept on your own and then finding out later that someone 100 years ago also came to the same conclusion as you instead of simply having been taught the concept. Then engaging in further reading to broaden your understanding and develop the topic becomes much more effective.
The other day I went to the library to find a book by Sartre, after looking in the catalog, all the books written by Sartre were in the archive/storage, meanwhile there were 3 biographies of Sartre on the shelf. I couldn't help but wonder what is the point of those biographies
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18:30 made me wince. my experience was full of that “traveling to distant locals” and yet even with ambitious academics, I failed to be accepted by over 35 different “reputable” universities. my life experience was by the end of high school: deep, learned, pained, and complex. the system didn’t care. in fact, it rewarded the opposite: people who stayed in one place with good families with closed minds for the most part. bravery is scarce on university campuses. ironically the ivy leagues have a somewhat higher population of brave souls that i’ve seen.
I love you, i love this channel, and I hope you realize that your work is a bright spot in a dark world, and certainly reaches the people it needs to. We will survive this
Emerson was a good friend of Henry David Thoreau. During America's first national anti-war movement, during the US war with Mexico, Thoreau was thrown in jail because he refused to pay taxes that would have gone toward supporting the war (so the story goes). When Emerson met in Thoreau in jail, he asked him, "what are you doing in there?" Thoreau replied, "what are you doing out there?"
i do think i will go outside now thank you Horses
on shrooms
you're gay
Community note:
The user did not in fact go outside.
If you truly understood the message, you would not be making your pathetic uncreative "content" online or alligning yourself with other's beliefs without putting a single thought into it or blaming every problem on "the system".
"If I asked you about art, you’d probably give me the skinny on about every art book ever written. Michelangelo. You know a lot about him. Life’s work. Political aspirations. Him and the Pope. Sexual orientation. The whole works, right?
But I bet you can’t tell me what it smells like in the Sistine Chapel.
You’ve never actually stood there and looked up at that beautiful ceiling."
Amazing. This upload will hold a special place in me.
Today is my birthday if that means anything.
Cheers everybody!
Happy birthday.
You have a good day, sir or madam.
@@arleendo you as well. Take care.
Birthdays are always important. The day you came into the world. What a ride. Cheers.
Happy Birthday internet stranger! Make the most of this wild experience and leave it better than how you found it ❤
love this video. it makes me feel something that i can’t put my finger on, but it makes me desire both Divine knowledge and inner peace with the world through God. again, amazing amazing work
This game of “chmess” reminds me of the analogy Plato used commonly referred to as “Plato’s cave” where everything is merely shadows of a thing rather than the actual thing.
If I'm going to suffer difficult tasks, sometimes succeeding without praise and sometimes failing with exorbitant criticism and even outright hostility from management, I'll be damned if I don't use those empty moments of grueling effort to sneak some kind of relief for my "soul", whether learning, improving, informing, escaping, or pleasing my inner most being with the aesthetic I love.
the blackout on 4:08 caught me looking at myself in the reflection of my screen and then got me really thinking about that
“So if I asked you about art, you'd probably give me the skinny on every art book ever written. Michelangelo, you know a lot about him. Life's work, political aspirations, him and the pope, sexual orientations, the whole works, right? But I'll bet you can't tell me what it smells like in the Sistine Chapel. You've never actually stood there and looked up at that beautiful ceiling.” - Good Will Hunting
“If I asked you about art, you'd probably give me the skinny on every art book ever written. Michelangelo, you know a lot about him. Life's work, political aspirations, him and the pope, sexual orientations, the whole works, right? But I'll bet you can't tell me what it smells like in the Sistine Chapel. You've never actually stood there and looked up at that beautiful ceiling.”
- Robin Williams (Good Will Hunting, 1997)
To be intelligent is one thing, anyone can have access to facts and logic about any number of things, but to be WISE you must also have a strong heart, and that to me is true knowledge.
Pain=Depth=Wisdom
I couldn’t agree more. Knowledge without wisdom is dangerous.
David Irving does a good job describing “Chmess”.
This is brilliant. The internet has only drawn us deeper into Plato's cave, enamored now by shadows of shadows...
Was wondering why everyone was thanking horses so often in the comments section. I understand now and I thank you too Horses
Bummed the Lenin video got taken down. Didn't get to finish it :(
I just found this channel, and it's keeping me from jumping out my window since last month. I hope everything goes well for you man.
Can you do a deep dive on Norm MacDonald? 11:34 Emerson quote is what I believe this well-read man was referring to whenever in his memoir he is talking about how much imagination it takes to see a really photo real painting for what it actually is instead of what landscape it is rendering, he says something like ‘it takes a powerful imagination to look at a painting and see that it is just paint dried on material.’
I never looked at this man as much more than as a funny guy that had small bits in movies and as the Weeknd update, SNL anchor, and then one of my only great friends in childhood told me to check his book out . This guy was only into math and degenerative meme culture and during our PE we would watch the Ricky Gervais show on my MacBook (oddly enough completely sanctioned by the coaches). I miss this dude and I miss Norm. Whatever you may know, even though I haven’t seen them in sometime, I know for a fact, they are not dead.
Listening to the first minutes of this really makes a case for simplicity. Today, we are like kids running up to an ice cream truck with 1 million flavor choices, withering our capacity for making well-informed decisions.
Being boxed into roles is a thing we must revolt against. We are all born outside of the box. We too often fail to recognize our agency still does exist to decide our own level of containment.
I once wrote that, "the Internet brought us the sum of human knowledge, and with it the sum of human ignorance". This wasn't exactly what I had in mind at the time, yet it appears I was more correct in a way I didn't expect.
Beautiful. Had me tearing up a little when reminded that flowers still bloom every spring.
"the man who lives loses nothing at all"
Solidifying your role as one of the most important YT channels offered in the english language. We appreciate you. Go on, you all, live!
- Academic Art:
Artistic endeavours within an academic environment will always be intensely iterative, whether intentional or not. The more knowledge one acquires of other artists work, the more your own creativity in novel expression and problem solving in limited. The artistic expression of a person with no knowledge will not be marred by their own knowledge of artists past.
- Academic Science:
As someone primarily from a scientific background with a brief experience employed in academia, it feels as if you are working with aliens. So deep in their world, their system acts like an ouroboros. As I tried to relate to my co-workers about their interests outside of work, it became painfully obvious that they have none whatsoever. They would spend their evenings reading literature and attending conferences instead of living. I truly dread how these people will feel on their deathbed. Though through this experience, I now truly understand the meaning behind "X person devoted their live to science". This is by no means the flippant phrase I once thought it was.
Knowledge is critical, but knowing when to stop is also. Some knowledge is mean to be read, mulled out, and then allowed to drift away. It should be there to form and shape you, but not consume you.
I am so glad that I found your channel. I admit that some of your content goes a bit over my head but it always leaves me hungry for more. This particular video was a feast. Thank you.
this video were really nice and chill
I think this type of thinking is really romantic, or maybe were the examples
living is really inspiring, also death, even feeling separated, feeling oposed
But also im kinda worn-out(i think this is the word, i needed the translator) of the academic mainstream of science
I was reading today about Tales de Mileto and how he measured a pyramid with a stick and how he wanted to measure the radius of the sun. This didn't matter, the size of the pyramid was just "the largest known." The shadow was the shadow of Cheobs. The important thing about this case is that although he is called a beginner in astronomy, he was not relating to trigonometry, but to the sun god, the pyramid in a theological, metaphysical.
I were the best in my generation in math, but i got into an art career after rambling in a humanist career. I thought that maybe I'm better doing questions, not applicating or executing knowledge. I learned well because of being really creative with basics in math, but those excercises were ludic, with no meaning more than fun, thats why i learned. if I'd studied math i would feel trapped in the borders of what is known, and obviously there are people doing it, some people have the patience, habits and harmony to be in there and also pursuing their career, but i think in my thirdworld country i would be trapped between hegemonic jobs and losed paper publications, being anonimate
Which country are you from?
These videos are a truly beautiful experience and one of the closest thing to transformative reading I’ve come across on RUclips.
These videos, even though they take time to watch on my phone when I could be living like Emerson describes, do indeed change my mind on the way I live each day. I think that makes them well worth the time.
tl;dr: touch grass
I hate grass. It's coarse , and rough, and irritating , and it gets everywhere
Getting a bit burned out on this trope. Other experiences besides “touching grass” can free your soul. Take it from someone who has been locked up but sang in the cell anyway.
@@clevelandplonsey7480 you can also touch trees
@@Амин-т4хYou can also touch deeze nuts
@@Амин-т4хcan I touch horses
Yours has to be one of the most special channels on RUclips. Thank you! :)
Damn horses, you really popped off on this one. Might just be that I’m watching it when it’s relevant for something that has been going on, but thank you.
I loved this video so much during my high school years (2019-2023). I was always looking to myself for knowledge and fed my soul and spirit. This video reminds me that I'm not the same person as I used to be, but I have the opportunity to become the person I need to be...
We spend so much time learning theories that we know nothing for certain.
But we can know most of the important things with a reasonable degree of certainty and that’s enough for the average person.
@@danielschaeffer1294do you consider yourself average? Would you recommend this way of life?
@@clevelandplonsey7480 Absolutely. If the weather report tells me there’s a a snowstorm on the way I lift the wipers on my car, stock up on groceries, and keep away from dangerous sidewalks. Weather reports are often wrong but why take chances?
These lectures truly inspire 💚💚
This channel is perfect
There are mountains in the clouds. They come out of the sky. And they stand there.
Yes!