The Long and Violent War Against Your Soul

sources:
Self Reliance, Emerson
Emerson and Self-reliance, Kateb

music:
Satie - Gymnopedie No. 1 - Mira Ma
View From an Ocean Window - Staffan Carlen
Raindrop Animation - Eden Avery
Holding on to Hope - Megan Wofford
View of the Park - Roots and Recognition
Slowfly - Martin Landh
When We Were Friends - Amaranth Cove
Letting the Light In - Roots and Recognition
The Old House - Rikard From

[welcomebackozzie]

"Be misunderstood, as long as you understand yourself."

[Seaweed-y]

I refuse to believe this channel isn’t run by a stable of horses

[emilhinchliff]

nothing makes me feel smart like repeating what i heard in a horses video

[bambi]

Horses really is the best thing to watch when feeling existential dread

[nashloveskubzsscouts]

'be misunderstood, as long as you understand yourself' is such a comforting statement, after having lived around people who should have, but filled in the gaps with their assumptions.

[OgaLua]

when I say I'm a "horse girl" I'm referring to the fact that I love this channel.

[hamzah]

Seeing this thumbnail and desperately watching before it gets taken down, classic Horses experience

[calfcall]

In the words of Rudyard Kipling, "the individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself."

[jmccoomber]

"When the world expects us to hit and we miss, we sink into misery." This is very sad because every miss is required to better find the mark on the next try. I love the old adage that states "the master has failed more times than the novice has ever tried."

To find what is right, what works in our individual lives, many trials are required and each failure is a necessary and positive learning experience to discover a better way to move forward. This is why failure is a gift that cannot be eschewed as we endeavor to find our own personal truth. "It's not 'I'm always right, ' it's 'I can always be right'" as long as I am open to changing my opinion when new and better ideas and options come to light.

Thanks, Horses, for another insightful presentation 🙂

[brockwilson]

I have never resonated with a video more.

I had previously wrapped myself in an identity of intelligence and perfection that was packaged and ready to be sold to big companies so that I could afford to be a luxury consumer.

I have always had a tendency to reject consistency and as such, I threw out my entire identity and quit my 6 figure job. Sometimes I look back and think I should regret it, but I never do. I have already had 3 career shifts 2 years out of college and have learned a comically vast amount more than I ever thought I knew.

I am happy to see that I'm not totally insane and my mindset exists. Society cannot afford for everyone to have this mindset, I'm thankful to be privileged with it.

[ezequielgerstelbodoha]

Ironically, inconformity to conventions can be turned into a convention itself and be sold as a product in many shapes, and being against this convention requires subtle analysis of what are you really doing and thinking

[loganwhisenhunt]

I genuinely believe that should someone watch the entire horses library they would come out as a better more whole person. Philosophy, science, culture, history—everything. You provide such a simple yet compelling story for each of these things. Keep doing this and we’ll keep watching.

[betterchapter]

It’s honestly a privilege to be able to access channels like Horses for free… what a treasure trove of knowledge

[RwandaBob]

i draw a lot and write a lot of poems. i’ve entered many poems in competitions and they never get traction. i do that work because i enjoy it. it would be cool to be a well renowned poet, but not being one doesn’t drive me up the wall. my drawings are crude, and my poems are lackluster, but i have fun doing it and that’s really what life is about to me. do what you want to do and don’t worry how many people say your work or dreams are trash or try to put you down.

[mkwhole]

You might of just saved my life. Thank you so much

[businesscat]

one of the best content creators on the platform

[jaykubisanidiot]

It's nice to know there are at least Some youngsters trying to find themselves in this collectively idiotic age. And don't feel bad if you didn't learn this stuff on your own, the only real way to learn certain things alone is through much pain and suffering. So I praise channels like this, telling others about paths they've found through the wilderness... God speed my Brothers and Sisters

[agxryt]

I've spent the last 2 years living at home with my family, recovering from addiction, living off savings, cut off from friends and trends, but taking care of animals, daydreaming, etc.... Never have I felt I know myself better, and been as distanced from trends, conformity, etc. I've been depressed on and off, and I'm quite scared to re-enter society... But the cloud in my mind, left by a troublesome youth and early adulthood, has been lifted.

It's a break that I think a lot of people would benefit from access to. I don't think we're psychologically optimal, when we exist to fuel industrialism and post-industrialism. I can't help but wonder how much more psychologically fit our hunter-gatherer ancestors were, at least the ones spared from tragedy or excessive struggle.

I also wonder if finding purpose in life was easier, when we were younger as a species, and naive enough to blindly follow religion, gurus, dogma.. When there were leaders we could blindly follow and believe in, and we weren't inundated with doubt, uncertainty and the complexity of reality. How much easier would life be, had I a "virtuous" leader to follow? I think this must be why so many people fall for influencers and trends.. it's no different than how people fall for cults. It's a lighthouse, amidst the foggy, churning seas

[PySimpleGUI]

I just finished READING Emerson's "Self-Reliance". My copy has a lot of highlighted phrases that hit home, hard, despite being penned in 1841. I'm 1/2 through "Walden", a confirmation of the power Nature is having on me (#NaturePilled), both were direct results of your work.💚 Keep teaching the world Michael! You're getting through to many.

[awalvie]

I've been a listener for a while now. Its hard for me to put into words just how much I appreciate your videos. Thank you so very much for creating them, for pouring so much of your time and energy into them. I'm grateful beyond words for it.