To the people who call him naive: I think we are just used to our overcomplicated way of thinking, confused by all the supposed "needs" that are just unnecessary desires and addictions
Mathias, what an outstanding pathway, so singular. From Tournai, 20 years ago, to this little street in Ubud, in 2010, i learnt from you that peaceful, but determined discovery of yourself. Thank you for that, you're the man !
i completely understand his point, and i agree with it mostly, I travel instead of buying a car and I try not to be held up by materials etc. However, I think it is also important to note that many of people were born with responsibilities of others thrusted upon them, as in, if one has a sick family member, it is not so easy to drop the work we find stressful and just do our own things.
In a lot of poor/developing countries, people may have physical fences but they dont have the boundaries you find in the West. They already practice a lot of what is said here but I totally understand where the speaker is coming from. In the West we have a lot to learn. We got good at getting stuff but we forgot the invisible stuff that really matters. I left London a few months ago because I got tired of living among zombies who had forgotten what really matters, I feel sorry for them. I've moved to Jordan (in the middle east) where I live a very simple life, where the standard greeting from strangers is "fadhal" meaning "welcome to my home" and they mean it.
The question at the end of speech is definitely worth giving a serious thought for anyone who live on this planet. We can only do this TOGETHER. But, I am afraid there are many people who want to live in fear and competition because that's all they know about this life. And plus, we can't overlook people's greed.
This put a smile on my face ! Daisaku Ikeda wrote, 'The age of war is dead. The age of economy his waning. Now is the dawn of the Age of Culture.' Thank you Mathias, you have your finger on the pulse ! Paradigm shifts take time, they also require courage as you testify. Courageous faith is the path of no regret and is what is sorely needed at this present juncture of human history. Humanism must win. Humanism will win when decisions are people centred - decisions based on the happiness and welfare of others. When we revolutionise our own life our outer wold will reflect this, one of transforming from hard power to soft power; respect for the dignity of life, the power of creating value, humanitarian competition, education and realising the inextricable interconnectedness of all life etc. ! (Yes, words are easy!)
This man is the truth. All the people laughing because they don't know how to take his point of view, it goes against what they've been programmed to think and believe. I've been trying to build wealth to achieve this exact goal, total freedom. This speech just changed my view on how to acquire that though. Damn good pianist too.
@@coreycox2345.. He said: "I don't need much".. But, he only mentioned 3 needs.. He said you can grow your food. Then, he said: "I Googled... how to grow food... and it's easy" This implies that in order to be able to grow your food, you need to Google how to do it. To Google anything, you need a phone or laptop, electricity and internet. Therefore, we also need electricity, internet, and a laptop. To live in a home, you are going to need to pay for some bills unless you are planning to live without A/C, light, fridge, and stove which consumes gas. He thinks he knows it all. I know better. He also needed a camera and a stage to deliver his commonist message. He does not accept that making money is a need. And, spending money is a need. He wants to get in your home to sleep. Then, wake up and play with your wife. Then, move to someone else.
Beautiful message. Truly what we need is Shelter, Food and Love. But it is also true that that these are the three we stand for till today. Mostly competition what we mean as process to grow over each other is growing as we see towards love as something to depend upon and more interestingly we all fight for food and shelter not only as they our need, but also because we we have the feeling of finding love only if we have shelter and food. The term cooperation said is something very important to be thought about. Because love, shelter and food three of them gets cultivated from that. So they are not our dependability, that is we don't depend on three of them. We depend on the betterment of the cultivation. Lastly coming to competition, it is not unhealthy. Because competition is not actually the game of pulling each other back and always trying out become the first. Competition is the process of making the vision of the need more clearer for all who are involved in the process. So being our own competitor is the best techniques to grow individually. Lastly individuality is something which can't be ignored and cannot be prime concern too. Because if it is ignored people doing so may starve in many respects. Making it the prime concern can make the world as a battle ground. So at least I feel what we truly need is cooperation which will bring mutual respects in all respect and cultivate food, shelter and love for all.
I wish I didn't have to work! So I quit a full time job, to contract and earn more money, so I can take a month or two off here and there. I'm a lot happier now. We all need to do more to make our lives happier. I'm growing my own veggies and making my own compost. It's great.
Sounds idiotic to me. 😀 I had a very stressful Sales job with stressed aggressive people. j resigned and found a less stressful job but on a lot less pay. I am miles happier BUT I would really like to earn more. Can't have your cake, eat it and make love to the baker it seems.
Cindy I am sorry I meant to type idilic NOT idiotic! You are so right, you cannot rush these things..especially considered directional career progression. It would be easy just to take the next job that paid more, which is where I went so badly wrong 2.5 years previous! :)
To everyone here who has complained about capitalism: why don't you start sharing right now. E.g. open up your house/apartment to others who need a place to stay/live. List your place on airbnb.com (but put the price of $0) or Craig's List. Soon, I am sure, you will abandon your naive concepts of "right" and "wrong" and return to your regularly fenced place.
I agree with him. It is so crazy to pay taxes on the land and even on the houses people build with their own money. In addition to this, every person who has land, even just a garden, knows that it is impossible to eat all that the plants produce by oneself. For ex. one single tree produces so many apples. It is impossible to eat them all. It is really like a sign that we have to share. And the vegetables, they can also be so much! In nature, all is multiplied. From one seed you get a plant that produces much more. And this goes on and on towards wealth. This is one of the Earth's principles. There are already some communities where all is shared but they are still only few of them...
+katherine sell Thanks. I always love the moment when people have so much in the garden and start to share with others. Usually it is also all natural and and you can see it by the funny shapes fruits and vegetable have ;)
+Sandra Carli You would have to have good neighbors to do this. And if you each grew a garden with different plants, it would be a wonderful thing to share once a week on the street.
I would go beyond and say that it is worth working toward human fulfillment as in Maslow's hierarchy. To have the luxury of self-defined personal achievement is at the top.
We all have always something to say. Let's just be still for a moment. Forget your names, nationalities, race, genders, jobs, wealth as your core isn't identified with them... let's be human beings and shine our light; no judgement, but acceptance in love.
Creating lifestyle from abundant resources others ignore, Mathias sets the bar well above where most would care to reach. He suggests "Less can be more" in an insecure world if passions can simplify complexities, and lifestyle can follow suit. Mathias knows. He is living the dream convincingly, in Queenstown.
its easy to say when u have nothing to lose. lots of people wont give up on the things they got by working hard . thus we will never get such a world he is speaking about .we need extra planet for this)
I'm sad and happy simultaneously that I've watched a video that explains my thoughts and needs in 100% correct way. My surrounding just seems not to get right, sadly.
I'm completely serious, just so you know. I've always wanted to move to the countryside-away from the big city. Just so llong as I have wifi and a good dog.
What he's talking about is community living, which is essentially connected to our very souls and deeper longing to feel a sense of belonging and connectedness. It's it's deeply profound in our psychology to live communal lives which we have lost our barring a of in our western consumer societies creating an unnatural way of being.
An eloquent description of our digression from tribal cultures, through the agricultural beginnings to our current condition. He describes how humans only need three things and each of them can be gained from belonging to a tribe; the norm for the vast majority of our past.
It's interesting when you look at the word 'compete'. Today's interpretation you may think of athletes vying against each other. In the business world you may think of two professionals vying against each other to achieve a promotion. There's a sense of two forces working against each other. The origins of the word 'compete' is 'com' (latin), meaning together and 'petere' meaning aim at, seek. The words today is pretty much the antithesis of it's origins. From the origins you get a sense of two forces moving towards something together. (parallel instead of collision course) Sign of the times?
it's a Ted talk, it's generally rich/middle class people who see these talks. They benefit greatly from Capitalism, of course they laugh and don't see the true message he is sharing. There are members of the proletariat who will never see the exploitation they are under. They will willingly accept it knowing 'it could be worse' a simple, yet scary way of dealing with the problem we have. cognitive dissonance allows them to acknowledge (I.e. laugh at each point he makes) but still disregard it, it's easier to deal with that way
Mathias, this was such a great presentation. Food, Shelter, Love! all the way. But now you need to understand how you contribute to those you love is what gives you value. and in the present world, your Value = Money, to buy you that piece of land or whatever it is you need. That's just how the world works, there's no escaping that! eliminate the word slavery from your vocabulary, that's just your mind telling you lies. Can't you see you are free?
H Debbesie No I can't see I am free. Because I not allowed to sleep on the beach (not even in my van), to build my house on a empty patch of land, to get access to any ressources. I am being shafted from the planet I live on, and it's the same for everyone, we all try to gain access to the planet while it should be a given.
they’re laughing but it’s the truth, all we need to do is simplify our current lives, i think the internet is very contradicting to this ideal, however it is a beautiful source of information. So it is just one of the things we would have to simplify to keep in our lives; say we run websites on solar and put up with blackouts when it’s rainy. We would need to solve like this for problems like healthcare also.
What this speaker is talking about, living without fences, was the norm for humans many millennia ago, and still goes on today within indigenous communities whom all live together as a tribe/family. But it doesn't only exist within tribal communities, in various parts of the world, most usually in the "less developed" parts (although it does exist in small non-urbanish towns in the developed world), people within their small villages or towns have a much greater sense of community and belonging to one another. Yes there still may be fences in the literal sense, however all neighbours either are or feel very much like family and they lead quite simple lives. I am born in the UK, however my parents are from Eritrea (in East Africa), and grew up in small villages, and I can very much imagine the relationship between members of the area, as well as nearby villages and towns, who are very much family. What people forget is, in particular if we consider people residing in countries of their heritage, that everyone around you is actually related to you. If you go back hundreds of years it is likely that you share many common ancestors/grandfather/grandmothers with people in your town, city and even country. If you think about it, once we get to our third cousins we start to lose awareness with who actually is related to us. I can safely say I know almost up to all my second cousins, at least within the UK, but past that; like one and that was by accident. Go back thousands and thousands of years, and even people across the globe from each other have ties. You see, we are all family. We are all humanoids, it makes pretty darn sense. Does it matter? Just because hundreds or thousands of years ago our ancestors were brothers what bearing does it have now? It's a debatable topic, and your conclusions will be based on your own personal philosophies, however the next time you feel hostile to a complete stranger, or someone you see on the news, or those "bloody immigrants in our country", maybe you'll pause and realise that the only thing truly separating us is our environment and education. I also just want to add that what has led to what is common place in developed countries and urban cities, this reality of competition and lack of closeness between neighbours, is due to Capitalism; a system where there are always going to be a divide between rich and poor. Why can't everyone or mostly everyone just be in the middle ground and live great lives?
*****: " ...is due to Capitalism; a system where there are always going to be a divide between rich and poor. Why can't everyone or mostly everyone just be in the middle ground and live great lives? " Because there are always those who are unable and/or unwilling to be as useful to the society as some others. Look up thugs who wear their pants at their knees' level.
humanyoda These aren't just things which naturally just arise out of nature, black people in America for instance were all, unless I'm mistaken, talking like Martin Luther until whenever that kind of speech stopped. This mentality and style of thought if you look closely is just popularised and personalised aggressiveness, which as can be obviously seen stems from feeling like being the undermined of society. You don't get such behaviour naturally occurring, unless it's been imported from the West now, hopefully not, in Africa. Anyway, point is such self-destructive behaviour doesn't arise naturally out of nature. I easily could have turned out a thug, just give me a crack mother for a mum, and useless father, neighbours selling drugs, and bad personal mental habits. I add the latter because individuals process things differently to and extent, which I believe comes down to personality and character, which is also influenced from environment. Anyway I mention all that because your statement is from an enlightened perspective useless. Those people are the most damaged of society, let's forget about those for the moment for the sake of argument. Close community even remedies these issues naturally, as you can see in the positive primitive communities of the Amazon and elsewhere. I can't be bothered to say anymore, but just give people a break.
I like the idea of not working, who doesn't? I also like the idea of just being free to do your thing and just be with the people you want to be. However, if someday we return to the past, we will just loop to our current state again. Which is why we need to be able to reconclile both worlds, technology and nature, it's the only way to truely find some balance. Obviously materialism is something that is essentially meaningless when you buy things just to show-off or to feel part of an in-crowd but we can't discard the potential advantages that technology gives. For one the speaker wouldn't have been able to google how to make a garden or build a house. I guess it's not that necesary because there is always word of mouth but problems arise when you have a group who's access to information is essentially closed, you get fools and you get charlatans. Even in an age of information you still have a lot of people that get duped on the daily basis, imagine if somehow people reverted to a prior stage in social evolution. In conclusion, i like the idea but within the context of harmonizing technology and nature so as to evade future turmoil. I mean, it sounds nice, but since we can't control future generations, we have to think ahead and also look back at history to figure out why things had to change. There are no final frontiers, change is the law by which we live.
Of course i am against this way of life and the madness of consumism, but we still need to work and be usefull to one another. And that means that sometimes, you have to spend time doing something you dont love in order to keep the weels turning.
Good talk, Mathias. Hopefully our 'insane' culture and society will devolve and simplify a bit as you point to. "It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a sick society" -Krishnamurti
Wauw.. Now I really understand why I am so depressed... cus I am having everything but, those 3 things I really need... All I want is just to live freely on a mountain in South Korea.. I'm not asking for diamonds, just for a small space for myself and Why is that so hard...ㅜㅜ
reminds me of the book and 8 hr course by joe demingus and viki robbins.." Your money or your life". I would add to the mix clothing especially if not in subtropical climate.
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This guy has really lived his life.Yes it is very tough to follow whatever you say in this competitive world and a world where most people follow rat race chasing an unrealistic dream.If everybody will follow their passion instead of chasing an unrealistic dream and following rat race,world will be a very beautiful place.
Landowners who own more than a square mile of land should watch this and think about the backward paradigm of land ownership and how it robs people of a truly happified life. Leasing portions of land and providing land trusts makes it possible for many more people to feel secure, and masters of their destiny.
Carol Hathor Indeed, the system of ownership without consideration of the whole, inevitably creates lack of land at some point or another. Thus creating slavery, thus societal tensions, disrupted behaviors such a competition, indifference, theft, etc. We try to fix this with psychologists, drugs and mostly, repression through jail sentences.
yes i agree with you. when we think we exist. like in sleep what happens we don,t know. but others can study or observe me so he can tell. so i alone can,t know everything.we want to know what we don,t know. this very idea is what. so one can be noble like neutron like in atom which we know because of our scientist but still there is curiosity to know what is inside it like what can be the smallest particle. it exists because we think . then logical or which is also a notion of our mind came into existence when we shared our experiences. just like we are defined by name and our living and non living(but what is not living it is made up of same electron proton and neutron and their arrangement),so what is true because no one can know everything because not everyone are connected to one other so one cannot say what other thinks.even we don't know what thought can come in our mind.the thought may be the result of our experience but the notion of future how did this come or change is life.
I feel like we do need money but not in the stressful way people think of it. Just as a way to make trading fare. We need to trade, we need to help each other. Our work should be things we're good at and can help others with. We give and we get and survive. All work is hard and not always enjoyable. We are made to do hard work though, their is reward in accomplishment, helping others, using your talents and getting paid for that. We can enjoy the good things in life but all that involves hard work. The main things that I think really need to change are stress and greed! If people weren't greedy they wouldn't push themselves so hard that they get stressed. If people weren't greedy and saw that there is hard work to do and other people need your help/work they wouldn't get stressed because of others. (There's a lot more too all this too) Caring less and needing less? Not necessarily. Care less about yourself and more about others. Need less for your self and thing about others needs. Then we all look out for each other!
Nice conversation that is very much required in a generation, where the new kids are born only with an online window to the world. In native-oriented lands. if you are a street performer, you will perform for other's happiness and in exchange they will give you some produce to ensure your livelyhood. They have temple estates where you will get to live and your generation will ply your trade. This manages competition in skills based on demand. This way of life can be assumed dead, however, some cultures still follow this. But something to clarify here is nature of "do what you love" is purely transactional in corporate world (I'm trying to stay away from first and third world context because it's very opinionated), where your compensation happens with money that you trade for in exchange of mostly material pleasure on top of your basic needs. If we need to break this, Farming has to be basic education for everyone. But this approach will stop global aspirations such as travel etc, as you will become very localised to your farm and probably live in it as it's the only affordable piece of land for you.
He's already done so much in his lifetime- just imagine how many more experiences he will have had by the time he turns 20! Seriously, its easy to get sucked into these feel-good new age talks with tinkling piano solos but its just not as simple as people will have you believe. There are all kinds of unexpected problems beyond what children like this guy mention besides food, shelter and money. People get really sick, get afflicted with depression. Then they cant make any money at all. They lose their homes, they cant afford to buy new clothes. It can fall apart in months. So while it would nice to take the advice of a tawny wind-swept 20 year old we need to avoid these kinds of TED talks and get real.
Chris Gordon So you really didn't get the point of this speech. People get really sick and depressed exactly because they strongly believe they need more than food (health one) , shelter and love.
At the turn of the century people thought that freedom from necessary daily chores would be freedom. We now have washer/dryer, dishwasher, microwave, automobile, airplane. So much stuff and even less time, more health problems due to sedentary life.
There is no need, there is only want. It simply takes different degrees. All that we really need to live is to sleep in a cave, drink and bathe from a stream, dress ourselves in animal hides, and eat fruits and vegetables from trees or the ground, but who wants to live like that?
I do. Did you hear him talking about stress and competition? That is the cause of many diseases and depression. Imagine always being pleased with life!
Yes of course, but I still think most of us could live happier lives if we had less choices to make and going more on instinct rather than living in the past constantly. When we focus on the things we really need for survival, we truly feel alive. That's my opinion. But as you say, a lot of the mechanics of survival has been scaled up to fit whole civilizations. It's not about you vs. me, it's my representatives vs. yours, If we were to have a disagreement. Both of us are most likely a bit "brainwashed"(or affected by or surroundings) too, so when we discuss, it's the values of my culture vs yours. I wish we could be more like animals in that regard.
He is not saying that we must live in caves...nor to erase technology, medicine, knowledge.. it is a bigger picture than that.. it is about cooperation.. we have every resource available to us.. yet we are all born homeless.. he is simply opening the gates to get us thinking...what do we REALLY need.. and finding connections with each other from talking and thinking about it, by opening these fences.. to make the changes in our lives. how to live more simply..thus more inner peace..life should not be this complex.. we are all here once after all..
mackie172 The levels of happiness varies from a person to person in the modern systems, with money, competition, etc. You already HAVE ways to be less stressed and happier. But you choose to complain instead of using those methods.
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food, shelter, and love. How true!
loved this man who truly understands life.
To the people who call him naive: I think we are just used to our overcomplicated way of thinking, confused by all the supposed "needs" that are just unnecessary desires and addictions
Mathias, what an outstanding pathway, so singular. From Tournai, 20 years ago, to this little street in Ubud, in 2010, i learnt from you that peaceful, but determined discovery of yourself. Thank you for that, you're the man !
This address acts as a brain tonic. Loved . Full of wisdom and content. Worth listening to several times and pay close attention.
i completely understand his point, and i agree with it mostly, I travel instead of buying a car and I try not to be held up by materials etc. However, I think it is also important to note that many of people were born with responsibilities of others thrusted upon them, as in, if one has a sick family member, it is not so easy to drop the work we find stressful and just do our own things.
The world needs more people like this guy!
Then start by being one of them rather than just demand
I wonder if I can...
lyubgan
you can
Nads508
I'm trying.Thanks!
lyubgan
me too!
one of the most humble and wise things I ever heard
A wonderful personal story, authentically offered to all of us in the true spirit of love ... after some fabulous piano playing! Great one, Mathias.
And it is all offered for free. Maybe that is how you find freedom, and that is to give what you have away? !
I'd like a follow up interview when he is is in his 40's or 50's, and see how comfortable he is with this lifestyle
Socrates
life is not about comfort it's about struggles
think the same way. really really happy.
In a lot of poor/developing countries, people may have physical fences but they dont have the boundaries you find in the West. They already practice a lot of what is said here but I totally understand where the speaker is coming from. In the West we have a lot to learn. We got good at getting stuff but we forgot the invisible stuff that really matters. I left London a few months ago because I got tired of living among zombies who had forgotten what really matters, I feel sorry for them. I've moved to Jordan (in the middle east) where I live a very simple life, where the standard greeting from strangers is "fadhal" meaning "welcome to my home" and they mean it.
The question at the end of speech is definitely worth giving a serious thought for anyone who live on this planet. We can only do this TOGETHER. But, I am afraid there are many people who want to live in fear and competition because that's all they know about this life. And plus, we can't overlook people's greed.
This guy is ridiculously charismatic
This put a smile on my face ! Daisaku Ikeda wrote, 'The age of war is dead. The age of economy his waning. Now is the dawn of the Age of Culture.' Thank you Mathias, you have your finger on the pulse ! Paradigm shifts take time, they also require courage as you testify. Courageous faith is the path of no regret and is what is sorely needed at this present juncture of human history. Humanism must win. Humanism will win when decisions are people centred - decisions based on the happiness and welfare of others. When we revolutionise our own life our outer wold will reflect this, one of transforming from hard power to soft power; respect for the dignity of life, the power of creating value, humanitarian competition, education and realising the inextricable interconnectedness of all life etc. ! (Yes, words are easy!)
This was one of the simply most important videos of Ted ever
A true yogi! Co-operation is truly the key-word. At present this looks like a distant possibility. Competition and fences are making us insecure.
Dinesh Kumar Takyar Would you walk your talk by, say, sharing your home for free? List it on Craigs List, for example.
Life without music and arts is unimaginable. Life itself is an art of living.
Lovely. What a great way to see the world.
Beautiful daughter !!
This man is the truth. All the people laughing because they don't know how to take his point of view, it goes against what they've been programmed to think and believe.
I've been trying to build wealth to achieve this exact goal, total freedom. This speech just changed my view on how to acquire that though.
Damn good pianist too.
Yes.
Food, shelter, love.
And?
@@pontiacmon What else could a person need? :)
exactly. Thanks for your reply. I just watched the video again, and it is even more inspiring to me now, it makes me want to make some changes.
I just found a great video that you mite like.' Paper Hats - with Mathias Piano Man's 'Erlinda' (Music Film)'. I really like it, hope that you do to.
@@coreycox2345..
He said: "I don't need much"..
But, he only mentioned 3 needs..
He said you can grow your food.
Then, he said: "I Googled... how to grow food... and it's easy"
This implies that in order to be able to grow your food, you need to Google how to do it.
To Google anything, you need a phone or laptop, electricity and internet.
Therefore, we also need electricity, internet, and a laptop.
To live in a home, you are going to need to pay for some bills unless you are planning to live without A/C, light, fridge, and stove which consumes gas.
He thinks he knows it all.
I know better.
He also needed a camera and a stage to deliver his commonist message.
He does not accept that making money is a need. And, spending money is a need.
He wants to get in your home to sleep. Then, wake up and play with your wife. Then, move to someone else.
Beautiful message. Truly what we need is Shelter, Food and Love.
But it is also true that that these are the three we stand for till today. Mostly competition what we mean as process to grow over each other is growing as we see towards love as something to depend upon and more interestingly we all fight for food and shelter not only as they our need, but also because we we have the feeling of finding love only if we have shelter and food.
The term cooperation said is something very important to be thought about.
Because love, shelter and food three of them gets cultivated from that.
So they are not our dependability, that is we don't depend on three of them. We depend on the betterment of the cultivation.
Lastly coming to competition, it is not unhealthy. Because competition is not actually the game of pulling each other back and always trying out become the first.
Competition is the process of making the vision of the need more clearer for all who are involved in the process. So being our own competitor is the best techniques to grow individually.
Lastly individuality is something which can't be ignored and cannot be prime concern too. Because if it is ignored people doing so may starve in many respects. Making it the prime concern can make the world as a battle ground.
So at least I feel what we truly need is cooperation which will bring mutual respects in all respect and cultivate food, shelter and love for all.
I wish I didn't have to work! So I quit a full time job, to contract and earn more money, so I can take a month or two off here and there. I'm a lot happier now. We all need to do more to make our lives happier. I'm growing my own veggies and making my own compost. It's great.
cindy chan Good on you man ! Growing your own food is such a great thing to do, so healthy, so cheap, so rewarding, so fresh !!
cindy chan his story was better
Sounds idiotic to me. 😀 I had a very stressful Sales job with stressed aggressive people. j resigned and found a less stressful job but on a lot less pay. I am miles happier BUT I would really like to earn more. Can't have your cake, eat it and make love to the baker it seems.
Sarah Lovell i understand...stick in there...am sure you will find a way. it took me a while of contracting before i started to earn more.
Cindy I am sorry I meant to type idilic NOT idiotic! You are so right, you cannot rush these things..especially considered directional career progression. It would be easy just to take the next job that paid more, which is where I went so badly wrong 2.5 years previous! :)
Excellent speech. Loved the part about the world being fenced in. Cooperation eliminates endless competition. Awesome.
that is the flaw of Capitalism, constant competition, not enough cooperation.
danpt2000
capitalism itself is a flaw, set up by the elite to keep us divided and competing against eachother for their benefit.
danpt2000 its the flaw of our minds, reflecting in the world. whatever we see in the world is a manifestation of whats in our mind.
sue she Jup in a sense. In another one its for the increase of the standard living, increase of knowledge, technological growth.
To everyone here who has complained about capitalism: why don't you start sharing right now. E.g. open up your house/apartment to others who need a place to stay/live. List your place on airbnb.com (but put the price of $0) or Craig's List. Soon, I am sure, you will abandon your naive concepts of "right" and "wrong" and return to your regularly fenced place.
I agree with him. It is so crazy to pay taxes on the land and even on the houses people build with their own money. In addition to this, every person who has land, even just a garden, knows that it is impossible to eat all that the plants produce by oneself. For ex. one single tree produces so many apples. It is impossible to eat them all. It is really like a sign that we have to share. And the vegetables, they can also be so much! In nature, all is multiplied. From one seed you get a plant that produces much more. And this goes on and on towards wealth. This is one of the Earth's principles. There are already some communities where all is shared but they are still only few of them...
+katherine sell Thanks. I always love the moment when people have so much in the garden and start to share with others. Usually it is also all natural and and you can see it by the funny shapes fruits and vegetable have ;)
+Sandra Carli im appreciate your comment
+Sandra Carli You would have to have good neighbors to do this. And if you each grew a garden with different plants, it would be a wonderful thing to share once a week on the street.
Every moment of this is beautiful. Thank you.
food, shelter and love! yeah
I would go beyond and say that it is worth working toward human fulfillment as in Maslow's hierarchy. To have the luxury of self-defined personal achievement is at the top.
We all have always something to say. Let's just be still for a moment. Forget your names, nationalities, race, genders, jobs, wealth as your core isn't identified with them... let's be human beings and shine our light; no judgement, but acceptance in love.
Creating lifestyle from abundant resources others ignore, Mathias sets the bar well above where most would care to reach. He suggests "Less can be more" in an insecure world if passions can simplify complexities, and lifestyle can follow suit. Mathias knows. He is living the dream convincingly, in Queenstown.
This guy is a visionary.
This is what I was looking for...
its easy to say when u have nothing to lose. lots of people wont give up on the things they got by working hard . thus we will never get such a world he is speaking about .we need extra planet for this)
I'm sad and happy simultaneously that I've watched a video that explains my thoughts and needs in 100% correct way. My surrounding just seems not to get right, sadly.
Food,Shelter,Love we dont need much and everything else is unneccessary
We need to live like farmers, I like it.
I'm completely serious, just so you know. I've always wanted to move to the countryside-away from the big city. Just so llong as I have wifi and a good dog.
*long
YES
Mathias you are the man! i agree with you!
i miss queemstown and i miss you!
What he's talking about is community living, which is essentially connected to our very souls and deeper longing to feel a sense of belonging and connectedness. It's it's deeply profound in our psychology to live communal lives which we have lost our barring a of in our western consumer societies creating an unnatural way of being.
And he on lives in one of the most expensive places in New Zealand Queenstown is a tourist town not cheap to live there, so good for him
i love this man. Everything about him.
I just loved listening to this guy. Informative and enjoyable.
This cannot be DONE!!!! because.... Oh wait.. yes it can! If we want it, we can make it. Great talk
+Michelle Hall > It can be done. Join your local "Ubuntu Party"?
I recommend that everyone save this post, watch it again, and share it with at least one other person.
This has to be millions views!
sweet, nice way to put it...its great to question ourselves! "I dont need much" :)
An eloquent description of our digression from tribal cultures, through the agricultural beginnings to our current condition. He describes how humans only need three things and each of them can be gained from belonging to a tribe; the norm for the vast majority of our past.
It's interesting when you look at the word 'compete'. Today's interpretation you may think of athletes vying against each other. In the business world you may think of two professionals vying against each other to achieve a promotion. There's a sense of two forces working against each other.
The origins of the word 'compete' is 'com' (latin), meaning together and 'petere' meaning aim at, seek. The words today is pretty much the antithesis of it's origins. From the origins you get a sense of two forces moving towards something together. (parallel instead of collision course) Sign of the times?
love this speech! if only it would become a reality someday
It would become, if you do something for it. Not just wishful thinking.
Amazingly Beautiful and educational presentation!
I don't think the audience really understood his message... they just laughed at every revealing point he made.
it's a Ted talk, it's generally rich/middle class people who see these talks. They benefit greatly from Capitalism, of course they laugh and don't see the true message he is sharing. There are members of the proletariat who will never see the exploitation they are under. They will willingly accept it knowing 'it could be worse' a simple, yet scary way of dealing with the problem we have. cognitive dissonance allows them to acknowledge (I.e. laugh at each point he makes) but still disregard it, it's easier to deal with that way
I felt the same. They kept laughing when he was serious about it. Made me cringe a little.
I thought that also.
That is something I was hoping and I am happy to see that the way you conveyed the message is awesome.
I realize the importance of life now.
Awesome talk. Very well delivered with excellent flow of personal experiences with a great message. Very much enjoyed.
So glad that someone else has a similar ideal lifestyle with me too. Just dont know how to carry it out..
+MsSHE4eva > It can be done. Join your local "Ubuntu Party"?
lovely talk, hes very right. I am off to play my piano for more inspiration
Mathias, this was such a great presentation. Food, Shelter, Love! all the way. But now you need to understand how you contribute to those you love is what gives you value. and in the present world, your Value = Money, to buy you that piece of land or whatever it is you need. That's just how the world works, there's no escaping that! eliminate the word slavery from your vocabulary, that's just your mind telling you lies. Can't you see you are free?
H Debbesie No I can't see I am free. Because I not allowed to sleep on the beach (not even in my van), to build my house on a empty patch of land, to get access to any ressources. I am being shafted from the planet I live on, and it's the same for everyone, we all try to gain access to the planet while it should be a given.
mathiaspianoman: _"we all try to gain access to the planet while it should be a given."_ Why? Even animals compete for resources.
Nice talk.. and the song is just epic!
Li MIT o pool on okio8 I ouy7iyo9 I 6try 6l I oòi8 on you, t 7 u y
they’re laughing but it’s the truth, all we need to do is simplify our current lives, i think the internet is very contradicting to this ideal, however it is a beautiful source of information. So it is just one of the things we would have to simplify to keep in our lives; say we run websites on solar and put up with blackouts when it’s rainy. We would need to solve like this for problems like healthcare also.
Simple yet, amazing
What this speaker is talking about, living without fences, was the norm for humans many millennia ago, and still goes on today within indigenous communities whom all live together as a tribe/family. But it doesn't only exist within tribal communities, in various parts of the world, most usually in the "less developed" parts (although it does exist in small non-urbanish towns in the developed world), people within their small villages or towns have a much greater sense of community and belonging to one another. Yes there still may be fences in the literal sense, however all neighbours either are or feel very much like family and they lead quite simple lives. I am born in the UK, however my parents are from Eritrea (in East Africa), and grew up in small villages, and I can very much imagine the relationship between members of the area, as well as nearby villages and towns, who are very much family.
What people forget is, in particular if we consider people residing in countries of their heritage, that everyone around you is actually related to you. If you go back hundreds of years it is likely that you share many common ancestors/grandfather/grandmothers with people in your town, city and even country. If you think about it, once we get to our third cousins we start to lose awareness with who actually is related to us. I can safely say I know almost up to all my second cousins, at least within the UK, but past that; like one and that was by accident. Go back thousands and thousands of years, and even people across the globe from each other have ties. You see, we are all family. We are all humanoids, it makes pretty darn sense.
Does it matter? Just because hundreds or thousands of years ago our ancestors were brothers what bearing does it have now? It's a debatable topic, and your conclusions will be based on your own personal philosophies, however the next time you feel hostile to a complete stranger, or someone you see on the news, or those "bloody immigrants in our country", maybe you'll pause and realise that the only thing truly separating us is our environment and education.
I also just want to add that what has led to what is common place in developed countries and urban cities, this reality of competition and lack of closeness between neighbours, is due to Capitalism; a system where there are always going to be a divide between rich and poor. Why can't everyone or mostly everyone just be in the middle ground and live great lives?
? How is it that
Which part in particular do you want me to explain?
*****: " ...is due to Capitalism; a system where there are always going to be a
divide between rich and poor. Why can't everyone or mostly everyone just be in the middle ground and live great lives? "
Because there are always those who are unable and/or unwilling to be as useful to the society as some others. Look up thugs who wear their pants at their knees' level.
humanyoda These aren't just things which naturally just arise out of nature, black people in America for instance were all, unless I'm mistaken, talking like Martin Luther until whenever that kind of speech stopped.
This mentality and style of thought if you look closely is just popularised and personalised aggressiveness, which as can be obviously seen stems from feeling like being the undermined of society. You don't get such behaviour naturally occurring, unless it's been imported from the West now, hopefully not, in Africa.
Anyway, point is such self-destructive behaviour doesn't arise naturally out of nature. I easily could have turned out a thug, just give me a crack mother for a mum, and useless father, neighbours selling drugs, and bad personal mental habits. I add the latter because individuals process things differently to and extent, which I believe comes down to personality and character, which is also influenced from environment.
Anyway I mention all that because your statement is from an enlightened perspective useless. Those people are the most damaged of society, let's forget about those for the moment for the sake of argument. Close community even remedies these issues naturally, as you can see in the positive primitive communities of the Amazon and elsewhere.
I can't be bothered to say anymore, but just give people a break.
***** I would give them a break, but they are everywhere here. It's like a zoo.
I like the idea of not working, who doesn't? I also like the idea of just being free to do your thing and just be with the people you want to be. However, if someday we return to the past, we will just loop to our current state again. Which is why we need to be able to reconclile both worlds, technology and nature, it's the only way to truely find some balance. Obviously materialism is something that is essentially meaningless when you buy things just to show-off or to feel part of an in-crowd but we can't discard the potential advantages that technology gives. For one the speaker wouldn't have been able to google how to make a garden or build a house. I guess it's not that necesary because there is always word of mouth but problems arise when you have a group who's access to information is essentially closed, you get fools and you get charlatans. Even in an age of information you still have a lot of people that get duped on the daily basis, imagine if somehow people reverted to a prior stage in social evolution. In conclusion, i like the idea but within the context of harmonizing technology and nature so as to evade future turmoil. I mean, it sounds nice, but since we can't control future generations, we have to think ahead and also look back at history to figure out why things had to change. There are no final frontiers, change is the law by which we live.
Lets share. What do you have? What do i need? What do i have? What do you need?
+Ritesh Man Tamrakar > that is the way. Like socialism but without the tyranny and without dictators :-)
Of course i am against this way of life and the madness of consumism, but we still need to work and be usefull to one another. And that means that sometimes, you have to spend time doing something you dont love in order to keep the weels turning.
Good talk, Mathias. Hopefully our 'insane' culture and society will devolve and simplify a bit as you point to. "It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a sick society" -Krishnamurti
Thank you, so true!!
Brilliant!
Incredible truth
Wauw.. Now I really understand why I am so depressed... cus I am having everything but, those 3 things I really need... All I want is just to live freely on a mountain in South Korea.. I'm not asking for diamonds, just for a small space for myself and Why is that so hard...ㅜㅜ
reminds me of the book and 8 hr course by joe demingus and viki robbins.." Your money or your life". I would add to the mix clothing especially if not in subtropical climate.
Lovely. Simple.
Very true, loved it
I already know the answer: be happy.
Do not even want to waste 18 minutes watching this.
14:06 , damm true , this is where all it started
Let the music talk for him!
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This guy has really lived his life.Yes it is very tough to follow whatever you say in this competitive world and a world where most people follow rat race chasing an unrealistic dream.If everybody will follow their passion instead of chasing an unrealistic dream and following rat race,world will be a very beautiful place.
i think the whole world is moving towards it may be after a 500 years we ll all be as educated as he now..................
Landowners who own more than a square mile of land should watch this and think about the backward paradigm of land ownership and how it robs people of a truly happified life. Leasing portions of land and providing land trusts makes it possible for many more people to feel secure, and masters of their destiny.
Carol Hathor Indeed, the system of ownership without consideration of the whole, inevitably creates lack of land at some point or another. Thus creating slavery, thus societal tensions, disrupted behaviors such a competition, indifference, theft, etc. We try to fix this with psychologists, drugs and mostly, repression through jail sentences.
great talk
This is a really good piece, what annoys me is that the timing feels off at multiple times
very nice man
Awesome!
Love it!!!!
Bravo!
yes i agree with you. when we think we exist. like in sleep what happens we don,t know. but others can study or observe me so he can tell. so i alone can,t know everything.we want to know what we don,t know. this very idea is what. so one can be noble like neutron like in atom which we know because of our scientist but still there is curiosity to know what is inside it like what can be the smallest particle. it exists because we think . then logical or which is also a notion of our mind came into existence when we shared our experiences. just like we are defined by name and our living and non living(but what is not living it is made up of same electron proton and neutron and their arrangement),so what is true because no one can know everything because not everyone are connected to one other so one cannot say what other thinks.even we don't know what thought can come in our mind.the thought may be the result of our experience but the notion of future how did this come or change is life.
thinking outside the wall
hey guys was he playing somthing spesific symphony or something it was really good
I feel like we do need money but not in the stressful way people think of it. Just as a way to make trading fare. We need to trade, we need to help each other. Our work should be things we're good at and can help others with. We give and we get and survive. All work is hard and not always enjoyable. We are made to do hard work though, their is reward in accomplishment, helping others, using your talents and getting paid for that. We can enjoy the good things in life but all that involves hard work.
The main things that I think really need to change are stress and greed! If people weren't greedy they wouldn't push themselves so hard that they get stressed. If people weren't greedy and saw that there is hard work to do and other people need your help/work they wouldn't get stressed because of others. (There's a lot more too all this too)
Caring less and needing less? Not necessarily. Care less about yourself and more about others. Need less for your self and thing about others needs. Then we all look out for each other!
GREAT!
read the word of God to keep awareness
inspiring stuff :)
Nice conversation that is very much required in a generation, where the new kids are born only with an online window to the world.
In native-oriented lands. if you are a street performer, you will perform for other's happiness and in exchange they will give you some produce to ensure your livelyhood. They have temple estates where you will get to live and your generation will ply your trade. This manages competition in skills based on demand. This way of life can be assumed dead, however, some cultures still follow this.
But something to clarify here is nature of "do what you love" is purely transactional in corporate world (I'm trying to stay away from first and third world context because it's very opinionated), where your compensation happens with money that you trade for in exchange of mostly material pleasure on top of your basic needs. If we need to break this, Farming has to be basic education for everyone. But this approach will stop global aspirations such as travel etc, as you will become very localised to your farm and probably live in it as it's the only affordable piece of land for you.
Yes.
Well said, simple and to the point! 100% agreee. =)
Love this.............:)
my starsong is all u need
Trying to get there.
Lost my family to things.
Broken Heart....
He's already done so much in his lifetime- just imagine how many more experiences he will have had by the time he turns 20!
Seriously, its easy to get sucked into these feel-good new age talks with tinkling piano solos but its just not as simple as people will have you believe. There are all kinds of unexpected problems beyond what children like this guy mention besides food, shelter and money. People get really sick, get afflicted with depression. Then they cant make any money at all. They lose their homes, they cant afford to buy new clothes. It can fall apart in months.
So while it would nice to take the advice of a tawny wind-swept 20 year old we need to avoid these kinds of TED talks and get real.
Chris Gordon
So you really didn't get the point of this speech.
People get really sick and depressed exactly because they strongly believe they need more than food (health one) , shelter and love.
A mixture of Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs ( 11:05 ) with a criticism to land ownership (and consequent competition) as described by Marxism (13:55 ).
Well done! .... it is the "Ubuntu Party" way!
At the turn of the century people thought that freedom from necessary daily chores would be freedom. We now have washer/dryer, dishwasher, microwave, automobile, airplane. So much stuff and even less time, more health problems due to sedentary life.
No need. Useless and pollutes the planet.
After all this .. We really need to Work
Love
There is no need, there is only want. It simply takes different degrees. All that we really need to live is to sleep in a cave, drink and bathe from a stream, dress ourselves in animal hides, and eat fruits and vegetables from trees or the ground, but who wants to live like that?
I do. Did you hear him talking about stress and competition? That is the cause of many diseases and depression. Imagine always being pleased with life!
Yes of course, but I still think most of us could live happier lives if we had less choices to make and going more on instinct rather than living in the past constantly. When we focus on the things we really need for survival, we truly feel alive. That's my opinion. But as you say, a lot of the mechanics of survival has been scaled up to fit whole civilizations. It's not about you vs. me, it's my representatives vs. yours, If we were to have a disagreement. Both of us are most likely a bit "brainwashed"(or affected by or surroundings) too, so when we discuss, it's the values of my culture vs yours. I wish we could be more like animals in that regard.
He is not saying that we must live in caves...nor to erase technology, medicine, knowledge.. it is a bigger picture than that.. it is about cooperation.. we have every resource available to us.. yet we are all born homeless.. he is simply opening the gates to get us thinking...what do we REALLY need.. and finding connections with each other from talking and thinking about it, by opening these fences.. to make the changes in our lives. how to live more simply..thus more inner peace..life should not be this complex.. we are all here once after all..
CCharlotte C Yep, that sounds like it :)
mackie172 The levels of happiness varies from a person to person in the modern systems, with money, competition, etc. You already HAVE ways to be less stressed and happier. But you choose to complain instead of using those methods.