Mr Freeman, part 09

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Yeah, no way I could compete with you. I'm just an animated character with a funny voice, while you're an actual real live person. With your intellect and your experience you're practically a god. All my verbalized thoughts definitely fall woefully short of your fancy inquiring mind's research. Whatever I spew right here could be said better by you, my friend. But you just — don't need to. You can express your public stances by simply clicking on the "Like" button, or with a smug comment, "So what?" And take notice that no one will dare to reproach you with dialectic relativism. Definitely no one will reproach you with THAT. It must be awesome — being you.

There once was a wise old teacher. He was so great that people didn’t even understand what they could learn from him. Some said he used to be some kinda filthy rich and powerful businessman, But then he forsook the vanities of the world after realizing the true nature of life. And then one seeker the very bravest of all of them, comes to him and says: “O Great and Wise Teacher! I'm disappointed in this world. It's rotten to the very core! Help me obtain the vision of Truth, please!” Then the teacher answered: “Okay. I shall impart to thee the truest knowledge. But, first — could you help me out by bringing me a gizmo that can…” And the teacher whispered something right into the seeker's ear.

Overjoyed, the seeker ran off to buy the gizmo. He asked but no one knew a thing about it. Well, he felt too embarrassed to come back empty handed. so he went to another town, then another, further and further, but nobody anywhere had heard of such a device. So many long years later the seeker, who by then was a businessman who owned many amazing device factories, returned to the place he'd first heard of the rare gizmo-device thingy. And he brought with him a whole train load of amazing equipment. The seeker was pleased with himself, he had designed and produced things that had never existed before. He HAD to be worthy to learn the truth now. Right? But the Teacher's hut was empty. The seeker had come too late for the most important lesson of his life. He ordered the devices he'd brought with him be given to the townsfolk and he settled in the Teacher's hut. But soon he was visited by new seekers. They asked: “O, Great Teacher, what must we do to grasp the True Meaning of things?” The teacher smiled: “Okay. I'll tell you... But first could you bring me a little gizmo that…” And he whispered something into the seekers' ears. Well? Did you listen to the story?

So what?

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[MrFreemanEnglish]

Mr. Freeman is on X!
Uncover new perspectives👇

[chrisrichards]

I truly wish to see this grow in popularity amongst an English speaking audience. At very least, these are thought provoking, and I think everyone could benefit from forming their own ideas about these vignettes

[obothehobo]

Here's my interpretation: no one person can simply tell you the truth of everything. The only way to learn what's true is to go out and find out for yourself. I think Mr. Freeman is presenting himself as the teacher. He is saying that he cannot give you the truth, but that he simply wants you to ask the questions that will lead you to the truth yourself. Because truly, he cannot answer those questions for you.

[jasonpantoja]

I believe there is a more sinister prespective to this. If you listen to every word carefully the original teacher asks for help first. Not saying the gizmo was the truth, simply an exchange of services. The man went looking for something that never existed and when he came back for an answer, was left with the same blight. The great teacher was a fool as the rest of us, and evidently searched for something to give us the answer, even delegating us do so as well. Eventually we quite literally become infected with the same mentality. The truth to life is there are no gizmos to help, don't fall into greed.

[funnyisht]

When the original seeker asked the teacher for the meaning of life he was instructed to make a gizmo, when he couldn’t make it, he wouldn’t return until he was able to construct such a gizmo but the “teacher” was gone. So the old seeker took the teachers place and did the same as the teacher.

Our leaders are just us dressed up with fancy titles on their names.

That’s the lesson

[martywebb]

I.... understand, in previous videos he talked about the cannibalism of people but what ment was "feeding" off of other peoples labor, same thing with the teacher and seeker, the teacher "cannibalized" the seeker for ideas that therefore feeding himself, so by the time the teacher wasn't "immortal" the seeker had learned the way to "cannibalize" other fellow men and down the road those new seekers had then learned the "sacrifice" of cannibalizing others for food or in more modern term, tricking others into finding this gizmo, giving them the distraction that they are working for themselves but there actually working for the Turning themselves into teachers

[potatosirmeow]

The lesson here is that, a person has the ability to make or do great things, if only they dedicate enough of themselves to discovering things on their own rather than rely on some main thing or others. The theme of Mr Freeman isn't purely nihilism or Optimism. It's that you need to discover your own perspective and not rely on what's given to you face value

[jackjackjack]

That was a wonderful story! The work we do explains the questions we have, some people just need a little push!

[victorpousastaklin]

Damn your videos are great ! Just discovered them but i love how you explain things

[PokemonFreak]

Alt ending line "did you listen to the story, well? Go on then, you have a gizmo to find"

[graceljoyermena]

Found your art on tiktok, and I search about you, here. I really love your animation.

[zarikkhan]

I interpreted it as the meaning of the life is to pursue a goal or a passion. That only you can define the meaning of your life, and that when you pursue something intentional such as a goal, you become engaged with your life. Business cures the mind and soul, the purpose isn't to find a gizmo, its to find and then try to make one. The pursuant of making a gizmo is the meaning of life as it propels you to make a business, do new things, meet new people, and interact with the world around you. To make a gizmo can be replaced with any other random task.

The meaning of life is to strive for something and to reach it, even if you never reach it, the act of striving is what lets you truly live.

[senor_parrot]

I'm glad I found these videos, they are alm so interesting and thought provoking

[michaeldarby]

Seeking brings more innovation then simply learning

[iree]

I think the meaning of this shows life has no meaning and the seeker just wasted time trying to find the meaning of life when there is no meaning, ironically the seeker ended up in the same position as the teacher while trying to find the meaning of life and now the seeker that turnt into a teacher has seekers now and is telling the same thing to the seekers that it’s teacher told them

[muffOO]

This 1, and the second freeman videos are my current favorites, they tickle the smart part of my brain alot and wrinkle it up

[in_]

Beautiful work! Impressively done. Thank you for your artwork. Cheers.

[anonymous_wednesday]

the point is that no one can actually give you enlightenment. there is no Answer to life’s questions
the point, , , , is to discover your own.
or perhaps its to figure out there isn’t actually an answer to begin with, and then cope with that crushing reality.
or dont and become an absurdist!!
point is no one is going to teach you what you REALLY want to know, especially not a cartoon dude on the internet.
but he sure can help you remember where to look!

[Uraniumaddiction]

This guy is literally just a mixture of shower thoughts, and intrusive thoughts. or a animated version of VSauce.

[dpixlontheonetheonly]

Mr. Freeman is the teacher and we are the seekers maybe