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[EARLY UPLOAD] Ralph Emerson (Patreon)

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2024-04-09 23:12:23
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The more the channel goes on, the more it has pivoted towards "whatever I happen to be thinking about". As learning has become my full time job, I worry that I am spending too much time on my computer, reading about ideas, rather than pushing into the world and coming up with my own ideas.

This video is a meditation on that idea, supplemented/inspired by the work of Ralph Waldo Emerson. I think there is room to say this video is abundantly hypocritical but maybe that's just the way it is. I would welcome any criticism to that point and I would mostly agree with it. In any case, I do think that learning through experience is a type of education that is basically unmatched. My hope is that this video dissects that idea in a reasonably effective way.

Thank you all for your support and I hope you enjoy this video. <3

-Michael S.

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Alex Jose

Great video; I'm in college right now, and much of what you said has been bugging me for a while. Confusing academic success with intelligence has always done more harm than good and keeps people down simply for having an environment that is not the societal ideal. I'm not sure if we can ever generalize the intelligence of a person as being substandard or exceptional. What we value molds our idea of intelligence, but it can't ever be as simple as we'd like to make it. Knowledge is only one part of intelligence, and I've met people I consider smart who haven't had much education. I've met people who have even more education than me who, as you said, tend to parrot others' opinions. Hell, I do this quite a bit, and my perception of other's intelligence is reliant on my subjective opinion of what makes a person intelligent. So I'm not entirely sure what my point is different than that standardization and confusing subjectivity with objectivity (I think all objectivity relies on subjectivity to such an extent that it really can't be objectivity when viewed from anywhere but the immediate surroundings of the supposed objectivity) makes nothing but carbon copy thinkers. I think experience is key but can be deceiving because my experiences aren't universal. I might think people in general are rather good-hearted and kind because that is what I've been exposed to, but another person might have been exposed to the opposite. They feel equally correct in their assumptions, but I guess this is only truly bad if generalized based on our experiences. Generalizations are just about as harmful as they are helpful; we need to keep in mind that generalizations don't apply to every or often, even most situations. I heard this one quote before that was something like a person who spends all their time thinking and has nothing to think about but thoughts. Maybe we need a balance of learning through text, others, and ourselves, but finding that balance is hard. Anyway, this was a bit longer than I wanted, but I was wondering what your/others' opinions on determinism are. Also, our way of perceiving the world creates inherent biases, and our influences shape how we interpret what we perceive, so is any thought that is our own any better or worse than another's? I get that we should think for ourselves, but at what point does picking and choosing what we take away become a filter through which we allow only what we already at least partially align with through? Ok thats all, love the videos in general.

Willem De Ruysscher

As a High School senior who got rejected from his top school, I can attest to the fact that academic achievement is not the same as intelligence. It is truly surreal and almost cruel that suddenly friends and acquaintances that I have seen as equals are now either superior or lesser in the eyes of schools (at least in terms of intelligence as colleges see it). It truly is harmful and humiliating to be part of the American education system. I feel like my curiosity has made me feel smart despite my lacking grades, and now I’m just bitter. I feel like I have lost an imaginary game chmess that I have staked my pride on.

Nelson Hernandez

to be honest, I think everyone needs time off the internet.

S. P.

I think academia can sometimes be equated to a hamster wheel; going nowhere fast. What is the point of discussing ideas instead of applying these ideas into something real? It makes for a life not fully lived. It’s like when someone always says they’re going to do something but never does it - the act of telling someone about it feels like the act itself has been done. Excellent, thoughtful video

Steven Mclachlan

Who's the girl in the thumbnail image? Interesting image. Great video. 👍

Archie Day

this video has made me think of the book 'flowers for algernon' where the main character has a low IQ that is raised to a genius level through a scientific experiment. The idea of having all this knowledge but struggling to understand and integrate with general society is one that, from my perspective as not being very academically capable, I find very interesting as I have gone to University in England and have found that I have grown much more due to the people I have met and topics that I have chosen to pursue instead of what I have learnt in a lecture theater. Thank you again for your videos, always left feeling like I have learned something or have something new to learn

Nelly Flanagan

Fascinating take here, very well done. You manage to keep a cohesive personality and style between your historical videos and these more abstract, conceptual ones. It’s a great balance that lends character and creates a sort of symbiotic relationship between topics that is very artistic.

Liam Brown

Thank you for doing what you do. Your videos remind me why I enjoy learning.

Frederik

Where can we see all the songs used in this video? Thanks