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Kurgesagt is getting better and better, from my favourite topics of biology and physics to the most intellectual and philosophical thoughts of the world, with great optimisim for furture. Even though we face challenges everyday , even it seems to get worse everyday, the positive mindset and motivational contents like these always keep us moving forward. Thank you Kurzgesagt , Love from India.
There are times when I just wish to be alone. Not forever, but just for a moment, or at least a day. To be alone on a deserted island at sunset, and do just one thing: think. This world changes so quickly; some want to improve it, while others want to make it worse. Social media, friends, hypocrisy, change… everything is so fast-paced. Sometimes it’s easy to ignore, but when you stop to think about it… it’s tough. Years go by, and we think we’re moving in a direction, only to realize in the end that we’ve been walking in circles. Yes, the world needs to progress, but if every person in this world took a moment to stop, get to know themselves, accept themselves, help others, and strive to be their best version, I’m sure the world would already change.
Its just people not TAKING the time to ask themselves questions. Some people dont have the confidence. Yet, it's quite simple actually;) people aren't forgiving enough to themselves to allow themselves to fail before succeding.
Why did this make me want to cry? I really appreciate the nuanced perspective here, that life rn is so much easier and more prosperous than ever before, and at the same time it's so much harder and more complex than it ever has been. There's a quote from a show I really like called New Amsterdam where the main character says "we all think the system is too big to change, but we are the system, and we have to change". Changing our story and our mindset is the first step to changing the world. I just want to add one missing piece to the story you told: cooperation. We have survived this long because we learned to work together, to respect and protect each other, to work for the common good of others, and to be of service. This is as much as part of the human story as struggle, competition, war, and killing. Maybe we can focus on the good we can do when we work together and care for each other. That is not naive, that is the key to our success as a species and we are forgetting its vital importance. Great video!
Same here, I'm just containing my tears. Life's hard, but when you see the complete image of humanity...I don't know, it gave me feeling about being part of something really big and special, even my problems and mental health issues for a moment seems not that important, all it's relative. Sometimes we just need to take a look at the full picture of everything to have a little of faith in the future of ourselves and the world.🖤
I can only comment on the people ive spoken too personally. Im not claiming this is a majority of people or anything. Ive debated with people on way they live the way they do. After ive gone through multiple steps of the argument, I tell them they are causing us head into dangerous scenarios that will affect our future generations. And it boils down to them not caring because its not affecting them personally. And that they will never see the consequences. Im still studying philosophy science and ethics but from my point of view it seems there are alot of people affected by a toxic mindset in our society where we dont have to justify our actions if we dont want to.
This all starts with one simple decision in our day to day lives: embracing kindness. Kindness towards ourselves, kindness towards others, and kindness towards the planet and the animals we share it with. It is through kindness that we will prosper.
Yeah but don't bother trying to make society better - there are people that could do that and they don't. The best thing we can do for ourselves is embrace prudential hedonism.
When I watched this, the tears started flowing and didn't stop. This channel has true storytelling magic combined with a real scientific insight and a huge compassion to share it with the world.
Lately I have been trying to balance my media consumption with more positivity and hope instead of only consuming the negative. This was a perfect way to start my day, thank you!
Consuming positivity can be helpful, but I've realized that the thing I found to be most gratifying is creating positivity. I had an awakening when I was a young man and I started volunteering at a local food pantry. I never felt more connected to my community. It's not easy to create positivity. It's a lot of hard work, but it gives you more control over the way the world is, even if it's just a small bit.
Negativity sells so many ppls perception of the world is totally warped. There are tons of good things happening daily that we dont hear about. If the news and schools and media were positive, we would think we are living in the best times ever
I think the cure is less media consumption in general. Back in the day, people used to read the news paper in the morning or watch the news in the evening. That's more than enough. Me personally, I've recently went back to my roots and started reading more books again and also writing. I've loved writing as a kid and it's so much more fun and rewarding than TikTok and TH-cam. Or watching a great show on netflix
This is precisely what I think daily. Whenever I share this vision with anyone, I'm met with overwhelming pessimism. As humans, we must embrace the concept of global wellness and discard the negativity that hinders our progress. This is a revolution that can begin from the grassroots and ascend to the highest levels. We simply need to shift our mindset.
Capitalism has to be dismantled for this to happen. You cannot have most powerful counties, corporations and organizations care about maximizing profits and preserving status quo over wellbeing of everyone and earth itself
There will always be others who seek to divide and exploit for their own gain. So long as those people exist, we will continually be held back. Take that thought as far as you would like.
@@colinhubble6667 There will always be those who search for a better world The world is better now than it was 100 years ago the world will be better in 100 years they may slow our progress, but they have never stopped us, if they did, we wouldnt be here.
I think the overwhelming pessimism comes partially from the fact that we are at a crucial, defining stage of our development where one wrong move could lead to, or just outright end humanity instantly, and yet there isnt a single person in power who cares about anything more than their own pockets. Who holds the power? The people who want to fix the worlds problems, or the people who leverage those problems to become richer than 99.9999% of the population? Its worse when you realise there are a small number of people on the world who could end humanity on command. True, the chances are really low, but never zero. Its difficult to stay optimistic when you realise humanity gave power to a small group of people who only think about themselves. The rest of us are meanwhile too preoccupied fighting eachother.
It's like our entire species is going through a character's journey as a whole and we're in the phase where we're discovering who we truly are What an exciting time to be alive!
Thank you Kurzgesagt. I started stuying computer science and started wondering " for what ?" It looks like we are on the blink of extinction with all the wars or climate challenges we face today. Wester folks myself included take the wonders we created for granted and we should be more thankfull for what we have and tmake the best out of it. A truly stoic message. Fight nihilism!
I don't now why, but I needed this. For some reason I became emotional from the get go. Thanks for your videos and your hardwork. I love science, and I'm lost spiritually, whenever you guys upload videos like this it somehow helps me a lot :)
“If we start thinking in decades and centuries…” there’s the specter of the problem again-capitalism, consumerism. We can’t think that far ahead because, like Junkies for money, we structure our society around quarterly profits and a model of endless growth. It is unwise, short-sighted, and physically unsustainable. Not only does it keep us from realizing a better future, but it’s also the direct cause of most of our problems: climate change, plastic pollution, wealth inequality, labor exploitation, poor healthcare, etc. the list goes on. Growth for the sake of growth is the philosophy of cancer. The parasite class has already infected us. We, the working class, need to stand together in solidarity. I know we all see this.
This video should be watched by every human in this world. I am not exaggerating because this video is that spark which can lighten hope in the humanity. Kudos to the team 👏💐
i have the ancestor/ape experience every few months tbh. it started when i was about 8 and since then i have had many ups and downs. but every time i come to my senses and realise how lucky i´m/we´re to be alive and every time it kickstarts a wave of happiness and acceptance. it makes me feel humbled and also excited for what is to come. how far we´ve made it. Never give up hope.
Which is better than it's ever been historically. It's easy to look at all the things wrong today and despair, but if you look across our history as a species you see a strong overall trend towards things getting better for people on average. Like the video suggests, it's important to not think of now as being an endpoint, but as just another point in a story that could keep going for millions of years. Things have gotten better and will likely continue to get better, at least over the long term. We're all able to be part of that trend if we choose to be. If something sucks, we can make an effort to change that, and over time, with enough of us trying, we'll succeed. Seeing bad things should not scare us into giving up, but give us cause to keep pushing forward.
Some 300 years ago it would be 8% of the world *not* living in extreme poverty. And that 700 million number is falling every day. All in all I'd say we're doing pretty good.
thanks for this. exams are tomorrow and i can't help but feel that all of this is pointless, like a chill wind that creeps up at you and seeks to remind of warmth that doesn't quite belong to you. this video felt like the shielding of that warmth from the chill wind.
I love that this video feels more personal, its narrative more poetic and its visuals more fantasy. This video makes me feel majestic about my own existence. The part that humans can create a paradise about ourselves really speaks to me. A lot of incredible feats have been accomplished by humanity in the name of progress, not discrimination and destruction.
Life is what you make it...if you view it through the lens of hopelessness...that's the reality we manifest and experience...but if we shift our perspective to see the solutions and not just problems, from despair to hope...we'll manifest a world more aligned with our Source being
That statement is only true if you live in an environment where your decisions matter and have an impact. That cant be said for a vast majority of people living in poor and underdeveloped countries, plagued by conflicts, corruption and exploitation.
@@pamesankaese tbf this is true for developed countries as well. Perhaps even more so with criminal clans at power employing evermore sophisticated methods of population control.
This truly is the most based way to see the world. Most of us have what kings could only dream of previously. Corruption and problems do matter, but they matter so much BECAUSE of how much groundwork has been left to us from millions of years of clawing our way into this position. Do your best in this life to be happy, and if you can make a change, do it. I love each and every one of you ❤
Wow. Amazing. I can’t believe how in depth our human history and society is. I’m glad I live in a time with you all even if we never meet each other in person ever, I’m glad we get to share such a beautiful, very scary, very complex world at this moment!
I’ve recently started research into superstring theory and it just amazes me how much knowledge we’re able to diffuse from the universe. When you think about it, we are self-aware matter orbiting a rather ordinary star, on the outer region of a fairly typical galaxy, born from the chaos of the cosmos, who are able to understand reality. It really makes me appreciate… existence itself really.
Every generation thinks the end is nigh, that everything is falling apart, that the young are doomed.. And yet, in the end, it never turns out that way.
Hopelessness is surely unhelpful, but so is blind hopefulness. The structures that are in place actively inhibit the progress we need to make to sustain human life. Therefore you must fight for a better world. Not wait for it to get better on its own. Fight against injustice, oppression, war and fossil fuels. We can't just keep doing business as usual and expect politicians to save the world.
This made me cry. This is the outlook I always try to have and it gives me great hope for those that come after us, and it makes me more determined than ever to leave things even better for those that come after us.
Makes me cry too because it's someone telling me there IS hope. Startrek has helped me a lot too. If it still alive by 2070 (I'm currently 34) I'm crossing my fingers we discover warp drive. All these sci-fi shows aren't completly out of reach now, in 500 years we could be traversing the depths of our galaxy, how cool is that?
Thank you for acknowledging that even living in a well - off, modern place, can be difficult today - but also how we have the power to change this. This video really filled me with hope, thank you Kurzgesagt.
28 “Come to me, all you who are weary and heavy burdened, and I will give you rest. 29 Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. 30 For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.” - Jesus Matthew 11:28-30
Growing older, I've become more and more discouraged by humanity and the state of the world, so this really resonated with me 🥹 Thank you for your work and this hopeful message.. thought-provoking, moving, inspiring ❤ Much love to the Kurzgesagt team ❤😊
I think the thing that haunts me the most is how powerless we are. A very limited few number of people have the power to start or stop the end of the world from happening.
The last 4 years have been really difficult for me. The company I had been at for nearly 10 years and worked up to a Director position went under in 2021 due to COVID. I had to restart and the stress of everything led to a 3.5 year opiate addiction. I found a new career as a Licensed Association Manager, got clean this year, and got an offer letter today to start with a company making the most money I ever have in my life. I'm looking forward to what 2025 and beyond has to bring.
All of us wanna live in a world like that but none of us will remember this video by the time we wake up tomorrow. All of us want to become wealthy and powerful live in luxury but none of us realise that we are living a life far better than wealthiest and mightiest kings and emperors who lived less than 1000 years from now.
The Most Inspiring AND On Point Cartoons I've EVER Watched!!! When the office man hit that computer screen and turned to a nomadic. I felt my body calming. I've stolen your video from TH-cam!
This video's script writers got SOOOO close. But it's hard to come out against the funders of your project in the content of your project. There's a reason that this Bill Gates funded project doesn't seem to cover the idea that we, a cooperative species, should start cooperating instead of competing. But that might cut into profits.
@@leandroraicoski Oh god, anybody using "comrade" unironically is absolutely cringe-worthy and LARPing. Go out and make some real change out in the world instead.
@@KevinFeeley_KHF I'm German and I believe I know what kind of types they are. You know, they think communism is a great idea but yeah, people are just too bad and greedy and it has never worked out. I feel like most Germans actually would support communism if you don't call it communism
definitely not the best world - perhaps around 20,000 years ago before the Agricultural Revolution was best. Of course that world was problematic for humans but those humans had many less problems than the ones today. Modern medicine does not outweigh all the problems of our modern world.
I'd say it was better 25 years ago than it is now. More hunger, more crime, more greed, more suffering, more death, move overpopulation, more mental illness, more religious extremism. This video is a coping mechanism for those who ignore the evidence of their eyes and ears.
Thank you, Kurzgesagt, you guys somehow always seem to drop the most perfect videos at the most perfect moments. I don't know why i teared up watching this especially near the end, but i think i needed it.
I'm gonna cry I've been going through some really bad things mentally and physically irl But yet we push on. And do must I because if I stop, I die the void calls, but I musnt listen to it to everyone, I love you ❤
I also tell stories, I go to conventions and do stand-up comedy. Specifically about my misadventures and how I'm better after, more enriched, find a happiness and knowledge... Much like this video
In other words, no matter how much we improve the world, nothing will change as long as we stay the same. And we haven't fundamentally changed in 12,000 years.
At this point, I hope humanity could still use that 12,025 calendar in the future but I highly that doubt they could achieve that still, I won't lose hope♥
Despite everything that was said in this clip, the largest genocide in history is still happening despite being documented with sound and image and broadcast live, and unfortunately Germany is the second largest supporter of it... It is difficult to live in Germany and speak freely about a subject like this due to the lack of freedom of expression, but the exploitation of the guilt complex to commit and support things like or worse than what caused that guilt complex must be prevented.
Also, thank you for still using real voice talent and not going AI. Your narrator is iconic. In every way, Kurzgesagt is the epitome of integrity on TH-cam.
I don't like first world optimism that totally ignore that the reality for developing countries is worstening, not improving over time, mainly due to the influence of developed countries.
They arent improving due to their own accord, not ours. We have spent 4 trillion in a period of 60 years to foreign developing nations, and countries like south korea, hong kong, singapore, china and botswana have enrichened themselves, others have not. This isnt due to colonialism or foreign offshoring, but government incompetence and immense corruption
@@dimmler7851yeah, a lot of developing countries aren’t getting better or getting worse because of themselves. But again, to be optimistic, these countries aren’t doomed to failure. Things can get better but it won’t be easy.
Imagine people in Gaza watching this. Undergoing decades of genocide. It's a very comforting video for those who are already comfortable. This perspective is impossible if you are getting the short end of the colonial stick.
For every problem there also exists a solution to every impasse there is a way around, thank you for inspiring me to what I believe in as it’s a tough world out there, but I have faith and hope we’ll persist, together.
"It's like we got handed a save file of a game where others put in millions of hours of work - and we can decide what game we want to play in the future" For the fortunate enough in the world, this rings so true, yet - what the world expects of us has grown expontentially too. Simply being aware of the possible comforts the modern world could offer IF we drain our work-life balance away gives rise to an unending pressure to 'achieve 100% completion' from the save files we've been dealt from birth. However, if you are 'fortunate' enough to have your save file start at 50% rather than a 'less fortunate' 5%, your 100% becomes more of a 200% - what society expects of you rises exponentially. If I aim for 100%, starting from 50%, society deems me lazy and unambitious. How we all perceive 'completion' and contentment changes so much based on what save file we started with. As the world's opportunities continue to grow and grow as society evolves, the pressures we place on ourselves to achieve these opportunities often suffocates us, no matter where we start in life.
This video made me cry...It's just...Hard to explain. But seeing the full picture of everything helps me to forget for a moment about my own problems and struggles, we're part of something big and special, and we should have faith in ourselves and in the future.
as a critique of the human condition, this is absolutely on point...a polemical appraisal of the progress made and the advances humanity has brought to the table...honest and straightforward....
I love your videos! Every time I watch a video I’m amazed by the animations! This is truly one of the top 10 TH-cam channels and the best informative channel!
Something I personally always hate hearing is that we have the capability to make a paradise for *us*. We aren't here just for ourselves anymore, that time has long since passed. We needn't be selfish. The strive to make such a selfish paradise is what got us to the position of the now in the first place. So many species already extinct, with many more endangered and others simply suffering under our cruelty just 'cause. A paradise would be something for everyone, everyone being all things that live on our planet. It's not a good thing that something as simple as a wolf sighting for example can alert the news to such a high degree and trigger people to give responses equal to going to war with another country.
"It has to do with curiosity. It has to do with people wondering what makes something do something. And then to discover, if you try to get answers, that they are related to each other - that things that make the wind make the waves, that the motion of water is like the motion of air is like the motion of sand. The fact that things have common features. It turns out more and more universal. What we are looking for is how everything works. What makes everything work...the truth is so remarkable, so amazing," -Richard Feynman, a lecture on curiosity.
Every morning at work, i ask my boss how hes doing and he asks the same in return. I always say, I exist. It totally encapsulates the opening thoughts of this video. Having the intelligence to understand all the evils, wrongs and hardships is tough. So while my individual day to day life is ok, amazing compared to many worse off, its also not as good as it could be if humanity as a whole got its stuff together.
Loved it! Y'all have done enough research and have learned enough from that that ya'll know what you're talking about. Enough so to be a trustworthy teacher. Thank you for this, for the way you bring us such info and knowledge, and for all of your other videos! Namaste, teachers. 🙏 😊
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Hey kurzesagt.
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Kurgesagt is getting better and better, from my favourite topics of biology and physics to the most intellectual and philosophical thoughts of the world, with great optimisim for furture. Even though we face challenges everyday , even it seems to get worse everyday, the positive mindset and motivational contents like these always keep us moving forward. Thank you Kurzgesagt , Love from India.
There are times when I just wish to be alone. Not forever, but just for a moment, or at least a day. To be alone on a deserted island at sunset, and do just one thing: think. This world changes so quickly; some want to improve it, while others want to make it worse. Social media, friends, hypocrisy, change… everything is so fast-paced. Sometimes it’s easy to ignore, but when you stop to think about it… it’s tough. Years go by, and we think we’re moving in a direction, only to realize in the end that we’ve been walking in circles.
Yes, the world needs to progress, but if every person in this world took a moment to stop, get to know themselves, accept themselves, help others, and strive to be their best version, I’m sure the world would already change.
Its just people not TAKING the time to ask themselves questions. Some people dont have the confidence. Yet, it's quite simple actually;) people aren't forgiving enough to themselves to allow themselves to fail before succeding.
Thanks Kurzgesast, changing the story we tell ourselves is indeed the necessary foundation for real positive change to occur !
Why did this make me want to cry? I really appreciate the nuanced perspective here, that life rn is so much easier and more prosperous than ever before, and at the same time it's so much harder and more complex than it ever has been. There's a quote from a show I really like called New Amsterdam where the main character says "we all think the system is too big to change, but we are the system, and we have to change". Changing our story and our mindset is the first step to changing the world.
I just want to add one missing piece to the story you told: cooperation. We have survived this long because we learned to work together, to respect and protect each other, to work for the common good of others, and to be of service. This is as much as part of the human story as struggle, competition, war, and killing. Maybe we can focus on the good we can do when we work together and care for each other. That is not naive, that is the key to our success as a species and we are forgetting its vital importance. Great video!
It's because of the music making you feel like that. His words are just of hollow dreams under a dramatic music to make you feel thar way.
Same here, I'm just containing my tears. Life's hard, but when you see the complete image of humanity...I don't know, it gave me feeling about being part of something really big and special, even my problems and mental health issues for a moment seems not that important, all it's relative. Sometimes we just need to take a look at the full picture of everything to have a little of faith in the future of ourselves and the world.🖤
shut up meg sorry relized your name before typing well said
@@fasddfadfgasdgsit doesn’t make those less true.
I can only comment on the people ive spoken too personally. Im not claiming this is a majority of people or anything. Ive debated with people on way they live the way they do. After ive gone through multiple steps of the argument, I tell them they are causing us head into dangerous scenarios that will affect our future generations. And it boils down to them not caring because its not affecting them personally. And that they will never see the consequences. Im still studying philosophy science and ethics but from my point of view it seems there are alot of people affected by a toxic mindset in our society where we dont have to justify our actions if we dont want to.
This all starts with one simple decision in our day to day lives: embracing kindness. Kindness towards ourselves, kindness towards others, and kindness towards the planet and the animals we share it with. It is through kindness that we will prosper.
Psychology also plays a big role
Agreed. We should all be vegan to start. That's just the bare minimum.
Yeah but don't bother trying to make society better - there are people that could do that and they don't. The best thing we can do for ourselves is embrace prudential hedonism.
I'd put awareness first. You have to know, how you really feel, otherwise your kindness might just become a fake moral.
Kindness doesn't shape the actions of corporations.
It's a good trait. But the largest systemic issues will not be resolved by being nicer.
"We are divided, unable to solve problems while creating new ones"
Most accurate description of humanity
So true
Thankfully the populace is refreshed every 100 years or so.
With new people making new issues.
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had this thought today morning
it's just true
When I watched this, the tears started flowing and didn't stop. This channel has true storytelling magic combined with a real scientific insight and a huge compassion to share it with the world.
...I didn't know I needed this video. But glad that it came in the right moment. Thanks!
Lately I have been trying to balance my media consumption with more positivity and hope instead of only consuming the negative. This was a perfect way to start my day, thank you!
Consuming positivity can be helpful, but I've realized that the thing I found to be most gratifying is creating positivity. I had an awakening when I was a young man and I started volunteering at a local food pantry. I never felt more connected to my community. It's not easy to create positivity. It's a lot of hard work, but it gives you more control over the way the world is, even if it's just a small bit.
@@DylanH255 Social media magnifies negativity because it gains more traction. It's good to look out of our windows to see the real world sometimes.
Negativity sells so many ppls perception of the world is totally warped. There are tons of good things happening daily that we dont hear about. If the news and schools and media were positive, we would think we are living in the best times ever
day?? its night here
I think the cure is less media consumption in general. Back in the day, people used to read the news paper in the morning or watch the news in the evening. That's more than enough. Me personally, I've recently went back to my roots and started reading more books again and also writing. I've loved writing as a kid and it's so much more fun and rewarding than TikTok and TH-cam. Or watching a great show on netflix
Thank you for this! I'm so happy to be on the postive side of this feeling
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Finally a video that doesn't make you have an existential crisis
This is precisely what I think daily. Whenever I share this vision with anyone, I'm met with overwhelming pessimism. As humans, we must embrace the concept of global wellness and discard the negativity that hinders our progress. This is a revolution that can begin from the grassroots and ascend to the highest levels. We simply need to shift our mindset.
Capitalism has to be dismantled for this to happen. You cannot have most powerful counties, corporations and organizations care about maximizing profits and preserving status quo over wellbeing of everyone and earth itself
There will always be others who seek to divide and exploit for their own gain. So long as those people exist, we will continually be held back. Take that thought as far as you would like.
@@colinhubble6667 There will always be those who search for a better world
The world is better now than it was 100 years ago
the world will be better in 100 years
they may slow our progress, but they have never stopped us, if they did, we wouldnt be here.
I think the overwhelming pessimism comes partially from the fact that we are at a crucial, defining stage of our development where one wrong move could lead to, or just outright end humanity instantly, and yet there isnt a single person in power who cares about anything more than their own pockets. Who holds the power? The people who want to fix the worlds problems, or the people who leverage those problems to become richer than 99.9999% of the population? Its worse when you realise there are a small number of people on the world who could end humanity on command. True, the chances are really low, but never zero. Its difficult to stay optimistic when you realise humanity gave power to a small group of people who only think about themselves. The rest of us are meanwhile too preoccupied fighting eachother.
@@maxave7448or too busy trying to get by on little money
It's like our entire species is going through a character's journey as a whole and we're in the phase where we're discovering who we truly are
What an exciting time to be alive!
Yeah, we're in the moratorium of humanity
There are human beings who are Zionists, not human beings.
Thank you Kurzgesagt. I started stuying computer science and started wondering " for what ?" It looks like we are on the blink of extinction with all the wars or climate challenges we face today. Wester folks myself included take the wonders we created for granted and we should be more thankfull for what we have and tmake the best out of it. A truly stoic message. Fight nihilism!
I don't now why, but I needed this. For some reason I became emotional from the get go. Thanks for your videos and your hardwork. I love science, and I'm lost spiritually, whenever you guys upload videos like this it somehow helps me a lot :)
“If we start thinking in decades and centuries…” there’s the specter of the problem again-capitalism, consumerism. We can’t think that far ahead because, like Junkies for money, we structure our society around quarterly profits and a model of endless growth. It is unwise, short-sighted, and physically unsustainable. Not only does it keep us from realizing a better future, but it’s also the direct cause of most of our problems: climate change, plastic pollution, wealth inequality, labor exploitation, poor healthcare, etc. the list goes on. Growth for the sake of growth is the philosophy of cancer. The parasite class has already infected us. We, the working class, need to stand together in solidarity. I know we all see this.
Everyone is always impressed by your hard work!
It’s very important to learn something from these videos❤
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This video should be watched by every human in this world. I am not exaggerating because this video is that spark which can lighten hope in the humanity. Kudos to the team 👏💐
Yeah I Agree our future as a society is largely based on planning on the future. Thanks for the endless wisdom kerzgesagt
i have the ancestor/ape experience every few months tbh. it started when i was about 8 and since then i have had many ups and downs. but every time i come to my senses and realise how lucky i´m/we´re to be alive and every time it kickstarts a wave of happiness and acceptance. it makes me feel humbled and also excited for what is to come. how far we´ve made it. Never give up hope.
That moment when you realize kurzgesagt is getting more and more deeper...
Facts!
Achievment unlocked: "We are going deeper"
Coolmuch "depper understanding" should be the wayツ
Have u watched „the egg“ ?
@@MagicalSpoon yea
"We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children" Wendell Berry
700 000 000 is like like 8% of the world in completely poverty
correct
Single Digit number... If it wasn't for the actual Felt Suffering that wouldn't be bad metrics.
wow poor people are so lazy :o
Which is better than it's ever been historically. It's easy to look at all the things wrong today and despair, but if you look across our history as a species you see a strong overall trend towards things getting better for people on average. Like the video suggests, it's important to not think of now as being an endpoint, but as just another point in a story that could keep going for millions of years. Things have gotten better and will likely continue to get better, at least over the long term. We're all able to be part of that trend if we choose to be. If something sucks, we can make an effort to change that, and over time, with enough of us trying, we'll succeed. Seeing bad things should not scare us into giving up, but give us cause to keep pushing forward.
Some 300 years ago it would be 8% of the world *not* living in extreme poverty. And that 700 million number is falling every day. All in all I'd say we're doing pretty good.
thanks for this. exams are tomorrow and i can't help but feel that all of this is pointless, like a chill wind that creeps up at you and seeks to remind of warmth that doesn't quite belong to you. this video felt like the shielding of that warmth from the chill wind.
SO EXCITED FOR THE CALENDAR
Finally a video that gave me hopes instead of existential dread. Thankyou kurzgesagt
Being human at the price of humanity! ✨
I love that this video feels more personal, its narrative more poetic and its visuals more fantasy. This video makes me feel majestic about my own existence.
The part that humans can create a paradise about ourselves really speaks to me. A lot of incredible feats have been accomplished by humanity in the name of progress, not discrimination and destruction.
Life is what you make it...if you view it through the lens of hopelessness...that's the reality we manifest and experience...but if we shift our perspective to see the solutions and not just problems, from despair to hope...we'll manifest a world more aligned with our Source being
That statement is only true if you live in an environment where your decisions matter and have an impact. That cant be said for a vast majority of people living in poor and underdeveloped countries, plagued by conflicts, corruption and exploitation.
I think this is about where my new age bs alarms should be going off
@@pamesankaese tbf this is true for developed countries as well. Perhaps even more so with criminal clans at power employing evermore sophisticated methods of population control.
This is true, thanks p-bot!
@@kurzgesagt never fails to open our eyes and put us through an existential crisis 🗿
The best way to describe kurzesgast in one word in my opinion is “Goosebumps”.
This is so real
i feel like our collective conciousness has started to shift
This truly is the most based way to see the world. Most of us have what kings could only dream of previously. Corruption and problems do matter, but they matter so much BECAUSE of how much groundwork has been left to us from millions of years of clawing our way into this position.
Do your best in this life to be happy, and if you can make a change, do it. I love each and every one of you ❤
Wow. Amazing. I can’t believe how in depth our human history and society is. I’m glad I live in a time with you all even if we never meet each other in person ever, I’m glad we get to share such a beautiful, very scary, very complex world at this moment!
I’ve recently started research into superstring theory and it just amazes me how much knowledge we’re able to diffuse from the universe. When you think about it, we are self-aware matter orbiting a rather ordinary star, on the outer region of a fairly typical galaxy, born from the chaos of the cosmos, who are able to understand reality. It really makes me appreciate… existence itself really.
I am crying.... I am thankful for being born as a human on this beautiful planet. ❤
8:26 - "Balance to the world" is what has been ingrained into my head, and I am so appreciative of the reason why. If you know you know.
_I bet you are watching this with one leg over the other !_ ✨
"We are divided, unable to solve problems while creating new ones"
truer words have never been spoken fr
Every generation thinks the end is nigh, that everything is falling apart, that the young are doomed.. And yet, in the end, it never turns out that way.
6:21 best part right here
You defo didnt even watch It 💀💀💀
@@zarv11 I skipped forward a bit
I hope you have now seen the whole thing
@@JadeTheWolfieworking on it
Hopelessness is surely unhelpful, but so is blind hopefulness. The structures that are in place actively inhibit the progress we need to make to sustain human life.
Therefore you must fight for a better world. Not wait for it to get better on its own. Fight against injustice, oppression, war and fossil fuels. We can't just keep doing business as usual and expect politicians to save the world.
This made me cry. This is the outlook I always try to have and it gives me great hope for those that come after us, and it makes me more determined than ever to leave things even better for those that come after us.
Same.
We'll do it together!
this my kind of hope core.
Makes me cry too because it's someone telling me there IS hope.
Startrek has helped me a lot too.
If it still alive by 2070 (I'm currently 34) I'm crossing my fingers we discover warp drive.
All these sci-fi shows aren't completly out of reach now, in 500 years we could be traversing the depths of our galaxy, how cool is that?
I still have tears on my cheeks. I've been feeling down, this helped me a lot. :)
Thank you for acknowledging that even living in a well - off, modern place, can be difficult today - but also how we have the power to change this. This video really filled me with hope, thank you Kurzgesagt.
Humanity never destroy itself, it's repairing.
28 “Come to me, all you who are weary and heavy burdened, and I will give you rest. 29 Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. 30 For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.” - Jesus
Matthew 11:28-30
Growing older, I've become more and more discouraged by humanity and the state of the world, so this really resonated with me 🥹 Thank you for your work and this hopeful message.. thought-provoking, moving, inspiring ❤
Much love to the Kurzgesagt team ❤😊
Ok remember your enemies then to put you back to reality then.
I think the thing that haunts me the most is how powerless we are. A very limited few number of people have the power to start or stop the end of the world from happening.
Did anyone else also cry here, except me?
I will forever let this channel cook. It bestows us humans with the drive to push forward and build a better world.
In a never-ending sense of despair, believing in what does not exist also can be one of the ways to live with hope in life.
Thus confiding ourselves into the suffering that humanity can never solve.
You don't have to believe in things without sufficient evidence to bring hope to your life.
The last 4 years have been really difficult for me. The company I had been at for nearly 10 years and worked up to a Director position went under in 2021 due to COVID. I had to restart and the stress of everything led to a 3.5 year opiate addiction. I found a new career as a Licensed Association Manager, got clean this year, and got an offer letter today to start with a company making the most money I ever have in my life. I'm looking forward to what 2025 and beyond has to bring.
You guys should do a video on Solarpunk 🌿
All of us wanna live in a world like that but none of us will remember this video by the time we wake up tomorrow.
All of us want to become wealthy and powerful live in luxury but none of us realise that we are living a life far better than wealthiest and mightiest kings and emperors who lived less than 1000 years from now.
0:50 Definetly fills ME with DOOM
The Most Inspiring AND On Point Cartoons I've EVER Watched!!! When the office man hit that computer screen and turned to a nomadic. I felt my body calming. I've stolen your video from TH-cam!
i have to admit i love how nowadays they dont speak about physics,biology or space but about the spirit of people and many problems there are.
If we dont fix people in the coming decades, there wont be anyone left to learn about physics, biology, or space.
AI can help saving millions of kids, cure countless diseases and solve poverty. Anti AI people are often the privileged ones
watching this instead of doing homework ☺️
Poverty will never be eliminated because that’s not profitable for the rich
"It is easier to imagine the end of humanity rather than the end of capitalism."
good observation, comrade!
This video's script writers got SOOOO close. But it's hard to come out against the funders of your project in the content of your project. There's a reason that this Bill Gates funded project doesn't seem to cover the idea that we, a cooperative species, should start cooperating instead of competing. But that might cut into profits.
@@leandroraicoski Oh god, anybody using "comrade" unironically is absolutely cringe-worthy and LARPing. Go out and make some real change out in the world instead.
@@KevinFeeley_KHF I'm German and I believe I know what kind of types they are. You know, they think communism is a great idea but yeah, people are just too bad and greedy and it has never worked out. I feel like most Germans actually would support communism if you don't call it communism
@@KevinFeeley_KHF no one created the system we live in, it emerged from our actions.
"The word is an awful place. The world is better than it was. The world could be better."
"The world is still horrible, but it's also the best world that's ever existed. And we can make it so much better." Facts.
That this horrible world is the best we've ever had is pretty depressing tbh
definitely not the best world - perhaps around 20,000 years ago before the Agricultural Revolution was best. Of course that world was problematic for humans but those humans had many less problems than the ones today. Modern medicine does not outweigh all the problems of our modern world.
Bro definitely has not read Candide.
I'd say it was better 25 years ago than it is now. More hunger, more crime, more greed, more suffering, more death, move overpopulation, more mental illness, more religious extremism. This video is a coping mechanism for those who ignore the evidence of their eyes and ears.
It’s the best world that’s ever existed because it is the *only* world that has ever existed. Maybe not the only world that _will_ ever exist, though.
For once youtube didn't hide this from me for more than one day. This video motivated me to keep living and moving forward.
8:20 exactly! This is what ive been saying!
Thank you, Kurzgesagt, you guys somehow always seem to drop the most perfect videos at the most perfect moments. I don't know why i teared up watching this especially near the end, but i think i needed it.
1:00 Terry Pratchett mentioned?! 🎉
Couldn't believe it! My favourite author and TH-cam channel, together at last!
This made me cry. Thank you.
I'm gonna cry
I've been going through some really bad things mentally and physically irl
But yet we push on. And do must I
because if I stop, I die
the void calls, but I musnt listen to it
to everyone, I love you ❤
I also tell stories, I go to conventions and do stand-up comedy. Specifically about my misadventures and how I'm better after, more enriched, find a happiness and knowledge... Much like this video
7:26 Is that Minecraft Steve?
I THOUGHT THE SAME THING 💀
In other words, no matter how much we improve the world, nothing will change as long as we stay the same. And we haven't fundamentally changed in 12,000 years.
“Never have so many of us lived so well been so health and well off, but at the same time life is hard”
The truth of our generation
It’s also not really true. More of us today than 50 years ago aren’t getting our basics met.
@@duckyishappy I never thought about that.. woah
This video literally brought me to tears, i needed this
Thank you for such amazing videos
Life and death are opposites, but living life means getting closer to death.
At this point, I hope humanity could still use that 12,025 calendar in the future but I highly that doubt they could achieve that still, I won't lose hope♥
none of us here have finished watching the video
I have 😊
Speak for your self
speak for your elf
makes me feel better as an unemployed , smoking weed rn, crazy that we were able to build a world around us
Despite everything that was said in this clip, the largest genocide in history is still happening despite being documented with sound and image and broadcast live, and unfortunately Germany is the second largest supporter of it... It is difficult to live in Germany and speak freely about a subject like this due to the lack of freedom of expression, but the exploitation of the guilt complex to commit and support things like or worse than what caused that guilt complex must be prevented.
was laberst du
@@jonilp1392Palestine Krieg digga
@@tubax926 ja passt schon so
Amazing. This fills me with so much hope.
UNDER ONE HOUR GANG 👇
Also, thank you for still using real voice talent and not going AI. Your narrator is iconic. In every way, Kurzgesagt is the epitome of integrity on TH-cam.
I don't like first world optimism that totally ignore that the reality for developing countries is worstening, not improving over time, mainly due to the influence of developed countries.
They arent improving due to their own accord, not ours. We have spent 4 trillion in a period of 60 years to foreign developing nations, and countries like south korea, hong kong, singapore, china and botswana have enrichened themselves, others have not. This isnt due to colonialism or foreign offshoring, but government incompetence and immense corruption
@@dimmler7851yeah, a lot of developing countries aren’t getting better or getting worse because of themselves. But again, to be optimistic, these countries aren’t doomed to failure. Things can get better but it won’t be easy.
Imagine people in Gaza watching this. Undergoing decades of genocide. It's a very comforting video for those who are already comfortable. This perspective is impossible if you are getting the short end of the colonial stick.
For every problem there also exists a solution to every impasse there is a way around, thank you for inspiring me to what I believe in as it’s a tough world out there, but I have faith and hope we’ll persist, together.
Watching this while taking a shit late in the evening gives me a wider perspective in life
This video really shows the optimistic way of looking to the world where we live.
WHAT A GREAT TIME TO LIVE IN ❤❤
I've been enjoying your videos for 10 YEARS! Thank you
Appreciating the good vibes and optimism
Stories become true. We always told stories about traveling to space, a story that willed itself into existence.
Life is about perspective and I genuinely appreciate this video and also the countless others. Thank you kurzgesagt.
One of my favorite channels, simple & accurate as always 🎉
"It's like we got handed a save file of a game where others put in millions of hours of work - and we can decide what game we want to play in the future"
For the fortunate enough in the world, this rings so true, yet - what the world expects of us has grown expontentially too. Simply being aware of the possible comforts the modern world could offer IF we drain our work-life balance away gives rise to an unending pressure to 'achieve 100% completion' from the save files we've been dealt from birth. However, if you are 'fortunate' enough to have your save file start at 50% rather than a 'less fortunate' 5%, your 100% becomes more of a 200% - what society expects of you rises exponentially. If I aim for 100%, starting from 50%, society deems me lazy and unambitious.
How we all perceive 'completion' and contentment changes so much based on what save file we started with. As the world's opportunities continue to grow and grow as society evolves, the pressures we place on ourselves to achieve these opportunities often suffocates us, no matter where we start in life.
This video made me cry...It's just...Hard to explain. But seeing the full picture of everything helps me to forget for a moment about my own problems and struggles, we're part of something big and special, and we should have faith in ourselves and in the future.
as a critique of the human condition, this is absolutely on point...a polemical appraisal of the progress made and the advances humanity has brought to the table...honest and straightforward....
I love your videos! Every time I watch a video I’m amazed by the animations! This is truly one of the top 10 TH-cam channels and the best informative channel!
Absolutely good work, as always. Been watching since they were new on TH-cam, and all that has changed is the quality - as it has gotten.
Something I personally always hate hearing is that we have the capability to make a paradise for *us*. We aren't here just for ourselves anymore, that time has long since passed. We needn't be selfish. The strive to make such a selfish paradise is what got us to the position of the now in the first place. So many species already extinct, with many more endangered and others simply suffering under our cruelty just 'cause. A paradise would be something for everyone, everyone being all things that live on our planet.
It's not a good thing that something as simple as a wolf sighting for example can alert the news to such a high degree and trigger people to give responses equal to going to war with another country.
"It has to do with curiosity. It has to do with people wondering what makes something do something. And then to discover, if you try to get answers, that they are related to each other - that things that make the wind make the waves, that the motion of water is like the motion of air is like the motion of sand. The fact that things have common features. It turns out more and more universal. What we are looking for is how everything works. What makes everything work...the truth is so remarkable, so amazing," -Richard Feynman, a lecture on curiosity.
Every morning at work, i ask my boss how hes doing and he asks the same in return. I always say, I exist. It totally encapsulates the opening thoughts of this video. Having the intelligence to understand all the evils, wrongs and hardships is tough. So while my individual day to day life is ok, amazing compared to many worse off, its also not as good as it could be if humanity as a whole got its stuff together.
Loved it!
Y'all have done enough research and have learned enough from that that ya'll know what you're talking about. Enough so to be a trustworthy teacher.
Thank you for this, for the way you bring us such info and knowledge, and for all of your other videos!
Namaste, teachers. 🙏 😊
The world was broken ever since humanity evolved more than 1,000,000 years ago.