The Difficult Choice Facing Young Bushmen
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 8 เม.ย. 2018
- Is there inherent value in preserving tradition? What if tradition, for you, meant rejecting modern life in favor of your ancestral lifestyle of hunting and gathering in sub-Saharan Africa? This is the very real choice facing Ketelelo and Kitsiso, two young Bushmen in Botswana, in Daniel Koehler’s moving documentary, "A House Without Snakes." Read more: www.theatlantic.com/video/ind...
"A House Without Snakes" was directed by Daniel Koehler. It is part of The Atlantic Selects, an online showcase of short documentaries from independent creators, curated by The Atlantic.
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"Father why are you looking at me?" "Is this life worthless to you?". It broke my heart.
Touched me at the core also. May all go well with both father and son.
I wish we could see him now, how he's doing and everything . this is heartwarming
Me too! Time for a follow up!
His doing his masters till Aug 2024 in State
This broke my heart and inspired me at the same time. The power of a well told story. Shalom
Oh I bet it did rabbi. I bet you can't wait to move every single one of them into a European nation.
This just inspired me to keep going strong. I’m currently writing my exams. African kid here studying abroad, I know the struggle. Big ups to bro. Good luck man
I feel like I’m watching the story of my life
Mcebo Did you pass your exams?
@@rajaschupp8442 hey thanks for asking everyone. I’m graduating in a month. So excited. I’ll come back to this after my graduation
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@@KeviNeemzVEVO Congratulations!!!
This is very well done. It does a great job of portraying these people as complex humans with dilemmas we can sympathize with, rather than as "primitive subhumans" for westerners to gawk at.
Your story is beautiful and inspiring. Well done Kitsiso, I'm so proud of you
10:59
"Lifestyle where you spray perfumes on yourself. Where you always splash water on yourself"
A simple but poetic desires of a very sentient young man.
Because you don't feel fully alive now, you think some day you will be.
The line "What do I want to be?" is the quandary. You "want" to be something else but you "are" a bushman. Get an education, get a degree but see the world with the eyes of the bushman and you will quickly see the world of "want" is hollow. It is not the world of "what is". Hopefully he will learn this wisdom, he will take the engineering back with him to make the lives of his people better. Design toilets with running water run by solar. irrigate the land by installing a well into the aquifer. make the lives of the children better so they can be free to want to be bushmen
Oh so much this! The guy's signing up for life-crippling debt, and all to get a job that won't pay as well as working in a warehouse. I know what I'm talking about here - I worked and studied pretty hard to become a decent soldering iron jockey and the HS dropouts working in the warehouse made quite a bit more than I did.
@@alexcarter8807 What do you mean? Engineers make a lot of money, and the possibilities are endless. He can become a doctor or do research in any engineering field. Don´t forget about the valuable knowledge it also provides.
He can be whatever he chooses to be. Perhaps President one day, reach for the sky.
Excellent comment
No need at all for toilets with running water. They waste water. Compost toilet is the way.
I got teary eyed so many times watching this.
This was really well done, I love the slow pace.
Wow. What a beautiful little video.
this history of yours is inspiring me
That woman who said she’s a shadow of herself made me ball my eyes out the bush communities should have the same medical access as anybody. Broke my heart.
She wasn't lamenting the lack of health, but rather the lack of the land she knew and what it provided her.
She was lamenting the life the lost.
It is a common theme here in Africa.
My elders (and myself to a degree) lament what we lost in the (sometimes forced) transition to "civilization".
Everyone gets free medication in Botswana.
Life inspiration...❤
What a pity! A young man fallen into the illusion of the so called modern world, where every single individual is a slave of money and freedom is only a marketing illusion of some sort.
But he is very young and cannot know what his commercial identity will be like for real.
Still a great pity to see some of the last free people see under such circumstances, instead of living a real life, which at of your time is a luxury only very few indigenous people in the world still have the opportunity to expirience. The rest of us is lost...
Sebastian Gruber-Kersting I agree! That’s pure freedom.
Yeah becoming an engineer, how illusory ... You've seen 1 maybe a few documentaries about them and you think you know how it's like? Go live there the way they live just for 1 year, you'll beg to get back to your comfortable life before the year passes.
You've taken too much of your comfort and most importantly safety for granted.
What if you get injured badly? you'll get an incantation and some plant concoction? Wake up. You have the option to go live like them and with them, not necessarily the other way around. Don't pretend like they are foolish to want the comfort that you so naïvely take for granted.
Not to say you can't feel comfort and safety there but clearly if it was better to live like them people would rush to live like them, but the opposite is true, don't take most people for complete idiots.
@Fires And Flowers they have a great advantage to modern society. They know how to survive without destroying their world. The bad thing is they have no aid if they get ill or have to give birth and is complicate, or if they broke a leg. But their society it's so old, have lasted for so long without destroying the earth.
Totally. It may seem we are in a better posittion. We live beyond 70 years, few children die... Yet, suicides and antidepressants are the norm.
@@joannot6706 Really? In the middle age, one could tell how much they worked for the benefit of the establishment, since a person worked for some time on his/her little field on the crops as well as some time for the baron/earl/king on their field as a peasant. From the ratio of working for your own and for someone else as well as from the taxes one could tell about freedom clearly, since it was obvious. Theses days most do not even have a clue that from the value they create they get less than 10% for them selfs. The rest is for people who never created any value in all their life, but are considered the most valuable members of society at the same time, while living exclusively on the behalf of others ... on behalf of the majority of the "poor" people in the world. Their riches is the poverty of others.
That is the wonderful system where you get help when getting sick, at least as long as you can afford the help, or can take additional debt. If not so, (look at nations like India, USA, etc.) the person is going to remain sick or dies. That really makes such a wonderful world compared to a simple life on your very own behalf, which is just so disgusting?! Kidding?!
And yes, there is risk in life, as there is when crossing a road in civilization, eating and drinking polluted/intoxicated (pesticides, fungizides, herbicides, hormons, and various other chemicals) water and food from greedy industrial production cycles, etc. pp.. The truth is plain simple, there is no life without risks, as well as only very few still live in freedom ... the rest of us is just slaves in modern world ruled by oligarchs who own the so called "democratic" systems through corruption!
I'd trade my life for theirs any day . Peace ,tranquility, healthy eating , clean air and care free lifestyle 🔥❤
waka! unamanga
@@ThapeloMKT ke papa'go o maka
I wish I could learn form the Bushmen it is part of my dream
This was so moving
Wow 😢this was so moving and thought provoking😇 I’d love to see how each of the made out🙏🏽💕
This Khoi sounds like Setswana here and there please correct me anyone,can speak none of both languages, but I believe I have a good ear.
You are correct
let them live in the reserve on their original land!
This isn’t y’alls earth to conquer
@@KEEPINGPEOPLEREALTV Why did white people conquer the Africans lands the Americas and Europe? These people have been living on these lands since humans evolved, it is their land not anyone else’s.
his father's eyes say a lot, he might not know how or even want to say it, but the old man knows that if his son chooses to go in the city his freedom will be no more
What a fine young man!!
Brilliant documentary and I wish him every success for the future😌
truly lifechanging
Before we even talk about the Western influence there is a very strong Bantu tribes influence in their lifestyle today. We the other Southern African bantu tribes contributed in the demise of the Khoisan cultures.
So true.
Somehow I feel Bushman's are my ancient relative's, I am from central Asia, I am Kazakh.
Wow very touching production. It's a amazing seeing life from anothers perspective. I, being born in America have had so many luxuries that many could only dream of. Yet Im not sure these luxuries have been to my benefit. After watching this small film, there is a part of me that desires to be that young man, learning from his elders how to survive in the bush. A life, though difficult...yet for the most part simple!. I guess that is the irony of human life. We seek better, we look for more and wonder. Wonder endlessly within, until we meet our end!
Yep. That's it.
Humans have evolved to the point of wanting more and more and more, do we real need most of what we have? No. Unlike the people who live off the land as we were intended to do. The world has become a cesspit of greed. The simple life is less complicated and less stressful, I wish I could live a simple life.
It's sad to know that there are capable young men and women living in these types of conditions who have such a desire to learn and grow but are restricted by their own circumstances, while at the same time many first world students have all the resources they need yet are incapacitated by their own laziness and comfortable ignorance.
ryanbolton No some in America and other privilege countries prevent students from getting the resources...
@@kingznqueenztv I wish it was that simple. Education life is only poosible in a highly "advance" society. Look at Victorian England. Only the bourgeois could afford it. Now a days its possible to give free education in some countries because they tecnological three is highly advance so many jobs are automated. Farming in automates, trasportation, delivery, meat industry etc. Its a gigant clock with milllions of gears.
For example look at Germany. Back in Roman era they were a bunch of nomads. They land was very atrative to romans. Look at Germans now. It was possible because they bypassed hundreds or thousands years of technological development becase they "stole" it from the romans.
I'm really impressed with this documentary, my brother keep on sharing more but I was more impressed with sharing our lifestyle
I have long held the belief that in every corner of the world their is potential. Very happy to know that this young man's life will change for the better and his future offspring.
FANTASTIC!!!!
I love their community life style. We don't have that in the West.
I am leaving to travel in the CKGR and visit with some of the people hopeful. I came across this video an it is so well done. Thanks for sharing on you tube
absolutely brilliant documentary, I know theses young men will turn out great...this left me sobbing and thinking about my naphew who has it all, born with a silver spoon and is pissing his life away, while these young men are searching for their silver spoons to shine....Life.
This was SOOOOO heart warming I almost cried♥️🤗
Thanks for sharing.
As a Mosotho, I thought I was hearing Sesotho or Setswana for a sec.
I felt deeply connected to all of them
Beautiful short documentary. I lived in Botswana for nearly 2 years, such a stunning country, and one of the last real wild places on the planet. It's sad that a way of life is disappearing from communities such as the KoiSan/Bushmen, but unfortunately it seems inevitable. Globalization is reaching every corner of the world, even the remote CKGR. And who can blame individuals like Ketelelo and Kitsiso for wanting "more"? Wouldn't we all want the same? I admire their ambition, and hope they will find inspiration and fulfillment on their journey, and not get disillusioned in this ever-changing world.
Shalom to these wonderful people and hope this young man makes it back home to help them and not get a pandemic in the wild civilized world.
In the uncivilised world, they are more civil than many I know.
What most people missed in the comment section is that the government of Botswana has made this people lose their way of life by taking their land. And this is forcing and conditioning the Khoisan to become the new world order to survive since they cannot hunt and live the way they used to.
U talking rubbish.
@@tshumukokgalagadi5273 tell that to the Khoisan. Its in the video.
Do u know where they live or u just bitching about it?
Nesta Tonik
Thank you for the comment
The is nothing call khoisan..I'm sure you mean san people and khoikhoi people.differant all those people are from southern Africa not in one place..botswana is also in south Africa and Lesotho just that most of san people are they're the Botswana people just still have the culture and different languages..
beautiful
Happy new Year.
congratulation Kotelelo for your new life. meanwhile I wished to be a bushmen but I failed
Kitsiso means ' letting them know'
Profound
Some one need to help this young man
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Such a sad story to loose the land that has been the only life your family and friends have known. Congratulations to you on your successful acceptance to Michigan University.
HE IS AWESOME...
would love to see where this young man is now
I’m not convinced our modern world is really very good. There will never be enough to satisfy our desires if we someone else with seemingly more.
“I’m not here. It’s just my shadow.” broke me.
He looks like me he is me...
This is the definition of Ambition
What a great vid and story. Both ways are the best. As some in the bush would do anything to get out, I feel the same about the world of the wheel. Nothing more like death than life in a cubicle, endless cycle of wake, hurry to work, zombie in a cube, hurry home eat, wash sleep wash rinse repeat. I play the game, only to survive.
Sounds like you could use a vacation! Maybe visit them in Africa, get some new perspective.
Are they them bushmen still doing the traditional healings to people who need that kind of services? Please let me know how to get in touch with them for such🙏🏾❤️
Goodday there sir mr.Daniel Koehler i would like to get in contact with ketelo and kitsiso on anyway possible in relation to they'r storie and what they are doing now i have to my name is Franklin Tamana,my name is not important now but as soon as i can talk or communicate with you or them i have to its just to hard to say why it is important but i cant let my overwhelmness of joy and emotional reactions speak now but only talk and communicate the truth and reallity of what is to come and is happening and i want to know where it is they are standing today in the freedom of having both the worlds they had face and that things have become poasible for them to not decide anymore, I can go on about what i want to say but i thnk it would be better and a heart calming thing for me to talk to them and i thank enjoy your day oh....and thanks for this real life storie.
It's hard to against the trend of development of civilization . As the time passing , for sure the old way of life will be given up. This young man is really innocent with a strong will. I felt he's full of love and hope. I have been working in West Africa years ago but never see anyone like him. He was unlucky to born as a so called Bushman, but he is also lucky to have chance to access what he want. Because I have seen too many boys and girls live in the desperated environment, they have no any choice of life at all. God will support the ones who support themselves. Keep moving forward, there's no wrong at all. Keep going ahead.
Its not unlucky. Not everyone going be engineer, MDs, etc. We push everyone to the city and thats why there is so much homeless. Less if we didn't restrict these people they could continue to live off grid and feed themselves, versus everyone going to the city and still become homeless because not all going to be able to be highly western skilled.
Wish yu best luck young Bushmen!
I LOVE MY PPL...I KNOW THIS WAS YEAR'S AGO.. I'D LOVE TO KNOW HOW EACH AND EVERYONE ARE DOING NOW
Life is a miracle
May the Good Lord lead and guide and protect and provide for and grant favor to those who want to make progress. God bless them.
I'm rooting for him 😊
My heart breaks for the old man. That kid's been sucked in by "civilisation"s trinkets- mirrors & beads
Knowledge is just a tool. The way of living has no necessary relation to knowledge.
Therefore, it is possible to live as a bushmen lives and at the same time to know and use the theory of relativity in depth, (which almost none of us understand).
It is precisely this knowledge that allows us to realize that, judging a way of life without knowing it deeply, at this very moment, our way of living is robbing the value on which science is based: a good analysis, without cognitive biases.
Is it possible to live "without using water in the toilet" (as a metaphor for the rest)?
Let's think:
The Japanese did "strange" things for us, like using chopsticks, kimono, etc.
The Indian yoga was something bizarre only 50 years ago, or many other things: Today we use it. It is very useful for us, today.
It is our cognitive biases, that misinterprets reality.
And the bad thing for us is that… we have the possibility of getting an education in a thousand ways, we have the university “in front of our houses” in towns and cities!
They can't because they don't have access.
It is not about "respecting" ways of living, but using them "selfishly": some aspects are better than ours, perhaps that is the key to human survival.
Let's think:
Why do many of us spend our vacations, and money, sleeping in the mountains or in nature on the ground?
Why do we get used to it and end up sleeping well and missing the stars when we return home?
Let's think:
How much time do we laugh and play a day?
Do we know how to sing something and dance it at the same time in our families?
Why don't the gypsies want to live in the houses we give them, and instead to live as nomads and to talk and sing in front of the fire being nomads?
Crying watching this...as a white women a daugter and a mother and grandmother today I think these people can teach us all a lot Love them from the bottom of my heart❤❤❤❤and I pray and we all know one day God's judgement will be on all of us who treated people wrongful ❤❤❤
26:45.... damnit man..
2021
4:19
Im not sure if this is a rare gene, or a result of melatonin deficiency in late life, but her eyes are a very unique shade of blue.
I think its glaucoma. Remember that humans are not supponed to live at 100% "capacity" beyond 50-60 year, so eye deseases are very common in elderly people.
and five years later, how is he doing now?
There is no way that you insist to preserve the tradition while starving to death and living a miserable life. Many indigenous people in Africa are neglected in the name of nurturing the culture and tradition, but denied an opportunity which can enlighten their future and also their country.
The world has been divided into a series of boxes we call countries. Each wanting to distance itself from the other. Each trying to exist and manage itself independently. People forget how many empires have risen, expanded. And fallen in the past. And people forget that the boxes we make fro ourselves only have as much power as we put into them. Borders mean nothing to the world in the grand scheme of things, it's better that we learn to stop thinking ourselves as the grand managers of the earth. For in the long run everybody dies. All memory fades to dust, and all empires fall into ruin.
Is there anyone there to sponsor this promising young man a better education.
Where is TH-cam now?
What happened to him and his daughter, and his brother?
5:30 girls play assymetric style of jump rope
Adaptation is the mother of survival. Maybe the boy is surviving in a world of constant modifications like your ancestors did for so many time. It's sad because the lifeestyle of your ancestors could be dying, but maybe we can not control the way that things go on like we want or as we think we could.
Adaptation is the mother of survival. Maybe the boy is surviving in a world of constant modifications like your ancestors did for so many time. It's sad because the lifeestyle of your ancestors could be dying, but maybe we can not control the way that things go on like we want or as we think we could.
There numbers and quarters are so tiny
At one time or another people had to adjust to the situations in life. All people were hunter gathers at one point or another. Land is important, for a place farm, hunt, rest your, or live and for it natural resources. But you have to look into technologies, like solar panels, wind turbines, water turbines for electric power. Making an affordable mini grid, drilling a well, or accessing ground or river water. Building leadership- like net zero houses in your environment using local materials, clay ( Adobe), interlocking, bricks or stone to build, structure / houses.
Plastics to green houses to farm in a control environment, using animal dung, and composting to grow vegetables, and mulch plant.
Using water from roof catchment for drinking and watering plants.
Sometime it is difficult to see what is in front of you, but you have to open is right in front of you.
It starts with education and then resources. If they don´t know how to do it, how is it suppose to be done? I mean can you even do half the things you just said.
One beautiful thing about this film is that it is done in an indigenous language for the most part, I appreciate that. We love you guys in South Africa, I can assure you of that.
"is this that kid 👦🏿 we want to bury alive" Oh My. Life!.
What a pity he wants to be in this shit of modern society of capitalism and individualism where anybody cares about anyone else!! Please don't do that!! I wish I could live in a hunter gatherer society!!
Bittersweet.
We can live in nature without going without water and enough food and other technologies that make life easier. Compost toilets, Hydro power, bio gas from our organic waste, permaculture food forests, list goes on and on.
THIS VIDEO MAKES ME HAPPY AND SAD. I HATE TO SEE THE DOING AWAY WITH LIVING IN THE BUSH WHERE MAN IS INDEPENDENT. YET I AM HAPPY TO SEE THE YOUNG MAN GET INTO COLLEGE. THE BUSHMEN ARE WONDERFUL SURVIVERS AND SHOULD BE PRESERVED WITH THEIR CUSTOMS. YOU WILL SEE THERE IS GOINT TO BE A TIME WHERE ALL MEN WILL NEED TO KNOW HOW TO STILL HUNT AND GATHER BECAUSE OF ALL THE GREED AND EVIL IN THIS WORLD!!
Xai xai xaio xai xao amen.
Is this lifestyle worthless?
That question hit me like a truck.
I hope when he gets that house without snakes hes not unhappy that its one story,and that he knows people with house that are 3 stories high,I can certainly understand him not wanting to live under a tree but also hope he can find happiness with what he does have at some point,both of them:)
I am sorry I brought up the subject of bushman people, it is not a derogatory name for those people, they are lovely peope, a large number of them were wiped out with a plaque in the 1800's. they do exist. By saying there is no such thing, is like saying there is no such thing as Indian Indians or Canadian Indians or American Indians or Germans. Please look up the name Kalahari Bushman on the internet. I am not racist, I have just devoted 26 years of my life and my inheritance to helpng feed and clothe the poor Xhosa people in my area. I have stopped as I have had a heart attack and no medical aid. Who seems to have a problem, those that love their neighbours or those that call others by derogatory names, maybe I am being judged just because I have a white skin. I grew up in a country that had an apartheid law I tried to make a difference, I do not call you a murderer because your country has an electric chair. This world would be a better place if you do not judge others.
Yes indeed - so much damage could be omitted if only people would respect each other and appreciate whichever differences and get moving to embrace common grounds .... of which there are plenty to make a peaceful living while sharing the planet Earth
ELEPHANTS?
Другие племена Африки,(Сомали, Гана и др.) которые поселились в городах. прозябают в безделии, нищете и в нечистотах. Занимаются попрошайничеством. Лучше жить в своих исконных традициях, в труде и с достоинством.
4:23 does that woman have blue eyes?
It is cataract
Ll) MARUAPULA MORENA MODIMO MOGOLO WA RONA MAUABOPHELO PULA MEETSE A BOPHELO MONG A RONA JEHOVA MODIMO YO A PHELAGO MORENA WA RONA AMEN.
Thats big brothers way of destroying life on this beautiful planet,but they,the darkness,their acolytes,their followers will be destroyed,and the meek will inherit,,it is the time of the hyaena,it will pass
Burning.
HE will _LOSE HIMSELF_ trying to prove OTHERS wrong!
Bush or Men ?
Horrible choice, studying electronics. It's very low-paid.
Not only studying electronics which is a horribly low-paid field, but applying to go to college??? Hello, 100's of thousands in life-crippling debt. Better off learning farming, kid!
Stop calling my people « bushmen », it is a very derogatory term. Khoisan or just the San for short would be better.
Khoi Khoi and San are 2 different groups, but I totally agree with the Bushmen part.
That’s why I said either or . Obviously according to who they are, thank you though.
How is living a primitive lifestyle in the melineum considered progressive? They can still preserve their culture if they modernized their lifestyle.