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Least: plastic Island, animal cruelty, and the misinformation in the world, and the short attention, and noone is realy social anymore. Most: Nationalism disappears, we are becoming global citiziens, we are educated, speak English to communicate to each other, the stereotypes disappeares, woman free themselves, children getting more rights and attention to their needs. And your channel of course ;)
@@boyvidi9041 Because facebook is a platform that allows you to add completetly strangers to your "friends", and when you are face in face they can't even say "Hi"
Yup. Social media culture changed everything. We’re living in a culture that cultivates feelings of rejection. Which is possibly humanities greatest fear after death.
@@tamastomordi5851 There is a slight difference between modernity and modernism, Modernity comprises all movements since modernism, including postmodernism and so on.
Yeah, what does Belle say? "I want more than this provential life..." She is tired of social norms of society and wants to break out. This is the modern mindset too. "I want more than simple gender identification. Marriage is outdated. I have to own MY truth. Success is relative, until I see that majoring in art doesn't make me money." Thanks Disney lol
Your point about constantly smiling really resonated with me. As I go about my daily life, I'm often frustrated by the forced non-genuine displays of happiness that modern society forces on us. It almost strips the humanity away from people, turning them into plastic dolls with permanently joyous expressions. When I stop to think about it, it's rather disturbing that when some asks me how my day's been going, I instinctively respond with "good", "great", or "alright", rather than an honest expression of how I feel. And I avoid any other (genuine, but unexpected) response because I'm scared of upsetting or offending the person I'm talking with. It's almost as if I fear the societal shame of "you're not happy, therefore, you're not as good of a person". My parents and friends always told me to be open about my feelings and to not be afraid of what others say, so I must've learned this behaviour from people I don't know... When we don't have permission to feel and express our negative emotions, what do we do? We hide them, suppress them, and attempt to cover them up with more fake smiles. Then, when we can't hide our true feelings anymore, but the societal shame of being unhappy is too great, the emotional dam breaks, and we self-destruct (literally or figuratively). This is the price we pay for modernity.
@@Oneofthemones65 I don't actually know how I would define it. If I had to guess, I would say that modernity is the collective identity of the ideologies, institutions, social norms, and cultural ideas that make up modern society. As societies and cultures evolves over time, our definition of what is 'modern' will constantly change. What was 'modern' just twenty years ago might be considered old-fashioned as of today. However, some aspects of a culture rarely change or evolve over time. We call them traditions.
This is interesting to read. I live in a post-soviet country and the situation here is exactly the opposite: people are usually at least a little bit miserable, and they expect you to be too - it is normal to feel that your life sucks. If you approach anyone with a glowing smile, you invite suspicion. At best they will consider you a salesman or a tourist, at worst a drugged up junkie or a fraud.
How very true! Understanding the disease can be the cure. Here are some things that could help us for this: FAILURE I love teaching guitar. And here is some insider information: the most difficult students are not children or teenagers, but adults! They come with the mentality that they have at work: you can't fail. But teaching someone who is extremely hard on himself can be exhausting, because you have a constant war going on in front of you, inside that poor person... Well, just to give you an idea: I have learnt almost all swear words I know in German from a student of mine, who swears at herself after every single wrong note! I love these people and we are friends too, so they don't mind if I give them homework that is not related to guitar, but that could serve as an antidote to perfectionism in general. I tell them to listen to these two podcasts: 1. Cautionary Tales hosted by Tim Harford I am totally obsessed with this podcast! These are real stories of horrible tragedies; where people try their best for things to go well, only to see how it all fails miserably, and how they lose everything etc.. World famous experts make terribly wrong decisions and appear like fools and almost in every episode somebody dies a totally preventable death. Well, but as you listen, you know that it could have perfectly happened to you as well! Believe me, this is the most humbling podcast on the planet! 2. How to fail with Elisabeth Day In every episode a guest talks about what he had learned from his biggest failures. There are two episodes with Alain de Botton too. They are a bit different than the usual format. But both of them are excellent! ENVY Two things could help us: 1. We often don't really know what we want from life. But the people we envy can give us a clue about it. There is a wonderful exercise on The Book of Life ( the brain of this channel ) that we can do. It is called: " A philosophical Exercise for Envy". 2. We all know people who seem to have everything we wish to have. But if we look closely, they may not be that happy as we keep imagining. Oscar Wilde explains it here, and it could certainly happen to us too: "In this world, there are two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it". SENTIMENTALITY There is nothing more depressing than not being allowed to be sad. Here is a quote that you can use when people push you to be cheerful all the time. In fact you can say this as an " act of care" towards them. Because those who pretend to be happy all the time, are the ones who are the most in trouble. " Emotional pain cannot kill you, but running away from it can". LONELINESS The cure for loneliness is not being surrounded with many people , but feeling connected. We can also feel connected when we read a beautiful book, listen to a profound conversation on a podcast or a moving piece of music. Of course the best thing is always sharing these things with friends. But when they are not around, we can still connect with beautiful minds this way. Another, more unusual but fun solution is this: Why not join a choir? Everybody can learn how to sing! You don't even need to have a good voice. Does Bob Dylan have a good voice? The other day I saw a German documentary about singing, where they confirmed this. And they also said that in Germany 5 million people sing in 180.000 choirs! Isn't that wonderful? In an interview the world's most famous trauma expert Bessel van der Kolk said something about the power of singing together, that really touched me deeply: " Probably nobody has ever killed himself within 24 hours after singing Händel's messiah together." It's not Händel though. It could be a folk song too, of course... In the documentary they showed that singing with the same people over a long period of time highers your oxytocin levels. You truly build a strong " bond " with them!I know an old couple, they have been singing in the same choir for 30 years! Himmmm, indeed a choir seems like a much more stable, fun and healthy institution than a marriage :- ) Thanks a lot for this wonderful lesson and beautiful animation!
Hi Lua, I just wanted to let you know that I loved your comment and that I will definitely listen to those podcasts. I'm relearning piano at 24 - I had been learning it during my adolescence but I interrupted after a few years of practice because I thought I wasn't good enough. Trauma has shaped my life experience in such a way that made me feel worthless and incapable of succeeding at anything. But now that I have started again, I have noticed sensitive improvements by the simple act of accepting all those little mistakes as part of the process, which is a metaphor of life itself I guess. Thank you for your kind comment, it resonated with my experience and I wanted to share a bit of it. 💚
@@giuliaromeo2088 Hello Giulia! Thank you so much for your time and for sending me such a wise and beautiful reply! I can totally relate to what you are saying. I have always had self worth issues and have quite some trauma as well. But we can always keep helping ourselves. I meditate everyday for about an hour. It really helped me to finally feel for myself, the kind of compassion I feel for everyone.I wanted to tell you the two books that really helped me a lot, in order to learn not to be so hard on myself: 1. Radical Acceptance, Tara Brach 2. Big Magic , Elisabeth Gilbert ( The title sounds a bit airy fairy , but the book is full of wisdom! The best book I have read about living a creative life. There is a wonderful article about this book on the Brain Pickings website. Take a look if you wish! ) I am very happy to hear that you started playing again! I hope you have a very kind and loving teacher. That's extremely important. You need someone who will remind you over and over again, that what matters is not the outcome, but the "joy" you experience along the way. You are doing it to enrich your life, so you can enjoy every step of it. I have heard a very cute and uplifting podcast episode about it today. Just google for this: " Charles Duhigg, How to write the perfect breakup song" It is about a dentist, who wants to learn songwriting :- ) Once again, thanks a lot. Many greetings and best wishes!
This feels kind of like a huge macrocosm of Baumann’s “liquid modernity” theory. While he was mostly concerned with the 20th century, it still seems to follow the same arc: starting with being internally “solid” and knowing your identity, status, etc...and being heated up/excited to a “liquid” state where you find it difficult to be static and are constantly questioning your role, purpose, etc.
I see post modern societies taking advantages of technology to live more in accordance to nature. My desire is to live in a small vilage close to nature, with wifi so I can work remotely and live far away from big city centers
Each new generation is doomed to feel that it is the best, the smartest, and in some way special. The truth is, you aren't the best, you aren't the smartest, and you're sure as hell not special. "Modern" is a word we use to elevate our status above those less fortunate.
At 2:42 I love how the narrator goes "...mastery over death" and the illustration behind turns the Grim Reaper into an Amarita Mascuria a.k.a psilocybin (magic) mushroom, which has profound effects on one's perception of death. Kudos to you who did it!
“and when nobody wakes you up in the morning, and when nobody waits for you at night, and when you can do whatever you want. what do you call it, freedom or loneliness?” -Bukowski
~9:40 "Though modernity may have made us materially abundant, it has imposed a heavy emotional toll: it has alienated us, bred envy, increased shame, separated us from one another, bewildered us and left us restless and enraged." Thinking about this line and thinking whether I agree with it and if I do, whether fully or partially.
I was right. It made me feel content to tell myself that people have certain advantages (network of friends, inheritance, influential parents, breathtaking beauty) that I never had and I never could achieve through merit. That's why even if I am highly educated I don't blame myself for not being as wealthy or famous as others my age.
how about a video on post-modernism? It feels like the post-2000's have become an endless "present now" time compared to what life felt like from the 70's through the 90's... we used to be ruled by the clock in so many ways that the internet has completely inverted by making almost everything on demand... maybe a video on that
Actually this is a great point. I was going to comment, how much in this video on "Modernity" is actually no longer new. The iPhone is 14 years old now. -An endless "present now", haha, it really is. -There's a great book by Ross Douthat I recently picked up, The Decadent Society, which addresses this stagnation. Related and worth a quick read: www.firstthings.com/article/2020/03/back-to-the-future
Not sure about the time of your comment but in present time there's post modernity (in conjunction with modernity) and a slowly emerging meta modernity.
But is this true self basically never true, if we want to expand it, to better it? If I feel to say, I am my true self now, but not before, when I clearly was before - then how come I changed my idea of a true self later on, when I felt that I had become more fulfilled? Even asking these questions, I am also left to ponder - how different the definition of "true self" is for anyone. But seemingly - true self, accomidates "a point in time" and "an amount of experiences, skills, realization and maybe even an overcome/work-around of weaknesses"
@@ryanpiotr1929 see here "find" means to discover the truth cause we are told from childhood "You r this, that, bad or good"... But from the very moment we were born (I'm not going before that and after death) we were all "I" but people started objectify us so we imitated that and believed all those stuff true about ourselves. But in Human existence Who I'm is basically what ever I can be with total peace of mind
Please make videos more often for “the curriculum” playlist like this one! I understand that your focus it is more in self helping videos but history,philosophy,literaure playlists are really good.
Very illuminating. To conclude that modernity is a disease is sobering. I think that the real challenge is to strike a balance between the advantages of modernity and of pre-modern humanity. But that means bringing some of the latter back. A tall order.
Regarding progress, we can imagine civilizations like a treadmill: each civilization surpasses the last one, but all civilizations go through the same cycles where they rise, make forward progress and eventually go down so that the cycle can loop. The next civilization picks up where that last one fell off, and the cycle repeats itself. But in this paradigm, the only thing that matters in "progress." America is going through its downward loop in the same way Great Britain did in the 18th century. Another nation will rise up after this and begin where we left off. That is why the world leaders have no remorse for the decisions they make. It is all being done in the name of "progress." It is a Thanos mentality.
I thought I was crazy to think that modern era is a disease. I told my family I want to live like 80s or perhaps like Viking era. But everyone around me said we should be grateful to modernity for so much comfort. But I argue that this all are lie we fake towards other, everywhere is noisy can find a peace of mind can't even find true decent love. Thank to the channel to show me that I m not crazy I just realized thing at the early age 😢
This was depressing. I feel like this only considered the negatives. There are many positives of modernity too. We have much more freedom. Poor people and women had close to no rights in the past. We have access to education and wonderful medicine. Think about how many children died before reaching adulthood in the past, how many women died in childbirth. There are many more ....
Isabella A. It really glosses over all those things though, as if they’re not huge gains. Ill take living in this time over any other time in human history generally speaking if you live in a western country you have it so good you have no idea.
@@islas357 so, since when acknowledging that there are bad sides mean that this modern age is worse? Truth is, human life has never been and will never be perfect. But we need to start thinking more about the aspects of our modern age that makes us sick
i thought school of life was what we learn in the days, turns out it has a channel on YT. i just discovered it and it really is more valuable than most of what i learned in school.
This is a great video. Realizing that we live at a time that is exceptional in the history of the human experience can help us better study, what things in our personal history and our environment had led us toward problematic states of mind and behaviors. (Btw I myself lean heavily toward sorts of individualist thinking).
The greatest purpose of humanity is to win at this game of tag that we've been playing with the world's undisputed champion, death, since the beginning of time. Religion has served its purpose, now is the time to put our modern brains and tech towards achieving immortality.
It's scary how actually.... we should ask how far our thoughts are swayed in a similar direction by the media we like or the other way around. Or is it due to climate or cultural "worries to have at this time of year". Anyhow, similarly today I thought about managing money and Pewdiepie just ups and puts a video up not 2-3 hours later without any (to my knowleadge) promotion of this arriving. But I digest a lot of Pewdiepie, so maybe, where he is right now - I tend to be also? It is cool, funny and scary - but not to a point of ILLUMINATIIIIIIIII, I fear noone has yet mastered the art of global persuasion and the truth might be - that it's someway collective, beyond manipulation - it might be too slippery for the hands - but I don't know yet. :) Fun anyway!
Kaspar Tambur When you search shit on your phone in a certain app and another app shows you something similar, can be deactivated, if your talking about that. If your talking about the consciousness thing, you think it was surprising because it was an isolated event. Same happens when a song we were thinking about plays, it’s just a coincidence, but we like giving meaning to every aspect of our lives,
Yes but I like modern furniture and design,does this mean that I sell my soul to the principals of modernity,I do like mother nature and believe in God can I mix and match design principals in life?
No, are you crazy? the school of life TH-cam Chanel made a Video stating some theories on modern life and if you don’t follow their claims a Ninja will appear from under your bed and instantly kill you with a shuriken.
The reason you like modern design is because it's roots, indirectly or directly, were the traditional 'arts' from so called "primitive"peoples in Africa, Oceania, The Americas, etc. It was inspired by modernism as defined by the Western arts of painting and sculpture.
Understanding the modern age in depth allows people to think of what will come after and how we dealt with our world today. What happens after you’ve entered the future
Great video! Please, consider making one video about this feeling we have that we are/were supposed to be famous and rich; how to deal with mediocracy.
But if we revolt against the modern world and somehow end up in a different world would we then have to consider it as modern and have to revolt against it as well
For all its faults, modernity freed us from ignorance. I'd say it's worth every emotional cost we paid. Which basically goes like this: before man was happy because he knew life was shit so that absolved him of any worries, you were what you were, and you had what you had, and basically you were happy knowing close to nothing about the world, but in modernity man is unhappy because there is hope for a better life, because there are people that succeed and that makes us question why we don't succeed (which contrary to this video's opinion the answer is not always 'it's my fault'. Most of the times really is bad luck and a capitalist system designed to keep you down if you play by the rules to reward you if you're being selfish.) But again, regardless of all these costs, i'd take education, emancipation, progress over ignorance and superstition every time.
It would be really nice to add some notable names, publications, and events that established the particular characteristics that define modernism to this. It feels a little bit "unanchored"and leaving those things out doesn't help someone who wants to know more about a particular aspect of modernism (no basic ground to do lightweight research from). I do appreciate the visuals and the narrative of the video...very pleasant voice and the visuals are engaging.
Although everything has a larger impact on our lives I’m excited to see what new ways humanity and ways of living will evolve. I believe towards the later half of the century people would have definitely grown to be happier and more fond of them selves.
Such a good short summary of modernity and I love the end where you remind us we are part of a historical movement (disease lol) in which we find ourselves and to take hope and action in understanding our existential reality in it. So good! I'm curious why you didn't cover for 30 seconds world war 1 and world war II as two, not the only of course, major events that take us from modernity in to post modernity? All the utopian visions of modernity, science, social engineering, and sooooo much more came to a crashing halt in the trench warfare of WW1 and the decimation and death of WW11. The technological, scientific, moral, religious, social, and philosophical advancements were exposed and defaced as we were forced to stare at the utter destruction we moderns bestowed on ourselves. Would love to hear your thoughts on this. Thanks again for your awesome videos as I lay counselor I send then out to my my clients and reference them all the time!
I feel like in modernity there is so much humans we can't be defined by a single trope anymore. You can believe in what you want, decide to like whatever you want and read whoever you want. There can be just as many people interested in modern art, movies and games as there is people fascinated by the Greeks. We're a collective mix of all the cultures that came before and maybe we need time to figure out which one do we want to follow the most. Or maybe it was always like this and in school they just teach us about the majority, but then again, you can't really say the majority of modern people don't believe in God, since there is still a lot of christian or muslim countries out there
It’s not either science or religion but rather understanding science can only validate so much in accordance with the five senses and religion deals primarily in faith. The true knowing is in the understanding that all is one and each one of us makes up what is known to be god which is simply consciousness. And we are it’s maker.
Oh God, I wouldn't be able to explain better my disgust for the modern world that you did in this video. I'm always living with the melancholy of being born in the wrong time, in a society spreading like a disease. I just can't recognise myself in it, ignoring the Earth under is feet and the divine upper is head. All of it to chase empty dreams
One aspect was left out. Without religion you cannot blame the gods for failures but you also lost purpose. In the hopes of reaching eternal bliss in heaven it is easy to endure anything because you have something to look forward to at any moment. But without religion you can feel aimlessly lost wondering what do you do all this for?
The message in this video is exactly why I’m so strongly behind a self-funded / community owned smart city...move out of the crowded cities, bring modern conveniences, makes home ownership a reality again, and promotes growing with a tribe where your small group is like your family. By 2025 it’s estimated 65% of the U.S. population will live in metropolis areas...think about that
2:27 Being immortal it mean to work 8 hours a day for the rest of eternity. Not very appealing ... also, if i'd meet a girl who was 500 years old I doubt I'd date her .... know what I mean?
Depends on what's for them to gain. For many people, being part of a community is more important than monetary gains. In the old days people used to live in extended families. Unfortunately, that's almost lost in today's world.
One thing people forget is right and freedom we enjoy today even compare to couple of decades ago. Plus end of colonialism and increase of quality of life in asia, rights of women and minority. We can surely improve ourselves. But nope, not going back to dark ages and era of religious and social backwardness.
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Least: plastic Island, animal cruelty, and the misinformation in the world, and the short attention, and noone is realy social anymore.
Most: Nationalism disappears, we are becoming global citiziens, we are educated, speak English to communicate to each other, the stereotypes disappeares, woman free themselves, children getting more rights and attention to their needs.
And your channel of course ;)
@@Masanumi English will be gone soon, stereotypes have also gotten worse
Pron and anime are pretty nice ngl
@@jinjunliu2401 Where will English go than? And who will replace it? I see more English every day. In fact, we are communicating in English.
My least favorite aspect is when you create a thriving online community around the TSOL brand just to abandon it because it isn't profitable.
The constant nightmare of having a lot of friends online but having no hugs offline...
There is no such thing like "friends online"!
Jarek Zzzi wym?
@@boyvidi9041 Because facebook is a platform that allows you to add completetly strangers to your "friends", and when you are face in face they can't even say "Hi"
@@Aalpine001 So then I have no friends.
@@Aalpine001 Okay so i guess that one person who i met f2f and became online freinds with isnt a friend
Oh~~ So that’s why most of us are depressed.
Not really. I think we are depressed because of post-modernism. Modernism made our life definitely better.
Social media and the 24/7 clickbait newscycle are huge on today's mental health.
Yup. Social media culture changed everything. We’re living in a culture that cultivates feelings of rejection. Which is possibly humanities greatest fear after death.
There is no greater fear than the fear of the unknown.
@@tamastomordi5851 There is a slight difference between modernity and modernism, Modernity comprises all movements since modernism, including postmodernism and so on.
A video about internet culture explained by you guys would be nice
Please not
It's too current to be able to describe it retrospectively.
@@thedevo01 That's true
I love how the tone of this video goes from postitive to negative, and then ends with a hopeful suggestion.
Disney has such a huge impact on shaping children's world views, I realise that myself looking back.
@Matt Ludwig
Disney is terrible and evil
@@gregorsamsa1364 i agree
@@gregorsamsa1364 how so
Can you explain, please?
Yeah, what does Belle say? "I want more than this provential life..." She is tired of social norms of society and wants to break out. This is the modern mindset too. "I want more than simple gender identification. Marriage is outdated. I have to own MY truth. Success is relative, until I see that majoring in art doesn't make me money." Thanks Disney lol
*We're romantics*
Cynics: Interesting
The reson for cynicism is often that one views the world from a romantic perspective..
Noah, get the boat.
I love the idea of it just being “a boat”, hahaha
Your point about constantly smiling really resonated with me. As I go about my daily life, I'm often frustrated by the forced non-genuine displays of happiness that modern society forces on us. It almost strips the humanity away from people, turning them into plastic dolls with permanently joyous expressions.
When I stop to think about it, it's rather disturbing that when some asks me how my day's been going, I instinctively respond with "good", "great", or "alright", rather than an honest expression of how I feel. And I avoid any other (genuine, but unexpected) response because I'm scared of upsetting or offending the person I'm talking with. It's almost as if I fear the societal shame of "you're not happy, therefore, you're not as good of a person". My parents and friends always told me to be open about my feelings and to not be afraid of what others say, so I must've learned this behaviour from people I don't know...
When we don't have permission to feel and express our negative emotions, what do we do? We hide them, suppress them, and attempt to cover them up with more fake smiles. Then, when we can't hide our true feelings anymore, but the societal shame of being unhappy is too great, the emotional dam breaks, and we self-destruct (literally or figuratively).
This is the price we pay for modernity.
How would u define modernity I need to know for a Essay for school help please
@@Oneofthemones65 I don't actually know how I would define it. If I had to guess, I would say that modernity is the collective identity of the ideologies, institutions, social norms, and cultural ideas that make up modern society.
As societies and cultures evolves over time, our definition of what is 'modern' will constantly change. What was 'modern' just twenty years ago might be considered old-fashioned as of today. However, some aspects of a culture rarely change or evolve over time. We call them traditions.
This is interesting to read. I live in a post-soviet country and the situation here is exactly the opposite: people are usually at least a little bit miserable, and they expect you to be too - it is normal to feel that your life sucks. If you approach anyone with a glowing smile, you invite suspicion. At best they will consider you a salesman or a tourist, at worst a drugged up junkie or a fraud.
How very true! Understanding the disease can be the cure. Here are some things that could help us for this:
FAILURE
I love teaching guitar. And here is some insider information: the most difficult students are not children or teenagers, but adults! They come with the mentality that they have at work: you can't fail. But teaching someone who is extremely hard on himself can be exhausting, because you have a constant war going on in front of you, inside that poor person...
Well, just to give you an idea: I have learnt almost all swear words I know in German from a student of mine, who swears at herself after every single wrong note!
I love these people and we are friends too, so they don't mind if I give them homework that is not related to guitar, but that could serve as an antidote to perfectionism in general.
I tell them to listen to these two podcasts:
1. Cautionary Tales hosted by Tim Harford
I am totally obsessed with this podcast! These are real stories of horrible tragedies; where people try their best for things to go well, only to see how it all fails miserably, and how they lose everything etc.. World famous experts make terribly wrong decisions and appear like fools and almost in every episode somebody dies a totally preventable death.
Well, but as you listen, you know that it could have perfectly happened to you as well!
Believe me, this is the most humbling podcast on the planet!
2. How to fail with Elisabeth Day
In every episode a guest talks about what he had learned from his biggest failures. There are two episodes with Alain de Botton too. They are a bit different than the usual format. But both of them are excellent!
ENVY
Two things could help us:
1. We often don't really know what we want from life. But the people we envy can give us a clue about it. There is a wonderful exercise on The Book of Life ( the brain of this channel ) that we can do.
It is called:
" A philosophical Exercise for Envy".
2. We all know people who seem to have everything we wish to have. But if we look closely, they may not be that happy as we keep imagining.
Oscar Wilde explains it here, and it could certainly happen to us too:
"In this world, there are two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it".
SENTIMENTALITY
There is nothing more depressing than not being allowed to be sad. Here is a quote that you can use when people push you to be cheerful all the time. In fact you can say this as an " act of care" towards them.
Because those who pretend to be happy all the time, are the ones who are the most in trouble.
" Emotional pain cannot kill you, but running away from it can".
LONELINESS
The cure for loneliness is not being surrounded with many people , but feeling connected. We can also feel connected when we read a beautiful book, listen to a profound conversation on a podcast or a moving piece of music. Of course the best thing is always sharing these things with friends. But when they are not around, we can still connect with beautiful minds this way.
Another, more unusual but fun solution is this:
Why not join a choir? Everybody can learn how to sing! You don't even need to have a good voice. Does Bob Dylan have a good voice?
The other day I saw a German documentary about singing, where they confirmed this. And they also said that in Germany 5 million people sing in 180.000 choirs! Isn't that wonderful?
In an interview the world's most famous trauma expert Bessel van der Kolk said something about the power of singing together, that really touched me deeply:
" Probably nobody has ever killed himself within 24 hours after singing Händel's messiah together."
It's not Händel though. It could be a folk song too, of course...
In the documentary they showed that singing with the same people over a long period of time highers your oxytocin levels. You truly build a strong " bond " with them!I know an old couple, they have been singing in the same choir for 30 years!
Himmmm, indeed a choir seems like a much more stable, fun and healthy institution than a marriage :- )
Thanks a lot for this wonderful lesson and beautiful animation!
Hi Lua, I just wanted to let you know that I loved your comment and that I will definitely listen to those podcasts. I'm relearning piano at 24 - I had been learning it during my adolescence but I interrupted after a few years of practice because I thought I wasn't good enough. Trauma has shaped my life experience in such a way that made me feel worthless and incapable of succeeding at anything. But now that I have started again, I have noticed sensitive improvements by the simple act of accepting all those little mistakes as part of the process, which is a metaphor of life itself I guess. Thank you for your kind comment, it resonated with my experience and I wanted to share a bit of it. 💚
@@giuliaromeo2088 Hello Giulia! Thank you so much for your time and for sending me such a wise and beautiful reply! I can totally relate to what you are saying. I have always had self worth issues and have quite some trauma as well. But we can always keep helping ourselves. I meditate everyday for about an hour. It really helped me to finally feel for myself, the kind of compassion I feel for everyone.I wanted to tell you the two books that really helped me a lot, in order to learn not to be so hard on myself:
1. Radical Acceptance, Tara Brach
2. Big Magic , Elisabeth Gilbert ( The title sounds a bit airy fairy , but the book is full of wisdom! The best book I have read about living a creative life. There is a wonderful article about this book on the Brain Pickings website. Take a look if you wish! )
I am very happy to hear that you started playing again! I hope you have a very kind and loving teacher. That's extremely important. You need someone who will remind you over and over again, that what matters is not the outcome, but the "joy" you experience along the way. You are doing it to enrich your life, so you can enjoy every step of it.
I have heard a very cute and uplifting podcast episode about it today. Just google for this:
" Charles Duhigg, How to write the perfect breakup song"
It is about a dentist, who wants to learn songwriting :- )
Once again, thanks a lot. Many greetings and best wishes!
Thank you for this comment... ❤
@@cocochanel3193 Hello there Wangari! You are most welcome! Thank you for your time. Stay safe and healthy
Thanks for sharing 🌼
This feels kind of like a huge macrocosm of Baumann’s “liquid modernity” theory. While he was mostly concerned with the 20th century, it still seems to follow the same arc: starting with being internally “solid” and knowing your identity, status, etc...and being heated up/excited to a “liquid” state where you find it difficult to be static and are constantly questioning your role, purpose, etc.
I love the collages The School of Life sometimes makes! Your videos not only add more common sense to my days, they are also rather funny :)
I see post modern societies taking advantages of technology to live more in accordance to nature.
My desire is to live in a small vilage close to nature, with wifi so I can work remotely and live far away from big city centers
Sounds like a mockery of modernity 🤔 totally agree 😊
@Matt Ludwig so was the world of the past. The more things change the more they stay the same. At least I can fly now
pineapple weed is my jam
I'm so glad the videos about culture, philosophy, etc have returned!
Each new generation is doomed to feel that it is the best, the smartest, and in some way special. The truth is, you aren't the best, you aren't the smartest, and you're sure as hell not special. "Modern" is a word we use to elevate our status above those less fortunate.
At 2:42 I love how the narrator goes "...mastery over death" and the illustration behind turns the Grim Reaper into an Amarita Mascuria a.k.a psilocybin (magic) mushroom, which has profound effects on one's perception of death. Kudos to you who did it!
The video brings some relief. Very grateful of the the school of life.
These videos from School of Life seen to come to you when you are in most need of them!
“and when nobody wakes you up in the morning, and when nobody waits for you at night, and when you can do whatever you want. what do you call it, freedom or loneliness?”
-Bukowski
~9:40 "Though modernity may have made us materially abundant, it has imposed a heavy emotional toll: it has alienated us, bred envy, increased shame, separated us from one another, bewildered us and left us restless and enraged." Thinking about this line and thinking whether I agree with it and if I do, whether fully or partially.
The narrator’s voice is comforting
That's Alain de Botton himself
"Modernity has stripped us of our right to feel melancholy, unproductive, surly in despair and confused" the quote of the year 😅😅😅
This channel is one my favourites in In TH-cam ,Keep making us happy snd wondering School of Life
I f**king love this kind of content :))
Me too!!!!!!!!!!!!!!😍🤗
this helped me so much for one course I'm taking, thanks a lot !!
I'd say we do NOT find our true selves, but we CREATE our own destiny, our own selves. Great content! Thanks for sharing.
We as a collective though. Society and culture makes a huge impact on you, where and when you are born, who your parents are still matters.
Great video, shocking that it was released days after I got the idea to start learning and producing content on this topic, amazing really!
Wow well hope you're able to learn and produce something interesting 👍
@@dimeji8605 thanks
I must say that this is one of the best eye-opening, knowledge imparting video bestowed to mankind. An inexplicable work! 👌👍🏼
I was right. It made me feel content to tell myself that people have certain advantages (network of friends, inheritance, influential parents, breathtaking beauty) that I never had and I never could achieve through merit. That's why even if I am highly educated I don't blame myself for not being as wealthy or famous as others my age.
Great video, thank you very much , note to self(nts) watched all in it 10:35
Hello,
How are you,Do you need any help in any of your assignments?
@@mathewnzovi-gw2et what assignments
how about a video on post-modernism? It feels like the post-2000's have become an endless "present now" time compared to what life felt like from the 70's through the 90's... we used to be ruled by the clock in so many ways that the internet has completely inverted by making almost everything on demand... maybe a video on that
Actually this is a great point. I was going to comment, how much in this video on "Modernity" is actually no longer new. The iPhone is 14 years old now. -An endless "present now", haha, it really is. -There's a great book by Ross Douthat I recently picked up, The Decadent Society, which addresses this stagnation. Related and worth a quick read: www.firstthings.com/article/2020/03/back-to-the-future
Not sure about the time of your comment but in present time there's post modernity (in conjunction with modernity) and a slowly emerging meta modernity.
We can't find our true selves. We are our true selves. One can only exist (be) as the true self.
"there is no way to be I or not be I."
But is this true self basically never true, if we want to expand it, to better it? If I feel to say, I am my true self now, but not before, when I clearly was before - then how come I changed my idea of a true self later on, when I felt that I had become more fulfilled?
Even asking these questions, I am also left to ponder - how different the definition of "true self" is for anyone. But seemingly - true self, accomidates "a point in time" and "an amount of experiences, skills, realization and maybe even an overcome/work-around of weaknesses"
I think "finding" here refers to "discovering the identity of" as in learning more about it, rather than changing towards it.
@@ryanpiotr1929 see here "find" means to discover the truth cause we are told from childhood "You r this, that, bad or good"... But from the very moment we were born (I'm not going before that and after death) we were all "I" but people started objectify us so we imitated that and believed all those stuff true about ourselves. But in Human existence Who I'm is basically what ever I can be with total peace of mind
Modernism in a nutshell: as our world got bigger, we got smaller.
And society collapsed into a cell phone.
@@LiLi-or2gm indeed!
Yet the world was already inhuman to begin with
I think my life got bigger instead of smaller. As humans we got in the western world alot more freedom than we have had ever before
Modernism, as I want to define it, is a way of escaping such complacency......
Please make videos more often for “the curriculum” playlist like this one! I understand that your focus it is more in self helping videos but history,philosophy,literaure playlists are really good.
Very insightful, never thought about this but it makes a lot of sense
Very illuminating. To conclude that modernity is a disease is sobering. I think that the real challenge is to strike a balance between the advantages of modernity and of pre-modern humanity. But that means bringing some of the latter back. A tall order.
7:39 NAKAJIMA YUTO WHY ARE YOU HEREEEE? 😂😂😂😂😂
"...we are asked to smile continuously..."
Someone find me Doc Brown immidiatly.
This was simply excellent as all your videos are.
Regarding progress, we can imagine civilizations like a treadmill: each civilization surpasses the last one, but all civilizations go through the same cycles where they rise, make forward progress and eventually go down so that the cycle can loop. The next civilization picks up where that last one fell off, and the cycle repeats itself. But in this paradigm, the only thing that matters in "progress." America is going through its downward loop in the same way Great Britain did in the 18th century. Another nation will rise up after this and begin where we left off. That is why the world leaders have no remorse for the decisions they make. It is all being done in the name of "progress." It is a Thanos mentality.
Amazing video!! Thank you so much for your amazing content.
I thought I was crazy to think that modern era is a disease. I told my family I want to live like 80s or perhaps like Viking era. But everyone around me said we should be grateful to modernity for so much comfort. But I argue that this all are lie we fake towards other, everywhere is noisy can find a peace of mind can't even find true decent love. Thank to the channel to show me that I m not crazy I just realized thing at the early age 😢
Omg, I love this video! The animation is too good :D
"We can be free, and thus, fully ourselves."
But what are you without the rest of it?
yourself
God, I needed this today. Bravo!
I can only bear to watch School of Life two or three times a year because it so completely blows my doors off. It is too good.
This was depressing. I feel like this only considered the negatives. There are many positives of modernity too. We have much more freedom. Poor people and women had close to no rights in the past. We have access to education and wonderful medicine. Think about how many children died before reaching adulthood in the past, how many women died in childbirth. There are many more ....
Wasn't it what the first half of the video was about? Pff
Isabella A. It really glosses over all those things though, as if they’re not huge gains. Ill take living in this time over any other time in human history generally speaking if you live in a western country you have it so good you have no idea.
@@islas357 so, since when acknowledging that there are bad sides mean that this modern age is worse? Truth is, human life has never been and will never be perfect. But we need to start thinking more about the aspects of our modern age that makes us sick
This video created so much of awareness regarding modernity.... Thankyou.
Absolutely correct information, knowledge 💯....
Modern world... Modern life
When slowly empathy
Turned into apathy 😇
Great video and funny 😁 too. Thanks
I love this video so much!
i thought school of life was what we learn in the days, turns out it has a channel on YT. i just discovered it and it really is more valuable than most of what i learned in school.
It's mostly philosophy courses.
This is a great video. Realizing that we live at a time that is exceptional in the history of the human experience can help us better study, what things in our personal history and our environment had led us toward problematic states of mind and behaviors. (Btw I myself lean heavily toward sorts of individualist thinking).
Let’s go!!!!!!! ANOTHER SCHOOL OF LIFE VIDEO
The greatest purpose of humanity is to win at this game of tag that we've been playing with the world's undisputed champion, death, since the beginning of time. Religion has served its purpose, now is the time to put our modern brains and tech towards achieving immortality.
I was literaly just watching a zoom class about modernity en then you guys upload this video. Am I being watched??
It's scary how actually.... we should ask how far our thoughts are swayed in a similar direction by the media we like or the other way around. Or is it due to climate or cultural "worries to have at this time of year".
Anyhow, similarly today I thought about managing money and Pewdiepie just ups and puts a video up not 2-3 hours later without any (to my knowleadge) promotion of this arriving. But I digest a lot of Pewdiepie, so maybe, where he is right now - I tend to be also?
It is cool, funny and scary - but not to a point of ILLUMINATIIIIIIIII, I fear noone has yet mastered the art of global persuasion and the truth might be - that it's someway collective, beyond manipulation - it might be too slippery for the hands - but I don't know yet. :) Fun anyway!
Yes, yes you are being watched! We all are. Just live between the cracks.
Kaspar Tambur When you search shit on your phone in a certain app and another app shows you something similar, can be deactivated, if your talking about that. If your talking about the consciousness thing, you think it was surprising because it was an isolated event. Same happens when a song we were thinking about plays, it’s just a coincidence, but we like giving meaning to every aspect of our lives,
To quote Matty Healy “modernity has failed us”
Yes but I like modern furniture and design,does this mean that I sell my soul to the principals of modernity,I do like mother nature and believe in God can I mix and match design principals in life?
No, are you crazy? the school of life TH-cam Chanel made a Video stating some theories on modern life and if you don’t follow their claims a Ninja will appear from under your bed and instantly kill you with a shuriken.
The reason you like modern design is because it's roots, indirectly or directly, were the traditional 'arts' from so called "primitive"peoples in Africa, Oceania, The Americas, etc. It was inspired by modernism as defined by the Western arts of painting and sculpture.
I wonder if the romans discussed modernity at the end.
all of the negative aspects only holds true for those not self reflectign enough
Understanding the modern age in depth allows people to think of what will come after and how we dealt with our world today. What happens after you’ve entered the future
Great video! Please, consider making one video about this feeling we have that we are/were supposed to be famous and rich; how to deal with mediocracy.
Revolt against the modern world
Carmen Sandiego 👍👍👍love it
But if we revolt against the modern world and somehow end up in a different world would we then have to consider it as modern and have to revolt against it as well
You mean destroy earth is the solution.🤣
You will do nothing
And go back to the feudal age?
This was both educational and entertaining 🙏🌸💙
Favourite aspect of Modernity - Supermarkets, and Movies! Least favourite - war on Nature and lack of community.
Appreciate your perspective.
A video on modernism is incomplete without talking about post-modernism. I hope you will make a video on it as well
A brilliant deduction of the weight on all of us in this world at this time!
Great video, thank you for your work!
An opponent of Modernity tells us what Modernity is
For all its faults, modernity freed us from ignorance. I'd say it's worth every emotional cost we paid. Which basically goes like this: before man was happy because he knew life was shit so that absolved him of any worries, you were what you were, and you had what you had, and basically you were happy knowing close to nothing about the world, but in modernity man is unhappy because there is hope for a better life, because there are people that succeed and that makes us question why we don't succeed (which contrary to this video's opinion the answer is not always 'it's my fault'. Most of the times really is bad luck and a capitalist system designed to keep you down if you play by the rules to reward you if you're being selfish.) But again, regardless of all these costs, i'd take education, emancipation, progress over ignorance and superstition every time.
Modern is a moving bullseye, its interesting when philosophies have modern in there name...cause one day it won't be so modern
And the you actually watch the first 30 seconds of the video.
It would be really nice to add some notable names, publications, and events that established the particular characteristics that define modernism to this. It feels a little bit "unanchored"and leaving those things out doesn't help someone who wants to know more about a particular aspect of modernism (no basic ground to do lightweight research from). I do appreciate the visuals and the narrative of the video...very pleasant voice and the visuals are engaging.
Although everything has a larger impact on our lives I’m excited to see what new ways humanity and ways of living will evolve. I believe towards the later half of the century people would have definitely grown to be happier and more fond of them selves.
Such a good short summary of modernity and I love the end where you remind us we are part of a historical movement (disease lol) in which we find ourselves and to take hope and action in understanding our existential reality in it. So good!
I'm curious why you didn't cover for 30 seconds world war 1 and world war II as two, not the only of course, major events that take us from modernity in to post modernity? All the utopian visions of modernity, science, social engineering, and sooooo much more came to a crashing halt in the trench warfare of WW1 and the decimation and death of WW11. The technological, scientific, moral, religious, social, and philosophical advancements were exposed and defaced as we were forced to stare at the utter destruction we moderns bestowed on ourselves.
Would love to hear your thoughts on this.
Thanks again for your awesome videos as I lay counselor I send then out to my my clients and reference them all the time!
Yep this is the historical disease moment alright. :)
Telling someone to have a nice day is not an order. It is a wish for the person to have a nice day.
I feel like in modernity there is so much humans we can't be defined by a single trope anymore. You can believe in what you want, decide to like whatever you want and read whoever you want. There can be just as many people interested in modern art, movies and games as there is people fascinated by the Greeks. We're a collective mix of all the cultures that came before and maybe we need time to figure out which one do we want to follow the most. Or maybe it was always like this and in school they just teach us about the majority, but then again, you can't really say the majority of modern people don't believe in God, since there is still a lot of christian or muslim countries out there
damn why are these videos so good
Since modernism is based in individuality is postmodernism based in collectivism? Or is collectivism still considered part of modernism?
Really like this sort of Non academic videos talking about philosophy and culture.
Good presentation!
What an eye opening video
Great insight as always.
It’s not either science or religion but rather understanding science can only validate so much in accordance with the five senses and religion deals primarily in faith. The true knowing is in the understanding that all is one and each one of us makes up what is known to be god which is simply consciousness. And we are it’s maker.
Oh God, I wouldn't be able to explain better my disgust for the modern world that you did in this video. I'm always living with the melancholy of being born in the wrong time, in a society spreading like a disease. I just can't recognise myself in it, ignoring the Earth under is feet and the divine upper is head. All of it to chase empty dreams
What is the name of the melancholy painting at 9:23?
Now I am interested in the video of Post modernism
Despite the psychological burden in modern soceity, modernity allows us to openly question authority.
One aspect was left out. Without religion you cannot blame the gods for failures but you also lost purpose. In the hopes of reaching eternal bliss in heaven it is easy to endure anything because you have something to look forward to at any moment. But without religion you can feel aimlessly lost wondering what do you do all this for?
Me an animator:
SoL: Walt Disney is a villain
-Mostly- only because he set your aspirations too high.
Wow,Did you just peek into people's my mind😂Awesome video
The message in this video is exactly why I’m so strongly behind a self-funded / community owned smart city...move out of the crowded cities, bring modern conveniences, makes home ownership a reality again, and promotes growing with a tribe where your small group is like your family. By 2025 it’s estimated 65% of the U.S. population will live in metropolis areas...think about that
2:27 Being immortal it mean to work 8 hours a day for the rest of eternity. Not very appealing ... also, if i'd meet a girl who was 500 years old I doubt I'd date her .... know what I mean?
No I don't
Awesome presentation - interesting commentary, but I especially get a kick out of the graphics!!
I wish this was 40 minutes long
Doodelay just watch it 4 times
If we could create a time machine and send human back at least 100 year back. I bet they would do anything to return to modern life.
Someone lacks imagination.
Depends on what's for them to gain. For many people, being part of a community is more important than monetary gains. In the old days people used to live in extended families. Unfortunately, that's almost lost in today's world.
I'd like to go back even more back in history just to escape the modern world
One thing people forget is right and freedom we enjoy today even compare to couple of decades ago. Plus end of colonialism and increase of quality of life in asia, rights of women and minority. We can surely improve ourselves. But nope, not going back to dark ages and era of religious and social backwardness.
I'd predict world events and become a living god while reciting solar eclipse dates.
The guilt of having a negative energy in oneself... and how strong it really is?