Touch Grass: How the Internet Distorts Time
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- Опубліковано 14 жов 2024
- Going back to the roots, and discovering the metaphysical truths in the touch grass meme. A Meme Analysis that looks at the fairies, the I Ching, Aliens, and the occult, all to bring us back to nature, to see clearly into the changes of the seasons rather than how the internet distorts time around it. Memes Matter.
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Remember, after you touch grass, read my esoteric scrawlings: goddisk.substack.com
You mean read my religious book? No need to ask twice!
Was the scene of you holding energy drink of some kind and a cig a way of saying you are imperfect an so we are, or os it my trippie sober mind just doing its own thing
you should make another video on ai with all the current developments. people are getting completely lost interacting with bots and it is the dominant meme in 2023. it is really crazy the speed things are happening right now and the year of the rabbit just started. hope to see you being more active on youtube in general. oc is so rare those days and with mass produced personalized ai content will completely disappear.
Thof's invetion of knowlage preservation was pharmacon. Posion is the stolen experiance and distortion.
The reality that touching grass is a connection to a greater cycle than simply going outside once is very true. I experienced it once, when I moved away from my hometown in the southwest to a place with proper "four seasons" weather for university. Walking to school every day in snowy weather, and watching the seasons change incrementally had profound changes that have lasted within me ever since. I feel like this permanently ended the internet's ability to put me into a hypnosis. COVID unfortunately meant that I had to leave this place, but I will forever have the goal to return to it. Great video as ever, Chris!
I'll never forgive what those covid lockdown bastard did
It's not about touching grass - it won't change you. You won't feel any differently than you do wrapped in the web. The grass has to touch YOU.
Exactly, we have to learn to have the receptivity and humility towards the world, so that in turn it can gifts itself to us in profound ways. Just as Iain Mcgilchrist spoken about attention being something like a moral act, since the manner of which we chooses to attends to the world, changes it's manifestness in and through our perception. It's about time we put as much efforts as we can into freeing ourselves from the prison of fantasy and representations, and learn to be receptive of the dynamical, ever-changing beauty and possibilities that are unfolding in front of us.
I know its cliché, but this actually hits
God seeks us
I strongly disagree. Grass doesn´t give a goddgodddamn about you. You gotta aknowledge your part in the wheel. The prhase is correct as it is. That's why it became a meme.
@@noeldiaz5467 Grass does not need to give a "goddgoddamn" about you to touch you lol. Or maybe things don't touch you like they do with normal people;)
I have been a foraging enthusiast for 4 or 5 years, I remember saying to my wife about 2 years into my obsession: "I can really *feel* the seasons change now".
If you asked me "what time of year is it" 5 years ago my answer would be based entirely on the air temperature and what colour the leaves on the trees are. Now my answer would factor in so much more - the height of the sun in the sky, the way the light plays through the edges of the wood, the smell in the air, the presence of different types of fungi, the humidity, and a thousand other things that I don't even think about, I just feel it.
Sounds weird to normies, I remember remarking to a friend "I can smell spring is about to come" and they just looked at me like wtf
No that makes sense
You are badass
you're like Radagast from hobbit xd
touch computer
This is very weird to me. So I live in Norway, and the changing of the seasons is aggressively obvious here. A lot of it has to do with the position of the sun - in the winter, the days are very short, with the sun often setting around 4 or 5 pm. In the summer, the opposite is true - you'll find the sun still blasting away at 10 pm. Even further north, it doesn't set at all. In the areas of the country that are above the arctic circle they have one continuous day for six months, then one continuous night for the next six. Winter brings blasting arctic winds and deep snows, spring brings more light, more warmth, life. Each and every one of us carries with them a deep and abiding longing for winter to be over. If you were to say "I can feel spring coming" to people here, they would either nod approvingly and breathe a telling sigh of relief, or argue that you're wrong according to their own interpretations of the signs.
I always experienced my room as being a spaceship, I look at the walls and it feels like no time exists, it fueled my imagination. Two times a year I experience intense reminders of change, when I open my window and let the air in in spring or autumn. The air both of these is very distinct and always provide a wealth of feelings. The air of the first snowfall is also very distinct. Love your description.
the same 4 WALLS I see them everyday Lol. i always feel weird being in small rooms like a tiny bathroom or porta-potty cause it makes me think "where the hell am i" like really where am i out There lol... crazy world
@@CodCats This channel certainly attracts all kinds of unusual people.
When I was a kid, first learning to Astral Project without really knowing exactly what I was doing…my bed was my spaceship, my walls would lower down and I’d fly up on my bedship. There’s also a flying anthropomorphic bed in the wizard of oz, and everything about that story is such a truth drop…the bed can be the place where magical voyages take place…
If your area doesn't experience dramatic seasonal shifts, it may simply call for more careful attention! Even in here Cali I can observe subtle signs of transition- different bird species/migration patterns, different plumage or coats on fauna, different tidal shifts, the times of day when the mist descends, etc.
Go outside and search for signs, and you will find them! :) 🍃
Your repertoire for 2023 is getting back to the basics, and what better way than going back to the roots? A very informative and thought-provoking video as usual, Chris!
I rly fuckin need this channel
so real
"We don't see our leaves fall off, but they do."
Women actually do "see their leaves fall off" and it's an undeniably real experience because it's painful.
Throughout my life I've struggled with the fact that men are so much physically stronger than women, but I think the strength of a woman is the fact that we can't detach ourselves from nature. We feel the rythm of nature and time because it makes its presence known from within us.
I wonder if that's why men struggle more with being extremely online and develop that "internet personality"
When I was a kid I used to say stuff like "I can feel the earth turning" then I got online and now I cant find a reason to go outside. Dreams distort time as well, I was on intergalactic journey last night that turned out to be a game among friends. Also I felt the cigarette mirrored what you were saying about the flowers as opposed to the vape.
I've worked outside for the last 7 months or so. It's been life changing. It is hard to explain why. This video explains it pretty well. Great vid, thanks!
Very important video. To take the symbols a little further, I think that there are certain people that you meet online that are closer to the fairies or aliens than people of days old. That is, there are people online that are genuinely more at home online than they will ever be in real life. Genuine “fairies” are rare (lots of people who say that they are can be worked back into a more natural/human life) but I think probably exist. My question is this: are the fairies/aliens the “aeonic children”, or are they just a new kind of monster which resembles what an aeonic child would really be?
Excellent question, getting at the matter! I’ll be talking more on this soon. For now: open.substack.com/pub/goddisk/p/when-is-the-internet-thoughts-on?r=bcoaj&
Woah, yeah, you helped me to translate my thoughts and feelings into words, *thank you* !
Sometimes, when i spend huge amount of time doing same things over and over, i unintentionally go into "work automatically mode" (repetitive shit hypnotizes me) for couple of weeks and i do god knows what, from productive things to random useless bullshit and i barely understand what's going on during and after this mode, cuz i straight up don't feel the reality during those moments of my life, i don't feel how things change around me. After this phase is over, i find myself not understanding why i feel certain ways, why sometimes it's all great and im motivated or why it all is painted grey suddenly, even though there are real reasons behind those feeling - my actions during this "automatic work mode". Repetitiveness kills understanding of time, reality and reflection in your brain, that's for sure.
For ~3 years i was living like this : nothing fundamentally changes, life is "alright but idk", then i black out cuz of too much of repetitive shit i do and when i come back from it, i feel myself numb and clueless for some time, trying to figure out what's going on and then i kinda don't care cuz i have shit to do and then it repeats again with short windows of clarity. Last summer i took this window of clarity as opportunity and finally said "fuck it", left everything "important", packed up things and decided to work in Crimea on music festival. Oh yeah, and i live in Central Russia, near Nizhniy Novgorod city, so it's ~1400 km until the destination... so, just like that, i felt that i wanted to break free from all this "big-ish city life". Best decision of my life, honestly. The sudden change of everything was like a shock therapy for me... traveling on a train , seeing how nature drastically changes in a window, listening to unusual music, feeling actually burning sun, swimming in sea, having a different roof above my head, different bed, everything felt not static, I even started to feel the fucking air im breathing, damn, i even did hit on 3 beautiful girls, despite the fact that i've always been into hot guys hella more. That's how different it was. I didn't want to touch my phone for 30 days straight, cuz i was getting fuckton of dopamine literally from touching some unusual grass every day. Really, no internet or whatever was needed.
So just wanna say to someone who maybe reads it. Don't be scared of changes, i mean... universe literally consists of constant meaningful changes and we are a part of universe, so our lifes should be changing from time to time as well, or else we detach from universe.
Such a crazy synchronicity. I was ranting about this last night after I heard the guest on Timcast say “we touch the most grass” and it gave me an existential breakdown
What was the rant saying?
Even when I lived in Arizona which doesn't have the same 4 seasons, we still experience this change. There is a distinct monsoon season and then new life is given breath and you can see the plant life come back. It's a different kind of cycle.
Great video, i often have this duality of loving nature and also being absorbed in tech most of my time.
I made it an effort to go out, no music no audiobooks and no internet, just enjoying nature.
Taking a good time to actually proccess all we absorb.
As someone who went on a vacation to a country near the equator, it was pretty surreal to see so much water coming down in a matter of minutes but the pavement was nearly dry in a hour due to the heat. Only to sweat like a pig due to higher humidity.
i live in a country near the equator and that is my everyday normal. that's why im really jealous of people who get to experience the 4 seasons, i want to touch real snow for the first time :)
04:42 It's so interesting that the symbol for Heaven, as you said first, or Cosmic Order, as you said after, is such an earthly depiction of the disposition of things. Usually in other cultures (or at least in the West) Heaven is seen as opposite to Earth or above it, but in the symbol you drew the Sun was below everything else (although it is what you drew first) and the Person was above everything, like the eye in the panoptic. I'd say it's a very realistic, grounded and even humble way of putting things, where we admit that this is how the human eye reads the world around it and makes sense of it. Made me put things in perspective. Thanks.
I guess this explains why I was so hesitant to leave my childhood home. I'd lived there for many years but only late in my life did I start to appreciate the nearby forest, going for walks through it just about nearly every day and experiencing how it changes, notably how the mud would be dry and stable or wet and slippery or icy depending on the season and the weather whereas the town I was moving to was rigid and static. As much as I miss it, though, I am glad to be out of there because I'm not convinced that house was at all good for me, and even though a genuine wilderness isn't so accessible from my new home I am right on the shore and seeing how the tide may or may not change every day is as refreshing as the stiff sea breeze.
Great insights! Also so impressed by how you do all these in basically 1 take. I’m gonna touch some grass tomorrow
I remember being out in the woods on a clear night. I checked the weather earlier and it said it was going to rain but we could see the moon bright enough to light up the woods so I thought it'd be fine if I left my boots outside my tent to air out. The next morning I woke up and my boots were waterlogged.
That was touching grass.
good videos as always, man.
For a time I was a Christian minister, and it was a full time gig. Like, every waking hour kind of gig, and I spent so much time outside talking to people that I watched the position of Venus change in the morning and always knew what phase the moon was in. I watched the almond trees bloom in the farmland of California, rode my bike in the pouring rain, tasted the tap water in thousands of homes, watched youths turn into adults and leave to spread the word of God. I talked to people about their lives and watched people struggle to overcome addictions. Now I spend a frustrating amount of time online and have been disconnected from this meaningful struggle.
That's really beautiful.
God bless you brother. Keep up the work
thank you for the subtitles!! great work as always
Growing up, my family had an orange tree in our back yard. For me, it was a constant connection to the changing seasons, especially in Florida where the change can be quite mild. In Spring, the orange blossoms would bloom and fill the air with their aroma as the bees fluttered from flower to flower. Summer and Fall would see the production and maturation of the fruit until Winter came, bringing the bright oranges. It was a sad day when that tree died and we had to cut it down. But I will always remember the cycle.
I used to go for a walk nearly everyday across from my house. I knew that ravine so well that I delighted in the changing of the seasons. It's been years since I felt that connection.
you're doing a great service with these breakdowns.
"...you are wont to be hit with a 'touch grass'"
Theres no grass left whose touch could cure me of my afflictions
As someone who lives in a horribly planned "city" with pretty much no nature reserves or parks that aren't dead (due to surrounding urbanisation, I'm not mad at the seasons changing or anything) or littered with electricity boxes and sewage canals, I feel you.
Eat some grass then.
You get to touch the grass and be happy. I mean, it might really make you happy.
and cool channel, I'm 26 and haven't had a life for a while lol, but I remember the feeling of being in high school really feeling the life, going out all day and the changes throughout the year. now i'm "working from home" and taking care of my mom who's had fking covid for 9 months off work with exhaustion/malaise and life feels weird, the phases are all messed up, i try to go outside every day Lol
I could listen to you all day.
Do you have any audiobooks or something?
Yes! ua-cam.com/video/2qx1QmrUh2o/v-deo.html
@@MemeAnalysis already listened to that one. Maybe put out an audiobook for blood meridian :P
Podcasts are welcome as well.
thank you for being there men your philosophy has helped me a lot lately
Starting a Garden and eating the food that I grew has done so much for restoring my mental health.
After my disillusionment, I didn't know what to do. So I watched the Sun for a year, marked its travel north then south then north again along the spine of mountains where it set. Finally, I felt I truly understood where I am and had been this whole time.
The visual humor of cutting to him with a cigarette and energy drink in his hands pointing at a graveyard took me out.
Even though we never met, I feel like you upload a video about something I was thinking about in the same way. Keep them coming 🤝
I think you're the only one who's told me to become a normie and meant it for good.
Interesting point.
Never really realized that seasonal depression is normal
This was a great one. U really went into the zone.
Havent watched you in about 3 years, you lost a lot of weight my brotha lookin splendid
Whenever my head is all fucked up from the phone, I grab a big handful of grass and sniff as hard as I can, it’s like smelling salts
I’ve been looking forward to this video since you posted an image of it on your Substack!
Good clip. and an extremely good explaination of what alienation really means.
I think a smaller form of this is my bedroom window. A lot of the time the curtains are closed, shutting out reality to enjoy my games. But for the first time in what felt like a year I opened my curtains early one morning and was greeted by the warmth of the sun and the dew dusting the grass next door. It was a moment of picturesque nature that I had denied for the past year.
Needless to say I enjoy looking out windows a lot more now, bonus points for a nature scene.
Meme analysis I had a dream last night that you drew a picture in the sand! I’m having deja vu…
A Redbull and cigarette? A man with good taste. You tempt me at a late hour with your choice of pairing. cheers lol
"The Internet is a UFO" blew my mind. It is actually true. I don't have the words; it's perfect.
One has to try one's best to keep the UFO in low Earth orbit
This man is a Tzeentch follower. He praises change and magic
Some things he says are of a very subversive nature.
I’m going to go on a 1 year camping trip in the mountains cut off from the internet so that I can touch grass properly.
One of your most profound and beautiful videos yet
I chose to move back to live into the mountains last October because that is where I grew up. The nonstop bustle of urban life was legitimately driving me so insane that I didn't leave my home very often. Now I live in a house very remote from the nearest city with a neighborhood of people who like to keep to themselves, but share the lifestyle of the mountainous life with likeminded people. I quickly found out that people who live where I live are all here for the same reason, myself included. A profound desire to be closer to nature.
And closer we are. It is a BITCH to live in the mountains in a Northern country with summers as hot as in the desert and winters as cold as in Russia. It WON'T STOP SNOWING!. It is a bitch to live here and I love it. Nature is struggle. To choose to experience nature everyday is to be at the whims of its mood which is ever changing. It is to accept the hardship and cruelty of life that you find in every ecosystem. Nature is, in fact, very moody and cares very little about how you feel about it. If you gotta shovel snow for 3 days straight, you gotta shovel snow for 3 days straight. All of this, as you've said, is educational, empowering and energizing. To overcome the moods of nature is to feel like God in a way. When you survive one of nature's storms, you feel like nothing can destroy you and it gives courage to undertake difficult challenges. I started raising chickens. Already I had to put down some because of severe sickness. The only thing you can do is accept it. Facing death as a natural part of a life cycle is something you very commonly observe in nature. This is another very empowering lesson.
Great video to start the month.
Grass is a plant with narrow leaves growing from the base. A common kind of grass is used to cover the ground in a lawn and other places. Grass gets water from the roots in the ground. Grass is usually pigmented with the colour ‘green’. Grasses are monocotyledon, herbaceous plants.
The grasses include the "grass", of the family Poaceae (also called Gramineae). Also sometimes it is used to include the sedges (Cyperaceae) and the rushes (Juncaceae). These three families are not closely related but belong to different clades in the order Poales. They are similar adaptations to a common life-style.
The true grasses include cereals, bamboo and the grasses of lawns (turf) and grassland. Uses for graminoids include food (as grain, sprouted grain, shoots or rhizomes), drink (beer, whisky), pasture for livestock, thatching thatch, paper, fuel, clothing, insulation, construction, sports turf, basket weaving and many others.
Many grasses are short, but some grasses, like bamboo can grow very tall. Plants from the grass family can grow in many places, even if they are very cold or very dry. Several other plants that look similar but are not members of the grass family are also sometimes called grass; these include rushes, reeds, papyrus, and water chestnut.
Grasses are an important food for many animals, like deer, buffalo, cattle, mice, grasshoppers, caterpillars, and many other grazers. Unlike other plants, grasses grow from the bottom, so when animals eat grass they usually do not destroy the part that grows. Without grass, dirt can wash away into rivers (erosion). Graminoids include some of the most versatile plant life-forms. They became widespread toward the end of the Cretaceous. Fossilized dinosaur dung (coprolites) have been found containing grass phytoliths (silica stones inside grass leaves). Grasses have adapted to conditions in lush rain forests, dry deserts, cold mountains and even intertidal habitats, and are now the most widespread plant type. Grass is a valuable source of food and energy for many animals.Lawn grass is often planted on sports fields and in the area around a building. Sometimes chemicals and water is used to help lawns to grow.
People have used grasses for a long time. People eat parts of grasses. Corn, wheat, barley, oats, rice and millet are cereals, common grains whose seeds are used for food and to make alcohol such as beer.
Sugar comes from sugar cane, which is also a plant in the grass family. People have grown grasses as food for farm animals for about 4,000 years. People use bamboo to build houses, fences, furniture and other things. Grass plants can also be used as fuel, to cover roofs, and to weave baskets. n English, the word "grass" appears in several phrases. For example: "The grass is always greener on the other side" means "people are never happy with what they have and want something else." "Don't let the grass grow under your feet" means "Do something". "A snake in the grass" is about a person that will not be honest and will trick others.
Grass is sometimes used as a slang term for cannabis (also called pot, weed, or marijuana) The Grass type (Japanese: くさタイプ Grass type) is one of the eighteen types. Prior to changes in Generation IV, all damaging Grass-type moves were special, but they may now also be physical depending on the attack. Grass-type Pokémon are immune to Leech Seed. Grass-type Pokémon are immune to Leech Seed Starting in Generation VI, Grass-type Pokémon are immune to powder and spore moves and Effect Spore.Grass types are tied with Rock in having the most weaknesses out of all types with five. Since Generation I, a particular asset of Grass types is being the only type that is immune to Leech Seed. As of Generation VI, Grass-type Pokémon are also immune to powder and spore moves, such as Sleep Powder and Stun Spore. Additionally, Grass Pokémon are the only ones affected by Rototiller and Flower Shield. Those moves raise both attack stats or the physical Defense stat, respectively, when used. Forest's Curse adds the Grass type to the target's types. Grass-type attacks are resisted by seven types, so they're tied with Bug as the most resisted type. Those resistant types are best covered by Rock and Ground. As of Generation VI, Dark and Ghost have neutral matchups against every type that resists Grass. When Grassy Terrain is in the effect, the power of Grass-type moves is increased by 30% (50% prior to Generation VIII) if the user is on the ground.
Contest properties In contests, Grass-type moves are typically Clever moves, but can also be any of the other four contest conditions. As of Generation VIII, there are 112 Grass-type Pokémon or 12.27% of all Pokémon (counting those that are Grass-type in at least one of their forms), making it the third most common type after Normal and before Flying.
A Pokémon with Protean or Libero will become a Grass-type Pokémon if it uses a Grass-type move. A Pokémon with Color Change, Imposter, Mimicry, RKS System, or Multitype will become a Grass-type Pokémon if (respectively) it is hit with a Grass-type move, is sent out against a Grass-type opponent, if the terrain is grassy, if it is holding a Grass Memory, or if it is holding a Meadow Plate or Grassium Z. Since Generation VI, Grass-type Pokémon are also immune to Effect Spore; Only Grass-type Pokémon can have these Abilities. This does not include signature Abilities.Due to the decreased amount of types in the TCG, Grass generally adopts all Bug-type Pokémon under its typing. It also adopted Poison-type Pokémon prior to the Diamond & Pearl set, after which they were moved to Psychic. Similar to the games, Grass-type Pokémon in the TCG are generally weak to Fire and resist Water.
Grass-type Pokémon are strong against Fighting and Water Pokémon, whilst Metal Pokémon resisted it until the EX Power Keepers expansion set. Generation V introduced the most Grass-type Pokémon of any generation, with 21 (including Rotom's Mow form), and Generation VI introduced the fewest Grass-type Pokémon, with nine. Generation I introduced the most Grass-type moves of any generation, with 10, and Generation II introduced the fewest Grass-type moves, with three.
The Grass type and/or Pokémon of the type have been referred to using the term "plant" instead on some occasions: In the English Generation I games, the Gym guide in Cerulean Gym refers to Pokémon of the Grass type as "plant Pokémon". In the English versions of Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen, he instead mentions "Grass-type Pokémon". In the Japanese versions of the Generation I games and FireRed and LeafGreen, he mentions the Grass type itself, calling it the "Plant type" (Japanese: しょくぶつタイプ). Another reference to "plant Pokémon" (Japanese: しょくぶつポケモン) is made by Professor Oak in the Japanese Pokémon Red, Green, and Blue, and international Pokémon Red and Blue, classifying Bulbasaur as such when the player is about to choose it as their starter. This is also the case in the Japanese versions of Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen; in contrast, he calls it the "grass Pokémon" in the English versions. This same reference is also used in the first episode of Pokémon Origins.
In multiple languages, such as French and German, the Grass type is translated as the Plant type. The Turkish dub of the anime occasionally refers to "Grass type" as "Plant type". The Grass type has the most Pokémon that evolve by Evolution stones, with a total of 11. It is also the type that can utilize the most stones, having at least one Pokémon that can evolve via the Leaf Stone, Sun Stone, Water Stone, and Shiny Stone.The Grass type is the only type to have more than one HP-draining move, having five of them. Grass-type attacks deal doubly super-effective damage to the most Pokémon of all types. Grass-type attacks are super effective against the three types that Fire types are weak to. Fire is the only type that hasn't been paired with Grass. In Tree's a Crowd, Brock states that Grass-type Pokémon resist Electric-type moves due to being able to diffuse the electricity into trees and the ground. He also explains that if Grass types are in the air, they cannot diffuse the electricity from Electric attacks, thereby dealing normally effective damage.
Now that you have read this much about grass, maybe you should go and touch some...
Touch grass.
Touch sand.
Touch leaves.
Touch snow.
Makes me think of how the white witch keeps Narnia forever in winter, separating it's inhabitants from the changing of seasons
Don’t touch, feel, feel the change, feel the passage of time, be part of the passage, experience the passage.
Meme Analysis going full Peater with the ciggy and redbull.
5:30 softened almost into melody by the distance
There is also a song called 'Springtime Promises', by the (amazing) folk band Pentangle, and its lyrics perfectly capture the message of this video. The song's lyrics follow up to the changing seasons magnificently, I highly recommend that everyone who liked this video go look up the song
Imagine using one word to represent both groupings of TV shows and also the cascade of events stemming from the cyclical shifting of the celestial bodies.
As Saint Bowie once said, "turn and face the strange."
Also what's your brand of smokes, Frater Gabriel?
American Spirit Yellows
A man of taste. Mine was the Perique blend by the same.
Even though the internet offers a world outside of time, it does seem to have a very real impact on the chronology we are experiencing as a species.
In their book, The Fourth Turning, the authors Strauss and Howe propose an explanation for the ups and downs of Anglo-American history that relies on an archetypical progression through four seasons (turnings) that last between 20-25 years, and cycle every 80-100 years.
While each of these turnings is metaphorically likened to the annual cycling of the more temperate latitudes of Earth, the change in the societal seasons arises through the interaction of each generational archetype existing at a certain age, and therefore, phase in their individual lives.
In terribly brief synopsis, the first turning (spring), is marked by national 'highs' that see a boom generation born into all the materialism and central authority that helped organize the society through the preceding winter, but the hardened leadership is spiritually vapid.
As the boom generation grows to young adulthood, they seek to overthrow the 'man,' and effect an awakening, which turns the society to its summer season. All the while, the focus on the individual and on autonomy births a new generation of latchkey children who grow up fending for themselves, largely seen as an inconvenience or burden by their enlightened parents, who are just waiting to fix all the problems they see with the world.
The third turning (fall) arrives as each generation ages into their new roles, and all the enlightened folk start to command the wheels of power in government and society. Unfortunately, they have no centrally-unifying problem to rally around, and so the society starts to unravel as factions try to pull more and more of the resources toward their disparate causes. The children born at this chaotic time are now seen as beings worthy of protection and nurturing, and so are raised in a way that inflates their self-worth and puts them on lots of teams and in organizations that train them in having a common goal.
The final generational cycle, the fourth turning, is the winter of the society, and it is only overcome when all of the unravelling threads of the social fabric become firmly bound by a unifying crisis (a "generation-defining crisis," as it were) that brings all the factions together to address it and find the solution. This is usually a very materialistic solution that vests more power and authority back in 'the man,' and kicks the cycle back off.
When the authors wrote their book in the late '90's, they envisioned many of the crises that have befallen our society, and they indicated that any one of them could be the unifying crisis.
Unfortunately for any would-be opportunist looking to be at the center of the unification, a generational defining crisis is only as good as the stories that are told about it, and when the internet allows so many stories to propagate, we end up suspending social time in this bizarre world of paralysis by analysis, while a veritable train of "once in a generation" problems come and go with no unification in sight.
It seems as if the internet itself has paused our society's ability to unify around a crisis because the narratives are developed in the echoey conclaves of opposing factions, who will pull the social fabric to pieces if it means preventing their rivals from unifying it around the "enemy's" cause.
What exactly this means for the end of this fourth turning is unclear, but whatever crisis it ends up being, it must be expansive enough to unify not just the actions of the majority in the physical world, but all the narratives within the digital psyche.
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As an addendum, more traditional societies that have more robust ceremonies to transition the members through the seasons of their individual lives do not seem to have these larger social climactic swings. It is interesting to note, too, that these types of societies exist most frequently in the equatorial band of the earth, where climactic swings are not nearly as pronounced (on average) as further north/south.
I came here from a youtube comment telling me to touch grass, I think I will buy binoculars and start watching clouds everyday
I dig the new logo!
That's right. Bit patterns do not (usually) change, the world does.
my guy just commodified infinity
I honestly know how saying touch grass is a way to also tell someone to go outside since I already knew the meaning of touch grass when I first hear the saying
On the internet.
Thanks. i kept seeing it and it felt like such a low level burn, I was missing something.
you need to make more vids again my mans. please. we need you. but i understand youre touching grass atm and I can respect that.
I planted some pet grass yesterday in a flowerpot for my kitties to munch. Once they sprout, I will have to stroke the blades as much as possible before they are chomped down. I might have to plant several pots with pet grass (oats; Avena sativa) to satisfy all our needs.
Learn to laugh, learn to breathe, learn to feel the now. Even in the dessert of Nevada, where nothing else matters, you can feel yourself hum with everything around.
This guy is good a trolling, his camera man can hold his laughter.
Do you like Alan Moore or Terence McKenna? Your channel is excellent, you communicate these things and make analogies to magic as well as those two. We’re all loving it, don’t ever stop
Gonna start bleaching ideograms onto people’s lawns, thanks for the idea
that last scene with the redbull and cigarette.... hes just like me
The older I get the more I realize the seasons occur in the microcosm of my self but more importantly my Self.
Every day I take an altitude sighting of the Sun with an astrolabe, and every day the Zodiacal wheel on it moves slightly forward.
There's this odd sense of time slipping into nothing when a new sign is entered. Where I live, light pollution is too intense to see most stars, let alone constellations, but I can usually calculate where the Zodiac signs would be in the sky if I could see them.
Why touch grass when you could touch the Cosmos itself?
God dang i didn't recognize him he is so Slim :0 looking good My Man
Holy sh*t. When i had walked today's morning to take a uni exam i was thinking i need to touch grass later.
Meme guy's become a magician or something...
I actually do remember experiencing spring as a special moment in the year when the sun showers my skin in warmth and I smell a difference in the air. I remember it as an entirely separate sensation.
Nowadays I'm happy to not feel too much. Heute ist mir nichts schon viel zu viel.
I find it interesting I started my study of the I ching right around the same time as you without being aware you even were studying it. Do you have an opinion of coins over yarrow stalks? I've seen you use coins before but I find it nearly impossible to fall into the rhythm/trance required for proper divination (at least for me) if I do not count the yarrow. Do you meditate or do any activities before coin tossing to allow yourself to become open to the cycles of the iching? Also have you played Go/Baduk ever? I find the skills I have learned from my time studying that game have benefited my pursuits into the arcane tremendously.
Great to see meme analysis going back to the forest
Me? Nature is nature, it’s just another place, outside isn’t outside as You are always inside something, this knowledge is something that effects Me.
Then touch grass outside of the house, inside the universe?
When you said "Turn on", I thought you were gonna go "Turn on, Tune in, Drop out" lol
What a pleasant scenery
Other than the god bits this is nice musings... liminal spaces and time. Cheers
I like to think they’re talking about the other grass 🚬
there is a korean film i think you will enjoy that suits this perfectly its "spring summer fall winter and spring"
Ever since i color blinded my phone to black and white. I have not been on the phone for entertaiment
Winter is here again, oh lord
Haven't been home in a year or more
I hope she holds on a little longer
Sent a letter on a long summer day
Made of silver, not of clay
I've been runnin' down this dusty road
Wheel in the sky keeps on turnin'
I don't know where I'll be tomorrow
Wheel in the sky keeps on turnin'
I've been trying to make it home
Got to make it before too long
I can't take this very much longer
I'm stranded in the sleet and rain
Don't think I'm ever gonna make it home again
The mornin' sun is risin'
It's kissin the day
Oh the wheel in the sky keeps on turnin'
I don't' know where I'll be tomorrow
Ooo the wheel in the sky keeps on turnin'
About the seasonal change and people who don't have it, I don't think seasons are the only cycle, and exposing oneself to the sun and to nature that grows and dies can have the same effect. Now it's probably easier with seasons when you have a modern life disconnected from nature.
great sermon
Will you analyze the "It's over" and "We're back" cycle?
Thinking about that one
@@MemeAnalysis thank you.
Just as nature is cyclical, so are we cyclical. You die, you are reborn.
This channel and dumbsville fall in the same category. They both talk about a topic, whilst showing memes on screen for a short period of time
I actually found out this year that it is incredibly difficult to earth or ground during the winter, maybe even more so than taking a cold shower! And I ain't even a pisces.
Great video! I was wondering how one could experience seasons even when an out of country vacation is impossible? I live in a tropical country and we only have two seasons- summer and rainy. Although we have no winter, I think I have seasonal depression on rainy days, but sometimes it can get very peaceful, too.
I miss you chris pontius
hey memeanalysis. your video made me think of climate change. the timeless, mutating qualities of our world-culture bleed into the real world. winter heatwaves and summer snow. the numb, dull semi awareness.
what could be the purpose of a magician in these interesting times? sometimes i feel that we are at the mercy of the whims of greater entities. but unlike the homeric age, we lack heroes.
idk