Fable of the Dragon-Tyrant 

They were ahead of us all along

@@user-kx8pu6ys5i i was ahead all along

Plot twist: the dragon laid an egg before he died

@@user-kx8pu6ys5i lol

@@cole_climbz6909 I ate it. *Demoman bass boosted burp*

Humanity is it's worst enemy. And it's Greatest ally.

You do realize the dragon eats everyone right? Stop your cynical BS. I know many corpo greedy cynical jerks who love their families. They too would have had their daughters and sons eaten by the dragon. Nobody was exempt. Everyone needs each other.

@@alexcisneros2980 after all they would be a minority of people with great influence, and just in fiction that sort of people would just accept to go trough the same hardships as everyone else with less influence/power.

@@alexcat6685 it's not hmanity, when most responsible is the few that has power through corrupted system that they convinced people it's better than alternatives when in reality it's for their own profit and nothing else

If the dragon is death and medicine is a way to, until we find the final solution, prolong life, we are already feeding people to the dragon earlier than required by not providing the medicine we have to those who need it and not researching medicine which might save live but is to cost effective to research.

A mid evil kingdom can totally keep up with that

Nope

That's not even including how many it would have eaten before the project began, given the context in the story I don't think we may ever know.

This is big brain time

He also said that the dragons hunger grew as he became larger

Lmao

smort and stonks

real big hermitcraft stonks

Nice

Pog

No

Yes

Maybe

Probably

likely

backup missile

Decoy snail

@@Abram-Delgado XD

So fatalis

The dragon: "This isn't even my final form"!

Hey man it was tough times for the man. He lost an entire summer castle I guess

Also his wife

Stress causes you to physically age faster

@@maheswarpradeep2816🤓

@@vardekpetrovic9716 20

that's profound and amusing at the same time.

We have that saying Germany, so...

Bruh thats reddit

It's actually "the best time to delete this tweet was after you made it, the second best time is now.

instagram status

Notice how they don't talk about the world without the dragon. The next sentence could be, "and then the economic collapse caused by the project and the death of the dragon, coupled with an influx of old people, caused the nation to descend into utter chaos for the next century, and killing far more people in that time than the dragon ever would have." Actions have consequences. Killing the dragon is good. What is the cost?

Your missing the point david

@@davidtucker9498 depends on the situation. Its a balance between the thing and economic consequences

@@uzairm3816 Exactly.

David Tucker Camps are more about indoctrination and forced labor, extremely few are purposefully killed, but I get your point and agree with it; we need to prepare for the consequences of immortality and it’s not wise to do it if we can’t suffer the consequences. The point of the video though is that death shouldn’t be viewed as part of the “natural process” of life, it should be abolished and the work around for things like over-population should be worked out. I personally think the video is fine in ignoring this, but that’s up for debate.

YESSSS !!! 👍🏽💥👊🏾

Then they all are being cursed by the dragon's meat turned them into horrible being.

"It tastes like chicken"

It's usually the younger generation

Wow that's a nice easter egg

It definitely is not.

There’s a difference in the hair color

@@connorstamps1298 I thought that, too

Actually, not really. They predicted with an uncertainty of 2.5 years. And the extra funding thing just blew the whole estimate out of the water.

@@shichengrao5314 The scientist said, X-Y years, but with more funding it might be possible in 12 years. It took 12 years. I am using the 2nd estimate as they got more funds

@@lifeisboss7097 while i agree for sake of accuracy they really should have missed their estimate, for tge sake of storytelling and forshadowing i think it should be the way that it is, keeping it simple so that starting sooner rather than sciencing more effectively is the moral of the story

A real scientist should be able to accurately predict approximately how long a project should take. Most of the times we get to hear about their predictions, however, it is often exaggerated or misunderstood by journalists, public speakers and others. This is shown accurately in the video, as the scientists said they might be able to do it in 12 years with proper funding (then everyone began funding it and supporting it), while the king said they'd do it in 10 years.

@@9nikolai Everyone SHOULD be able to predict when their project should be done, but that doesn't mean a ten+ year project will not have unexpected setbacks or breakthroughs. So while i agree with you for small month to year long projects, I find it highly unlikely that a decade+ project will be exactly on time

Also grey: tells about wanting to be immortal at every opportunity. this dragon is death itself.

it is stilll a fable is a short story, typically with animals as characters, conveying a moral. and the characters don't have names (e.g the king, the dragon, a man, a child, a scientist etc.)

Don’t worry everyone I know what a fable is and the actual meaning of this. My point was that fables TYPICALLY are set in the Middle Ages or earlier without modern technology, and that’s what this one looked like it was going to be at the beginning. I know it’s still a fable I just thought it was funny

The Hidden Ninja not death, but aging.

Finally, someone who doesn't say hAhA ItS a NuKe

No. The dragon itself previously specified that the people were to be brought to it randomly.

@@Sara3346and how would the dragon know that they are sending in activists?

*have a war over who gets the egg*

They already made airplanes by that time so there's really no need for elytras

@@inigochicano ok so do you wanna fly with no airplane or have to be on a big flying machine that can only go in certain places?

@@LeafyLeafbloom Start tegg games

Well we killed it on the overworld sooo no egg nor elytra we need more ender eyes

God: Oof

Imagine dying after the cure is invented because you still don’t have medicare for all and the insurance company deny your coverage.

Film called Mr Nobody touches on this concept

Oof

kidmosey But it could ruin your financial life, though.

May he rest in piece

The Dragon strikes again...

Covid took my mom ... But remember, the virus is not the dragon, the "humans" behind the industries that pretend to feed it are the real "big snakes" - and those we CAN fight . . . 🙏🏼❤️😞 ... keep going, keep fighting, make your dad proud !

That’s exactly the point. Aging is a disease which can be stopped.

Interesting seeing this video again now. Years later with new perspective. I had brain surgery and lost almost a weeks worth of memories. I remember being gone. Or more like, I dont remember. I just wish I had the chance to be eternal. Oh well. Maybe my childrens children.

Tungsten rods lmao

*Shadowrun Intensifies*

Yep

Let's be honest America would absolutely drop a nuclear armament on a dragon

A-10 Warthog vs dragon BRRRRRRT

at least ðey have an elytra

U wha-

nice

the end again

@@alvinchen9655 *......again

No, the dragon is death by ageing specifically.

It is specifically meant to symbolize death by aging and disease, which is why you can still see some children being sent to the dragon But economics and other things don’t really fit

Yes, life and death should be a choice. I hope our own Dragon is slayed someday.

time to slay a dragon

But would you still choose to become immortal if it meant that you would never ever die, no matter what? I feel like eventually I’d become curious and want to die, just to see what the afterlife is like (assuming there is one).

@@MiloMurphysLaw I don't think we could ever truly kill death even if we banish the evils of disease of the body and mind, and eliminate aging, people will still get into accidents and unfortunately die or people will become bored of life and request to have their body begin to age once more. But what 'killing the dragon' will do is give you the power to decide when you want to pass on from this world to the next.

As someone who also believes in the afterlife this is very valid XD There are a lot of things I would like to do before I go

This way more realistic I mean Godzilla take a nuke like it didn't even happen yes Godzilla do a absorb mediation but you taking a big blast I am big fan of Godzilla and if he was real you be dead I mean we have proved that we can take on a bigger creature then-us like the woolly mammoth. 😏😋

I mean radiation not... man! the text is way trash then lil moesy freestyling.

Oof.

@@kuehtoo1331 lol

@@itstimeforafuckingcrusade it's true the text is trash then lil moesy no cap .🤣lol

There would most definatly be a religios group praising that fucking dragon and sabotaging the mislle project.

@@NineSun001 and if i see a dragon i would shit my pants

@Samuel Bateman no

@@Titan-br7ld ik we worship too be saved regardless of religion

And get eaten in the process. The dragon is also probably too fat to do anything.

why

Why king small?

No more likes

@@ayeshaghulam1985 :( I wanted to reach 420

No!

It has 69!

Would you give a shit if a few sheep started stamping in a piece of wood in the middle of a field?

The dragon had been attacked before. It had won every fight. Why would it be scared now? Look at it this way. If a kitten attacks you, you won't consider it a threat. If a hundred kittens attack, you might be annoyed, but still not threatened. If after dozens of years, these kittens now start throwing little pebbles at empty patches of dirt, would you be scared? No. Of course not. You might think that they're attacking, but just like the last times, you'll win the fight.

I'M GONNA NUKE DEATH RIGHT IN THE DICK! U S A U S A U S A.

Fires nukes*

Astolfo you got a good point

Some readily choose death over allegory. Choose throats being slit over looking at a story as a narrative.

@@jaredganzhorn6834 hasn't Grey said on a podcast that this is about aging? Though I suppose it can be interpreted a few different ways

This comment is so underated

​@@coryman125 The whole dragon creates jobs things felt like a pretty obvious call to climate change.

@@Silmerano What's even more obvious is that CGP Gray has made 4 videos before this in a row talking about ending aging and death

@@godparticle3295 Cool he didn't write this story though.

We could make a religion out of this

@@susgamingidk3662 oh shit yea that could happen

Sooo libertarianism?

I refuse

I refuse

Magic fades soon into the halls of the mythic, only the beast remains. And who says that great spells of ruin, cants concentrating the vengeance of the fallen were not weaved into the final armanent?

Science sufficiently advanced is magic

haha crystals go b(r)oom

relatable xD

Seriously, a story that comes from a paper of a scholar that tells the story of aging and how society deals with it told in a fascinating and easy to digest fable (does not explain its points clearly enough for me since there are a lot of people arguing its meaning in the comments even though the author explained it clearfully in his story and moral) and all you can say is about the ender dragon and how it is easy to be killed using beds?

funnyless

@@johnpijano4786 *[INTENTIONAL GAME DESIGN]*

ociNNico to be fair it’s a tactical necessity. If the dragon thinks everything is still functioning the way it has been, then it has no reason to move. Even when the missile comes and he sees it, experience has taught him he’s invincible, and thus he still has no reason to move, if anything he has more reason to crush their hope by tanking the missile with his assumed invincibility. However, if he doesn’t get his food the same way he has, there’s a chance he will become enraged and leave the mountain and head for the town. Not only would that mean the missile wouldn’t hit, since the target moved, but also now there’s an angry dragon coming towards them .

Lord Farquaad: That is a sacrifice ... I am willing to make.

@@swordsmanthegamernine7973 it's just a joke

@@swordsmanthegamernine7973 No shit Sherlock

SwordsmanTheGamer Nine That is if the dragon can still fly after all this time.

Where you think this took place? France?

@@michaelkeehan8094 what makes you think French monarchs would do such a public service as killing a primordial evil?

@@saintholican8009 my guy why did you woosh me?

Wait ... There's a tax for that.

Damn, didn't know they were in france

meme make me go hahahaha

Thank you Pingu, very interesting

Why they dont Nuke the dragon

Bro its fucking pingu

Ruined 666 likes

It would be so much smaller that they could just easily kill it

and then a new dragon swooped down from a second larger hill

"And then the newborn dragon grew up rapidly. In a mere minutes, its overgrew its own mother and a roar can be heard miles away"

So a chtulu style cult started to rise to take care of the babies

It’s now my headcanon that the dragon was a mother demanding tribute so she could support her son.

Bedro Bnf better than nothing

I noticed that but smirked but snorted my water (that I was drinking) out my nose after reading this comment made my day ^_^

PEOPLE HAVE DIETS, OK? Lol

What we learn Today kids? Humans always win

Should have fed the king to the dragon and seized all assets

The dragon would have eaten anyway. At least they get to pick who goes. They don't send children, they sent people who have already lived their lives to an extent. The dragon doesn't care. If it got hungry, it would have caused massive property damage, unnecessary loss of life, etc etc. It was an accepted part of life. This was as efficient as government can get.

you might enjoy getting acquainted with Eliezer Yudkowsky

yeah......

Yeah...It's been a enlightening few years.

@@TheNeven87 The Dragon seems hyperactive lately... We must accelerate our rocket building efforts!

I thought the king's spokesperson was going to run a disinformation campaign against the movement, shattering society and stopping the progress. Meanwhile, the dragon starts eating everyone, dooming society.

Pretty much, yeah.

STOP LIKING IT HAS 69 LIKES

Oh fuck oh shit heres the missile! Oh shit its about to crash fuck shit!!

Shut up! Let him die!

Oh god oh shit I'm literally crying and shaking dragon wouldn't do that

He can't hear us!

Thanos: I've come to bargain.

@@Nimz0r Hm ... I have your mask in Terraria. It's quite hard for me to kill the boss after I've killed you :3

@@Nimz0r Too

@@Nimz0r Go back to your dungeon,Moonlord is dead.

The Dragonborn: *shows up and his boss music the one they fear starts playing* FUS RO DAH

*my liked videos intensify*

it has to be chosen randomly

@@aliski768 not likely

@@floydlooney6837 in the video says that haves to be radomly chosen

Don't have to imagine. That's the welfare bureaucracy.

i think its about aging more specifically

what do you mean? "just"?

King: *Oh yeah this is big brain time*

just feed them to the fecking dragon

Smart king

Hahahaha!

Like 66 Execute Order 66 It shall be done my lord.

iPaleo LMFAO

No it was expecting a family reunion. But they saw their fat happy uncle die from the missile. Thus they killed the humans in the next part.lol!

iPaleo uh

DUN DUN DUUUUUUN !!! part two coming soon !

iPaleo ii

But it's 12 minutes,how?

@@asolanola6939 nope, it's actually 12 minutes and 43 seconds, which rounds up to 13 minutes!

YES

FINALLY SOMEONE UNDERSTANDS

This is literally lore of the mythic era dragons' reign over humanity but with humans developing missiles instead of the voice

@@Matt_the_pirate yes

IM SORRY I JUST WANTED TO GIVE THAT MAN HIS CARROTS

Lol

Then the dragon said:"FUUUC

Yep I’m liking this comment

Is he getting bigger?

Dragon: *why are the worms cheering?*

yes, it is an analogy for death from aging, the author of the tale confirms this

Ah yes a scp fan we need to use XK instead of apocalypse it seems much cooler

@@dontforgetyoursunscreen it is absolutely cooler

Ah so like a disease

@@Likeusb1 i think the dragon is supposed to represent disease, yes

@@Likeusb1 The dragon is aging and human senescence, humans getting older and eventually dying.

@@thetalantonx It is pure evil. Harm without necessary cause is evil. The dragon is harm,. without cause.

@@iainballas it’s insatiable hunger

The video is retarded tbh. Death is not a Dragon that came one day out of nowhere to arbitrarily eat people. It's a natural phenomenon which not only has always been there, but also has a self-regulative function, no matter if you like it or not, and that we must learn to accept and embrace.

@@notflaz4420 Under a false cover of science, you act like nothing but an angry child, angry at the realities of life. An utopian with little care for the consequences of his actions like many before you as history shown. Insulting me of "deathfag"? Perhaps, but even with your insults, that's still a choice I would do for myself. But like your efficiency fanatics likemind, maybe that's something you can't tolerate and you would wish to make immortality mandatory (implying that's possible). My comfort is knowing that the lies of your likes are nothing but fantasy, and that you will die in due time, like the rest of us, because, unlike what you said in another video, Death is not a disease, nor is the decay and cell degeneration responsible for it, the fact you said so show your ignorance (or willful error) of your subject.

​@@MaitreKorda Flexing your "know-how" about the concept of death in such an arrogant way only shows your dismissal to acknowledge that other interpretations of death exist and that some people would like to live longer.

@@theoheinrich529 Death is not a person killing people (like in the reaper video, convenient to put the blame on someone, but it's a fallacy). Death is, to put it bluntly, a physical event that is the result of the end of body mechanisms, nothing more. If you believe in Jesus, Allah, reincarnation, nothing or whatever doesn't change that. As for people who would want to live longer, no, I know they exist, people who watch this channel and himself are live example of that, but that is foolishness for reasons you already know. It is not possible atm (since so far, all methods to conserve the body such as cyro-pods effectively kill you in the process in the bet hope that you can be resurrected in the future), nor should it be desirable. This childish fear of death is natural, it is just survival instinct working in your brain. But we will be dead anyway eventually.

@@MaitreKorda > nor should it be desirable Why

I don't think the dragon was smart enough to realize that

And furthermore, taking into account that the dragon was far far away from the villages

Not to mention, up to this point even the dragon thought itself invulnerable.

@@aguy7848 also if they were reasonable they would do all the testing far from where the dragon is

Must be deaf as well. I bet at least a handful of people when about to be eaten said something like "You may eat me, but just you wait! They're building a missile to destroy you! Karma gets us all in the end!" or whatever.

said the thing inventor inventor, who was invented by a thing inventor

It's a meta-solution. Like in the DeepMind mission (create AGI to solve anything).

You could make a religion out of this.

*bill wurtz is happy*

*they never got Ethiopia*

If the ants outside your house were actively talking about specific plans to kill you would you notice?

@@avw5kt You don't? That's free easy protein going to waste

@@SirPhysics So are you. oooooh SNAP

@Crowe3717 I would crush the ants incase they kill me.

@@SirPhysics ants outside your house talk?

here be dragons in stelllaris is this but on a galactic scale

...but your ability to produce "spare" population does not grow exponentially as resources (free land on the map, at least) are finite, so build the missile in time or everything would collapse. On the other hand, super-expensive endgame device also means a risk to not provide enough food for the dragon and wake it up. Now this really sounds like a game.

@@SMT-ks8yp Yeah, so you have resources being sapped, so you need to make a rocket in time.

As a game dev… I WOULDN’T RECOMMEND IT

@@ShatabdaRoy115, could you explain why?

Very nice.

EXACTLY! FINALLY SOME ONE GETS IT!!!

@@ADepressedDragon lol m8 😂😂😂

Oh WOw HoW FUcKiNg DeEP!

Soviet dragon: We shall crush them!!

Game of Thrones had a metaphor like the dragon and let Arya teleport and stab it with not major loss to the main cast. Game of Thrones could have been this video but bigger, but it wasn't. Someday, something will be.

Setting the bar pretty low there aintcha?

Warlord M Arya definitely didn’t teleport. I don’t know why people seem to think that she did? You can see her movement blow a White Walkers hair as he turns to see her, right before the Night King turns to catch her because he saw her through the White Walker’s eyes

@@aaronlandry3934 not the point lol. You can't just stab death, you need to use magic/science

Warlord M Valarian Steel is made with magic. Blood magic to be specific, but the show never got to explaining that. It was also under the Wierwood tree that gave him his magic to begin with

It is!

Only pokemon fans will understand

Yeah, but that dragon looks part dark type

@@cringiestthingever9317 Even better, the fairy would have 4x advantage

Daniel Iglesias exactly

But w/ the slime it is part poison type

I mean it’s fine as long as you kill the eggs or something.

@@nagapandian its indestructible

@@crazy_boi1247 just make handheld weapons out of the material the hatchlings will be small enough to take on with a simple dagger made of it.

omlets...

*Free breakfast for everyone*

Speedy Jolteon XD

Culture.

Lydia go and get burdens

Dovä

@@thefemalegamer3668 hkin

and it also shows that everyone had an equal risk of getting chosen, not just the common people but also nobles

@@Morningstar_37 The King or ruling monarch would probably be exempt

@@2345mat The dragon represents death. So no...no one is exempt

@@hsgame4088 Queen Elizabeth. Edit: Rest in Peace HM the queen. 🇬🇧

@@2345mat Well...yes that is the only exemption you are correct. Though Im not sure if we can consider her human.

At last. A non meme comment. It worries me that so few people take topics like this seriously

@@heath_00000 How so?, just wondering

Heath Well what format do you want me to use? Even if you think it’s lost it’s charm, it fits

Heath here ya go: Morality Adviser: *says dragon is good* Little kid: Nothing Is that better?

lame joke

@@OptiMystic-IN ok

Affirmative. I realy enjoyed how well this is written.

His voice also play quite the role in this

100% really felt this one and the animations help aswell

I come to rewatch this every once in a while, and it hits right in the feelings every time.

indeed, at the end I had tears in my eyes

That's exactly what I thought

Me tooooooo

I think they were all other places watching

pretty sure a kid wrote this comment

@@Yourdailycardriver lmao top 10 worst deaths

Duly affirmed.

Indeed, l have hope that the elders see wisdom in adding it to the Bestagons Doctrine

You are fine with aging because you have no choice. We should get that choice!!

I don't wanna see the end of the universe

Older you get the more against it you'll be.

Even climate change

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The missile wasn't a nuke.

Especially if it comes from the U.S.

Raphael Waggoner too many people seem not to have gotten the metaphor let alone the profundity of it.

You live in this world. The dragon is literally just the concept of death. CGP Grey is anti-aging.

@@theyoten1613 Yeah, but there’s no sound to death. It’s a surprise you can’t react to.

@@okayokey unless a snake is hissing loudly at you and it bites you anyway

similar stuff happened after WWII. only difference was that a black car appeared at your house and then you never saw your family again

@Philippe the dude which one?

I guess it smells like Hitler's armpits or something...