Creo -Tan Meh, thats a pretty minor factor among all the other things we did. Plus, I think some study showed it was likely religion is evolutionary as people who believed simply tried harder at life, thus having more babies.
casey davies The more desperate humanity gets to survive, the more we find ways to f*ck up other lives, whether those lives be human lives or other species.
mikey123456789012 That's what makes us human, though. If we can't view things in subjective opinions, then we are just viewing them with our set instincts of this thing is helpful, dangerous, or unneeded or not useful. If we didn't hate things such as our predecessors and their decisions or our superiors and their choices, then we'd be an actually useful race! :P No seriously, we're sentient beings. We're bound to hate our own species.
I say if political figures want to fight put them in an arena gladiator style no need to kill thousands and innocents as well over sometimes the dumbest of arguments.
andy897221 Is it worth losing thousands and thousands of lives? Most of the things we have are taken for granted, used wrong/ineffectively, or it is weakening humans.
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I see a lot of people calling "religion" humanity's worst mistake. It's not. Religion has led to flourishing cultures, emancipated groups, hope, the desire to explore, and a lot of great literary works of art. It is what religion has come to in some cases what has been humanity's gravest mistake - a mere excuse for bigotry, hate and war. But then again, humans would've found another way to excuse their faults if it weren't for religion. You can't blame food for growing rotten. You can, however, blame the individual for not storing food correctly.
Religion is our biggest mistake imo not for believing in a creator but for giving up rule of one's mind. It is in my humble opinion that our subservience to another ephemeral or physical allow us to do any harm to another. It is the religious entitlement religions create and defend that has created the torn society today. People now easily distracted by something as simple as the art's. Religions all say man is good and evil but this is only so because of the division and entitlement that created our society's. People only ever think of parts of the problem, never the whole. But people must realize that you can try to fix a house on a crooked foundation but it will always falter. We need to acknowledge that clinging to ancient text's and stories is not learning and refusing to look beyond them is not a sign of intelligence. Learning is growing, not searching for truth is accepting defeat. Children should no longer be taught subservience nor how to view others according to ancient precepts and guidelines bases on irrational fear and distrus. For that is why we still have war and anguish. There I have said my piece.
Can I rant about the imperial system? I know you are americans but you are still a science channel, putting on the screen the equivalent in metric wouldn't hurt, would it?
Aski it's originary from europe (France to be precise), though later officially adopted by most of the world ("most" meaning everything but the US, myanmar and liberia... aka the "measurment hipster club")
Yeah, because of high infant mortality the average life expectancy for humans was quite low, but people who lived past their childhood didn't really live shorter than we do today, unless they died in for instance a hunting accident or in a fight with animals or other humans. Those who died of natural causes could be at least as old as todays people dying of natural causes.
MncDssctn I know, life expectancy is just the sum of the ages divided by the amount of people, if you have many infants dying around birth and many people that are 40-50 then the life expectancy is going to drop a lot
But I'm quite sure that they've discovered that people lived up to 60-65 years old in that time, but now the life expectancy is usually 70-90 years old (in Western countries). I'm not sure though...
I think that humanity's tendancy to be self destructive is the problem that holds us back the most. I mean, we have so much knowledge that could be used to not only improve our quality of life, but to save lives and what do we do with it? We try to figure out how it can be used to kill a lot people as a weapon of war. Look at the use of atomic energy, when humanity first discovered the vast energy released in fission and fusion, the immediate reaction of world leaders at the time wasn't "We can use this as clean energy to efficiently power out entire country.", the immediate reaction was more along the lines of "Hot damn, we can effectivly cripple entire countries with this." Or fast forward a couple decades to the Vietnam war, following invention of agent orange as a pesticide, the U.S. military proceded to dump well over 19 million gallons of the stuff in and around Vietam once it was figured out what it did to the human body. I appreciate the positive aspect of science and what it does for us, but damn, I'd rather see new advances in knowledge get used and perfected to improve standard of living rather than those same discoveries getting prepared and optimized to end as many lives as possible.
Really? I mean, religions are ideas. Not everyone agrees but still, religions are what some people dedicate their lives to. Just like I have dedicated my life to science, and some other guy has dedicated his to justice, there are people who dedicate their lives to a creator. Oh. And there are some idiots who use it to start wars. Still, there are always people who will be stupid enough to start a war without religion.
ThatScienceGeek yeah i agree like my religion is kinda of believe what you want just care for nature and hold your self as equal to other creatures i don't see how global respect can be a bad thing
religion is not a problem if you don't take it to an extreme. Being a homophobe isn't necessarily a problem until people go to the extreme of telling everyone who is a part of the LGBT community that they are going to hell. Honestly, if it weren't for humans being so self centered no idea would be a problem. Our only problem we have is acceptance. We cant accept something we think is wrong or bad.
Amy S I agree with u, if ppl have religions, its easier to keep it to themselves and not pressure others with it... but also the ones without religion shouldn't be shamed into thinking they're going to hell.. no one is supposed to judge but the Lord himself only. therefore no one should condemn anyone :P love thy neighbor as you love yourself :D acceptance needn't be a problem ..but it is since this social media started.
This video was SO timely. I spent time with my three adult kids this weekend and we talked about this. Could we survive? With me being raised on a farm, my son with his natural instinct with plants....my oldest with a vast knowledge of trivial stuff and my middle kid.....who can cook with anything.... Well, we decided we could. But we also decided we didn't really want to test our hypothesis. LOL Great video, guys. It will be interesting to see how the next 30 years play out. I'm 51....I hope I live that long to see it. Hugs! :-D
Hundreds of thousands of years we were nomadic, and were able to do little more than explore and maintain a population of less than a million. When we started agriculture was when we first started building and discovering math and actually learning about the world. Agriculture is the best thing since it made sliced bread possible!
Humanity's biggest mistake was mistaking efficiency for comfort. That's the reason we domesticated plants and animals and used them for food and goods. Because it made life easier, you had to do less. Nowadays, getting your food that you need to survive, your clothing, your cars that you use to travel, your homes you live in, all are as simple as handing over a bunch of processed cotton and trees. So now we all live in completely closed-off homes, rarely talking to the people who live right next to us. We've turned each other into machines to keep every single person on Earth alive, happy, an well. This is what's turned life into a monotonous pursuit of pleasure and prosperity, allowing us to forget the ones close to us, and ultimately waste our lives. I bet some of the modern nomadic cultures that still exist are all consistent of happy, healthy humans whom love and respect each other. Regardless of age, color, sexuality, height, strength, et cetera. One of these days I'll leave civilization to live in the woods as would a natural human.
I think its agriculture that allowed us to evolve the way we did and now we do alot to try and help the planet, are mistake was messing it up in the first place through global extinction deforestatio global warming etc.
Sebastian hayot both agriculture and industrialization lead to those things. but many aren't as aware of effects that agriculture have on the natural environment.
We are animals. But, along the way, we have forgotten. In our act of forgetting this, over the last 10,000 years, we have created modern society. And along with that the mental constructs of societal, social and cultural norms. But these things are man made and not real yet they affect us as though they were real and over time have worked to put us into a mental cage. This has pulled us away from actively engaging life as an intelligent animal would to living nearly exclusively in our own individual minds as humans. This has created insecurity and fear over time as we over think situations and assume what others behavior may mean which has sprung forth all the ills of man, including greed, war, violence, depression and pain. It's not the situations in our lives which bring us pain, but how we perceive these situations which bring us pain. And if one can see the world clearly, in its true state as any person can learn how to do, then this person can experience life without emotional pain and fear and insecurity even if he or she loses everything in the material world, including the status of society, because this person will finally see the world as it truly is and not in the prism of cultural, social norms that go so deep in his or her mind that he or she can't break free from them simply by consciously willing oneself to do so. With a change in how we each see our world, a shift in the very paradigm of how we see the world, to where we see it in its true state as intelligent animals who are actively and consciously mindfully aware at all times and not living in our minds the entirety of our experiences, then we become enlightened and with that a change in the world will happen. With enlightenment, you feel love for all men and women as your family and you only want to give compassion and love. You are not triggered by the wealth of others and feel love for even those who would do you harm. You transcend the idea of self to understand the nature of the world, its true nature. It takes one voice, one person living his virtues and spreading compassion and the message of keeping a daily mindfulness practice and questioning one's ideas about his own motives in life. This is what I will continue to help bring to the world until I leave it.
Yes, I just studied agriculture in school and I agree. Nothing has altered the Earth like agriculture and it's created so many bad or different things that honestly can't be reversed. But we can't do much to reverse the damage we have done, we can just prevent more from happening.
Defiantly the biggest mistake. Every second that passes we as a race deserve, even more, to become extinct. When the last person dies it will be humanity's greatest day ever.
And why do we deserve to be more extinct then wolves then? We have just as much a right to be here as anything else. But if you truely believe that, please begin with yourself.
Batarn What's the point of beginning with myself. That won't cause the end of humans. That will just be the end of me. And humans dying out will save the rest of the world so don't be so selfish and look at the destruction we are causing. I don't expect you to understand, you'll keep defending humanity as if we've done nothing wrong because that's what people do.
***** if I can take everyone else with me then yes. That would be doing billions of other species, plant and animal, a huge favour. Maybe it will give a different species to become as intelligent as us and perhaps they won't ruin our beautiful planet
I always felt technology was our biggest mistake but greatest choice. Not technology as in computers and stuff, but as in making all these things we use in general that cause us to rely on everything we have basically because if the entirety of things man built just collapsed or stopped working/broke, a huge portion of humanity will most likely die within days/weeks. We have phones and things like that, but we can't use it to survive if we had no buildings, power, etc. Basically for me technology, or better yet, how we let technology control us is our biggest mistake. That or the government! Darn you ObamaCare!!! ;-;
How about doubt. Isn't that our first mistake? FEAR of not being loved, a self imposed illusion of Seperation, Wanting what we already have YET Refusing to Beleive it.
At this point, I want to say "Defunding NASA." We went from the invention of the airplane to standing on the moon in about 60 years, and in the 45 years since then have done virtually nothing aside from tossing some robots around the solar system. It seems patently obvious that the punishment mankind has wrought on this planet will likely make it inhospitable to human life within the next century, but nobody seems interested in doing anything about it. We're sitting inside a burning building, and everyone it too busy having a slap-fight with their roommates to think how badly we need to get the Hell out of here.
+black paw The USA spends literally tens of trillions of dollars per year fighting wars in countries that don't want or need their bombs. China probably spends more. "Billions" is a drop in the bucket compared to this. One large bomb costs as much as a single space probe. One bomb.
Or we could stay and make it perfectly good for us to live in by stopping being so ignorant of our impact on this world. We are not the only life that matters and it's selfish and careless to just leave( if it was possible) and let every other amazing and brilliant creature die because of us and our self-centred greedy actions
I don't think we'll ever be able to know. With individuals you can easily look to someone who acted/chose differently, compare the results, and determine which was a mistake. There's really nothing we can compare Humanity as a whole to. We can only guess.
Agreed. Can't count how many times I wished that every morning I wake up the first thing to do is running around the forest and hunt animals for my lunch, instead of running along a circle on concrete floor or sitting in front of a screen.
my biggest mistake i keep making is whenever i get the curiosity to read youtube comments from a video i actually like. why do i keep coming down here?!
"but for now I'm going to order a pizza, pay $5 for a coffee and then imma take a photo of myself- post it on instagram so make sure you follow me!" best line lol
can you make a video about research: how to research, differentiating reliable sources and facts from lies, and how to use information from the internet correctly? How do you guys research? xxxx (love your videos by the wayyyyyyy)
actually there are some studies that suggests that eating the new kind of food that agriculture created (bread and cooked meat) is what made us smart due to the bigger calorie intake and less to waste it on, so our body evolved to have less strength, speed, endurance, but better brains. (saw that some years ago on a national geographic tv show)
Donny Chan While that maybe true, Buddhism and Hinduism has also shed blood. And let's not forget the Gendercide going on in India right now, too. None of the hands are clean sir or Ma'am. I say we carry on with our beliefs and TRY to make the world a better place.
I've actually been doing some research because I want to make a book (or would it be cooler as a graphic novel) where the apocalypse is the mass failure of human technologies and agriculture and humans are forced back into their hunter-gatherer lifestyle and evolve to adapt and branch off into several different subhuman species, like there were back in the stone ages.
Humanity's biggest problem is killing the environment in which we live. Many places, like hyper-industrialized regions or the lands we've stripped of everything, are already experiencing their own apocalypses. Mass implication of radiation, chemicals, garbage, feces, and other pollution has lead to some pretty horrible conditions for us humans and we'll experience it for years to come (genetic defects and all; also pretty hard to clean all of this crap up).
I see one biiiiiiig advantage of settled communities & urban spaces in comparison to nomadic tribes: personal individuality. Only in a big community humans were able to specialize and to become more and more individualistic. I wouldn't wanna trade that for the world. Imagining I would have to live in a tribe of 20-40 people, being very restricted in my choice of profession & relaxing activities and not being able to choose who I want to be friends with, is horrible. And isn't it fascinating that only thanks to a big community pulling together (like a city, a nation or a continent) each one of us receives the opportunity to be able to be who they are, to do what they like to do and to be able to share it with who they like. That's so great about humanity: through coming together, we can be individualistic!
When I studied history at a higher level - we learned that the neolithic revolution was actually something that humans in the areas were slowly forced to do as the climate changed and got a lot dryer. Wild plants and game were suddenly a lot harder to find, so people in the Nile delta, Mesopotamia and Huang He had to grow it in order to survive. And then...we got stuck with it, I guess.
The thing about this is that all of it WOULDN'T dissappear, and also the domestication of humanity also led to us being more social, more intelligent, and all around more adaptable and evolutionary than before, so don't dislike all of that.
It isn't agriculture that is totally to blame, it's the fact that we think it is the only way to live that is the problem. When the land says "no more", we say "yes more" commiting tons of energy from outside sources to achieve this end.
Agriculture is the direct or indirect source of so much suffering, but also a massive amount of accomplishments that I don't think could have been done without it or things that depend on it(and many of these things I can't help but call good). so I don't think it is as simple as just calling it a mistake, especially with all the stuff depending on it(such as science).
This is a strong argument, and you haven't even mentioned the effects of agriculture on the environment. However, agriculture has increased the human population to a level way higher than it has ever been before, making us a far more wide and diverse population. It could be argued that agriculture is the best thing we ever did. As long as we are smart about it and share foods we have (either in distributing via supermarkets & restaurants or sharing with friends) we can all improve and maintain good nutrition, but as soon as kindness and apathy go, we are monsters. I believe human greed, arrogance and separation from our environment are the biggest mistakes of humanity.
I would have to that, the love of money. money itself is not evil, and makes getting things a heck of a lot easier than trade, but its ability to take on the most desired object for the observer is what really causes the problem, and that's more of a reflect of certain human's personality. even then I'm not 100% sure I agree with you, although I would certainly put it up there on the list.
Humanity's biggest mistake was creating structured societies with inflexible and rigid rules, roles, and values, thus limiting the people from expanding and growing as human beings, and instilling fear and hatred for anything that falls outside of societal norms.
Where are the hunter gatherer/ nomadic peoples located? And I definitely agree with this. We have gone so far in many places with domesticating ourselves that we are almost too far gone. We would not be able to revert to hunter gatherers if we wanted because of the lack of land and extinction of crops.
Hmm, well it'd certainly be interesting to see where humanity would be if we never developed agriculture. Although, we may just be the same way as we were back then, wearing animal hides and using stone tools. I could easily be wrong, but still, its cool to think about.
Sounds like it might've had some negative effects at first and some growing pains, but as of today, we're much better off for it. I don't think it was humanity's biggest mistake or even a mistake at all.
Intellectual property, focusing on work instead of fun, war, genocide, hate in general, using nuclear bombs as weapons, making children memorize multiplication tables, too many otherr things to count. Agriculture was a step in the right direction that evolution just isn't fast enough to get used to.
I honestly don't think religion itself was the biggest mistake.
It's when people started using religion for power where the problems start.
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***** Yep! ^_^
That is so true
Creo -Tan Meh, thats a pretty minor factor among all the other things we did. Plus, I think some study showed it was likely religion is evolutionary as people who believed simply tried harder at life, thus having more babies.
And when we started using it to judge others..
Our biggest mistake was evolving (in such a way that we will inevitably) destroy all life on the planet.
We can't destroy all life, we may kill all humans but many plants and animals will outlive us
Uggh. I can't stand humanity haters.
casey davies The more desperate humanity gets to survive, the more we find ways to f*ck up other lives, whether those lives be human lives or other species.
mikey123456789012 That's what makes us human, though. If we can't view things in subjective opinions, then we are just viewing them with our set instincts of this thing is helpful, dangerous, or unneeded or not useful. If we didn't hate things such as our predecessors and their decisions or our superiors and their choices, then we'd be an actually useful race! :P No seriously, we're sentient beings. We're bound to hate our own species.
We're not quite there yet...
I d-don't think Mitch understands how pretty he is and just how nice it is to look at him T___T
Lol Superfruit tho.
Aussie Baka altough grassi is the queen, i think she meant the one in the video :P
Aussie Baka mehjar1999 aha yeah i mean asapscience mitch. though they're all pretty darn fabulous.
Tea I find it suspicious that so many adorable youtubers are called Mitch. And by "so many", I mean these two.
Illuminati confirmed?!
Aussie Baka *ahem* bajancanadian
Humanity's biggest mistake, you're looking right at it, the youtube comment section.
8/8, gr8 m8
It is a war zone for trolls
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Thank you for your adequate demonstration of my point :)
Not just youtube, overall coment sections in all websites. But sometimes you find great gems. =)
Lol so true
"And if agriculture crumbles. It will be fascinating to see human evolution evolve."
Fascinating wouldn't be the word I'd use to describe it.....
lol
Same
War is humanities biggest mistake
War is inevitable with humans. We find ways...
richard fuhrmann exactly, men will even start war over a woman.. LOL
I say if political figures want to fight put them in an arena gladiator style no need to kill thousands and innocents as well over sometimes the dumbest of arguments.
and from war, the technology development is much much faster and bring us all benefit in long term
andy897221 Is it worth losing thousands and thousands of lives? Most of the things we have are taken for granted, used wrong/ineffectively, or it is weakening humans.
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What a-boot Honey Boo Boo?
Liam Worsley Piers Morgen, Jaden Smith & Kanye West? You're an idiot.
richard fuhrmann An opinion on Piers Morgan & Jaden Smith though? :/
Casey Stellar Yes. Just like how some people actually like Honey Boo Boo, but I think she's a reincarnation of a wholly mammoth.
DLC? What's wrong with that?
Humanity is humanity's biggest mistake
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I watched porn when i was 12 😂😂😂
Watched it when i was 11
Hardcore that is lol
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What Is Humanities Biggest Mistake?
-Easy, denying/ignoring climate change.
I see a lot of people calling "religion" humanity's worst mistake. It's not. Religion has led to flourishing cultures, emancipated groups, hope, the desire to explore, and a lot of great literary works of art.
It is what religion has come to in some cases what has been humanity's gravest mistake - a mere excuse for bigotry, hate and war.
But then again, humans would've found another way to excuse their faults if it weren't for religion.
You can't blame food for growing rotten. You can, however, blame the individual for not storing food correctly.
Religion is our biggest mistake imo not for believing in a creator but for giving up rule of one's mind. It is in my humble opinion that our subservience to another ephemeral or physical allow us to do any harm to another. It is the religious entitlement religions create and defend that has created the torn society today. People now easily distracted by something as simple as the art's. Religions all say man is good and evil but this is only so because of the division and entitlement that created our society's. People only ever think of parts of the problem, never the whole. But people must realize that you can try to fix a house on a crooked foundation but it will always falter. We need to acknowledge that clinging to ancient text's and stories is not learning and refusing to look beyond them is not a sign of intelligence. Learning is growing, not searching for truth is accepting defeat. Children should no longer be taught subservience nor how to view others according to ancient precepts and guidelines bases on irrational fear and distrus. For that is why we still have war and anguish. There I have said my piece.
Can I rant about the imperial system? I know you are americans but you are still a science channel, putting on the screen the equivalent in metric wouldn't hurt, would it?
***** He's Canadian. They measure in the metric system. It makes sense to measure that way, but alas, we do not.
Metroc isn't european. It's the scientific measurment system.
Aski
it's originary from europe (France to be precise), though later officially adopted by most of the world ("most" meaning everything but the US, myanmar and liberia... aka the "measurment hipster club")
Drakan R so is the imperial though
They're canadian. This is why we shouldn't assume things...
1:30 but isn't that because of that more children died? If you survived as a child you would probably live until a later age. Right?
Yeah, because of high infant mortality the average life expectancy for humans was quite low, but people who lived past their childhood didn't really live shorter than we do today, unless they died in for instance a hunting accident or in a fight with animals or other humans. Those who died of natural causes could be at least as old as todays people dying of natural causes.
MncDssctn I know, life expectancy is just the sum of the ages divided by the amount of people, if you have many infants dying around birth and many people that are 40-50 then the life expectancy is going to drop a lot
But I'm quite sure that they've discovered that people lived up to 60-65 years old in that time, but now the life expectancy is usually 70-90 years old (in Western countries).
I'm not sure though...
OMG, I can't help but constantly imagine Greg playing with Flanny when he's talking about animals. xD
I would say the destruction of the library of alexandria
***** Im not trying to be rude, but if we didn't have to get our knowledge delayed, imagine how much more advanced we could and probably would be
good one, not sure its it, but good suggestion.
I think that humanity's tendancy to be self destructive is the problem that holds us back the most. I mean, we have so much knowledge that could be used to not only improve our quality of life, but to save lives and what do we do with it? We try to figure out how it can be used to kill a lot people as a weapon of war. Look at the use of atomic energy, when humanity first discovered the vast energy released in fission and fusion, the immediate reaction of world leaders at the time wasn't "We can use this as clean energy to efficiently power out entire country.", the immediate reaction was more along the lines of "Hot damn, we can effectivly cripple entire countries with this." Or fast forward a couple decades to the Vietnam war, following invention of agent orange as a pesticide, the U.S. military proceded to dump well over 19 million gallons of the stuff in and around Vietam once it was figured out what it did to the human body. I appreciate the positive aspect of science and what it does for us, but damn, I'd rather see new advances in knowledge get used and perfected to improve standard of living rather than those same discoveries getting prepared and optimized to end as many lives as possible.
Its easy religion
Really? I mean, religions are ideas. Not everyone agrees but still, religions are what some people dedicate their lives to. Just like I have dedicated my life to science, and some other guy has dedicated his to justice, there are people who dedicate their lives to a creator.
Oh. And there are some idiots who use it to start wars. Still, there are always people who will be stupid enough to start a war without religion.
Religion isn't what caused violence infact it helps prevent it, the problem is extremists and people twisting scripture to justify points
ThatScienceGeek yeah i agree like my religion is kinda of believe what you want just care for nature and hold your self as equal to other creatures i don't see how global respect can be a bad thing
religion is not a problem if you don't take it to an extreme. Being a homophobe isn't necessarily a problem until people go to the extreme of telling everyone who is a part of the LGBT community that they are going to hell. Honestly, if it weren't for humans being so self centered no idea would be a problem. Our only problem we have is acceptance. We cant accept something we think is wrong or bad.
Amy S I agree with u, if ppl have religions, its easier to keep it to themselves and not pressure others with it... but also the ones without religion shouldn't be shamed into thinking they're going to hell.. no one is supposed to judge but the Lord himself only. therefore no one should condemn anyone :P love thy neighbor as you love yourself :D acceptance needn't be a problem ..but it is since this social media started.
My answer for this question isss EVERYTHING
best comment of the century
Balance Weaver of Destiny lol
This video was SO timely. I spent time with my three adult kids this weekend and we talked about this. Could we survive? With me being raised on a farm, my son with his natural instinct with plants....my oldest with a vast knowledge of trivial stuff and my middle kid.....who can cook with anything.... Well, we decided we could. But we also decided we didn't really want to test our hypothesis. LOL Great video, guys. It will be interesting to see how the next 30 years play out. I'm 51....I hope I live that long to see it. Hugs! :-D
Hundreds of thousands of years we were nomadic, and were able to do little more than explore and maintain a population of less than a million.
When we started agriculture was when we first started building and discovering math and actually learning about the world.
Agriculture is the best thing since it made sliced bread possible!
Biggest mistake: Reaction Channels
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Humanity's biggest mistake was mistaking efficiency for comfort. That's the reason we domesticated plants and animals and used them for food and goods. Because it made life easier, you had to do less. Nowadays, getting your food that you need to survive, your clothing, your cars that you use to travel, your homes you live in, all are as simple as handing over a bunch of processed cotton and trees. So now we all live in completely closed-off homes, rarely talking to the people who live right next to us. We've turned each other into machines to keep every single person on Earth alive, happy, an well. This is what's turned life into a monotonous pursuit of pleasure and prosperity, allowing us to forget the ones close to us, and ultimately waste our lives. I bet some of the modern nomadic cultures that still exist are all consistent of happy, healthy humans whom love and respect each other. Regardless of age, color, sexuality, height, strength, et cetera.
One of these days I'll leave civilization to live in the woods as would a natural human.
Wow. Wise words. I've never thought about it that way
Your statement has several errors that you need to seriously check.
Uchechukwu Nwauwa Would you mind pointing some of these out? Otherwise, your statement holds no argument against mine.
I think its agriculture that allowed us to evolve the way we did and now we do alot to try and help the planet, are mistake was messing it up in the first place through global extinction deforestatio global warming etc.
Agriculture is what led to mistakes like deforestation, pollution, and emission of greenhouse gases
Malini Chandra i think you mean industrialization
Sebastian hayot both agriculture and industrialization lead to those things. but many aren't as aware of effects that agriculture have on the natural environment.
THE ENDING WAS EVERYTHING 😂😂
I think the humanities are doing just fine.
I gotta say... Mitch, you look so good with a clean shave :3 It's also a personal taste, but had to say it, it really suits you ^^
We are animals. But, along the way, we have forgotten. In our act of forgetting this, over the last 10,000 years, we have created modern society. And along with that the mental constructs of societal, social and cultural norms. But these things are man made and not real yet they affect us as though they were real and over time have worked to put us into a mental cage. This has pulled us away from actively engaging life as an intelligent animal would to living nearly exclusively in our own individual minds as humans. This has created insecurity and fear over time as we over think situations and assume what others behavior may mean which has sprung forth all the ills of man, including greed, war, violence, depression and pain. It's not the situations in our lives which bring us pain, but how we perceive these situations which bring us pain. And if one can see the world clearly, in its true state as any person can learn how to do, then this person can experience life without emotional pain and fear and insecurity even if he or she loses everything in the material world, including the status of society, because this person will finally see the world as it truly is and not in the prism of cultural, social norms that go so deep in his or her mind that he or she can't break free from them simply by consciously willing oneself to do so. With a change in how we each see our world, a shift in the very paradigm of how we see the world, to where we see it in its true state as intelligent animals who are actively and consciously mindfully aware at all times and not living in our minds the entirety of our experiences, then we become enlightened and with that a change in the world will happen. With enlightenment, you feel love for all men and women as your family and you only want to give compassion and love. You are not triggered by the wealth of others and feel love for even those who would do you harm. You transcend the idea of self to understand the nature of the world, its true nature. It takes one voice, one person living his virtues and spreading compassion and the message of keeping a daily mindfulness practice and questioning one's ideas about his own motives in life. This is what I will continue to help bring to the world until I leave it.
T.Muller 7-1
T.Muller 7-1 I'm assuming copy and paste?
Wat
Thomas Muller 7-1 that was deep O_O
Thomas Muller 7-1 very long comments
Laughing WAY too loud about 1:37. That should be a GIF hahaha.
I was expecting Humanities to be Humanities as in the academic disciplines.
Domesticated ourselves, is a really so good way of putting it. Kudos, Michell :)
Biggest mistake: human's selfishness
Yes, I just studied agriculture in school and I agree. Nothing has altered the Earth like agriculture and it's created so many bad or different things that honestly can't be reversed. But we can't do much to reverse the damage we have done, we can just prevent more from happening.
These guys are so cute😍
To evaluate if something is a mistake, you first have to be able to define the goal and then evaluate if the actions are congruent with the goal.
Defiantly the biggest mistake. Every second that passes we as a race deserve, even more, to become extinct. When the last person dies it will be humanity's greatest day ever.
And why do we deserve to be more extinct then wolves then? We have just as much a right to be here as anything else. But if you truely believe that, please begin with yourself.
You're biggest mistake is not listening in english class
Mattaius Hunter Whom are you referring to?
Batarn What's the point of beginning with myself. That won't cause the end of humans. That will just be the end of me. And humans dying out will save the rest of the world so don't be so selfish and look at the destruction we are causing. I don't expect you to understand, you'll keep defending humanity as if we've done nothing wrong because that's what people do.
***** if I can take everyone else with me then yes. That would be doing billions of other species, plant and animal, a huge favour. Maybe it will give a different species to become as intelligent as us and perhaps they won't ruin our beautiful planet
Had to write an exact essay about this, I swear this channel always come in for the clutch😂
I always felt technology was our biggest mistake but greatest choice. Not technology as in computers and stuff, but as in making all these things we use in general that cause us to rely on everything we have basically because if the entirety of things man built just collapsed or stopped working/broke, a huge portion of humanity will most likely die within days/weeks. We have phones and things like that, but we can't use it to survive if we had no buildings, power, etc. Basically for me technology, or better yet, how we let technology control us is our biggest mistake. That or the government! Darn you ObamaCare!!! ;-;
How about doubt. Isn't that our first mistake? FEAR of not being loved, a self imposed illusion of Seperation, Wanting what we already have YET Refusing to Beleive it.
At this point, I want to say "Defunding NASA."
We went from the invention of the airplane to standing on the moon in about 60 years, and in the 45 years since then have done virtually nothing aside from tossing some robots around the solar system. It seems patently obvious that the punishment mankind has wrought on this planet will likely make it inhospitable to human life within the next century, but nobody seems interested in doing anything about it. We're sitting inside a burning building, and everyone it too busy having a slap-fight with their roommates to think how badly we need to get the Hell out of here.
+black paw
The USA spends literally tens of trillions of dollars per year fighting wars in countries that don't want or need their bombs. China probably spends more. "Billions" is a drop in the bucket compared to this. One large bomb costs as much as a single space probe. One bomb.
Or we could stay and make it perfectly good for us to live in by stopping being so ignorant of our impact on this world. We are not the only life that matters and it's selfish and careless to just leave( if it was possible) and let every other amazing and brilliant creature die because of us and our self-centred greedy actions
I don't think we'll ever be able to know. With individuals you can easily look to someone who acted/chose differently, compare the results, and determine which was a mistake. There's really nothing we can compare Humanity as a whole to. We can only guess.
The biggest mistake the universe made was letting me win the sperm race
Agreed. Can't count how many times I wished that every morning I wake up the first thing to do is running around the forest and hunt animals for my lunch, instead of running along a circle on concrete floor or sitting in front of a screen.
The biggest mistake in humanity is posting that stupid dress all over twitter to debate about its color. *reloading gun*
my biggest mistake i keep making is whenever i get the curiosity to read youtube comments from a video i actually like. why do i keep coming down here?!
The guy in the black shirt is funny😀😂
Princess Amanda You mean Greg?
Our ability to stubbornly hold on to dogmatic beliefs, instead of learning, changing and growing.
Biggest mistake? Easy.
Money.
When someone is talking the other person is always starring at the camera with a creepy look😂😂😂😂
humanity's biggest mistake was not aborting me in the womb
CometCat Same...
"but for now I'm going to order a pizza, pay $5 for a coffee and then imma take a photo of myself- post it on instagram so make sure you follow me!" best line lol
Vine was humanity's biggest mistake.
no, musical.ly was humanities biggest mistake
Vine’s death*
benplattypus
Agreeeeed musical.ly is so annoying
can you make a video about research: how to research, differentiating reliable sources and facts from lies, and how to use information from the internet correctly? How do you guys research? xxxx (love your videos by the wayyyyyyy)
Biggest mistake is anime
Not agreed
NO
fuck no!
HELL NO! ANIME IS THE BEST THING EEEEEVVVVVVVEEEEEERRRRRR!!!! So fuck you.
NO! nO ! No!
actually there are some studies that suggests that eating the new kind of food that agriculture created (bread and cooked meat) is what made us smart due to the bigger calorie intake and less to waste it on, so our body evolved to have less strength, speed, endurance, but better brains. (saw that some years ago on a national geographic tv show)
Biggest mistake was probably religion...
Having a belief isn't bad. It's some people who misuse their beliefs to harm others that are the problem.
+ChocolateThunder1620 agreed
I think it was hatred. Religion doesn't cause conflict, hatred does.
+Cody Gordon *loud sigh*, why are you so stupid?
+Video Critic ?
The selfish attitude and lack of love. That's the biggest mistake of human race. And the mistakes only start there.
Christianity is hugh manatees biggest mistake...not religion guys. Think of Hinduism and Buddhism for instance!
And why is that?
Batarn Because the conflict between Christianity, Islam and Judaism killed around 1000x the people killed by Buddhism and Hinduism.
Humanity* good troll btw
"hugh manatees"
Donny Chan While that maybe true, Buddhism and Hinduism has also shed blood. And let's not forget the Gendercide going on in India right now, too. None of the hands are clean sir or Ma'am. I say we carry on with our beliefs and TRY to make the world a better place.
I've actually been doing some research because I want to make a book (or would it be cooler as a graphic novel) where the apocalypse is the mass failure of human technologies and agriculture and humans are forced back into their hunter-gatherer lifestyle and evolve to adapt and branch off into several different subhuman species, like there were back in the stone ages.
You were so funny and energetic in this video.. Love you guys!
The Internet was humanity's biggest mistake!
I nearly folded at the "follow meeeeeeeeeeee" bit lol
There are no mistakes, only perspectives...
PhysiOSQuantum wise words
We humans have made so many mistakes. It is our responsibility to learn from them and take action.
Religion is our worst mistake. Without it, we can use science and humanist values to work on fixing everything else.
Humanity's biggest problem is killing the environment in which we live. Many places, like hyper-industrialized regions or the lands we've stripped of everything, are already experiencing their own apocalypses. Mass implication of radiation, chemicals, garbage, feces, and other pollution has lead to some pretty horrible conditions for us humans and we'll experience it for years to come (genetic defects and all; also pretty hard to clean all of this crap up).
I see one biiiiiiig advantage of settled communities & urban spaces in comparison to nomadic tribes: personal individuality. Only in a big community humans were able to specialize and to become more and more individualistic. I wouldn't wanna trade that for the world. Imagining I would have to live in a tribe of 20-40 people, being very restricted in my choice of profession & relaxing activities and not being able to choose who I want to be friends with, is horrible. And isn't it fascinating that only thanks to a big community pulling together (like a city, a nation or a continent) each one of us receives the opportunity to be able to be who they are, to do what they like to do and to be able to share it with who they like. That's so great about humanity: through coming together, we can be individualistic!
Humanity is humanity's biggest mistake.
When I studied history at a higher level - we learned that the neolithic revolution was actually something that humans in the areas were slowly forced to do as the climate changed and got a lot dryer. Wild plants and game were suddenly a lot harder to find, so people in the Nile delta, Mesopotamia and Huang He had to grow it in order to survive. And then...we got stuck with it, I guess.
You guys actually made me like science and understand it. Thank you xxx
I really thought this video was going to be "coming down from the trees" versus "having left the oceans."
I honestly love you guys so much.
Love your videos!! I just pre-ordered your book! :D
Greg looks at Mitch the way Dan looks at Phil
Human existence itself is the worst mistake ever
"Does lying effect humans mentally? If yes, then How?"
PS: your the best scientific channel i have ever watched on youtube EVER!!!!
I'm going to pre-ordered the book soon 😊😄
The thing about this is that all of it WOULDN'T dissappear, and also the domestication of humanity also led to us being more social, more intelligent, and all around more adaptable and evolutionary than before, so don't dislike all of that.
It isn't agriculture that is totally to blame, it's the fact that we think it is the only way to live that is the problem. When the land says "no more", we say "yes more" commiting tons of energy from outside sources to achieve this end.
Agriculture is the direct or indirect source of so much suffering, but also a massive amount of accomplishments that I don't think could have been done without it or things that depend on it(and many of these things I can't help but call good). so I don't think it is as simple as just calling it a mistake, especially with all the stuff depending on it(such as science).
Ok woah, I just realized you guys are Canadian!! I've been subscribed for so long and never knew that... Canadians represent 😂😂
You two are wonderful, thank you for your videos :)
the moment you said Age of Empires nostalgia hit me really hard...
This is a strong argument, and you haven't even mentioned the effects of agriculture on the environment. However, agriculture has increased the human population to a level way higher than it has ever been before, making us a far more wide and diverse population. It could be argued that agriculture is the best thing we ever did. As long as we are smart about it and share foods we have (either in distributing via supermarkets & restaurants or sharing with friends) we can all improve and maintain good nutrition, but as soon as kindness and apathy go, we are monsters. I believe human greed, arrogance and separation from our environment are the biggest mistakes of humanity.
Money. ------ Corruption, greed, slavery...
The church too. Religion in general.
I would have to that, the love of money. money itself is not evil, and makes getting things a heck of a lot easier than trade, but its ability to take on the most desired object for the observer is what really causes the problem, and that's more of a reflect of certain human's personality. even then I'm not 100% sure I agree with you, although I would certainly put it up there on the list.
Always waiting for tragedies to happen, even when we knew it's wrong, then acting only after that as "prevention".
Love this vídeos! And actually noticed his flawless shave hahaha his lips and teeth are so perfect....
Hilarious.....just.... hilarious 😂😂
Love you guys 😊
I think humanity made the right turn and there biggest mistake is hurting the environment that we live in 😱😱😞😞😪😪
Humanity's biggest mistake was creating structured societies with inflexible and rigid rules, roles, and values, thus limiting the people from expanding and growing as human beings, and instilling fear and hatred for anything that falls outside of societal norms.
Where are the hunter gatherer/ nomadic peoples located? And I definitely agree with this. We have gone so far in many places with domesticating ourselves that we are almost too far gone. We would not be able to revert to hunter gatherers if we wanted because of the lack of land and extinction of crops.
2:06 I'm Glad I'm Not The Only One Who Likes Age Of Empires
Hmm, well it'd certainly be interesting to see where humanity would be if we never developed agriculture. Although, we may just be the same way as we were back then, wearing animal hides and using stone tools. I could easily be wrong, but still, its cool to think about.
War, Religion, Polution
our biggest mistake social media
Sounds like it might've had some negative effects at first and some growing pains, but as of today, we're much better off for it. I don't think it was humanity's biggest mistake or even a mistake at all.
Humanity's Biggest Mistake:
Me.
"i mean bacon come on" AGAGAGAHAHAHA XD SAME
The last 2 seconds are my favourite 😂😂😂😂
Intellectual property, focusing on work instead of fun, war, genocide, hate in general, using nuclear bombs as weapons, making children memorize multiplication tables, too many otherr things to count. Agriculture was a step in the right direction that evolution just isn't fast enough to get used to.
Thank you for the video! Loving the ending Mitch!