By getting another log you could unlock simultaneous co-op / competitive mode. That was a real game changer for me because my brother used to brag to our friends that he pushed the log all by himself when we we were using just one log.
Hands down, this is the best episode of VSauce2 I've watched. I was so moved, I had to watch it twice. Thank you for the knowledge and the perspective.
Nelson Watson, If you liked the insights here in this video, you absolutely MUST either read Maps of Meaning by Dr. Jordan B. Peterson, or watch one of his Maps of Meaning lecture series (here on RU-vid)...It is the full disection of the role of symbols and archetypes throughout human history, and what we can learn from it all.
I`ve watched this repeatedly. Returning to it time and time again. Its not just the content, its the production, this is the style of film making that I can binge watch all day.
paw101 There's a thing called a typo, which is where someone makes a mistake... Ever heard of one? This isn't a special professional place where we are required to proofread our comments. Don't think your so smart because someone's finger slips.
Well to be fair talking badly of education is quite ignorant, I don't think there is anything we should be more grateful for than having the privilege to go to school.
The ones taking this comment seriously are the ones that must be fun at parties. *(and the ones who didn't get the sarcasm of fun, are the ones without a life)*
HipsterSauce Michael has more math than Jake as far as I can recall (and I have seen) to me Jake is like the lightest of the 3 having his channel as a way for ppl to start watching also what are some of the deeper philosophical videos Kevin has ?
3000 B.C.- We must respect the dragon! 1000 A.D.- We must kill the dragon! 1300 A.D.- We must thank the dragon! 1600 A.D.- We must observe the dragon! 1800 A.D.- We must befriend the dragon! 2017 A.D.- We must lewd the dragon! (Lucoa is best waifu!)
Also. I imagine if medievale people found a T-rex skull and claws that contributed to the dragon myth. I would deliver the skull to the king for a hefty reward 😅
Far away in the twilight time Of every people, in every clime, Dragons and griffins and monsters dire, Born of water, and air, and fire, Or nursed, like the Python, in the mud And ooze of the old Deucalion flood, Crawl and wriggle and foam with rage, Through dusk tradition and ballad age. -John Greenleaf Whittier, “The Double-Headed Snake of Newbury”
Vsauce2 hello there i was so astonished a caught by the video so much so that i decided to make a thesis from the same subject. i wanted to ask if it was possible, if you read this comment, to get a copy of the script you used pretty please ? still thanks either way for the good quality videos keep it up
Thank you for this vid, sitting here with goosebumps thinking about this epic tale of humanity. Ps: isn´t it time for the east and west to work together then? Pps: what´s the new ´dragon´then? Magic? cause invisible threats in form of unknown microbiological diseases became our greatest fear in recent years...
Having said that... Is it possible that moving forward, our imaginations and fears move from snakes, carnivorous mammals and birds of pray? To an imaginary depiction of a human. Or even possibly to an imaginary depiction of a super storm. Hmmm
Pop-culture is an open book, dude. It's pandemics and aliens all the way. We fear extinction, so we tell stories of extinction. We fear psychos raping and murdering us in the night, so we -- you get the picture. That was the whole point of the video, didn't you watch it? "Dragon" is synonymous with "greatest fear", but the dragon features developed from that which we were naturally afraid of. We're smart now... and we're smart enough to fear entirely new things, and we make new dragons every year combining these all-new fears. ... or were you being facetious? :P
kait worden kind of like the way most people think of aliens exaggerates everything we associate with high intelligence- big ole heads for thinkin', big ole eyes for seein', little skinny arms and legs for not doin nuthin'.
This also applies to any traditional power of dragons: cold-fear of freezing to death in cold environments, spirit-paranoia of others watching or approaching you
And there are many river dragons in asian mythology, and guess what looks like a serpent? Rivers! But they are more "powerfull" than snakes, so they are snake like dragons
I've come back here 7 weeks later to thank you for introducing me to Rishloo. I honestly haven't stopped exclusively listening to them since this video.
You forgot to realize that Aztec was hardcore, and way into blood and mutilation back then. They're like the punk rock band of mythology (alongside zoroastrianism)
The Major Yeah, changed the same way as how north American indigenous civilization changed into USA. Well, you manged to insult 3-4 billion people with that last statement. And i agree.
BonziBUDDY I was like you buddy, i liked paarthurnax too, but you probably should tho. he helped alduin enslave humanity for many years until a god had to intervene. Stendar(?) get paarthurnax to stop and stuff. Even paarthurnax himself says that he feels the urges to go back to his old ways of ruling skyrim.
you can't help it though, dragons will always feel superior when compared to other kins, unless confronted with shouts, then, they recognize it is a dragonborn, and they feel the danger.
He didn't say "go back to his old ways", he wants to spread "the way of the voice". A peaceful but strict (odahving says tyrannical) philosophy to other dragons specifically. You could argue he wants to be the next "dragon king" or whatever but he's not interested in enslaving and destroying the races of Tamriel. Also I think it was Kynareth who gave Nords the voice not Stendarr. Shor (Lorkhan) also fought Alduin to save the Nords like way after that too
This video is not only the greatest of the vsauce family, it is easily my favourite piece of video on RU-vid hands down. Absolutely brilliant in every way. Watched it countless times. Thank you so much for this.
i'd say no, but theres a difference between a match stick and a house on fire so im not sure how i feel. i know most humans won't be because of culture/learning associated with understanding how to create fire. But i wouldnt be suprised if there was an innate fear
+Alex McCabe Maybe other primates than humans, but humans have learned to use it to their advantage. A young baby might be scared of fire at first, but it will quickly learn that as long as you don't get too close it's safe.
Alex McCabe+ Actually, the whole "fire breathing" thing was exclusive to the european dragons: they where considered the encarnation of hell and, therefore, they where associated to fire in a using-fire-from-hell-against-their-enemies sort of way. I am not entirelly sure from where i got this info, but I am quite sure it is legitimate
I'd say it's just the other side of the same coin. Ancient creatures greater than us, ruling over us in a way... Fear and respect aren't too far from each other. Looking at greek deities for example, a lot (if not all) of them are related to some disastrous natural fenomenon. I might be totally wrong though, it's just my two cents on the matter.
Perhaps it's related to the idea (a very old one) that the solution to problems, the wisdom one seeks, is found in the very thing that frightens you most.
The reluctant dragon seems like a really cool childrens story! Thats a book im going to read to my kids, although i wouldnt want them to stop fearing snakes, raptors or leopards ...
Jan Šinkovec you should read the story about a dragon(s) that everyone has in their home/mind/body, look at jordan peterson dragon story, dragons represent chaos and the unknown of life and if your life gets too comlicated you feel like there is too much chaos and the dragon could eat you which could mean some psychological or health issues, the dragon is no joke, but the question is why bother slaying the dragon - because he hoards all the gold, it means something like if you want to overcome something you need to look where you have never been because there is all the information you need, this is very brief but think about it :)
"It sometimes seems to me that in our dragon stories we show how we look upon nature: as something to love and respect, or as something we want to rule over and destroy." - Cornelia Funke
Correct me if I'm wrong but there is only a few channels that can compete with the quality of information and work all the three of Vsauce channels provide. My list with no preference in the order are: Vsauce, Veritasium, SmarterEveryday, MinutePhysics, MinuteEarth, ASAPScience, Kurtzgesagt. Well yeah best channels ever
Couldn´t agree more. I found Rishloo a few years back in a quest to find bands similar to Tool. Their music has ¨epic¨ stamped all over it. Kind of an Iron Maiden/Dream Theater mashup.
Cool video, I always assumed Dragons were Dinosaur fossils, especially the Chinese dragons which were basically described as meteors when landing on Earth.
I think dinosaur fossils took also a big part in developing dragons. Just like the skull of an mammoth led to the belief in cyclops. After all dragons are more the size of dinosaur than the size of snakes. The people knew snakes already, when they found the fossils this large, the must have assumed, that there has been something like a snake, with feet and so on, but much larger.
ya, I have to agree with Puma here, and there's actual living proof that this was also a major dragon conspiracy building block. For example, in medieval Warsaw (Poland), there was a legend about a mysterious cave inhabited by a dragon that killed everyone who went inside it. The myth is still told to this day, and now they know a bunch of dinosaur bones were found within it.
Also, the Chinese word for dinosaur is the same as the word for dragon. The image that westerners use for dragons began with decorated plates imported from China. Before that the word dragon simply meant any large reptile.
May we can realky think free and say we designed our pucture of dinosaurs around our established picture of dragons, finding out now dinos probably had colourful feathers. Seeing myth and preconcepted " facts" really neutral.
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The first friendly dragon story is a negotiation between the rigid control of modern humanity and the anarchist entropy of nature brokered by the precocious innocence of adolescence. Simplified... The first story in which we friended dragons is because of humanity being friends with the uncertainty of nature, combined with the innocence of a child,
i have been dreaming about snakes ever since i was in highschool (im 26 now). at the end of every dream, the snake always bite me and i jumped awake with my heart beating fast. but there was 2 very peculiar dreams that i had. one is where i take a green snake on a date, take her on a park where she could see her natural habitat so that she could be happy. and the other, i ascend onto the clouds, there i met a chinese snake dragon and then he said "you are the chosen one"
I don't see why all the different types of "dragons" are even lumped together under one name in english, they don't share any traits in common other than being serpentine. Some have limbs, some don't, some can fly, some don't, some are evil, some are good, some are intelligent, some are beasts, some cast magic, some eat people, some protect them. The similarities between them are superficial, same with the similarities between the phoenix and the fenghuang, or the unicorn and the qirin. They really should just be considered separate things and not lumped together.
There is some difference, a two legged dragon with wings is traditionally called a wyvren, and a dragon with only two legs is usually called a lindworm
you know thinking about it, the one time a snake snuck up on me and scared me. I was already 5 feet in the air before i even realized what was going on lmao. I don't think i ever reacted to anything so fast.
Wilk wolf we know exactly how a snake moves. We just know snakes = death in many cases. What is even more scary is it is a master of stealth and camouflage.
Yes that is true, but it is a natural human reflex to kinda be afraid of things we don't understand. Plus most snakes aren't deadly but was good to point that out.
Wilk wolf Fear is what they call a learned behaviour. You don't inherently fear things for no reason unless you suffer from a mental disorder such as anxiety or depression but generally fear is something you must be taught. Babies will touch fire if left to. Its not because they don't know any better it's because they don't have the signals in their brains wired to react in such a way. When you know the consequences you can learn to fear. Same goes for any emotion. Without a reference to go by irrational fear is a mental illness.
Marcus Coster That has to do with availability heuristic- the more easily and readily we can call actual images and stories and experiences to mind of some danger or disaster, the more we perceive it as a likely, and scary, thing to happen. We sensationalize snake attacks because they are more rare and newsworthy than car crashes so people have lots of scary images and stories in their head about snakes vs. car accidents
10:45 _"The knight, the child, and the dragon, make peace with one another at a time when Grahame reconciled with his own inner struggle between being an artist and being a prominent member of the Establishment."_ Wow.
Didn't eastern lore have benevolent dragons for much longer than western? It seems a fair sized gap to leave out discussion of eastern dragons and their import.
In Eastern cultures, those dragon's were wise and ancient, and so respected as God's before they could form any other belief, whereas in Western Europe (and the Western world), most people already believed in another God, so thinking of these supposedly intelligent, powerful, and incredibly violent creatures, they were almost unthinkable blasphemous to the people who heard their stories, so they became associated as demons (or demonic creatures of some sort) because their idea went against a lot of what the Bible and other faiths displayed as true godliness. Simply put, because they worshipped God first, they saw dragons as a defiance, a rival, to God's benevolence and power, so their similarities (of benevolence and nature shown in Eastern faith) was left out, and then highlighted what dragons had that God DIDN'T have (being sterility, anger, and incredible violence towards some) Dragons were displayed as demonic and evil in Western culture, because the very idea of them was seen as an imitation or mockery of a faith they already knew and followed
egyptian and greek mythologies never really had any dragons to peak of to my knowledge. unless you want to count the hydra as a dragon. dragons in the medieval times are actually A LOT older of a concept than people give them credit for, and i base this on the old legend of beowulf which is written in old-english (like, the old-english that doesn't even look like english), and since his journey ends with him being roast by a dragon guarding a hoard of treasure; it's not too much of a stretch to say that the old western euopean perceptions of dragons have very nearly always been "they are avatars of evil, greed and destruction." and likely became associated with the devil when christianity became the ruling cultural influence. tales of dragons existed on the continent long before tales of the devil and it's no surprise that many artistic renditions of the devil often depict him as a dragon.
Terran Loyalist It's both actually. Remember Japan had isolated themselves and even before they finally opened their world they feared snakes in stories or what they call as yokai. They have so many demons based on real life that it's impressive how well they've come far. Or im wrong and it's because of having boats and people trading stories with each other.
I'm not saying they haven't been thought of independantly. I'm saying that the reason stories ofdragon-like monsters "catch on" is because of the instincts. This video makes it out to be that everyone just thinks it up because of the instincts.
Terran Loyalist Yeah. Your right. Though snakes are still highly dangerous. Just the fact that there are multiple sub species that can climb, swim, crush you, inject you with venom, and even eat you whole. And they can be anywhere(warm enough) without a sound.
m... maybe dragons have no bones or something? I guess that'd be a good way they could exist without any proof..
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Bobby Rare honestly I've done a lot of research into this and the main reason every civ has dragons in there culture is because they dig up dinosaur bones and when they see these bones they explain it with stories of great beast that's what the chinies and the west did
There are areas of China and Mongolia where dinosaur bones are all over the landscape. People built houses out of them. Naturally, people would make stories about the rigin of these giant bones. This is I believe where dragons came from. Oriental dragons since time immemorial were believed to be good creatures, mighty forces of nature that bring good fortune. Western dragons were seen as evil, but if that were always true one wonders why there are so many dragons in ancient Celtic and Nordic imagery, particularly in the Lindisfarne Gospels. The fear or healthy respect of snakes is universal and obvious, there are poisonous snakes on all 5 continents. But I see a great need to distinguish dragons from snakes, mythical or otherwise. For example, Quetzalcoatl is not a dragon, it's a feathered snake. "The Flight of Dragons" by Peter Dickinson is one of my favorite books, even if everything there is nonsense.
This doesn't explain how other regions thought up dragons independently and without contact. Many Chinese and Japanese dragons could also be described as simply feathered snakes, not all had arms or legs.
Funny, I was working in the garden yesterday and suddenly my female Savannah Cat sitting 20 feet behind me in the window starts howling a very loud and insistent howl and I process this and remember it means she has seen a snake. I look carefully around me, no snake, so I go up to her sitting in the window, she looks up at me and I ask her: "Where is the Snake?". She look past me down into the garden and I carefully follow her eyes, no snake. I walk back to the spot in the garden she is staring at, where is the damned snake, I know she sees it but I don't. I grab a stick and start poking around and suddenly there is movement and I finally see it, it was less than 2 feet away right in front of me the whole time! But my cat saw it minutes ago from 20 feet away. Had the screen not been there she would have killed it long before I ever saw it. Columbus and Howler Monkeys are deathly scared of the Fer de Lance. Jaguars consider all 3 an easy meal.
"to get to our imagination's ultimate predator, we have to start with the first persistent predator of our evolution. Molecular Pylogeneticists.." That was a fantastic joke XD
Self-crowned Royalty It was an accidental joke because he didn't leave a long enough pause between "...of our evolution." and "Molecular Pylogeneticists..." so it sounded like the Molecular Pylogeneticist were our first persistent predator of our evolution :Ü™
Google 'Y ddraig aur' the rampant gold dragon is an ancient Welsh image worn by Owain Glyndwr.. which is similar to the shield and armour youu're wearing
+abdulrhman mansour Unless you're not human, you didn't evolve differently from the rest of us. Actually, YOU didn't evolve at all, the human species did.
I think it's more likely that modern man was not the only one to stumble upon a dinosaur head or graveyard. They stories of dragons is about what I'd expect from people finding them all over the earth. Also the natural fear of snakes and mistaking dinosaurs as serpents. They would have rarely found one with a body. The bones would be enough evidence to them that someone had slain one.
I liked the metaphor you hid in this video. We have evolved to a point where we aren't the knights anymore, we aren't the children of this planet. We are the Dragons, the villians that blight this Earth, spreading fire and famine.
We may not be consciously evil, but the actions of humans sure make us look evil. It's no wonder almost all wild animals get scared and run away when they hear or see a human. We are a powerful and destructive species, which has control over all the other species. We are causing extinction without actually wanting to; could you imagine how quickly a species would become extinct if we actively tried to kill them off?
That narration gave me chills. Masterfully done video. I love hearing of the explanation of lore, and this really was an interesting theory. I wonder what the deal is with the griffin then? By the sound of it, it's basically a dragon that lost its snake-ness for some reason.
Push the Heavy Log was my childhood!. Now all you kids play, is that Minecraft and five nights at whatever games. Man if only you kids knew the good old days of gaming.
Is it that we have overcome dragons, made peace with them, or simply been deceived into believing that either or both of these ends have been or can be achieved? Props for the Chesterton quote at the end. Dude is severely underappreciated in this day and age.
