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“Tiger got to hunt, Bird got to fly, Man got to sit and wonder ‘why? why? why?’, Tiger got to sleep, Bird got to land, Man got to tell himself he understand” - Kurt Vonnegut
Knowledge without action is useless. We sit around considering everything but never living. Often a lesson many of us in the modern world don't learn until later until if you are more "intelligent". To be fair, I no longer consider intelligence to be ACTUAL intelligence anymore. It's like multiplying by zero. Unless multiplied by action it results in usually just depression and depravity.
"Philosophy often strives to convert reality into a problem. - In life, we accept naturally the full reality of what we see and feel in general with no shadow of a doubt. Philosophy, however, does not accept what life believes, and strives to convert reality into a problem. Like asking such questions as: 'Is this chair that I see in front of me really there?' 'Can it exist by itself?' Thus, rather than making life easy for living by living in accord with life, philosophy complicates it by replacing the world's tranquillity with the restlessness of problems." - Bruce Lee
My honors English 2 professor had us read the republic of Plato and during class we’d (very loosely) discuss it. Our only assignments were a few essays, all of which with the prompt “anything that these discussions have made you think about… anything that’s come to your mind since taking this class.” I was so intimidated by this non-prompt. I went to his office hours and he could sense my panic but made the prompt no less clear. He didn’t even ask for citations, just write. So I just wrote. About the digital age, about spirituality, the potentials and downfalls of humanity, sustainability… I never in my life felt that I was learning and growing as a person more than I did during that class. The things I learned from myself during that class were some of the most valuable things I learned in college.
This is coming from a final year college student studying the subject he hates, cuz I had no option but to take it. I qualified my country's toughest exam and secured a seat at the best collegess in the country, but couldn't get my favourite subject as I didn't get "good enough" marks to study it, and had to give it up for a good college but the worst branch. I remember those days when I was in 6th standard and we had this first chapter in our English books - the story of Deadlus and Icarus and how our english teacher, and I still remember his name (and that says something as I can't even list out 50 percent of the subjects I studied in college with ease) , promoted us to give answers to the questions of the text. Initially I framed a lot of literary answers and he didn't demotivated me nor cutoff me mid sentence, and mind you I am an introvert or maybe close to an ambivert, so that boost of confidence was all I neeeded. Slowly I started understanding the deeper implications of the short stories and poems and during that year my interest in the literature and questioning things kindled. He stayed only that year in our school and I can't ever think of an alternate reality where he didn't exist and I stayed in the same introverted stage for my life. I don't know who would have helped me garner a passion in humanity and human psychology which I know will last my lifetime. I don't even want to know how my life would have phased out without him. There is just something ethereal about it that I would never want to be taken from me. I miss that life. It's just grind and grind here. Riddled with anxiety coupled with a ton of rules to follow, and assignments and now it's like I have lost my identity. Who am I if not the same person who discussed the author's/ poet's meaning when he wrote those lines, with the classmates and teachers. The profs just hate us, and I don't know why did I even study this. I guess it's just too late to think of it..
I don't believe that romanticism will resolve the alienation and cynicism of our age. We shouldn't mourn the loss of meaning and values in a capitalist post-modern world or look to resurrect some old ideal in hopes of regaining something long lost. There's no hope of escaping the system, no matter what you believe you are part of it. We need to achieve cultural self-awareness, we need to find (rather invent) meaning in the constant stream of fleeting images and memes and create new myths, new symbols, new cultural movements so we can come together and have a common project and regain hope in the future. If there's anything we need to resurrect it's to bring culture back into the collective consciousness. We live in an age of spectacle and irreducible complexity and we should own up to it. Believing in simple solutions is easy, and giving up all together is easier.
i discovered your channel in the midst of a very bad period of burnout with school. your videos over the last few months have helped me keep going, so thank you.
Keep your chin up! You'll get through it, piece by piece and at a pace that will bring success. Have peace that you will get through it and have learned something (even if not positive) on the otherside of your studies.
Watching this at 1:48 on a school night and I really did not expect to get hit with a montage of my college halfway through the video. It’s a strange feeling to be half asleep in the middle of realizing the beauty of the world and then be shown flashes of buildings I see every day. “Oh, I have class there in 6 hours”
Sir, as someone who selfishly consumes the content and thoughts of others while rarely giving anything in return I feel compelled to say something to you. You first caught my attention some time ago because of the similarities in existential thought and self reflection that you have in your videos with my own thoughts and my own personal pursuit of understanding what I can only vaguely call the truth. You further resonated with me when, in one of your previous videos, you spoke about how you too once toiled in the harsh and thankless world of the culinary industry. Like a fellow pirate on another ship as 2 pirate ships pass in the night I always feel a quiet connection with other former and current dishwashers, cooks and chefs where I can know them without asking like their work ethic, ability to commit and give of themselves and their tolerance for discomfort, stress and poverty. Sir, since finding your channel I always watch your videos as soon as I see they are posted not because I think they will solve my life’s problems or tell me how to live but because so often they stop my world in its tracks like stopping while hiking in a meadow on a hike to take notice of a blooming flower or the wind as it blows through the surrounding trees. It makes me truly think and reflect on the existence we’re all here experiencing together. I regard your videos as nothing short of works of art which I find beautiful and almost make me cry knowing how so easily lost to the infinite they will someday be as everything else must in the uncaring course of time. Sir, as a fan of Emerson who often avoids having to hear what others have to say about his work, who often feels that his words get so lost when interpreted and translated by others. I can say that this short, poignant and I dare say genuine work of art at the asks us all to stop and reflect upon the thoughts of such a beautiful thinker is the best representation of the feelings I have felt reading and considering that great man’s writings. Indeed it compelled me to stop and reflect on his words as I have so many times in the past and to reflect on this world, my life and on you. It compelled me to stop by consumption of other peoples creation and words and come here to tell you something I want you dearly to know and which I hope you will read and take to heart. I don’t know your name and so will only call you by your channel but; Horses, from one human to another lost but searching in the vast infinte of this universe, I love you. Keep creating your art. It means more than words could ever say. And if there is a god, creator or otherwise may he, she or they bless you.
lol. You wrote all that thinking someone read it. How very sad. Never trust a person in a zombie apocalypse who writes an RU-vid comments essay starting with Sir…
As someone who has returned to college at the age of 45, so I can get a degree and do the kind of work that I would like to do. I find this really interesting. The insights that I have into daily life and how people respond to information and situations in the real world have made the academic knowledge that I'm receiving so much more powerful and actionable. I think we do education in a very backward way; by trying to give knowledge to people with no experience, they often miss the importance of what they are being taught. This was an amazing video, and as always, it gave me something to think about. Thank you.
Also, returned to high education to finish my degree. I've noticed very few professors have a clear idea of what is involved with being a working professional in the fields they teach. It's disheartening and alarming to witness.
As a student I think most of us are so riddled with anxieties *because* we have no experience. I'm so used to the school system that without guidance, I am immediately lost. Sometimes I wish I could go back to the time of apprenticeships, actually learning a craft instead of 'playing' at it in school with no idea of the actual world.
I’ve been trying to push myself to cope in this miserable job, doubting and fearing the idea of changing because of the comfort and ease of stability. But having your head in the sand, while safe, is indeed not a life well lived. Thank you Horses.
I quit my last job as an engineer/lab manager against what was some seriously valid criticism from my friends and family because I was severely depressed and using cannabis to cope. Right now I'm working as a baker in the short term and while I am far less stable financially, my physical and mental health has never been more robust and confident. I don't know if this helps you at all, just my experience.
@@PepsimVideosIt does!! I’m still so scared but have started branching out to find something new. It’s comforting to know others go through the same and that the leap of faith does work out
I was rocking my 2 month old baby girl to sleep while listening to this. I was overcome with an emotion I have never felt before, my chest hurt and it felt like I was gonna pop & I was so flustered where the "episode" of whatever I was feeling passed.
"the artist may lose inspiration to paint having seen every piece of art that he can, but the man who lives will lose nothing at all" wow! incredibly powerful words. to me personally art is about noticing magic in things and displaying their essence in another medium. but the magic within things only becomes visible to you if you live and surround yourself with authentic beauty. you have to be truly open to the world around you to be a fulfilled artist. if it's not for your experience your art may never become authentic and your creativity may burn out.
@@Anksh0usRacingstart looking at things in a childlike way again and let your heart open. Go to movies, picnics, cafes. Bring your notebook, sketchbook EVERYWHERE. Write in the dark in the cinema. Draw at the cafe. Sing on the fire escape. Play your clarinet on the stoop. Go to museums. Get fired up. DON’T COMPARE YOUR ART (or ANY art) TO ANYONE ELSE’s! Steal and admire. PLAY. Be brave. Protect your ideas. Don’t invite ANYONE to attack or criticize when the ideas are young and tender. NEVER QUIT. Art will save you in dark times. Sending love and encouragement from the other side.
@@adamsmainchannel3789nah, make vague references to a sick relative (rip) and all questions cease 😊 take as much time off as you can afford to while you're young enough to enjoy it.
Getting through college has been a colonoscopy and there is something inherently comforting about knowing I'm not the only one overdone in the conformist trudge for social marketability. I care about the pursuit of knowledge, I care to examine personal growth through experience, I care to see the world for what it truly is, and find pockets of beauty, insight, and perspective.
love your fluid writing and the framing of each video. thumbnail choices go hard (vague enough to be bold, if that makes sense) and for the meat of it. bless you for the even sound mix (very sensory friendly), your vocal cadence. visually, you form something quietly evocative--a gentle sort of adam curtis--and there is an almost hypnotic quality to each edit. all to watch, never to only listen. it clicks just right in the brain
It was when I stopped looking outward, stopped pursuing knowledge and answers, stopped thinking about "how to do," and stopped thinking about my thoughts that my problems that I was looking to solve with such behavior began to melt away. It was when I took a moment to lie down on the floor and stare at the ceiling, not to think, but just because it sounded nice, that things changed. It was when I "wasted time doing nothing" that I won back so much of my time tomorrow. It was when I understood myself that I understood others, and it is when I understand a moment that I am able to create it. I'm now creating and doing more every week than the sum total of the past 4 years of my life. And I'm only doing so because at some point, I stopped *knowing* it was good, and started *seeing* it was good. And this message, in itself, is like that picture of a bird. It is just text on a screen. It is devoid of truth, just like how the picture of a bird or the description of the sea's saltiness are not the bird nor the experience of swimming in the ocean. I hope you all sleep well tonight.
Twenty years ago, I discovered the Tao te Ching. Changed my outlook and trumps pretty much every other philosophy I’ve ever encountered: others travel far and wide and know many things, I alone know nothing. I am the fool. I do not try, I do not desire things to be other than they are. Effortless oneness with the whole. Lead people without them knowing they’ve been lead. Teach without teaching. Be like water, infinitely soft and flowing. Things are neither good nor bad. All is as it has to be.
To be intelligent is one thing, anyone can have access to facts and logic about any number of things, but to be WISE you must also have a strong heart, and that to me is true knowledge.
"he competes only for his own respect, the highest honour he can achieve" that is really good. I often tell myself that I "dont have the time" to do things. The view that I'm GAINING hours by doing what I love, rather than wasting them, is also really good to hear. thank you.
Minute 9:21 comment: "He competes for his own respect and that is the highest honor that he can achieve." That is one of the most true philosophical statements I've ever heard. I couldn't agree more.
what i particularly liked about this and other videos of yours is that u convey your research in a simple yet very effective way, non native speakers like myself get to view and think about the fully detailed picture you painted and i highly appreciate that
I took the day off from work - a short break from the hamster wheel. Fate brought me here and you lifted my spirits. Thank you. Emerson is a tonic for the soul.
“So if I asked you about art, you'd probably give me the skinny on every art book ever written. Michelangelo, you know a lot about him. Life's work, political aspirations, him and the pope, sexual orientations, the whole works, right? But I'll bet you can't tell me what it smells like in the Sistine Chapel. You've never actually stood there and looked up at that beautiful ceiling.” - Good Will Hunting
As someone who have always loved learning, university have been one of the most underwhealmig experiences of my life. I study a grade that I really like at one of the top university of my countries and each day I feel more out of touch and lose more passion about the academic field precisely because a lot of issues that you described perfectly on the video.
I was just having a discussion similar to this with my husband. Our society no longer has the social infrastructure that people of previous generations have. Even when watching old films, pre personal computers, people of all ages were OUTSIDE. Whether they were at parties, open eateries, parks or even at libraries. You would go outside and SEE people. There were still public debates and discussions, but they arent the same as the ones we have online. Being able to look someone youre arguing with in the eye is tremendously important. But now we are all miserable, which is no wonder considering we are addicted to the thing caging us in our own homes. Life is beautiful, even blades of grass flowing in the wind. But we dont even get to see it or to feel the wind pushing into us as well.
"We eat what we are fed and do not search for what's at the buffet." Like a mouse in it's wheel we do what we can, not what we could. Thank you for the brain food horses!
as a struggling university student, one who actually learnt a trade before going as an older student, i feel connected to everything said. i thought uni was the answer but now i see it as an experience to follow until it no longer pleases me - to cherish life. thank you Plural Horse Man
This couldn’t have come out at a more perfect time! I’m graduating this month and have been trying to grapple with life after academia. Thank you Horses!!!
Getting a bit burned out on this trope. Other experiences besides “touching grass” can free your soul. Take it from someone who has been locked up but sang in the cell anyway.
watching this video at a very appropriate time, just a few weeks away from graduation. my whole undergrad experience was, more or less, learning that i wanted to DO rather than read and write about other people doing. i still like reading and writing about people doing things, but between my junior and senior year i realized “wait, if i have the ability to analyze and appreciate creations, then why tf am i not out there creating myself?!” im a fifth year senior now, finally almost done and ready to start doing. so so so thankful that i had that realization, and so grateful that this video reminded me of it. may this give me the strength to make it through these last few weeks!!
Insane that I just watched this video, thought about how I need to read Dennett’s work because of how interesting “chmess” is, and then found out that Dennett died today.
You consistently write essays that challenge and expand my worldview- something that is rewarding and rare. thank you, I hope you continue to find success making these videos.
Watching this as a junior film student in college, I've only become more perplexed at the gradual death of hands-on learning across all fields of study, not just my own. When professors could be thrusting me out into the world with nothing but a camera and my imagination, I'm instead paying thousands in tuition to be sat down and lectured about the "theory" of the practice. I am punished by grades when I step outside the bounds of the rubric, instead of being encouraged and assessed based on how I might pave my own road to Rome, so-to-speak. I'm not disputing that there should be standards and expectations of genuine effort towards students, but the pervasive rigidity in modern academic environments disappoints me. When the world presented to us through the classroom (as well as the approach we are expected to take towards it) becomes so bogged down by these archaic and half-dead ways of thinking, it becomes less of a wonder to me why my classmates choose to drown in the their Netflix shows and Instagram feeds at the back of the class. Thanks for making this kind of stuff, more people need to tune into it.
What an amazing meditation this is! It made me shed a tear, as someone who tried his best at creative arts in academia for years with a great feeling of failure as a result it was my girlfriend that pointed out to me my tunnel vision on wanting to create. Now I’m studying to become a social worker as I’ve learnt and accepted the only things that matter in life is yourself, your closed ones and close community. I’m happy I’ve found this path and accepted that great wealth will not be my future, forever doubting on the path I follow, I feel like it is the right one for me. Love and understand one another, smile in the streets and keep trying to see the beauty in the little things. We got this.
I’ve never commented on a Horses video. But this one speaks volumes, to my relationship with academia, with my own relationship with non-traditional and higher education, and my disillusionment with the same.
Your intellect, self-awareness, well-spokeness and calling voice makes me wish I wasn't broke so I could give you money. You deserve it. I hope you get all the success possible dude! You're a perfect example why streaming and cable are a fuckin joke, and I wish you all the best
If I'm going to suffer difficult tasks, sometimes succeeding without praise and sometimes failing with exorbitant criticism and even outright hostility from management, I'll be damned if I don't use those empty moments of grueling effort to sneak some kind of relief for my "soul", whether learning, improving, informing, escaping, or pleasing my inner most being with the aesthetic I love.
I recently started gardening and growing my own food. This video really spoke to me on why when I wake up the first thing I want to do is check on my plants, not my phone. And when I come home from work, to check on my plants, not my phone. And when I do the opposite I feel empty. But when putting the real in charge, I feel fulfilled.
I can no longer sit and watch. I asked myself, and what higher being there may be for a sign, I take this as it. I can forgive stealing, fraud and murder, I cannot forgive a man knowing he should act but not doing so. I must hold myself to that standard too
The other day I went to the library to find a book by Sartre, after looking in the catalog, all the books written by Sartre were in the archive/storage, meanwhile there were 3 biographies of Sartre on the shelf. I couldn't help but wonder what is the point of those biographies
Rest in pease Daniel C. Dennet Something he said that goes toe to toe with this video, one of his big maxims. “Find something more important than you and dedicate your life to it”
this video were really nice and chill I think this type of thinking is really romantic, or maybe were the examples living is really inspiring, also death, even feeling separated, feeling oposed But also im kinda worn-out(i think this is the word, i needed the translator) of the academic mainstream of science I was reading today about Tales de Mileto and how he measured a pyramid with a stick and how he wanted to measure the radius of the sun. This didn't matter, the size of the pyramid was just "the largest known." The shadow was the shadow of Cheobs. The important thing about this case is that although he is called a beginner in astronomy, he was not relating to trigonometry, but to the sun god, the pyramid in a theological, metaphysical. I were the best in my generation in math, but i got into an art career after rambling in a humanist career. I thought that maybe I'm better doing questions, not applicating or executing knowledge. I learned well because of being really creative with basics in math, but those excercises were ludic, with no meaning more than fun, thats why i learned. if I'd studied math i would feel trapped in the borders of what is known, and obviously there are people doing it, some people have the patience, habits and harmony to be in there and also pursuing their career, but i think in my thirdworld country i would be trapped between hegemonic jobs and losed paper publications, being anonimate
I love you, i love this channel, and I hope you realize that your work is a bright spot in a dark world, and certainly reaches the people it needs to. We will survive this
Can you do a deep dive on Norm MacDonald? 11:34 Emerson quote is what I believe this well-read man was referring to whenever in his memoir he is talking about how much imagination it takes to see a really photo real painting for what it actually is instead of what landscape it is rendering, he says something like ‘it takes a powerful imagination to look at a painting and see that it is just paint dried on material.’ I never looked at this man as much more than as a funny guy that had small bits in movies and as the Weeknd update, SNL anchor, and then one of my only great friends in childhood told me to check his book out . This guy was only into math and degenerative meme culture and during our PE we would watch the Ricky Gervais show on my MacBook (oddly enough completely sanctioned by the coaches). I miss this dude and I miss Norm. Whatever you may know, even though I haven’t seen them in sometime, I know for a fact, they are not dead.
18:09 as someone that was very successful in a k-12 setting with classes catered to people like me, im glad you brought up traditional education because i am currently in the process of getting diagnoses for “learning disabilities” so i can go back to school at 28 to gain the skills to help me in my current job as a golf caddie. its funny how i never had any problem in weightlifting/sports related classes and agricultural science classes. its almost like humans are meant to move around the earth on their own two feet and take care of the land they encounter while engaging in play with others.
I am so glad that I found your channel. I admit that some of your content goes a bit over my head but it always leaves me hungry for more. This particular video was a feast. Thank you.
I believe a perfect example of the misrepresentation of the real world into knowledge is the lack of women recruited for medical research. 50% of the world’s population are women, however most medical research is done in men. This is normally done as men have a a more stable hormonal cycle and are therefore “easier” to work with, which allows companies and laboratories to push scientific papers quicker. Yet it gets on the way of actually generating useful knowledge. Studies have shown that the majority of unknown side effects in newly developed drugs are experienced by women. This is a real issue that hurts millions of people a year. Im glad Horses got to talk about it.
Damn horses, you really popped off on this one. Might just be that I’m watching it when it’s relevant for something that has been going on, but thank you.
Just wanted to show my appreciation for the amazing content this channel delivers regularly. Not only are the videos thematically diverse and intelligent, but they also encourage introspection in the best possible way. Thanks for all the effort you put into this!!
- Academic Art: Artistic endeavours within an academic environment will always be intensely iterative, whether intentional or not. The more knowledge one acquires of other artists work, the more your own creativity in novel expression and problem solving in limited. The artistic expression of a person with no knowledge will not be marred by their own knowledge of artists past. - Academic Science: As someone primarily from a scientific background with a brief experience employed in academia, it feels as if you are working with aliens. So deep in their world, their system acts like an ouroboros. As I tried to relate to my co-workers about their interests outside of work, it became painfully obvious that they have none whatsoever. They would spend their evenings reading literature and attending conferences instead of living. I truly dread how these people will feel on their deathbed. Though through this experience, I now truly understand the meaning behind "X person devoted their live to science". This is by no means the flippant phrase I once thought it was. Knowledge is critical, but knowing when to stop is also. Some knowledge is mean to be read, mulled out, and then allowed to drift away. It should be there to form and shape you, but not consume you.
I once wrote that, "the Internet brought us the sum of human knowledge, and with it the sum of human ignorance". This wasn't exactly what I had in mind at the time, yet it appears I was more correct in a way I didn't expect.
These videos, even though they take time to watch on my phone when I could be living like Emerson describes, do indeed change my mind on the way I live each day. I think that makes them well worth the time.
@@clevelandplonsey7480 Absolutely. If the weather report tells me there’s a a snowstorm on the way I lift the wipers on my car, stock up on groceries, and keep away from dangerous sidewalks. Weather reports are often wrong but why take chances?
