What do we truly need in our lives? Mathias Lefebvre at TEDxQueenstown
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- Опубликовано: 29 сен 2024
- In his talk at TEDxQueenstown 2014: Sense of Place "Piano Man" Mathias Lefebvre, the ultimate lifestyle designer, talks about how he got to the place where he lives his life on his own terms.
Every day Mathias tells his story with music on the grand piano he pulls around the streets of Queenstown but today he shares it in words and asks us to think hard about what we really need in our lives and how we can cooperate for a better future for all.
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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.
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, 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.
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.
inspiring stuff :)
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.
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?
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.
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
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.
This guy is ridiculously charismatic
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 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.
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.
I'm wondering how working at the job of your choice is a form of slavery? In his world of cooperation, how does he get the materials to build the house, grow the food, clothe his family? The barter system works until you don't have something I want to barter with. I think that's mostly how money came into being. I think money is a form of barter. How does cooperation work when I live 20 miles from the nearest source of water? Do you help pipe the water to me our of kindness? I agree that most of us have far more than we need and a simpler lifestyle is preferable, but I don't think money is the root of all evil, perhaps the love of it is.
I think he addressed that problem. You should do what you love AND what adds value to the life of others... else "if it doesnt work out you are screwed" 16:10 ;)
+Debbie Mullis I think Eddie veder's song "society" answers your question. and the answer is "human greed". until people will not stop being greedy the sustainable happy state can not be achieved. learn to share, not be full of fear, stop watching TV and stop buying the next version of things. build a self sustainable system. if you think after all these years of progress, knowledge and development we can not help each other then I don't know what to say. stop taking loans. And its not like we have developed all bad things in all these years some things are really really good for eg.
Health care(in case you get sick),
internet(for entertainment and sharing knowledge),
clean water systems. you know things like that.
MAKE THEM FREE FOR ALL.
Now there are some natural things that we are buying these days instead of just doing it...
> Sex : people should fuck as much as possible i means whats the downside?
just fuck in the name of lord whenever you think you are having the feeling of getting fucked. do not rape. mutually do that. gay straight whatever.
> physical, mind games : that does not need lots of gear.
> sleep : its a good good thing.
> talk : with friends and family that this guy already said.
> weed: free, grows wild and you can share it with other people. best thing you can smoke and can feel really really good without any problems and moderation is the key.
> old music movies etc.
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? !
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.
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! :)
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!
The early Hawaiians, before their contact with the west, shared the land and its bounty without land ownership.
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.
This address acts as a brain tonic. Loved . Full of wisdom and content. Worth listening to several times and pay close attention.
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"?
food, shelter, and love. How true!
loved this man who truly understands life.
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 :-)
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.
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
i think the whole world is moving towards it may be after a 500 years we ll all be as educated as he now..................
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.
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.
think the same way. really really happy.
sweet, nice way to put it...its great to question ourselves! "I dont need much" :)
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.
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.
I admire the speaker's talents and enjoy his story. But he was mistaken about private property rights. The fences are built to define the property rights so that economic resources can be more efficiently utilised to create more value. It may not be a very equitable system but imagine a world where ownership of things is not well defined. We will end up in a Communist state or an anarchy. The speaker is blessed with talents and the luck to be born into the developed world where he can survive without working very hard. But for the majority of the people, work is not just necessary; it is a true blessing. By selling our labor to firms and organisations which can use our labor more efficiently than ourselves we have the opportunities to create more value and earn more money with which we can live our lives.
It is so naive for the speaker to say things like it is easy to grow food. He should try to live in a Chinese village for a few weeks and see how Chinese peasants grow food for a living. Nothing is that easy when it comes to making a living!
On the other hand, I do agree with the speaker that we do not need as much as the big corporations would like us to believe we need to buy. By living a simple life, maybe we can escape from the rat race of overworking. Nevertheless, I do believe all of us have to work to create value and feed ourselves.
Very inspiring...his visions actually allign with God's promise from the bible. Psalm 37:10-11 "Just a little while longer and the wicked will be no more, you will look at where they were and they will not be there; but the meek will possess the earth and they will find exquisite delight in abundance of peace" Isaiah 65:21-23Psalm 115:16
Look it up in your own bible or in google..We were all meant to live in paradise earth ruled. by Jehovah God with abundace of peace, security and happiness where we dont have to work for anyone but ourselves to get food and shelter. Soon it will happen, when God's kingdom take over the earth with Jesus our king.
🙏 maranatha
After all this .. We really need to Work
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.
Then what about health?? Isn't it important?? I can't understand :-)
I wish I could build like zen.your house is beautiful. you ever think of building a deck be hind the house up high from the bed room?would you build if I pay you for 11k.
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 ).
I wish I could build like zen.your house is beautiful. you ever think of building a deck be hind the house up high from the bed room?would you build if I pay you for 11k.
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.
This is what I was looking for...
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
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.
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
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 speech. but in today's world you need fight for your need and only fitteset survives...I wish a world of yours exists, but today it is impossible.....
what if people like him are the fitest? ;)
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.
Every moment of this is beautiful. Thank you.
what's the song called in the beginning and where can i find it :)
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!)
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, 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 !
Awesome talk. Very well delivered with excellent flow of personal experiences with a great message. Very much enjoyed.
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.
Someone get this amazing man a new bracelet because correct me if I'm wrong but I think that is just a piece of string! ;)
It's definitely making statement like, "We live on a shoe string budget. Move along people. There's nothing to steal here!" lol
summer fields
Yeah it is his subtle anti-theft, pro-co-operation device. Insidiously effective, and perhaps more useful than a concealed weapon, since it works on the subconscious level, bypassing normal defenses.
That piece of string has more beauty and value, than a new bracelet.
So how did you deal with the problem of rent?
alotan2acs I lived in a van for a few years, not paying rent. It was hard for me to go through the idea of paying rent the first time, because it should be a given, nobody should pay to have a place to stay, even more when there is no land or freedom given to provide oneself with a shelter.
What happens when you have children or even one child? We need to procreate for the human race to go forward. Who pays for their well being, their education and so forth? Knowing how to live in balance with nature is what this is all about.
Actually.. we really don't "need" to procreate. We are way too many. Every person that dies with having 1 child or even better, no children at all has done more for humanity than anyone else could've ever done in their lifes.
chetan snow What is well being ? What is education ? Why pay for either of these ?
Samurailord That way, humanity would perish quickly.
This may sound mean, but when he started playing the piano, I imagined myself walking up to that stage and punching him in the face.
one of the most humble and wise things I ever heard
this guy lives in a fantasy land. But it's a nice sentiment.
ea1997 Indeed. And if only you could dream it too, we would surely make it real tomorrow :)
It should not be fantasy, it should be your reality. Sad.
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.
let see doesn't have a job, or place to live, or food. goes and buys a piano. ok, I missed the boat.
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
This guy is a visionary.
This has to be millions views!
looks like a hippy a bit... and arrogant also. Although good ideas brought up, for me it is interesting to see more and more people like this.
Many young people in developed countries take for granted clean food, water and air, no criminal or other bad things. Social benefits are huge. And in all of this goodness people start travelling, growing a potato and not willing to contribute to the society, which our parents builded. The safe society, the place where there are poeple working as doctors and saving your ass from stuff people most likely die a 50 years ago. oh..or maybe the only thing you need is love, food and shelter?
Looks funny from my perspective. But maybe there is a problem in rich society, where all the good things developed for centuries now making a new generation to think that working is not good. So naive, oh my god)
I hope you do not start doing the stuff he did! There is not enough place on Earth to have for free access for everyone to grow a potatos and tomatos. The reality is not a simple and nice. It is ugly sometimes. Someone have to live in poor and dirty areas. Just be realistic. And, of course, enjoy the little things you have)
Lovely. What a great way to see the world.
Beautiful daughter !!
Ah, if only I'd of had the conviction to do this, when i started feeling 'your way' . Now, 20 years later, I'm slowly building the world, I thought maybe right. Ownership, and especially the monetary system, will do us no good. So, I stopped watching t.v (lets face it, I'm nuuuthin without the right car/clothes or holiday) plus, it made me feel bad to be dictated to.
Humanyoda, yes you have a point, you do ! However, if there's one thing I hopefully instilled in my children .........."It's GOOD to be scared here and there, if not, you're not living life".
One thing I will say, going against the flow, is like beating your head against a brick wall but, go with it anyway.
Mathias, I'm glad you 'got scared' at a younger age. May there be so many more like you, enjoy your life.
This some sort of utopia he is talking about. It is all very dumbed down. There so many other things at stake and interests. Social interactions are way more complicated than he is presenting them. If this kind of a life style works for him does not mean that it would work for others. Some people just want to rule and others just want to be ruled.
Indeed, there is naivety on his speech.
Not at all. Indigenous societies lived like that for many years. In fact, they did it for much longer than we've been doing our thing. Take a country like Australia. Populated by indigenous people for thousands of years and taken over by europeans just 200yrs ago. It appears to me that you are naive if you think that 'Indigenous societies' are utopic, as their organisation has existed for much longer than ours has.
Some famous writers such as David Graeber have done a lot of research in this topic.
Cheers!
xavislow Haven't the indigenous people had their "rulers"? Haven't they had to compete too (with other indigenous peoples and animals)?
humanyoda Absolutely :) But that does not mean that all indigenous societies were equally hierarchical. Also, for some of them, the idea of private property was completely unknown (eg. aboriginals in australia). When I wrote that, I just meant that it does not make sense to say that these concepts are not dumb or utopic. Some societies were based on those terms.
xavislow And I wanted to say that competition is an integral part of life on Earth, in one form or another. Accepting it will get one much closer to being happy while resisting that idea will be a perpetual source of stress, which is what that guy wanted to avoid.
very nice man
Ok well. I'm a musician and the piano playing although fluid, very , very boring, for people that don't play, probably sounds pretty good, but for a train ear, this kids is at best an amateur!
Nice try though!!!
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)
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Trying to get there.
Lost my family to things.
Broken Heart....
If I thought he had a worthwhile answer, I'd watch the video. He doesn't (it is a given - humans are still universally clueless), so I won't.
Mathias you are the man! i agree with you!
i miss queemstown and i miss you!
name of the intro song? (:
Ivonne Tamez "If music could speak" by mathias piano man (www.mathiaspianoman.com)
Thanks (:
I liked the talk but for fucks sake it isn't a gospel to be followed by to the letter. so many RUclips comment philosopher's and experts on these ted videos :\
:D he works but, he didn't realize. If any would not work do not eat Jesus
Someone who knows what's best for all of us 100 percent of time? Lol
I can't put down the fence from my neighbors as the ones to the right are druggies, the one in front of me is a drug dealer and the ones behind me are projects who are loud and obnoxious. Some are on Megan's list for being sexual offenders. I don't live by the wealthy or even by college kids. I live by people who choose not to cooperate or contribute to society so it makes it impossible for me to lower my own fence. When I first moved in all my neighbors used my yard for their dogs so that they would not have to clean up after them. I woke up one morning to the sound of one woman throwing a ball to her dog in my side yard. The dog then went on to try to attack a child on the sidewalk. I had to write her a letter to stay out of my yard. My neighbors scowled at me for a while but the flies were gone, the dog who attacked children was under control, there were no druggies around me, the drug dealer got two sets of social workers in to aid him with keeping his kids, the nasty woman behind me moved So, unfortunately you must have boundaries or people will run all over you. It's not even about the haves and have nots. It's about the haves and those who also have but want what you have as well. It's a shame but this is what drugs have done to my community. I've put my foot down and people are starting to clean up their acts. The power of one. But boundaries are a necessity in a world where others will not contribute but only take what you have. Peace
lovely talk, hes very right. I am off to play my piano for more inspiration
Permaculture. Tiny house. MOOCs.
this song soundcloud.com/singingsophy/remember-november
this song soundcloud.com/singingsophy/remember-november
Does anyone know what the beautiful piece is called and if there is piano sheet music available?
Whatever you say man, just dont break a teeth or you will need the last 200 years of human development that you just dont like to solve it.
can anybody share with me the title of this song which played at the beginning? or a link maybe? thanks in advance:)
Amazingly Beautiful and educational presentation!
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.
He forgot to say he also needs people to pay for him when he's broke from not working, which is why he ever got able to busk in the first place
This is funny, obviously this guy wants to live like cave men again 😄
Brilliant!
Rudolph if it's voluntary it isn't socialism.
Donald Trump needs a lesson from this guy
hey guys was he playing somthing spesific symphony or something it was really good
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.