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  • nuff said

  • This video feels like it says a lot without saying anything at all.

  • @seeget I see your point. I do have a tendency to jump to conclusions, and I did certainly enjoy a new perspective. Thank you.

  • thank you! regarding your remark that violence has been decreasing over time (with certain exceptions) - as foucault pointed out, our violences do not decrease, they just take on different forms. so, in fact, "person-to-person violence" might have decreased in general, but violence and suffering (through poverty, war, incarceration, debt, inadequate healthcare, decreasing protection of labor etc.) has only increased. i am not as sure as you that we are wired to be empathic. i hope i'm wrong.

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  • Beautiful end word.

  • the animation reminds me of subnormality

  • Are there other organizations like the RSA?

  • I think the hand with the marker is erasing the pictures from the dry-erase board, rather than drawing them (and then they play the tape in reverse). That would explain the flawless progression, and the fact that one marker is able to draw, in one sweep, lines that are both thick and thin.

  • These are all NWO propaganda, but they're super awesome

  • @DrBentastic We must think of humanity and the greater whole, unless we are the bankers/rulers of society.

    We must also abandon the pesky ideas of freedom and liberty.

  • @TheSelfGoverned You're either brilliant or insane. I like that.

  • Fantastic video.

    These would make excellent short films for schools.

    Well spoken & great creative art to help the message sink in.

    At the age of 9 I had a teacher named Mr Boggis. He encouraged us children to stand up in class & make-up stories. Why do I remember? Because it was the moment I became a creative soul. I took interest in nature, creatures, architecture, people & all as a result of the stories we as children shared with each other. It was PURE fun & food for thought.

  • Great!

    

  • Powerful.

  • my mind: blown away

  • The duration of this video is 11:10, 11+10=21 => 21st century!

  • one man cannot change the world... sorry...

  • @MandosMady Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has. - Margaret Mead

  • @MandosMady What about the guy that shot JFK? Or the guy that dropped the A-bomb on Japan? Or Ghandi? or Osama bin Laden? or Columbus? or Martin Luther?

    It is easy to change the world, I guess we all do it all the time :)

  • All this was possible after a man sat too long in the shower thinking about life

    True story~

  • a small group is the only thing that ever has. how true. For part 2: you should talk about the Illuminati and Jesuits.

  • Religious debate... BEGIN NOW.

  • people are not fundamentally different...we eat, sleep strive for some kind of satisfaction in life...granted there are levels to this. They are however not fundamentally different. There are differences in belief and culture however whatever these are these same people eat, sleep, make love have affection for family - these things do not change except under perverse circumstance at which point this proves the rule rather than visa versa...

  • We cannot come to see who we are as human beings because several groups or types of people are fundamnetally different. The individual is as, if not, more important than the group, as it is the individual in the end who makes the group.

  • "Centrality of Economics in Politics" is an error. The enlightenment abandoned these ideas with Adam Smith's work on free markets and free trade and Locke on property rights.

  • Amazing!! You just blew my mind!! Very well done! Brilliant idea for a Youtube channel!

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  • More lefties trying to convince us that the key to success and happiness is to hold hands around the campfire and sing kumbaya. *rolls eyes*

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  • I think the reason we cannot actually think and advance to the so called "21st century thinking" is because our schools and education system is so FLAWED. The whole school system was built in the 17th and 18th century and it has not changed since then! Imagine if you were still using some piece of technology from that time, you would be at a huge disadvantage in today society. That is what we face, a huge disadvantage since our education system is completely ancient.

  • @refik13203 That's why I do most of my learning on wikipedia about things that actually interest me. The information that sticks and is utilized in the brain is the information that is most relevant to the self.

  • @refik13203 the majority of systems around us are obsolete! the problems the world is facing are a result of a systems failure which we created so we must re-evaluate them and address the problems.

  • @Nahasapeemapetilon93 yea and people wonder why there are so many problems in the world, everything is obsolete. We are AFRAID of change, and only make change when it is absolutely necessary, which usually ends up being too late.

  • @refik13203 word to that. people say "i hate my life" well of course you do you're too scared to change it!

  • @refik13203 Yes, and to think that many states in America want to teach creationism alongside evolution in science classes ! How can a society progress when it continues to insist on imposing biblical view points in its schools? Are you listening Texas and the bible belt?

  • @refik13203 no its the fact that it changed that it is flawed. the idea of standard education, which is new, will educate everyone the same way is wrong. students feel that they only need to learn this much and the teachers only have to teach this much. teachers and students used to connect with eachother and students learned so much more about life and hard work. because you learned from the same people while teaching your younger class mates. schools are flawed yes, but not bc they are old.

  • @refik13203 If you haven't already, check out Sir Ken Robinsons speeches at TED.. Very interesting and extremely funny..

  • @refik13203 One man does not need education to become emphatic. You are either stupid or chained in cliches or something other more mysterious - academic education system has nothing to do with this, unless, you count meditation and gaining self and other awareness as 'education'.

  • Hello RSAnimate we enjoy your productions, your ideas and your animated style of exhibition. We encourage and appreciate those projecting their ideas through their own CREATIVITY. Please check out VIMRadio.com our show is called That's My Word 3D Show. Its LIVE 6pm PST WEEKDAYS. STREAMS archived shows 24 hours a day. God Bless. Anxious to hear from YOU.

  • He might very well scribble, "And this same lecture given in anything other than a British accent would lose its intellectual 'pizazz.'"

  • I think this is an interesting topic, and certainly a thought provoking one. I disagree however, that morality sides with a collectivist mindset, as opposed to an individualist one. It seems as though the author thinks there is only one form of true progress, equalization, and that the pursuit of liberty is a regression, rather than a worthy end in itself. I will, however, admit this is the first of his presentations I have seen, and am thus not certain of his true beliefs.

  • @cwill0122 : Not only did he not say so, he actually cautioned you against misinterpreting his ideas in this way. He is talking about drawing ethics from ideas of humanism, rather than relying solely on the orthodoxies of science, market and bureaucracy.

  • You missed the hole into the hollow earth where this idiot believes the reptilians are hiding. (as told to him by spirits who communicate with him because he's Jesus reincarnated)

  • David Icke = deluded scammer.

    That simple.

  • The main problem is complacency, people as well as governments and corporations could know that things need changing, but they procrastinate and dont do a thing to change anything unless the absolutely have to. Plus as stated in and earlier presentation, the way that people are being educated to trust your knowledge on what they tell you, give the powers to be the ability to fool a great majority of ciitizens into thinking that they shoudnt change the way of thinking, theres only our way.

  • This is kind of like a plea for a Brave New World-ish technocracy. Closest thing I can think of.

    Yeah I'm all for that.

  • If the writing preceded the speaking instead of the other way around, and the video was slowed down just a bit, I think I'd have a much easier time following it.

  • @tehalynn You can listen you know, and still understand.

  • @tehalynn practice thinking faster?! idk it works for me. i register in my minds eye what hes saying as he says it, and after he finishes the word, i finish my mental picture (which is influenced by the drawings) the actual cartoon is done drawing. solidifying the concept mentally, auditorily, and finally visually.

  • @tehalynn Really???? You STILL can't follow it?!?!? They are drawing PICTURES of what he's saying, and you STILL can't keep up. Unbelievable.

  • It is time to reevaluate where we need to go to achieve happiness.

  • i've been thinking about this for a while too...great to see that others are thinking the same

  • this video is 11:10 only one second off to 11:11 is this on purpose, i too am a 11 11 freak

  • Wow, i had similar theories before, and i cant tell you how much i aggree with this, and how happy this makes me.

  • 7.49

    pUrsue, not pErsue

    muhahaha my first troll!

  • Anyone knows how these are made? By hand on a whiteboard or through some kind of program? Would love to do presentations and pitches like this!

  • I am amazed to see all these men.Not against men-just think something is lacking in his understanding of the world as we know it today.If we let the notion of motherhood be freed from belonging to women who have given birth and extend it to fathers teachers owners of factories politicians,and let this notion become a guide in decision making.Then maybe we would have more sustainability,more empathy and a great change in consciousness!

    After all we call her Mother Earth

  • @herrmamma We’ve had some decades of your line of thought. It still seems that when women do get into power there is really little difference. Yes, you do get some gains in things like child-care, sexual equality, and the like -- this is simply the self-interest of different goals. The idea that women are these completely peaceful, nurturing, and social creatures, seems belied by how many fully support conservative causes and candidates.

  • Interesting, but not as world-changing as many here seem to think.

    I can see an obvious problem: how does one measure "self-awareness" and "empathy"? Marks out of 10??

  • @the81kid Why does it need to be measured ?

  • @ryan84160

    How do you know if you are "self-aware" enough?

  • @the81kid Why does it matter? If I advocate the people ought to be more empathetic, why do I need a measurement to see how empathetic people are? I really have no idea what you are trying to get at.

  • @ryan84160

    How do you know if they are or aren't self-aware then??

    If you can't measure temperature, how do you know if it's hot or cold.

    I have no idea why you're confused!

  • @the81kid "If you can't measure temperature, how do you know if it's hot or cold." Really? I am pretty sure we could tell the difference between hot and cold long before we had any was of measuring it.

    If I say that the world we be a better place if people were more empathetic.It is nothing more than a suggestion. It makes no difference if we can measure empathy.

  • @ryan84160

    well i agree with being more empathic.

  • @the81kid Good.

  • its all "head the ball" to me

  • we need this... NOW!

  • knowing what his purpose in creating us is and why he permits wickedness and what his purpose ultimatly is. it means living as he intended, he knows what we need to be happy. psalms 37, rev 21:3-4 gives a glimpse of what his purpose is.

  • I think what yoru driving at is that a godless(many claim to love god but show by the works they do not know him) self interest attitude has not achieved a utopia on earth. marx thought a materialistic non god society would achieve utopia. maybe nut shell it as love God first and foremost and love your neighbor as yourself, and realize man cannot judge moral values without guidance from our creator. jere 10:23 instead happiness is recognizing spirtual need, loving righteouness (gods standards)

  • Translation: "Let's consider marxism or anarchism."

  • @TheForwardGaze translation: I didn't understand the talk

  • @TheForwardGaze DUDE marxism was a prophecy that is being slowly fulfilled. Open your eyes.

  • Upvote if you also cringed when you saw the its/it's misspelling in the video.

  • Please run for president of the world

  • I'm 14 and English is my second language. so umm o-o maybe it was just beacause in my head I have to actually translate what he says which is why it took nearly an hour to actually fully understand this video. But, I didn't regret spending that whole hour on this vid :) very useful teachings (and yes, my first time watching a vid from this channel)

  • Michel Foucault is one of my favorite philosophers...this was simply awesome.

  • YES YES YES, People are too rapped up in there own world, But your so right.

    Peace*

  • we need globalization and deframentation of our opinions and cultures and move on to a bright new intelligent future.

  • Globalization IS the problem.

  • Globalization is the problem.

  • @deutschbuch30 nope ... it's not .

  • Dearest peeps,it is most simple to put it that one thing is not,but still needs arguments of why it is not,else whole oppinion is refuted due to insufficient argumentation.

  • @deutschbuch30

    Globalization is inevitable.

  • @adm491 no it's not

  • Hes using copic texters, they are not meant to be wasted on a whiteboard

  • Nice video, really intersting! I had just one problem, cause even if my english is quite good, I cannot follow you at this speed! Please slow down a bit your video! The world is made of people from many country! :-)

  • Margaret Mead? Pseudo-Intellect here, stick with drawing

  • its difficult to follow if your English isnt top notch -_-

  • This is worth checking out:

    liberationunleashed(dot)com/na­tion/index.php

  • I totally agree and want to be a part of this, but how can I do that if I still want to put food on my plate?

  • Peace!

  • Damm, haribo687 deleted his comment :( now I really want to know what he said...

  • Thanks, you put into words that which I have always felt but not had the ability to express.

    Peace & Love to all :-)

  • This is beautiful ;__;. Something I always try to say but can't because my English isn't good enough.

  • Is Postmodernism dead yet?

  • This video is giving someone from a different culture like an Turk(me) living in the west. A better understanding of how the western society has been progressing on which basis and why. Finally I can see a fine image comming why to western society is in such a situation described

  • At 36yrs of age,tisnt easy to make friends(Particularly if Married ;),..but of all those BS years since Youth to Now of visiting Family & Friends,....ALL that BS where we move our jaws up&down with sound & talk nonsence,...WAS ALL CONDENCED !N TH!S L!TTLE CL!P!!!......Thx!(5martAss :)

  • All this video tells me is that the human race has become disgustingly overcomplecated and undesirable....

  • Okay how do they draw this? I doubt the actual auhtor is that good. Perhaps an artist?

  • @kibyegon I do believe that the RSA Animate is the artistic aspect and the authors are speaking. :)

  • wow!!! Great drawings, I consider myself a good drawer at times but Wow its soo damn good.

  • There seems to be two forms of globalization. There seems to be happy globalization and then real globalization. In real globalization the only winners seem to be the 2 percent wealthy and corporate interests. Everyone in the first and third world all seem to be damaged by it. It doesn't seem to promote real a lot of happiness for those living with in it except the stockholders and at times not even them. When we were less global we seemed to be happier. Just saying.

  • @eotto2001 That's probably due to a greater scene of community which was an integral part of the local community based economy or vice versa.

  • @eotto2001

    That's a bit short-sighted. These are growing pains, so of course cultures who are being exposed to each other for the first time in history (through global media like The Internet) are going to feel overwhelmed by the vast amount of information they get regarding the happenings of the world. Taylor addresses this notion at around 5:25, stating that it results from failed policy-making on the parts of infighting politicians who are unable to balance their imperatives.

  • cont.

    However, I also believe that it results from the failure of citizens to show interest in objectivity, efficiency, knowledge, and stability, and their tendency to believe what's comfortable, rather than what's right.

  • This guy sounds so much like hugh Laurie

  • I got addicted to those films. Im 17 and i think schools should present those even though im not sure my classmates would appreciate it...

  • Let's give it up for the RSA and the GSA and the Old Dirty Bastard!

  • @CigaretteSmokingGuy Out of topic but yes Funny

  • @CigaretteSmokingGuy Lol... LOL...

  • Mind = BLOWN

  • It seems to me there is a massive loss of meaning in transferring and exchange today which would be the lack of education development and research.

    Our languages are packed full of error as well!

  • Education has become a cliche as the most valuable resource in the global economy? I think "Empathic Capacity" is a part of education.

    You cant really base the power of education on the crap we call an education system today. Knowledge, Wisdom, Enlightenment, Understanding, Experience, and the methods of transferring them to one another is all education! If education is not the most valuable resource to us all ... Please educate me on the matter!

  • Utter Bs on the civil rights piece-more blacks in prison now than even were in entire history of slavery. Civil rights are for the elite

  • zeitgeist: moving forward

  • @focista6 Agreed.

  • wow.. amazingly true. I think about this stuff all the time, naturally, so it's so interesting to hear researched information on the topic

  • This is a money world... unluckily we can't live otherwise. Consumerism make us look the other way. We don't look for a solution of the world problems, we don't look for a sustainable civilization. We look to survive in our own society, instead of trying to help the society survive itself. The elimination of money as a need for civilizations to "balance" would help us eliminate consumerism, and focus on what really matters... and would help ecology too.

  • 2:58

    that's how i got fat when i was young. took forever to lose that weight. >_>

  • 7:42... right there. if you learn anything from this video, make it that.

  • @haribo687 Of the videos I have seen, this one is just especially fast.

  • can you guys add subtitles, cause its killing me to listen to them as they speak so fast with big words

  • If we were able to do everything that he said in the video, we'd become perfect beings. We'd become a super-race. It's what we're doing wrong and what we did wrong that makes us human beings.

    Brilliant video :)

  • TRUE ENLIGHTENMENT is a wanting to be a part of human physical existence without being enlightened except when called upon to help human kind. We are coming up to a funny time period in human history; this will bring the true enlightened, (sleepers), and charlatans out. Sleepers are of the young and old, some without knowing it. We have all a need to become enlightened to some degree; some will have to make the sacrifice to become more enlightened.

  • You probably know a sleeper or you might be one yourself without knowing it yet. True enlightenment is the acceptance of all, nonjudgmental. I, myself, enjoy being ignorant of my inner self, I truly enjoy being humanistic but because I am aware I know not to hurt others, if possible.

  • The "Enlightenment" has not ended, it may only have begun. Most people in the West are still not enlightened very much, and the rest of the world just barely. Prosperity is happiness due to the alleviation of drudgery and uncertainty it provides. The farmer in India pushing the plow wants a tractor because he knows for certain it will make him more prosperous and life more enjoyable. Millions of Indians have pursued at least some prosperity and they all like it - they are enlightening.

  • All life, including human life, is a zero-sum game, meaning their are winners and losers - I suspect this is coded for in the elemental atoms themselves. But anyway, this vid is just another example of RSA propaganda. The elites want to soothe their tortured consciences and impoverish the affluent West in favor of poor nations, while of course paying themselves well and holding power. Like I said, it's a zero-sum game.

  • @rh001YT That is not true at all! There are many situations where BOTH sides win. If a rich person buys a boat it benefits the people who MADE the boat too who are paid. He does not TAKE the boat from someone else. Your zero sum game theory is wholly without merit and demonstrably false. So false in fact, that you have to completely ignore the last 50 years of economic history in order to have that theory.

  • @Gaius8666a Thanks for the reply (but spare me the swashbuckling lingo "wholly without merit & demonstrably false". Perhaps I should have said that life is played as a zero-sum game, but as there are many players, the various matches come out win, lose, draw. As per your example, imagine the boat seller has to sell the boat at a loss - how often does the buyer say, "Dear, dear, let me pay you what you paid plus you're desired markup". A very few holy men & women don't play the game.

  • Socialists are for tyranny and capitalists are for liberty.

  • @LibTyrMatrix2011 This is a very primitive and simplistic view of politics. If you talk about comunism, indeed, repression and tyranny equates to that, but capitalism in a sense is no different, in that your freedoms are curtailed by consumerism and the interests of big corporations. I would say none of them provides liberty, I think citizens become free when they are in control and fully aware of their present and future. A new system will have to be created.

  • @fahernandezp1 I think it helps to bear in mind that for the most part, Westerners are after affects of burning petroleum & coal. Freedom? what is that when without petroleum & coal you are dead. Return to hunter-gatherer paradise w/o modern conveniences is not possible for Westerners, nor most people anywhere, but some agri-subsistence people are relatively free, and yet tied to their plots. So I recommend not using Freedom w/o qualifiers tying what is being said to subsistence mechanisms..

  • @fahernandezp1 I take my liberty from a capitalist any day.

  • @LibTyrMatrix2011 maybe I missed something in his video, but I do not believe that the expansion of empathy and the strongest urges of freedom are fundamentally at odds. The goal ought to be to choose to be empathetic to a greater scope of people because it is in your best interest. How we act on the empathy (free markets vs socialism) is another debate.

  • @thequietkid10 After all the millions of years, empathy is not so common yet we as a race are still here. Nature is seldom a source for empathy. This empathy is a guilt trip to enslave the masses. I am not falling for it. I don't have the desire to care for billions of people in China or the few million found in Haiti. I care for the Nation of the United States and my own self and family. Empathy is a globalist view not a nationalist such as myself.

  • @LibTyrMatrix2011

    "empathy is not so common"

    On the contrary: empathy is all around us. It's the glue that holds human societies together.

  • @MomoTheBellyDancer Oh my god, your such a dork. You should like bang your head on a rock or something.

  • See! I told you he would fix this hole we are falling down. Me and him get to were your country should be:) lol

  • MY MIND IS SO FULL OF.... FUCK! AND STUFF!

  • I think this piece is flawed. I believe we should consider that what is cited as empathic increases also corresponds very closely to the increase of resources responsible for our proliferation, which are limited.

  • excelent! oO

    

  • I dont think a felt pen can make that RSA logo.

  • why dont these social scientists run for president? A social psychologist or philosopher should be running a country.

  • @DesertSmeagle people that are actively contemplating these issues most likely lack the interest, social qualities, and cut-throat ambition that it takes to get to that level of political power... it might be nice if we had a system of democratic government designed to reward pragmatism, intelligence, and insight rather than one that rewards power-hungry political entrepreneurs (and the occasional ideologically-driven lunatics like the ones that fill our lovely house of representatives today)

  • @DesertSmeagle God Forbid!

  • @Gaius8666a i know right? I dont know what we would do without a charismatic idiot running the most "powerful" country on earth.

  • these videos are totally abseloutely amazing

  • This is fantastic.

    Any chance the final image is available for download?

  • What is enlightenment?Feel like there is a lot more?Unleash your true psychic powers.THE-HIDDEN-SPIRITdotCOM It is time to change the world.

  • i like the vehicle but not a big fan of the driver. Communism sucks.

  • as I see more and more videos I convince myself of you being a passive communist XD

  • Extremely vague. "We should give up the abstraction of freedom"?! Thats a statement that needs a lot more explanation.

  • A great resource to spread around....Your work should be praised and supported! Really really wonderful!!!!! Keep on!!

  • i jus the animation............

  • The BS of global empathy.

  • So far all of these videos have been about the down grading of the capitalist system. Socialism needs to be challenged everywhere it persists. 

  • @LibTyrMatrix2011 I'm not saying I agree with socialism but would you really say that a perfect economic system would let a relatively small number of people control vastly large amounts of the total wealth just because they happen to be smarter or craftier or better connected or more socially adept? In my opinion, a world like that wouldn't be good for most. Anyone, you or I, could easily be screwed over by circumstance in that world. If you're born into bad circumstances you're shit outta luck

  • @mesastilettodeuce I am in favor of capitalism supported by the law of the land. If crony capitalism exists, then the law should be used to stop it. Economics run by a capitalist free market can work when the government respects the law of the land. Governments are not allowed to micromanage businesses. Unions, regulations by the EPA unfair tax structures. Government that grows faster than the economy is a threat far more insidious than a few wealthy elites.

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  • @LibTyrMatrix2011 The wealth of those few elites give them the sway to use government to manage the economy as they wish. That is the law of the land and will always lead to the problems we face. Unions do the same but they represent the interests of huge numbers of people rather than very few. Small government is impossible in the modern world. Meanwhile, those EPA regulations keep our air cleaner and our rivers from igniting like they did in the 70s. Not a fan of clean air and water?

  • @LibTyrMatrix2011

    I am in favor of the law of the land supported by capitalism. What we have now is unclear. Is the law of the land not also the law of the people? All of the people? Or only some special people? The economy cannot work when the governing principle is short-term profits for a very small percentage of people. There is no real difference, to my mind, between a tiny proportion of private individuals controlling everything and a tiny group of party members controlling everything.

  • @rsalisb Socialists have their elites too. When the socialist elites dominate the political scene, the people lose their liberty. Small businesses lose their ability to make a profit because the socialist apparatus strangles them with high taxes through regulation. Then you got the union who are an elite few supported by the socialist. Union dues are laundered from the workers into the pockets of political leaders. There is crony socialism and it is worse in my opinion than a few capitalists.

  • @LibTyrMatrix2011

    Which liberty is the capitalist elite protecting right now? Your right to have no health insurance? Your right to have no job? No retirement? No unemployment? Are these 'rights' that you are willing to defend? Small businesses are not being choked by taxes, which are lower than in any other industrialized nation and also lower in real dollars than in US history. Small businesses are killed by corporations; Starbucks is a good example....

  • @rsalisb Having a job or having health insurance are not rights, those are the benefits of a responsible informed society, capitalism is a result of freedom. Crime can happen in a free society but to give up freedom in the name of security is a very unwise choice. One you cannot easily take back. You can't regulate evil by force or you become it.

  • @rsalisb Tell me, who was violating the rights of natives 500 years ago when there were no such things as hospitals? Are these God given rights, if so why is there sickness in the world in the first place? the answer is, health is not a right, it is a gift, and healthcare is a privilege.

  • @weseyedwalk

    It is a privilege. Do you think it should also be available only for a privileged few? Should it not be available to all Americans? How would you justify saying that some Americans are not good enough for health care? We are a ridiculously wealthy nation. We pay for health care for Africans, and for weapons for Egypt and Israel to aim at each other. Can't we afford to pay for health care for our own people?