Repetition is an important device here. Isn't one of the themes of this piece one of the monolithic themes of C.20th arts; that 'the earth abides forever'? In fact repeated structures is a repeated dynamic in classical music. Beethoven, Tchaikovsky, Satie. An eclectic smorgasbord of pop-composers have used the repeated structure for centuries and I can certainly see why.
thew visuals are fine if a little ponderous. th emusic by GLass is SO weak . i mean come on people ! cheesy organ, pompous choral singing, endless repition. dear oh dear ! Steve Reich, Hecker, Janek Schaefer, Susumu Yokota, Murcof, Ligeti - ALL so much better as composers. discuss..
It still wows me a LOT when I see how bright a nuclear bomb is when it goes off. It's so bright it fills up the entire screen and whites it out. The energy released is almost beyond comprehension.
I wouldn't say it was frightening. It was pretty amazing to see how much humans have taken over the world (from a psychedelic perspective), but we didn't watch all of it because it got a little repetitive, and we wanted to go outside.
We are not separate from nature, we are a part of nature, we rely on it, and it relies on us, not to destroy it all. We have a vested interest in not doing so, the survival of our species, and luckily we have enough insight to know what to do now, rather than later.
@ rxnnxs: Vielen herzlichen Dank fürs Reinstellen! Je mehr dieser Film verbreitet wird, desto besser. Es wird Zeit, dass sich etwas ändert, dass Geld seine Wichtigkeit verliert, dass Sauberkeit, frische Luft, Erfüllung und Sättigung am nackten Leben empfunden werden und nicht mehr am Materialismus, an Wucherei. Geduld, Langsamkeit und Stetigkeit fördern Leben. Raserei, Eile, Größe und Gier zerschleißen uns. Das sieht man hier in der Großwirtschaft Amerikas auf unheimliche Weise so deutlich.
i was seen this film in an 1990 ca. in al little cinema und was crying for this message. so i think and think and think,but i dont find only 1 reason for as people. to sorry for this, what we have done und do with this, our planet.
@wwwSiam7com Calm down lad , it's going to be okay. Check out David Attenborough's First Life on the BBCi player, you have untill 9pm this evening to absorb and digest the great man's words. The you should try the second episode of the two, live on BBC2 at 9pm.
Fortunately, I know how to deal with certain aspects of weather on its terms.
When the rest of you are sweating your balls off because your air conditioner isn't cool enough or its constantly going dead because of rolling power failures I'll stay comfortable knowing that "nakedness" is natural because the human body has built in temperature regulators of its own.
Until recently, mankind lived a satisfying control of its decisions. But it is losing more and more the control of its own fate because of the growing use of advanced technologies, which lethal consequences on the earthly and human ecosystems become irreversible. Your resilience will artificially decrease, independently of your own will. Such technologies exist that affect your body as well as your mind. Such plans are on their way.
Its the lack of knowledge mixed with lack of emotional attachement added to the lack of will to even attempt to change not only something as simple as an opinion but a whole way of life for most. Its the inadvertant thats the tru killer. A belief that the "next generation" will fix it or there will be a miracle discovery to end all woes! Technology is just a tool...the spear was a tool at one time..then advanced war to a new level. Any kind of technology can be misused..its not the devil we are
Your " technological tool " has created a rate of change the average person can no longer keep up with. Most people can't understand how things even work anymore let alone fix it.
We have finite resources and too many people.
We don't understand what we realy want and have no way of farily ensuring everyone has what they need.
Our technology can only produce more and more with less human labour untill we use everything up and can longer aford to pay for it.
@northerbrewer So true - Humanity is like a Virus, just like Mr. Smith said (the matrix). I really wonder how things will be in a 100 years. And I also wonder if there will be another World War. Btw, did you know that the cold war REALLY was VERY close to become a WW3?!? Just saw a documentary the other day about Ronald Reagan, what a guy!
I am older than you. Reagan was popular because he promissed change and he delivered. What Americans got and what's good for them however is up to them to decide not us.
I am all too familiar with how close we came WW3 but its not important anymore because nothing was gained or learned form the coldwar.
In 100 years there will be people thats my best prediction....
We are not a virus, just dangerously clever animals. In 100 years maybe we will be better not just smarter
@northerbrewer : Two best national public servants(presidents)in my life so far: President Kennedy and President Reagan. Everyone else has been "window displays", nothing more. We're due for spectacular and beneficial change. The old saying is true, "Good help is hard to find", and more than worth it. ;]
No wait I take that back, because it must have an effect on poor minded people like yourself, considering you come here to say absolutely nothing besides how great you country is... Nationalism ftw! Fuck everything but my own life!! Thats how we got into the situation were in. By ppl not giving a FUCK, like you. "My country is clean, i dont have to care bout nothing!" coming into a convo with No Arguments No intention of adding to the convo, just basically saying fuck you im better than you....
Although in each wave is individual action and we can do things to improve our life, I feel it is unnecessary, as life will repair itself; for example by making all humans die, which would be one of the only rational solutions for the saving of our environment and "nature"
at least we can see you're highly intellectual because of all the tremendous things you say to add to this conversation... You might live in Japan..... retard
so poor mind man i live in the most beautiful country in the world COSTA RICA . The green country of the worlrd. I dont care your opinion My country is Clean, And Yours? JAJA
Why do you even need to know anything about my country? Does the land where one lives define his activities/opinion? Thats fucking stupid... either way I live in Belgium, the land with the most light in the entire world. And im not proud of it, but it has FUCK-ALL to do with who you are
You tell me what nature is, youll get it wrong and most people do, which is why I put it inbetween quotation marks, because nature is not what most people think.
yah, and I see humans as a part of nature, and untill we all do, we wont get any further. Which is why I put it in quotation marks. Existing independently of human activities? Bullshit were just as much part of nature as a chipmunk a panda a tiger or a ladybug...
Since humans created the word "nature" and defined it as being separate from humans, we in fact are not a part of nature. We are, however, on the same level as all other organisms. We play an integral role in ecosystems.
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OMFG THANK YOU I NEVER KNEW HOW TO SAY IT N U FINALLY SAID THAT SHYT... NATURE IS NOT SEPERATE OF CHEMICALS OR ANY HUMAN ACTIVITY WE PERFORM NY INDUSTIOUS OR SYNTHETIC MEANS.. so man the fucc up fuccn hippies.. we got knowledge now lol
Where do you suppose humanity originates from? Whether it be from a big bang or a creator everything started off as a single entity. Science, religion, philosophy all adhere to this principle.
The idea that we are ''unnatural'' is absurd. It's typical human counter-intuition. Our experiences as sentient beings place great existenial weight upon ourselves. Our civilisations and empathies have altered our path from the ''survival of the fittest'' but we are still borne from
@jazzmessenger8 You are right sir, we sure as hell show them other species what "Natural Selection" means. Fucking up the environment can of course be called "playing a role in ecosystems". Sorry if you weren't implying what I thought you were implying.
@xmAdmAx57 Well beavers destroy the environment for some terrestrial animals. They're living in a nice dry hole, and one day it fills with water because the beavers dammed up the creek. Although they are destroying the environment for some animals, they're playing a role in ecosystems. Humans are creating a lot of destruction for animals, but we two are playing a role. Eventually we will die, in an endless cycle of the fall and rise of species.
@jazzmessenger8 just because we separated ourselves from nature by words and action does not necessarily make it so. whether we like it or not we are one with nature. once we realise that and give back and nourish the land as it has done so for us, only then can we live in harmony with all other organisms. only then will we have a fully functional, healthy ecosystem
Simply creating a semantical barrier between one object and another does not nullify the natural relationships that exist by default of those objects natures. I.e. if you eat a piece of food, its nutrients become a part of your body. My saying otherwise does not change the natural relationship I have with my environment.
How would you define humanity's "integral"role in ecosystems? So far it appears our outgrowth is only depleting resources and destroying millions of species.
@jazzmessenger8 Just because humans decided on a definition does not argue facts of matters. Definitions are only useful if they cut nature at its joints. Otherwise all you are doing is arguing labels.
@megatrollwarlock Yes, we play an integral role, just as beavers build damns and destroy the habitat for terrestrial species in the area. We are just organisms like all others. Yes, we're messing things up, but things will eventually level out. We'll die down. But I am in no way against conservation. I'm very much for it. This planet and it's ecosystems will be just fine whether or not we try to conserve because we will die out. But I want to have nature around to enjoy it.
@jazzmessenger8 I agree with the last part but I just hope humans don't take the whole planet with them when they die out. Overpopulation is the root of all evil.
In my eyes, we don't need to do anything, just as much as we need to do shitloads. The world is the world and cannot be changed from the inside in such drastic manners that it will not survive. Life on this planet will continue long after us, I'm sure of that. The "natural world" does not exist, only the world and everything it contains. Life out of balance is what koyaanisqatsi means. But life is too big for us to unbalance.
we need change from 20th century, and environmentalism is the answer. we starting to care more about our environment now and have concentrated on green technologies. we need change from oil-world, to natural-world, maybe it will take another 20 years to get some progress, but at least I think we are on a right track.
We would not be the first wildly successful species on this planet to go extinct. Indeed, if the fossil record is any indication, we are only a brief step in an evolutionary change to lifeforms even more efficient and complicated.
As the only organism that can predict our future, it would behoove us, from a practical standpoint, to make intelligent choices. It is, rather than a compelling deontological commandment, a simple matter of enlightened self-interest in opposition to our instincts.
Morality and ethics does not exist in the natural world - they are human constructs. "Environmental balance" is an arbitrary goals that is uniquely anthropomorphic; it may be a part of some religious faiths amongst humans (such as, say, the Hopi Indians), but is imaginary, as nature is in a constant state of flux and change, and is never in "balance".
Our problem, from a human perspective, is more pragmatic. In short, it is in every way natural for species to go extinct.
Many people see in this video a chiding of humanity's effect on the environment - a planet that is "out of balance" because of Mankind's audacity and arrogance. Instead I see miracles, even in the slums, where the "indigent" people live better than the nobles of the Middle Ages. I see masses of people, working in tandem by the thousands and millions, while each retain their individuality.
For me, this is a ode to technology. I'm not so much dismayed as awed.
Dunno how "brilliant" it is. I do know that we aren't where we are because we've forgotten about our animal natures, but rather because we've only barely come to learn to control them - and even then, only in part.
Might I add, that I'm much more optimistic than most people. We certainly need to be smarter about what we do. But I associate intelligent solutions to environmental problems with open market systems and incentive mechanisms, not top-down NGOs and neo-socialist Green legislation.
In 2000, Koyaanisqatsi was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".
No creature lives in balance with its environment. All living things seek to exploit the environment so as to propagate its species, and to enhance its own chances for survival and prosperity. Humans are simply better at it than any other life form on the earth.
Even stupid environmentalis ideology can be explained thusly. In short, it's an attempt to use fear/guilt to enhance the power and prestige of environmentalists. Thus why even the most idiotic propositions are clung to by such people.
wow, this is possibly the first youtube video which i have seen with valid points in posts and people with realistic and valuable opinions rather than the regular "that *insert prophanity here* sucks really bad!"
DrCruel, you hit the nail on the head there, life itself, although generaly regulating itself, is flawed in its want for more, and you used brilliant wording to explain a possible reason for the behaviour of todays society.
I disagree about the balance. Nature is simply -unwittingly- in balance with itself. People, however, are aware enough to regret some of our mistakes in casually abusing the environment.
Even if you are 100% right about natural exploitation, it doesn't necessarily follow that environmental exploitation is moral. Nature does plenty of things that break laws which we have made for ourselves.
Finally, our own existence depends heavily upon the environment, and balance is prudent.
it speaks of the second law of thermodynamics namely Entropy or the way energy transformation proceedes from order to disorder , we are transforming energy at unprecented rates by what we call we call "progress" "technology", which only creates more complexity ultimaltely yielding greater waste. I dont beleuve humans are necessarily "territorial. Terrotories as we know them began when the human shifted paradigms from hunter/gatherer to farmer,
It's a territorial thing. Humans are a territorial mammal species. We go to war to expand our territories when we feel there's not enough room/resources. All territorial mammals do the same thing. Reproduction may be a part of it, but I put the blame on our instinctual territorial nature.
i suggest you to watch real life movies about our earth and our planet, and not hollywood creep like ice age.every other lifeform on this planet except homo sapiens lives in balance with his environment.
example: lynx and rabbits: at first rabbits population is big and lynx population is small.this means the lynx have much to eat and the lynx population is growing, but the rabbit population is getting smaller.because of this, next year many of the lynx will hunger and die, and the rabbit population can grow again...this circle of life is the base of self regeneration in the nature
not a bad trilogy, but the message of the film is not arriving the viewer with such density and visual and audial explosion like these year the movie "HOME" does.
HOME has by far the better sound and the better film material.
We're overtaking the planet, consuming it slowly. But isn't it only natural progression? Dominate and consume this planet and it's resources and move on to the next planet. Just a matter of if we deplete this planet before we can reach another, no?
NO. BIG NO. just watch HOME and you will find the answer....each life form on this planet, except homo sapiens, lives in harmony with the planet...because they depend one on the other...it was all well balanced , before homo sapiens came...without responsability for our planet WE WILL NOT SURVIVE...
Not trying to joke around or anything but this makes me think about FFX where everyone started relying heavily on "machina" machines and then they had to pay heavily for it with sin coming and destroying everything. I just think maybe that game was on to something you know?
i think it's less the jet the point, but more the reflection, caused by the heat of the asphalt. you wont notice it within 10 sec. it takes some time. and think about it, how huge areas are asphalted!!! it's incredible!!!
It's just a matter of time for when the world ends. Maybe it's just in nature (in our nature) for the world, humanity, the universe to destroy life. Like a fruit. Otherwise you eat it or leave it to rot. Either way, it ends.
mh I don´t think so because, we maybe think we´re destroying the planet but the planet cannot be destroyed by humans, the planet will definitly revolt with terrible weather which makes living on earth impossible so that humanity will dissapear...
I suppose that the point is, that eventually everything dies or it's destroyed. Then it comes to a cycle where it's starts all over again. We sometimes try to understand things and believe in them some how. But in the end, I just know we know nothing.
yes I know that nothing lasts forever...but the planet is strong and we are just so small compared to nature...humankind will perish I guess very soon if we are not changing our attitude towards nature and the environment...
and for me the idea of the cycle is definitly true, but it can make oneself adapt a fatalistic attitude towards trying to change for the good...
in 1820 a man named fredrick osloft one day he was working in his lab until a ghost came by and killed him the next morning fredrick was nowhere to be seen 100 years later two boys went in the lab as a dare the boys where never seen again where aparently murdered now that u have read this comment tonight when u go to sleep the two boys and fredrick will come and murder you but you can stop this by posting this comment on 5 other videos by midnight
If we are to continue to overpopulate our planet as most agree we should (life=good) then we have to further adapt our planet to our need. It's proven that organic and green farming can't sustain the world's population (ie, Borlaug's work). Even primitive farmers altered their land and cleared forest for easily available food. Awareness != Solution.
i think this was made to show how we destroy our own planet, our own future and our own evolution and if we dont learn how to use our ressources correctly then we not will exist any longer.
Most of those cars, tanks and airplanes are probably obsolete now, and serve as scrap.
The mountains are practically unchanged.
2Kortoso 2 weeks ago
thanks for pointing out the obvious, gee you really must be the smart one ! YOU GET A STICKER !!!
xudnoxaj 3 weeks ago
Repetition is an important device here. Isn't one of the themes of this piece one of the monolithic themes of C.20th arts; that 'the earth abides forever'? In fact repeated structures is a repeated dynamic in classical music. Beethoven, Tchaikovsky, Satie. An eclectic smorgasbord of pop-composers have used the repeated structure for centuries and I can certainly see why.
unenlightenedbajie 3 weeks ago
thew visuals are fine if a little ponderous. th emusic by GLass is SO weak . i mean come on people ! cheesy organ, pompous choral singing, endless repition. dear oh dear ! Steve Reich, Hecker, Janek Schaefer, Susumu Yokota, Murcof, Ligeti - ALL so much better as composers. discuss..
TheSmack77 1 month ago
@TheSmack77 And you forgot even Simeon ten Holt's Canto Ostinato
lesboerin 1 month ago
i hate mankind
123Nikodemus 1 month ago
love this shit download it to your ipod and listen to it went you take the bus to work,
octopusbrains 2 months ago
Philip Glass is the man
TheNauriainen 2 months ago 3
This is the modern day LEONARDO DaVINCI !!!
xudnoxaj 2 months ago
@xudnoxaj Eh :P.... funny considering he didnt play ANY music so not really the best analogy here :B
a01087483 3 weeks ago
@a01087483
...sarcastic humor...
i know, not funny :P
xudnoxaj 3 weeks ago
I enjoy listening to Glass while studying.
n66178 4 months ago 19
WTF did I just saw ... How could I pass from ponies to that?
RyuhasNERV 5 months ago
i hate to talk about to many times was wasted !
i could cry because i know at the end nothing happend!
i hate my own powerlessness to change anything!
Defmemory 5 months ago 2
These YouTube comments are thoughtful. For that, I applaud each and every one of you.
DadaistTheater 5 months ago 10
@DadaistTheater -"WTF did i just saw..."
-"love this shit" -"i hate mankind"
A few good apples give the whole bushel a good name, eh?
hrolvnir 1 month ago
It still wows me a LOT when I see how bright a nuclear bomb is when it goes off. It's so bright it fills up the entire screen and whites it out. The energy released is almost beyond comprehension.
tall32guy 5 months ago
@tall32guy isn't it mankind's most impressive firework, like a cathedral of fire built by science
verticalmatt 3 months ago
Bill Clinton - $547 million per day
George Bush - $1.6 Billion per day
Barack Obama - $4.1 Billion per day
badlands307 6 months ago 2
@badlands307 what are these?
phyrrusvox 5 months ago
@badlands307 is that spending?
Falconpunch82 5 months ago
@badlands307 George Washington - $500 per day. What's your point? Correct for inflation please
TCoops 3 months ago
ooo ulala
Elsafer19 6 months ago
Check out "KUNDUN - soundtrack". Glass is the great one.
conan0869 6 months ago
@conan0869 the 13 dalai llama is the best music ever from glass
jorgedude888 5 months ago
VERY WEAK SOUND LEVEL
silverstartrucker 7 months ago
laying on the beach next to a nuke Thats real nice!
Dimigrey 7 months ago
pendejos humanos, ojalá el mundo sí se acabe pronto.
CsarCraKIll 7 months ago
01:45 is see the skull !!!!!!O.o
czajzer 8 months ago
How does this compared to HOME?
netmatrix75 8 months ago
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I really enjoyed this movie
ssimon64 8 months ago
whoa, maaaan!
TheShayden18 8 months ago
Sure this movie is slow and yes dull, but it is a masterpiece, I love it.
sartanko 9 months ago
leben im ungleichgewicht] erste teil der qatsi-trilogie
Cpayne139 10 months ago
it is for our self-disciplining :))))
bhakti999 11 months ago
When I first heard of the movie, I thought it was great
Now that I've seen 10 minutes of it, I don'T want to watch it anymore...
badDrMadMax 11 months ago
@CrucibleoftheWorld
I wouldn't say it was frightening. It was pretty amazing to see how much humans have taken over the world (from a psychedelic perspective), but we didn't watch all of it because it got a little repetitive, and we wanted to go outside.
MrJas1991 1 year ago
Koyaanisqatsi and Planet Earth are the best things I've watched while tripping on LSD. haha
MrJas1991 1 year ago
It's a moving peace of art, but even to make this movie huge industries had to produce the things needed ...
Ironically , looks like we devouring ourselves while trying to find our balance with nature ...like a snake.
from PERSIA with Passion
BehrooZ Abshar
19BenZ57 1 year ago
We are not separate from nature, we are a part of nature, we rely on it, and it relies on us, not to destroy it all. We have a vested interest in not doing so, the survival of our species, and luckily we have enough insight to know what to do now, rather than later.
shades2 1 year ago
@ rxnnxs: Vielen herzlichen Dank fürs Reinstellen! Je mehr dieser Film verbreitet wird, desto besser. Es wird Zeit, dass sich etwas ändert, dass Geld seine Wichtigkeit verliert, dass Sauberkeit, frische Luft, Erfüllung und Sättigung am nackten Leben empfunden werden und nicht mehr am Materialismus, an Wucherei. Geduld, Langsamkeit und Stetigkeit fördern Leben. Raserei, Eile, Größe und Gier zerschleißen uns. Das sieht man hier in der Großwirtschaft Amerikas auf unheimliche Weise so deutlich.
Jaeger203 1 year ago
Simpsons did it
mattsme 1 year ago
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ViteloElyos 1 year ago
Can anyone tell me if the beach at 2.50 is San Onofre. South of San Clemente?
chanctonbury63 1 year ago
A life without meaning.
ateniense7 1 year ago
It is to the same the spear head of the spear as the bullet of the pistol.
Mabinogipoop 1 year ago
i was seen this film in an 1990 ca. in al little cinema und was crying for this message. so i think and think and think,but i dont find only 1 reason for as people. to sorry for this, what we have done und do with this, our planet.
sorry for my bad english, i´´m a german girl.
dasglaubichjetztnich 1 year ago
MIND BLOWING !!!
(DONT watch it stoned, it will NEVER go out of your head and CHANGE your life forever) :)
wwwSiam7com 1 year ago
@wwwSiam7com Calm down lad , it's going to be okay. Check out David Attenborough's First Life on the BBCi player, you have untill 9pm this evening to absorb and digest the great man's words. The you should try the second episode of the two, live on BBC2 at 9pm.
Good luck,
Vegbloke.
vegbloke 1 year ago
@wwwSiam7com Check out the Trilobytes on episode two, on the bbc iplayer, very life-affirming.
vegbloke 1 year ago
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2:30 nice place to holiday
surrogates 1 year ago
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surrogates 1 year ago
Its tragic... that cars were so ugly in the 80's.
tomsriv 1 year ago
Great filming
alchemorphtv 2 years ago
Fortunately, I know how to deal with certain aspects of weather on its terms.
When the rest of you are sweating your balls off because your air conditioner isn't cool enough or its constantly going dead because of rolling power failures I'll stay comfortable knowing that "nakedness" is natural because the human body has built in temperature regulators of its own.
Fortunately, I already know how to use them.
nudist0885 2 years ago
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YourProfessor 2 years ago
2012! natures revenge
irkman123 2 years ago
reminds me to the GTA4 trailer
Introfilmmaker 2 years ago
koyaanisqatsi = kopenhagen = life out of balance
framayx 2 years ago 3
G00gle
Until recently, mankind lived a satisfying control of its decisions. But it is losing more and more the control of its own fate because of the growing use of advanced technologies, which lethal consequences on the earthly and human ecosystems become irreversible. Your resilience will artificially decrease, independently of your own will. Such technologies exist that affect your body as well as your mind. Such plans are on their way.
SirHorryPatter 2 years ago
Its the lack of knowledge mixed with lack of emotional attachement added to the lack of will to even attempt to change not only something as simple as an opinion but a whole way of life for most. Its the inadvertant thats the tru killer. A belief that the "next generation" will fix it or there will be a miracle discovery to end all woes! Technology is just a tool...the spear was a tool at one time..then advanced war to a new level. Any kind of technology can be misused..its not the devil we are
goddimmus 2 years ago 22
Your an idiot.
jadfer1 2 years ago
Your " technological tool " has created a rate of change the average person can no longer keep up with. Most people can't understand how things even work anymore let alone fix it.
We have finite resources and too many people.
We don't understand what we realy want and have no way of farily ensuring everyone has what they need.
Our technology can only produce more and more with less human labour untill we use everything up and can longer aford to pay for it.
We have no plan
northerbrewer 2 years ago
@northerbrewer So true - Humanity is like a Virus, just like Mr. Smith said (the matrix). I really wonder how things will be in a 100 years. And I also wonder if there will be another World War. Btw, did you know that the cold war REALLY was VERY close to become a WW3?!? Just saw a documentary the other day about Ronald Reagan, what a guy!
MartinGro131 1 year ago
@MartinGro131
I am older than you. Reagan was popular because he promissed change and he delivered. What Americans got and what's good for them however is up to them to decide not us.
I am all too familiar with how close we came WW3 but its not important anymore because nothing was gained or learned form the coldwar.
In 100 years there will be people thats my best prediction....
We are not a virus, just dangerously clever animals. In 100 years maybe we will be better not just smarter
northerbrewer 1 year ago
@northerbrewer : Two best national public servants(presidents)in my life so far: President Kennedy and President Reagan. Everyone else has been "window displays", nothing more. We're due for spectacular and beneficial change. The old saying is true, "Good help is hard to find", and more than worth it. ;]
buzzclick500 1 year ago
@goddimmus : Yes. We're supposed to USE the spear, not WORSHIP it.
buzzclick500 1 year ago
@goddimmus the spear isn't a tool anymore?
shimanopower 11 months ago
We are both awesome and tragic as a species
Gravity1471 2 years ago 3
Que mensaje quiere dejarnos todo esto?
tiratuquetetoca 2 years ago
rghyhd
Morphix010 2 years ago
what the song at 0.50 called??
pinkdog12321 2 years ago
pruit igoe
SJVFX 2 years ago
koyaanisqatsi
KillOfTheWeek 2 years ago
"Resource"
Straften 2 years ago
@pinkdog12321
its music from the film kojaanisqatsi from philip glass
mandragoa 2 years ago
creo qe nos muesrtra el poder, la invacion de la industria y lo material esta invadiendo, todo.
abramchilorio 2 years ago
i used my car today did you? i had a reason was it important it was to me.was yours?
brybish 2 years ago
It is so strange. All of this...filth... we are living in, it is all around us. And we humans are so naive that we cant see it.
Arcrer 2 years ago
right... because life was so much cleaner in the middle ages.
xavieramont 2 years ago
It..was...you....stupid.....turd.....
calum341 2 years ago
haahahahahahahahahhaaaha...ahahaa
anonymous1010101 2 years ago
The thing it´s no about contries, there is no borders, the problem is that we can´t escape from this planet, it´s all we have.
branpupole 2 years ago 5
No wait I take that back, because it must have an effect on poor minded people like yourself, considering you come here to say absolutely nothing besides how great you country is... Nationalism ftw! Fuck everything but my own life!! Thats how we got into the situation were in. By ppl not giving a FUCK, like you. "My country is clean, i dont have to care bout nothing!" coming into a convo with No Arguments No intention of adding to the convo, just basically saying fuck you im better than you....
Egondv 2 years ago 4
Calm the fuck down, Hoss. And watch your fucking mouth. There might be kids on YouTube.
northwestmike 2 years ago
Har Har Har?
Egondv 2 years ago
lol "watch you're fucking mouth, there may be kids on youtube"...nice :P
MrUtube14 2 years ago
wha?
joshknot69 2 years ago
Although in each wave is individual action and we can do things to improve our life, I feel it is unnecessary, as life will repair itself; for example by making all humans die, which would be one of the only rational solutions for the saving of our environment and "nature"
Egondv 2 years ago
idiot
poor mind
you might live in U.S.A
flakitto10069 2 years ago
at least we can see you're highly intellectual because of all the tremendous things you say to add to this conversation... You might live in Japan..... retard
Egondv 2 years ago
so poor mind man i live in the most beautiful country in the world COSTA RICA . The green country of the worlrd. I dont care your opinion My country is Clean, And Yours? JAJA
flakitto10069 2 years ago
Why do you even need to know anything about my country? Does the land where one lives define his activities/opinion? Thats fucking stupid... either way I live in Belgium, the land with the most light in the entire world. And im not proud of it, but it has FUCK-ALL to do with who you are
Egondv 2 years ago
why is nature in quotes
iotenti 2 years ago
You tell me what nature is, youll get it wrong and most people do, which is why I put it inbetween quotation marks, because nature is not what most people think.
Egondv 2 years ago
na⋅ture noun
1.the material world, esp. as surrounding humankind and existing independently of human activities.
iotenti 2 years ago
yah, and I see humans as a part of nature, and untill we all do, we wont get any further. Which is why I put it in quotation marks. Existing independently of human activities? Bullshit were just as much part of nature as a chipmunk a panda a tiger or a ladybug...
Egondv 2 years ago
Since humans created the word "nature" and defined it as being separate from humans, we in fact are not a part of nature. We are, however, on the same level as all other organisms. We play an integral role in ecosystems.
jazzmessenger8 2 years ago 63
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OMFG THANK YOU I NEVER KNEW HOW TO SAY IT N U FINALLY SAID THAT SHYT... NATURE IS NOT SEPERATE OF CHEMICALS OR ANY HUMAN ACTIVITY WE PERFORM NY INDUSTIOUS OR SYNTHETIC MEANS.. so man the fucc up fuccn hippies.. we got knowledge now lol
ChillC 2 years ago
actually we are apart of nature also.. but we have forgotten .. we are animals 2
irkman123 2 years ago
Humans are not a part of nature. We created the word nature, and defined it to mean "independent of humans."
jazzmessenger8 2 years ago 2
@jazzmessenger8 nicely put
Jakeqc 1 year ago
@jazzmessenger8
I'm afraid we are part of nature, it's our role in nature that has raised the question of humanity's ''unnaturalness''.
We're not aliens. We're just as alien as the world around us.
MabRenaissance 1 year ago
@MabRenaissance No, we are not a part of natural. Look up the word natural in a dictionary.
jazzmessenger8 1 year ago
@jazzmessenger8
Where do you suppose humanity originates from? Whether it be from a big bang or a creator everything started off as a single entity. Science, religion, philosophy all adhere to this principle.
The idea that we are ''unnatural'' is absurd. It's typical human counter-intuition. Our experiences as sentient beings place great existenial weight upon ourselves. Our civilisations and empathies have altered our path from the ''survival of the fittest'' but we are still borne from
MabRenaissance 1 year ago
@jazzmessenger8
- nature.
Also I looked up ''nature'' in the dictionary for you. Could you look up ''patronising'' for me..
MabRenaissance 1 year ago
@MabRenaissance
na·ture
[ney-cher]
–noun
1.
the material world, esp. as surrounding humankind and existing independently of human activities.
There you go. Independent of human activity. I never said were separate, we're just not a part of nature.
jazzmessenger8 1 year ago
@jazzmessenger8 did you think of that when you fucked a tree???
tHeWasTeDYouTh 1 year ago
@jazzmessenger8 Yes we fucked it
speeder514686562 1 year ago
@jazzmessenger8 You are right sir, we sure as hell show them other species what "Natural Selection" means. Fucking up the environment can of course be called "playing a role in ecosystems". Sorry if you weren't implying what I thought you were implying.
xmAdmAx57 1 year ago
@xmAdmAx57 Well beavers destroy the environment for some terrestrial animals. They're living in a nice dry hole, and one day it fills with water because the beavers dammed up the creek. Although they are destroying the environment for some animals, they're playing a role in ecosystems. Humans are creating a lot of destruction for animals, but we two are playing a role. Eventually we will die, in an endless cycle of the fall and rise of species.
jazzmessenger8 1 year ago
@jazzmessenger8 So you weren't implying that "playing a role" means "without us shit would be worse". Everything is good then, moving on
xmAdmAx57 1 year ago
@jazzmessenger8 just because we separated ourselves from nature by words and action does not necessarily make it so. whether we like it or not we are one with nature. once we realise that and give back and nourish the land as it has done so for us, only then can we live in harmony with all other organisms. only then will we have a fully functional, healthy ecosystem
supremecourtjester 1 year ago
@jazzmessenger8
Simply creating a semantical barrier between one object and another does not nullify the natural relationships that exist by default of those objects natures. I.e. if you eat a piece of food, its nutrients become a part of your body. My saying otherwise does not change the natural relationship I have with my environment.
How would you define humanity's "integral"role in ecosystems? So far it appears our outgrowth is only depleting resources and destroying millions of species.
buzongtang 1 year ago
@jazzmessenger8 sounds like you read Cronon
SlagathoR45 11 months ago
@jazzmessenger8 Just because humans decided on a definition does not argue facts of matters. Definitions are only useful if they cut nature at its joints. Otherwise all you are doing is arguing labels.
beriukay 10 months ago
Bullcrap.
MoaiMaea 9 months ago
@jazzmessenger8 An integral role in destroying them.
megatrollwarlock 9 months ago
@megatrollwarlock Yes, we play an integral role, just as beavers build damns and destroy the habitat for terrestrial species in the area. We are just organisms like all others. Yes, we're messing things up, but things will eventually level out. We'll die down. But I am in no way against conservation. I'm very much for it. This planet and it's ecosystems will be just fine whether or not we try to conserve because we will die out. But I want to have nature around to enjoy it.
jazzmessenger8 9 months ago
@jazzmessenger8 I agree with the last part but I just hope humans don't take the whole planet with them when they die out. Overpopulation is the root of all evil.
sitithesecond 8 months ago
@jazzmessenger8 I would rather say that we play a destructive role in ecosystems.
sitithesecond 8 months ago
@jazzmessenger8 Except, of course, we humans also manufactured the concept of 'ecosystems', which do not, in fact, exist in 'nature'!
nostradamuszen 7 months ago
@nostradamuszen I'm sorry if I misinterpreted this, are you saying ecosystems DON'T exist?
ManamoPrime 6 months ago
@jazzmessenger8 And you can blame Christianity, according to Global Oneness. Google, and watch A Thousand Suns (the documentary, not the LP album).
Arkanj3l 6 months ago
@jazzmessenger8 all i care about is where on the food chain and where on the intelligence chain we are.
i think were on top of the food chain since we can eat pretty much everything that isnt poisonus,
and we are second on the intelligence list, first one is the dolphins.
videocritic2463 5 months ago
In my eyes, we don't need to do anything, just as much as we need to do shitloads. The world is the world and cannot be changed from the inside in such drastic manners that it will not survive. Life on this planet will continue long after us, I'm sure of that. The "natural world" does not exist, only the world and everything it contains. Life out of balance is what koyaanisqatsi means. But life is too big for us to unbalance.
Egondv 2 years ago
absolutely agree with Granshy, 1st youtube vid with valid points in posts and people with realistic/valuable opinions.
MoThR930206 2 years ago 5
we need change from 20th century, and environmentalism is the answer. we starting to care more about our environment now and have concentrated on green technologies. we need change from oil-world, to natural-world, maybe it will take another 20 years to get some progress, but at least I think we are on a right track.
artmak5 2 years ago 2
We would not be the first wildly successful species on this planet to go extinct. Indeed, if the fossil record is any indication, we are only a brief step in an evolutionary change to lifeforms even more efficient and complicated.
As the only organism that can predict our future, it would behoove us, from a practical standpoint, to make intelligent choices. It is, rather than a compelling deontological commandment, a simple matter of enlightened self-interest in opposition to our instincts.
DrCruel 2 years ago
Morality and ethics does not exist in the natural world - they are human constructs. "Environmental balance" is an arbitrary goals that is uniquely anthropomorphic; it may be a part of some religious faiths amongst humans (such as, say, the Hopi Indians), but is imaginary, as nature is in a constant state of flux and change, and is never in "balance".
Our problem, from a human perspective, is more pragmatic. In short, it is in every way natural for species to go extinct.
DrCruel 2 years ago
Many people see in this video a chiding of humanity's effect on the environment - a planet that is "out of balance" because of Mankind's audacity and arrogance. Instead I see miracles, even in the slums, where the "indigent" people live better than the nobles of the Middle Ages. I see masses of people, working in tandem by the thousands and millions, while each retain their individuality.
For me, this is a ode to technology. I'm not so much dismayed as awed.
DrCruel 2 years ago
I must say I do not agree with your point, but I do find the vision a refreshing and new point of view and will remember it.
LordWolfling 2 years ago
Dunno how "brilliant" it is. I do know that we aren't where we are because we've forgotten about our animal natures, but rather because we've only barely come to learn to control them - and even then, only in part.
Might I add, that I'm much more optimistic than most people. We certainly need to be smarter about what we do. But I associate intelligent solutions to environmental problems with open market systems and incentive mechanisms, not top-down NGOs and neo-socialist Green legislation.
DrCruel 2 years ago
In 2000, Koyaanisqatsi was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".
PhilAEG 2 years ago 3
Empirical evidence and experience?
DrCruel 2 years ago
No creature lives in balance with its environment. All living things seek to exploit the environment so as to propagate its species, and to enhance its own chances for survival and prosperity. Humans are simply better at it than any other life form on the earth.
Even stupid environmentalis ideology can be explained thusly. In short, it's an attempt to use fear/guilt to enhance the power and prestige of environmentalists. Thus why even the most idiotic propositions are clung to by such people.
DrCruel 2 years ago
?? how could you really come to such a point ?!
kasparhelfrich 2 years ago
wow, this is possibly the first youtube video which i have seen with valid points in posts and people with realistic and valuable opinions rather than the regular "that *insert prophanity here* sucks really bad!"
DrCruel, you hit the nail on the head there, life itself, although generaly regulating itself, is flawed in its want for more, and you used brilliant wording to explain a possible reason for the behaviour of todays society.
Granshy 2 years ago
I disagree about the balance. Nature is simply -unwittingly- in balance with itself. People, however, are aware enough to regret some of our mistakes in casually abusing the environment.
Even if you are 100% right about natural exploitation, it doesn't necessarily follow that environmental exploitation is moral. Nature does plenty of things that break laws which we have made for ourselves.
Finally, our own existence depends heavily upon the environment, and balance is prudent.
underthewronghat 2 years ago 2
Sure are right.
Wonder why you got thumbs down.
Umaiketsu 2 years ago
it speaks of the second law of thermodynamics namely Entropy or the way energy transformation proceedes from order to disorder , we are transforming energy at unprecented rates by what we call we call "progress" "technology", which only creates more complexity ultimaltely yielding greater waste. I dont beleuve humans are necessarily "territorial. Terrotories as we know them began when the human shifted paradigms from hunter/gatherer to farmer,
urbinscientist 2 years ago
It's a territorial thing. Humans are a territorial mammal species. We go to war to expand our territories when we feel there's not enough room/resources. All territorial mammals do the same thing. Reproduction may be a part of it, but I put the blame on our instinctual territorial nature.
JustDashuu 2 years ago
i suggest you to watch real life movies about our earth and our planet, and not hollywood creep like ice age.every other lifeform on this planet except homo sapiens lives in balance with his environment.
bmxmar 2 years ago
example: lynx and rabbits: at first rabbits population is big and lynx population is small.this means the lynx have much to eat and the lynx population is growing, but the rabbit population is getting smaller.because of this, next year many of the lynx will hunger and die, and the rabbit population can grow again...this circle of life is the base of self regeneration in the nature
bmxmar 2 years ago
not a bad trilogy, but the message of the film is not arriving the viewer with such density and visual and audial explosion like these year the movie "HOME" does.
HOME has by far the better sound and the better film material.
bmxmar 2 years ago
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camilleri63 2 years ago
are you mad?
dobsondale 2 years ago
This movie wasn't there to show how we were destroying our planet, it mere purpous was to show us how our presence looked like.
wimpie25 2 years ago
Total destruction is the design of a genius, that opens the door of the masses to eliminate such a threat through exponential means.
codessatexas 2 years ago
We're overtaking the planet, consuming it slowly. But isn't it only natural progression? Dominate and consume this planet and it's resources and move on to the next planet. Just a matter of if we deplete this planet before we can reach another, no?
JamesRTJ 2 years ago
there is no other planet
trilobyte 2 years ago
NO. BIG NO. just watch HOME and you will find the answer....each life form on this planet, except homo sapiens, lives in harmony with the planet...because they depend one on the other...it was all well balanced , before homo sapiens came...without responsability for our planet WE WILL NOT SURVIVE...
bmxmar 2 years ago
Not trying to joke around or anything but this makes me think about FFX where everyone started relying heavily on "machina" machines and then they had to pay heavily for it with sin coming and destroying everything. I just think maybe that game was on to something you know?
momo1164 2 years ago
this is an amazing bit of film. it makes me sick to be human tho
psyjon69 2 years ago 3
if you can forget "what the mushroom is".. (?)
forget the bad english: i think that you can´t forget the "movie´s theme", "Life Out of Balance" etc.. to listen Reggio talking about... it´s good.
ribeirage 2 years ago
I don't know why, but I find the mushroom cloud one of the most beautiful sights in the world. Maybe I'm crazy!
SoraNoShimpei 2 years ago 2
The early 80's freeway. Most of those cars(and people) aren't on the road anymore. How things have changed.
thehoopatribe 2 years ago 2
2:30 mindblowing
DonDubbelman 2 years ago
I like the music and also the video. It impressive how a movie with only these two aspects can make such a huge impression on me...
DonDubbelman 2 years ago
This... this was a very moving bit of music.
I think I'm going to be very happy from here on out because of this...
oWnednErd 2 years ago 3
Ok ay, I understand most of this, but I don't get why they show a jet taxiing for over two minutes. That went on a bit too long-
worldwatcher22 2 years ago
i think it's less the jet the point, but more the reflection, caused by the heat of the asphalt. you wont notice it within 10 sec. it takes some time. and think about it, how huge areas are asphalted!!! it's incredible!!!
therob39 2 years ago
So beautiful this. Philip Glass deliverd an amazing job with this.
HandjesBreda 2 years ago 3
Chuck Norris?
I got to admit, I laughed out loud on this comment.
Nice one...
screen27 2 years ago
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jesus christ loves us and wants us to be happy.
esldave 2 years ago
what a relief that we all die. that you die. that i die. that they die.
what a relief.
brenmc 2 years ago 2
It's just a matter of time for when the world ends. Maybe it's just in nature (in our nature) for the world, humanity, the universe to destroy life. Like a fruit. Otherwise you eat it or leave it to rot. Either way, it ends.
screen27 2 years ago 3
mh I don´t think so because, we maybe think we´re destroying the planet but the planet cannot be destroyed by humans, the planet will definitly revolt with terrible weather which makes living on earth impossible so that humanity will dissapear...
and then the planet will heal itself.
anouck86 2 years ago 2
I suppose that the point is, that eventually everything dies or it's destroyed. Then it comes to a cycle where it's starts all over again. We sometimes try to understand things and believe in them some how. But in the end, I just know we know nothing.
I liked your analogy.
Thanks.
screen27 2 years ago
yes I know that nothing lasts forever...but the planet is strong and we are just so small compared to nature...humankind will perish I guess very soon if we are not changing our attitude towards nature and the environment...
and for me the idea of the cycle is definitly true, but it can make oneself adapt a fatalistic attitude towards trying to change for the good...
anouck86 2 years ago
you think jesus.. omfg :D
you should don´t think please!!!!
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esldave 2 years ago
If we are to continue to overpopulate our planet as most agree we should (life=good) then we have to further adapt our planet to our need. It's proven that organic and green farming can't sustain the world's population (ie, Borlaug's work). Even primitive farmers altered their land and cleared forest for easily available food. Awareness != Solution.
deathpossum 2 years ago
i think this was made to show how we destroy our own planet, our own future and our own evolution and if we dont learn how to use our ressources correctly then we not will exist any longer.
killamentos 2 years ago 3