The Genius of the Crowd by Charles Bukowski 

Wow this is a great quote. Thank you

The most underrated quote

If you're losing your soul and you know it, clap your hands!

@@dribrahamghanem3694 im starting to singing lol

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My favorite.

My favorite

kevin coots what does it mean exactly? English is not my first languge

too close

@@oc5515 they dont have a full understanding of what love is. What they think it is, is probably something that was fed to them or something their minds created and they have it as a fact. So when they see how you express your love they think its wrong or incomplete. Thats how i understand it.

because the monsters of outside have found you and instead of devouring you they chose to live within you...

Those monsters inside, you can benefit from as long as you remain in control.

“We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.” -plato

Is life that deep

@@johncameron5081 deeper still

Exactly

What are magnets ?

this

Sounds like a ripoff of Aristotle's "All I know is I know nothing"

@@carloslaend1635 "I know that I know nothing" is a saying derived from Plato's account of Socrates. Not Aristotle.

Hitler it is

@@SiddharthSingh-gg7sb indeed,

no, i just have anxiety

@Joey Bukowski oh piss off!

yes leeds

Nah it's just a stupid algorithm ...basically it's an fuck all index search

rahul sehrawat you missed it, you missed the train. Sorry friend.

True

True.

That just happened to me right fucking now. Whoa.

shown again during the corona episode. most people believe everything they hear. and hate those who don't.

Yet do not be not afraid whatever happens. Don't let fear guide your life.

Yeah hive mind cancel culture.

Fucking Hell. I see exactly what he is talking about.

explains my appendix rupture.

When one second feels like one second, everyday feels so long.

But from the rest we must part ,for solitud is needed to be able to change when required for well being.

Bukowski certainly was not like "the rest". The man was pretty much a maniac

Don't join the herd

he would never say that

@@ShauryaChawlaprayforplagues The same lines are hidden in the poem.

to all know it all teachers..

that's not even in the original poem. For some reason the video excluded that part. It goes like this: "Beware the preachers Beware the knowers Beware those who are always reading books Beware those who either detest poverty Or are proud of it Beware those quick to praise For they need praise in return Beware those who are quick to censor They are afraid of what they do not know"

@@iphoneusdsd this is hilarious haha

@@thepedrorriva true, but bukowski read this out loud, so it is canon.

@@sonofbattles what?

EX- crowd on JULIUS CAESAR's death. The best example of crowd stupidity.... Which is now used by all political parties of the world. Coz people have sold their common sense to them.. 🙏🙏. 🙏🙏

@@shrayantchoudhary9616 Not far kin wrong. People rather believe lies from the 'proper gander' machine, the T.V. They're so used to listening to lies. 'It's easier to fool someone than convince them they've been fooled.'

@Bill Johnson Don't get run over:)

​@@stratosphere2323 No way is right way there can always be a better way . There would still be terrible things but with more amazing things . There cant be a way better than democracy for now.

Beware. Democracy is all we have in this era. What other system would provide you all the privileges you are enjoying and even give you the luxury of being able to give the comment you gave? Probably with your smartphone or laptop, all provided by democracy and capitalism. Maybe there is a better way, but changing systems is risky. Even with the best intentions and well thought over. For changes can backfire. big changes have a long history of unexpected side effects that sometimes lead to the death of millions and millions of people. Lenin meant well, the system was sick, but he never anticipated Stalin. And that's just one example. The road to hell is paved with good intentions. Be careful what you wish.

Striking for sure. Struck my ❤

Awareness is the first step. Now you can work on it.

poor guy. don't worry about it. I believe in you. 👍

No no no, do you preach it everywhere, every chance you get to talk to people? I mean, nobody likes violence and i also preach peace but i do know that sometimes it is the only solution but there are people out there especially people in power( politicians) who preach peace and do horrible things under the table.

You will be fine if you stay with this consciousness.

*For Misery loves company indeed.*

Yea, those fucking extroverts

For they would be nothing without their Instagram followers

@@GordonGarvey fuckin' scary accurate.

Purdy Mouth I don’t think the aim of that statement was to hate on extroverts.. they have problems of their own and they are probably the loneliest group of people, please be sensitive

Hahahaha

Donnie Darkko lol

GOD

Ben Franklin fart proudly society. We won't be silenced!

I’m fucking weak. U made my day.😂

Hope things have improved x

They have. Thank you ​@@heavyt749

what a master piece

No one gives you love. You are love. Bukowski ,deeper than hell..

@@ashleysaunders9947 I like that

And there are poems in school...... God they are sooo boring not a single one from 10 year taught me anything

owlcu beware the knowers

Who said that?

@@amr154 some made-up character *of course* ...

@Jake the Astronaut *you're

Clearly this poem went over your head.

You must be fun at parties.

Brilliant comment

🤣😂

Invite me to such parties, please

You aint much fun outside of parties either.

😂😂😂

Nah some just acknowledge what resonates most personally at that time. A phrase or lyric is sentimental or nostalgic perhaps.

You have exactly done the same thing🤣🤣You ve quouted about the stupidity of people qoute's

The dude who posted this doesn’t know Bukowski. He CENSORED the line, “Beware those quick to censor” Along with making a lot of other useless edits The poster of this video is the EXACT PERSON he is telling us to beware of This is my fav poem of Alltme and this dude ruined it

@@abocanots2224 oh..

@@Rx99 xd

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Great line, bro.

how painfully true

Oof~

Damn, that is incredibly true.

Yep. I'm definitely one of those. I'm very friendly and will hang out with most but if you betray my trust I'll drop you and forget your existence. Life's too short to waste time on something so trivial. Love is not an essential but its a nice commodity to have.

So true!

Nearly all the real evil in the world is done by those who deem themselves shining beacons of perfect virtue.

Some of the greatest leaders, writers, artists, and role models humanity has ever known, had themselves been as vulnerable as a newborn, been almost masochistically down on themselves, and yet they give to others the security and stability that they themselves lacked. Even when they’ve made it, and have all they could ever want, the best of them would trade all that away for innate peace and serenity, for true unconditional love, or simply for the fun of it. It’s funny. The extraordinary fellow could have the world bend to his word, and yet, what completes him or her is that exact thing the ordinary fellow takes for granted. And it often takes having your life collapse around you to understand that.

D. Grieco The grass is always greener on the other side.

@@ismayonnaiseaninstrument8700 You shone a light on the pitch dark road I'm treading and on the edge of giving up. Thank you.

@@ismayonnaiseaninstrument8700 that's nicely depicted in Hesse's Steppenwolf

Only parents can love like that. Imagine your wife says she loves another dude? Imagine your kid saying he loves another mom. The onky thing you want for your child is to be happy no matter what.

@@martinverbeek8862 you can be a parent

So beautiful 💜💜💜💜🎻🎻🎶🎶🌹🌹🌹🌹

But music is to f.... loud!!!! That aint good

I do prefer Bukowski himself narrating but this will do.

💯

Quit preaching like you know 😉

sarah Owens aré you one of these genuine people?

@@oc5515 yes I think so, I'm a selfless person. I like the simple things.

sarah Owens you got IG?

Kindness is the greatest of all qualities but the wrong ones see it as a sign of weakness.

@@SP-mf9sh you're just an average woman,your love is avarage,seeks avarage...

See that all the damn time

does that mean if i praise other people alot i need praise myself? like, only giving compliments in order to get some myself? I am asking this because I give a lot of compliments

reaction channels 😂

I dispise praise, i really dont need someone to tell me im good. I need someone to tell me wats wrong with me and if that is true. Thats it.

Women, basically

Style is maybe my favourite but this one is also poignant.

In this regard, can justifiable blame exist at all?

@@Destrobius the moment we understand that there is no one to blame we realise that the problem was never in assigning it, it was in accepting it.

I feel like this poem warns against becoming such that you wouldn't see yourself in these descriptions

I think the point in the poem is to realize that potential of hate in yourself. To realize that no matter how much you've learned, how refined your mind or personality, how great of an artist you are, you still have a shadow that is jealous, lonely, afraid, and lashing out. Life is the torturous process of healing that shadow self

@@theguy6640 Thats called being human. And its only torturous only if you let it be.

we all do, we all are humans... btw he did describe modst of the population anyway

That's the best part. That's the first step to changing.

As it is

To overthink it, he overlays differing levels of life experience, where the best times can contain the worst and the greatest pleasures facilitate the greatest loss. his real genius is to point to stuff that was always there but nobody noticed it. Not simply mixing opposites.

His pessimism almost comes out; not like “Theirs no point in being good” but more like “the wrong virtue at the wrong time is a vice” And knowing who Charles Bukowski is, he is definitely very skilled and more understanding of vices than most of us hahahaha

This poem was written as a criticism of the counter culture of the 1960s. He saw some literary mainstreamish popularity writing for socialist underground newspapers in LA. This brought him into contact with hippies and would be revolutionaries. Like almost everyone he came to associate with regularly his disgust for them eventually fell out through the tip of his pen. He hated their pretense. Their talk about saving the world. To him they were into a fad. They were merely following the crowd, and people who follow things are historically dangerous. The crux of everything he writes about comes down to the importance of authenticity and personal intentionality. He doesn’t hate the hippies because they’re hippies. He doesn’t hate the suburbanites because they are suburbanites. He hates that people are only motivated by the movement of other people, that they don’t really grasp their own reason for doing the things they do….but are instead so easily led. Their love is mediocre. This is the same man who said that: “Some lose all mind and become soul, insane. Some lose all soul and become mind, intellectual. Some lose both (mind and soul) and they become accepted. To be acceptable. To fit in. To go with the mob, is for Bukowski the worst fate that befalls people. Not because he’s a contrarian, but because he recognizes that unless you both truly understand and truly feel what you do, you do it poorly, and you became a tool for strong willed people who will dominate whatever potential you may have had to do anything meaningful in your life, either for good or bad. That’s what this poem is about.

Another bottle in my hand, another night Another bar stool where I sit and think Of all the times I've stumbled and I've fallen And all the chances I have dared to take. I've been a fool, I've been a wastrel too I've laughed and cried and never looked back But still I stand, with bottle in my hand Defying fate, and all its icy tracks. I've seen the beauty of the world, and yet I've seen the ugliness too, and known despair But still I drink, and still I raise a bet Against the odds, and all the world may bear. So let me drink, and raise a final toast To life and love, and all the joy it brings, despite the cost.

@@berniezhang8678 what is this from

Hits hard.

The last 2 lines perfectly describe post modernist "artists"

C V or maybe they are describing you that unable to create it do not understand it

@@Miquel998 Ooh Boy.......here you have the perpetual "artist" excuse nutshelled.........I don't suck , you're just too ignorant to realize how talented I am...............

@@NPC-nh9ed 100%. Which is how we end up with blank paper and table chairs in modern art museums. "If you see that chair, which we are all in agreement is in fact a chair, yet all you see is a chair...your artistic soul has simply not yet been released." I heard this in LA at a museum from a staff member. I replied, "If I take that chair and bash it over your head, and you file an assault charge against me, yet your victim-soul has not yet been released. In that action I see artistic expression." We went to look at paintings next.

It's nice to read a comment from an individual who understands

Everyone is in this poem. 100%

But afterlife is harder

@stevenstrumpf7 bullshit

@stevenstrumpf7 bullshit

You mean the divorce I’m going through? Lolz

„ He who has a why to life for, Can bear almost any how“ -Nietzsche

As anyone should be.

Those wary of themselves are often the wisest and the wisest are the ones to watch for they are the knowers.

Some of us get there.

the internet sunshine is on me

John P. Hahahahahahahahhahahahahahhahahahahahahhahahahahhahahahahahhahahahahahha

John P. poem? this is real shit not a poem

RU-vid knew you needed it.

MissAdamLambert888 Raw wisedom based on everyday experiences

Sooo incredibly beautiful ! I am moved to tears right now. Thank you so much for posting this.

MissAdamLambert888 Thank you so much. It really means a lot to me to have a positive feedback

Awee you're welcome ! You did an amazing job with this one. Hope you're having a great day/night. Thank you for touching my heart with this !

MissAdamLambert888 Thank you for being a nice person. I wish you you as well to have a nice night/day :)

please explain

@@fixiple2722 if I had to guess it means something along the lines of don't under estimate someone's ability to get a result the wrong way.

@@evan2electricboogaloo199 interesting. Thank you!

@@fixiple2722 They're like a destructive force of nature. They're born to kill us all and destroy all things. All they need is the opportunity.

@@bannedmann4469 "they"

Fav line

I feel you, God loves you always, trust in God, the Source of all that is

@@rightway244 [ for if in God you donot trust, it is Satan, whom you confide yourself to. Yet Bukowski says, that who preaches God, needs God. I guess, i'll have to go with the pain and take it from there, for it was said: "pain grows to thought, thought grows to wisdom and wisdom grows to maturity." D-W: Miller RIP]

@@AmadeuShinChan Indeed wise words. But still, keep idea of God, because otherwise satan will find ways to get into your mind. Keep God aš your first priority, but still use your head in life.

@@rightway244 beware the preachers

Well put lil kim.well put.

That's rabble stuf

Not all niches are beautiful, pragmatic, utilitarian, worthwhile, fulfilling. No one preoccupation should monopolize your total being. Einstein was smart but his pithy philosophies were often spread as the result of celebrity, not celerity.

Also, beware average men and women because they have to convince themselves they love themselves and so their capacity for love is capped at average so they cannot appreciate genius so they avoid genius and find ways to teach themselves that genius is bad or wrong.

[ if I cannot discern the genius from the fool, all it is, is a communist's-wet dream. Better than with Einstein go with Nikola Tesla, who did not have to marry with a close relative, but was a creator with his inventions, that can decide over life and death. Even better, go with Geniuses of our times: Chris Langan/David-Wynn: Miller. Not appreciating genius for what it is, is wrong and must fail.]

Scratch the surface of a cynic and underneath you will find a disappointed idealist. True for me.

Livens up the depressing mode, just a wee bit.

Love your comment, glad it helps

I hope that pain goes away, bless you. The pain in your heart is just an uncut diamond, waiting for you to cut away the rough and make it sparkle like dew drops in the morning sun.

Me too!

Because you have been wronged and want justice, and you are disappointed in how bad people keep getting away with their dirty tricks. Yor disappointed in the cowardness that allows it. The voice reading this is like a judgemental figure finally exposing the bad people and bringing them to justice, it's like a revenge fantasy, like hellfire to those who have sinned. Sadly no such judgement day will come and evil-doers will get away with their ways. But those with a conscience can't play their games, cause they will be filled with self-disgust.

Who is the narrator

@@deweese9774 Tom O'Bedlam is the narrator here, I believe.

He'll speak the loudest as your about to die.

I don’t want people to listen to this. That’s the point.

Watch Pale Blue Dot by Carl Sagan....it's wonderful.

please make this happen hahaha

yeah

Too funny 🤣

Exactly, this is a load of pseudo profundity

@@Robert-dl6fq When did anyone claim or imply that this is profound?

koan : a paradoxical anecdote or riddle without a solution, used in Zen Buddhism to demonstrate the inadequacy of logical reasoning and provoke enlightenment.

I don't think he's presenting a philosophy that needs logical rules and congruency so much as showing us another point of view to question the world.

The only good comment. Sure what ever he’s saying applies to majority of what’s wrong but the right is an exception and that’s the intrinsic meaning of truth where all else are lies or deception or delusion. But he is eliminating truth itself by justifying it with being right 99% of the time that most things are wrong. Yes most preachers that preach different things are wrong, only one can be right! That’s just common sense. I fucking hate his sinister clever ass!! Lol it’s like let me walk you down this perfectly logical path that you can easily agree with then boom you just got shoved down the cliff on the left side right before reaching the door at the end. Saying “ go ahead jump, have I ever led you astray down that whole path?” I’m sure I’m not making the much sense since I’m typing this at work lol still I hope you see my point or at least what I meant

Question everything.

Listen to what is being said and not who is saying it.

So sweet

Matthew, Many thanks for conscripting this post, much obliged.

What is this poem or paragraph is about🤔

@@deepanshuverma9651 people like u who wouldn’t understand

@@Sms7426 Oh I that case it must be very shallow and unintelligent since it's subject matter is shallow and unintelligent. Still, I wonder what it means.

Brain dead selfie taking meme spreading dunces. I can do without them.

@Greased Up Deaf Guy I actually hope it remains. It separates us from them.

@@twiston43 couldn't of said it better myself

God, the irony!

For they have no social lives

True

Is this yours?

@@shcxatter2 chatgpt Not bad for a bot

Thank you, it means a lot

A bit loud though, it drowns out the narration at points

@@ronin5614 too "inspirational" for my taste..... trying too hard to convince one , not unlike a militarily band jerking you into an appearance of patriotism............AND too loud Coltrane maybe ?

illneas Whats is that music? Please

@@illneas they´re lazy, its very good, my brother.

Thank you man, I really appreciate it.