HISTORY OF IDEAS - Modernity 

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The constant nightmare of having a lot of friends online but having no hugs offline...

Oh~~ So that’s why most of us are depressed.

*We're romantics* Cynics: Interesting

Disney has such a huge impact on shaping children's world views, I realise that myself looking back.

Noah, get the boat.

A video about internet culture explained by you guys would be nice

pineapple weed is my jam

I love how the tone of this video goes from postitive to negative, and then ends with a hopeful suggestion.

This feels kind of like a huge macrocosm of Baumann’s “liquid modernity” theory. While he was mostly concerned with the 20th century, it still seems to follow the same arc: starting with being internally “solid” and knowing your identity, status, etc...and being heated up/excited to a “liquid” state where you find it difficult to be static and are constantly questioning your role, purpose, etc.

I love the collages The School of Life sometimes makes! Your videos not only add more common sense to my days, they are also rather funny :)

Your point about constantly smiling really resonated with me. As I go about my daily life, I'm often frustrated by the forced non-genuine displays of happiness that modern society forces on us. It almost strips the humanity away from people, turning them into plastic dolls with permanently joyous expressions. When I stop to think about it, it's rather disturbing that when some asks me how my day's been going, I instinctively respond with "good", "great", or "alright", rather than an honest expression of how I feel. And I avoid any other (genuine, but unexpected) response because I'm scared of upsetting or offending the person I'm talking with. It's almost as if I fear the societal shame of "you're not happy, therefore, you're not as good of a person". My parents and friends always told me to be open about my feelings and to not be afraid of what others say, so I must've learned this behaviour from people I don't know... When we don't have permission to feel and express our negative emotions, what do we do? We hide them, suppress them, and attempt to cover them up with more fake smiles. Then, when we can't hide our true feelings anymore, but the societal shame of being unhappy is too great, the emotional dam breaks, and we self-destruct (literally or figuratively). This is the price we pay for modernity.

Modernism in a nutshell: as our world got bigger, we got smaller.

I see post modern societies taking advantages of technology to live more in accordance to nature. My desire is to live in a small vilage close to nature, with wifi so I can work remotely and live far away from big city centers

Each new generation is doomed to feel that it is the best, the smartest, and in some way special. The truth is, you aren't the best, you aren't the smartest, and you're sure as hell not special. "Modern" is a word we use to elevate our status above those less fortunate.

Sounds like a mockery of modernity 🤔 totally agree 😊

At 2:42 I love how the narrator goes "...mastery over death" and the illustration behind turns the Grim Reaper into an Amarita Mascuria a.k.a psilocybin (magic) mushroom, which has profound effects on one's perception of death. Kudos to you who did it!

How very true! Understanding the disease can be the cure. Here are some things that could help us for this: FAILURE I love teaching guitar. And here is some insider information: the most difficult students are not children or teenagers, but adults! They come with the mentality that they have at work: you can't fail. But teaching someone who is extremely hard on himself can be exhausting, because you have a constant war going on in front of you, inside that poor person... Well, just to give you an idea: I have learnt almost all swear words I know in German from a student of mine, who swears at herself after every single wrong note! I love these people and we are friends too, so they don't mind if I give them homework that is not related to guitar, but that could serve as an antidote to perfectionism in general. I tell them to listen to these two podcasts: 1. Cautionary Tales hosted by Tim Harford I am totally obsessed with this podcast! These are real stories of horrible tragedies; where people try their best for things to go well, only to see how it all fails miserably, and how they lose everything etc.. World famous experts make terribly wrong decisions and appear like fools and almost in every episode somebody dies a totally preventable death. Well, but as you listen, you know that it could have perfectly happened to you as well! Believe me, this is the most humbling podcast on the planet! 2. How to fail with Elisabeth Day In every episode a guest talks about what he had learned from his biggest failures. There are two episodes with Alain de Botton too. They are a bit different than the usual format. But both of them are excellent! ENVY Two things could help us: 1. We often don't really know what we want from life. But the people we envy can give us a clue about it. There is a wonderful exercise on The Book of Life ( the brain of this channel ) that we can do. It is called: " A philosophical Exercise for Envy". 2. We all know people who seem to have everything we wish to have. But if we look closely, they may not be that happy as we keep imagining. Oscar Wilde explains it here, and it could certainly happen to us too: "In this world, there are two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it". SENTIMENTALITY There is nothing more depressing than not being allowed to be sad. Here is a quote that you can use when people push you to be cheerful all the time. In fact you can say this as an " act of care" towards them. Because those who pretend to be happy all the time, are the ones who are the most in trouble. " Emotional pain cannot kill you, but running away from it can". LONELINESS The cure for loneliness is not being surrounded with many people , but feeling connected. We can also feel connected when we read a beautiful book, listen to a profound conversation on a podcast or a moving piece of music. Of course the best thing is always sharing these things with friends. But when they are not around, we can still connect with beautiful minds this way. Another, more unusual but fun solution is this: Why not join a choir? Everybody can learn how to sing! You don't even need to have a good voice. Does Bob Dylan have a good voice? The other day I saw a German documentary about singing, where they confirmed this. And they also said that in Germany 5 million people sing in 180.000 choirs! Isn't that wonderful? In an interview the world's most famous trauma expert Bessel van der Kolk said something about the power of singing together, that really touched me deeply: " Probably nobody has ever killed himself within 24 hours after singing Händel's messiah together." It's not Händel though. It could be a folk song too, of course... In the documentary they showed that singing with the same people over a long period of time highers your oxytocin levels. You truly build a strong " bond " with them!I know an old couple, they have been singing in the same choir for 30 years! Himmmm, indeed a choir seems like a much more stable, fun and healthy institution than a marriage :- ) Thanks a lot for this wonderful lesson and beautiful animation!

I'm so glad the videos about culture, philosophy, etc have returned!

These videos from School of Life seen to come to you when you are in most need of them!

I must say that this is one of the best eye-opening, knowledge imparting video bestowed to mankind. An inexplicable work! 👌👍🏼

"...we are asked to smile continuously..." Someone find me Doc Brown immidiatly.

Please make videos more often for “the curriculum” playlist like this one! I understand that your focus it is more in self helping videos but history,philosophy,literaure playlists are really good.

“and when nobody wakes you up in the morning, and when nobody waits for you at night, and when you can do whatever you want. what do you call it, freedom or loneliness?” -Bukowski

Very insightful, never thought about this but it makes a lot of sense

This channel is one my favourites in In RU-vid ,Keep making us happy snd wondering School of Life

This is a great video. Realizing that we live at a time that is exceptional in the history of the human experience can help us better study, what things in our personal history and our environment had led us toward problematic states of mind and behaviors. (Btw I myself lean heavily toward sorts of individualist thinking).

Great video, shocking that it was released days after I got the idea to start learning and producing content on this topic, amazing really!

Modernism, as I want to define it, is a way of escaping such complacency......

this helped me so much for one course I'm taking, thanks a lot !!

The video brings some relief. Very grateful of the the school of life.

how about a video on post-modernism? It feels like the post-2000's have become an endless "present now" time compared to what life felt like from the 70's through the 90's... we used to be ruled by the clock in so many ways that the internet has completely inverted by making almost everything on demand... maybe a video on that

~9:40 "Though modernity may have made us materially abundant, it has imposed a heavy emotional toll: it has alienated us, bred envy, increased shame, separated us from one another, bewildered us and left us restless and enraged." Thinking about this line and thinking whether I agree with it and if I do, whether fully or partially.

We can't find our true selves. We are our true selves. One can only exist (be) as the true self. "there is no way to be I or not be I."

Amazing video!! Thank you so much for your amazing content.

I f**king love this kind of content :))

Omg, I love this video! The animation is too good :D

Great video, thank you for your work!

I wonder if the romans discussed modernity at the end.

I'd say we do NOT find our true selves, but we CREATE our own destiny, our own selves. Great content! Thanks for sharing.

How do you get the images of the old maps and draw the lines on them and stuff? And what program do you use? It's cool!

i thought school of life was what we learn in the days, turns out it has a channel on YT. i just discovered it and it really is more valuable than most of what i learned in school.

"We can be free, and thus, fully ourselves." But what are you without the rest of it?

Me an animator: SoL: Walt Disney is a villain

I can only bear to watch School of Life two or three times a year because it so completely blows my doors off. It is too good.

Regarding progress, we can imagine civilizations like a treadmill: each civilization surpasses the last one, but all civilizations go through the same cycles where they rise, make forward progress and eventually go down so that the cycle can loop. The next civilization picks up where that last one fell off, and the cycle repeats itself. But in this paradigm, the only thing that matters in "progress." America is going through its downward loop in the same way Great Britain did in the 18th century. Another nation will rise up after this and begin where we left off. That is why the world leaders have no remorse for the decisions they make. It is all being done in the name of "progress." It is a Thanos mentality.

I busted out laugh a couple of times. So insightful with great humor. :)

Yes but I like modern furniture and design,does this mean that I sell my soul to the principals of modernity,I do like mother nature and believe in God can I mix and match design principals in life?

I was literaly just watching a zoom class about modernity en then you guys upload this video. Am I being watched??

I love this video so much!

This was both educational and entertaining 🙏🌸💙

It would be really nice to add some notable names, publications, and events that established the particular characteristics that define modernism to this. It feels a little bit "unanchored"and leaving those things out doesn't help someone who wants to know more about a particular aspect of modernism (no basic ground to do lightweight research from). I do appreciate the visuals and the narrative of the video...very pleasant voice and the visuals are engaging.

A video on modernism is incomplete without talking about post-modernism. I hope you will make a video on it as well

Since modernism is based in individuality is postmodernism based in collectivism? Or is collectivism still considered part of modernism?

This was depressing. I feel like this only considered the negatives. There are many positives of modernity too. We have much more freedom. Poor people and women had close to no rights in the past. We have access to education and wonderful medicine. Think about how many children died before reaching adulthood in the past, how many women died in childbirth. There are many more ....

Such a good short summary of modernity and I love the end where you remind us we are part of a historical movement (disease lol) in which we find ourselves and to take hope and action in understanding our existential reality in it. So good! I'm curious why you didn't cover for 30 seconds world war 1 and world war II as two, not the only of course, major events that take us from modernity in to post modernity? All the utopian visions of modernity, science, social engineering, and sooooo much more came to a crashing halt in the trench warfare of WW1 and the decimation and death of WW11. The technological, scientific, moral, religious, social, and philosophical advancements were exposed and defaced as we were forced to stare at the utter destruction we moderns bestowed on ourselves. Would love to hear your thoughts on this. Thanks again for your awesome videos as I lay counselor I send then out to my my clients and reference them all the time!

Wow,Did you just peek into people's my mind😂Awesome video

Great video! Please, consider making one video about this feeling we have that we are/were supposed to be famous and rich; how to deal with mediocracy.

This was simply excellent as all your videos are.

This video created so much of awareness regarding modernity.... Thankyou.

I was right. It made me feel content to tell myself that people have certain advantages (network of friends, inheritance, influential parents, breathtaking beauty) that I never had and I never could achieve through merit. That's why even if I am highly educated I don't blame myself for not being as wealthy or famous as others my age.

I thought I was crazy to think that modern era is a disease. I told my family I want to live like 80s or perhaps like Viking era. But everyone around me said we should be grateful to modernity for so much comfort. But I argue that this all are lie we fake towards other, everywhere is noisy can find a peace of mind can't even find true decent love. Thank to the channel to show me that I m not crazy I just realized thing at the early age 😢

God, I needed this today. Bravo!

A brilliant deduction of the weight on all of us in this world at this time!

An opponent of Modernity tells us what Modernity is

Understanding the modern age in depth allows people to think of what will come after and how we dealt with our world today. What happens after you’ve entered the future

Great insight as always.

If we could create a time machine and send human back at least 100 year back. I bet they would do anything to return to modern life.

7:39 NAKAJIMA YUTO WHY ARE YOU HEREEEE? 😂😂😂😂😂

I wonder what you think about modern people who are scientists but also love reading tarot cards and accept home births. society is no longer modern and ancient its a mix of a lot of modern and ancient practices depending on the level of desperation someone is feeling. Thank you for the video!

Telling someone to have a nice day is not an order. It is a wish for the person to have a nice day.

I feel like in modernity there is so much humans we can't be defined by a single trope anymore. You can believe in what you want, decide to like whatever you want and read whoever you want. There can be just as many people interested in modern art, movies and games as there is people fascinated by the Greeks. We're a collective mix of all the cultures that came before and maybe we need time to figure out which one do we want to follow the most. Or maybe it was always like this and in school they just teach us about the majority, but then again, you can't really say the majority of modern people don't believe in God, since there is still a lot of christian or muslim countries out there

Good presentation!

Really like this sort of Non academic videos talking about philosophy and culture.

Do anyone know where to find an introduction (or something like that) for doing videos like this?

Do you get demonitized that's one of my least favorite things of the modern world

I loved the animation

Very illuminating. To conclude that modernity is a disease is sobering. I think that the real challenge is to strike a balance between the advantages of modernity and of pre-modern humanity. But that means bringing some of the latter back. A tall order.

To quote Matty Healy “modernity has failed us”

Great video, thank you very much , note to self(nts) watched all in it 10:35

If I'm in highschool and I fail a class, exploring civics to be precise. And I have to redo that class in summer school, and flunk that too. Do I have to redo that class over for my junior year and I'll just be in the same class with a bunch of sophomores till I complete it? Or did I fail all of sophomore year and don't get to be a junior?

We can count on the School of Life to make anything sound dreadful.

Although everything has a larger impact on our lives I’m excited to see what new ways humanity and ways of living will evolve. I believe towards the later half of the century people would have definitely grown to be happier and more fond of them selves.

I wish this was 40 minutes long

So good!

damn why are these videos so good

The narrator’s voice is comforting

For all its faults, modernity freed us from ignorance. I'd say it's worth every emotional cost we paid. Which basically goes like this: before man was happy because he knew life was shit so that absolved him of any worries, you were what you were, and you had what you had, and basically you were happy knowing close to nothing about the world, but in modernity man is unhappy because there is hope for a better life, because there are people that succeed and that makes us question why we don't succeed (which contrary to this video's opinion the answer is not always 'it's my fault'. Most of the times really is bad luck and a capitalist system designed to keep you down if you play by the rules to reward you if you're being selfish.) But again, regardless of all these costs, i'd take education, emancipation, progress over ignorance and superstition every time.

all of the negative aspects only holds true for those not self reflectign enough

Great video and funny 😁 too. Thanks

Anyone knows the softwares/applications used to make such a video, please?

Absolutely correct information, knowledge 💯.... Modern world... Modern life When slowly empathy Turned into apathy 😇

The greatest purpose of humanity is to win at this game of tag that we've been playing with the world's undisputed champion, death, since the beginning of time. Religion has served its purpose, now is the time to put our modern brains and tech towards achieving immortality.

Can someone please name the video editing software the school of life is using?

Modern is a moving bullseye, its interesting when philosophies have modern in there name...cause one day it won't be so modern

Now I am interested in the video of Post modernism

What an eye opening video

The message in this video is exactly why I’m so strongly behind a self-funded / community owned smart city...move out of the crowded cities, bring modern conveniences, makes home ownership a reality again, and promotes growing with a tribe where your small group is like your family. By 2025 it’s estimated 65% of the U.S. population will live in metropolis areas...think about that

Favourite aspect of Modernity - Supermarkets, and Movies! Least favourite - war on Nature and lack of community.

Awesome presentation - interesting commentary, but I especially get a kick out of the graphics!!