Ballagàrraidh: The Awareness That You Are Not at Home in the Wilderness

[@BLTspirit]

You should really do a video about the relief after a bad dream or the anxiety of good dreams ending, very deep, very relatable. The longing to see someone from a dream that may not even exist in reality is a strange, but intense feeling for many.

[@XNightmareGsX]

BLTspirit or the feeling that your dreams will become or already have become reality or at least you think they have , kinda like deja vu i get this all the time idk how to explain it in detail but sometimes i have dreams i remember and then that event happens the same exact way as the dream(when i lived in texas i dreamt i hit my head on a pool table after takin a cat nap on the carpet and a week later it happend to me) or sometimes i have a dream i remember and i feel like it will really happen

[@pervypirates]

BLTspirit I had that feeling of longing to see someone from a dream yesterday. Excruciating it was..

[@NoNo-vy3dg]

Or a video about the longing of a nightmare and the thrill of it

[@goodbye3771]

the deep longing of continuing a dream or just wanting to live in that dream, just leaving reality and never coming back.

[@Borgnrox]

I've trecked alone in the northern parts of Alaska. Ultimately the only feeling that remains, when homesickness, when loneliness, leaves you; is feeling like prey.

[@obscuresorrows]

Borgnrox Damn. Thanks for that. Gave me chills. I wish I had included that part of the equation.

[@eruno_]

That's why us humans left the nature for a life in a city and a village. We were simple prey nothing more, nothing less

[@CarolynBlackArt]

Cities make me feel like that.

[@Fuerwahrhalunke]

@@eruno_ The only reason we survived and still survive until this very day is because we were smart enough to use our enviroment to our advantage. Also, a lot of luck to be who we are, homo sapiens. We would be unable to survive a long period of time when facing other hunters, who have been living in the wilderness for centuries, because we got lazy and stripped of our need to survive. Everything is being handed to us. It's actually a sad story, if you think about it.

[@eruno_]

@@Fuerwahrhalunke I don't see how it's "sad" exactly. We overcame the nature itself, which is great achievement not any other species can be proud of.

[@AbsoluteMotivation]

The visuals, music and audio compliment each other so well and leaves me - yet again - blown away and filled with awe. Thank you for this channel.

[@HaroldDavidsonUS]

One of my family's "journey to manhood" rituals is being taken camping. I remember being 10 years old and being taken for the first time from an idyllic rural home to a forest with my father and uncle. The buzzing and howls in the distance spoke to me, but it wasn't telling me "you are not at home here". On the contrary, it felt like a welcoming. Like this was the place I was meant to be. At 16 years old, despite my mother's disapproval, I decided to take on this venture alone; accompanied by nothing but a knife and the clothes on my back. For 2 weeks, I was one my own in a forest, but didn't feel alone. I remember vividly it was near dusk and I was setting up a place to sleep for the night when a bear came out from some shrubbery. It locked eyes with me for a moment that felt like an eternity. I wasn't afraid nor excited, just still. It carried on it's way to let me continue in peace. At that moment, I felt at home. Truly at home. The only time I've ever felt at home.

[@HaroldDavidsonUS]

***** Oh, I'm sure you'd do fine. There's a point when you're out in the wilderness where something in your brain just kicks over and basic instinct kind-of jump starts again. It's hard to explain, but I'm sure if you felt it, you'd know what I'm talking about.

[@henriandco]

Harold Davidson I will do this. I have the dream of taking a year or two in my life just walking in front of me before I find a place where i'll just think "here, I have to do it here" and build a log house (I already did that near home as a training or whatever), and live there for as long as I feel good. Or maybe I just need to stop reading Kerouac and Thoreau :)

[@catinheels88]

Harold Davidson This is inspirational for me. I'm glad to hear your story, thank you.

[@EpicFishStudio]

I live in Finland where darkness consumes the sun for half a year. when the summer comes, the sun won't drop below the horizon; the life burst forth and everyone seems happy and intense. ready for the adventure. the summer festivals are the main act, we party all night along the haze of sun before the winter takes us to slumber... I feel the same as everyone. But there is a distant feeling screaming quietly... I love the full extent of nature here, it all feels important and just where it needs to be, almost like a haunting memory... as a man of science, past life is a thing I would not think much, but this feeling tells me that I have already fallen in love, got stuck and let go. It feels wrong to love the nature like this. While it's all alright in the rules, it's like its time to move on to something else.

[@jinwoo78]

The call of the wild has always followed me in my life. I disagree with the sentiment of the video, though I can understand how and why most would feel that way. However, I don't feel out of place in the wildnerness. In fact, there's always been that part of me that remained primal, and untamed, even when I'm nested in the bowels of civilization. A part of me hungers to experience the rawness of life in the old ways our ancestors used to live. I want to experience it, every inch of the raw fight to survive and come out on top of the elements. I'd like to believe I'm not alone in this.

[@ghotighthefish3995]

Ironically, I don't have the words to compliment you appropriately.

[@sentosaco]

[ *icantthankyouenough* ] _The inability to thank someone sufficiently._

[@Vafo95]

Then make up a word for it

[@metuinator]

Your videos always seem to give me new fears and new hopes and new perspectives and when ever I'm feeling sad or lonely or just numb I like that I can turn them on and suddenly make my fears and the time in my life feel so small and they can make me feel like I have so much more control sometimes and others make me accept that there are things I simply can't change. Thank you so much for making these

[@ChadEichhorn]

"shrouded in synthetic fibers and synthetic thoughts" fucking poetic right there

[@spawnkie]

I was always confused by this word. Every time I listen to this, it helps me see a different perspective. The forest is my temple.

[@claresmith828]

You magically analyse the topics in question and this one is thoroughly true and revealing, all of them are, there's just no visible answer other than to live off the earth, off grid, working with nature in every attainable, sustainable way with for example earthships and localised projects and independant of money and other things. It's realistic in describing the atrocities of life on this earth and with the effort to portray what beauty we have left, they make the clips feel hopeful and insightful and awakened. I love the clips so much!!

[@NinjaKing895]

I have this feeling all the time. I can't help but feel that humans got it wrong. As soon as we're self aware, we go to school, so that we can get a job, so that we can retire when we're too old to go out an live anymore. That has to be backwards. And we don't even have a choice. You have to work from 9-5, and pay taxes on everything until you die. That's not how life should be, we should be allowed to live.

[@you_tube618]

When humans lived in nature average life expectancy was around 30, so we're living a lot more now.

[@myspica424]

Spoder Man but they "lived" the life they wanted to for those 30 years....you live 30 yrs or 100 yrs the quality of life matters...its always better to die early by living life at fullest, than cribbing whole life with one question is mind " i cud have done that...!"

[@AreaFortyTwo]

Spoder Man Our bodies function a lot longer, but most of us don't 'live' more. I personally feel I would prefer to live for only 30 years in the wild, every day being a true adventure and dying in my prime, than living 100 years and becoming weak and decrepit and wondering what I had really done with my life. Also I imagine that 30 year average is so low because of high infant mortality rate, most people probably lived quite a bit longer than 30.

[@you_tube618]

myspica424 yes they definitely lived a great life. No contraception, no medical care (if you cut your knee and get an infection you're dead), bad nutrition, no entertainment, no travelling more than a few miles from where you were born and the list just goes on.

[@myspica424]

Spoder Man yes but again what about...depression, obesity, life style diseases, antibiotics, no quality time for family, living for sake of living, adulterated food, pessimistic about future ..list is again long..

[@MrStanTf]

i had to restart this like seven times because your voice is so soothing i kept releasing i was no longer paying attention to what was being said.

[@davidgarza5250]

Man who comes up with the script of this stuff. Simply beautiful.

[@justintonytoney]

This guy speaks to me. I listen along and I am swept up in his words, and no amount of re-watching can get that feeling back (Yu Yi) as intensely as when he first puts words to something powerful yet hitherto unspoken in me. Just... nailed it! "In the beginning, there was everything."

[@gregordavidson4178]

I need all of these in the form of a travel sized book so I can be grounded wherever I am. Never loved a KZbin channel so much

[@lohso1949]

Being born and raised in NYC, in a low income family I've rarely had the privilege to travel or experience the real outdoors, this video accurately portrays the feelings I have. It touches my heart on a personal level. It is also a personal favorite. Thanks John, we really need to 'believe in the fall from Eden'.

[@IanMihura]

I really loved how you mixed a bit more of anthropology/philosophy into this one.. Keep them coming please!

[@Leen95M]

your videos never fail to draw me in. i could almost meditate to them! Thank you for these gems, John.

[@TheTNPfilms]

I can't describe the feeling your films give me other than the feeling of pure, concentrated artistic-motivation.

[@splodge2005]

It's just nice to sit back with a cup of tea and listen with the lights turned down and relax. Ever thought of doing an audio book? Keep them coming.

[@dwhitehouse]

I think this is my favorite one yet. You peer into my mind weekly and express my thoughts in a way which is both beautiful and simple to communicate. Thank you again!

[@WizenMusic]

Just finished watching all the videos and...what a spectacular journey it was. So melanchonic and moving. Thank you, my friend.

[@tomogaso]

Hope you didn't stop making vids and are just having a summer vacation. Thanks for all the work, cheers :)

[@obscuresorrows]

***** New ep should be posted next week. Thanks for the support!

[@tomogaso]

The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows Much appreciated :)

[@gerardofrutos9333]

+The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows still no ep :(

[@XNightmareGsX]

+Gerardo Frutos right?! i know they are busy but i cant wait anylonger i need a new word NEED -twitch-

[@TheWarWasp]

+The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows I'm terribly excited.

[@sirjamesfancy]

Stunning photography

[@frameshift3324]

This is sheer poetry. I´m so thankful I found this.

[@Ramezml]

You guys have a gift. Not just beautiful poetry or beautiful videography, but both combined in the best way possible. I feel very happy when watching this.

[@obscuresorrows]

Thank you. Now I'm curious: what made you think that I'm plural?

[@Ramezml]

The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows Haha. Well, I'm more amazed now that I know that this site is run by one person. I mean, you do all the editing and postproduction? Very nice job.

[@neildodd1319]

This was beautiful. People are fooling themselves into believing life is any better than it was for humans 50,000 years ago. We may be a lot smarter, but we are still animals. All of the technology we've made has become an addiction, which prevents experiencing life the way it was intended. Thank you.

[@alirafai]

I think you are the greatest poet of all time. Every time I listen to one of your videos, a sense of calm comes over me. That, I believe is the role of poems and you are astonishing in bringing the existential angst into focus and making us all feel that we are not alone in feeling that way. Keep them coming as fast as you can. looking forward to the next poem!

[@obscuresorrows]

There are many links I could share that would exacerbate this feeling, and make the wild feel like an incredibly distant (almost mythical) place, but this one is horrifing: the scattering of green squares is wild animals. Everything gray is domesticated, one way or another: xkcd.com/1338/ I've been picturing the Earth's fauna totally wrong. It's too late.

[@willemvandebeek]

Humanity has been defeating every natural enemy the last couple of centuries. First bears and lions with guns, bows and arrows. Then bacteria and viruses with antibiotics and vaccines. Soon we will defeat our last natural enemy; old age, and we all will live like gods. We all are already living like kings and queens, but nobody really realises this.

[@acidophilus88]

Willem van de Beek We'll see. This only has a shot if we don't destroy ourselves first with the overgrowing destruction we are capable of through technology with all the weapons we've developed to destroy ourselves. Nature was never the enemy thats the story we've been taught.

[@Philumptuous]

The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows If we were born in, raised in, and lived in this natural, raw world and we could also see outside of ourselves the life that we are currently in, do you think that we'd rather be here where we are now? The grass is greener

[@wagersmith1]

The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows No wait, this is misleading. That figure is only mammals. Mammals have not been a particularly abundant class of organism until we came along. If you look at the wikipedia page on biomass (ecology), there are tons more biomass than humans for each of these: plants, fish, krill, termites and bacteria.

[@Mr.Feckless]

The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows I may have made this comment on another sorrow, but your video's give me peace. Thanks : )

[@dubmonic]

In Albanian language Ballë means "in front" and Gardh means "garden fence" which when put together becomes "Ballë Gardhit" Its very interesting to see how distant people and cultures are so intertwined with each other with words and meanings basically the same

[@joshtalbott9528]

These are so stunning. You are among my favorite youtube channels.

[@juliazhou4394]

I honestly don’t know how one person can have this much philosophy in them...So talented!

[@tcironbear21]

I LOVE that you pointed this one out (though I think you ended it lame). I think this may be the most obscure of the sorrows so far. People don't like to admit how dependant they are on humanity. As I get older I start to feel this need for humanity's supports creeping in as my body ages. Right now, without warm baths and soft beds my body would ache all day. Right now without medications for minor conditions, they would devolve into major diseases, maybe even life threatening ones. And I can see a day approaching when I am dependant on steady stream of pills, machines, and specialized foods in order to remain as productive & happy as I am today. And while the value of my increased productivity more than covers the cost of the things I will need, I know I will be trapped. I think a better way to think of Ballagarraidh is that is the realization that you can't run away from humanity anymore, and if it collapses you will die with it also. The waters beyond your little boat have gotten too cold to swim.

[@laalulallu]

This video reminds me of Christopher McCandless. There was a movie based on his life, Into the Wild, my all time favorite. I have had this urge to escape from civilization since long. Loved the video! Keep up the good work!

[@PyroGhost913]

I always found the chaos and brutality of nature calming.

[@mattseapig390]

I love how this channel give words to all the emotions I feel

[@samanthayoung5744]

I hope you're continuing to make these! Two months is a long break!

[@PlainsPup]

What a wonderful channel. It's like a cross between poetry and philosophy: poetry for its beauty, philosophy for its precision. Ballagàrraidh is my favorite word in this collection. It's great to put a word to this elusive feeling I've had and contemplated many times. Ballagàrraidh may be the word to describe the zeitgeist of our age, this Anthropocene time when either everything is somehow artificial, or else we have to rethink what we mean by nature. I have another obscure sorrow for you, if you'd care to name it. How about this: The simultaneously exciting and eerie realization that every person - and indeed, every sentient creature - has a consciousness you'll never fully understand. This is a bit like Sonder (The realization that everyone has a story), but it's not so much appreciating the complexity of others, as it is lamenting that you can't grasp just how complex they really are.

[@sidhu0081]

Nothing was more good then listening these three minutes of video. Thank you for the good work!!! Keep up the good folks .:)

[@scisorkarn]

The distinction between "natural" and "artificial" always struck me as somewhat... artificial. Why is a house built by a human artificial but not the shelter built by an animal?

[@onesimpleclik]

Scisor Karn Animals are part of nature, but, an animals' shelter is only natural if made from things found in nature. If the animals' shelter is made from artificial things (man made materials), it isn't natural. A humans' shelter is always 'artificial', unless it is shelter provided by nature, eg. cave, tree, etc. That's how I see it.

[@dariusd2003]

onesimpleclik There is a new age of thinking, shots of awe captures this philosophy well, that human technology is just an extension of natural evolution. Technology/the artifical has always been part of us and shouldn't be separate. Everything in this universe is made up of the same "stuff" and humans just have a little more command to shape the world around them than their animal counterparts. Yes we have to be mindful nature will always have it's place (don't actively destroy the planet) but something shaped by human intelligence is just as beautiful as an elegant nest by a bird. We make due with the world around us, and at the end natural world will reclaim what is hers.

[@fmar105]

Scisor Karn Agreed. Someone impartial to us could view us almost as we would view an ant colony. We are no different than other lifeforms.

[@Silverizael]

onesimpleclik All of your so-called "man made materials" are made from natural materials. They are all still completely natural. Artificial is an artificial and pointless term, used by anti-science luddites to try and push their own importance.

[@dravarian26]

+slava sesh The idea of beauty would not exist without humanity

[@IJTFILMSI]

I'm so happy I found this channel!! Another beautifully done video, Thank you.

[@VasilTaneski]

Great definition. Once again. Chills.

[@zacharycox2337]

I think we all can relate to this feeling. Another great one!

[@marinagonzalez8028]

At the beginning of the video I was thinking "woah this video totally identifies me" but in the middle and the end my thought changes to "I feel totally the otherwise".

[@edoubleu27]

I'm new to this channel and want to convey, vividly, how awesome I think it is. However, I'll just keep it concise and say, "This is incredible."

[@trevorbaugh1335]

Astonishingly beautiful.

[@steventitus4399]

I first heard of your channel from Vsauce a few months back. I really like your videos. They're...intriguing, and poetic. Keep up the good work.

[@iMusicShuffle]

this video was amazing video! You we're really able to capture that moment in understanding with the definition! loved it

[@Malabarismo]

your work is amazing, big fan already

[@shelbyveloz5890]

Beautiful. You guys are amazing, thank you so much for these thought provoking videos, I always look forward to seeing them come up in my subscription feed ❤️

[@juanmonsalvo95]

I don't know about you, but this is my new favorite video ever.

[@ryanharte9825]

Hope you come out with a new video soon man, really enjoy your work!

[@donnasparrow9203]

Here, and missing your posts. Your inspiring realizations are like salt to the soul salad.

[@catherinesalanio5451]

I like him how he put and organize every detail of the video's description. Keep it up and more power to your channel from Philippines.

[@Gerpanda12]

We need more videos...they're all so good

[@jonbaxter2254]

I know this is a long shot, but could you do a video about not missing "home" as much as you once did, and feeling that moving on is better for everyone?

[@onesimpleclik]

The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows congratulations on reaching 100,000 subscribers! i absolutely adore your videos, keep up the great work :)

[@brod2man]

I had to watch this a few times till it made complete sense. I think I was thrown off at the beginning. After it says "You are not at home here (in the city)" It follows with the word Ballagàrraidh. I had the feeling this word was supposed to refer to the sense of not feeling at home in the city. I guess that's a feeling I associate with more, but at the same time I have a fear that I wouldn't be able to adapt to the wilderness. I'll miss the comforts. Maybe Ballagàrraidh is the result of another feeling "X". The feeling that city life is wrong. Love this channel already. Great idea exploring these feelings we all share

[@CheckAlakaDingDong]

oh man i am so depressed. this is so sad because it's true. a couple years ago i was begining to realize that everything is "fake" and that this "eden" he's taking about really isn't tangible anymore. sometimes i feel like i just want to run away and live off the land like he says. or be born in a different time period some time in the past. i dont care if i wont live long, i just want to experience life as it was

[@danfruzzetti7604]

you can't. and the people who lived back 'then' had their own version of 'i wish it were like it once was.' really, life hasn't been any different for us since we got agriculture and language. but even deeper, each of us gets our own personalized world that will end when we die

[@TwoFaceCreations]

Another fantastic video. The end got me yet again.

[@karanpathania7283]

This is beautiful, as always.

[@AivarasAukselis]

As always - beautiful

[@vladimirradisic]

This is just... beautiful.

[@onesimpleclik]

beautiful. just beautiful.

[@garyhosty9874]

Just found you stuff today - I love it - a cure for the fleeting thought that I'm not like anyone else - other people have had the same feeling, theres even a cool name for it !

[@Eruaphadian]

it's amazing just how beautiful and sad these videos are.

[@esquinneli]

Wow. A whole new perspective for me. Thank you!

[@LeHosko]

This has been on my mind a lot recently, often comes and goes like a waxing and waning mood. Sometimes we yearn for the wilderness, but when there it can feel isolating and not like home. I'm not sure I'll ever be happy in cities/suburbia, but what else do I know? Domesticated indeed.

[@aween42]

I lovee your work Man and I hope you'd continue . I need more of these vids in my life .

[@mirandas8023]

That pull focus at 2:18 is too cool

[@maglev2000]

Great videos with a lot of meaning in them. Keep up the good work

[@djunior874]

I have a suggestion, albeit vague; why do we always strive to give everything some deep meaning? Why can't things...just be? Some things don't have a meaning, that's just the way that they turned out, yet we yearn for meaning.

[@obscuresorrows]

djunior874 I think about this a lot, and I agree 100%. I wrote a whole definition about exactly this idea, actually, called Ambedo: kzbin.info/www/bejne/paTVp4JvhpiDqqs I compulsively try to find deeper meaning in things, I think because I'm looking for some comfort, that this isn't "it." That there's always something else to think about, some other avenue to explore. But in reality most things are just what they are. And we don't see that.

[@djunior874]

The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows Thanks for the response. I'm so sorry I completely missed that video! There before me haha But yes, this is an issue for me in relation to how I interact with people, because, I'm quite a materialist, rationalist, atheistic person so it's quite difficult to mix that way of looking at things with how many others do. Thanks for the link :)

[@djunior874]

***** Thanks for the word! :)

[@djunior874]

TheGuangmaster Yes, but I think one needs to distinguish the difference between an explanation and a meaning for existence. You can have an explanation for how something exists without there being a need for a why it exists. For example..life, we exist via evolution, the universe doesn't *owe* us a meaning. :)

[@benjifricker-muller6104]

djunior874 The universe has no inherent meaning, but we are the universe made conscious, and we create meaning with every thought, glance and footstep. We inbibe raw data through our senses and their centers in the brain, this information is then processed through our limbic lobe before it is consciously recognized in the neocortex. Crudely put, we view sensation (already an interpretation of the chaos of reality) through the lens of emotion and memory, then through intellect. This creates meaning from chaos at every level. This has huge evolutionary advantages, and makes the world a more beautiful place. Even pure mathematics is meaningful, since abstract concepts exist in our minds, although this is probably the closest we've come to reality (whatever that is). I also suspect many mathematicians have an eye for meaning or beauty, often the most elegant equations are the most powerful. All of science is a meaning laden exercise (not in the same way that Art is), because it's carried out by human beings. All the big questions we use science for, are big because of their inherent meaning. It's meaning we strive for and project on the universe. The tragedy of our lives is that our meaning is always just a pale blue dot compared to the universe's meaninglessness. Yet our nobility is that we still carry on. We are meaning projectors, and for me it's the essential human endeavor.

[@swapanjain892]

It seems as if you guys read my mind and make these videos every week.Keep them coming.

[@obscuresorrows]

SWAPAN JAIN Just one dude here. But thanks, I will.

[@gustavoalmeida95]

A trip out of my mind at every video. Amazing work!

[@theJellyjoker]

Is there an antonym for this? The only time I feel truly at peace or like I really belong where I am is when I'm in the deep woods or the open ocean. I take one look at cities and civilization and think "I don't want to have anything to do with this".

[@TSCTH]

This is only one of your videos, that made me feel completely happy and proud. Many make me feel happy or joyous that in recognizing the sorrow, and getting a word for it to become a fixed concept, I get to realize the complexity and wonder I've experienced. But this time, I felt as if the word was forcing an erroneous and internationally limited interpretation, in order for it to become a sorrow. The fact is, we evolved to be like we are. Stone tools were invented almost 2 million years before we evolved, by ancestors with hands much more simple than ours, and we emerged not just with those tools, but with hands and minds made for tools. Clothing was invented before we evolved as well and even emerged before our evolutionary ancestors lost their hair. And those are but a handful of examples, of why we don't, and never have, belonged in the wild. Humans are a seemingly new form of animal, built, evolved and shaped for controlling our world, making our mindscape into landscape, and remake what's around us to improve it, so that even when we fail our natural inclination to rage against entropy, we still manage to succeed at making other humans do a better job than us.

[@gtaceparker1608]

Definitely one of my favorites

[@MrClueTea]

Mate, I enjoyed this video so much, I watched it twice!

[@NatyMidnight]

Fantastic work once again.

[@user-bu9vd7zg5e]

Zeron! I think this comment brings an all-too-common problem with people's world view into focus. I think you're suffering from misanthropy. You may only listen to music you don't think is mainstream. Maybe you have an interest in science, and dismiss the excessively-religious as being intuition-centric and uneducated. You probably think people who post pictures of their food on Instagram represent the downfall of human intelligence. You feel that your interest in the obscure and abstract concepts like the ones presented in this channel justify those feelings. You think you're looking down on people, but you're really looking across at them. If you were truly above them, even by a little, then you wouldn't have an emotional investment in them. You can't judge people based on appearance. You can't judge people based on their intelligence. You can't judge people based on their ideas or opinions. You can't judge people based on their history, regardless of what they've done. You can't judge people, ever. Humans are not systems, nor are they representations of what you don't like. All that another person is, is what you see in them. There is no downfall occuring in society. There is no reliable metric by which you can call yourself better than another. The people you dislike, like NatyMidnight, are judged by you to have poorer opinions and values. What she represents to you - her values or opinions, are just simplifications that conform to some sort of aesthetically-pleasing ideal. For example, the makeup aspect of being a beauty guru represents the value we all place on "turning ourselves inside out" like some famous guy who I can't remember once said, of taking our thoughts and personality and representing them physically, in the form of our appearance. The community of people interested in that kind of thing are engaging in a sort of aesthetically-pleasing system of a feedback loop, where good beauty or lifestyle ideas get spread around more, and lead to more good ideas and sources of good ideas being more easily accessible, before the loop repeats, constantly improving the system. The "not caring" aspect of her videos, i.e., the happy, sunshiney feel, the extreme lack of deep concepts and thought, conforms to the aesthetically-pleasing ideal of just "going with it", not trying to build up an ordered system of deep thought that is inherently more fragile - it doesn't try to do much, and therefore cannot fail. Embracing entropy for the sake of stability. (A fucking makeup channel is based on the second law of thermodynamics, and if that alone doesn't change your views on it, I don't know what will!) An example of a more ordered and fragile system is the Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows. It's ordered because it takes more effort to find that obscure deep thought, that word that represents an obscure feeling. It's more fragile because that order can more often lead to an argument erupting in the comments section, a dislike from someone who thinks the ideas presented are wrong are useless, or someone pointing out a flaw in the metaphorical Jenga tower that causes everything to come collapsing down. These are inherently good values that don't take intelligence to appreciate. And everyone has all of these values, just to differing extents, based on their environment and what they're most exposed to - the more well-myelinated neuronal paths become the foundations of their beliefs, just for the simple reason that they can think about it more easily. Instead of judging people based on what they do wrong, or their wrong opinions - maybe try to change their views, but don't look down on them. Humans are just atoms. There's nothing to judge. Instead, see the beauty in people, the systems at play within them - your nature demands it, and your happiness depends on it. If a political argument erupts, instead of involving yourself in it emotionally, try to see how people's environments and aesthetic values inform their mindsets and opinions, e.g., a traditional rural conservative's value in the purity-disgust polarity, a free market believer's value in a minimal (therefore less ordered and more stable) system, a progressive's value in denying the second law of thermodynamics, in reversing entropy, in using the feedback loop to safely maintain and improve democracy, human intelligence, education and all facets of the human system - the antifragile system, as Nassim Taleb would say, that improves as you apply stress. There are no opinions. There are just aesthetic values, of which everyone has all, but in differing amounts. There's nothing to hate. It's just nature at play. ... holy shit what the fuck is in this weed

[@TheFallopianTube420]

Lux Lux Is it some Sour Diesel? XD That comment was fucking amazing, especially baked out your mind. Sour is good for that type of shit. :p

[@lGalaxisl]

Lux Lux I'll have whatever you had

[@NatyMidnight]

Zeron! what a rude comment. Seems as we have this channel in common, does this mean you're basic too? There's more to people than their channels buddy.

[@NatyMidnight]

Lux Lux Holy shit, thanks for this incredible response. The beauty world and my videos may lack profound thought but that's why I resort to this channel, books, documentaries/ film. There are other interests outside of what my channel consists of. Sorry Zeron but that was a pretentious remark you made buddy. Aren't we, at least most of us, multifaceted individuals? Paradoxical? perhaps. I enjoy the frivolous things in life a much as anything with a more profound purpose. Most people may see my channel as superficial and presume that's a reflection of everything else in relation to how I my mind works. Do I also look like someone who loves heavy metal? (rock music and all it's sub-genres) someone who loves to eat like a pig and equally into fitness? Someone who did crossfit and ran a tough mudder? Someone who enjoys psychological thrillers, dark art, bondage? I don't right? but I do. Don't judge buddy.

[@aaronhill4353]

You upload every week. The visuals are awesome, every week. Do you shoot everything the week before? It must be a pretty hectic schedule if so. This looked like it required some travel.

[@michaelmaddox2536]

It is not that we couldn't handle it, we just didn't appreciate it. Now with all that we learning about the destruction of natural balance we are slowly seeing out this window we created. The grass was lush and green and we destroyed it. So when we look back on the other side all we see is the aftermath of what was once beautiful and perfect. The grass was greener on the original side, and we was not satisfied with it. We thought we could make the grass even more green, perfect, beautiful but we made it gray, meek, and concrete.

[@missylarsson3517]

Anybody else use to imagine different moral scenarios? For example I have watched many documentaries on war, Nazi germany, Stanford Prison experiment etc. and I'm curious, if I was in it, how would I have reacted? If I was living my life in Germany during that time, would I have had the guts to fight the nazis? Or would I not bother, since they weren't coming for me? If I was in a warzone, would I kill a child? If the child was carrying a gun? Or it wasn't, but my superior claimed the kid had a bomb and was coming towards us? When it all comes down to it, are we able to live by our morals when faced with pressure. Or are they just a safety-blanket, something we claim to live by as long as our own lives aren't very difficult. Another thing I also think about sometimes is murder. Most people seem to think it's okay to kill others, during certain circumstances. Some say it's okay to kill somebody who has killed another. Or somebody who hurt someone you love. Or in war. Or if they order others to kill for them. World leaders who make poor decisions, people who make money out of others suffering, the list goes long for many. Personally I don't believe in killing ever, I am a pacifist, but on the other hand I've never lived under circumstances that puts my beliefs to the test. Somebody who enjoys killing, weather they kill a criminal or somebody innocent, are wrong in my eyes. How can we believe we are right to kill in court when laws are different in every country and changes through history? During what circumstances do people think they are right to do wrong?

[@Faarax96]

Missy Larsson You dont have to go back in time too see those kinds of things, it's happening right now ,but you wont realize it until later , Nazi Germany was normal for some people , black and white segragation was seen as normal , the South African apartheid wasn't a big deal at its time. Only in history books some decades later will it be seen as an atrocity , Just look at how Israel treats the native Palestinian population , they enclosed million's of people in a small portion of land , built a wall around them and blockaded them so they can get basic things like food , medicine water all while bombing the sh*t out of them . It's an exact copy of the Jewish warsaw ghetto but it doesn't matter now , but in a couple generations it will be seen as ethnic cleansing genocide. people like you and me will be wondering "what the hell were we doing when all that was going on?". This why we should be conscious of the things going on in the world today , lest we regret it later on.

[@missylarsson3517]

You are right, but I think you might be missing my point, I didn't explain it very well. Like you say, there are many world conflicts today that we "don't do anything about" but the point I wanted to come across was another. Those conflicts are not in my close proximity and doesn't affect my everyday life, I wanted to know how I'd react if I did live inside those conflicts or were put in them for whatever reason. I'm curious to find out, that even with my CURRENT morals and values, if they were put to the test in a situation, would I have the guts to stand by them? I understand that different times and countries have different values and that some things weren't seen as wrong then and there, but when I know what I THINK is wrong NOW, would I still ACT that way if put under pressure? Or would I justify my wrongdoings, change my values or just "do what everone else is doing".

[@sebaduartecallizo]

Missy Larsson I know what you mean. Its like being yourself as you are right now but living in a specifical place or time or living the life of another human being.

[@blazephoenix199]

Missy Larsson I can't remember who said it, but there was a quote that went: “It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.”

[@JuanjoAldavero]

+Missy Larsson Actually, where'd you draw the line between when it's actually right to kill someone or not? Different people would draw different lines, which is, in my opinion, an evidence of the relativity of the morals.

[@Tokkemon]

My God, this may be the best one ever!

[@MapWryte]

I suggest you do a video on the feeling of being on the cusp of having an idea; a solution but having it always fade away when it's in your grasp.

[@d.ryanwebb1166]

How has no one brought to bear this quote by J. R. R. Tolkien? “Certainly there was an Eden on this very unhappy earth. We all long for it, and we are constantly glimpsing it: our whole nature at its best and least corrupted, its gentlest and most humane, is still soaked with the sense of 'exile.'"

[@jayreiter5517]

Awesome video! These always get to me. Is it just me or do these seem really, really professional? The clips always fit well and have incredible quality, where do you get them all?

[@burnheart123]

“Many were increasingly of the opinion that they’d all made a big mistake in coming down from the trees in the first place. And some said that even the trees had been a bad move, and that no one should ever have left the oceans.” - Douglas Adams

[@midnightshaddow7612]

I WANT MORE, FULLY ADDICTED TO THIS CHANNEL!!!!!!!!!! is there like a rehabilitation center for this?

[@StephanLOddish]

Always fantastic

[@neptuneblues2722]

What a beautiful word

[@violaineVee]

"Maybe we were wrong from the start. In the beginning, there was everything." I could not explain why I suddenly cried.

[@AlvaroCTV]

I've been thinking about this one for a while, and I thought you might like it and use it. Here. Vaniphany: The Realization that Human Life Has No Meaning. Ever since we’ve called ourselves “Homo Sapiens-Sapiens” we’ve tried to decipher the reason why we are here, or why we exist at all. We’ve evolved into a species that is so smart it’s not. We deviated ourselves from the original lines, the reason why we do the things we do. We once, very long ago, ate to survive, and that was its only purpose. But in our need for meaning, we created haute cuisine. When we needed a reason for people to live by certain moral standards, we created religion, and the fear and allegiance made people obey. And it’s all gone off our hands. When asked what they believe the meaning of life is, most people will answer “love”. But what we’ve forgotten, or what many haven’t ever thought of, is what love’s real purpose might be. Perhaps it’s only meant to draw humans together to procreate. But naturally, it has gone off our hands, and new kinds of love have emerged. We care about those closest to us, we feel their happiness, we share their grief, and vice versa. We feel empathy for total strangers. And in our blindness, in our own individual sand boxes, we believe it is something much bigger that we can’t fully understand, but that we all feel. In our desperate search for meaning we’ve blurred the lines beyond measure. We created art, music, culture, and tons of other things. But no matter how much we try to cram some meaning into our lives, the more we think of it, the more hollow we feel. Etymology: “Vani” from Latin “Vanitati”, meaningless. “Phany” from “epiphany”.

[@danfruzzetti7604]

not bad. it may have no meaning, but it definitely has a purpose: simple continuation. amazingly, at 40 I believe you're only really supposed to eat and breed.

[@AlvaroCTV]

@@danfruzzetti7604 Whoa, I had utterly forgotten about this comment of mine. Five years ago?! That's crazy. Thank you for bringing this little time capsule to my attention.

[@danfruzzetti7604]

@@AlvaroCTV funny how the internet is doing that to time these days, i've had a decade-old tweet pop back up myself

[@o0Affinity0o]

I've got one for you: the fear of nothingness. The sort of throat-constricting, incredibly unnerving feeling of pondering what nothingness feels like, what losing all conscious thought feels like. As a young person who is not ready to accept a concept like death, the idea that there could be nothing afterward is terrifying. Just the knowledge that there will come a point in your life when you will cease to exist, but the world will continue on, unbeknownst to you. I think you could do something really beautiful with that.

[@MrSuperman1681]

have one. Erè- an action an individual takes while knowing it is a mistake for the sake of having a story or to keep one entertained. A story. A simple thing. Stories have been told for as long as they could be told. They give us, emotions, fear, motivation, experiences, and heroes. But what happens when people are sick of their story? Or when others stories don't just quite make the cut? Erè. Thank you for your work you are truly inspiring.

[@cristiansolorio]

I NEED MORE!!!

[@blaney6591]

I so miss seeing new content on this channel.

[@Abdullah-we9qg]

superb! , somehow it reminded me of dostoevsky's short story "dream of a ridiculous man" , I Loved it .

[@FreekHymn]

Great one, again! Do you ever take inspiration out of the comment section?

[@obscuresorrows]

Freek Heyman I do. I take suggestions very seriously, even if it takes a couple years to get them into a printed book.

[@FreekHymn]

The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows great! I'll try and drop some thoughts I've had, but no word for!

[@Pontusistaken]

The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows This book, will it be the first or is there already one out? I would love to get my hands on one. Thank you for your awesome work.

[@obscuresorrows]

Pontus Andersson I've been working on the Dictionary book for a few years now, thinking of getting a publisher soon. It will be the first. Actually the only thing I've published to date is those little plot summaries in the back of airline magazines. I wrote a good couple hundred of those.

[@Pontusistaken]

The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows Haha, Well you have a buyer here

[@jwhit9026]

Are we going to get more episodes? I really love these, they help me feel less lonely.

[@josevaldez694]

Hey john!, there has been a while since the last video, i really like your channel, why you havent upload a new video yet?

[@kapilbusawah7169]

I love you guys. You've put a word on my tongue that I could not. A suggestion for a future video. What is that moment where we feel words do not accurately depict what we're trying to communicate? We need a word for that moment as I hate those but you guys have the power to make a word and make it official