Fable of the Dragon-Tyrant

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  • @kajmaj117
    @kajmaj117 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8384

    Slaying a dragon in fantasy: swords and arrows.
    Slaying a dragon in reality: intercontinental ballistic missile.

    • @EpicGamer-mm2ug
      @EpicGamer-mm2ug 2 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

      8.2k likes and no comments wtf 😭

  • @ShyBug42
    @ShyBug42 4 ปีที่แล้ว +29704

    If this were real we all know there would be a group of people who would just go to the dragon and snitch

    • @NineSun001
      @NineSun001 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7442

      There would most definatly be a religios group praising that fucking dragon and sabotaging the mislle project.

    • @apersonok5491
      @apersonok5491 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1213

      @@NineSun001 and if i see a dragon i would shit my pants

    • @apersonok5491
      @apersonok5491 4 ปีที่แล้ว +128

      @Samuel Bateman no

    • @apersonok5491
      @apersonok5491 4 ปีที่แล้ว +173

      @@Titan-br7ld ik we worship too be saved regardless of religion

    • @durablewatermark
      @durablewatermark 4 ปีที่แล้ว +511

      And get eaten in the process. The dragon is also probably too fat to do anything.

  • @Mhochul
    @Mhochul 4 ปีที่แล้ว +24017

    "Many jobs would be lost if the dragon were slaughtered"
    Hits a little too close to reality

    • @davidtucker9498
      @davidtucker9498 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1245

      Notice how they don't talk about the world without the dragon. The next sentence could be, "and then the economic collapse caused by the project and the death of the dragon, coupled with an influx of old people, caused the nation to descend into utter chaos for the next century, and killing far more people in that time than the dragon ever would have."
      Actions have consequences. Killing the dragon is good. What is the cost?

    • @gamerzer0835
      @gamerzer0835 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1717

      Your missing the point david

    • @uzairm3816
      @uzairm3816 4 ปีที่แล้ว +466

      @@davidtucker9498 depends on the situation. Its a balance between the thing and economic consequences

    • @davidtucker9498
      @davidtucker9498 4 ปีที่แล้ว +76

      @@uzairm3816 Exactly.

    • @Myrus_MBG
      @Myrus_MBG 4 ปีที่แล้ว +428

      David Tucker Camps are more about indoctrination and forced labor, extremely few are purposefully killed, but I get your point and agree with it; we need to prepare for the consequences of immortality and it’s not wise to do it if we can’t suffer the consequences. The point of the video though is that death shouldn’t be viewed as part of the “natural process” of life, it should be abolished and the work around for things like over-population should be worked out. I personally think the video is fine in ignoring this, but that’s up for debate.

  • @_fire_fox_1152
    @_fire_fox_1152 ปีที่แล้ว +6159

    From the projects beginning to its completion, 43,830,000 souls were consumed by the dragon.

    • @braydenstdenis6714
      @braydenstdenis6714 ปีที่แล้ว +360

      A mid evil kingdom can totally keep up with that

    • @alburito0
      @alburito0 ปีที่แล้ว +42

      Nope

    • @_fire_fox_1152
      @_fire_fox_1152 ปีที่แล้ว +429

      That's not even including how many it would have eaten before the project began, given the context in the story I don't think we may ever know.

    • @thecourtjester1931
      @thecourtjester1931 ปีที่แล้ว +35

      This is big brain time

    • @technoai-01
      @technoai-01 ปีที่แล้ว +185

      He also said that the dragons hunger grew as he became larger

  • @jeremykiahsobyk102
    @jeremykiahsobyk102 5 ปีที่แล้ว +19812

    The dragon wondered for a moment why the bright light in the sky was getting bigger and brighter. Then it hit him.

  • @grfrjiglstan
    @grfrjiglstan 6 ปีที่แล้ว +23610

    "The best time to plant a tree was twenty years ago. The second-best time is now."
    -An old Chinese proverb

    • @YHWHsam
      @YHWHsam 5 ปีที่แล้ว +566

      that's profound and amusing at the same time.

    • @adestimare5985
      @adestimare5985 5 ปีที่แล้ว +168

      We have that saying Germany, so...

    • @KillerHatDude
      @KillerHatDude 5 ปีที่แล้ว +86

      Bruh thats reddit

    • @iakinose
      @iakinose 5 ปีที่แล้ว +382

      It's actually "the best time to delete this tweet was after you made it, the second best time is now.

    • @Alexa-hh8so
      @Alexa-hh8so 5 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      instagram status

  • @lifeisboss7097
    @lifeisboss7097 4 ปีที่แล้ว +21770

    The least accurate thing about this fable is that a scientist predicted how long their project would take

    • @shichengrao5314
      @shichengrao5314 4 ปีที่แล้ว +925

      Actually, not really. They predicted with an uncertainty of 2.5 years. And the extra funding thing just blew the whole estimate out of the water.

    • @lifeisboss7097
      @lifeisboss7097 4 ปีที่แล้ว +504

      @@shichengrao5314 The scientist said, X-Y years, but with more funding it might be possible in 12 years. It took 12 years. I am using the 2nd estimate as they got more funds

    • @kitkat47chrysalis95
      @kitkat47chrysalis95 4 ปีที่แล้ว +251

      @@lifeisboss7097 while i agree for sake of accuracy they really should have missed their estimate, for tge sake of storytelling and forshadowing i think it should be the way that it is, keeping it simple so that starting sooner rather than sciencing more effectively is the moral of the story

    • @9nikola
      @9nikola 4 ปีที่แล้ว +205

      A real scientist should be able to accurately predict approximately how long a project should take. Most of the times we get to hear about their predictions, however, it is often exaggerated or misunderstood by journalists, public speakers and others. This is shown accurately in the video, as the scientists said they might be able to do it in 12 years with proper funding (then everyone began funding it and supporting it), while the king said they'd do it in 10 years.

    • @lifeisboss7097
      @lifeisboss7097 4 ปีที่แล้ว +89

      @@9nikola Everyone SHOULD be able to predict when their project should be done, but that doesn't mean a ten+ year project will not have unexpected setbacks or breakthroughs. So while i agree with you for small month to year long projects, I find it highly unlikely that a decade+ project will be exactly on time

  • @Smiguli64
    @Smiguli64 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7338

    Now imagine if the dragon got back up in the end and was actually a two phase boss fight.

  • @iainballas
    @iainballas 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8030

    The only thing that I'm miffed you left out of this story, likely for brevity, was this:
    "Sometimes the dragon would devour these unfortunate souls upon arrival; sometimes again it would lock them up in the mountain where they would wither away for months or years before eventually being consumed."
    The dragon doesn't just kill us. It tortures us.

    • @Likeusb1
      @Likeusb1 3 ปีที่แล้ว +294

      Ah so like a disease

    • @zarek9340
      @zarek9340 3 ปีที่แล้ว +487

      @@Likeusb1 i think the dragon is supposed to represent disease, yes

    • @thetalantonx
      @thetalantonx 3 ปีที่แล้ว +591

      @@Likeusb1 The dragon is aging and human senescence, humans getting older and eventually dying.

    • @iainballas
      @iainballas 3 ปีที่แล้ว +196

      @@thetalantonx It is pure evil.
      Harm without necessary cause is evil.
      The dragon is harm,. without cause.

    • @jgray1831
      @jgray1831 3 ปีที่แล้ว +34

      @@iainballas it’s insatiable hunger

  • @ravenxd6928
    @ravenxd6928 4 ปีที่แล้ว +17952

    CGP Grey: Everything can be solved with missiles.
    Americans: *I fucking knew it*

    • @kkTeaz
      @kkTeaz 3 ปีที่แล้ว +385

      They were ahead of us all along

    • @johnfkennedy-official
      @johnfkennedy-official 3 ปีที่แล้ว +81

      @@kkTeaz i was ahead all along

    • @cole_climbz6909
      @cole_climbz6909 3 ปีที่แล้ว +170

      Plot twist: the dragon laid an egg before he died

    • @ravenxd6928
      @ravenxd6928 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      @@kkTeaz lol

    • @lesterhottle4991
      @lesterhottle4991 3 ปีที่แล้ว +58

      @@cole_climbz6909 I ate it. *Demoman bass boosted burp*

  • @ProbablyBarney
    @ProbablyBarney 4 ปีที่แล้ว +14558

    the people had slain the dragon, and then they could finally make a dope ass enderman farm

  • @sharpfang
    @sharpfang 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9477

    In reality, the megacorporation responsible for feeding the dragon would sabotage the project.

    • @alexcat6685
      @alexcat6685 2 ปีที่แล้ว +760

      Humanity is it's worst enemy.
      And it's Greatest ally.

    • @alexcisneros2980
      @alexcisneros2980 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      You do realize the dragon eats everyone right? Stop your cynical BS. I know many corpo greedy cynical jerks who love their families. They too would have had their daughters and sons eaten by the dragon. Nobody was exempt. Everyone needs each other.

    • @SeaSerpentLevi
      @SeaSerpentLevi 2 ปีที่แล้ว +220

      @@alexcisneros2980 after all they would be a minority of people with great influence, and just in fiction that sort of people would just accept to go trough the same hardships as everyone else with less influence/power.

    • @AliceTheSpider
      @AliceTheSpider ปีที่แล้ว +96

      @@alexcat6685 it's not hmanity, when most responsible is the few that has power through corrupted system that they convinced people it's better than alternatives when in reality it's for their own profit and nothing else

    • @NealonHD
      @NealonHD ปีที่แล้ว +72

      If the dragon is death and medicine is a way to, until we find the final solution, prolong life, we are already feeding people to the dragon earlier than required by not providing the medicine we have to those who need it and not researching medicine which might save live but is to cost effective to research.

  • @SQUIRRELSONASTICK
    @SQUIRRELSONASTICK 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4840

    Now I want a city building game where the objective is to feed an ever growing dragon. Every year it eats a few more people, growing exponentially alongside the size of your city as you unlock new tech.

    • @lewismartin3430
      @lewismartin3430 2 ปีที่แล้ว +171

      here be dragons in stelllaris is this but on a galactic scale

    • @SMT-ks8yp
      @SMT-ks8yp 2 ปีที่แล้ว +384

      ...but your ability to produce "spare" population does not grow exponentially as resources (free land on the map, at least) are finite, so build the missile in time or everything would collapse. On the other hand, super-expensive endgame device also means a risk to not provide enough food for the dragon and wake it up. Now this really sounds like a game.

    • @mariustan9275
      @mariustan9275 2 ปีที่แล้ว +63

      @@SMT-ks8yp Yeah, so you have resources being sapped, so you need to make a rocket in time.

    • @ShatabdaRoy115
      @ShatabdaRoy115 2 ปีที่แล้ว +28

      As a game dev… I WOULDN’T RECOMMEND IT

    • @SQUIRRELSONASTICK
      @SQUIRRELSONASTICK 2 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      @@ShatabdaRoy115, could you explain why?

  • @THExRISER
    @THExRISER 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6674

    10:17 I just realized that not even the queen survived the dragon, this really shows that the king shares his people's pain.

    • @Morningstar_37
      @Morningstar_37 2 ปีที่แล้ว +810

      and it also shows that everyone had an equal risk of getting chosen, not just the common people but also nobles

    • @2345mat
      @2345mat 2 ปีที่แล้ว +153

      @@Morningstar_37 The King or ruling monarch would probably be exempt

    • @hsgame4088
      @hsgame4088 2 ปีที่แล้ว +624

      @@2345mat The dragon represents death.
      So no...no one is exempt

    • @2345mat
      @2345mat 2 ปีที่แล้ว +245

      @@hsgame4088 Queen Elizabeth.
      Edit: Rest in Peace HM the queen. 🇬🇧

    • @hsgame4088
      @hsgame4088 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@2345mat Well...yes that is the only exemption you are correct.
      Though Im not sure if we can consider her human.

  • @SamwichYT
    @SamwichYT 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2758

    It’s insane how much emotion can be conveyed through just good writing alone.

    • @jannikheidemann3805
      @jannikheidemann3805 4 ปีที่แล้ว +39

      Affirmative. I realy enjoyed how well this is written.

    • @Hu-nf1hv
      @Hu-nf1hv 3 ปีที่แล้ว +44

      His voice also play quite the role in this

    • @thestickmanchannel8589
      @thestickmanchannel8589 3 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      100% really felt this one and the animations help aswell

    • @Kinslade
      @Kinslade 3 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      I come to rewatch this every once in a while, and it hits right in the feelings every time.

    • @Rustie3000
      @Rustie3000 3 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      indeed, at the end I had tears in my eyes

  • @Botpointo
    @Botpointo 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3335

    I love how the king aged a whole generation in 12 years.

    • @aname1190
      @aname1190 2 ปีที่แล้ว +501

      Hey man it was tough times for the man. He lost an entire summer castle I guess

    • @maheswarpradeep2816
      @maheswarpradeep2816 2 ปีที่แล้ว +302

      Also his wife

    • @lordfangar5671
      @lordfangar5671 2 ปีที่แล้ว +232

      Stress causes you to physically age faster

    • @Planet.Xplor3r
      @Planet.Xplor3r 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@maheswarpradeep2816🤓

    • @amphibiland
      @amphibiland 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@vardekpetrovic9716 20

  • @coryman125
    @coryman125 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4680

    I know this is a big analogy for stopping natural aging, but the real takeaway here is how clever the dragon is. Why eat a kingdom full of people when you can instead spend centuries atop a mountain eating a smaller number of people consistently? Somebody needs to rewrite this from the dragon's perspective as a pro-renewable resources story.

    • @coryman125
      @coryman125 4 ปีที่แล้ว +193

      @@jaredganzhorn6834 hasn't Grey said on a podcast that this is about aging? Though I suppose it can be interpreted a few different ways

    • @serbanandrei7532
      @serbanandrei7532 4 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      This comment is so underated

    • @Silmerano
      @Silmerano 4 ปีที่แล้ว +134

      ​@@coryman125 The whole dragon creates jobs things felt like a pretty obvious call to climate change.

    • @godparticle3295
      @godparticle3295 4 ปีที่แล้ว +89

      @@Silmerano What's even more obvious is that CGP Gray has made 4 videos before this in a row talking about ending aging and death

    • @Silmerano
      @Silmerano 4 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      @@godparticle3295 Cool he didn't write this story though.

  • @swaggerdagger8976
    @swaggerdagger8976 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4569

    THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU DONT KILL ALDUIN AND JUST DO SIDE QUESTS

    • @queenfry7634
      @queenfry7634 3 ปีที่แล้ว +51

      YES

    • @queenfry7634
      @queenfry7634 3 ปีที่แล้ว +70

      FINALLY SOMEONE UNDERSTANDS

    • @Matt_the_pirate
      @Matt_the_pirate 3 ปีที่แล้ว +105

      This is literally lore of the mythic era dragons' reign over humanity but with humans developing missiles instead of the voice

    • @queenfry7634
      @queenfry7634 3 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      @@Matt_the_pirate yes

    • @inexplicarus7852
      @inexplicarus7852 3 ปีที่แล้ว +34

      IM SORRY I JUST WANTED TO GIVE THAT MAN HIS CARROTS

  • @TheDaltonius
    @TheDaltonius 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9082

    Dragon slaying in fantasy: magic, strength, skill, mastery
    Dragon slaying in sci-fi: anyways so we launch an Anti Aircraft defense missile at it

    • @ant0_457
      @ant0_457 3 ปีที่แล้ว +276

      Tungsten rods lmao

    • @connormacleod4922
      @connormacleod4922 3 ปีที่แล้ว +82

      *Shadowrun Intensifies*

    • @evandelck8541
      @evandelck8541 3 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      Yep

    • @haka-katyt7439
      @haka-katyt7439 3 ปีที่แล้ว +263

      Let's be honest America would absolutely drop a nuclear armament on a dragon

    • @bobybimberbod8500
      @bobybimberbod8500 3 ปีที่แล้ว +79

      A-10 Warthog vs dragon BRRRRRRT

  • @Chaos_God_of_Fate
    @Chaos_God_of_Fate 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1566

    A part of the story that you don't hear about- the people who spoke out against the Dragon and argued that it was evil were persecuted and most of the time they were the ones chosen to be fed to the Dragon.

    • @Sara3346
      @Sara3346 2 ปีที่แล้ว +121

      No. The dragon itself previously specified that the people were to be brought to it randomly.

    • @barrackobama2216
      @barrackobama2216 ปีที่แล้ว +217

      @@Sara3346and how would the dragon know that they are sending in activists?

  • @SteelKatanas
    @SteelKatanas 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2100

    My cousin's out fighting Dragons and what do I get? Guard duty.

    • @brightenight8699
      @brightenight8699 6 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      drcadillac well at least your still alive

    • @ap1evideogame44
      @ap1evideogame44 6 ปีที่แล้ว +83

      What? Lost your sweet roll?

    • @cymbaline4384
      @cymbaline4384 6 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      I see you like pink Floyd

    • @bluedemon9985
      @bluedemon9985 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      hes probably killing notional dragons with a notional sword.

    • @mattihelminen4830
      @mattihelminen4830 6 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      I used to be adventurer like you, but then I took an arrow to the knee.

  • @blackimbreon9451
    @blackimbreon9451 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6907

    It's all fun and games until someone places back 4 end crystals

  • @GimR
    @GimR 6 ปีที่แล้ว +5144

    So this about curing death right?

    • @qb4428
      @qb4428 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1406

      Yes, it is. Then we can play smash forever.

    • @ltm0011
      @ltm0011 6 ปีที่แล้ว +193

      yes, and other things

    • @nathanwall2808
      @nathanwall2808 6 ปีที่แล้ว +132

      It's about Government.

    • @Sinergmovies
      @Sinergmovies 6 ปีที่แล้ว +805

      What a silly question... its abuot a dragon

    • @JihadNinja
      @JihadNinja 6 ปีที่แล้ว +847

      No, it's about building a really big missile and nuking china.

  • @aguy7848
    @aguy7848 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1395

    1:11 I didn't notice before, but the little boy to the far left, arms folded, not having any of what the teacher says, is actually the same boy who yelled out about his "Granny" being eaten and how the dragon really is bad, at the big meeting. Nice detail. He had the right idea from the start, and the *adults* were the ones who needed convincing.

    • @thatdumbguy2621
      @thatdumbguy2621 2 ปีที่แล้ว +52

      It's usually the younger generation

    • @palpo5
      @palpo5 2 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      Wow that's a nice easter egg

    • @harrisonmorgan7492
      @harrisonmorgan7492 2 ปีที่แล้ว +31

      It definitely is not.

    • @connorstamps1298
      @connorstamps1298 ปีที่แล้ว +36

      There’s a difference in the hair color

    • @lucasseakins8920
      @lucasseakins8920 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@connorstamps1298 I thought that, too

  • @mrkitloin
    @mrkitloin 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6579

    Imagine being the last person to die before the cure for death is invented

    • @hairyputter5363
      @hairyputter5363 4 ปีที่แล้ว +192

      God: Oof

    • @arrestmenot
      @arrestmenot 4 ปีที่แล้ว +828

      Imagine dying after the cure is invented because you still don’t have medicare for all and the insurance company deny your coverage.

    • @Budgiebrain994
      @Budgiebrain994 4 ปีที่แล้ว +40

      Film called Mr Nobody touches on this concept

    • @jamsboi7048
      @jamsboi7048 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Oof

    • @Lemonz1989
      @Lemonz1989 4 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      kidmosey But it could ruin your financial life, though.

  • @vanderengland5775
    @vanderengland5775 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7034

    Grey: it’s a fable
    Also grey: *diamond tipped ballistic warhead*

    • @thehiddenninja3428
      @thehiddenninja3428 5 ปีที่แล้ว +304

      Also grey: tells about wanting to be immortal at every opportunity.
      this dragon is death itself.

    • @ender691
      @ender691 4 ปีที่แล้ว +120

      it is stilll a fable is a short story, typically with animals as characters, conveying a moral. and the characters don't have names (e.g the king, the dragon, a man, a child, a scientist etc.)

    • @vanderengland5775
      @vanderengland5775 4 ปีที่แล้ว +93

      Don’t worry everyone I know what a fable is and the actual meaning of this. My point was that fables TYPICALLY are set in the Middle Ages or earlier without modern technology, and that’s what this one looked like it was going to be at the beginning. I know it’s still a fable I just thought it was funny

    • @somefuckstolemynick
      @somefuckstolemynick 4 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      The Hidden Ninja not death, but aging.

    • @raphaelwaggoner3200
      @raphaelwaggoner3200 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Finally, someone who doesn't say hAhA ItS a NuKe

  • @Definitely_Dave
    @Definitely_Dave 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4256

    It’s all fun and games until someone creates a dragon cult.

  • @evrint
    @evrint 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1427

    "Eat the dragon! Eat the dragon!" Chanted the crowds, pouncing on the corpse.

    • @tgdomnemo5052
      @tgdomnemo5052 2 ปีที่แล้ว +30

      YESSSS !!!
      👍🏽💥👊🏾

    • @timotius_sdv
      @timotius_sdv ปีที่แล้ว +42

      Then they all are being cursed by the dragon's meat turned them into horrible being.

    • @Cresign
      @Cresign ปีที่แล้ว +90

      "It tastes like chicken"

  • @boringbilal9224
    @boringbilal9224 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3877

    Imagine living in this world and hearing a knock on the door.

    • @theyoten1613
      @theyoten1613 3 ปีที่แล้ว +436

      You live in this world. The dragon is literally just the concept of death. CGP Grey is anti-aging.

    • @okayokey
      @okayokey 3 ปีที่แล้ว +151

      @@theyoten1613 Yeah, but there’s no sound to death. It’s a surprise you can’t react to.

    • @Toasteeei
      @Toasteeei 3 ปีที่แล้ว +74

      @@okayokey unless a snake is hissing loudly at you and it bites you anyway

    • @gergoretvari6373
      @gergoretvari6373 3 ปีที่แล้ว +74

      similar stuff happened after WWII. only difference was that a black car appeared at your house and then you never saw your family again

    • @okayokey
      @okayokey 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @Philippe the dude which one?

  • @diobrando8979
    @diobrando8979 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3911

    Love this one, Grey. Especially the king's advisor for morality's speech and the "Many jobs would be lost if the dragon were slaughtered." Sadly, our society is too terrified of killing its own dragons.

    • @grawa4278
      @grawa4278 2 ปีที่แล้ว +73

      Dio being surprisingly nice

    • @winoblio
      @winoblio 2 ปีที่แล้ว +100

      @@grawa4278 even dio has standards when it comes to evil.

    • @taqoe6430
      @taqoe6430 2 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      what are these "dragons" everyone's talking bout

    • @grawa4278
      @grawa4278 2 ปีที่แล้ว +128

      @@taqoe6430 The dragon is senescence/aging, some people are attempting to use science to defeat our aging, those are the dragonologists, some are arguing that dying is what makes life worth living, like the king's advisor.

    • @dudenamedchris3325
      @dudenamedchris3325 2 ปีที่แล้ว +30

      @@grawa4278 War could also be one interpretation

  • @ocinnico2608
    @ocinnico2608 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2563

    Dude: The last train!
    King: A small price to pay for salvation

    • @swordsmanthegamernine7973
      @swordsmanthegamernine7973 5 ปีที่แล้ว +215

      ociNNico to be fair it’s a tactical necessity. If the dragon thinks everything is still functioning the way it has been, then it has no reason to move. Even when the missile comes and he sees it, experience has taught him he’s invincible, and thus he still has no reason to move, if anything he has more reason to crush their hope by tanking the missile with his assumed invincibility. However, if he doesn’t get his food the same way he has, there’s a chance he will become enraged and leave the mountain and head for the town. Not only would that mean the missile wouldn’t hit, since the target moved, but also now there’s an angry dragon coming towards them .

    • @theshard5697
      @theshard5697 5 ปีที่แล้ว +89

      Lord Farquaad: That is a sacrifice ... I am willing to make.

    • @Albert-lo2xn
      @Albert-lo2xn 5 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      @@swordsmanthegamernine7973 it's just a joke

    • @vinifalleroliveira
      @vinifalleroliveira 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@swordsmanthegamernine7973
      No shit Sherlock

    • @jameswhite3415
      @jameswhite3415 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      SwordsmanTheGamer Nine That is if the dragon can still fly after all this time.

  • @accusedtoppat
    @accusedtoppat 2 ปีที่แล้ว +156

    Fun fact: In the original fable the guy who begged the king to stop the last train was also the boy who's grandma was killed

  • @major_kukri2430
    @major_kukri2430 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4217

    Dragon: why do I hear boss music?

  • @cubles6825
    @cubles6825 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3390

    Imagine the corruption of the people deciding who’ll die.

    • @ecivedsusagep
      @ecivedsusagep 4 ปีที่แล้ว +74

      *my liked videos intensify*

    • @aliski768
      @aliski768 4 ปีที่แล้ว +153

      it has to be chosen randomly

    • @floydlooney6837
      @floydlooney6837 4 ปีที่แล้ว +130

      @@aliski768 not likely

    • @aliski768
      @aliski768 4 ปีที่แล้ว +113

      @@floydlooney6837 in the video says that haves to be radomly chosen

    • @catbert7
      @catbert7 4 ปีที่แล้ว +72

      Don't have to imagine. That's the welfare bureaucracy.

  • @demolisherman1763
    @demolisherman1763 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2317

    You know I’m surprised there weren’t any dragon cult fanatics that worshipped it and tried to sabotage the rockets
    Actually i bet the king knew that the dragon cult fanatics would sabotage the rocket so he fed them to the dragon first

    • @kv-2450
      @kv-2450 4 ปีที่แล้ว +254

      King: *Oh yeah this is big brain time*

    • @cerridianempire1653
      @cerridianempire1653 4 ปีที่แล้ว +67

      just feed them to the fecking dragon

    • @minatodroger7890
      @minatodroger7890 4 ปีที่แล้ว +31

      Smart king

    • @holvingar4375
      @holvingar4375 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Hahahaha!

    • @corrat4866
      @corrat4866 4 ปีที่แล้ว +34

      Like 66
      Execute Order 66
      It shall be done my lord.

  • @gpinrgrmoma
    @gpinrgrmoma 2 ปีที่แล้ว +526

    Everyone believes the dragon is a fact of life, until the dragon sets its eyes on you.

  • @oscarfriend4643
    @oscarfriend4643 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3597

    "the dragons defeated... what now?"
    *get an elytra*

    • @LeafyLeafbloom
      @LeafyLeafbloom 3 ปีที่แล้ว +134

      *have a war over who gets the egg*

    • @inigochicano
      @inigochicano 3 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      They already made airplanes by that time so there's really no need for elytras

    • @PenPen-xy3xd
      @PenPen-xy3xd 3 ปีที่แล้ว +29

      @@inigochicano ok so do you wanna fly with no airplane or have to be on a big flying machine that can only go in certain places?

    • @teplapus8795
      @teplapus8795 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      @@LeafyLeafbloom Start tegg games

    • @onyx1221
      @onyx1221 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      Well we killed it on the overworld sooo no egg nor elytra we need more ender eyes

  • @AI-3279
    @AI-3279 3 ปีที่แล้ว +761

    When he says “Many long held assumptions overturned” (11:40) you can see the advisor for morality to the left of the king, happy despite what he said at the beginning of the project.

    • @lanluhylrean1122
      @lanluhylrean1122 ปีที่แล้ว +38

      He was simple playing the devil’s advocate. He didn’t believe his own argument, but felt it had to be said to spur on change from another.

  • @bedrobnf6861
    @bedrobnf6861 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5566

    "and the king sold his summer castle.." how generous of him..

    • @thecanadiankiwibirb4512
      @thecanadiankiwibirb4512 4 ปีที่แล้ว +203

      Bedro Bnf better than nothing

    • @fataldinazor3732
      @fataldinazor3732 4 ปีที่แล้ว +72

      I noticed that but smirked but snorted my water (that I was drinking) out my nose after reading this comment made my day ^_^

    • @frnnzy_
      @frnnzy_ 4 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      PEOPLE HAVE DIETS, OK? Lol

    • @HR-pz7ts
      @HR-pz7ts 4 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      What we learn Today kids? Humans always win

    • @ToxNano
      @ToxNano 4 ปีที่แล้ว +59

      Should have fed the king to the dragon and seized all assets

  • @justaguywhodraws
    @justaguywhodraws 2 ปีที่แล้ว +126

    I like how it’s wings are a foggy thing or just transparent like it’s a part of the dragon’s evil and it’s literally spewing out of its sides

  • @Shteca
    @Shteca 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1610

    Better storyline than season eight of Game of Thrones

    • @WarlordM
      @WarlordM 5 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      Game of Thrones had a metaphor like the dragon and let Arya teleport and stab it with not major loss to the main cast. Game of Thrones could have been this video but bigger, but it wasn't. Someday, something will be.

    • @swordsmanthegamernine7973
      @swordsmanthegamernine7973 5 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Setting the bar pretty low there aintcha?

    • @aaronlandry3934
      @aaronlandry3934 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Warlord M Arya definitely didn’t teleport. I don’t know why people seem to think that she did? You can see her movement blow a White Walkers hair as he turns to see her, right before the Night King turns to catch her because he saw her through the White Walker’s eyes

    • @WarlordM
      @WarlordM 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@aaronlandry3934 not the point lol. You can't just stab death, you need to use magic/science

    • @aaronlandry3934
      @aaronlandry3934 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Warlord M Valarian Steel is made with magic. Blood magic to be specific, but the show never got to explaining that. It was also under the Wierwood tree that gave him his magic to begin with

  • @brostrod
    @brostrod 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3006

    City: Firing test missiles
    Dragon: Yeah that looks fine

    • @thesenate5291
      @thesenate5291 4 ปีที่แล้ว +249

      Would you give a shit if a few sheep started stamping in a piece of wood in the middle of a field?

    • @AstolfoGayming
      @AstolfoGayming 4 ปีที่แล้ว +265

      The dragon had been attacked before. It had won every fight. Why would it be scared now?
      Look at it this way. If a kitten attacks you, you won't consider it a threat. If a hundred kittens attack, you might be annoyed, but still not threatened. If after dozens of years, these kittens now start throwing little pebbles at empty patches of dirt, would you be scared? No. Of course not. You might think that they're attacking, but just like the last times, you'll win the fight.

    • @svendinsvinderlin4569
      @svendinsvinderlin4569 4 ปีที่แล้ว +78

      I'M GONNA NUKE DEATH RIGHT IN THE DICK!
      U S A U S A U S A.

    • @randomcoconutchannel8178
      @randomcoconutchannel8178 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Fires nukes*

    • @brostrod
      @brostrod 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Astolfo you got a good point

  • @carlociotola7137
    @carlociotola7137 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3349

    The thing that I like the most about this story is the fact that the center point of it is not the dragon, but the human capacity of always overcoming seemingly impossible challenges. And that makes the story very appealing and "malleable". The dragon is a metaphor for death by old age, this much seems obvious going through the story, but with slight tweaks, the same concept could work very easily on other big problems like cancer or climate change, and I think that this thing speaks volumes about how beautifully this concept is exposed.

    • @thetalantonx
      @thetalantonx 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Sasuga Nick Bostrom. :D

    • @crash_hunter8659
      @crash_hunter8659 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      When we work on our problems together.

    • @lazygamerz
      @lazygamerz 3 ปีที่แล้ว +32

      Cancer is defined as one of the seven aging processes. In fact, all of rejuvenation biotechnology is to cure the things old people get. That you happen to be 25 years old when you are healthy and cured, is just a side-effect.

    • @natesmodelsdoodles5403
      @natesmodelsdoodles5403 3 ปีที่แล้ว +45

      @@lazygamerz TBH, the aging process in general could be considered a terminal illness, which is kinda the whole point of this story, so...

    • @lazygamerz
      @lazygamerz 3 ปีที่แล้ว +31

      ​@@natesmodelsdoodles5403 OP of this thread thinks cancer can somehow be avoided as though its not part of aging, but 2/3 of all cancer is caused by time over which chemical accidents can take place to activate the mechanisms for cell-division and telomere-lengthening. Cancer is as much aging as parkinson's and arthritis and cardiovascular disease. Cancer is also the only aging disease called cancer regardless of where it happens in the body. Meanwhile if you get Parkinson's for losing certain braincells over time then we don't call it Parkinson's when it happens in your pace-maker cells in your heart, we call it "heart disease". And then when it happens in your muscles we call it "age-related muscle-atrophy" or something like that. "Aging" is the dumbest worst word in modern language, because that word causes more confusion and apathy than anything.

  • @ade5182
    @ade5182 ปีที่แล้ว +548

    This always reminds me to diseases, we see them as natural till we find a cure, and in that case some people doubt it

    • @nextlaunch1
      @nextlaunch1 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      That’s exactly the point. Aging is a disease which can be stopped.

    • @hypergamedev1381
      @hypergamedev1381 ปีที่แล้ว +28

      Interesting seeing this video again now. Years later with new perspective. I had brain surgery and lost almost a weeks worth of memories. I remember being gone. Or more like, I dont remember. I just wish I had the chance to be eternal. Oh well. Maybe my childrens children.

  • @orangeinkius7257
    @orangeinkius7257 3 ปีที่แล้ว +634

    10:53 "that white flame shooting into the darkness embodied the human spirit" damn why did this make me feel something

    • @ThatGuyNicho
      @ThatGuyNicho 3 ปีที่แล้ว +25

      Because you're human, bro

    • @ShatabdaRoy115
      @ShatabdaRoy115 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@ThatGuyNicho AH STRAIGHT ANSWER WOOOO!

    • @Akrafena
      @Akrafena 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @Maxlaxian Empire thy kingdom COMe

  • @dr.zoraxis
    @dr.zoraxis 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3547

    That little kid became the smartest person in the story and all that he needed to say was “the dragon is bad”

    • @roberine7241
      @roberine7241 3 ปีที่แล้ว +239

      And it actually sounds like something a child might say. In a situation like this.

    • @andrespolo2722
      @andrespolo2722 3 ปีที่แล้ว +135

      I wouldn't say the smartest, but the Bravest

    • @FawXnSawX
      @FawXnSawX 3 ปีที่แล้ว +115

      @@andrespolo2722 the least deluded.

    • @thegoldenanvil124
      @thegoldenanvil124 3 ปีที่แล้ว +38

      Twice. He had to say that twice.

    • @p3el_
      @p3el_ 3 ปีที่แล้ว +26

      @@thegoldenanvil124 smart 2x

  • @kazmark4611
    @kazmark4611 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7632

    me in 2018: hell yeah everyone would get behind this.
    me in 2021: existence is hell and half of everyone would snitch to the dragon.

    • @asher879
      @asher879 2 ปีที่แล้ว +169

      yeah......

    • @TheNeven87
      @TheNeven87 2 ปีที่แล้ว +438

      Yeah...It's been a enlightening few years.

    • @ScienceDiscoverer
      @ScienceDiscoverer 2 ปีที่แล้ว +352

      @@TheNeven87 The Dragon seems hyperactive lately... We must accelerate our rocket building efforts!

    • @tannerman46
      @tannerman46 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      I thought the king's spokesperson was going to run a disinformation campaign against the movement, shattering society and stopping the progress. Meanwhile, the dragon starts eating everyone, dooming society.

    • @TheInsomniaddict
      @TheInsomniaddict 2 ปีที่แล้ว +27

      Pretty much, yeah.

  • @dhappypunk
    @dhappypunk 2 ปีที่แล้ว +741

    I lost my dad a year ago to covid i got the text that he could set up a covid vaccine appointment the day after his death, this hits hard to me.

    • @cjvargas7000
      @cjvargas7000 2 ปีที่แล้ว +42

      May he rest in piece

    • @ScienceDiscoverer
      @ScienceDiscoverer 2 ปีที่แล้ว +33

      The Dragon strikes again...

    • @tgdomnemo5052
      @tgdomnemo5052 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Covid took my mom ...
      But remember, the virus is not the dragon, the "humans" behind the industries that pretend to feed it are the real "big snakes" - and those we CAN fight . . .
      🙏🏼❤️😞
      ... keep going, keep fighting, make your dad proud !

  • @That-Gooberton
    @That-Gooberton 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3693

    Surprise, the dragon was sitting on a nest of eggs the entire time

    • @atomikaI
      @atomikaI 6 ปีที่แล้ว +80

      iPaleo LMFAO

    • @TheShooterlol
      @TheShooterlol 6 ปีที่แล้ว +155

      No it was expecting a family reunion. But they saw their fat happy uncle die from the missile. Thus they killed the humans in the next part.lol!

    • @angelbarajas4206
      @angelbarajas4206 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      iPaleo uh

    • @mohamedzohir5820
      @mohamedzohir5820 6 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      DUN DUN DUUUUUUN !!! part two coming soon !

    • @butchballx7030
      @butchballx7030 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      iPaleo ii

  • @fattyacid1901
    @fattyacid1901 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2560

    King: What do we do now?
    People: Overthrow the monarchy!

    • @michaelkeehan8094
      @michaelkeehan8094 4 ปีที่แล้ว +86

      Where you think this took place? France?

    • @tadigalvez7170
      @tadigalvez7170 4 ปีที่แล้ว +53

      @@michaelkeehan8094 what makes you think French monarchs would do such a public service as killing a primordial evil?

    • @tadigalvez7170
      @tadigalvez7170 4 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      @@saintholican8009 my guy why did you woosh me?

    • @yama123numbercauseytdemand4
      @yama123numbercauseytdemand4 4 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      Wait ... There's a tax for that.

    • @juicemeister1984
      @juicemeister1984 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Damn, didn't know they were in france

  • @lorraineandkids
    @lorraineandkids 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1484

    RIP THE PEOPLE WHO GOT SQUISHED BY THE DRAGON

    • @kevinthetree3521
      @kevinthetree3521 3 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      That's exactly what I thought

    • @hyu9648
      @hyu9648 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Me tooooooo

    • @graep5863
      @graep5863 3 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      I think they were all other places watching

    • @72streeting
      @72streeting 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      pretty sure a kid wrote this comment

    • @Co-uy4mi
      @Co-uy4mi 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@Yourdailycardriver lmao top 10 worst deaths

  • @joshuawilliams8921
    @joshuawilliams8921 2 ปีที่แล้ว +364

    The one thing I love about this story so much is the Dragon is a interchangeable with any problem. Aging, Economy, Politics, Medicine… the list goes on and on.

    • @theyoten1613
      @theyoten1613 2 ปีที่แล้ว +108

      No, the dragon is death by ageing specifically.

    • @gfrewqpoiu
      @gfrewqpoiu 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      It is specifically meant to symbolize death by aging and disease, which is why you can still see some children being sent to the dragon But economics and other things don’t really fit

  • @fr4781
    @fr4781 3 ปีที่แล้ว +963

    Lesson: death can be destroyed with missiles

    • @tvman9720
      @tvman9720 3 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      I 100% agree with this statement

    • @NeostormXLMAX
      @NeostormXLMAX 3 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      with enough destructive force you can technically destroy anything, even the law of causation

    • @sirnikkel6746
      @sirnikkel6746 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@NeostormXLMAX Time travel time!

    • @entropy7999
      @entropy7999 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      What is an age cure but targeted systems both cleaning landscapes ravaged by constant warfare combined by equipping our immune systems with missiles, while using the wartime economy to encourage prosperity across the larger society of cells?

    • @herohamza1196
      @herohamza1196 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      act like the GOC killing SCP-682

  • @feldon27
    @feldon27 4 ปีที่แล้ว +517

    me: How many minutes of 100% pure beautiful allegory have you got?
    CGP Grey: 13 minutes.
    me: I'll take it.

    • @sekarmaltum1695
      @sekarmaltum1695 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      transformation and rebirth -13

    • @Dalekscientist
      @Dalekscientist 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      What is this an allegory for? am I stupid?

    • @onniojajarvi3953
      @onniojajarvi3953 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Dalek Scientist The dragon represents death. You can get a more straightforward presentation in Grey’s video: Why die? Presumably the purpose of this video was to convay the absurdity of opposing life extension.

    • @frozenheartedgiant8330
      @frozenheartedgiant8330 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      I'll take your entire stock

    • @Dalekscientist
      @Dalekscientist 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@onniojajarvi3953 ayy, thanks.

  • @Rawringzombies
    @Rawringzombies 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1240

    Criminals last meals
    Dragon: 10,000 people
    Edit) I am honestly tired of everyone saying that it’s more then 10,000 mk. It’s a JOKE okay? My comment is a joke and nothing more so pls just stop wasting your own time hating on me thank you❤️

  • @flowersforferdinand375
    @flowersforferdinand375 2 ปีที่แล้ว +395

    Death itself is our greatest enemy, while we war and quibble over every tiny thing.
    "So many need not have been killed by the dragon had we but awoken from our acceptance of its horror sooner." really hits.
    Especially how, as a leader, the king is so sympathetic of our united mistakes, and so despite the needs of the few, we fight for the needs of many.

    • @msk-qp6fn
      @msk-qp6fn ปีที่แล้ว

      One surprisingly fairness, it seems, is that royalty arent exempted from becoming a sacrifice

    • @alvinchen9655
      @alvinchen9655 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@msk-qp6fn It's representing death, in the context of the story the dragon serves the same purpose as the grim reaper.

    • @AndrewMaller-qy8mo
      @AndrewMaller-qy8mo ปีที่แล้ว

      Suicidal people exist.

  • @abblepees8407
    @abblepees8407 5 ปีที่แล้ว +926

    How to Kill your Dragon, coming out this Thursday!

    • @ryanpresho2646
      @ryanpresho2646 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Rocket Square Is that a Magnus Chase reference?

    • @Clcl-uc4jd
      @Clcl-uc4jd 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      But it is Friday

    • @SirLudan
      @SirLudan 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@BuckiCompany You probably got woooshed harder

    • @ohyeah3036
      @ohyeah3036 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@SirLudan lol

    • @hamz5791
      @hamz5791 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      In the first movie it almost ended up like that with toothless

  • @danger846
    @danger846 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2793

    Dragon: *Why is the sun getting closer*

  • @epicjoer3524
    @epicjoer3524 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1337

    That was when they noticed the huge pile of eggs at the bottom of the mountain...

    • @nagapandian
      @nagapandian 5 ปีที่แล้ว +97

      I mean it’s fine as long as you kill the eggs or something.

    • @crazy_boi1247
      @crazy_boi1247 5 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      @@nagapandian its indestructible

    • @joelcrafter43
      @joelcrafter43 5 ปีที่แล้ว +73

      @@crazy_boi1247 just make handheld weapons out of the material the hatchlings will be small enough to take on with a simple dagger made of it.

    • @eysirt
      @eysirt 5 ปีที่แล้ว +82

      omlets...

    • @biliminsrlar5752
      @biliminsrlar5752 5 ปีที่แล้ว +78

      *Free breakfast for everyone*

  • @invidatauro8922
    @invidatauro8922 2 ปีที่แล้ว +729

    I enjoy stories that take the whole "Immortality is Awesome" stance. Even as some one that does believe in an afterlife, I have no qualms about delaying my entrance there as long as possible.

    • @caesar8224
      @caesar8224 2 ปีที่แล้ว +109

      Yes, life and death should be a choice. I hope our own Dragon is slayed someday.

    • @colorpg152
      @colorpg152 2 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      time to slay a dragon

    • @MiloMurphysLaw
      @MiloMurphysLaw 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      But would you still choose to become immortal if it meant that you would never ever die, no matter what? I feel like eventually I’d become curious and want to die, just to see what the afterlife is like (assuming there is one).

    • @therandomhat_
      @therandomhat_ 2 ปีที่แล้ว +86

      @@MiloMurphysLaw I don't think we could ever truly kill death even if we banish the evils of disease of the body and mind, and eliminate aging, people will still get into accidents and unfortunately die or people will become bored of life and request to have their body begin to age once more. But what 'killing the dragon' will do is give you the power to decide when you want to pass on from this world to the next.

    • @kamille286
      @kamille286 2 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      As someone who also believes in the afterlife this is very valid XD There are a lot of things I would like to do before I go

  • @linkinparkundrground
    @linkinparkundrground 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4200

    CGP Grey: Posts deep video metaphor regarding human's relationship with death and the moral + ethical dilemma of possibly being able to defeat it
    Comment section: Shitty memes and jokes

    • @MaitreKorda
      @MaitreKorda 5 ปีที่แล้ว +84

      The video is retarded tbh.
      Death is not a Dragon that came one day out of nowhere to arbitrarily eat people.
      It's a natural phenomenon which not only has always been there, but also has a self-regulative function, no matter if you like it or not, and that we must learn to accept and embrace.

    • @MaitreKorda
      @MaitreKorda 5 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      @@notflaz4420 Under a false cover of science, you act like nothing but an angry child, angry at the realities of life. An utopian with little care for the consequences of his actions like many before you as history shown.
      Insulting me of "deathfag"? Perhaps, but even with your insults, that's still a choice I would do for myself. But like your efficiency fanatics likemind, maybe that's something you can't tolerate and you would wish to make immortality mandatory (implying that's possible).
      My comfort is knowing that the lies of your likes are nothing but fantasy, and that you will die in due time, like the rest of us, because, unlike what you said in another video, Death is not a disease, nor is the decay and cell degeneration responsible for it, the fact you said so show your ignorance (or willful error) of your subject.

    • @theoheinrich529
      @theoheinrich529 5 ปีที่แล้ว +130

      ​@@MaitreKorda Flexing your "know-how" about the concept of death in such an arrogant way only shows your dismissal to acknowledge that other interpretations of death exist and that some people would like to live longer.

    • @MaitreKorda
      @MaitreKorda 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@theoheinrich529 Death is not a person killing people (like in the reaper video, convenient to put the blame on someone, but it's a fallacy). Death is, to put it bluntly, a physical event that is the result of the end of body mechanisms, nothing more.
      If you believe in Jesus, Allah, reincarnation, nothing or whatever doesn't change that.
      As for people who would want to live longer, no, I know they exist, people who watch this channel and himself are live example of that, but that is foolishness for reasons you already know. It is not possible atm (since so far, all methods to conserve the body such as cyro-pods effectively kill you in the process in the bet hope that you can be resurrected in the future), nor should it be desirable. This childish fear of death is natural, it is just survival instinct working in your brain. But we will be dead anyway eventually.

    • @StormZephyr
      @StormZephyr 5 ปีที่แล้ว +75

      @@MaitreKorda > nor should it be desirable
      Why

  • @blitzkrieg2928
    @blitzkrieg2928 6 ปีที่แล้ว +681

    *The Reaper would like to acces your location*

    • @maripaws
      @maripaws 6 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Minh Duy Chu he works in chipotle

    • @c.j9736
      @c.j9736 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      I turned off my location cuz of this

    • @eascide
      @eascide 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      *Miley Cyrus would like to access the location of the nearest Construction Site*

    • @youtubeenigma8316
      @youtubeenigma8316 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      Hm?

    • @chennardepena9369
      @chennardepena9369 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      Blitzkrieg hahha

  • @taro.s
    @taro.s 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1734

    There are gonna be conspiracy theories about how the dragon never exsisted after that

    • @busshock
      @busshock 6 ปีที่แล้ว +259

      More likely, a hundred years from now no one will remember what it was like when the dragon lived, and people will look at their new problems and blame them on the lack of a dragon, saying "killing the dragon was a mistake" and "bring back the dragon!"

    • @matthhiasbrownanonionchopp3471
      @matthhiasbrownanonionchopp3471 6 ปีที่แล้ว +31

      Deltarune even longer than that people will say dragons never existed if the remains aren't properly kept

    • @TinyFoxTom
      @TinyFoxTom 6 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      *cough* elvish longevity

    • @ryandoan1580
      @ryandoan1580 6 ปีที่แล้ว +61

      ppl will then say that the corpse was fake and are constructed to fool the mass

    • @ALLmasked
      @ALLmasked 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      lol delta u got it bro

  • @The-Blind-Witch
    @The-Blind-Witch 2 ปีที่แล้ว +87

    Thanks for making the Fable of the Dragon-Tyrant.

    • @xzxedge
      @xzxedge 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      why

  • @conlanhero
    @conlanhero 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3091

    I was always fine with aging but CGP Grey really makes me pro-immortality

    • @idiosyncraticlawyer3400
      @idiosyncraticlawyer3400 4 ปีที่แล้ว +40

      Duly affirmed.

    • @JeepnHeel
      @JeepnHeel 3 ปีที่แล้ว +38

      Indeed, l have hope that the elders see wisdom in adding it to the Bestagons Doctrine

    • @nickalvarez3635
      @nickalvarez3635 3 ปีที่แล้ว +148

      You are fine with aging because you have no choice. We should get that choice!!

    • @savary5050
      @savary5050 3 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      I don't wanna see the end of the universe

    • @cliffmode2000
      @cliffmode2000 3 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      Older you get the more against it you'll be.

  • @DiamondAxeStudiosMusic
    @DiamondAxeStudiosMusic 6 ปีที่แล้ว +723

    I can't help but feel like this is a metaphor for something...
    I'll probably be dead before I can figure out what it is though...

    • @lunkel8108
      @lunkel8108 6 ปีที่แล้ว +54

      It's an analogy for ending death by aging.

    • @DiamondAxeStudiosMusic
      @DiamondAxeStudiosMusic 6 ปีที่แล้ว +106

      Yes... yes, I'm aware.

    • @lunkel8108
      @lunkel8108 6 ปีที่แล้ว +42

      You never know with youtube comments

    • @leaf7134
      @leaf7134 6 ปีที่แล้ว +29

      Pootis Spencer Here wooooosh

    • @lunkel8108
      @lunkel8108 6 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Hi there, reddit

  • @justahuman5160
    @justahuman5160 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1167

    How to beat the dragon:
    1.Let's Invent a Thing Inventor

    • @unflexian
      @unflexian 4 ปีที่แล้ว +117

      said the thing inventor inventor, who was invented by a thing inventor

    • @solvinghealth
      @solvinghealth 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      It's a meta-solution. Like in the DeepMind mission (create AGI to solve anything).

    • @tsg-froak9845
      @tsg-froak9845 4 ปีที่แล้ว +27

      You could make a religion out of this.

    • @atziluttth
      @atziluttth 4 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      *bill wurtz is happy*

    • @kingbred01
      @kingbred01 4 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      *they never got Ethiopia*

  • @maya3334
    @maya3334 2 ปีที่แล้ว +90

    The way you drew the dragon though, mad respect.

  • @zeromailss
    @zeromailss 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1782

    I wasn't expecting a happy ending, I thought it would be a *grey* one

  • @jagermain9860
    @jagermain9860 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3621

    Knights: This dragon is impossible to defeat, we must accept it.
    Some engineers: hehe rocket go brrrrrrrrr

    • @crazymad4323
      @crazymad4323 4 ปีที่แล้ว +48

      meme make me go hahahaha

    • @timtams_6
      @timtams_6 4 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      Thank you Pingu, very interesting

    • @operator6438
      @operator6438 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Why they dont Nuke the dragon

    • @FexxerUwU
      @FexxerUwU 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Bro its fucking pingu

    • @gamingmoon4265
      @gamingmoon4265 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Ruined 666 likes

  • @bobbyblair4105
    @bobbyblair4105 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3267

    “But then the egg of the dragon hatched...”

    • @jownadel1526
      @jownadel1526 3 ปีที่แล้ว +141

      It would be so much smaller that they could just easily kill it

    • @constant938
      @constant938 3 ปีที่แล้ว +84

      and then a new dragon swooped down from a second larger hill

    • @p3el_
      @p3el_ 3 ปีที่แล้ว +72

      "And then the newborn dragon grew up rapidly. In a mere minutes, its overgrew its own mother and a roar can be heard miles away"

    • @TacticalAnt420
      @TacticalAnt420 3 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      So a chtulu style cult started to rise to take care of the babies

    • @purplehaze2358
      @purplehaze2358 3 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      It’s now my headcanon that the dragon was a mother demanding tribute so she could support her son.

  • @nqnqnq
    @nqnqnq 2 ปีที่แล้ว +78

    I can only hope that the ambition and unity described in this video will, one day, be the usual norm amongst all humans. Long live us all.

  • @lucamayhem
    @lucamayhem 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1624

    they killed the dragon
    *a day later*
    the blood moon rises once again

    • @jayblondi
      @jayblondi 4 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      Zelda

    • @jayblondi
      @jayblondi 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Hahaha that would be bad if they were in Zelda world

    • @atlanticmapping4089
      @atlanticmapping4089 4 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      thankfully, with Urbosa's fury, they can kill it in three hits.

    • @lucamayhem
      @lucamayhem 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@atlanticmapping4089 uh oh I'm out of urbosa's fury

    • @Axodus
      @Axodus 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      > "they killed they killed"
      What?

  • @excusemewhat8437
    @excusemewhat8437 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1180

    “Selling his summer castle.”
    Is there like a market for this?

    • @criticalyeet1916
      @criticalyeet1916 3 ปีที่แล้ว +84

      If rich people exist there is a market for everything

    • @user-mh2bw4hu3o
      @user-mh2bw4hu3o 3 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      real estate market

    • @gabcis
      @gabcis 3 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      @@outrancedawster Often times a king isnt the richest man on the kingdom

    • @jsmith5443
      @jsmith5443 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      if all their money went to the project, how could there be any money leftover, unless there were more kingdoms?

    • @newcantinacrispychickentac7754
      @newcantinacrispychickentac7754 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @@jsmith5443 all of the money in the treasury was used. People still had money for themselves

  • @PitLord777
    @PitLord777 6 ปีที่แล้ว +403

    I love how the dragon just sat there and all like, "Hmm, I wonder what that pointy thing the humans are building. Eh, it's probably nothing. Lunch time!"

    • @manuelsalazarserna5320
      @manuelsalazarserna5320 6 ปีที่แล้ว +60

      PitLord777 He was sure that nothing would hurt him.

    • @charizard_awesomepoco234
      @charizard_awesomepoco234 6 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Ik it’s more realistic if the dragon just flew away

    • @congus5007
      @congus5007 6 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      After knowing that he gets feeded in place? No thanks

    • @Corvidriot
      @Corvidriot 6 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      I mean,all it cares about is food, it doesn't care whether the humans are on the verge of extinction or flourishing

    • @jasminedoggietvn6995
      @jasminedoggietvn6995 6 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Dragon: *Sees giant light in the sky coming towards him* Prolly nothin'. Im just gonna move my head right back to where it was and ignore that.

  • @wtfr3nch
    @wtfr3nch 2 ปีที่แล้ว +86

    The man that told the king to stop the last train was the same kid that originally said the dragon is bad. He was the one that swayed the king to begin the project. If the king had decided to start earlier, the guy's father and many more would have been saved.

  • @NoKOzKamui
    @NoKOzKamui 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1318

    The real dragon was the friends we made along the way.

  • @essencereaver7459
    @essencereaver7459 4 ปีที่แล้ว +666

    "Good launching conditions"
    Rain: well let me introduce myself

    • @ahumanbeingamnayplaceholde1746
      @ahumanbeingamnayplaceholde1746 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      As long there are no major wind currents, everything would be fine for most modern rocket launches.

    • @declaniii6324
      @declaniii6324 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      a human being amnayplaceholders wouldn’t rain knock them down?

    • @ahumanbeingamnayplaceholde1746
      @ahumanbeingamnayplaceholde1746 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@declaniii6324 How can rain knock down a 12.5 ton (Assuming mass of V-2 rocket, due to it being one of the earliest missiles.)
      Rocket stabilized onto a platform?

    • @declaniii6324
      @declaniii6324 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      a human being amnayplaceholders idk I just feel like it would add up if hundreds of raindrops were hitting it. But I guess it would need more force

    • @highhopefarm2206
      @highhopefarm2206 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@ahumanbeingamnayplaceholde1746 and how do you know how much *Their* nuke weighs? I don't remember them saying It
      Edit: Fixed grammar

  • @nigerianwaffles205
    @nigerianwaffles205 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2056

    The dragon is thanos and they actually aimed for the head

  • @aineedadadi7593
    @aineedadadi7593 ปีที่แล้ว +107

    From magic to science real quick

    • @theloweffortchannel7211
      @theloweffortchannel7211 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Magic fades soon into the halls of the mythic, only the beast remains. And who says that great spells of ruin, cants concentrating the vengeance of the fallen were not weaved into the final armanent?

    • @justwannabehappy6735
      @justwannabehappy6735 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      Science sufficiently advanced is magic

  • @anyaforger5469
    @anyaforger5469 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1560

    dragon: *eats half of the population*
    dragon: wtf why do i still hear boss music

    • @siyacer
      @siyacer 5 ปีที่แล้ว +36

      Thanos: I've come to bargain.

    • @aethermaster4372
      @aethermaster4372 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@Nimz0r Hm ... I have your mask in Terraria. It's quite hard for me to kill the boss after I've killed you :3

    • @significantpepper5274
      @significantpepper5274 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@Nimz0r Too

    • @significantpepper5274
      @significantpepper5274 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@Nimz0r Go back to your dungeon,Moonlord is dead.

    • @jeffbryant792
      @jeffbryant792 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      The Dragonborn: *shows up and his boss music the one they fear starts playing* FUS RO DAH

  • @o.mveasna9010
    @o.mveasna9010 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2648

    Dragon: impossible to kill
    Minecraft speedrunners: haha bed go boom

    • @plainplaneplaneplaynplaene
      @plainplaneplaneplaynplaene 4 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      haha crystals go b(r)oom

    • @jujetsu12
      @jujetsu12 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      relatable xD

    • @johnpijano4786
      @johnpijano4786 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Seriously, a story that comes from a paper of a scholar that tells the story of aging and how society deals with it told in a fascinating and easy to digest fable (does not explain its points clearly enough for me since there are a lot of people arguing its meaning in the comments even though the author explained it clearfully in his story and moral) and all you can say is about the ender dragon and how it is easy to be killed using beds?

    • @maximany9506
      @maximany9506 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      funnyless

    • @nathanjohnpalaogaming4872
      @nathanjohnpalaogaming4872 4 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      @@johnpijano4786 *[INTENTIONAL GAME DESIGN]*

  • @TheNavid001
    @TheNavid001 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2430

    Mr. Dragon, watch out, there's a missile coming right for you! Oh my God guys, the dragon has airpods in, the dragon has airpods in!

    • @badtriceratops1867
      @badtriceratops1867 5 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      STOP LIKING IT HAS 69 LIKES

    • @kulot-ki1tu
      @kulot-ki1tu 5 ปีที่แล้ว +31

      Oh fuck oh shit heres the missile! Oh shit its about to crash fuck shit!!

    • @Eclipse_101
      @Eclipse_101 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Shut up! Let him die!

    • @nightcollapse
      @nightcollapse 5 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      Oh god oh shit I'm literally crying and shaking dragon wouldn't do that

    • @dogesmoker5241
      @dogesmoker5241 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      He can't hear us!

  • @ibaconstudios3263
    @ibaconstudios3263 2 ปีที่แล้ว +43

    4 yrs ago this video was posted, and I am just now seeing this. Thank you grey, for all the lessons, for all the ideas, the compromises, everything. I only wish we humans would place aside our petty differences and squabbles so that we too may one day slay our accepted dragon.

  • @DaHaiZhu
    @DaHaiZhu 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1892

    Guess we'd best hope our livestock don't become organized....

    • @VaidasKondratas
      @VaidasKondratas 6 ปีที่แล้ว +26

      too late

    • @assgoblin3981
      @assgoblin3981 6 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      Da Hai Zhu well i doubt that they have the intellect

    • @IceQub3
      @IceQub3 6 ปีที่แล้ว +36

      You are the livestock.. didn't you get it?

    • @assgoblin3981
      @assgoblin3981 6 ปีที่แล้ว +60

      Yuval no the pigs and cows are the live stock, atleast in our world, which would make us the dragon

    • @nithinsrivatsa4726
      @nithinsrivatsa4726 6 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Da Hai Zhu good point. This was about death though

  • @neltrd
    @neltrd 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1888

    Moral of the story:
    If there’s something in your way....NUKE IT!!!

    • @deathincarinite4776
      @deathincarinite4776 5 ปีที่แล้ว +39

      And if that doesn’t work nuke again but have 10 nukes on stand by if that doesn’t work.

    • @eucliid2370
      @eucliid2370 5 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      Just like Japan

    • @jethrojangen5354
      @jethrojangen5354 5 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      Japan left the chat

    • @eucliid2370
      @eucliid2370 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yes!

    • @eucliid2370
      @eucliid2370 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      I love dark humor

  • @LastNexus
    @LastNexus 5 ปีที่แล้ว +846

    This has been in my recommended for a year now...

  • @VergilNotVigil
    @VergilNotVigil ปีที่แล้ว +158

    I find it interesting that most people blamed the dragon and not the government that abandoned them. How they spent all their taxes on making it easier instead of trying to find a way to kill the dragon.

    • @randominternetguy3537
      @randominternetguy3537 ปีที่แล้ว +34

      The dragon would have eaten anyway. At least they get to pick who goes. They don't send children, they sent people who have already lived their lives to an extent. The dragon doesn't care. If it got hungry, it would have caused massive property damage, unnecessary loss of life, etc etc. It was an accepted part of life. This was as efficient as government can get.

  • @speedyjolteon9957
    @speedyjolteon9957 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1451

    Dragon:dies
    (Some random guy start absorbing its soul)
    Everyone who played skyrim: (chuckles) We are all in danger

  • @DoctahWAAwee
    @DoctahWAAwee 4 ปีที่แล้ว +718

    Hero: "aight, I'm back from my side quest to kill the dragon! What I miss?"

    • @mikelor84
      @mikelor84 3 ปีที่แล้ว +47

      let me guess, he was fishing

    • @cjqvargas2755
      @cjqvargas2755 3 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      Nice day finghing aint it

    • @swinbtr
      @swinbtr 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@cjqvargas2755 Heu huh

    • @exotrrc1636
      @exotrrc1636 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@cjqvargas2755 LETS, GO, MUG EEMMMM

    • @Anonymous-eo2er
      @Anonymous-eo2er 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      I come home to this

  • @tuttiflooti
    @tuttiflooti 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1759

    The people: start building a big ass missile over the course of a decade
    The dragon: *Imma pretend like **_i didnt see that_*

    • @gonzalo_rosae
      @gonzalo_rosae 4 ปีที่แล้ว +81

      I don't think the dragon was smart enough to realize that

    • @gonzalo_rosae
      @gonzalo_rosae 4 ปีที่แล้ว +55

      And furthermore, taking into account that the dragon was far far away from the villages

    • @aguy7848
      @aguy7848 4 ปีที่แล้ว +141

      Not to mention, up to this point even the dragon thought itself invulnerable.

    • @masterpingu5942
      @masterpingu5942 4 ปีที่แล้ว +33

      @@aguy7848 also if they were reasonable they would do all the testing far from where the dragon is

    • @9nikola
      @9nikola 4 ปีที่แล้ว +42

      Must be deaf as well. I bet at least a handful of people when about to be eaten said something like "You may eat me, but just you wait! They're building a missile to destroy you! Karma gets us all in the end!" or whatever.

  • @REEEPROGRAM
    @REEEPROGRAM 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    TFW a video keeps getting Reccomended at you for years and when you give it a shot, you tell yourself "Why didn't i watched this before?"

  • @loest3631
    @loest3631 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1206

    All the replies doesn’t make any sense to this commeny

    • @mrreyes5004
      @mrreyes5004 5 ปีที่แล้ว +106

      Humans: *launch a rain of missiles*
      Dragon: Well, fu--
      **Explodes**

    • @cassiel3861
      @cassiel3861 5 ปีที่แล้ว +56

      *Missile gets launched, everyone watching excitedly.*
      Missile: *flies towards the dragon at incredible speed*
      Dragon: * Yawns and lifts head, gets up and roars. *
      Missile: * MISSES *

    • @NXE212
      @NXE212 5 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      @@cassiel3861 people :SHI-

    • @lkjdfukjsdf8002
      @lkjdfukjsdf8002 5 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      people knowing they'r gonna die *again* be like: ah sh*t here we go again

    • @ryanchang20
      @ryanchang20 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Comrade is that you

  • @henrynegron7363
    @henrynegron7363 5 ปีที่แล้ว +454

    And the dragon wakes up with a headache and kills everybody

    • @gingeetheginge6071
      @gingeetheginge6071 5 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      Kid wakes him up, gets eaten and fucking dies

    • @medexamtoolscom
      @medexamtoolscom 5 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      They could have saved a whole lot of trouble just by having Saitama punch him once.

    • @martyjehovah
      @martyjehovah 5 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      The dragon wakes up greatly weakened, with a reduced appetite, but a new awareness for danger. Fewer people die each day so on average people live longer. The next great idea will be more difficult, and may not be a killing blow either, but it will further weaken the dragon.

    • @magicalmercy
      @magicalmercy 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Oof

  • @lazarenadaraia6446
    @lazarenadaraia6446 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1877

    moral of the story ...
    always keep a strong fairy type pokemon on your team

    • @donaldduck7078
      @donaldduck7078 5 ปีที่แล้ว +34

      Only pokemon fans will understand

    • @cringiestthingever9317
      @cringiestthingever9317 5 ปีที่แล้ว +35

      Yeah, but that dragon looks part dark type

    • @danieliglesias7119
      @danieliglesias7119 5 ปีที่แล้ว +78

      @@cringiestthingever9317 Even better, the fairy would have 4x advantage

    • @lazarenadaraia6446
      @lazarenadaraia6446 5 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Daniel Iglesias exactly

    • @ParagonTheOne
      @ParagonTheOne 5 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      But w/ the slime it is part poison type

  • @justsomejerseydevilwithint4606
    @justsomejerseydevilwithint4606 ปีที่แล้ว +75

    The Dragon Tyrant is a metaphor for Death. Should humanity survive, We WILL have the tech, sooner or later, to abolish that primordial fear once and for all. Humans will become functionally immortal... if they desire. This will seem unnatural, like shirking a part of what makes us human, but it will free up time for all things. The next Einstein will grow and build their intellect FOREVER, the next Elvis or Mozart, honing their joyous tunes for better and better.

  • @shakohat6876
    @shakohat6876 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3101

    Moral of the story:
    Nukes solve everything.

    • @gamingknight4763
      @gamingknight4763 5 ปีที่แล้ว +77

      Even climate change

    • @puscifer6648
      @puscifer6648 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      69 likes

    • @raphaelwaggoner3200
      @raphaelwaggoner3200 5 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      The missile wasn't a nuke.

    • @jenniferbabicki8379
      @jenniferbabicki8379 5 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      Especially if it comes from the U.S.

    • @AfterAFashionASMR
      @AfterAFashionASMR 5 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Raphael Waggoner too many people seem not to have gotten the metaphor let alone the profundity of it.

  • @definitelyamagikarp4380
    @definitelyamagikarp4380 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2832

    Morality Adviser : *says dragon is good*
    Little kid: I’mma end this man’s whole career

  • @wakeupandsmellit
    @wakeupandsmellit 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1078

    Looks like the Dragon didnt have projectile protection.

  • @good-sofa
    @good-sofa 2 ปีที่แล้ว +34

    I just realized all the parallels with your video about death from old age and i think that this is genius