YOU ARE WRONG!

We are almost always wrong, maybe not all the way wrong, but at least a little bit. Even the simplest questions have vast complexities built into them, and understanding that we never fully understand things leads to a much healthier and more effective relationship with the world.
It's really hard to come to terms with, but there it is. If you're curious about why we don't drink Pig's milk, Hank Sock posted an essay that is online at nerdfighters.ning.com/profiles...
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[@AlejandraGarcia-yb8bj]

“I’m not the writer.” You just wait, past Hank. You just wait.

[@cptntwinkletoes]

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[@gregbartlett851]

I can't believe that he was wrong. Who could have predicted that? Wait, I think past Hank did...

[@Veeeee.]

I'm just rewatching Vlogbrother videos. Can we have a "Truth Resists Simplicity" t-shirt please? and also, lip balm on 2011 Hank shelve? :3

[@Veeeee.]

No thanks. That's way above what I could afford. I'll make do with a white t-shirt and sharpie

[@nachochips8090]

+Vee XD

[@elliemj21]

And now Hank Green IS a professional writer (and like 19 other things 😂)

[@TheNewsDepot]

I'm never wrong...I'm just right in a totally unusual fashion.

[@SummerLeppanen]

One of the best pieces of advice my grandfather has ever given me (and that is a weird soup of things) is to never wholly believe anything anyone says, but instead to take it all with a grain of salt. I think he was subtly trying to tell me that what he was telling me might not, in fact, be correct, and if I go around flaunting that information I'll end up making a fool of myself, but regardless, it was very sound advice.

[@Erinawesome17]

"professional goof ball" Can we please make this a Major? I would be amazing at that job!

[@ghastmaskzombie]

"Is there a word for that? I feel like there should be a word for that." Irony. The word you want is irony.

[@she-vangogh]

Ghastmask Zombie I think it's more likely a paradox , rather than an irony . " a simple truth which says how rare simple truths are. "

[@ttlovepie101]

Paradoxical irony?

[@yPGzRicardo]

That is the more common interpretation of the term irony. It is one of the hardest terms to define, and it could perfectly fit this situation, but there's a lot of people that will argue that this interpretation is theoretically incorrect (kind of in the same sense that people will argue against the figurative use of "literally" because it is "wrong" - when in a word's meaning is actually defined by it's usage, not the other way around)

[@vsmoonchildmahir283]

'Paradox'?

[@blueisasomedancer]

I just got this quote as a tattoo, one of my favorites from vlogbrothers

[@snailbacon]

I love how Hank and John are so completely different from one another and yet still so awesome :)

[@wryta6]

I really like this."The simple truth is; truth isn't simple". A definition of truth that requires an understanding of truth in order to fully grasp the truth of a description of a specific quality of truth? And in doing so, both contradicts itself AND makes a clear and singularly truthful statement? Which in and of itself is a contradiction? Nope, I'm pretty sure there isn't a word to cover that... UNTIL NOW! I present... contravusion. An apparent contradiction that requires a deja vu aspect [already knowing the meaning before you learn the definition], in order to provide clarity when melding two opposing statements into one cohesive statement.

[@linds9846]

The truth resists simplicity... Such a beautiful quote.

[@maiitoVA]

Something that might cheer you up: most of the time, what's more important than having the right answers is asking the right questions. Love your show!

[@TacComControl]

On an unrelated note... Is that Corndog Lip Balm on your shelf? Seriously?

[@sammymiclat5068]

It IS a Corndog Lip Balm. Hahahaha

[@noel101082]

god i love the greens.

[@Pingoo]

I really like your bookcase. It makes me happy when I see it. It's so full and nice!

[@NickDesbarats]

"For every complex problem, there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong." H. L. Mencken

[@TBomb15]

we call that a contradiction. It's like saying "all things in moderation" which of course implies that you must show moderation in showing moderation.

[@jmz1736]

TBomb15 that's what I'm gonna say next time my mom yells at me for eating an entire crate of blueberries in one sitting, "moderation in moderation"

[@carikittygeek]

"I feel like I need to do something now to prove I'm the professional goofball, maybe I'll just-" *SLAP* "Owwww!" Point proven, Hank.

[@lankylimbs1]

You have just articulated everything I have been stewing over for the past few months. Thank you, Hank, for expressing that so much more eloquently than I could :)

[@coastercameraframe]

This was very deep. I just love when the Vlogbrother get philosophical.

[@mb_2174]

I have to disagree. The answer to life, the universe and everything is 42 and that's pretty simple, isn't it?

[@sarahgent2674]

OK smarty pants, what's the question?

[@reececrump8483]

+Sarah Gent whats 7*6?

[@sarahgent2674]

Er... 42.

[@sarahgent2674]

But that's not the question!

[@reececrump8483]

Sarah Gent how many roads must a man walk down?

[@jesshuish2844]

Hank...the professional goofball. :)

[@hotaka1234]

I love how you say "effective". Then again, I love your diction, in general.

[@irob160614]

I want to make a contribution to that awesomely whimsical statement. "The truth resists simplicity and so should you".

[@jadduck]

But Hank, there is no good or evil, there is only power and those too weak to seek it.

[@waff1e126]

Nice quote

[@AwesomeArts28]

Great... I think we need to start searching for horcruxes again.

[@KhaoticPhoenix]

at east we don't have to stop protecting the Elder wand

[@Mariomario3425]

One Truth to rule them all, One Truth to find them, One Truth to bring them all and in the lightness bind them. In the land of Valinor where the Lightness lies.

[@fibwick6275]

I get this. I think I am a nerd. The second "I" in "I think I am a nerd" I wrote "i" and I corrected it. I am a nerd

[@ethanrichards3238]

2:29 "because he was addicted to alcoholic drugs" -Hank Green 2011

[@coreyprichard7019]

Alcohol and drugs

[@ethanrichards3238]

I know but that's what it sounded like

[@oldbooksatmidnight8118]

this is one of those vlogbrothers videos that stays with me and i wish more people would take a moment to remember its message

[@Germandusk]

Thank you so much for pointing out that commercial. I told all my friends how wrong it was and NOBODY CARED! I'm glad I'm not the only one.

[@SpartanFishy]

The word is Irony good sir

[@annabellebarr6248]

I think maybe oxymoron is the word for that

[@annabellebarr6248]

Maybe just verbal irony then?

[@liz_3d]

Mason shoalmire banana ? maybe

[@clotildevivier8650]

No... the closest thing I can think of is a preterition... But not exactly...

[@sunkeerthtummala703]

2:06 I was totally expecting the sock puppet to say "Well, I do have a lot of experience with your mother"

[@shadowfreak75]

Why doesn't this have more views is what I'm wondering, this video is so very accurate and would probably broaden the understanding of many others leading to a general sense of betterment.

[@seanwebb605]

Hank Sock has an odd accent. Home schooled?

[@jmz1736]

Sean Webb nah, just chain smoking for 10 years

[@annkozanecke3231]

This reminded me of something that my physics elective professor said - "Science is a way of thinking. We are only certain that something is right until it is proven to be wrong or inaccurate or incomplete."

[@joeterry2112]

I have a statement that goes along with your statement. "All modeld are wrong. Some are useful." Amazing how well that works in this world.

[@TheGingerIAm]

This is what art is. The search not to simplify, but explore these incredibly complicated truths and try try try to get even a feeling of the whole of it, in one space. And maybe a lot of our melancholy in art comes from the fact we know where doing an impossible task and will most likely still be a little bit wrong when were done. Thanks Hank, you just gave a student a brainwave.

[@tadshackles]

Loving the conversational tone the videos have taken. Loving the topics. Keep it coming, guys.

[@theyellowyoshi]

I love this! I hate it when people are wrong and oversimplify things and I try to explain that's the subject is more complicated, but they don't believe me and I am unable to explain it to them, but they continue to think they're right and I'm wrong.

[@fadingofthestar]

"Because at least there I know the difference between good and evil.." I know how you feel man, I know how you feel.

[@MauriceRyder]

I love love love your philosophical stuff. You have brains and use them and celebrate them and get others to do the same. This is why you guys are my favourite channel on the KZbins. And why I'm still watching 4 years on :)

[@lizbowman8830]

2011-Hank, in two days 2018-Hank will officially be a writer! 🙌

[@2devilbat]

I keep rewinding to look at Hank's amazing ventriloquism omg Hank i can't.

[@Tatummable]

I love watching Hank's videos when he's super excited about something and I don't really understand a word he's saying.

[@NinjaMarketingGroup]

WOW...I Can't stop watching them! Keep them coming!

[@TechnoL33T]

This rant is the summary of all that frustrates me. Thank you. I favorited this and I will show all my friends so that they understand this shit at least a little bit!

[@pewterbot9]

Totally enjoyed this video! I have subscribed and look forward to viewing many more of your excellent and insightful rants.

[@EmmiJade]

POV: you're here, it's 2021, and they're both the writer now

[@undead_corsair]

"a lie can get half way round the world before the truth can get its pants on." -winston churchill

[@iluvdrakeandjosh]

it's weird because i was just thinking about how we as humans don't really KNOW anything we speculate and assume but often there is a bit of falsehood in almost everything today and I thought "hey let's watch some old nerdfighter videos" and I came across this. Love you guys :)

[@latinapeacechick]

Hank, I love you and this video. I just had a 2 and a half hour discussion with some of my friends about a variety of topics, namely religion, education, altruism, etc. And this video reminded me of the fact that we are wrong a lot of the time and we should accept that. And we should accept that other people can be both right and wrong just like us.

[@SirIntegra42]

'Truth resists simplicity'. I very nearly clapped at this part. Oh past self, you had no idea how much emotional trauma the book that this line was in ended up causing to yourself.

[@onceuponadecemberful]

1:40, and now I understand why there are videos about pigs milking in the suggestions column.

[@melissamcclymont6127]

This reminds me of a quote from the statistician George Box: "All models are wrong, but some are useful." Yes, we are almost always wrong, but what does it matter, as long as we're close enough?

[@kiiirstie]

"The truth resists simplicity" is kind of a fairly simple truth in and of itself, isn't it?

[@pazful]

Very clear and concise! you know i've been trying to explain to by gf these ideas for years, but now all i have to do is show her this video.

[@SunshineSanctuaryforSickDragon]

I love the mini guitar on the puppet

[@Spirowitz]

THAT COMMERCIAL ANNOYED THE POOP OUT OF ME!!!!!!!!! THANK YOU!

[@ghostnova]

god i love the vlogbrothers! everything they do is awesome!

[@lynxdaemonskye]

I'm finally getting around to watching videos from the beginning of the year, and this one reminds me so much of my Philosophy of Science class! I think you would like the class (although half of the people in it are part of the "Study of the Mind" program and tend to derail about whether we can ever say anything is real). It's mostly about what makes a good theory, how we know what we know, and the demarcation of science.

[@foreverjynxed]

Whenever I need a helping hand or some way to bring back my faith in the human race, I find it in Nerdfighteria. The mere existence of such well thought out statements, the conversations in comments, the everything, makes life worthwhile. Even the term Nerdfighteria, to continue Hank's point, resists simplicity. Nerdfighters are not just one simple thing, but many varied things, many different peoples. These people, as a whole, make up Nerdfigtheria, the greatest hypothetical place on Earth.

[@ductuslupus87]

This is so true. I have learned that, on most things, I am almost always wrong. It's not a matter of, I don't lack knowledge, it's because I failed to look at from a different perspective. The world is a very confusing place. Anyone who says it simple, isn't thinking hard enough. (Although, what I just wrote maybe wrong).

[@xoxlizbethxox]

I've just been staring at the corndog lip balm on the shelf behind you... I didn't actually catch what you said because it's so fricken amazing that it distracted me.

[@nellytheninkynonk]

Vlogbrothers videos are just getting better and better and more Vlogbrothery every single time they upload. Also: Lego Harry Potter.

[@edconnolly5097]

He's NOW the writer ('An absolutely remarkable thing' comes out on 25th September 2018 and is available in book storres everywhere)

[@Alex-cv2gi]

"Is there a word for that? ...There should be a world for that?" -Hank Green

[@pugfugly1989]

It's the reason why we have mostly theories now, instead of outright assertions.

[@mischeviousantics]

It's not irony because irony is something that has an unexpected outcome. The "A Simple Truth that denies Simple Truths" is a paradox.

[@Keysareforcowards]

Rejecting the search for such difficult questions would be the death of modern science

[@aineb100]

"The plain and simple truth is rarely plain and never simple and if it were, modern literature would be an impossibility" - Oscar Wilde

[@ramichahin2]

SIR, YOU ARE A MATURE AND HELTHY AND EFFECTVE PERSON. THANKS FOR THIS GREAT VIDEO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@jakestein8588]

It is an extended oxymoron. It could also be called a paradox, but extended oxymoron fits better.

[@MrMultiSingularity]

Simplicity is relative to ones own understandings. One is simple to one may be complicated to another. And oftentimes, the simplest answer is the correct one... We as humans like to complicate things.

[@Sammie2517]

I completely agreeee! I've been sitting my final high school exams and only recently discovered that it's so much easier to study for maths. You either have the answer or you don't, it's quick (sometimes) and not much conflict. But humanity subjects, which I take a lot of, have millions of wrong, possible, or right answers. A simple question can have a variety of answers depending on how much each person knows or how they perceive the question. Crazy, really. yeh...

[@RachelReptar]

The truth resists simplicity. OH JOHN. Clearly a big fan of foreshadowing.

[@SepradistPhantom]

Roller Coasters aren't usually powered 'much' - they just get the momentum needed to get back to the start from the initial drop. Hence the 'coaster' part of the word.

[@tuseroni]

that toyota add kinda got to me too. i was like "no that's not physically possible, you might get a small percent back on your investment but not possibly run the park.

[@aishabe]

I noticed Catch 22, Will Grayson Will Grayson, and a TMBG poster in the background. ...AWESOME.

[@thpcosta]

"I think one of the principle facets of being a mature and healthy and effective person is understading that you are almost always wrong." that's some Fight Club philosophy right there.

[@kuoru]

just keep hitting the nail on the head. DFTBA

[@birthdayparadox6375]

I'm totally, always, completely, all-encompassingly, absolutely (insert adverb) wrong all the time. And I love what happens when I am.

[@juliajoy8]

LOL My 9th grade history teacher was OBSESSED with the Magna Carta. We spent almost a month studying it! We even had debates about it and what it meant! hahaha so I was cracking up when you said that!

[@morganvaughn4381]

In the BBC show, when Sherlock is informing John of his deductions about him, he admits that even he almost always gets one aspect wrong. :)

[@dancepiglover]

You sure hit the nail on the head, Hank. I got excited listening to you. I've never heard anyone else actually say that we don't know anything. (Except maybe philosophers, but even then that idea is said indirectly or consequently). This is why I don't belong to a religion. Our brains can't comprehend the phenomena that occurs around us. That is what I believe.

[@kyarajack]

The closed captioning is perfect... Either someone altered it or... MIND BLOWN

[@whydidyousay5minutes]

best day description- sitting on the couch in your pjs watching vlogbrothers while eating Doritos lemonade and for dinner you will eat pizza..... it is the best day

[@lilcrabbybabby]

This is featured in the Education section on KZbin, Hank Green, You have done it again

[@RosaEveningstar]

A simple truth that reflects how rare simple truths are: That is either a Self-Reflexive Statement or a bon mot, or both. It also includes elements of irony. Not a very simple explanation, I know, but I guess that just illustrates that the truth resists simplicity.

[@DaltonRandB]

watching this makes me feel better after some one tries to make something so simple, when in reality it's just not as simple as they think it is. thanks hank. :)

[@LuminousViewsGallery]

I never fail I Succeed at finding what does not work.

[@iloveu42w]

you just correctly described fallacies in your last statement which makes me feel better about my own use of them

[@rast123456789]

dude i think Ive been a nerd fighter and i didn't even know it these guys are awesome!!!

[@ragnkja]

"Sophie's World" is one of my favourite books. I first encountered it when I was eight, in the form of a mini-series on Norwegian TV, and loved it. I have no idea how many times I've read it, but it's probably at least a dozen times. Have you read "The Solitaire Mystery"? It is, in a sense, the predecessor of "Sophie's World", and it is equally excellent.

[@nerdgrlsquared]

it's always a good day when there's a puppet in one of hank's videos.

[@bmsoundtrack]

I love Vlogbrothers videos because I can learn and think about complex, diverse topics without being scared or having big words thrown at me. Me watching Stephen Hawking's Grand Design: "Oh shit... Oh shit...What?" Me watching Vlogbrothers: "HAHAHA A SOCK!"

[@RatsMyHeart]

I have a 'friend' who thinks her opinion is always correct. Even the things she knows nothing about... she voices her opinion, I tell her that I believe it's something different... she tells me she is always right. In her opinion I am always wrong. But sometimes I like to think in simple ways like you, Hank. Then again, as this wonderful video teaches you, even simple things can be complicated.

[@TheFireheart]

I don't know why, but after this I feel like listening to this year's RSA talks. You should check them out if you haven't already.

[@globalfraud]

"wisest is he who knows he knows nothibg"-socrates

[@paperhabit]

The word's 'aphorism', Hank! You're right, it exists!

[@karaschmidt1317]

I love him so much more after noticing the TMBG poster.

[@cathyhandsworth4670]

Maybe the actual reason we don't have those answers isn't that we haven't found them yet, but because they don't exist.