humanity is the virus and it's all my fault
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- Опубликовано: 30 янв 2024
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I often wonder if this is why the writers of ATLA never FULLY address the Genocide of the Air Nomads. Even though it really should've if only so that Aang's characterization could've been a bit better written, because they only ever brought it up when it was convenient for the plot. It's always simply easier to IMAGINE something horrible happening...but to talk about it openly? Whole other can of worms. It's why I'm so worried about the live action show actually SHOWING it. It cannot be Helm's Deep or the Battle for the Wall in Game of Thrones. You can have your epic camera shots, the cool music, the nice action. But the tone needs be right. The Nomads are fighting for their life. The Fire Nation soldiers are just fighting.
Remember at the end of the day ATLA is a kid's cartoon, a medium legendarily skittish to even show blood. So a nuts and bolts run down of the genocide was out of the question. But I definitely think this is a case where less is more and where the focus should actually be. Remember Ang was the last survivor of the Air Nomads and through the series he has a good bit of survivor's guilt made worse by his status as the Avatar and knowing he could have helped.
I think two clips do show the severity of the genocide very well. First was when Ang goes back to his monastery and sees the skeleton of the abbot out in the open. The genocide left no Air Nomads to bury the bodies and the Fire Nation didn't care to even throw them in a pit. Second was when Ang was in the Fire Nation class and found the Fire Nation rewrote history to portray the pacificist Air Nomads as warmongers to justify the genocide. There was no one to counter the narrative except for Ang, the last Air Nomad.
Talking is harder then thinking.
Nazis that dont want you or any1 to talk about stuff they did,just makes it 1000% inpossible to talk about it,
you either need to scream about bad stuff,
or type it.
After this video I finally wrote a short story I had in mind for a few months now. It’s really short and not really original, but I wrote it and this brings me joy.
I hope this starts a chain of short stories written by different users.
This felt like a John Green video in the best way possible.
The format!
“We must because we must” also reminded me of his yearly auld lang syne video and the refrain of “we’re here because we’re here because we’re here”.
I was thinking that too, @@Caterfree10
I like the idea of what Antonio Gramsci called "pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will". One must know that things are going badly and may well go worse, but still find hope to fight for a change.
As some gray wizard once said, we do not chose the times we live trough: all we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.
I didn't know that Gramsci idea, but that resonated immediately, thanks for sharing
The sheer enormity of the damage done by humanity to itself and to its home is too much for most people to reckon with willingly. If a writer or artist chooses to engage with it and express it through a work of their choosing, the belief is that it will resonate with the recipient and make a connection through sharing of ideas of humanity and nature.
Just today I saw the remains of Dachau Concentration camp. Simply horrible to see what cruelty humanity can make.
I really felt the Dunning Krueger transition from despair to 'we're kinda okay, sometimes, in some ways'. I think in many ways, I've found meaning in wondering and questioning both the absurdity and wonder of it all, and the fact that by some crazy happenstance I'm able to do that all. It's a bit of a zoom out that we're all faced with the same kind of terrible and beautiful nature of existence. Thanks for speaking on this topic!
“You come of the Lord Adam and the Lady Eve,” said Aslan. “And that is both honor enough to erect the head of the poorest beggar, and shame enough to bow the shoulders of the greatest emperor on earth. Be content.”
-C.S.Lewis, Prince Caspian
Good video. Now I'm certain I'm going to buy your books. A monthly story talk sounds fun, if not existentially thrilling.
Been a long time since I've thought about that quote, god damn it's a banger
@@Cubehead27 Many a thoughtful quote in Narnia. 🦁
Thanks for articulating this overwhelming existential weight so well.
I love hearing people talk about the behind the scenes philosophies of their stories. I'll pick up a copy, Tim. Thanks for sharing. 🥰
I can relate it's always terrible to be aware of the worst aspects of human culture and constructs. It's ironic that we as a whole do more harm to one another than actual outside forces like nature, etc. The best we can do is live each day. It sucks but it's better than nothing.
I just finished watching Sailor Moon and it always leaves me with a reminder that we have the capability of kindness amongst cruelty, and to always hold on to hope. When I’m feeling despair for the state of the world that serves as my comfort. That and Lord of the Rings. Like Sam says, folks in those stories keep going because they were holding on to the fact that the good in the world is worth fighting for. But… for me simply spreading awareness is not good enough. In the same, do we all have the courage to do what is right and throw the world into chaos so it can come back into order? The things that keep one up at night😅
Maybe its just because I grew up catholic but I can't remember ever thinking humanity was ever a "good" thing. Shows like Atla, Madoka Magica and FLCL were so important to me in High School because they saved me from self-destructing because I couldn't see anything was good about me because I was human.
And creating art definitely feels like fighting that sentiment that we are the virus. So I'm definitely interested in seeing your take.
Some days, I feel bad about everything and I'm down in the dumps and in despair.
And some days, I feel bad about everything yet choose to be irrationally hopeful out of spite of my pessimism.
4:40 Wonder how the world would differ if kids were raised very much knowing that adults aren't as together as they try and pretend.
THATS WHAT I KEEP SAYING. I think it kind of came as a shock to me when I was about 17 that adults don’t actually have nearly as much patience as they often make themselves out to have lol.
I don't know about anyone else, but I really resonated with the line at the end about (stories) being a box of chocolates, sometimes you're meant to share them.
This video feels like the biggening of the 1st story i thought of for the last series,of ideas for stories i have.
I've heard our mindset is called "Optimistic Nihlism.""
If nothing matters and everything is hopeless, it shouldn't matter that I make it Matter and make Hope if there is none.
I bought 2 of your books already. One for me and one for my dad - he's loving it.
*I also highly recommend the anime's
"Tenpa Toppa Gurren Lagann"
"NOEIN"
& "Made in Abyss"
if you haven't watched them already.
I love that you have a NOT ON AMAZON option! I wish all authors would do that....
The best way I can describe how I see the world (not necessarily humanity though) is the song Landmine by Polaris. It talks about is how the world doesn't give a flying crap about you. And while the song screams in anger, it also touches on the humility that comes with that realization, and how that can help you better resonate with some of the people around you. Empathy cannot be achieved while running away from pain, instead, you have to embrace and accept it, even it sucks and is unfair. If there's one good thing I've gotten out of my mental struggles, it's empathy. And while my life feels completely worthless to me, I can at least rest assured knowing it might mean something to someone else.
Humanity is not that slow to change just watch the time of 2017 to 2023 that small amount of time changed humanity massively like to the core
Read the Two Robots story first in your anthology... was so quietly moving. But loved the Funeralists the most, really highlighted the beauty and tragedy of human nature for me.
Wow, I needed this video. Thank you, Tim. ❤
It should be a utilitarian battle about what battles you should fight, and you should fight the right battles, casting a vote is less important than building, a wave, and having them cast a vote to battles to different outcomes, similar effort
Just ordered your book. Can't wait for more!
Sounds like you could use a little solarpunk. A better world _is possible._ (And arguably "a better world" here really means a better version of humanity as a whole.)
I am 24 years old, and already have the makings of a community. There is 10 families that rely on my housing. I provide them soon to be Tidmore with my wealth I shall change my local government change the larger government and move towards my peace. all it takes has the wealth and notoriety, and you can move the cogs of the world.
I read your book and the beginning of the year and absolutely loved it :)
I feel there's no completing this subject without The Capitalism.
Also marxism, socialism, and communism
Agreed. Cause it's NOT humanity. It's structural crap built by the owning class. 🤦🏾♀️ Not to mention how we're ignoring pre-colonial and current Indigenous peoples, who have been humanity for the majority of the existence of the human species (hundreds of thousands of years).
Capitalism has been in existence for a mere FRACTION of our time on this Earth. To judge humanity by the choices they're forced to make by the fascist structures forced upon it is super self-defeating. If anything, it should be amazing to remember that people STILL try to help each other despite the fact that all of these structures threaten us with literal death if we do so.
@@Crainiac0_0 as the solution, just to clarify :P
@@com.grenateif communism is the solution then why does it always end in mass genocide?
@@SuperGoose42 please tell me about how capitalism is genocide free? You can’t blame genocide on a system when genocides happen in all systems. People are starving on the street in the US and Europe but do you hear anyone say “ah yeah it’s capitalism”. It IS capitalism, but somehow no one brings that up. Communism is about ending wars, ending racism, ending oppression, ending fascism, equal rights, ending poverty, ending hunger, the list goes on. There’s nothing about communism that’s about genocide other than ending it and preventing it from happening. Why do you think all communist parties the world over condemn Israel’s actions? According to your logic they would be celebrating it.
You got me so quickly with that intro LMAO, I had to rewatch the LIS True Colors trailer to resolve my dejavu
Your writing is so beautiful and I adore it! Thank you for sharing it and your advice and thoughts with us these years.
As a child, I didn’t think the adults were smart and wise. I noted my own humanistic instinct for foolishness suppressed them. Then they looked up at the adults who I knew hadn’t through their own actions. I decipher this at nine years old I did believe in wonder, but I knew it was more rare than the people that produce it
Ahhh yes the intrusive shower thoughts~philosophy edition
I dont ever feel the going up part.
Writing what is on your mind, concerns, fears and hopesis a good way to add depth to your story. And something I will try in my continuous quest to try and be a decent writer.
Only reason, history grows towards justice, is because humans will not allow injustice indefinitely
Thank you for your forts I look forward to more
Watching this after several rounds of beer and it’s… depressing…
I relate so much to the feelings you put into words. I have hope that eventually, Earth will be at peace and that we'll still be on it. Then again, I watched Oppenheimer and kinda felt like the end shot should maybe just happen? We've had thousands of years to make it all better and every step forward feels like it's followed by two steps back. Here's hoping that humanity will become like us in another Nolan film: Interstellar's fifth dimensional beings, guided by love.
Reality is not cosmic horror even if humanity can seem like it sometimes.
I don’t feel powerless, nor will I succumb to that it does not solve anything. It kills what momentum you do I have, and get off your cheeks and go do something is my thought process.
...this is the kinds title that makes me ⅔ worried how it gonna go...
Watching hopeful it's not gonna be... well...
I finally got a chance to order the catalogue for the end of humanity as well as the 3 volumes of the on writing and worldbuilding books. Looking forward to them arriving.
Edit: After a reload it's working now, sry, the app is weird
I was thinking recentlly(2/4/2024),if me being sad was the existencial/big,
not just normal sad?...
TwotheFuture Have you seen the movie Strship Troopers?
Have you reead the Book?
I Know this might be a lot to ask, Would you be willing to make a video comparing the book and the movie? I just thought it would be a really cool video.
no is the simple answer to most of those things, didn't expect spiralling existentialism today but sure.
I think it's better to visualize humans as a colony of ants. one ant can't do much to change how the colony works, it's only when a bigger group of ants are lead to do something that change can happen, good or bad. think of a group like a company or those working at a factory. most of these people don't really think about if what they're doing is making the world worse bc they just want to live their damn lives, put food on the table and maybe have some time to have fun. it's when you get to the people planning all of this at the top that you find someone who knows what their actions does to the world.
I think humanity is only a virus when we do more harm than good, like we are right now and like how termites are pests only when they're in your house, but that's not the fault of the individual. it's the fault of the entire colony. simplified.
Gasp! Came from the livestream, Imma go back there and come back after, if that's okay with you
Human progress isn’t measured by industry, it’s measured by the value you place on a life
I have a developmental disability and I spent most of my life learning to seem like a normal human.
Now I am to spend the remainder of my life using my limited facilities to face these problems that normal humans cannot.
Feel free to explain this to me. I do not understand.
You can live in melancholy, and not be ignorant I know very well what humanity is, and I can see with pure price our destination
I use the internet to help saying hard stuff too.
Guess you got to see the ATLA remake early 😢
Here's something that will bend your mind, or perhaps break it. Nobody needs to be told we don't live in a perfect world. Science will tell you we live in an ever evolving world that has never known perfection, in which perfection - true and fundamental perfection - has never been known and cannot exist. So if you and me and nobody else needs to be told - and yet our most exalted learning says it cannot and never has existed - how is it that we know that it isn't? How do we know about something with such certainty that we and nobody in recorded history has ever experienced? You can dismiss it. You can ignore it. But you cannot avoid it. Thanks for the excellent video and work you do on your channels.
I watched this video in a state of sadness, and it described all my feelings, all the hatred for myself, for this stupid human race. I wish I believed nihilism made me a better person, that me doing things despite desperately wanting to be nothing made me more noble. If we are all people who are trying to see a whole picture through a door's keyhole, are those that are sad seeing through a bigger keyhole or a smaller one, missing something? Maybe we are all staring at the same painting of a door trying to see what's behind it not knowing that the painting is right there. Your work is beautiful
I used to be a nihilist, and looking back it only made me miserable. Seeing the world turn to shit in every direction while feeling like there's nothing I could do about it didn't help. I also always knew that while yeah, we're all starstuff and we're nothing but a blip on the cosmic scale, people, animals, their feelings, their suffering etc is all very much real and all matters. Nowadays I'm politically active and trying to create meaningful change. Because capitalism, politicians and the ruling class certainly aren't going to change it for the better for us. I invite you on the same path. Things and people do matter, as do you.
Wow 😳 no wonder aliens in Crysis game series view Humanity as a pest...
The protagonist of the story I am writing begins the narrative having hit absolute rock bottom as the result of coming directly into conflict with how abysmally horrible humanity can be, even those of us with entirely noble intentions. The subsequent plot follows his journey as he learns to accept and even cherish life despite this. I hope to teach people through my writing how even cruel and tragic unfairness and suffering can be things that we can learn from and appriciate as a part of the human experience, as challenges we can at least try to overcome, if only by choosing to continue living, to continue getting up in the morning and existing without giving into despair. Don't give up, because even if I can't guarantee things are going to get better, I know for certain that they never will if you don't give them the chance.
Forshadow stuff i saw before for this video?,
like how i realised recentlly the earth isnt 100% exactlly like warhammer 40,000.
So other people do copy why im sad?/assume every1 is evil/self centered/obsorbed/toxic?...
Humanity is not the best thing. We are a good thing despite our bad things there are humans who have done no wrong to mother nature humans who have done no wrong to each other, and there are humans who have done the wrong to space. If we had the best parts of us leading, you would not be having this moment, but the worst tend to grab power because it’s what they crave.
there's this poem by Hristo Smirnenski called "A tale of the ladder" and it really tries to show how one gets corrupted as one goes to the top seats.
We studied it for school, and what shocked me was that this exact poem was read in the National Assembly long ago
What made you decide to make this video, Tim?
Don't worry this is mostly your biology working, when we are young adults in order to survive our brains focus and remembers more easily things that are bad or dangerous so that we are less likely to repeat them, but if you manage to grow old the brain flips this and focus more on the good things, which is why older people tend to be more appreciative of the small things in life.
That's nice to think about 😅
Oh this feels like my own existential crisis.
My conclusion was a bit darker than yours though. Sometimes, you have to stop caring.
I am the universe’s rejection of itself
i have a lot of emotional anger that I wont share for the sake of not starting drama, but the way I use art a lot is by making a post post apocalypse/disaster art where after humanity F up one last time I get to explore and enjoy and dance alone on the corpse of an empire that should have not existed
is angry and spiteful but also hopeful couse after all is done is up to everybody to rebuild using the knowledge we gathered,
being a minority in a world that no longer sees you as a person, were your dead is meaningless and people hate you for no reason other than what you represent in their mind, (insecurity, fear, self loathing), where your culture is sold as commodity, and your person hood is stripped down to a joke, the way I cope is by playing games like darksouls where the dead empire becomes a place where I get to roll my eyes at the kings and gods for letting their own self destruction get the better of them, or games like cyberpunk where Im just scrapping by to escape the hellhole i put myself in trying to play a game that was rigged from the start, or hell games like lethal company where the friends and coworkers we have become more valuable than the scrap we get to collect for a unface entity to big for our minds to comprehend.
I am a materialist living in russia right now.
I accepted the lack of meaning in the world, fully embracing the cold horror of unintentionality and lack of self awarness of humanity.
As a pacifist i can't bear the thought of what my country is doing. As a pacifist I can't hold myself from not feeling pain for humanity's constant self Devouring and unaware damages to the planet, animals and etc.
It's not empty words, just google the searches.
Scientists just understood that rhinos are more important for the environment than elephants? Oops, we've just killed absolute most of it.
Whales?
Wolfs?
Birds?
Thousands of species, hundreds of polutions, one to blame.
And the most sad thing is, i do understand that any justice is subjective, it's just an imperfect ways for our little brains to see reasoning for the world. Just as our entire world-view and etc.
We are ultimately, the bane of our hope and beliefs.
So lets cry together. Let's communicate more. Let's embrace the lack of meaning, and subjectivity of our brains and work our way from here.
I want to believe that we can make us whole more empathetic.
So have a good day. Smile even if it hurts. And lets be better together.
Goodluck either way!
0:58 is this the start of another youtube show?...
Spiral,alan wake?...
Hey man, I found this video so so interesting and I just wanted to mention that I wrote a song called Hopeless that touches on really similar subjects. Totally random but if you wanna give it a listen, I think you might find it relatable. Thanks for making the most real vids out there. Song is Hopeless and Artist name is DuoGlass if you’re interested!
Living is a test in suffering.
Can you resist "offing yourself" until you die?
That's what life is all about.
Not really worth it, if you ask me.
Are you okay Tim?
I think a lot of anti-humanity beliefs come from the same place as hyper-nostalgia for 'the good old days': lack of perspective.
When we were kids, we envisioned the world as great but, when we grew older, we realized the world was not great. On a subconscious level, we feel robbed of that good world we always imagined so we push back against it. Some blame it on the modern world and long for '50s Americana, some blame it on socialism and long for capitalism, some on capitalism and long for socialism, and some blame it on technology and long for a return to nature. Some blame it on humanity itself and long for a utopia free from the evils of us.
Truth is, the world was never as good as we thought it was; this is all it ever was even when we were children and even in whatever time/place we imagined was best. There is no ideal state of the world and the grass was not actually greener in another time/place. We are longing for something than never existed, does not exist, and may never exist. For some of us, we are even blaming ourselves for not doing enough to make this nonexistent world a reality.
Does that make humanity evil? No, it makes humanity human. We are the good and the bad, the genocides and the food drives, the man hitting his wife and the woman caring for her aging mother, the Andrew Tates and Timothy Hicksons. We always were and always will be. The first step towards changing the world is accepting that change isn't a return to something better that we used to be, but a shift towards something better than we have been.
As to whether you have done enough to make that change, there is only one question worth asking: have you left the world a better place than you found it? If yes, then you have done enough. Doing more is just icing on the cake.
Not just you! 😁
I’m probably just a bad person, but none of this gets to me. I do everything I can to make the lives of those around me better and leave spaces better than so found them, but I have no power to stop war or make the powers that be to stop fucking up the planet, so why freak out about it? Ehh.
....how is that move going? You ok?
❌No❌
Earth has never been our home.
Earth has always been our prison🤏
5th BABY!!!!!!!!!!!
It’s either or with you why can’t you be melancholy and have wisdom why can’t you be melancholy and pursue the actual answer the thing is the people with the following that needs to make a change don’t and the people like you and I who would make a change don’t have the following yet I plan on attaining my following through things set more in stone than social media change your local government. That’s the bare minimum focus on your local government. It starts from the ground up that’s how democracy works you focus on big things when all you can do as little things at the moment focus on your local government.
I had a very different experience when i read Two Robots. (Negative review incoming):
I did not like it because the message had no hope in it, unlike some other science fiction i have read.
You claim that Two Robots has a hopeful message, but the two robots run out of power, they discover the worst part of what being humanity means, the one literally shoots his friend to death, then he gets lost and will die himself from battery drain.
This story to me was about the beauty possible, and how humankind will always choose the worst option. Being more like us means being more confused, more violent, more lost, and less able to help each other.
Your story was technically expert level and utterly well written, and also hopeless.
There was no positive way anyone in that story transcended their circumstances or their programming. And I don't feel the need to be reminded how awful everything is.
Wow good job your video transcended politics. I think you did a really good job.
I don't relate to this anti-humanity sentiment at all. I feel like people get a warped view of the world because the news and social media shows a lot more bad stuff than good stuff. But if you look at the people around you in your life, you realise most people are okay.
doctor who?,because theme for the docor and english accent?...
For just a quick second at the start you looked like Aaron Paul and it really confused me.
Obviously you’re Stardust and you are the universe so none of that is naïve, but you are not magnificent as an individual thinking of all humanity is one is true in a sense, but we are very much intelligent individuals who do and don’t participate and good and bad
Ok?
4th
Sorry friend but I look at directly in the eyes and I called us all a bunch of smart monkeys at the end of the day. I don’t sugarcoat it you’re stuck between defending your own humanity and picking apart it’s flaws. Focus on the flaws and you will find an answer more than defending, the parts of yourself that are wrong
Nah, its not just you
You aren’t thinking big enough you have a platform you’re clearly pursuing extra income instead of thinking, existentially think about ways you can apply that cash to what really matters creating homes in the gratefulness that the people will give you build a platform build a following and those waves of people in your following is how you make true change not by throwing your drop of water in an ocean create a wave and maybe just maybe the momentum will form a tsunami
First
Sounds like you need a break from social media. Take some time off to watch/read something wholesome. Self help comes first
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Do you feel guilt from humans that are not yourself? This proves my assumption that you are too group minded
I really hate this anti-human sentiment, I see it a lot in anti-natalists and a lot of eco-alarmists. Its really boring, and I feel just really out of touch. Read some Pinker ffs.
Same.
By chance do you mean Steven pinker?
Its honestly the foundation of ecofascism. The hatred of humanity is the disease.
I'm familiar with Pinker's arguments. They seem like copium to me. Try going to a certain region in the middle east, a certain region in eastern europe, a certain region in china, a certain region in myanmar, hell just go to your nearest city's downtown area, and you can witness all the things about modern injustice and power that you and your family and friends and community has to be grateful for.
@@The_Evil_Eye "go to your nearest city's downtown area, and you can witness all the things about modern injustice" I live in my city's downtown area. Its a great place to be. Awe inspiring that humans can come together and coexist in such harmony.
There is a wave of individuals who lack meaning, or the true understanding of it, so they create their own and think that’s what everyone else does, and when you get the masses to do such that is what everyone else does, and it leaves those who decide for a true meaning in the dust and create say landslide of foolishness that is irreparable to a society because it always moves forward, not backwards, and you can convince no self proclaimed Wiseman that he is wrong😮💨🤓🥼🌙 the night closes in as the fools closes their eyes