This is exactly why I didn't want to pursue a career in large business corporations. I participated in a business simulation project/competition for university students where we had be financial directors of a multi billion company, we were ultimately treating people as numbers and their work had numerically value that we judge them by, and if they were not performing upto the standard we expected because of reasons that were not important to us (e.g illness or death of a relative), therefore they lost their jobs. Our group won but I only enjoyed it because it was a fake simulation ( just a game), but it represented or even reflected what happens in real life, where big corporations treat human beings as numbers on paper, and that didn't sit well with me.
Kafkaesque is my favorite word in the dictionary. There’s something about the hopelessness of absurdity, the bottomless pit of schedules and control and manipulation, something about life in general that is so inherently nightmarish and illogical. And I’d say that the word Kafkaesque sums it all up as perfectly as you can ask for.
I work in a an academic department that is as Kafkaesque as you could get! Kafkanism still prevails, especially outside the so-called West where at least the norms of rationalism and the values of liberal democracy, as flimsy as they are, have rendered people more accountable for their actions and their impact on others and where abuses of bureaucratic power cannot be made too visible or could remain unquestioned.
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@@malimalou751 2 days ago... This can't be a coincidence! I'm at an academic department myself and I was having these thoughts myself after being recommended the video by the youtube algorithm :D
@ Surely no coincidence! The world of academia has become quite kafkaesque indeed. In some places, it has become simply nightmarish and so illogical that some of us are losing our sanity. I know I am on the brink of despair!
I remember as a kid reading The Metamorphosis in school and being hopelessly confused about what the book was or why it was important. Aside from being a subpar English student, I simply don't think I had enough life experience to appreciate the abstract concepts my teacher (and the author) was trying to convey.
@@finnmertens. You will understand it gradually friend, life will happen, and one day when you'll sit and observe it all, at that moment you'll be able to understand how true the book was.
@@finnmertens. It's almost a nag about how useless our lives are, and how everything amounts to nothing. It also focuses on human morality and values we uphold in a society where there are so many rules.
It's been a long time since I read it. But my understanding was that the message was quite scary. Exposing that relationships are deeply rooted in circumstance. As soon as he turned into cockroach he turned into a burden for the family. It just took time for everyone to come to terms with it. In the end everyone wanted to get rid of him. Needless to point out how horrible the experience must have been for him, as his essence was still a family member, but his physical body was not. Shows how cruel life can be by changing important circumstances. One day you are somebody, cool, important. And just like that you can be ostracized, perhaps ill, unimportant, despised, useless.
people will gladly pay taxes if they can see the actual benefits of those taxes in infrastructure, education, healthcare, and safety. if you wake up every morning to clean streets, bike paths, safe productive schools, good healthcare and safe/efficient public transportation suddenly taxes arent that big of a deal
@@artcurious807 My streets are full of potholes and dog/human feces, the bike paths are dangerously located on busy narrow streets with people who need to park along the sidewalk to access the buildings, the hospital workers are on strike due to increasingly poor working conditions and the public transportation system is still woefully inadequate for late-night shift workers. But hey, I sure am glad I get to pay more and more each year in taxes for unneeded construction projects that drag on for years and drag queen storytelling time for the kids, right??
I read an article on Kafkaesque. It says when someone going to catch a bus and finding that all the buses have stopped running and saying that's Kafkaesque. That's not." "What's Kafkaesque is when you enter a surreal world in which all your control patterns, all your plans, the whole way in which you have configured your own behavior, begins to fall to pieces, when you find yourself against a force that does not lend itself to the way you perceive the world. "You don't give up, you don't lie down and die. What you do is struggle against this with all of your equipment, with whatever you have. But of course you don't stand a chance. That's Kafkaesque."
At least Atticus Finch saw the shadow of a chance. "You know you are licked before you begin but you begin anyway... ... You rarely win, but sometimes you do."
I really wish that I could meet such artists who struggled and were only recognised posthumously, like Van Gogh and Franz Kafka, and tell them they made a difference. That the world changed because of them.
Yeah exactly, they would have made even better works and had a happier life because they would know they were widely accepted, a feeling which they might have never had in their life before. They were trapped in their own creative bubble, the bubble was only popped after their death when the works were published and appreciated.
Yup, sub the right channels and you are good. One recommendation with cute animated birds and EXTREMELY well researched topics: Kurzgesagt. They got some of the best educational videos I have ever seen.
@@eyexha Yes but no. Some Kurzgesagt videos deal with phiilosophical subjects, but it is a science education channel. School of Life is a philosopical-psychological education channel. BTW I don't get how you don't get what they want to convey? They can't be much clearer in their message - boht channels.
I read somewhere how the Trial spoke to Joseph’s denial of his own mortality and imperfect nature, thus his crime is the denial of being human. The ego doesn’t usually want to acknowledge its own wrongdoings or mistakes, holding itself above as something better than everyone else and refusing to admit fault. Put that on trial with endless bureaucratic pressure to admit guilt without proof and you’ve got an ego stuck like ouroboros in a judicial system that perpetuates itself as well. Fun idea to chew on, don’t know if it’s even close to what Kafka intended either. But like this video mentioned, this take still brings together the cogs of today’s bureaucracy with the individual who is caught up in it. Tell me if you know where this take came from it’s driving me nuts.
That time started in Marx’s time and hasn’t yet left us. We love market, we hate the market, we exploit the market, and are in turn exploited, and we live and die reproducing the same conditions for the next generation. The poor sell their lifetimes as labor to provide power and comfort for the wealthy, which the wealthy are so addicted to that they burn the planet in pursuit of riches so abstractly large, they can be nothing more than numbers on a cellphone app. In the end, the market grinds everyone to dust.
That's probably why he kept writing. His whole inability to submit them for publishing meant he had to keep writing for the hope of maybe one day doing it. It's like that guy said, the neurosis perpetuates itself.
"Of all my writings the only books that can stand are these: The Judgement, The Stoker, Metamorphosis, Penal Colony, Country Doctor, and the short story: Hunger Artist... When I say that those five books and the short story can stand, I do not mean that I wish them to be reprinted and handed down to posterity. On the contrary, should they disappear altogether that would please me best, Only, since they do exist, I do not with to hinder anyone who may want to, from keeping them." - From a note to Max Brod found after Kafka's death Incidentally, it's been suggested (I forget by whom unfortunately) that Kafka had Brod take control of his papers knowing full well that Brod would ignore his instructions to destroy them.
I had a Kafkaesque dream last week. I said goodbye to my friends and wanted to run to the train station to catch the train to the future. But in order to do so, I had to climb down the spiral stairs of the building was in. It felt never-ending. For every short flight of stairs, I was greeted with 1-2 doors that led to small rooms. The doors were always very heavy and absurd looking some I needed to squeeze through. The rooms were so small and filled with furniture and there was barely any space to walk to the other side of the room where another flight of stairs is. I eventually got out and ran a short distance to the train station. I looked back before entering the train, woke up, and my entire body was aching from the ordeal. The youtube algo is scary. I would have never searched for this.
Kind of like how my beloved country the US buys printed money with debt already attached to it, to then turn around and try to pay off those previous debts with newly printed money...
"Kafkaesque" describes all too well the nature of my most distressing dreams. The need to achieve a goal which is so unnecessary difficult and tedious only to wonder if the goal was even worth it in the end
That’s the just the first part. The unnecessarily complicated way. The second part is what brings it together, the fact that despite the system being completely unreasonable, we still contribute to it whether we like it or not. It’s like paying taxes to a government you protest against. You cause trouble for yourself by protesting, but by continuing to pay taxes, you support the government. This analogy is quite simplistic and of course you can’t just not pay taxes as a way to protest, but it goes to show how feeble it is to protest against true government while still filling their pocket. The same way this word describes how feeble it is to get frustrated over a tedious task you created for yourself.
I’ve had dreams like that, where your in some confusing new place that has a vague familiarity to it, and you feel compelled toward some goal that you don’t really understand, but it feels important and it has to be achieved
"Dying in anonymity. Regretfully admitting his art has always been a fraud. He fasted not through strength of Will but simply because he never found a food he liked." I didn't know I needed to hear that.
@@BeanSprouts02 The artist put himself in a situation that is kafkaesque but only saw that it was indeed... Kafkaesque when he died. Admitting that he didn't put himself in that situation to prove his artistry but rather it was just hard for him to find the food he liked... which is Kafkaesque because he was already free to eat anything he wanted when he was set free.
@@jobelijander6217 im not sure we're on the same page or not, but i interpreted it as him fasting not because he really wanted to, but because he didn't want to do anything else.
@@nori_with_rice ..which is also kafkaesque in a sense that "he made his own difficulties" when he could have just get out there and find the food that he wanted for so long??
@@jobelijander6217 ohh i think i see now. so something being kafkaesque means that its a result of one making something unnecessarily complicated for themselves. also just realized that in my last comment i literally just paraphrased what happened in the story except in broader terms. 😐 i need sleep
I thought it also related to the concept of boundaries in a way. In stoker it shocked me to see the Stoker tell the protagonist to lay on his bed. 2 people just met and the main character is already sitting in his bed. In the context it makes sense, there is no space available. But something about it really makes it itch lol. The first story I ever read from him is even more bizarre as the main character is talking about being on a swing etc, then goes home for supper, and the people outside "open the windows of his living room to have a better look at him and talk to him". This caught me so off guard I cannot even put it into words. I haven't read that much from him but it does seem like "personal space" is a concept that is constantly being subverted in his stuff.
TH-cam is the perfect example, the video recommendation algorithms is a mystery that few can unravel, who knows how much good content got buried because the program deemed them not to be.
BoZZigmupp I feel like its kind of if bureaucracy was a living being its going to be selfish and take as many resources in order to further keep itself going as strong or stronger than it is now
Nope, in "L'Etenger" Mr. Mersault knows the crime he has commited and the trial is normal trial for murder while in "The trial" Joseff K. doesn't know his charges and the trial is mysterious, opressive and impossible neither to understand nor control. So in one hand Mersault ows his fate being responsible of the free will of his actions (existentialism), in the other hand Joseff K. is envolved in actions controlled by invisible people in whose hands is his fate, no free will or controll (nihilism). Sorry my english :)
@@TheRaveJunkie as opposed to false or purposely imcompleted wisdom. "Blood is thicker than water" is a false wisdom. It says that our family is more important than friends and trusted ones we have chosen. That is not only utterly false, it's also incomplete. As the saying was SHORTENED to create a false meaning. Originally it was _"The blood of the covenant is thicker than the water of the womb"_ THIS, CORRECT wisdom says that it does not matter who your family was and how they may have treated you. Your bond to them is not as true as your bond to the ones you choose to let close, your most trusted friends and lovers.
I don't think Kafka ever said anything about that bit at the end, where "you are free to make the world better" or whatever. I think you guys added that so no one commits suicide or anything
Right because it doesn't get better when your system is designed to cripple you to its needs, like they said no tyrant to blame the system is the tyrant so how do you fix that
In Soviet Russia, Franz Kafka's novels were banned. Especially in his home country, Czech. I guess they revealed the reality and nature of Soviet bureaucracy. Oh by the way, the bureau decided as a chicken farmer you should be assigned to tend to the tank factory and as backer you will assigned to the chicken farm to fulfill the annual quota of milk production
@@SeraphimRoad During the Second World War, that was the case, as it was in the rest of the world. Don't make things up about the Soviet Union trying to criticize it, find some actual arguments instead of lies.
Just finished reading 'The Trial'... I want to kill myself cause it was so boring, but I want to read all of his books now... Franz Kafka in a nutshell...
it is the same question Giacomo Leopardi, one of the greatest italian poet, ask for in one of his most famous lyric: "Night song of a wandering shepherd from Asia", more then 200 years ago. In fact, Kafka and Leopardi, are, respectively, my favourite author and poet of all time....
Lmao I love how the meme has become so separated from its source, people don't even know how to properly transcribe it. It's "Why are we still here? Just to suffer?"
Kafka's The Castle is one of the most depressingly nightmarish books I've read, and the fact that it ends prematurely (as it was never finished) is somehow very fitting. Even the movie I saw just ends suddenly, which was a nice touch.
When your a young adult society seems Completely like this before you enter it. It's all just systems, lines and routines that no-one has told you about in detail.
One of the many causes of my depression. Most of contemporary society just perpetuates systems that don't make sense anymore and it keeps creating problems and drawbacks without bringing anything to balance what is lost. In fact, society for the past decades have being increasingly fighting against anything that makes sense or is logical in any way.
There are 3 things I noticed about Kafka or Kafkaesque. 1) His life seems to be very similar to Vincent Van Gogh. 2) Morrissey seems to be the epitome of it. 3) Franz Kafka's life seems to have been very kafkaesque. Especially how he achieved fame and recognition after he died.
His life was kafkaesque.his problem was his inner ego. Trying to find a work-life balance and not ever been ever to find one.Kafka is matched with arbitrary senseless obstacles in which success is ultimately pointless and impossible,Yet he tries anyway. Soon after he also dies of tuberculosis. Good thing his friend max brod published his work because it describes something mundanely common in a profound way.
@@jonathan45278 your welcome. Though i wouldn't necessarily say i am an "intellectual ". I just have watched LOTS of videos of philosophy and read works of arthur schopenhaur
In my country, France, last month, a terrain owner was condemned to fill his pond, because the toads are too noisy for his neighbour. Meanwhile, a court decision is threatening him of prison and fees, if he destroys the protected toads' environment.
Considering many amphibians across Europe are endangers and are protected, it's highly likely those frogs are protected, and as such, would be illegal for him to destroy the habitat. This is especially true in Austria, France, Switzerland, Germany, Scotland, Ireland, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Mann and Andorra.
Not Norway. Government loves to destroy ecosystems. In my home city in Norway They drained a huge frog pond with lots of other creatures just two build a kindergarden close to it ... I used to play there with my friends a lot and overtook frog eggs with me home two see them hatch and evolve with metomorphosis , then releasing them back into the pond when reached adult form
I've only read one short story, "A country doctor" and, well... I don't know what the other works are like, but that one was just an unrelenting barrage of stress and hopelessness, like the worst nightmare you've ever had written down. It's very well written for what it wants to achieve, just that what it achieves is to make you seriously unsettled. Kafkaesque, in short ;)
***** I've certainly had great reading experiences from school, including some classics such as these that I wouldn't have read otherwise, but yes, being forced to do something rarely makes it fun! I wish I could have just gotten to read many of those books for their own sake, rather than have to hold a presentation or write an essay about them. Stress and obligation is something we need less of in our lives
I think it simply means being put in an absurd situation, but because of failing to understand the current circumstance, the person also failed to respond accordingly, thus trapping onself to the absurdity.
which ep is that? and also I need a show to replace breaking bad, and since you guys are fans of the show and obviously have good taste, any tv show suggestions? no show's been able to satisfy me since!!!
It's season 3, episode 9. I would recommend Fargo. Watch the movie first, and then start the tv series version of it. It's not Breaking Bad, but it is absolutely amazing.
I understand where you're going with that, and it pleases me to report that I've interjected that literary classic into roundabout discussions of the manga before.
@@a-s-greig i mean in both cases the life of the protagonist spirales down more and more as the story progresses. Tho i don't know if kafka was a huge connoisseur of anime tiddies.
Both Metamorphosis & The Trial were love at first read for me. 10 years later, I want to see how things might have changed for me once again getting hands on them. ❤️
this does proves a point, I was thinking of going through a system within the animation industries just so I can create my own animations however in the animation jobs you are working for someone else's creation not your own. And I could create my own little studio with just a computer, and learn animation on my own!
It does drag in places but it is the main book that has stayed with me. While it's good to analyse books, I think about The Trial often because it perfectly captures the feeling of being overwhelmed and an inability to escape. The claustrophobia of the courts in particular is visceral.
Our highschool German teacher made us read Kafka. I never got the stories until years later when I entered the workforce and started working for large, complex government organizations. The hilarious thing is that some of the situations you find yourself in are every bit as confusing and ridiculous as the stories in Kafka's writing. It is clear where he got his inspiration.
"The world is one we create and have the power to change for the better." Yet you just mentioned that even the most powerful people can't control the system that's built itself to perpetuate itself.
The concept that Kafka was trying to get across is that the absurd worlds in his stories were just an abstraction of the real world bureaucracy in his time, and that the system that perpetuates itself was an extreme version of real world systems, made extreme to show people the problems and absurdity of those systems. The tactic of using extreme versions of real world things to show their real world problems is used frequently in literature with meaning, and can commonly lead to the same misconception. Happy to help!
to this day, the metamorphosis is the most haunting horror story I've ever read. even though I haven't picked the book up in ages, sometimes, as if from déjà vu certain things I do or see happen transport me back into specific passages.... it also made me develop a fear towards beetles. and I previously loved beetles. it feels so strange
@Šone Bombone I think she meant chapters in the story. Also, I was going to read metamorphosis. And I probably still will because getting creeped out is becoming a guilty pleasure of mine.
As a child, I was repeatedly told by my mother that I deserve punishment but never told what I deserve it for or what her reasoning might be. Never knew my childhood was kafkaesque...
The sad part of the story is that the guy flying with his wings will end in another line, behind someone else thinking is free but he will never be free. He jumped from one whole to another. "Life is a tragedy for those who feel and a comedy for those who think" Horace Walpole
Life is what you make of it. It's very simple to be honest. Also, ignorance is bliss. But that doesn't mean you -can- can't live a meaningful life getting past nihilism.
@@SebHaarfagre there Is a far better more optomistic replacement for nihilism and that Is absurdism the belief that everything and everyone has no meaning or purpose but it means that we are free from the shackles that would hold you down,. Humans have wings we just have to learn how to fly.
this reminds me of when I lost my last job. just filing the appeal for wrongful termination was so convoluted that it took me a week to read through the materials just to figure out how to fill out a single form. the form is one page, but the appendix is attached to to explain how to fill it out is 13 pages long and riddled with Kafkaesque writing. oh the frustrating memories that this brings back
@@threethrushes I use whatever words I come accross. I do not really care if they sound pretentious or not. If they do than it is pure by chance. Ofcourse this does depend on circumstance as well. If you speak too cryptic the message gets lost.
You are working in any MNC in a metropolis such as New York , London or Tokyo. Hours of commuting through metro or buses, going out early in the morning, coming back late only to go to work again the next morning.Earning pretty well, but not able to enjoy the fruit of your labour. Well, your experience can be rightly called - Kafkaesque.
He was always.... the others are guests. Which are less frequent now though. He does have a great voice, but I also like narration of people who wrote the lesson
The Trial was honestly a bit stressful to read for a simple mind like mine. Every time it seemed like the main character was finally going to get some help, the whole situation got even more confusing. Listening to the ramblings of his father's friend, going to visit the artist and that weird group of girls by the artist's door... Very Kafkaesque.
I am so amazed by this animation! I do not have words to express how amazed I am. It is just mesmerizing. I just don't get it how people come up with these creative animation ideas in their heads. What inspires you to come up with such beautiful and creative animations? How are you guys so creative?! I am just blown away.
Though Kafka never did think of himself as a world changing person, he did realize himself creating a whole new genre and chapter in worlds literature. One of his most famous quotes is: „I‘m either the end or the beginning.“ and what I‘d like to add, is that he indeed published shorter stories through magazines, most of which mainly to pay for his medication. He was ill for many years, and also mentally struggled with himself and the world. Such is seen in his books.
Kafka's stories are unsettling, but if you are not laughing when you read his work, you are not getting it. He used to read his stories to his friends and he could barely get through them because he was laughing so hard.
The trial was written as a joke but sadly became quite serious after WW2 with people getting accused of fake crimes Today fake crimes are used to spread propaganda. Look at China and north korea
Dear TED-Ed, After watching this amazing video I went straight to the library and got out 'The metamorphosis. Now I am hooked on Kafka. Thank you for putting out these wonderful videos!!
Our topic in German lessons(I'm German) is Franz Kafka right now, we learned also about the meaning of the word "kafkaesk", I didn't know that this word exists also in English
His literary works are amazing. They are completely unique and totally different from other authors. I found the "Hunger Artist" so spectacular and it has many deep meanings behind it.
Really, thank you all at TED for explaining this. I have heard the phrase but never really set aside time to dive into what it really means...usually it's brought up during a long winded conversation, and opinions and words during those conversations often make it lose meaning. Again, thank you.
I had to look it up today, because I am sure that 90% of the usage I see online is nonsense, so I wanted to know what it actually means. Compare this video to the seemingly casual definition, "That's weird, and it sucks."
That depends on your worldview. Czechs as a nation have quite a specific taste of humor, often viewed as dark by other nations. The idea is though that everything is open to ridicule, and humor has no boundaries. We see humor and enthusiasm where others see cold reality and we see possibility of ridicule where others see authority. That is probably why czechs are prety much the most atheistic nation on Earth, we just look at the world differently to most western nations. So, yeap, Kafka is quite funny, if you see the world like his nation does.
This word defines my life and I didn't know it existed until now. Everyone is always angry at me for being unable to complete the impossible, the education system is especially guilty in terms of this.
Not true if the education system expected the impossible then no one would graduate or apply…. You just can’t handle it so take some responsibility for your life
@@JackJonValois no I definitely do, you don’t understand what you wrote. I speak perfect English so if you are under the impression that I’m misinterpreting you then you need to make things more clear
@@Girtharmstrong69 Somebody is in a mood today. Your assumption was an assumption, not a fact. I am american so I absolutely really have no problem speaking or writing it. But you clearly think in meaning whatever you interpret about what I say is true, sad to say you're wrong buddy.
*"The world is often unkind to new talent, new creations, the new needs friends...Not everyone can become a great artist, but a great artist can come from anywhere”* -Ratatouille
We in Germany have to read at least one book of Kafka in the Oberstufe. It is mainly the Trial. And as expected it is Kafkaesque. Just kidding. It is awful
I've had dreams my whole life where I'm leaving my childhood home for school but no matter what I do I can't get there, or even leave the house, which becomes the scene of many adventures, but I'm always preoccupied with anxiety over being late for school.
The creativity that went into the animation is at another level.
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"And we find our every word judged by people we can't see, by rules we don't know." Damn
'Damn' is right. But we're not alone. Hang tough.
That's the mainstream media down to a tee!
Sounds like social media to me.
This is exactly why I didn't want to pursue a career in large business corporations.
I participated in a business simulation project/competition for university students where we had be financial directors of a multi billion company, we were ultimately treating people as numbers and their work had numerically value that we judge them by, and if they were not performing upto the standard we expected because of reasons that were not important to us (e.g illness or death of a relative), therefore they lost their jobs. Our group won but I only enjoyed it because it was a fake simulation ( just a game), but it represented or even reflected what happens in real life, where big corporations treat human beings as numbers on paper, and that didn't sit well with me.
I think I am somehow able to overcome this with meditation. I am in the process of rising above it. I am on my way.
Kafkaesque is my favorite word in the dictionary. There’s something about the hopelessness of absurdity, the bottomless pit of schedules and control and manipulation, something about life in general that is so inherently nightmarish and illogical. And I’d say that the word Kafkaesque sums it all up as perfectly as you can ask for.
Yess!!
I work in a an academic department that is as Kafkaesque as you could get! Kafkanism still prevails, especially outside the so-called West where at least the norms of rationalism and the values of liberal democracy, as flimsy as they are, have rendered people more accountable for their actions and their impact on others and where abuses of bureaucratic power cannot be made too visible or could remain unquestioned.
@@malimalou751 2 days ago... This can't be a coincidence! I'm at an academic department myself and I was having these thoughts myself after being recommended the video by the youtube algorithm :D
@ Surely no coincidence! The world of academia has become quite kafkaesque indeed. In some places, it has become simply nightmarish and so illogical that some of us are losing our sanity. I know I am on the brink of despair!
Balls sounds funnier
I remember as a kid reading The Metamorphosis in school and being hopelessly confused about what the book was or why it was important. Aside from being a subpar English student, I simply don't think I had enough life experience to appreciate the abstract concepts my teacher (and the author) was trying to convey.
same bro
@@Wil_Dasovich what does it mean? i recently read it and i honestly cant understand it fully still. beautiful book tho
@@finnmertens. You will understand it gradually friend, life will happen, and one day when you'll sit and observe it all, at that moment you'll be able to understand how true the book was.
@@finnmertens. It's almost a nag about how useless our lives are, and how everything amounts to nothing. It also focuses on human morality and values we uphold in a society where there are so many rules.
It's been a long time since I read it. But my understanding was that the message was quite scary. Exposing that relationships are deeply rooted in circumstance.
As soon as he turned into cockroach he turned into a burden for the family. It just took time for everyone to come to terms with it. In the end everyone wanted to get rid of him. Needless to point out how horrible the experience must have been for him, as his essence was still a family member, but his physical body was not.
Shows how cruel life can be by changing important circumstances. One day you are somebody, cool, important. And just like that you can be ostracized, perhaps ill, unimportant, despised, useless.
Ted really outdid themselves with the visuals in this one.
Finally, I was looking for this comment. The animation is incredible.
gonna reply to this in case i forget kafka's name
I’m so proud of him, Ted really has come a long way
Every Ted Ed video is known for its visuals, not new
@@walterwang4669 they grow up so fast
Ted and TedEd makes me learn things I didn't know I wanted to learn
PastaSam: they make me learn things I didn't want to know.
PastaSam I know, right! I love these videos.
PastaSam and things I didn’t know I didn’t want to know
PastaSam Shut up eat your spinach.
PastaSam I just got this comment to 1000 likes.. 1 year later
Graphically this video is a rather amazing piece of art. And the writing is superbly.
Can the whole internet please be like this.
ah no! this animation style (the moving background) is making me sick!
Second that
That's cuz u r epileptic.
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not really, he used graffa
'I gotta pay taxes now? That's messed up, yo. That's kafka-esque'
Skinny Pete: ‘Church’🧍🏾♂️
people will gladly pay taxes if they can see the actual benefits of those taxes in infrastructure, education, healthcare, and safety. if you wake up every morning to clean streets, bike paths, safe productive schools, good healthcare and safe/efficient public transportation suddenly taxes arent that big of a deal
@@artcurious807 My streets are full of potholes and dog/human feces, the bike paths are dangerously located on busy narrow streets with people who need to park along the sidewalk to access the buildings, the hospital workers are on strike due to increasingly poor working conditions and the public transportation system is still woefully inadequate for late-night shift workers. But hey, I sure am glad I get to pay more and more each year in taxes for unneeded construction projects that drag on for years and drag queen storytelling time for the kids, right??
I was looking for this comment
I read an article on Kafkaesque. It says when someone going to catch a bus and finding that all the buses have stopped running and saying that's Kafkaesque. That's not."
"What's Kafkaesque is when you enter a surreal world in which all your control patterns, all your plans, the whole way in which you have configured your own behavior, begins to fall to pieces, when you find yourself against a force that does not lend itself to the way you perceive the world.
"You don't give up, you don't lie down and die. What you do is struggle against this with all of your equipment, with whatever you have. But of course you don't stand a chance. That's Kafkaesque."
That sounds like the railway system in Sweden
Sounds like a day-to-day life interpretation of cosmic horror.
Kafkaesque and Cosmocism
At least Atticus Finch saw the shadow of a chance.
"You know you are licked before you begin but you begin anyway... ... You rarely win, but sometimes you do."
I understand it less now, thanks 😂
I really wish that I could meet such artists who struggled and were only recognised posthumously, like Van Gogh and Franz Kafka, and tell them they made a difference.
That the world changed because of them.
Idk why but this comment made my eyes teary. :')
There was a doctor who episode where they take van gogh into the present day and show him an art exhibit with his works
@@ijneb1248 Yeah absolutely loved it.
then you have to know about sushant Singh Rajput
Yeah exactly, they would have made even better works and had a happier life because they would know they were widely accepted, a feeling which they might have never had in their life before.
They were trapped in their own creative bubble, the bubble was only popped after their death when the works were published and appreciated.
I like that every few often, TH-cam decides to educate us.
No no. There's heaps out there... It's what you decide to look at 😉
Yup, sub the right channels and you are good.
One recommendation with cute animated birds and EXTREMELY well researched topics: Kurzgesagt.
They got some of the best educational videos I have ever seen.
@@eyexha Well that is okay, because I never talked about School of Life. ;)
Which one do you mean, School of Life or Kurzgesagt?
@@eyexha Yes but no. Some Kurzgesagt videos deal with phiilosophical subjects, but it is a science education channel. School of Life is a philosopical-psychological education channel.
BTW I don't get how you don't get what they want to convey? They can't be much clearer in their message - boht channels.
Every few often
I read somewhere how the Trial spoke to Joseph’s denial of his own mortality and imperfect nature, thus his crime is the denial of being human. The ego doesn’t usually want to acknowledge its own wrongdoings or mistakes, holding itself above as something better than everyone else and refusing to admit fault. Put that on trial with endless bureaucratic pressure to admit guilt without proof and you’ve got an ego stuck like ouroboros in a judicial system that perpetuates itself as well.
Fun idea to chew on, don’t know if it’s even close to what Kafka intended either. But like this video mentioned, this take still brings together the cogs of today’s bureaucracy with the individual who is caught up in it. Tell me if you know where this take came from it’s driving me nuts.
It comes from the same place as where it goes. 😉
This is the best time in history to appreciate the true meaning of "Kafkaesque"
Breaking bad ?
Amen
Hardly, The Trial was published in 1925.
Any thoughts?
That time started in Marx’s time and hasn’t yet left us.
We love market, we hate the market, we exploit the market, and are in turn exploited, and we live and die reproducing the same conditions for the next generation.
The poor sell their lifetimes as labor to provide power and comfort for the wealthy, which the wealthy are so addicted to that they burn the planet in pursuit of riches so abstractly large, they can be nothing more than numbers on a cellphone app. In the end, the market grinds everyone to dust.
Noice!
Interesting fact: Kafka always thought of his work to be unworthy and nevery published it himself. Today, he's one of the world's most famous authors.
Considering his works practically scream "was abused as a child" that's really not all that surprising...
That's so Kafkaesque.
That's probably why he kept writing. His whole inability to submit them for publishing meant he had to keep writing for the hope of maybe one day doing it. It's like that guy said, the neurosis perpetuates itself.
I made thesis about Kafka and has to learn his biography, and yeah, it's true x'D
"Of all my writings the only books that can stand are these: The Judgement, The Stoker, Metamorphosis, Penal Colony, Country Doctor, and the short story: Hunger Artist... When I say that those five books and the short story can stand, I do not mean that I wish them to be reprinted and handed down to posterity. On the contrary, should they disappear altogether that would please me best, Only, since they do exist, I do not with to hinder anyone who may want to, from keeping them." - From a note to Max Brod found after Kafka's death
Incidentally, it's been suggested (I forget by whom unfortunately) that Kafka had Brod take control of his papers knowing full well that Brod would ignore his instructions to destroy them.
The animation is great.
exactly! it's amazing
Yes!
Indeed 👍
Gear fractal
Reminded me of "Don't starve"
I had a Kafkaesque dream last week. I said goodbye to my friends and wanted to run to the train station to catch the train to the future. But in order to do so, I had to climb down the spiral stairs of the building was in. It felt never-ending. For every short flight of stairs, I was greeted with 1-2 doors that led to small rooms. The doors were always very heavy and absurd looking some I needed to squeeze through. The rooms were so small and filled with furniture and there was barely any space to walk to the other side of the room where another flight of stairs is.
I eventually got out and ran a short distance to the train station. I looked back before entering the train, woke up, and my entire body was aching from the ordeal.
The youtube algo is scary. I would have never searched for this.
I have kafkaesque dreams all the time. I can’t remember any though.
Isn't it called lucid dreaming
it is vivid dream to be exact, lucid dream is when u aware u r dreamin
Your dream sounds really interesting. I am a wannabe writer and will probably use this as inspiration.
@@maThLn got you
2:04 look at that transition. LOOK AT IT.
I did not notice that
I dont understand. what do you all mean?
Duong Dao idk
Beautiful
Qwertyler K oh I see, you are another man of culture
The visuals stunning and incredibly thought through! Props to the animators!
"The bureaucracy is expanding to meet the needs of the expanding bureaucracy." -Oscar Wilde
Kind of like how my beloved country the US buys printed money with debt already attached to it, to then turn around and try to pay off those previous debts with newly printed money...
SWIFTY_WINS That is circular! And pathetic.
I loved this phrase when I use to play Civilization IV
Lmao Oscar Wilde is an absolute treat.
Yeah I could see that.
the animation on these videos are just as amazing as the work they portray! great art all over!
"Kafkaesque" describes all too well the nature of my most distressing dreams. The need to achieve a goal which is so unnecessary difficult and tedious only to wonder if the goal was even worth it in the end
That’s the just the first part. The unnecessarily complicated way. The second part is what brings it together, the fact that despite the system being completely unreasonable, we still contribute to it whether we like it or not. It’s like paying taxes to a government you protest against. You cause trouble for yourself by protesting, but by continuing to pay taxes, you support the government. This analogy is quite simplistic and of course you can’t just not pay taxes as a way to protest, but it goes to show how feeble it is to protest against true government while still filling their pocket. The same way this word describes how feeble it is to get frustrated over a tedious task you created for yourself.
I’ve had dreams like that, where your in some confusing new place that has a vague familiarity to it, and you feel compelled toward some goal that you don’t really understand, but it feels important and it has to be achieved
That goal was usually just “get to this location”
2 years on, your 1000th like :)
@@204lemon wow I forgot I wrote this. Thanks for the reminder and thanks for the 1000th Like. Be lucky my friend 🤗
"Dying in anonymity. Regretfully admitting his art has always been a fraud. He fasted not through strength of Will but simply because he never found a food he liked."
I didn't know I needed to hear that.
Eric Miller wait can you explain what that means?
@@BeanSprouts02 The artist put himself in a situation that is kafkaesque but only saw that it was indeed... Kafkaesque when he died. Admitting that he didn't put himself in that situation to prove his artistry but rather it was just hard for him to find the food he liked... which is Kafkaesque because he was already free to eat anything he wanted when he was set free.
@@jobelijander6217 im not sure we're on the same page or not, but i interpreted it as him fasting not because he really wanted to, but because he didn't want to do anything else.
@@nori_with_rice ..which is also kafkaesque in a sense that "he made his own difficulties" when he could have just get out there and find the food that he wanted for so long??
@@jobelijander6217 ohh i think i see now. so something being kafkaesque means that its a result of one making something unnecessarily complicated for themselves.
also just realized that in my last comment i literally just paraphrased what happened in the story except in broader terms. 😐 i need sleep
If I submitted this to my AP English teacher, she would still give it a B-
What a B
@@1_Trident A letter grade. A being the highest, and F being the lowest.
@@pizzapatriot1769 no it’s a pun lol
@@1_Trident I can't read well. Sorry about that.
@@pizzapatriot1769 no worries mate, don’t apologise
I thought it also related to the concept of boundaries in a way. In stoker it shocked me to see the Stoker tell the protagonist to lay on his bed. 2 people just met and the main character is already sitting in his bed. In the context it makes sense, there is no space available. But something about it really makes it itch lol. The first story I ever read from him is even more bizarre as the main character is talking about being on a swing etc, then goes home for supper, and the people outside "open the windows of his living room to have a better look at him and talk to him". This caught me so off guard I cannot even put it into words. I haven't read that much from him but it does seem like "personal space" is a concept that is constantly being subverted in his stuff.
TH-cam is the perfect example, the video recommendation algorithms is a mystery that few can unravel, who knows how much good content got buried because the program deemed them not to be.
It's actually getting better at this.
Never underestimate the power of interpersonal recommendations either.
The algorithm actively censors “truth” videos like flat Earth and race realism. But I guess they’re just fake tho right?
Flat earth is debatable but I think the reason is that many people don't want the truth because it can often be depressing
@@spicybeeframen42 Flat earth is debatable!? Oh please...talking about educating oneselves..
Elite Tauren Chieftain is all I needed to know about you to comment.
"This is a system that doesn't serve justice, but whose sole function is to perpetuate itself"
I'll never look at the world the same way again o_o"
GiggitySam Entz welcome to the club
Sigh
what does that even mean
Sounds like beurocracy has reached the complexity of a life form (humans would stuff like cells)
BoZZigmupp I feel like its kind of if bureaucracy was a living being its going to be selfish and take as many resources in order to further keep itself going as strong or stronger than it is now
"Why don’t I keep sleeping for a little while longer and forget all this foolishness"
-the metamorphosis
Me every morning, not the quote I am in fact a large beetle.
@@NotAGraveRobber Me too
@@NotAGraveRobber no, it's a cockroach 🤦♂️🤦🏻♂️🤦🏼♂️🤦🏽♂️🤦🏾♂️🤦🏿♂️🤦♀️🤦🏻♀️🤦🏼♀️🤦🏽♀️🤦🏾♀️🤦🏿♀️
@@asurveillancecamera3392 no one knows what insect it was 🤦
Isnt that a Hentai?
big props to the animator, they done a great job at illustrating what the narrator was saying
i never heard about this Kafkaesque before but it's quite interesting
please read "The trial". It's great.
i'll check it out thanks
+Invisible It's not a nice read... Believe but not nice
Is "The Trial" similar to "L'Etranger"?
Nope, in "L'Etenger" Mr. Mersault knows the crime he has commited and the trial is normal trial for murder while in "The trial" Joseff K. doesn't know his charges and the trial is mysterious, opressive and impossible neither to understand nor control. So in one hand Mersault ows his fate being responsible of the free will of his actions (existentialism), in the other hand Joseff K. is envolved in actions controlled by invisible people in whose hands is his fate, no free will or controll (nihilism). Sorry my english :)
"We find our every word judged by people we can't see, according to rules we don't know"
Words of true wisdom
This is deep
But I ain't 14
aba gaba baba
True Wisdom? As opposed to false wisdom? And what would that be?
@@TheRaveJunkie as opposed to false or purposely imcompleted wisdom.
"Blood is thicker than water" is a false wisdom. It says that our family is more important than friends and trusted ones we have chosen.
That is not only utterly false, it's also incomplete. As the saying was SHORTENED to create a false meaning. Originally it was
_"The blood of the covenant is thicker than the water of the womb"_
THIS, CORRECT wisdom says that it does not matter who your family was and how they may have treated you. Your bond to them is not as true as your bond to the ones you choose to let close, your most trusted friends and lovers.
Can we just take a time to appreciate people who draw the animation:)
“Yeah that shit’s totally kafkaesque, yo”
Majorly
Wieners
I saw that episode today and now this popped up into my recommended 😮
Word
@@alecheflin630 Man, me too WTF :o
I don't think Kafka ever said anything about that bit at the end, where "you are free to make the world better" or whatever. I think you guys added that so no one commits suicide or anything
They technically never said that he said it, they said "he reminds us"
In other words, that is how they interpreted his works
Lol
I scrolled down to the comment section just to see if anyone picked up on that lol
I also came to say that! Kafka thought it was all pretty dire but way to tack on some pithy inspirational idea at the end, TED.
Right because it doesn't get better when your system is designed to cripple you to its needs, like they said no tyrant to blame the system is the tyrant so how do you fix that
In conclusion: Poseidon is left handed.
hahahaha!
HAHAHA i was lost in deep thoughts n your comment made me to laugh 😂
I mean, he is a god, so him being ambedextrous doesn't seem far fetched
r/itswooooshwith4os
I knew it! I knew it!
Dang i want to read Kafka’s stories right now
Same, but I'll probably get another trauma from it.
You do and you don't. Get ready for DEPRESSION..
In Soviet Russia, Franz Kafka's novels were banned. Especially in his home country, Czech. I guess they revealed the reality and nature of Soviet bureaucracy. Oh by the way, the bureau decided as a chicken farmer you should be assigned to tend to the tank factory and as backer you will assigned to the chicken farm to fulfill the annual quota of milk production
@@SeraphimRoad During the Second World War, that was the case, as it was in the rest of the world. Don't make things up about the Soviet Union trying to criticize it, find some actual arguments instead of lies.
Just finished reading 'The Trial'... I want to kill myself cause it was so boring, but I want to read all of his books now... Franz Kafka in a nutshell...
This was recommended to me so many times and I'm finally here. Hope I won't be disappointed.
"The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is its inefficiency."
Eugene McCarthy
Someone has been playing Civ V
@@danielzusse9346 Civil Service research complete. Finally, pikemen and +1 food from tiles with water)
@@danielzusse9346 I also like this one:
“If our brains were simple enough for us to understand them, we'd be so simple that we couldn't.”
@@AyratHungryStudent Biology right? Watch out for that oil man, don't let general Washington find out that you have it in your land.
@@danielzusse9346 I've got no oil but I'm allied with a few city-states that have it. Washington not happy)
Kafkaesque is literally "Why were still here... just to suffer... everynight"
it is the same question Giacomo Leopardi, one of the greatest italian poet, ask for in one of his most famous lyric: "Night song of a wandering shepherd from Asia", more then 200 years ago. In fact, Kafka and Leopardi, are, respectively, my favourite author and poet of all time....
I legit cry reading his series
Kafka is just a Meeseek
So Existential Crisis in a nutshell?
Lmao I love how the meme has become so separated from its source, people don't even know how to properly transcribe it. It's "Why are we still here? Just to suffer?"
congrats for pulling a motivational final message out of Kafka, truly a commendable feat.
We should really change the phrase to "Please no meat touching ma'am."
First
That was the first place my mind went. I honestly just clicked the video to see if anyone made that reference.
Man I hear this word and always think back to Mission Hill. One of my favorite shows which never even got its rightful chance to shine.
@YowLife last upload 7 months ago? You don’t like your subs
What a great show...
“That’s kafkaesque yo”
-Jesse Pinkman~
Breaking Bad Season 3 Episode 9! Loved it! Especially the Los Pollos Hermans ad!
Who was it that gave him the word?
@@Iyadkay The director one who was at the rehab group
@@spacelover9635 Yes, I remember now. Thank you!
@@Iyadkay his girlfriend
Kafka's The Castle is one of the most depressingly nightmarish books I've read, and the fact that it ends prematurely (as it was never finished) is somehow very fitting. Even the movie I saw just ends suddenly, which was a nice touch.
"Das Schloss", agree, disturbingly dark! Wouldn't watch the movie though.
When your a young adult society seems Completely like this before you enter it. It's all just systems, lines and routines that no-one has told you about in detail.
One of the many causes of my depression. Most of contemporary society just perpetuates systems that don't make sense anymore and it keeps creating problems and drawbacks without bringing anything to balance what is lost. In fact, society for the past decades have being increasingly fighting against anything that makes sense or is logical in any way.
Un/happy to see other people feel the same way as me.
Although, it is said existence is resistance in a world that
Yes, if a problem is solved, a part of the market disappears, that is not good for business.
The only people who can fix the problem are the people who can see it in the first place.
It doesn't change as you get older either - if anything, my older self has a stronger desire to simply burn it all down than my younger self did.
There are 3 things I noticed about Kafka or Kafkaesque. 1) His life seems to be very similar to Vincent Van Gogh. 2) Morrissey seems to be the epitome of it. 3) Franz Kafka's life seems to have been very kafkaesque. Especially how he achieved fame and recognition after he died.
His life was kafkaesque.his problem was his inner ego.
Trying to find a work-life balance and not ever been ever to find one.Kafka is matched with arbitrary senseless obstacles in which success is ultimately pointless and impossible,Yet he tries anyway. Soon after he also dies of tuberculosis. Good thing his friend max brod published his work because it describes something mundanely common in a profound way.
@@timetraveller2818 Hi Time Traveller. Thank you for your interesting reply. Good to hear from someone who is obviously intellectual.
@@jonathan45278 your welcome. Though i wouldn't necessarily say i am an "intellectual ". I just have watched LOTS of videos of philosophy and read works of arthur schopenhaur
In other words he writes about my fever dreams.
Ugh fever dream is the worst
Exactly!
Same
Wait. Fever dreams are a thing?? I legit thought I was the only one. Crazy.
You too? We need to form a Fever dreams club.
Finally found the word to describe my life
lol
!
mine too !!
Same 😂😂
was thinking the exact same thing
In my country, France, last month, a terrain owner was condemned to fill his pond, because the toads are too noisy for his neighbour.
Meanwhile, a court decision is threatening him of prison and fees, if he destroys the protected toads' environment.
write that story please :)
Considering many amphibians across Europe are endangers and are protected, it's highly likely those frogs are protected, and as such, would be illegal for him to destroy the habitat. This is especially true in Austria, France, Switzerland, Germany, Scotland, Ireland, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Mann and Andorra.
Not Norway. Government loves to destroy ecosystems. In my home city in Norway They drained a huge frog pond with lots of other creatures just two build a kindergarden close to it ... I used to play there with my friends a lot and overtook frog eggs with me home two see them hatch and evolve with metomorphosis , then releasing them back into the pond when reached adult form
Malin Nilsen
I thought Norway was,,,, like, super naturist or something wtf
from my experience, the french love paper work. paper this paper that. ohh look theres a nice looking dog there. ahh yes more paper work more.
the people working behind Ted-Ed videos Really love their work.
This actually made me want to read Kafka. Great job!
I had to read metamorphosis for school last week and I did not really enjoy it.
I've only read one short story, "A country doctor" and, well... I don't know what the other works are like, but that one was just an unrelenting barrage of stress and hopelessness, like the worst nightmare you've ever had written down. It's very well written for what it wants to achieve, just that what it achieves is to make you seriously unsettled.
Kafkaesque, in short ;)
Reading only for school purposes is rarely a way to appreciate things, you must have the curiosity to discover and the joy of discovering!
*****
I've certainly had great reading experiences from school, including some classics such as these that I wouldn't have read otherwise, but yes, being forced to do something rarely makes it fun!
I wish I could have just gotten to read many of those books for their own sake, rather than have to hold a presentation or write an essay about them. Stress and obligation is something we need less of in our lives
me too ^^
I think it simply means being put in an absurd situation, but because of failing to understand the current circumstance, the person also failed to respond accordingly, thus trapping onself to the absurdity.
april orlin - Good interpretation!
Nice one!
200th like 🎉, I agree though thats not the only thing that is being expressed
Thank you! This video said nothing.
@@malcomjohnson7093 bruhhh 😩 was thinking am I stoned or is this video saying nothing
"Take for example Kafka's most greatest story"
Me: Alright
*Metamorphosis*
Me: *PTSD*
177013 is good story tho
I prefer the castle
@@suisui5930 228922 is good as well
WHY DO I GET THE JOKE OMG WHAT HAS MY LIFE BECOME
@@Meteo_sauce hentai takes a toll on a man
As someone who has to write an essay on Charles Dickens 'Bleak House', this video is a complete goldmine
This reminded me about Breaking Bad.
Jesse: "Now I gotta pay taxes? What the hell man it's kafkaesque!"
Skinny Pete: "Church."
YESSSSS THATS WHY I CLICKED THIS
Ditto
which ep is that?
and also I need a show to replace breaking bad, and since you guys are fans of the show and obviously have good taste, any tv show suggestions? no show's been able to satisfy me since!!!
It's season 3, episode 9. I would recommend Fargo. Watch the movie first, and then start the tv series version of it. It's not Breaking Bad, but it is absolutely amazing.
+random girl how about Better Call Saul?
“Kafkas most famous story, metamorphosis”
My hearts skipped a beat there
I understand where you're going with that, and it pleases me to report that I've interjected that literary classic into roundabout discussions of the manga before.
@@a-s-greig i mean in both cases the life of the protagonist spirales down more and more as the story progresses. Tho i don't know if kafka was a huge connoisseur of anime tiddies.
@@volkanberber3081 if anime tiddies had been a thing back then im sure his stories would have revolved around them in some way
Doctor Who? Is that you?
Your heart probably skipped 177013 times there
"The world we live in is the one we create." I love that!
Both Metamorphosis & The Trial were love at first read for me. 10 years later, I want to see how things might have changed for me once again getting hands on them. ❤️
this does proves a point, I was thinking of going through a system within the animation industries just so I can create my own animations however in the animation jobs you are working for someone else's creation not your own. And I could create my own little studio with just a computer, and learn animation on my own!
PLEASE DO IT!!!
Good luck :) just believe in your own process!
Read the trial cuz of this vid. Gotta say, it's kinda dragging but that just means Kafka succeeded in what he wanted to show.
Recommended for everyone
It does drag in places but it is the main book that has stayed with me. While it's good to analyse books, I think about The Trial often because it perfectly captures the feeling of being overwhelmed and an inability to escape. The claustrophobia of the courts in particular is visceral.
His short stories are much more exciting
I'm more confused after than when I started
same
Congratulations! You've now learned the meaning of "Kafkaesque."
That's the way it should be...
Same...please someone tell me what this actually is saying
Is it something like a paradox or is it just telling us to change our ways?
Sheepgirl1075813 That's something you have to figure out by yourself.
Our highschool German teacher made us read Kafka. I never got the stories until years later when I entered the workforce and started working for large, complex government organizations. The hilarious thing is that some of the situations you find yourself in are every bit as confusing and ridiculous as the stories in Kafka's writing. It is clear where he got his inspiration.
"The world is one we create and have the power to change for the better."
Yet you just mentioned that even the most powerful people can't control the system that's built itself to perpetuate itself.
The video seems to be trying to be unnecessarily “deep”
Nobody can control them fully, but a lot of people can influence them slightly.
The concept that Kafka was trying to get across is that the absurd worlds in his stories were just an abstraction of the real world bureaucracy in his time, and that the system that perpetuates itself was an extreme version of real world systems, made extreme to show people the problems and absurdity of those systems. The tactic of using extreme versions of real world things to show their real world problems is used frequently in literature with meaning, and can commonly lead to the same misconception. Happy to help!
@@avel1491 Why was mentioning his religion relevant?
@@avel1491 ah I see. thank you
actually yeah now that i’m reading your earlier comment again I completely agree
to this day, the metamorphosis is the most haunting horror story I've ever read. even though I haven't picked the book up in ages, sometimes, as if from déjà vu certain things I do or see happen transport me back into specific passages.... it also made me develop a fear towards beetles. and I previously loved beetles. it feels so strange
@Šone Bombone I think she meant chapters in the story.
Also, I was going to read metamorphosis. And I probably still will because getting creeped out is becoming a guilty pleasure of mine.
"The only thing that will save us from the bureaucracy is its inefficiency."
-Eugene J McCarthy
“Who is Kafkaesque? I’ve never - I don’t know him.”
- Michael Scott
As a child, I was repeatedly told by my mother that I deserve punishment but never told what I deserve it for or what her reasoning might be. Never knew my childhood was kafkaesque...
Write this story please
David Smithson You can probably tell by my sentence structure that I'm a terrible writer.
dude can i use this to write a short story about this one day?
BilboB site your sources ;)
Sounds more like emotional abuse.
i couldnt believe my ears but thAt, that is exACTLy the word that i was looking for my whole last monday night.
How do you feel kind sir
@@SussurroTV legend has it he still can't sleep
The sad part of the story is that the guy flying with his wings will end in another line, behind someone else thinking is free but he will never be free. He jumped from one whole to another.
"Life is a tragedy for those who feel and a comedy for those who think"
Horace Walpole
Well I think I feel so now I’m not entirely sure of anything
Life is what you make of it.
It's very simple to be honest.
Also, ignorance is bliss. But that doesn't mean you -can- can't live a meaningful life getting past nihilism.
And life is a frightening exhausting roller coaster ride for those of us that do both.
@@ghostbear9904 tragicomedy is a word if that makes you feel better
@@SebHaarfagre there Is a far better more optomistic replacement for nihilism and that Is absurdism the belief that everything and everyone has no meaning or purpose but it means that we are free from the shackles that would hold you down,. Humans have wings we just have to learn how to fly.
This video wouldn’t leave me alone so I decided to finally give in
I think Kafka is the best at introducing his stories. He unveils the plot so simply with one sentence, but perfectly hooks the reader.
this reminds me of when I lost my last job. just filing the appeal for wrongful termination was so convoluted that it took me a week to read through the materials just to figure out how to fill out a single form. the form is one page, but the appendix is attached to to explain how to fill it out is 13 pages long and riddled with Kafkaesque writing. oh the frustrating memories that this brings back
eff them
There is no way to use this word casually (in English) without sounding pretentious
As a side effect of getting older, one loses the stifling and limiting self-consciousness which usually plagues the young (and insecure).
@@threethrushes facts
I would say it's the same case in french, even though the word probably comes from french ("-esque" at the end)
the most often used word in french is kafkaïen
@@threethrushes I use whatever words I come accross. I do not really care if they sound pretentious or not. If they do than it is pure by chance. Ofcourse this does depend on circumstance as well. If you speak too cryptic the message gets lost.
The Time Variance Authority in Loki seems quite Kafkaesque.
Sylvies story in general seems quite Kafkaesque
Fun fact: Kafka and all of this information is something most Germans learn in school. I feel like that's one of the things that actually matter
Same here in Czechia.
wow america screwed up.
I'm surprised, considering Germany has a reputation (or maybe stereotype) of being very orderly and obedient
@@andii- Yeah just because of this one thing.
@@baconeater4133 meaning what? meaning they shouldn't learn basic history of literature in high school?
jaw drops... I'm a prisoner of my own ego
OKOYA66 I can imprison myself better
Im a ego of my own prison
Reminds me of a rick and morty episode
Even rats have ego . Do u seriously think u can go any lower ?
@@mazey2896 which one?
You are working in any MNC in a metropolis such as New York , London or Tokyo. Hours of commuting through metro or buses, going out early in the morning, coming back late only to go to work again the next morning.Earning pretty well, but not able to enjoy the fruit of your labour. Well, your experience can be rightly called - Kafkaesque.
That’s not correct watch the video
@@bruhmomentum9560 he's absolutely correct
@@joelbedulla4 dissagreed
That last line in this video is golden. No, it isn't golden, it's the most valuable solid substance in this universe.
"Hey, what do I need to do to get out of a jail sentence?" "No”.
*New York No Bail Law has entered the chat.*
wise ol' man Your comment has enlightened me.
Move out of the united states
@@psyc8407 Money, money or money
BoredumbSleepyHead You’re missing the point of the story.
Addison has become the voice of Ted-Ed
And I couldn't ask for any better. I am in love with his voice :)
+Blah Cga Addison Anderson (it says at the end in the credits).
+Lego Syahadah me too I was just thinking that!
He was always.... the others are guests. Which are less frequent now though.
He does have a great voice, but I also like narration of people who wrote the lesson
ikr. the more I watch ted ed the more I become enveloped with his voice. 😍
The Trial was honestly a bit stressful to read for a simple mind like mine. Every time it seemed like the main character was finally going to get some help, the whole situation got even more confusing. Listening to the ramblings of his father's friend, going to visit the artist and that weird group of girls by the artist's door... Very Kafkaesque.
I am so amazed by this animation! I do not have words to express how amazed I am. It is just mesmerizing. I just don't get it how people come up with these creative animation ideas in their heads. What inspires you to come up with such beautiful and creative animations? How are you guys so creative?! I am just blown away.
Though Kafka never did think of himself as a world changing person, he did realize himself creating a whole new genre and chapter in worlds literature. One of his most famous quotes is: „I‘m either the end or the beginning.“ and what I‘d like to add, is that he indeed published shorter stories through magazines, most of which mainly to pay for his medication. He was ill for many years, and also mentally struggled with himself and the world. Such is seen in his books.
I survived the American higher education system. Franz Kafka is my spirit animal.
Education facilities tend to be very Kafkaesque.
+keukenkastje05 Non-European/Private Education Systems tend to be.
right here from Germany, the first thing that came to mind was my high school time without even reading the comments
believe me the american education is still a hell of a lot better than the indian education sysytem. here its a hundred times worse.
jay dani yeah, it is a death sentence.
THIS VIDEO IS A WORK OF ART!
Can't figure out what I enjoyed the most: the content or the animation.
The animator who did this one deserves an Oscar.
Kafka's stories are unsettling, but if you are not laughing when you read his work, you are not getting it. He used to read his stories to his friends and he could barely get through them because he was laughing so hard.
Humour is a very subjective thing, though...
+Evan490BC right, Metamorphosis was an enjoyable read, but I didn't laugh.
Neither did I.
Did he laughed while writing them?
May be he was laughing at him self (having written them) and not at the writings while reading.
The trial was written as a joke but sadly became quite serious after WW2 with people getting accused of fake crimes
Today fake crimes are used to spread propaganda. Look at China and north korea
Dear TED-Ed,
After watching this amazing video I went straight to the library and got out 'The metamorphosis. Now I am hooked on Kafka. Thank you for putting out these wonderful videos!!
Why is Kafka so confusing
Our topic in German lessons(I'm German) is Franz Kafka right now, we learned also about the meaning of the word "kafkaesk", I didn't know that this word exists also in English
Ummmmm i came searching for a Kafka guide in HSR and i ended up here. Thank you youtube algorithm?
His literary works are amazing. They are completely unique and totally different from other authors. I found the "Hunger Artist" so spectacular and it has many deep meanings behind it.
Really, thank you all at TED for explaining this. I have heard the phrase but never really set aside time to dive into what it really means...usually it's brought up during a long winded conversation, and opinions and words during those conversations often make it lose meaning. Again, thank you.
thanks for your comment, you have saved me from having to write mine :)
I had to look it up today, because I am sure that 90% of the usage I see online is nonsense, so I wanted to know what it actually means. Compare this video to the seemingly casual definition, "That's weird, and it sucks."
"Yeah. Totally Kafkaesque. Majorly."
ts_mythicality yeah science!
You're goddamn right!
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genius, I was thinking about it xD
Lol that's what brought me here
I wish i could hug him and tell him how brilliant he truly was
I disagree with that happy note at the end. Kafka doesn't project that at all.
Yeah, his work is very pessimistic: we are all doomed to annihilate ourselves.
Wrong!
Yung Brizzy lots of his writings are people being sacrificed for a bigger goal or to a specific purpose
yeah that was just really cringy. Could almost feel how satisfied he was with that ending lol
That depends on your worldview. Czechs as a nation have quite a specific taste of humor, often viewed as dark by other nations. The idea is though that everything is open to ridicule, and humor has no boundaries. We see humor and enthusiasm where others see cold reality and we see possibility of ridicule where others see authority. That is probably why czechs are prety much the most atheistic nation on Earth, we just look at the world differently to most western nations. So, yeap, Kafka is quite funny, if you see the world like his nation does.
District 9 was the story Metamorphosis. A Bureaucrat is turned into an alien insect.
...And is cast out by it's fellow humans to die, or be hunted. Nice comparison!
"Brazil" by Terry Gillian and some of his other work has a Kafkaesque feel about them.
This word defines my life and I didn't know it existed until now. Everyone is always angry at me for being unable to complete the impossible, the education system is especially guilty in terms of this.
@Collin Miller same.
Not true if the education system expected the impossible then no one would graduate or apply…. You just can’t handle it so take some responsibility for your life
@@Girtharmstrong69 You don't understand what I said at all
@@JackJonValois no I definitely do, you don’t understand what you wrote. I speak perfect English so if you are under the impression that I’m misinterpreting you then you need to make things more clear
@@Girtharmstrong69 Somebody is in a mood today. Your assumption was an assumption, not a fact. I am american so I absolutely really have no problem speaking or writing it. But you clearly think in meaning whatever you interpret about what I say is true, sad to say you're wrong buddy.
*"The world is often unkind to new talent, new creations, the new needs friends...Not everyone can become a great artist, but a great artist can come from anywhere”* -Ratatouille
I read Metamorphosis (by Franz Kafka) for my English class and I gotta tell you... it's super sad.
We in Germany have to read at least one book of Kafka in the Oberstufe. It is mainly the Trial. And as expected it is Kafkaesque.
Just kidding. It is awful
I loved it! Kafkas style of writing is so unique and it makes me want to read on and on
Some teachers in Germany make you read it. Not every teacher.
I clearly remember being blown away by this narration. It started with the very first sentence that I realized that Kafka was a freaking genius.
its super weird but in a good way :-)
amazing work on animation Ted ed team.
I've had dreams my whole life where I'm leaving my childhood home for school but no matter what I do I can't get there, or even leave the house, which becomes the scene of many adventures, but I'm always preoccupied with anxiety over being late for school.
Excellent video man. Informative and interesting, but concise and thorough. Some people would turn this into a 20 minute video. Nice work