The Genius of the Crowd by Charles Bukowski

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  • @Gladiator-wy5qb
    @Gladiator-wy5qb 2 роки тому +2362

    "If you're losing your soul and you know it, then you've still got a soul left to lose." - Charles Bukowski.

    • @justaperson9155
      @justaperson9155 2 роки тому +8

      Wow this is a great quote. Thank you

    • @bait5257
      @bait5257 2 роки тому +6

      The most underrated quote

    • @dribrahamghanem3694
      @dribrahamghanem3694 2 роки тому +18

      If you're losing your soul and you know it, clap your hands!

    • @valhatan3907
      @valhatan3907 2 роки тому +1

      @@dribrahamghanem3694 im starting to singing lol

    • @royallen2848
      @royallen2848 2 роки тому

      💚

  • @JohnSmith-hv3zj
    @JohnSmith-hv3zj 5 років тому +3054

    "Beware the quiet man. For while others speak, he watched. And while others act, he plans. And when they finally rest… he strikes."

  • @AnthonyLiccione
    @AnthonyLiccione 3 роки тому +3052

    "As a child, I was afraid of the dark and the monsters on the outside.
    As a man, I run away from the light, afraid to show the monsters within."

    • @dipakbhoi6255
      @dipakbhoi6255 3 роки тому +91

      because the monsters of outside have found you
      and instead of devouring you
      they chose to live within you...

    • @bryce7488
      @bryce7488 3 роки тому +28

      Those monsters inside, you can benefit from as long as you remain in control.

    • @Yuval.P.
      @Yuval.P. 3 роки тому +74

      “We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.”
      -plato

    • @johncameron5081
      @johncameron5081 3 роки тому +6

      Is life that deep

    • @trindinwright6374
      @trindinwright6374 3 роки тому +14

      @@johncameron5081 deeper still

  • @thekhan517
    @thekhan517 3 роки тому +1773

    "I am just smart enough, to know how dumb I am." - Richard Feynman

    • @pellestroika177
      @pellestroika177 3 роки тому +2

      Exactly

    • @talelhammami9845
      @talelhammami9845 3 роки тому +3

      What are magnets ?

    • @_LinusVanPelt
      @_LinusVanPelt 3 роки тому

      this

    • @carloslaend1635
      @carloslaend1635 2 роки тому +7

      Sounds like a ripoff of Aristotle's "All I know is I know nothing"

    • @aldean5494
      @aldean5494 2 роки тому +15

      @@carloslaend1635 "I know that I know nothing" is a saying derived from Plato's account of Socrates. Not Aristotle.

  • @bonesaredollars1172
    @bonesaredollars1172 5 років тому +4046

    Not being able to love fully they will believe your love incomplete.
    That one hits home.

    • @illneas
      @illneas  5 років тому +100

      My favorite.

    • @johnp7776
      @johnp7776 5 років тому +9

      My favorite

    • @oc5515
      @oc5515 5 років тому +8

      kevin coots what does it mean exactly? English is not my first languge

    • @drodi7320
      @drodi7320 5 років тому +1

      too close

    • @uncertainboy8893
      @uncertainboy8893 5 років тому +155

      @@oc5515 they dont have a full understanding of what love is. What they think it is, is probably something that was fed to them or something their minds created and they have it as a fact. So when they see how you express your love they think its wrong or incomplete. Thats how i understand it.

  • @donniedarkko422
    @donniedarkko422 5 років тому +6852

    Beware of he who smelt it, for they are the ones who dealt it

    • @illneas
      @illneas  5 років тому +176

      Hahahaha

    • @Fromkin1
      @Fromkin1 5 років тому +15

      Donnie Darkko lol

    • @aaronf8915
      @aaronf8915 5 років тому +9

      GOD

    • @charlescrowell4981
      @charlescrowell4981 5 років тому +35

      Ben Franklin fart proudly society. We won't be silenced!

    • @felcorn7453
      @felcorn7453 5 років тому +30

      I’m fucking weak. U made my day.😂

  • @gauravsinha6060
    @gauravsinha6060 Рік тому +345

    'There is genius in their hatred. There is enough genius in their hatred to kill you. To kill anybody.' Don't you ever underestimate these words.

    • @TwistedTransistor88
      @TwistedTransistor88 Рік тому +18

      shown again during the corona episode. most people believe everything they hear. and hate those who don't.

    • @Hogivs
      @Hogivs Рік тому +8

      Yet do not be not afraid whatever happens. Don't let fear guide your life.

    • @annalisavajda252
      @annalisavajda252 Рік тому

      Yeah hive mind cancel culture.

    • @christophermiller6614
      @christophermiller6614 Рік тому +5

      Fucking Hell. I see exactly what he is talking about.

    • @_bored_wrld
      @_bored_wrld 8 місяців тому

      explains my appendix rupture.

  • @BenedictGS
    @BenedictGS 2 роки тому +60

    "If you are stupid, imitate, whatever quote they communicate"
    -Wisémen

  • @CanadianPrepper
    @CanadianPrepper 4 роки тому +3944

    "Beware the knowers, for they are afraid of what they do not know"

    • @iphoneusdsd
      @iphoneusdsd 3 роки тому +29

      to all know it all teachers..

    • @thepedrorriva
      @thepedrorriva 3 роки тому +137

      that's not even in the original poem. For some reason the video excluded that part. It goes like this:
      "Beware the preachers
      Beware the knowers
      Beware those who are always reading books
      Beware those who either detest poverty
      Or are proud of it
      Beware those quick to praise
      For they need praise in return
      Beware those who are quick to censor
      They are afraid of what they do not know"

    • @hiabiy
      @hiabiy 3 роки тому +6

      @@iphoneusdsd this is hilarious haha

    • @sonofbattles
      @sonofbattles 3 роки тому +9

      @@thepedrorriva true, but bukowski read this out loud, so it is canon.

    • @thepedrorriva
      @thepedrorriva 3 роки тому +3

      @@sonofbattles what?

  • @bobcabot
    @bobcabot 4 роки тому +2108

    ...you cannot find Bukowski: He finds you...

  • @aleksinako5006
    @aleksinako5006 2 роки тому +195

    Bukowski once said:
    There is loneliness in this world so great that you can see it in the slow movement of a clock’s hand.

    • @user-di7tg7qf6u
      @user-di7tg7qf6u 6 місяців тому +2

      When one second feels like one second, everyday feels so long.

  • @metaphysicalmigraine694
    @metaphysicalmigraine694 3 роки тому +544

    'Never underestimate the stupidity of a crowd'-George Carlin.

    • @shrayantchoudhary9616
      @shrayantchoudhary9616 2 роки тому +1

      EX- crowd on JULIUS CAESAR's death.
      The best example of
      crowd stupidity....
      Which is now used by all political parties of the world.
      Coz people have sold their common sense to them..
      🙏🙏. 🙏🙏

    • @metaphysicalmigraine694
      @metaphysicalmigraine694 2 роки тому +10

      @@shrayantchoudhary9616 Not far kin wrong. People rather believe lies from the 'proper gander' machine, the T.V. They're so used to listening to lies. 'It's easier to fool someone than convince them they've been fooled.'

    • @metaphysicalmigraine694
      @metaphysicalmigraine694 2 роки тому +1

      @Bill Johnson Don't get run over:)

    • @mystical_shreya
      @mystical_shreya Рік тому

      ​@@stratosphere2323 No way is right way there can always be a better way . There would still be terrible things but with more amazing things . There cant be a way better than democracy for now.

    • @kolonelfranz31
      @kolonelfranz31 10 місяців тому +2

      Beware. Democracy is all we have in this era. What other system would provide you all the privileges you are enjoying and even give you the luxury of being able to give the comment you gave? Probably with your smartphone or laptop, all provided by democracy and capitalism. Maybe there is a better way, but changing systems is risky. Even with the best intentions and well thought over. For changes can backfire. big changes have a long history of unexpected side effects that sometimes lead to the death of millions and millions of people. Lenin meant well, the system was sick, but he never anticipated Stalin. And that's just one example. The road to hell is paved with good intentions. Be careful what you wish.

  • @sin3.144
    @sin3.144 5 років тому +3413

    Beware your self, For you are like the rest.

    • @zoiwebon5515
      @zoiwebon5515 5 років тому +80

      But from the rest we must part ,for solitud is needed to be able to change when required for well being.

    • @whiteobama3032
      @whiteobama3032 5 років тому +37

      Bukowski certainly was not like "the rest". The man was pretty much a maniac

    • @hatrack5977
      @hatrack5977 5 років тому +14

      Don't join the herd

    • @ShauryaChawlaprayforplagues
      @ShauryaChawlaprayforplagues 5 років тому +10

      he would never say that

    • @nersha8472
      @nersha8472 5 років тому +12

      @@ShauryaChawlaprayforplagues The same lines are hidden in the poem.

  • @owlcu
    @owlcu 5 років тому +4485

    "God bless those who seek the truth; god protect us from those who think they've found it". - proverb

    • @user-wb4dk7hq5g
      @user-wb4dk7hq5g 5 років тому +38

      owlcu beware the knowers

    • @amr154
      @amr154 4 роки тому +5

      Who said that?

    • @movement2contact
      @movement2contact 4 роки тому +34

      @@amr154 some made-up character *of course* ...

    • @movement2contact
      @movement2contact 4 роки тому +19

      @Jake the Astronaut *you're

    • @yakojjy
      @yakojjy 4 роки тому +27

      Clearly this poem went over your head.

  • @vedant9634
    @vedant9634 3 роки тому +189

    Look, I preach peace, and I don't have it, nor have I have love. This line crushed me and I have a lot of thinking to do

    • @maryjanethompsonthefirst
      @maryjanethompsonthefirst 3 роки тому +5

      Striking for sure. Struck my ❤

    • @Ms.AnnThrope
      @Ms.AnnThrope 2 роки тому +4

      Awareness is the first step. Now you can work on it.

    • @jaredbond7908
      @jaredbond7908 2 роки тому +2

      poor guy. don't worry about it. I believe in you. 👍

    • @manishrathore2486
      @manishrathore2486 2 роки тому +3

      No no no, do you preach it everywhere, every chance you get to talk to people? I mean, nobody likes violence and i also preach peace but i do know that sometimes it is the only solution but there are people out there especially people in power( politicians) who preach peace and do horrible things under the table.

    • @09kaustubh
      @09kaustubh 2 роки тому +3

      You will be fine if you stay with this consciousness.

  • @husseinkdouh2940
    @husseinkdouh2940 3 роки тому +57

    I could watch and listen to this a thousand times and never get bored.

  • @Pj.stare321
    @Pj.stare321 4 роки тому +2979

    Beware of those who give love too easily, they'll take it back just the same.

    • @NK-kj5ms
      @NK-kj5ms 4 роки тому +63

      how painfully true

    • @ifisawyourreplyiwillanswerback
      @ifisawyourreplyiwillanswerback 4 роки тому +11

      Oof~

    • @Death_Incarnate
      @Death_Incarnate 4 роки тому +18

      Damn, that is incredibly true.

    • @rye-bread5236
      @rye-bread5236 4 роки тому +136

      Yep. I'm definitely one of those. I'm very friendly and will hang out with most but if you betray my trust I'll drop you and forget your existence. Life's too short to waste time on something so trivial. Love is not an essential but its a nice commodity to have.

    • @cristinaivanet7733
      @cristinaivanet7733 4 роки тому +1

      So true!

  • @freddymarcel-marcum6831
    @freddymarcel-marcum6831 5 років тому +1593

    Well this is something to talk about at parties.

    • @illneas
      @illneas  5 років тому +232

      You must be fun at parties.

    • @abadabamcyadadya7896
      @abadabamcyadadya7896 5 років тому +22

      Brilliant comment

    • @shizzle1903
      @shizzle1903 5 років тому +4

      🤣😂

    • @xjuanp
      @xjuanp 5 років тому +42

      Invite me to such parties, please

    • @docholiday8315
      @docholiday8315 5 років тому +21

      You aint much fun outside of parties either.

  • @user-zc4hg4qg7j
    @user-zc4hg4qg7j 8 місяців тому +10

    This helped me escape from a abusive relationship. Its not dark if you're in a dark enough place.

    • @heavyt749
      @heavyt749 6 місяців тому +3

      Hope things have improved x

    • @user-zc4hg4qg7j
      @user-zc4hg4qg7j 3 місяці тому

      They have. Thank you ​@@heavyt749

  • @amandeepgupta5133
    @amandeepgupta5133 2 роки тому +77

    This entire piece isn't just the mastery of picking the right poem and narrator, but also the right music and video to compliment the poem.
    The music and the video make sense, loved it!

    • @lenakrupinski6303
      @lenakrupinski6303 2 роки тому

      So beautiful 💜💜💜💜🎻🎻🎶🎶🌹🌹🌹🌹

    • @hitman-br9un
      @hitman-br9un Рік тому +3

      But music is to f.... loud!!!! That aint good

    • @annalisavajda252
      @annalisavajda252 11 місяців тому

      I do prefer Bukowski himself narrating but this will do.

  • @johnadamski9913
    @johnadamski9913 5 років тому +971

    Beware of those that need constant crowds........

    • @TINMANHOANG
      @TINMANHOANG 5 років тому +74

      *For Misery loves company indeed.*

    • @glowiever
      @glowiever 5 років тому +118

      Yea, those fucking extroverts

    • @GordonGarvey
      @GordonGarvey 5 років тому +136

      For they would be nothing without their Instagram followers

    • @tylerperkinson1677
      @tylerperkinson1677 5 років тому +30

      @@GordonGarvey fuckin' scary accurate.

    • @crazy4jbiebz
      @crazy4jbiebz 5 років тому +36

      Purdy Mouth I don’t think the aim of that statement was to hate on extroverts.. they have problems of their own and they are probably the loneliest group of people, please be sensitive

  • @SP-mf9sh
    @SP-mf9sh 5 років тому +1472

    Beautiful. Solitude is the ONLY way to know yourself. Other people influence you and mold your character to fit theirs to help their gain. There are very few genuine people in this world but if you find one keep them. Just don't get influenced by them fully.

    • @oc5515
      @oc5515 5 років тому +5

      sarah Owens aré you one of these genuine people?

    • @SP-mf9sh
      @SP-mf9sh 5 років тому +19

      @@oc5515 yes I think so, I'm a selfless person. I like the simple things.

    • @oc5515
      @oc5515 5 років тому +3

      sarah Owens you got IG?

    • @1967briano
      @1967briano 4 роки тому +33

      Kindness is the greatest of all qualities but the wrong ones see it as a sign of weakness.

    • @cv4809
      @cv4809 4 роки тому +20

      @@SP-mf9sh you're just an average woman,your love is avarage,seeks avarage...

  • @hawns5198
    @hawns5198 2 роки тому +106

    That’s 90 percent of all human beings, so don’t make the mistake of excluding or including yourself in what he spoke if your own conscience betrays it. Be honest and grow…..then you can truly love even when you are not loved

    • @martinverbeek8862
      @martinverbeek8862 2 роки тому +1

      Only parents can love like that.
      Imagine your wife says she loves another dude?
      Imagine your kid saying he loves another mom.
      The onky thing you want for your child is to be happy no matter what.

    • @bait5257
      @bait5257 2 роки тому +1

      @@martinverbeek8862 you can be a parent

  • @jonatansleiers9021
    @jonatansleiers9021 Рік тому +8

    Why did you exclude some of the lines in this poem? Including, ironically, ”beware those who are quick to censor”.

  • @tangobango9653
    @tangobango9653 4 роки тому +174

    ‘Beware the preachers...Beware the knowers’ is the best advice you’ll ever hear in your life.

  • @codylakin288
    @codylakin288 4 роки тому +39

    The line “not being able to love fully, they will believe your love incomplete” made me sit forward and gape, like “Oh my god.”
    Sometimes you learn something far too late about people-especially people you love, or even give your heart to.
    Damn. Fuck you, Bukowksi, you fucking genius.
    Also, amazing video!

  • @taimour8982
    @taimour8982 3 роки тому +202

    "Beware of those who don't know Charles Bukowski "

    • @abocanots2224
      @abocanots2224 2 роки тому +6

      The dude who posted this doesn’t know Bukowski.
      He CENSORED the line, “Beware those quick to censor”
      Along with making a lot of other useless edits
      The poster of this video is the EXACT PERSON he is telling us to beware of
      This is my fav poem of Alltme and this dude ruined it

    • @taimour8982
      @taimour8982 2 роки тому +2

      @@abocanots2224 oh..

    • @bait5257
      @bait5257 2 роки тому

      @@Rx99 xd

    • @Nox.INkRecords
      @Nox.INkRecords 2 роки тому +1

      🤣

    • @jimihendrix6969
      @jimihendrix6969 2 місяці тому

      Great line, bro.

  • @michaeltellurian825
    @michaeltellurian825 2 роки тому +356

    The guy's a genius. "Sunny days are the darkest." "There's nothing drier than water." "It's funny because it's sad." You can't beat an oxymoron for seeming depth of understanding.

    • @xyaeiounn
      @xyaeiounn 2 роки тому +46

      To overthink it, he overlays differing levels of life experience, where the best times can contain the worst and the greatest pleasures facilitate the greatest loss. his real genius is to point to stuff that was always there but nobody noticed it. Not simply mixing opposites.

    • @ToughVato
      @ToughVato 2 роки тому +18

      His pessimism almost comes out; not like “Theirs no point in being good” but more like “the wrong virtue at the wrong time is a vice” And knowing who Charles Bukowski is, he is definitely very skilled and more understanding of vices than most of us hahahaha

    • @creativecatproductions
      @creativecatproductions Рік тому +27

      This poem was written as a criticism of the counter culture of the 1960s. He saw some literary mainstreamish popularity writing for socialist underground newspapers in LA. This brought him into contact with hippies and would be revolutionaries. Like almost everyone he came to associate with regularly his disgust for them eventually fell out through the tip of his pen. He hated their pretense. Their talk about saving the world. To him they were into a fad. They were merely following the crowd, and people who follow things are historically dangerous.
      The crux of everything he writes about comes down to the importance of authenticity and personal intentionality. He doesn’t hate the hippies because they’re hippies. He doesn’t hate the suburbanites because they are suburbanites. He hates that people are only motivated by the movement of other people, that they don’t really grasp their own reason for doing the things they do….but are instead so easily led. Their love is mediocre.
      This is the same man who said that: “Some lose all mind and become soul, insane. Some lose all soul and become mind, intellectual. Some lose both (mind and soul) and they become accepted.
      To be acceptable. To fit in. To go with the mob, is for Bukowski the worst fate that befalls people. Not because he’s a contrarian, but because he recognizes that unless you both truly understand and truly feel what you do, you do it poorly, and you became a tool for strong willed people who will dominate whatever potential you may have had to do anything meaningful in your life, either for good or bad. That’s what this poem is about.

    • @berniezhang8678
      @berniezhang8678 Рік тому +6

      Another bottle in my hand, another night
      Another bar stool where I sit and think
      Of all the times I've stumbled and I've fallen
      And all the chances I have dared to take.
      I've been a fool, I've been a wastrel too
      I've laughed and cried and never looked back
      But still I stand, with bottle in my hand
      Defying fate, and all its icy tracks.
      I've seen the beauty of the world, and yet
      I've seen the ugliness too, and known despair
      But still I drink, and still I raise a bet
      Against the odds, and all the world may bear.
      So let me drink, and raise a final toast
      To life and love, and all the joy it brings, despite the cost.

    • @BoltonRoy
      @BoltonRoy 7 місяців тому

      @@berniezhang8678 what is this from

  • @bebeezra
    @bebeezra 4 роки тому +387

    This poem beautifully captures the Jungian *_shadow._*

    • @mantequilla404
      @mantequilla404 4 роки тому +89

      Nearly all the real evil in the world is done by those who deem themselves shining beacons of perfect virtue.

    • @ismayonnaiseaninstrument8700
      @ismayonnaiseaninstrument8700 4 роки тому +66

      Some of the greatest leaders, writers, artists, and role models humanity has ever known, had themselves been as vulnerable as a newborn, been almost masochistically down on themselves, and yet they give to others the security and stability that they themselves lacked. Even when they’ve made it, and have all they could ever want, the best of them would trade all that away for innate peace and serenity, for true unconditional love, or simply for the fun of it.
      It’s funny. The extraordinary fellow could have the world bend to his word, and yet, what completes him or her is that exact thing the ordinary fellow takes for granted. And it often takes having your life collapse around you to understand that.

    • @WateryFire
      @WateryFire 4 роки тому +2

      D. Grieco The grass is always greener on the other side.

    • @dmarcus3663
      @dmarcus3663 4 роки тому +5

      @@ismayonnaiseaninstrument8700 You shone a light on the pitch dark road I'm treading and on the edge of giving up. Thank you.

    • @GG-jj3hw
      @GG-jj3hw 4 роки тому +3

      @@ismayonnaiseaninstrument8700 that's nicely depicted in Hesse's Steppenwolf

  • @AbhilashNoxBaruahnx1ee7
    @AbhilashNoxBaruahnx1ee7 5 років тому +184

    'Beware those quick to praise, for they need praise in return'

    • @m3chris1
      @m3chris1 4 роки тому +9

      See that all the damn time

    • @Manhunternew
      @Manhunternew 4 роки тому +7

      does that mean if i praise other people alot i need praise myself? like, only giving compliments in order to get some myself? I am asking this because I give a lot of compliments

    • @maggyfrog
      @maggyfrog 4 роки тому +1

      reaction channels 😂

    • @perciousmatter7001
      @perciousmatter7001 4 роки тому +1

      I dispise praise, i really dont need someone to tell me im good. I need someone to tell me wats wrong with me and if that is true. Thats it.

    • @TomorrowWeLive
      @TomorrowWeLive 3 роки тому +3

      Women, basically

  • @flpr777
    @flpr777 2 роки тому +27

    The music matches the message so very well Illneas it enhances the power of the words it climaxes at the right point in the poem then softens step by step leaving us with a shattered breathless heart. I loved both.

  • @mycotinafulica8896
    @mycotinafulica8896 2 роки тому +55

    This surely got to be my favorite of Charles Bukowski. The rawness, the blatant honesty -- makes every of my bones feel this poem!

    • @annalisavajda252
      @annalisavajda252 8 місяців тому +1

      Style is maybe my favourite but this one is also poignant.

  • @edgarl1837
    @edgarl1837 4 роки тому +676

    "Beware those who seek constant crowds for
    They are nothing alone
    Beware the average man the average woman
    Beware their love, their love is average
    Seeks average
    But there is genius in their hatred
    There is enough genius in their hatred to kill you
    To kill anybody
    Not wanting solitude
    Not understanding solitude
    They will attempt to destroy anything
    That differs from their own
    Not being able to create art
    They will not understand art" dam

    • @illneas
      @illneas  4 роки тому +22

      Hits hard.

    • @cv4809
      @cv4809 4 роки тому +24

      The last 2 lines perfectly describe post modernist "artists"

    • @Miquel998
      @Miquel998 3 роки тому +3

      C V or maybe they are describing you that unable to create it do not understand it

    • @NPC-nh9ed
      @NPC-nh9ed 3 роки тому +8

      @@Miquel998 Ooh Boy.......here you have the perpetual "artist" excuse nutshelled.........I don't suck , you're just too ignorant to realize how talented I am...............

    • @stand-upjus-1039
      @stand-upjus-1039 3 роки тому +4

      @@NPC-nh9ed 100%. Which is how we end up with blank paper and table chairs in modern art museums. "If you see that chair, which we are all in agreement is in fact a chair, yet all you see is a chair...your artistic soul has simply not yet been released." I heard this in LA at a museum from a staff member. I replied, "If I take that chair and bash it over your head, and you file an assault charge against me, yet your victim-soul has not yet been released. In that action I see artistic expression." We went to look at paintings next.

  • @deirdrestewart4394
    @deirdrestewart4394 4 роки тому +31

    Powerful! beware those who seek constant *crowds* for they are nothing *alone!*

  • @joshchapman4753
    @joshchapman4753 3 роки тому +8

    “Beware the preachers, beware the knowers, they are afraid of what they do not know”. Perfect

  • @Gauchland
    @Gauchland 9 місяців тому +5

    When you recognise many others and yourself in this poem, you will understand it more deeply. You must experience each stage in full grief, anger or regret. It is understood in isolated perspectives, and only then can they merge.

    • @user-zc4hg4qg7j
      @user-zc4hg4qg7j 8 місяців тому

      It's nice to read a comment from an individual who understands

    • @gmod8033
      @gmod8033 Місяць тому +1

      Everyone is in this poem. 100%

  • @Rossjmann
    @Rossjmann 4 роки тому +80

    "Beware those who assign blame, for they lack responsibility"

    • @Destrobius
      @Destrobius 4 роки тому

      In this regard, can justifiable blame exist at all?

    • @charms48
      @charms48 3 роки тому +2

      @@Destrobius the moment we understand that there is no one to blame we realise that the problem was never in assigning it, it was in accepting it.

  • @pheonix4564
    @pheonix4564 5 років тому +360

    The hardest part is that I see myself in these descriptions

    • @basiaadamiec57
      @basiaadamiec57 5 років тому +46

      I feel like this poem warns against becoming such that you wouldn't see yourself in these descriptions

    • @theguy6640
      @theguy6640 4 роки тому +69

      I think the point in the poem is to realize that potential of hate in yourself. To realize that no matter how much you've learned, how refined your mind or personality, how great of an artist you are, you still have a shadow that is jealous, lonely, afraid, and lashing out. Life is the torturous process of healing that shadow self

    • @mesutramsey3620
      @mesutramsey3620 4 роки тому +14

      @@theguy6640 Thats called being human. And its only torturous only if you let it be.

    • @yt-sh
      @yt-sh 4 роки тому +3

      we all do, we all are humans...
      btw he did describe modst of the population anyway

    • @hteur1
      @hteur1 4 роки тому +6

      That's the best part. That's the first step to changing.

  • @plantedbarnacle3353
    @plantedbarnacle3353 2 роки тому +1

    Not simply a poem, a warning

  • @claudiamanta1943
    @claudiamanta1943 6 місяців тому +3

    Very accurate.

  • @c.ksibaya2762
    @c.ksibaya2762 4 роки тому +33

    He experienced the sublime not in a natural setting far from civilization but in civilization and was taken aback by the dangerous beauty of the everyday person. A genius 💯

  • @ObjectiveMedia
    @ObjectiveMedia 4 роки тому +50

    "Beware those who are wary of others, for they are wary of themselves."

    • @stantrien8106
      @stantrien8106 3 роки тому +8

      As anyone should be.

    • @CJVS995
      @CJVS995 Місяць тому

      Those wary of themselves are often the wisest and the wisest are the ones to watch for they are the knowers.

  • @giulianotomarchio6662
    @giulianotomarchio6662 3 роки тому +6

    I love the delivery of "Like a shining diamond". It reaches the peak

  • @ramanrao2260
    @ramanrao2260 3 роки тому +18

    "They will understand their failures as creators only as failures of world"

  • @anotherjuan
    @anotherjuan 5 років тому +215

    idk why youtube recommended this to me although i love charles bukowski and i thoroughly enjoyed this video, i just don’t usually watch poems on youtube hahhahaa

    • @illneas
      @illneas  5 років тому +15

      the internet sunshine is on me

    • @FilipMacioszek
      @FilipMacioszek 5 років тому +2

      John P. Hahahahahahahahhahahahahahhahahahahahahhahahahahhahahahahahhahahahahahha

    • @MRIDDLE72
      @MRIDDLE72 5 років тому +3

      John P. poem? this is real shit not a poem

    • @lolwithsean
      @lolwithsean 5 років тому +5

      UA-cam knew you needed it.

  • @MissAdamLambert888
    @MissAdamLambert888 5 років тому +542

    He's an absolute genius.

    • @illneas
      @illneas  5 років тому +17

      MissAdamLambert888 Raw wisedom based on everyday experiences

    • @MissAdamLambert888
      @MissAdamLambert888 5 років тому +5

      Sooo incredibly beautiful ! I am moved to tears right now. Thank you so much for posting this.

    • @illneas
      @illneas  5 років тому +4

      MissAdamLambert888 Thank you so much. It really means a lot to me to have a positive feedback

    • @MissAdamLambert888
      @MissAdamLambert888 5 років тому +5

      Awee you're welcome ! You did an amazing job with this one. Hope you're having a great day/night. Thank you for touching my heart with this !

    • @illneas
      @illneas  5 років тому +4

      MissAdamLambert888 Thank you for being a nice person. I wish you you as well to have a nice night/day :)

  • @simondeasy8866
    @simondeasy8866 3 роки тому +10

    This is the first time ive commented on one of your videos but I cannot overstate what hope I have been given in the past months by the fact that people like you still exist. Thank you, from an Irish poet.

  • @r.s.9861
    @r.s.9861 11 місяців тому +3

    Tom O'Bedlam's organ is a perfect match for Bukowski's works - it's like hearing the writer himself.

    • @feedyourmind6713
      @feedyourmind6713 9 місяців тому

      Livens up the depressing mode, just a wee bit.

  • @makeamericabigdickagain5250
    @makeamericabigdickagain5250 5 років тому +247

    life is hard; death is easy. if you wanted to torture somebody; you ought to take everything that he has been living for...

    • @dvdbox360
      @dvdbox360 3 роки тому

      But afterlife is harder

    • @TheGeorey
      @TheGeorey 3 роки тому +2

      @stevenstrumpf7 bullshit

    • @TheGeorey
      @TheGeorey 3 роки тому +1

      @stevenstrumpf7 bullshit

    • @importrev
      @importrev 3 роки тому

      You mean the divorce I’m going through? Lolz

    • @broletsgo
      @broletsgo 3 роки тому +1

      „ He who has a why to life for, Can bear almost any how“ -Nietzsche

  • @khatomacharashvili5038
    @khatomacharashvili5038 5 років тому +5

    Bukowski is the greatest bastard of the world. Greatest gift and love.

  • @bn3412
    @bn3412 3 роки тому +9

    The whisper in the starting gives me chills.

  • @berniezhang8678
    @berniezhang8678 Рік тому +19

    Another bottle in my hand, another night
    Another bar stool where I sit and think
    Of all the times I've stumbled and I've fallen
    And all the chances I have dared to take.
    I've been a fool, I've been a wastrel too
    I've laughed and cried and never looked back
    But still I stand, with bottle in my hand
    Defying fate, and all its icy tracks.
    I've seen the beauty of the world, and yet
    I've seen the ugliness too, and known despair
    But still I drink, and still I raise a bet
    Against the odds, and all the world may bear.
    So let me drink, and raise a final toast
    To life and love, and all the joy it brings, despite the cost.

  • @somerandomperson5574
    @somerandomperson5574 4 роки тому +26

    "when he said beware thoose who seek crowds" i felt it

  • @bowieshowie6378
    @bowieshowie6378 5 років тому +89

    Beautifully powerful. Beware of those who see geniuses, for their misunderstanding of something higher will not see themselves.... Thus concludes Einstein's saying we're all genuises, just find your niche.

    • @tarmanjrakathegooch
      @tarmanjrakathegooch 5 років тому +1

      Well put lil kim.well put.

    • @vitiate7750
      @vitiate7750 5 років тому

      That's rabble stuf

    • @may0zrooski660
      @may0zrooski660 5 років тому +2

      Not all niches are beautiful, pragmatic, utilitarian, worthwhile, fulfilling.
      No one preoccupation should monopolize your total being.
      Einstein was smart but his pithy philosophies were often spread as the result of celebrity, not celerity.

    • @may0zrooski660
      @may0zrooski660 5 років тому +2

      Also, beware average men and women because they have to convince themselves they love themselves and so their capacity for love is capped at average so they cannot appreciate genius so they avoid genius and find ways to teach themselves that genius is bad or wrong.

    • @AmadeuShinChan
      @AmadeuShinChan 4 роки тому

      [ if I cannot discern the genius from the fool, all it is, is a communist's-wet dream.
      Better than with Einstein go with Nikola Tesla, who did not have to marry with a close relative, but was a creator with his inventions, that can decide over life and death. Even better, go with Geniuses of our times: Chris Langan/David-Wynn: Miller. Not appreciating genius for what it is, is wrong and must fail.]

  • @FootballChapp
    @FootballChapp 2 роки тому +20

    Absolutely amazing. I’m sat here crying this hit me like a tonne of bricks. So powerful.

  • @dannystuart-cummins4327
    @dannystuart-cummins4327 Рік тому +3

    This is litterally my favourite video on UA-cam, I've repeatedly viewed it over the past three years. Thankyou for this.

    • @johnpruett2255
      @johnpruett2255 3 місяці тому

      Watch Pale Blue Dot by Carl Sagan....it's wonderful.

  • @ZachByrd
    @ZachByrd 5 років тому +11

    Been reading Bukowski since 13 and never has he spoken louder.

    • @sportsportsport
      @sportsportsport 4 роки тому +1

      He'll speak the loudest as your about to die.

  • @moonshadow2724
    @moonshadow2724 5 років тому +77

    This helps the pain in my heart

    • @illneas
      @illneas  5 років тому +4

      Love your comment, glad it helps

    • @benji.B-side
      @benji.B-side 5 років тому +4

      I hope that pain goes away, bless you. The pain in your heart is just an uncut diamond, waiting for you to cut away the rough and make it sparkle like dew drops in the morning sun.

    • @winros3042
      @winros3042 4 роки тому

      Me too!

    • @nalissolus9213
      @nalissolus9213 3 роки тому

      Because you have been wronged and want justice, and you are disappointed in how bad people keep getting away with their dirty tricks. Yor disappointed in the cowardness that allows it. The voice reading this is like a judgemental figure finally exposing the bad people and bringing them to justice, it's like a revenge fantasy, like hellfire to those who have sinned. Sadly no such judgement day will come and evil-doers will get away with their ways. But those with a conscience can't play their games, cause they will be filled with self-disgust.

  • @abrar4466
    @abrar4466 3 роки тому +17

    They think they are hating, but in reality they are hating themselves.

  • @echofoxtrot2.051
    @echofoxtrot2.051 2 роки тому +17

    Wow! This is sheer genius. I have goosebumps all over. I wish people would listen more to this, and let to their shallow desires that bring no meaning to their existence.

    • @asal4622
      @asal4622 9 місяців тому

      I don’t want people to listen to this. That’s the point.

  • @stonew1927
    @stonew1927 4 роки тому +14

    I'm so grateful to have found this station. Thank you for creating art that reminds humanity of its soul . . .

  • @LuisofLosAngeles
    @LuisofLosAngeles 4 роки тому +45

    This narrator’s voice is perfect. I just heard him read an English translation of Neruda. Makes me feel poetry again.

    • @deweese9774
      @deweese9774 Рік тому

      Who is the narrator

    • @RadicalAntifa
      @RadicalAntifa Рік тому

      @@deweese9774 Tom O'Bedlam is the narrator here, I believe.

  • @chinmaybarik
    @chinmaybarik Рік тому +3

    This is mind-blowing.

  • @Frey808
    @Frey808 2 роки тому +2

    Bukowski is a treasure and more relevant than ever... like a shining diamond, like a knife, like a tiger, like hemlock, their finest art...

  • @adrianops7
    @adrianops7 5 років тому +255

    The music is on point - perfect video and editing.

    • @illneas
      @illneas  5 років тому +4

      Thank you, it means a lot

    • @ronin5614
      @ronin5614 5 років тому +12

      A bit loud though, it drowns out the narration at points

    • @gaylandbarney2231
      @gaylandbarney2231 5 років тому

      @@ronin5614 too "inspirational" for my taste..... trying too hard to convince one , not unlike a militarily band jerking you into an appearance of patriotism............AND too loud Coltrane maybe ?

    • @moris5262
      @moris5262 5 років тому

      illneas Whats is that music? Please

    • @badmudafucka4448
      @badmudafucka4448 4 роки тому

      @@illneas they´re lazy, its very good, my brother.

  • @rphanmurphy8385
    @rphanmurphy8385 4 роки тому +5

    His writing is so pure I love the words and how he stitches sentences together. Dirty old man

  • @sneharasheed8368
    @sneharasheed8368 3 роки тому +6

    The visuals and the verses come together so well!

  • @shiraq07
    @shiraq07 3 місяці тому +1

    “Not wanting solitude, not understanding solitude, they will attempt to destroy anything that differs from their own”. This one hits me. These empty people feed off others.

  • @catwoman7102
    @catwoman7102 5 років тому +99

    Not being able to love fully, they'll believe your love incomplete. And then they will hate you and their hatred will be perfect... 💔

    • @illneas
      @illneas  5 років тому +8

      Fav line

    • @rightway244
      @rightway244 4 роки тому +3

      I feel you, God loves you always, trust in God, the Source of all that is

    • @AmadeuShinChan
      @AmadeuShinChan 4 роки тому

      @@rightway244 [ for if in God you donot trust, it is Satan, whom you confide yourself to.
      Yet Bukowski says, that who preaches God, needs God. I guess, i'll have to go with the pain and take it from there, for it was said: "pain grows to thought, thought grows to wisdom and wisdom grows to maturity." D-W: Miller RIP]

    • @rightway244
      @rightway244 4 роки тому +1

      @@AmadeuShinChan Indeed wise words. But still, keep idea of God, because otherwise satan will find ways to get into your mind. Keep God aš your first priority, but still use your head in life.

    • @kephartacus5454
      @kephartacus5454 4 роки тому

      @@rightway244 beware the preachers

  • @draxthemsklonst
    @draxthemsklonst 4 роки тому +246

    There is enough treachery, hatred, violence, absurdity in the average human being to supply any given army, on any given day.
    And the best at murder are those who preach against it.
    And the best at hate are those who preach love.
    And the best at war, finally, are those who preach peace.
    Those who preach God, need God.
    Those who preach peace do not have peace.
    Those who preach peace do not have love.
    Beware the preachers.
    Beware the knowers.
    They're afraid of what they do not know.
    Beware those quick to praise, for they need praise in return.
    Beware those who seek constant crowds for they are nothing alone.
    Beware the average man, the average woman: beware their love, their love is average; seeks average.
    But there is genius in their hatred.
    There is enough genius in their hatred to kill you, to kill anybody.
    Not wanting solitude, not understanding solitude, they will attempt to destroy anything that differs from their own.
    Not being able to create art, they will not understand art.
    They will consider their failure as creators only as a failure of the world.
    Not being able to love fully, they will believe your love incomplete, and then they will hate you.
    And their hatred will be perfect: like a shining diamond, like a knife, like a mountain, like a tiger, like hemlock.
    Their finest art.

    • @djordjeroncevic4697
      @djordjeroncevic4697 3 роки тому +2

      So sweet

    • @matchuu-rang1690
      @matchuu-rang1690 3 роки тому +5

      Matthew,
      Many thanks for conscripting this post, much obliged.

    • @deepanshuverma9651
      @deepanshuverma9651 2 роки тому +2

      What is this poem or paragraph is about🤔

    • @sham74261
      @sham74261 2 роки тому +2

      @@deepanshuverma9651 people like u who wouldn’t understand

    • @pseudonymousbeing987
      @pseudonymousbeing987 2 роки тому

      @@sham74261
      Oh I that case it must be very shallow and unintelligent since it's subject matter is shallow and unintelligent.
      Still, I wonder what it means.

  • @johnpruett2255
    @johnpruett2255 3 місяці тому +2

    What a hauntingly beautiful video.

  • @charlestaylor8624
    @charlestaylor8624 8 місяців тому +2

    I have been reading Bukowsky since 1973. I have outlived him, being 80, and appeared in some of the outlaw lit mags he did, but have grown tired of his cynicism. 3:17

  • @cm8465
    @cm8465 4 роки тому +4

    This one hit me hard.. Bukowski's poetry with a narrator's voice is a whole other level.

  • @stephenoni2019
    @stephenoni2019 4 роки тому +165

    Philosophy like this appears to beg the question: should we then be weary of the person telling us to beware of the preachers, or the person who 'knows' that those who claim to know are afraid of what they do not know? Yet, there is value in the words presented here, still, the questions remain.

    • @primearttutorials
      @primearttutorials 4 роки тому +28

      koan
      : a paradoxical anecdote or riddle without a solution, used in Zen Buddhism to demonstrate the inadequacy of logical reasoning and provoke enlightenment.

    • @AlexanderMoen
      @AlexanderMoen 4 роки тому +22

      I don't think he's presenting a philosophy that needs logical rules and congruency so much as showing us another point of view to question the world.

    • @ziephk
      @ziephk 4 роки тому +13

      The only good comment. Sure what ever he’s saying applies to majority of what’s wrong but the right is an exception and that’s the intrinsic meaning of truth where all else are lies or deception or delusion. But he is eliminating truth itself by justifying it with being right 99% of the time that most things are wrong. Yes most preachers that preach different things are wrong, only one can be right! That’s just common sense. I fucking hate his sinister clever ass!! Lol it’s like let me walk you down this perfectly logical path that you can easily agree with then boom you just got shoved down the cliff on the left side right before reaching the door at the end. Saying “ go ahead jump, have I ever led you astray down that whole path?” I’m sure I’m not making the much sense since I’m typing this at work lol still I hope you see my point or at least what I meant

    • @paintedpony2935
      @paintedpony2935 4 роки тому +7

      Question everything.

    • @sarm9790
      @sarm9790 4 роки тому +7

      Listen to what is being said and not who is saying it.

  • @hlogiekwenaite5501
    @hlogiekwenaite5501 3 роки тому +1

    This video clip is loved beyond words by my soul .
    Thank you illneas

  • @chrissergeant7798
    @chrissergeant7798 3 роки тому +3

    This poem. Never more relevant than right this moment, right now.

  • @zacthompson784
    @zacthompson784 4 роки тому +19

    one of the most powerful and personally effecting poems i have ever heard. Unreal.

  • @robbiepeterh
    @robbiepeterh 4 роки тому +5

    Every word, every line is so precise and powerful.

  • @dandeliondreamer3365
    @dandeliondreamer3365 2 роки тому +6

    He’s just an amazing writer

  • @therealRaiSama
    @therealRaiSama 3 роки тому +8

    This gives me fucking chills down to the spine

  • @jacobstelter5912
    @jacobstelter5912 4 роки тому +9

    What beautiful music! Makes the poem hit a deeper level in my heart!

  • @Ferraday_
    @Ferraday_ 4 роки тому +17

    *This Man Was Ahead Of His Time*

  • @rupertgillies447
    @rupertgillies447 Рік тому +3

    This guy must have had heaps of friends and loving nurturing parents!

  • @gusfrr
    @gusfrr 3 роки тому +2

    the time of the music with the voice is perfect

    • @gusfrr
      @gusfrr Рік тому

      it's been 2 years and i still came to watch this masterpiece

  • @zetek5593
    @zetek5593 4 роки тому +15

    The music is killing it. PERFECTION!

  • @TA-ek8mz
    @TA-ek8mz 4 роки тому +7

    There are always to opposite ways to view things, always a yin yang, balance in each direction. There are no solid simple answers in this universe. ♥️🧘‍♀️🌈🌻 Love Love Love it. Thank you

  • @she-wolfshe-witch5237
    @she-wolfshe-witch5237 3 роки тому +11

    This poem is nothing but genius.
    But more genius is the perfect hatered of the comment section. Proves poem so perfectly.

  • @ampires1976
    @ampires1976 3 роки тому +13

    I'm in Love with the poem, the narrator, the music building momentum congratulations

  • @ons9977
    @ons9977 4 роки тому +18

    A masterpiece💕 I will never get enough of listening to it never ..

  • @vudu8ball
    @vudu8ball 4 роки тому +5

    Great to hear Tom OBedlam. A great voice, a fine video and Bukowski, makes for a very emotional experience.

  • @ricka.masaana1100
    @ricka.masaana1100 Місяць тому

    What a beautiful piece, so deep, so touching

  • @bryce7488
    @bryce7488 3 роки тому +2

    That background music though! Simply stunning!

  • @buddha1736
    @buddha1736 4 роки тому +85

    “Beware of those that love social media” 😉

    • @ARedMotorcycle
      @ARedMotorcycle 3 роки тому +5

      Brain dead selfie taking meme spreading dunces. I can do without them.

    • @twiston43
      @twiston43 3 роки тому +6

      @Greased Up Deaf Guy I actually hope it remains. It separates us from them.

    • @presslartzztocontinue3148
      @presslartzztocontinue3148 3 роки тому +1

      @@twiston43 couldn't of said it better myself

    • @khatharrmalkavian3306
      @khatharrmalkavian3306 2 роки тому +2

      God, the irony!

    • @CJVS995
      @CJVS995 Місяць тому

      For they have no social lives

  • @Dojasadi3458
    @Dojasadi3458 3 роки тому +4

    I love this narrator... He does great job in delivering the feelings of the poem

  • @FeelingIsHealing
    @FeelingIsHealing 3 роки тому

    Man, this edit was powerful! Thanks for sharing 🙏

  • @ibroclandistinovivacanadah9409
    @ibroclandistinovivacanadah9409 2 місяці тому

    When I'm sad I love to hear a voice Charles Bukowski

  • @hjtres7261
    @hjtres7261 5 років тому +10

    I love everything about this. Thank you 😊

    • @illneas
      @illneas  5 років тому +1

      Thank you :)

  • @-zerenity-2322
    @-zerenity-2322 4 роки тому +16

    This one was insane!!! I got shivers at the part when he was talking about people with average love, it made so much sense! You see it when you walk around in the streets, always looking for something more, and yet failing because their hatred is perfect

    • @annalisavajda252
      @annalisavajda252 9 місяців тому +1

      Yes like food they prefer some quick fix don't want to take the time to prepare anything healthier or tastier so if you give them a gourmet meal or quality relationship they won't appreciate it.

    • @-zerenity-2322
      @-zerenity-2322 9 місяців тому

      @@annalisavajda252 Yes! That is so true! :D

  • @johnheart6890
    @johnheart6890 2 роки тому

    Amazing in every way! Thank you so much!

  • @superharry1
    @superharry1 3 роки тому +1

    I only just discovered that you've edited the source material, but i like what you've done here better. 'Beware the knowers, they are afraid of what they do not know,' is far more striking and clear, and stood out for me when i first saw this (having also not read the full poem at the time).