There Are Mountains in the Clouds

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  • @HorsesOnYT
    @HorsesOnYT  Před měsícem +29

    www.horses.land

    • @L-_-T
      @L-_-T Před měsícem

      can you share the tracks you used in this video? I and these others would like to know:
      @tyleriverson861
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      @Fraserhansen

    • @zeev
      @zeev Před 16 dny +1

      this was one of your best videos. i've been subbed to your channel for years. this is a masterpiece.

    • @byKonzii
      @byKonzii Před 8 dny

      what happened to the lenin video? 😟

    • @L-_-T
      @L-_-T Před 7 dny

      can you cite your music?

  • @BlueFluffles-lt5nl
    @BlueFluffles-lt5nl Před měsícem +1097

    “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

    • @emilysarahbarnes6605
      @emilysarahbarnes6605 Před měsícem +11

      Someone's a Crash Course fan!

    • @Mr.Saucy_Lobster
      @Mr.Saucy_Lobster Před měsícem

      Nice one

    • @phyrr2
      @phyrr2 Před měsícem

      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.

    • @godless-clump-of-cells
      @godless-clump-of-cells Před měsícem +3

      But we do understand these things.

    • @UATU.
      @UATU. Před měsícem +3

      Bokonon 👣❤️

  • @_Fl4K
    @_Fl4K Před měsícem +322

    Emerson told nerds to touch grass

  • @TheCommentor-
    @TheCommentor- Před měsícem +1960

    Horses really making me think why I spend all this time on the internet

    • @bnsz8704
      @bnsz8704 Před měsícem +177

      Constant stream of information covers up all the bad thoughts

    • @lucasportasio
      @lucasportasio Před měsícem +95

      @@bnsz8704 back in the day we became alcoholics and beat our children to deal with bad thoughts tho, things are not THAT bad

    • @bnsz8704
      @bnsz8704 Před měsícem +49

      @@lucasportasio I still do those too😳

    • @lucasportasio
      @lucasportasio Před měsícem

      @@bnsz8704 based

    • @mikeyyoyo6464
      @mikeyyoyo6464 Před měsícem

      @@bnsz8704mum???

  • @justmemayank352
    @justmemayank352 Před měsícem +1387

    "It is possible to trespass so far down into the spiral of knowledge that we actually make ourselves less intelligent"🗣️🗣️🗣️

  • @PySimpleGUI
    @PySimpleGUI Před 29 dny +84

    For some of us, you're altering our paths in profoundly positive ways. Keep spreading your message ♥

  • @xxluggixx2559
    @xxluggixx2559 Před měsícem +375

    "A person who thinks all the time has nothing to think about except thoughts"

    • @hellgato777
      @hellgato777 Před měsícem +9

      Alan Watts

    • @safersyrup562
      @safersyrup562 Před 29 dny

      Sounds like double digit IQ cope to me

    • @caroid9093
      @caroid9093 Před 28 dny +1

      Accurately sums it up

    • @janaluvscarti3589
      @janaluvscarti3589 Před 25 dny

      nosh

    • @celfhelp
      @celfhelp Před 13 dny +3

      "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

  • @betterchapter
    @betterchapter Před měsícem +401

    It’s honestly a privilege to be able to access channels like Horses for free… what a treasure trove of knowledge

  • @Emma-xz8fo
    @Emma-xz8fo Před měsícem +213

    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.

    • @cht2162
      @cht2162 Před měsícem +5

      fantastique

    • @DarkandWeird
      @DarkandWeird Před 26 dny +2

      Exactly how education should be.

    • @nikhilchouhan1802
      @nikhilchouhan1802 Před 18 dny +3

      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..

    • @DarkandWeird
      @DarkandWeird Před 18 dny

      @nikhilchouhan1802 I can't imagine not being able to study what you want. If you don't mind me asking, what country are you in?

    • @nikhilchouhan1802
      @nikhilchouhan1802 Před 18 dny +3

      @@DarkandWeird I'm from India. I studied and worked hard for 3 years clearing an exam with a

  • @jessejames3144
    @jessejames3144 Před měsícem +764

    Romanticism and romantic thought are returning to the world, little by little. That's comforting.

    • @user-zh5lj1ec4k
      @user-zh5lj1ec4k Před měsícem

      No it’s not. lol. Keep lying to yourself. Just a bunch of snowflakes hipsters whining about stuff…

    • @user-zh5lj1ec4k
      @user-zh5lj1ec4k Před měsícem

      @@Shahiddish yeah bro. Only weird artist fucks glamorize this type of thinking.

    • @pivotb5691
      @pivotb5691 Před měsícem +29

      @@Shahiddishnot everything is for everybody

    • @mr.meeseeks4010
      @mr.meeseeks4010 Před měsícem +46

      ​@@Shahiddishromanticism isnt idealizing a messed up world its seeing the world for what it is in its most innate way

    • @hankmmxviii2640
      @hankmmxviii2640 Před měsícem

      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.

  • @supbro4826
    @supbro4826 Před měsícem +346

    Horses video style always inspires existentialism

  • @joeybela4581
    @joeybela4581 Před měsícem +119

    "there remains a vast expanse between what is difficult and what is impossible." If those are your own words thats a beautiful quote man

  • @a59398
    @a59398 Před měsícem +273

    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.

    • @undeadbillymays
      @undeadbillymays Před měsícem +12

      Pompous Parrot

    • @nickmf22
      @nickmf22 Před měsícem

      ypu should so unlikable and pretentious, im sure it's even worse in real life.

    • @calvin8181
      @calvin8181 Před měsícem +3

      ☝️🤓

    • @user-zh5lj1ec4k
      @user-zh5lj1ec4k Před měsícem +2

      lol. You wrote all that thinking someone read it. How very sad. Never trust a person in a zombie apocalypse who writes an CZcams comments essay starting with Sir…

    • @maxweir3245
      @maxweir3245 Před měsícem +21

      beautiful comment

  • @Bttfmc
    @Bttfmc Před měsícem +247

    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.

    • @deathfalcon602
      @deathfalcon602 Před měsícem +14

      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.

    • @qlitch
      @qlitch Před měsícem

      @@user-zh5lj1ec4k instagram reels user trying to write a cohesive sentence challenge impossible

    • @simonecumer1673
      @simonecumer1673 Před měsícem +7

      remeber that you are what saved yourself, this phrase got me through very hard times hope it does the same for you😊

    • @deathfalcon602
      @deathfalcon602 Před měsícem

      @@simonecumer1673 That's a really good one!

    • @Samuel42069
      @Samuel42069 Před měsícem +2

      why, leave the school.

  • @sandwich4899
    @sandwich4899 Před měsícem +30

    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”

  • @yasmynmolina2058
    @yasmynmolina2058 Před 24 dny +3

    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.

  • @DarkandWeird
    @DarkandWeird Před 27 dny +13

    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.

    • @mollybears3428
      @mollybears3428 Před 22 dny

      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.

  • @FunnyRaccoonMan
    @FunnyRaccoonMan Před měsícem +109

    Always interesting to compare what a title initially invokes in me to the actual content of the video. Also great with getting to the point

  • @unclepappy3823
    @unclepappy3823 Před měsícem +23

    "The words of another will always pale in comparison to the actions of ourselves".

  • @jam-etc
    @jam-etc Před měsícem +24

    "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.

  • @nataliemayo5410
    @nataliemayo5410 Před 24 dny +4

    “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

  • @ryanmcgrath6821
    @ryanmcgrath6821 Před měsícem +29

    The rate at which you consistently put out such quality content is nothing short of astounding and should not go unappreciated.

  • @sutlimas
    @sutlimas Před měsícem +23

    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

  • @niallslinger
    @niallslinger Před měsícem +42

    "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.

    • @Anksh0usRacing
      @Anksh0usRacing Před měsícem +3

      kinda what i experienced ngl. havent felt creative since hs, just cause of all i compare myself to. it sucks, but im working on it

    • @clevelandplonsey7480
      @clevelandplonsey7480 Před měsícem

      @@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.

  • @thydra76
    @thydra76 Před měsícem +4

    This might've been the most beautiful and inspiring way to tell me to touch grass

  • @thisisfyne
    @thisisfyne Před měsícem +321

    Temporarily interrupted my regularly scheduled work output for the benefit of the capitalist system so I could watch this.

    • @LuNa_097
      @LuNa_097 Před měsícem +4

      Now do that for the rest of your life

    • @thisisfyne
      @thisisfyne Před měsícem +20

      @@LuNa_097 You have no idea how close I am to doing just that, actually (well.. maybe not for life, but at least for a good while)

    • @LuNa_097
      @LuNa_097 Před měsícem +1

      @@thisisfyne it should be really good for your mental health tbh

    • @adamsmainchannel3789
      @adamsmainchannel3789 Před měsícem +2

      ​@@thisisfyneYeah but how would you actually do it? Wouldn't it be harder to get hired after that?

    • @thedrugthatkilled
      @thedrugthatkilled Před měsícem

      ​@@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.

  • @thevanicant5364
    @thevanicant5364 Před měsícem +4

    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.

  • @omarl9857
    @omarl9857 Před měsícem +4

    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

  • @penelopegreene
    @penelopegreene Před měsícem +15

    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.

  • @chungusdisciple9917
    @chungusdisciple9917 Před měsícem +58

    Would really love a video breaking down Baudrillard's
    Simulacra and Simulation. Great work

    • @Numpers21420
      @Numpers21420 Před měsícem +3

      Yea is interesting and complex so it would be good to have a vid breaking it down

    • @rykwon4535
      @rykwon4535 Před měsícem

      How bout you think for yerself, partner?

    • @chungusdisciple9917
      @chungusdisciple9917 Před měsícem +3

      @@rykwon4535 is it such a bad thing to hear an alternate perspective

  • @c_estvib
    @c_estvib Před měsícem +53

    someone should make a meta analysis of this
    "On Horses' There Are Mountains in the Clouds"

    • @Joe__M
      @Joe__M Před měsícem +26

      perfect chmess play

    • @herolais781
      @herolais781 Před měsícem +2

      What u mean by meta-analysis of a video?

    • @default179
      @default179 Před měsícem

      Analysis of an analysis​@@herolais781

    • @JEMA333
      @JEMA333 Před měsícem

      @@Joe__M based. if i do it?????????

  • @austenl43
    @austenl43 Před měsícem +3

    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.

  • @r.w.bottorff7735
    @r.w.bottorff7735 Před měsícem +17

    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.

  • @emptymannull
    @emptymannull Před měsícem +9

    For me, this was the right video at the right time. Thank you for opening my eyes. Now it's on me to change and save my own life.

  • @matlerat1642
    @matlerat1642 Před měsícem +68

    "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!

    • @wyx92
      @wyx92 Před měsícem +4

      for what's not at the buffet

    • @cht2162
      @cht2162 Před měsícem

      America's buffet mentality. Eat wisely.

  • @LeRoySlim
    @LeRoySlim Před 10 dny +2

    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.

  • @ctcotti
    @ctcotti Před měsícem +4

    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.

  • @NoahSamsen
    @NoahSamsen Před měsícem +35

    i do think i will go outside now thank you Horses

  • @d33w
    @d33w Před měsícem +8

    "We eat what we are fed and we do not see what is not at the buffet". Damn, you're good Horses, you're really good.

  • @Aethernyl
    @Aethernyl Před měsícem +5

    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.

  • @jenna5578
    @jenna5578 Před měsícem +2

    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!!!

  • @thebogsofmordor7356
    @thebogsofmordor7356 Před měsícem +32

    Always a good day when Horses drops a video

  • @user-wg6kj8cr3l
    @user-wg6kj8cr3l Před měsícem +14

    Just came here to say you make great videos. Please don’t stop brother. Absolutely love this channel.

  • @caitlunsford2440
    @caitlunsford2440 Před měsícem +1

    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!!

  • @kylecollinson6782
    @kylecollinson6782 Před 20 dny +1

    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

  • @user-ex6xc5ox3k
    @user-ex6xc5ox3k Před měsícem +46

    tl;dr: touch grass

    • @user-pq4il4xo9s
      @user-pq4il4xo9s Před měsícem +6

      I hate grass. It's coarse , and rough, and irritating , and it gets everywhere

    • @clevelandplonsey7480
      @clevelandplonsey7480 Před měsícem +1

      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.

    • @user-pq4il4xo9s
      @user-pq4il4xo9s Před měsícem +1

      @@clevelandplonsey7480 you can also touch trees

    • @RyanJinxedCoffee
      @RyanJinxedCoffee Před měsícem

      ​@@user-pq4il4xo9sYou can also touch deeze nuts

    • @KarminsLynn
      @KarminsLynn Před 19 dny

      ​@@user-pq4il4xo9scan I touch horses

  • @hamburgler227
    @hamburgler227 Před měsícem +3

    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.

    • @clevelandplonsey7480
      @clevelandplonsey7480 Před měsícem

      I love seeing fellow travellers get blissed out by the Ching ☺️

  • @jw-mp9yp
    @jw-mp9yp Před 15 dny +1

    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.

  • @Dave4eva716
    @Dave4eva716 Před 24 dny +1

    These lectures truly inspire 💚💚

  • @nosemeolvidaraestacuenta7184
    @nosemeolvidaraestacuenta7184 Před měsícem +4

    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.

  • @milaces1323
    @milaces1323 Před měsícem +5

    You made me cry with this one. Amazing work, thank you so much man 💜

  • @hgriff14
    @hgriff14 Před 6 dny

    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.

  • @kylebrown7968
    @kylebrown7968 Před 28 dny

    Beautiful. Had me tearing up a little when reminded that flowers still bloom every spring.

  • @galenomoore1139
    @galenomoore1139 Před měsícem +3

    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.

  • @carlosponcedeleon7819
    @carlosponcedeleon7819 Před měsícem +4

    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.

    • @clevelandplonsey7480
      @clevelandplonsey7480 Před měsícem

      Fantastic point! Only one addition to boost it further: world human female population = 51%

  • @Drop417
    @Drop417 Před 8 dny

    Every word you said felt like poetry

  • @bodytune2069
    @bodytune2069 Před měsícem

    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.

  • @_ADDISON.J
    @_ADDISON.J Před měsícem +5

    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.

    • @clevelandplonsey7480
      @clevelandplonsey7480 Před měsícem

      Keep fighting back. If you were meant to be a copy, why make each of us an original?

  • @yyoshman
    @yyoshman Před měsícem +55

    well this wasnt a horse

  • @t.j.vellinga6225
    @t.j.vellinga6225 Před měsícem +1

    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.

  • @sithsirowt1851
    @sithsirowt1851 Před 20 dny +1

    Making me cry at work.

  • @ExtremeVariety
    @ExtremeVariety Před měsícem +3

    - 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.

  • @andrei4617
    @andrei4617 Před měsícem +10

    Ur the only content creator whos videos are actual art

    • @user-yk1cw8im4h
      @user-yk1cw8im4h Před měsícem

      “Only” just means you know little about CZcams channels

    • @andrei4617
      @andrei4617 Před měsícem

      @@user-yk1cw8im4h thanks for the comment 🙏🏻 u really cooked me with that one ill go educate myself

    • @clevelandplonsey7480
      @clevelandplonsey7480 Před měsícem

      @@user-yk1cw8im4hoh, YOU again. Have fun identifying as a petty, bitter troll.

    • @RattusNorvegicuz
      @RattusNorvegicuz Před měsícem

      @@user-yk1cw8im4h same guy that claims this is a chat gpt generated video. Lmao how ironic.

  • @brendanhall6097
    @brendanhall6097 Před 27 dny +1

    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

  • @Haeyvl
    @Haeyvl Před 29 dny +1

    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”

  • @fidelmarcasado1642
    @fidelmarcasado1642 Před měsícem +18

    Amazing. This upload will hold a special place in me.
    Today is my birthday if that means anything.
    Cheers everybody!

    • @ssfoy8915
      @ssfoy8915 Před měsícem +1

      Happy birthday.

    • @arleendo
      @arleendo Před měsícem +1

      You have a good day, sir or madam.

    • @ssfoy8915
      @ssfoy8915 Před měsícem +1

      @@arleendo you as well. Take care.

    • @vaunniethayer1484
      @vaunniethayer1484 Před měsícem +1

      Birthdays are always important. The day you came into the world. What a ride. Cheers.

    • @IT-gw8di
      @IT-gw8di Před měsícem +1

      Happy Birthday internet stranger! Make the most of this wild experience and leave it better than how you found it ❤

  • @thevillager8339
    @thevillager8339 Před měsícem +4

    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

  • @manueljohn456
    @manueljohn456 Před měsícem +1

    Yours has to be one of the most special channels on CZcams. Thank you! :)

  • @discipleofcrispus6581
    @discipleofcrispus6581 Před měsícem

    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.

  • @feverandfret
    @feverandfret Před měsícem +10

    This is brilliant. The internet has only drawn us deeper into Plato's cave, enamored now by shadows of shadows...

  • @carterschmidt5200
    @carterschmidt5200 Před měsícem +3

    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

  • @morbiusprime2043
    @morbiusprime2043 Před měsícem

    These videos are a truly beautiful experience and one of the closest thing to transformative reading I’ve come across on CZcams.

  • @appelsien3775
    @appelsien3775 Před měsícem +1

    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.

  • @JHanrahan
    @JHanrahan Před měsícem +5

    This channel is perfect

  • @nellawafer17
    @nellawafer17 Před měsícem +5

    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.

  • @AoVXII
    @AoVXII Před 6 dny

    This is the greatest CZcams video of all time.

  • @simeongranada8959
    @simeongranada8959 Před 26 dny

    Solidifying your role as one of the most important YT channels offered in the english language. We appreciate you. Go on, you all, live!

  • @sjattemptstodraw7937
    @sjattemptstodraw7937 Před 12 dny +7

    Why happened to the lenin video? Deleted or takendown?

  • @zodiac2244
    @zodiac2244 Před 11 dny +8

    Wheres the lenin video

  • @TheLolwut56
    @TheLolwut56 Před 27 dny

    I am eternally grateful to you. For making this beautiful and profound video. I wish my feed to be filled with this.

  • @TheGhost595
    @TheGhost595 Před měsícem

    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!!

  • @skirtboi
    @skirtboi Před měsícem +7

    best thumbnails in youtube

    • @octopii714
      @octopii714 Před měsícem

      Came to the comments to see if anyone knew anything about this one lol

    • @homesickfish
      @homesickfish Před měsícem +2

      devon aoki jalouse magazine 1998

    • @LachlanOrtega
      @LachlanOrtega Před 18 dny

      @@octopii714 old ps2 ad i think

  • @willb5658
    @willb5658 Před 10 dny +4

    Bummed the Lenin video got taken down. Didn't get to finish it :(

  • @duckbringr
    @duckbringr Před měsícem +2

    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

  • @MaxMurphyXYZ
    @MaxMurphyXYZ Před měsícem +1

    this feels like it was made for exactly me. thank you friend. your videos have helped illuminate so much darkness in my life ❤

  • @TaiNatsu
    @TaiNatsu Před měsícem +3

    "the man who lives loses nothing at all"

  • @blackjack3751
    @blackjack3751 Před měsícem +22

    We spend so much time learning theories that we know nothing for certain.

    • @danielschaeffer1294
      @danielschaeffer1294 Před měsícem +1

      But we can know most of the important things with a reasonable degree of certainty and that’s enough for the average person.

    • @clevelandplonsey7480
      @clevelandplonsey7480 Před měsícem

      @@danielschaeffer1294do you consider yourself average? Would you recommend this way of life?

    • @danielschaeffer1294
      @danielschaeffer1294 Před měsícem

      @@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?

  • @oscarman10001
    @oscarman10001 Před měsícem

    Was wondering why everyone was thanking horses so often in the comments section. I understand now and I thank you too Horses

  • @jozefblasko9788
    @jozefblasko9788 Před měsícem

    What a truly beautiful and heart catching video...

  • @Uve_
    @Uve_ Před měsícem +3

    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

    • @alilua2489
      @alilua2489 Před měsícem +1

      Which country are you from?

  • @DanielFrench96
    @DanielFrench96 Před měsícem +12

    Babe wake up, new Horses video essay just dropped.

  • @ueaikibishi
    @ueaikibishi Před měsícem +1

    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.

  • @codysteinmann512
    @codysteinmann512 Před měsícem

    Thank you. This was incredibly thoughtful provoking and wonderfully produced.

  • @the_real_Kurt_Yarish
    @the_real_Kurt_Yarish Před měsícem +4

    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.

  • @tdlf156
    @tdlf156 Před měsícem +6

    All these comments saying stuff when the vid was posted 1min ago. How could you have watched the video?

    • @StylishHobo
      @StylishHobo Před měsícem

      They didnt

    • @panatypical
      @panatypical Před měsícem +1

      It seems like sometimes the posting time you see is only for you. The video may well have started earlier. I'm not trying to deny what you say, it's just something I've noticed about CZcams and things of this nature, the posting time of videos that is given to me. Lots of weird things happen with this platform. I'm subbed to this channel but I don't remember subbing. It's like I just found it and it's an excellent channel. I have no explanation for this, kind of like you might not for why you see the video was posted a minute ago and yet has numerous comments. Just sayin'....

    • @cremefranglaise
      @cremefranglaise Před měsícem +1

      they might have seen it earlier on patreon

  • @nikeshkumar9055
    @nikeshkumar9055 Před měsícem

    Makes me glad that I discovered a channel that not many have had the fortune to discover. You, sir, are a part of the best side of youtube.

  • @josephmacaulay7926
    @josephmacaulay7926 Před měsícem

    I think this is your best work yet. I love how anything we do seemingly teeters on the edge of triviality. And it is this we fear. To be trivial is to be nothing. But it takes risk to be original and this lends gravity to the truly innovative. You are doing this and who are we to say otherwise. Please don’t stop!

  • @rufftuffmanrufftuffman4456
    @rufftuffmanrufftuffman4456 Před měsícem +3

    Big thonk

  • @emilymiller4535
    @emilymiller4535 Před měsícem +3

    "Your brain gets smart, but your head gets dumb"

  • @lukepearling6301
    @lukepearling6301 Před měsícem

    I really appreciate your work Mr. Horses.