Pandora's Box

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10 ай бұрын

Manmade Horrors beyond our Comprehension.
Patreon: / emperorlemon
Twitter: / emperorlemon
Audio Assembly by / veganassvalerie
Thumbnail Artwork by: / imjustawormart
3D Animation by: / @nickolascruiser
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Music List:
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@epicgamer4611 10 ай бұрын

"I dunno man, these man-made horrors seem pretty comprehensable to me"

@gonderage 10 ай бұрын

seems like a skill issue tbh

@sqly3129 10 ай бұрын

Im just built different man

@timnordstrom7383 10 ай бұрын

@@kike-kun4093 *dedicated wam

@ElectrostatiCrow 10 ай бұрын

Download the more complex ones.

@FuraFaolox 9 ай бұрын

Truly man-made horrors are comprehensible, just not understandable.

@Maxsmack 10 ай бұрын

This channel made my mother understand why cable television died. She’s flabbergasted this kind of content is completely free.

@GooberInternet 10 ай бұрын

I wonder how your mom would think about Emps old content considering they're night and day.

@CamiloLascoutx 10 ай бұрын

your mom is very cool.

@Maxsmack 10 ай бұрын

@@GooberInternet I told her about how he stared but I didn’t bother her with watching any

@Maxsmack 10 ай бұрын

@@CamiloLascoutx thank you, I’ll let her know

@Hambo325 10 ай бұрын

Based Mom, show her the KZfaq poops also!

@Recordspin 8 ай бұрын

That box was such a shit gift. "Here's a box, don't open it though. I will not elaborate further."

@stipocic197 8 ай бұрын

Always tought the same even When i first heard the story as a kid

@skivvy3565 Ай бұрын

schroedinger's present, "as long as you don't open the box it could potentially be the best gift ever!"

@okuyasuniijimura Ай бұрын

Emp didnt tell the whole myth tbf. The box was sent as a "gift" by the gods as revenge for humanity discovering fire. I definetely recommend you read it for yourself, cause this comment is kinda misleading cuz of my shit writing skills

@boogiegroovey Ай бұрын

That's the point.

@tunasandwich8049 26 күн бұрын

The gift was outside of that box

@bradskag3007 9 ай бұрын

The asbestos cigarette filter is truly a deadly look back on recent history. "Double the Cancer, Double the Flavor!"

@glumbortango7182 20 күн бұрын

A perfect wedding of killers from across the ages

@ryanhardy2777 10 ай бұрын

Fun fact: some birds here in Australia have actually worked out how to flip the cane toads and attack their undersides, another example of nature adapting

@michaelkitto758 10 ай бұрын

Same with some snakes too!

@baconsarny-geddon8298 10 ай бұрын

Snakes are evolving a narrower head, too. Because wide-mouthed snakes can eat the biggest, most poisonous toads, and thus die. So a snake with a smaller/narrower head (who CAN'T eat big, poison-filled toads) lives longer and breeds more.

@vee-bee-a 10 ай бұрын

Rules of Nature, baby.

@chaseboudreaux5514 10 ай бұрын

That's why people had to deal with exploding frogs, because crows knew how to specifically remove their livers

@aperson3048 10 ай бұрын

Nature fuck yeah

@unlimitededge2689 10 ай бұрын

i would have never expected one of the hardest quotes ever written to go along with a rat skeleton in a computer

@azzy-551 10 ай бұрын

I think it's a breaker box. No way a computer is running enough voltage to instantly kill a rat.

@hufje 10 ай бұрын

Or for it to be read out to the sound of an instrumental version of a comedy song about a fake Pepsi logo.

@EchoesOfArson 10 ай бұрын

Whilst having a lemon demon song playing in the background of all things

@mist2961 10 ай бұрын

You never know man, you never never know...

@unlimitededge2689 10 ай бұрын

@@azzy-551 looking at the wires and how they’re connected it probably is one lol I didn’t really think about it

@mrbigglezworth42 Ай бұрын

"Mao's plan began to immediately backfire" Well that hardly narrows it down when you think about it.

@joseaca1010 24 күн бұрын

"You killed my entire family" Mao: you do have the faintiest idea of how little that narrows it down?

@OakNuggins 10 ай бұрын

I wish you mentioned Clair Patterson when it came to the section about lead. He was a scientist who basically discovered and brought awareness to lead poisoning the air, and fought hard against oil companies who lobbied to keep making it with lead (apparently that lead fuel was really good stuff though.) Clair saved the US and potentially the entire world from certain doom if things continued the way they were going. He's literally a hero to me. He also helped discover the age of the Earth, as well as unknowingly helped produce the uranium for the first nuclear weapons that would be dropped on Japan. Bring some awareness to him!

@Killerunchie 8 ай бұрын

I am an isotope geochemistry graduate student and one of my professors was a student of patterson’s. The work he did is truly remarkable, and this field of study has provided us with an incredible amount of knowledge about the history of our planet and universe, yet very few are aware of its story.

@Jasper3478 6 ай бұрын

Lead was put in gasoline because it's a lubricant. It reduced wear on the piston rings and valves in the engine. In its natural state you can use Lead as a dry lubricant.

@vinniehatcher664 2 ай бұрын

@@Jasper3478 Lead is an element of ruin. Its dwindling presence in civilized society is not unwelcomed by me.

@RJS2003 Ай бұрын

As it would seem the actions of most heroes either just aren't all that known or would rather go unsung. We may have a lot of legends about real great heroes from eras past but we'll never truly know them all, who knows, perhaps we've already forgotten plenty. Even so, maybe we don't need to know who they were. Instead we should appreciate what their actions and sacrifices have provided us with today and hope the echoes of their victories carry on with us into the uncertain future that is to come.

@mrmaniac3 25 күн бұрын

You just did 👍

@compatriot852 10 ай бұрын

Emp went from making YTPs to having an existenial crisis while detailing myths

@forx88 10 ай бұрын

Thinking making YTP's is not something born of an existential crisis is cute.

@Gloves-T-Catzero 10 ай бұрын

Ytp’s = a good start to powerful editing

@fallengamer3000 10 ай бұрын

nice vytis, respect

@devangoad 10 ай бұрын

True growth.

@oktayyildirim2911 10 ай бұрын

I wonder if he minds being remembered as "the YTP guy". Also, other commenters, please stop using apostrophes to pluralize.

@alfred8936 10 ай бұрын

this might be kind of a random compliment but I appreciate how perfect your audio levels and quality always are

@CoobyPls 10 ай бұрын

Nah that's an entirely valid compliment. I'm never fiddling with my volume when I watch his videos

@jasonx1174 10 ай бұрын

That's actually noteworthy to point out. Mark of someone committed to great quality has to ensure the smallest stuff is up to snuff.

@avischetlin 10 ай бұрын

absolutely agreed, these videos scratch my audiophile itch very well

@Maceyoshiman 10 ай бұрын

Emp is a sound smith for sure

@soffren 10 ай бұрын

He's definitely an editor who understands audio is the key to a good video.

@Rainkit 10 ай бұрын

Lead's history fascinates me. We used it for piping and paint for thousands of years but it was never connected to anything until recently. Some roman authors even said that painted lead plates made food taste better.

@concon9107 10 ай бұрын

Lead was even used as a sweetener in some parts of the ancient world, although there are tales of artists and hatters going mad in fits of what we now know to be lead poisoning. Edit: hatters were mercury, sweeteners and white paint for much of history were lead.

@radioanon4535 9 ай бұрын

It was known to be dangerous to an extent back into the middle of the alchemical days, but it was so cheap that it was thought that the benefit outweighed the risk.

@rumble1925 9 ай бұрын

I've read that they knew it had toxic effects. I guess they continued using it for the same reason we put lead in gasoline; it solved an immediate problem.

@duffman18 9 ай бұрын

@@concon9107 hatters went mad due to mercury, not lead. Mercury was used for the fabric of hats. Basically they'd use animal fur, and they'd soak the fur in mercury to make it much easier and quicker to separate it from the skin. It'd basically automatically turn it into a fabric. It was pretty dumb. But anything companies can do to cut costs, they'll do, even when it destroys their entire employee base because they all go mad or dead from it. Same thing happened with stuff like the radium girls. There were better, safer ways to apply the radium to watch dials, but they were more expensive. The companies literally knew how dangerous it was, all the men employed at the factories would wear huge amounts of protective equipment and clothing when handling the radium, but they didn't tell the women working there about the dangers, and so they would lick the paintbrushes that they'd just dipped in radium in order to create a fine point for the precise painting work they were doing, and that's why all their jaws fell off.

@CastleBaudeau 7 ай бұрын

Makes a lotta sense when you see how insane some of the (actual baby boomers) are in their older age. Guess we all just assumed that everyone would go senile as they age, but hopefully the commonality of it will severely drop.

@pastuleo79 8 ай бұрын

25:11 Just remember, if you're ever sad, rectangle cow with tiny head is always here for you.

@chungusdisciple9917 10 ай бұрын

Contrary to popular belief, Roman lead pipes likely didn't have a massive impact. Lead pipes have been used in America before, and generally stop leaching into water after calcium deposits build up along the inside of the pipes, which is known as "pipe scaling". However, the Romans were fond of heating their drinking wine in large lead containers, and that likely did drive more than a few aristocrats mad.

@nalgene247 10 ай бұрын

IIRC, Flint, MI was a catastrophe because of pipe descaling

@benjiunofficial 10 ай бұрын

Additionally, Roman authorities recognized that wine kept in lead vessels was somehow unwholesome, and recommended against the practice. It was popular because the lead acetate formed by reaction with the wine had a sweetening effect.

@pyropulseIXXI 10 ай бұрын

No, it didn't make anyone mad; this is just nonsense retro-explanatory powers being used to create a false reality of the past

@MBro3 10 ай бұрын

@@pyropulseIXXI at least put some grease into your argument , whats your source 'trust me bro! ?

@poultrylord7300 10 ай бұрын

Didn't they also shave lead onto foods to sweeten them?

@StormBreaker_Chasing 10 ай бұрын

Learning that tumbleweeds are an invasive species is probably the most mind-blowing thing I've learned in the past year

@postmasters6453 10 ай бұрын

Wait until you learn that potatoes originated from the americas

@soundonly7392 10 ай бұрын

Learning that flammable tumbleweeds can be sucked into tornadoes creating massive devastating firestorm-tumbleweednados is one of the most interesting things i've learned from this video, for sure.

@San-li9ml 10 ай бұрын

@@postmasters6453 Went down a long googling process and it still says the Americas, can you tell me where if not the Americas?

@nameofthename 10 ай бұрын

no fr i thought the fuckers were completely natural and were always a part of the desert

@snowballeffect7812 10 ай бұрын

@@nameofthename a good way to see if something is invasive or not is to see if it effs up the stuff around it, kind of like people do lol

@samuelvilz 10 ай бұрын

I'm surprised this one doesn't have timestamps yet. Here's a suggestion: 0:00 Prelude 2:52 The Yellowstone Wolves (and other man-made disruptions of the ecosystem) 10:08 Human's use of toxic chemicals 16:10 The atom bomb 19:29 Poisons and infectious diseases 27:05 How we're still in the age of unforeseen consequences 28:57 Is hope yet another evil? 31:25 Of mice and men

@GuinessOriginal 10 ай бұрын

2:09 what are the bodies in the picture behind him?

@samuelvilz 10 ай бұрын

@@GuinessOriginal Here's a link: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Bison_skull_pile_edit.jpg Found using Google Chrome's context menu, "send pictures to Google"

@thefreemonk6938 9 ай бұрын

Thank you very much

@ELTABULLO 9 ай бұрын

@@GuinessOriginal The skulls of an american species that was wiped from the continent jut to screw over the Native Americans, they even said "Kill Every Buffalo You Can! Every Buffalo Dead Is an Indian Gone", they didn't eat them or anything, just kill.

@DownTrodded 9 ай бұрын

@@GuinessOriginalHorned animals similar to cows and probably siblings to bulls and buffalo.

@helloitsme4388 10 ай бұрын

I figured some people would want to know the music at some points in the video especially that last song (it's a banger) so i timestamped all of them and used emp's pastbin of the song titles to create this list. 00:00 Uncut Gems Soundtrack - Uncut Gems 01:17 Emerson Lake & Palmer - Tarkus 01:35 LA Noire Soundtrack - J.J. 02:32 Firewatch Soundtrack - North Backcountry 03:34 Firewatch Soundtrack - Shoshone Overlook 04:35 C418 - Wait 05:11 Amynedd - Boulder Zone 06:06 Klaus Veen - Dial Hop 06:49 Butthole Surfers - Pepper (Instrumental Cover) 08:41 Persona 5 Soundtrack - Freedom and Security 09:54 Joshua Morse - Vampire Snap 11:11 NYSE - gross2 11:24 NYSE - HGTV 13:14 Dewey Dellay - Gramps Remembers 14:16 glue70 - Fake Idea 16:11 Uncut Gems Soundtrack - The Ballad of Howie Bling 18:00 Bad Dudes - Super Dodgeball - abstractions of rain (Versus) 19:30 Gorillaz - Saturnz Barz (Instrumental Cover) 21:00 Brian Ellis - World Peace 22:35 Nine Inch Nails - Closer (Synthwave Cover by Marc Bower) 27:00 Xenosaga Ep. 1 Soundtrack - U.M.N. Mode 28:31 Jimmy Durante - Smile (Instumental Cover) 29:14 Soundgarden - Black Hole Sun (Mario 64 MIDI Cover) 30:29 Lemon Demon - Redesign Your Logo (Instrumental)

@maxl_2034 9 ай бұрын

Amazing! Thank you!

@joshmay2944 8 ай бұрын

Doing the lords work, thank you friend!

@alikzandergreata2115 8 ай бұрын

jiw did you know?

@seronymus 8 ай бұрын

How did you recognize all them!???

@duffman18 7 ай бұрын

@@seronymus he didn't. He literally said, he used Emplemon's paste bin link in the description of the video. Emplemon always posts the list of songs he uses, for every single video he makes, in the description in a pastebin link (he does that instead of just listing the songs in the description itself because if you write out the names of songs and artists in the description, KZfaq's content ID bots are way more likely to take down your video or stop you from earning any money from ads on the video, but if you just write them down on a pastebin post then the KZfaq bots won't know)

@griffinheeg2998 10 ай бұрын

This emp lemon guy sure makes some neat moving pictures

@zenotoxic3761 10 ай бұрын

You should’ve seen the ones he made before

@vapinggranny2474 10 ай бұрын

Even the OF girls can’t make ur meat feel this good

@hassassinator8858 10 ай бұрын

Motion pictures

@andrewternet8370 10 ай бұрын

Lemon guy? Who tf you talkin about?

@haroldthaf 10 ай бұрын

He makes pictures move real good.

@mhomer89 10 ай бұрын

"As was the case with Emperor Qin, we are still searching for eternal youth by ingesting poison" That is some high level writing right there

@gonderage 10 ай бұрын

some dark souls type plot going on there

@pyropulseIXXI 10 ай бұрын

I see comments like these, and I realize the bar for literally everything has dropped so low. Such basic writing, the likes of which a 13 year old could achieve, and some 'genius' comes along and goes "that is some high level writing right there"

@BickyNuckley 10 ай бұрын

@@pyropulseIXXIWhy even watch Emp’s content if you don’t value it whatsoever? It was a clever line, I don’t understand why you’re so angry across so many replies. Maybe you should take a small break from the computer, go outside for a walk.

@BittenToe 10 ай бұрын

@@pyropulseIXXI would you rather it be written in old english? What matters is not the prose but the content. The clever parallel drawn here that encapsulates the central idea of the video *is* high level writing.

@INeedToSeeYourBalls1945 10 ай бұрын

@@pyropulseIXXIDamn, someone sounds jealous.

@MapleMilk 5 ай бұрын

I honestly love and hate how depressing this video is It's the most "It is what it is" video ever made It presents all of these subjects that are bigger than us individually and says how they harmed or will harm us and basically shows there's nothing we can do about it It really makes that last quote more potent

@R.A.A. 4 ай бұрын

Hi Maple, you’re no longer feeling depressed, correct ?

@epic_sans8229 4 ай бұрын

This is the dumbest type of comment I see in videos. It shows how illiterate you are with informative videos and it annoys me.

@daddymememaster5432 2 ай бұрын

Oftentimes with these stories though, there will be one or multiple individuals that would lead us towards a solution to them. Even as a single person, it's possible to change a lot - it just won't be easy.

@SoulDevoured Ай бұрын

I mean it's not that there's nothing we can do. We can do alot of things. Reintroducing wolves to Yellowstone will never fully restore the ecosystem to what it was. But it was a crucial step towards recovery, to what will one day return to as close to a self sustaining ecosystem as it could ever come. It along with other aggressive restoration efforts. Each individually a small part but each all small parts. That is our future. We all can only do small parts. But they do have an impact. And they all serve to make it a little better (or at least a little less worse) than it could be. We aren't eradicating invasive kudzu but each tree we free from the vines saves one vital part of the ecosystem and slows the growth of kudzu by just that much. Each patch of woods cleared is one little tiny ecosystem allowed to recover and heal itself. Pandora's box is an appropriate name for all the problems Emp listed. We can never go back to the world before these things were introduced. But that's not to say there's nothing we can do to mitigate and reverse some of the damage done. Look to do what little parts you can. If you do happen to live in the south eastern US there's many groups that desperately need volunteers to help remove kudzu. If not you probably live near a creek or a stream and your state probably has an adopt a stream program where you volunteer to clean it. Or has an adopt a road program where you do the same thing and prevent plastics (and other nasty things) from breaking down in those ecosystems before they get there. Everyone can do something. So if you care go and find what you can do. It does matter.

@AnalogHonesty Ай бұрын

Its not that we can't do anything, far from it. Taking the cane toad example, the dread we have towards seemingly unsolvable problems comes from the incertainty of whether the solution will work or make everything worse.

@connorperrett9559 6 ай бұрын

"I'm gonna do what's called a pro gamer move." *Invents leaded gasoline and CFC*

@aliceturner9689 10 ай бұрын

kind of insane that some random dude can be like 'this animal is annoying' and boom its gone and replaced with even worse complications

@theviniso 10 ай бұрын

What amazes me is how they chose the worst possible animal for the job. That goddamn frog not only is poisonous but also doesn't even eat the bugs they wanted to get rid of. I mean, come on.

@DownTrodded 9 ай бұрын

@@thevinisoYa they didn’t even test it they went it’s in the name so it must do that no?

@Sonichero151 9 ай бұрын

@DownTrodded i'm flabbergasting that a federal government actually chose to follow literal kindergarten logic for dealing with an infestation...... between this and losing a war with a flock of fucking birds, Australia really is forsakened by God

@haiperbus 9 ай бұрын

@@thevinisoyou're expecting too much from austrailians

@markalan4026 9 ай бұрын

*Politicians

@WestPictures 10 ай бұрын

This video reminded me of how many existential threats have attacked Springfield over the years

@bathestyles6525 10 ай бұрын

Maybe we should take comfort in the fact that most of the residents have somehow survived them all

@TaRAAASHBAGS 10 ай бұрын

@@bathestyles6525Being fictional helps

@wildfire9280 10 ай бұрын

@@TaRAAASHBAGS i knew Illinois wasn’t real

@SearcherRyan 5 ай бұрын

For me this is emps best video. Its full of random fun facts and existential dread. And on top of all that, the editing is superb

@daannillesen6187 7 ай бұрын

11:23 Fun fact about roman lead pipes, while the water pipes would be very unhealthy to drink from the first years, at certain spots in italy water contained calcium carbonate which, after a while, creates a protective layer against the lead. I find that a crazy and fascinating coincidence

@alwayshere6956 7 ай бұрын

That reminds me of how Roman concrete ended up being the way the stone would calcify with the water eroding it ending up strengthening it. Our ancestors had a connection to nature that we've lost, and I'm not religious, but I think it's godlessness

@daannillesen6187 7 ай бұрын

@@alwayshere6956 What I found fascinating was the book Meditations by Marcus Aurelius, which is about stoïcism. It is a lot about humans and their connection with nature and life. I think this book is amazing to experience what Romans might have thought about the world while also being still relevant today With regards to their solutions surrounding water, it could also just be a coincident which worked out pretty well. We prob never gonna know but thats history :)

@theKashConnoisseur 27 күн бұрын

@@alwayshere6956 yes, godlessness. bring back the worship of the Pantheon, just like the Romans!

@zf9903 20 күн бұрын

@@alwayshere6956the concept you’re looking for, the connective tissue we’re missing, is areligious spirituality.

@papabaddad 10 ай бұрын

"we're still in the era of unforeseen consequences" I think we've actually entered the era of "entirely foreseen consequences"

@four-en-tee 10 ай бұрын

the fog is coming

@ryanj116 10 ай бұрын

Not really, we know and can predict more things than before, but we will never reach an “end of history” level of understanding. New problems will always reveal themselves.

@davidgamboa1928 10 ай бұрын

The thing is, that both are not mutually exclusive.

@rickkroll 10 ай бұрын

@@four-en-teethe fog is already here. Im in the midwest and almost every day it has been hazy and foggy. Air quality is the worst its ever been. It could be something simple, either way its creepy

@muhthecow5026 10 ай бұрын

@@rickkroll You sound schizo

@reagansido5823 10 ай бұрын

Hearing that the only thing remaining the box was hope, my first thought was that, while every evil had escaped, hope remained, still trapped inside.

@Ramsey276one 10 ай бұрын

That's one version Another interpretation is that (Deluded) Hope is the worst evil of all...

@l.e.b.3541 10 ай бұрын

@@Ramsey276onetbh hope is simultaneously a blessing and a curse.

@Ramsey276one 10 ай бұрын

@@l.e.b.3541 yeah I have the Danganronpa games XD

@BlazerBoy1337 10 ай бұрын

I'd rather see it as hope being at the end of understanding of the evils released by the box. That after all is released and after the realization of the massive magnitude of the effect it has on us, we can still have hope that things might improve, or at the very least that we can improve our own condition in spite of the evils released.

@wompastompa3692 10 ай бұрын

Wait, I though Kratos got it.

@Funnylittleguy985 10 ай бұрын

I’ve been dealing with a lot of stuff recently. The part about hope and the mouse at the end made me sob. It’s the first real feeling emotion I’ve had in a month. It really put into perspective that my feelings of hopelessness are not just my own. I’m not alone in my struggles. We all go through the same shit. I’ve been watching you since the beginning and I’m not leaving anytime soon. Thank you emp for all the good times.

@Treeeop 9 ай бұрын

This is the rawest, most fitting and understandable while still being surprising ending of an EmpLemon video ever. Awesome work as always.

@DieselNDirt_ 10 ай бұрын

This channel has become my favorite emotional rollercoaster. Jumping from YTP, to NASCAR, to existential crisis.

@johndavis9321 10 ай бұрын

Yup with emplemon video essays you never know the topic but you know it will always be entertaining and we'll researched

@andybaldman 10 ай бұрын

It''s just a reflection of society.

@senor-achopijo3841 10 ай бұрын

It's basically a journey through life: you start off laughing at the word "peepee", then find something that really captures your imagination and then start wondering where it all leads to in the end.

@crogsmash1611 10 ай бұрын

There's only one place left to go: anywhere

@Marcomanexists 10 ай бұрын

I can’t believe this is the same guy i used to watch a decade ago because he made SpongeBob say fuck. What an incredible creator you are emp.

@jayopayke8846 4 ай бұрын

Holy shit he was one of those guys? This unlocked a hell of a memory lol

@Microsave2 4 ай бұрын

Change.

@jameswright8923 8 ай бұрын

Thank you for mentioning the invasive species problem that humans have created. I have studied this problem extensively, and it is terrifying. The worst part is that little is done about this problem and no one is talking about it. I envision a future of no biodiversity, mass native exction, and an ecosystem filled with monoculture non-native, plants if nothing is said or done. I would love to see a video talking about this topic but I know your busy :) Love the video!!!

@JohnyAnderson-hk2nj 4 ай бұрын

Gosh that is what's scary and most likely will be our doom freaking r3tards today are more worried about social media and there following then anything else idk I just thing we are the last gen that's done the final middle finger to the earth and continue to I don't see us stopping anything sadly

@SoulDevoured Ай бұрын

What bothers me is how much could be done if property owners were educated about the property. A simple education campaign coul have a massive impact. Far bigger than the few volunteers making small attempts on public lands.

@infinite_recursion 10 ай бұрын

Its extremely fitting that EmpLemon dropped this masterpiece mere days before Oppenheimer came out

@Thatdudewiththedogs 10 ай бұрын

Maybe it was intentional? Is he that giga brained?

@DownTrodded 9 ай бұрын

@@ThatdudewiththedogsDo you even have to ask at this point he’s done far more complex and strange things.

@planescaped 10 ай бұрын

"Down the line people way smarter than us will come along and just figure it out" I have seen quite a number of people echo this exact sentiment, politicians included, and their braindead hopeful optimism is as frightening as it is unhelpful. The reason we're in the trouble we're in is because of people just ignoring problems for another day/someone else. We should be doing what we know works now _and_ wait for something better to come along. Not do nothing and be an IRL version of the "this is fine" meme

@nothing4mepls973 10 ай бұрын

Lead gas logic, lmao. Tragic yet funny.

@thibaldus3 10 ай бұрын

This. Sadly "political time" is often no more than 4, 5, or 7 years. Until the next election.

@LordVader1094 10 ай бұрын

Exactly. The only reason people were able to solve problems and make big advancements in the past is because of the incremental work those before them did. Everyone needs to take responsibility and try improving if we're to get anywhere.

@beridledodopidop4822 10 ай бұрын

Na it's because no good deed goes unpunished, truth included.

@ghostface5559 10 ай бұрын

I think the quiet part isn't being said. The idea that at some point we do stop doing that and do buckle down and settle on whats to be done and fulfill that narrative.

@lronhayden 10 ай бұрын

I love how EmpLemon always keeps the Green Simpsons with him, Whether it's YTPs or documentaries

@welfaiewfb8802 10 ай бұрын

its his trademark

@acceptablecasualty5319 8 ай бұрын

Love how instead of overproduced Documentary music in the Background, we get a a Disco Remix of "Vampire Killer" as EMP describes Mercury poisoning

@MrGamingANDfootball 9 ай бұрын

31:59 "One day, while doing nothing particularly out of the ordinary, because of natural laws he was completely powerless to understand or intuit, he was instantly killed in a horrifying way by forces vastly in excess of anything he was ever designed to experience, for no reason, to no one's particular surprise or upset. In this, we are more like him than different"

@winterx2348 10 ай бұрын

thanks for mentioning PCB/dioxin poisoning. i'm from a town that was extremely tainted with the stuff, specifically, in our schools. me and many of my classmates have developed lifelong debilitating chronic conditions because of it, from chronic fatigue, to cognitive decline, to even organ failure. the worst part is that although they shut down the schools, nobody is doing anything to help the victims. doctors won't even touch us because not enough is known about the effects of dioxins in humans, let alone how to treat it, or even how to detect and diagnose it. i will most likely live the rest of my life in pain and poverty because of a few greedy bastards who decided to open pandora's box, fully knowing how dangerous it was, and make the rest of us suffer the consequences.

@Silver-hi1ky 10 ай бұрын

Shit like that is unforgivably evil, and the worst part is that it's just gonna keep happening but in different ways.

@SamuelLevant 10 ай бұрын

@@Silver-hi1ky because nobody ever goes after the big shots, the CEOs, the shady shareholders etc.

@ExtremeWreck 10 ай бұрын

@@SamuelLevant Because what COULD they do about it? If they're that powerful then it's quite hard to knock them down a peg, or even so much as touch them!

@winterx2348 10 ай бұрын

@@SamuelLevant Nevermind the people responsible, just getting help is a soul crushing nightmare. Doctors will only spend 20 min talking to us per appointment and since the condition isn't in their textbooks yet, they will simply throw random drugs at us and tell us to go away or blame it on anxiety. No diagnosis = no disability benefits. Even a lot of dentists refuse basic services when they find out because having an unknown medical condition is a liability to them. It took me a year to find a dentist that would fill a cavity for me and by then I needed 3 root canals, all $1k each, which is a tall ask from someone who physically cant work full time. We really get the feeling that the world would rather we die than treat us like human beings.

@leocuntface 10 ай бұрын

I feel for you and your classmates.

@DavMovis_ 10 ай бұрын

This video really makes me feel like the existential downward spiral never really stopped.

@solarscreams2447 10 ай бұрын

Who suggested otherwise?

@solarscreams2447 10 ай бұрын

@@kalebisalwaysright live a life of lies to have a peaceful death. I'll stick to the world I know rather than the imaginary one

@dorcasmutton6335 10 ай бұрын

@@solarscreams2447 ah yes, because we all definitely know the truth 100% no questions about it. Until we definitively prove God real or fake one way or the other, it doesn't really matter which way people believe. So why not just let the man live in a way that brings him comfort?

@hovesssharedspace8490 10 ай бұрын

@@kalebisalwaysright even if I'm not responsible for my existence, I choose to take responsibility for it. I choose to confront my fears rather than to ignore them like you suggest to do. I refuse to pass the responsibility of being off to some other third party being, for that is an insult to the miracle of existence.

@Kuino 10 ай бұрын

@@dorcasmutton6335 he let him

@JennaEmbers 10 ай бұрын

Such a wild coincidence that you uploaded this because I have been thinking about this very subject every day. It’s been weighing on my mind quite heavily. This inevitable feeling, not just of my own unavoidable passing, but of mankind as a whole barreling through time toward our own unavoidable demise.

@alikzandergreata2115 8 ай бұрын

@@rumble1925depends how. But they will see, in some generation if not this. Have a good life.

@HaloBro003 7 ай бұрын

While it is important to be aware of our mortality, and to try to not rush to it, it's also important to remember that people are also working towards solutions, and that things aren't necessarily doomed. This video is fascinating, and frightening, but let's not fall to fatalism and nihilism, and let's remember that life is also filled with opportunity and beauty! :)

@theKashConnoisseur 27 күн бұрын

Life always goes on. At one point this entire planet was a molten sphere with a toxic atmosphere. It's been hit by space rocks so hard that the debris cloud blocked out the sun and made it winter everywhere. Volcanic explosions so immense that they covered continent-sized areas of land in lava. And still, life finds a way.

@jakegarvin7634 9 ай бұрын

I love how everyone describes the A-bomb's destructive potential as unspeakable and then immediately describe it

@michaelzankman5859 9 ай бұрын

Because the process of detonation isn't what they're referring to as unspeakable, it's the effect of witnessing, or worse actually being affected that level of annihilation on the psyche. But you're definitely smarter and cooler than all of them, and the most correct

@hirocheeto7795 9 ай бұрын

In the same way that Lovecraft does, it's to give you an idea. It really is unspeakable - there's nothing that they could possibly say to make you understand it. Instead, they can give examples, draw comparisons, and do their best with descriptive language to give you a vague idea. Saying that something is indescribable, and then saying nothing to even attempt to describe it, is useless and tells you nothing about it, which is the exact opposite of what language is supposed to do in the first place.

@icedo1013 9 ай бұрын

@@michaelzankman5859Got it master, no interesting, quirky or tangential observations allowed on your internet space. What ever would we peons among the dregs do without your esoteric nobility to put us in our rightful place?

@thesnowmiser6728 8 ай бұрын

@@icedo1013who's to say his observation was any of those?

@DiomedesStrosMkai 4 ай бұрын

i think it should be added that the dropping of the bombs had little, if any, impact on the Japanese for surrendering. This is a pretty well established fact, being the opinion of pretty much every major US military commander of the time, from Nimitz to Eisenhower.

@5ilverstreak854 10 ай бұрын

Maybe the real treasure is the man made horrors _within_ comprehension we made along the way.

@doctornoahphd1288 10 ай бұрын

I read this in wendigoons voice 😂

@Radical.J 10 ай бұрын

The ending shot of the inside of the box having the downward spiral is genius

@Raelven 9 ай бұрын

The flow of topics is seamless. So well written.

@Bliptoons 16 күн бұрын

9 months later and i still rewatch this. this is your greatest work

@GooseBreh 10 ай бұрын

The parallels you draw between everything and always round back to your point. Never rambling, your writing and story telling is top tier man. Always love the videos

@Miguel-hk2ce 10 ай бұрын

When you realise the technique you appreciate it in a number of areas but after a while it's predictable. This video was a reddit top 10 environmental disasters and a recounting of Pandora's box. The Pandora's box arc fell flat and didn't relate well. Could have gone into philosophy or schizo conspiracy.

@SpeedKing.. 10 ай бұрын

@@Miguel-hk2ceno the Pandora's box thing makes sense for SOME of the things he says. Reply if you wanna know how.

@Miguel-hk2ce 10 ай бұрын

@SpeedKing.. ok give me your best shot. My main point is its superfluous and im tired of videos drawing upon mythology or other scholarly analogues to validate their point it's boring and gay and reddit

@El_IF_B_2 9 ай бұрын

Favorite channel on yt

@Currywurst4444 8 ай бұрын

I don't know. The video was pretty boring and uninspiring to me. Nothing interesting or narratively appealing, just a shallow compilation of the first google page if you search for something like "humanities biggest mistakes". He can definitely do better. E.: Oh, I didnt see Miguels reply with the same criticism.

@omarmatouq3855 10 ай бұрын

Another masterpiece by our favorite Electro Magnetic Pulse Lemon.

@Pekara121 10 ай бұрын

I guess the emp makes the lemon a lime cause his ass green dawg

@joshdoe7288 10 ай бұрын

Is that what the fuck it is I always said emp not E M P. Oh this changes everything

@sbilldmilk 10 ай бұрын

@@joshdoe7288 it's just short for emperor haha

@deadman4231 10 ай бұрын

@joshdoe7288 Yoooo another man of culture, I see.

@shaknxtdoor 10 ай бұрын

underrated comment

@TheBoboSamurai 10 ай бұрын

That ending song was a banger. Funky in an EmpLemon style

@bathestyles6525 10 ай бұрын

Redesign Your Logo by Lemon Demon

@Deepfried_duck 4 ай бұрын

Yeah I think this my favourite video on KZfaq. Perfect script, editing, music, length and it’s informative and leaves you with a chilling end.

@Jaydoff 10 ай бұрын

The more philosophical emp becomes, the better his content gets. You're my favorite KZfaqr.

@CassandraPantaristi 10 ай бұрын

Mine too. I rewatch almost all of his videos.

@lumen101 10 ай бұрын

Philosophy is king

@citrusorange794 10 ай бұрын

And he was once a KZfaq Pooper

@GLUBSCHI 10 ай бұрын

@@citrusorange794 just like vsauce, and he also makes great philosophical content nowadays...

@karlm7592 10 ай бұрын

Imagine the mouse at the end actually saying "I dont need gloves, because I'm Homer Si-"

@Trillyana 10 ай бұрын

Grimouse, as he liked to be called

@lordpi8140 10 ай бұрын

ded not big surprise

@joegrist1108 9 ай бұрын

this is all so depressing, but yet again, there's nothing I can do about it. Love whomever you can hard as you can.

@logosfocus 8 ай бұрын

"people will believe anything, as long as it is not written in the holy bible.." - napoleon bonaparte

@ben-xl7ne 7 ай бұрын

Love with your heart, use your head for everything else.

@DunceMedia 4 ай бұрын

This channel has come a long way since 2018 Jesus Christ Emp

@Sound557 10 ай бұрын

Lead acetate was also occasionally added to Roman wine as a sweetener. It’s where we get the term “sugar of lead”. Great video as always, Emp.

@KingHalbatorix 10 ай бұрын

it was a sweetener. sweet is the term for the taste sensation, sweat is what your body excretes to regulate temperature, and a sweater is clothing. sweaty is an adjective for someone covered in sweat; sweetie is a term of affection.

@planescaped 10 ай бұрын

@@KingHalbatorix This is a real thank you captain obvious response. It's quite obvious that's the word they intended and sweater was either an oversight or an autocorrect.

@KingHalbatorix 10 ай бұрын

@@planescaped You're absolutely wrong. I've seen countless drooling lobotomites make the same _exact_ mistake, and it's not a matter of being a speaker of English as a second language. Ohhh no, plenty of native born speakers do it too. Rather makes me want to rub their eyeballs with a cheese grater because it SHOULD be a 'captain obvious' difference - seeing as the words aren't even *pronounced* the same - but as the tautology goes, half the people in the world are below average intelligence.

@FishbedMyBeloved 10 ай бұрын

Waga baga bobo 🎉🎉🎉🎉

@queefqueefington 10 ай бұрын

I known hindsight is 20/20 but that is hilariously stupid

@huntergreer3599 10 ай бұрын

As an aspiring wildlife biologist I truly appreciate Emp’s discussion and coverage of the environmental issues happening in past and present along with the effects on ecosystems so that they can be heard of those that haven’t heard of them yet: It’s truly eye opening to understand just how complex food webs are and how each species interacts directly or indirectly with each other, thanks tor another great vid!

@chloroplast8611 10 ай бұрын

Hes schziphreniccc AAAA

@huntergreer3599 10 ай бұрын

@@chloroplast8611 AAAAAAAAA

@davisbalser203 10 ай бұрын

Lol that Yellowstone wolf section is straight up a lecture from my old disturbance ecology class

@huntergreer3599 10 ай бұрын

@@davisbalser203 yeah brought me back to one of my first ecology classes too.

@EmoDKTsuchiya 10 ай бұрын

You can thank God for that

@ArwinAbsinthe 6 ай бұрын

This episode is so well-written that it feels like opening a pandora's box myself and unleashing a plethora of things that are kinda unsettling to think about.

@HellishSpoon 10 ай бұрын

I never knew about the "hope" part of the pandoras box, i love how it can be seen as both positive and negative thing

@vetar3372 10 ай бұрын

Antibiotic resistance is scary, but the fact we do nothing to prevent it is what keeps me up at night

@androendiel 10 ай бұрын

Is there anything we can do?

@Emerald_Forge 10 ай бұрын

@@androendielI'm no scientist but other than reducing use, which we already kind of do, I don't think we can yet

@houselemuellan8756 10 ай бұрын

@@androendielmake better antibiotics

@Designed1 10 ай бұрын

@@Emerald_Forge or use bacteriophages since those things genocide bacterias on the daily

@antusFireNova64 10 ай бұрын

@@houselemuellan8756then bacteria become even more resistent A possible solution could be batteriofagus

@mikeyfergish 10 ай бұрын

I don't usually comment, but this was one of the tightest made, best produced videos I've ever seen. 10/10 you've got yourself a subscriber.

@ptvrussian2 10 ай бұрын

Emp made me care about nascar... that's a feat in itself. Dude is a phenomenal curator of captivation.

@GloriousDoctor 10 ай бұрын

@@ptvrussian2he made me and my brother enjoy WWE once again. His videos are superb 👌

@TeamPushup 10 ай бұрын

Oh boy, get ready for a downward spiral into some of the best content you'll definitely find in youtube. This guy is amazing

@Mystery-pd6jc 10 ай бұрын

Watch the rest of them, they're pretty much just as good

@Mia-rr1xv 6 күн бұрын

I keep returning to this video and every time I watch it I find it more and more interesting/intriguing - your video topics and the way you explore them is so so fascinating and very well produced, thank you!!!

@nyaKona 10 ай бұрын

17:10 HE SAID THE THING!!!

@pbfloyd13 10 ай бұрын

My favorite Barbie quote...

@cihloun 8 ай бұрын

NO WAY

@chemistryguy500 10 ай бұрын

It's so nice watching emp grow into an excellent storyteller over the years

@MumwaW 10 ай бұрын

On god I used to watch this dudes ytp’s then one day he makes this stuff that’s literal art

@tumultoustortellini 10 ай бұрын

Honestly, he was a good speaker even during the "raging at youtube" days. His jimmy kimmel video is gas, even today

@basketcaseface813 10 ай бұрын

He’s always been a good storyteller.

@thejunkman 10 ай бұрын

These are kinda just reverse YTP's if you really think about it.

@thejunkman 10 ай бұрын

@@MumwaW YTP's are art. High art.

@MusicaX79 10 ай бұрын

I'm so happy to see someone that presented the crazy story of the yellow stone elk. What was hilarious about the whole story is that the rangers at one point consoled with nearby Native Americans. They told them flat out the elk were the problem, but they didn't believe it and kept hunting the wolves. It wasn't until the wolves were completely removed that the park service admitted their mistake. What kicked all of this off small animals dying off caused by the park sevice refusing to hunt the local elk.

@four-en-tee 10 ай бұрын

probably because they were convinced it was the wolves killing them

@Kyuubi424 10 ай бұрын

So, not an unforeseen consequence, but an entirely foreseen consequence.

@DoctorCyan 10 ай бұрын

White people moment

@knight2988 6 ай бұрын

I have watched all of your videos of the last few years and this has been the best. The way you write, edit and narrate is absolutely incredible. Thank you.

@heemanmcspeed 8 ай бұрын

What we humans must learn is to not fuck with a system that has been fine-tuned for nearly 4 billion years. You CANNOT mess with something that took 4 billion years to perfect itself.

@alwayshere6956 7 ай бұрын

Thank you

@heemanmcspeed 7 ай бұрын

@@alwayshere6956 Your welcome. And thank you for taking the time to read it.

@user-qh2ir7nb4o 12 күн бұрын

You know, without fucking around and finding out we will never been able to invent medicine and other stuff. As of natural order of things, thank you very much, but i appreciate good sides of civilization and meds that saved me and many others from dying as a kid

@KSignalEingang 12 күн бұрын

@@user-qh2ir7nb4oIndeed. That well-tuned natural order of things also included smallpox, for example, and I'm totally fine with that going extinct. I think it's important not to take the wrong lesson from all this - it's not "don't meddle with the natural order", it's "think very carefully about the consequences and how to mitigate them". Fuck around, but do it in such a way that the "finding out" part doesn't decimate your civilization. Behind closed doors, as it were.

@afeathereddinosaur 10 ай бұрын

Humanity as a species is specialized at taking risks. We evolved to think about what risks to take for the possibility of a benefit. We try new things out since our birth, limits are taught to us by life and the words of many who have hit said limits before and yet there are still those who will try to go beyond them. Opening the Pandora Box is not much of a tale about we creating an unsalvageable situation knowingly, it is simply the most modest of lessons passed to us by those who can't give them to us directly. The Pandora Box, and other tales are the lesson every caveman who ate the wrong berry, every starved mountain climber, every overly tyrannical emperor, every unwise tamer, every unlucky metalworker, every submarine company CEO, every ex-risktaker, every daring person who paid the price would teach their successors should they be able to. The lesson that if you play with fire and ignore the risks and signs of danger, you will get burned, and many times that burn won't simply heal completely. It is in a way an Ode to Unluck, a Memento of Failure. Of course, it's existence also proves the contrary in a way. For every person getting burned discovering the practical uses of fire, another learnt how to cook meat with it after watching their peer get cooked themselves. For every known failure we get to learn and progress beyond it. That is why Hope is all that remains inside the box in many retellings of the story. The Pandora Box story comes with two lessons inherent to it: The first is to not take risks, not let yourself do something dangerous simply because you feel like it or someone tempts you to. The second one is that should you actually do it - open the Pandora Box and go against all common sense - and should it really be as bad as it was described, that you go ahead and try your best to get something out of it, for it is all you can do and letting the chance go means allowing that loss to forever remain one.

@mcspider9953 10 ай бұрын

Reading that was great

@Sno_White_N 10 ай бұрын

A brilliant perspective, thank you for sharing this. 🙏🏻

@cool.penguinz 10 ай бұрын

Your pandora's box visual goes insanely hard dude, mad props to you and the 3D animator!

@tonystank3091 10 ай бұрын

Downward Spiral

@Jalreal 9 ай бұрын

Your blend if writing, music choice, and editing all make your videos really stand out. When watching, one never knows where you will go next, but knows that somehow, you will tie it all together, even if thia is the first video of yours that one has seen. You have proven that many topics that one might not find interesting can be made so. That is rare- excellent job!

@GerhardTreibheit 9 ай бұрын

Putting the downward spiral was the cherry on top of everything, giving me goosebummps

@bigkspicy8257 10 ай бұрын

More terrifying than a horror film. You have a special ability to ask the big questions in a way few others can. A toast to the end of the world!

@jamesmmcgill 10 ай бұрын

I think “Koyaanisqatsi” will be the perfect companion for this video.

@-_-brutus-_- 10 ай бұрын

@@jamesmmcgillthe soundtrack for it was made by the legendary Phillip glass and it is perhaps one of the most hauntingly beautiful film OST’s I’ve ever heard.

@augustday9483 10 ай бұрын

The end of this video is SUBLIME. Peering into Pandora's Box to see the Downward Spiral staring back at us gave me chills.

@TeamPushup 10 ай бұрын

Duuude. Agreed hahaha, complete chills

@GlipGlig 10 ай бұрын

Honestly I was too distracted by the music. It was weird to watch a video & then suddenly go "Oh hey, Lemon Demon!"

@JD-qq8fz 10 ай бұрын

@@GlipGlig haha yeah right? All the dread washed away when I started groovin. Neil C friggin rocks

@joshuastaats1508 10 ай бұрын

Every time I finish an EmpLemon video, I feel so happy yet so sad. I just experienced another masterpiece and I’ll inevitably have to wait a while until we see another. Immaculate video, man. Keep it up.

@Decaf. 10 ай бұрын

the mario water level version of black hole sun really caught me off guard

@CreatureNamedGrace 10 ай бұрын

Antibiotic resistant bacteria are no joke. My great aunt got an infection in her foot from a small blister that antibiotics had a hard time treating, and the infection spread up her leg and into the bone. Thankfully, she survived, but her left leg up to the knee had to be amputated to save her. Antibiotic resistant bacteria are already here, and the consequences are deadly. Edit: fixed grammatical mistakes

@WhaleManMan 10 ай бұрын

Bacteriophage could be the solution

@mint_1018 10 ай бұрын

I've heard there is hope, the using of bacteriophages to fight bacteria has already entered human trials and that bacteria will never be able to become resistant to antibiotics and bacteriophages. This disaster may be avoided before it becomes a real problem.

@trevor0245 10 ай бұрын

While we have a solution to bacterial infections with the possibility of bacteriophages, is there an alternative solution for viral resistance?

@mint_1018 10 ай бұрын

@@trevor0245 The only new thing that I know of to combat viral infections would be antibody injection, although vaccinations are the best weapon we have. Also viruses naturally evolve to become less harmful but more contagious. The only doomsday that could happen from viruses would from something made in a lab.

@u-will-begin-2-cough-in-3-days 10 ай бұрын

@@trevor0245 vaccines and they're the best and also the most effective. No alternatives required for most viral infections in humans.

@boyranders 10 ай бұрын

Another classic by emplemon, it really amazes me how consistently high quality everything you make is

@koisamis8597 10 ай бұрын

its awesome seeing the youtube poops he would put out

@arvidhilden9630 10 ай бұрын

quality over quantity my friend

@AndrewJanusson 10 ай бұрын

Lazy regurgitated trite, settle down.

@xxxman25 10 ай бұрын

“Another classic by Emplemon” is literally what my brain says 1/3 into a Emp video. We may not get a video for 2-3 months at a time, but it’s always so worth the wait. He epitomizes quality over quantity. I can’t even imagine the work that goes into each video.

@sethsaathoff9758 10 ай бұрын

@@xxxman25”another classic by emplemon” is what I say before even clicking on a new video of him, by far my favorite youtuber

@blazingsilver7218 9 ай бұрын

31:15 is such a perfect clip and I’m so thankful someone so big has at least clipped Stuck in Sound. What a brilliant and beautiful music video, with its own message that fits so well with your video. It adds another layer, as if you seen the video, knowing the man has no part in the earth blowing up, he still squandered his relationships to achieve his goals. He open his own Pandora’s box and suffered for it. And now learning that hope is sometimes seen as another evil leaving the box, so too does the astronaut have his own hope seemingly become evil, as he thinks there’s a female astronaut in another space station. But when he arrives he is understandably angry that it’s just another guy with long flowing hair. The parallels you can push and pull to in your videos is always astounding and I can only hope that never changes.

@JobiWanKenobi804 2 ай бұрын

One of the greatest videos on this platform, i have rewatched it almost 25 times. I love your work.

@scan8501 10 ай бұрын

“If you do not expect the unexpected, you will not recognise it when it arrives.” - Heraclitus of Ephesus

@Winckypoo 10 ай бұрын

Every emplemon release is an event for me lmao

@clunkster 10 ай бұрын

same

@TurkeyTheChinese 10 ай бұрын

Omg same

@neongamer3137 10 ай бұрын

true

@Pekara121 10 ай бұрын

He’s like the internet historian 😂

@kevinzhu6417 10 ай бұрын

him and solar sands are great at these types of existential and "making random topics interesting" videos.

@sononekoh 10 ай бұрын

A masterpiece. Emp you managed to just compile my anxiety into a half an hour video I can just show people to get them to understand. That line "If there is an unspeakable catastrophe waiting for us at the end of the line It's hard to imagine we'd stop ourselves before we get there." is absolutely chilling. Well done.

@Evan2011 6 ай бұрын

I had a whole science unit about the wolves in Yellowstone, when smart guys on the internet can explain it in 3 minutes. Perhaps the biggest example of Pandora's Box: Education

@deedumdim 10 ай бұрын

I genuinely think this is one of the most well put together videos I've ever seen. Pacing, editing, content, audio, topic flow, everything. Absolutely incredible work, homie.

@ElmosDaddy23 10 ай бұрын

I second this

@dinoflame9696 10 ай бұрын

Pandora's box is an allegory for knowledge, the more you are aware of -- the more evils you see.

@sixe9095 10 ай бұрын

I hate to break it to you, but it's actually about how women are more in touch with nature and therefore more chaotic, which leads to pandora opening the box against all reason. According to ancient greeks anyway

@dikasmusha6194 10 ай бұрын

@@sixe9095 basado

@supertrollfaxnoprinter3329 10 ай бұрын

classic psuedo intellectual

@sixe9095 10 ай бұрын

@@supertrollfaxnoprinter3329 ancient Greeks have more in common with Islamic states today in terms of how they treated women, maybe you should pick up a book or do a Google search

@JL-ql2jo 10 ай бұрын

Scripture says “with much knowledge comes much sorrow”

@MegaFPVFlyer 9 ай бұрын

This is by far my favorite video you've ever made. I've watched it at least half a dozen times now.

@Upsidedowndog27 6 ай бұрын

Bro you’re videos are next freaking level. The best content on KZfaq in my opinion. You talk about things so much differently than anyone else. You find similarities In seemingly completely unrelated things and it is very interesting. Keep up this awesome content bro and I’m glad you get the views you deserve

@benb.8550 10 ай бұрын

Ending the video on "Redesign Your Logo" was a genius choice. We've been raw-dawging Earth so hard that its become a competitve industry.

@fartgarfunkeljr 10 ай бұрын

Everything's connected

@VectorKappa 10 ай бұрын

We know what we're doing

@garage7306 10 ай бұрын

We live in the future

@nerusaru 9 ай бұрын

Everyone will see it Every demographic If they fail to see it Are they even human?

@Crabmaster 9 ай бұрын

The instrumental version really does have that Downward Spiral energy to it, doesn't it? Hm. A Downward Spiral of Ants.

@galactism1154 10 ай бұрын

I always love the linearity of these videos, finding links and common ground between many things that may not at first seem connected, always coming to a head where the whole point of the video is shown. I also love how the whole video is pretty much just talking about how humanity is often it’s own enemy, then ends with an absolute bop lol.

@Christiaan-qj8fi 10 ай бұрын

Absolutely agree. The transitions are so smooth it’s incredible.

@pyropulseIXXI 10 ай бұрын

All videos are linear, since they progress from the start to the finish in linear time; imagine if your youtube video just jumped to 95% completion, then went back to 10%, then 15%, 33%, 7%, etc. until it finished out all the viewing time in a non-linear fashion; I think that would be quite confusing

@Sam-ls6sl 10 ай бұрын

Thanks for the videos Emp, I have watched you since 2014. Your narration and editing skills are great and 30 minute videos feel like 15. They are so dense with information and fluent

@whiskeywight7844 10 ай бұрын

There's another example of Man's lack of understanding in Ecology at work in the book Seeing Like a State by James C Scott (one of Sam Hyde's recommendations). The French government under Louis the 14th wanted to cultivate a specific species of tree for export, so they planted an entire forest on flatland in neat 90 degree rows of a this single tree type. What they didn't know at the time was how intricate the ecosystem was, so when a species of insect stumbled upon this neatly packed patch of tree with no predators to drive them away, it was feast time. And in attempt to fix this mistake, the government introduce ecology programs to protect and cultivate predators to drive these "invasive" (they're only doing what nature evolved them to do) away. Including having children cultivate the first ant farms and build the first bird houses.

@logosfocus 8 ай бұрын

evolution is a lie from hells kitchen

@johnvga6239 10 ай бұрын

EmpLemon's closing lines always manage to give me goosebumps

@brendanmcguinness3136 10 ай бұрын

Emp is the GOAT of video essays on KZfaq. No one else can take an unknown topic or idea and bring it to life in video format like emp does

@Hexstream 10 ай бұрын

There will never ever be another video essayist like EmpLemon!

@Sejikan 10 ай бұрын

Solar sands is better

@lonron5018 10 ай бұрын

Vsauce goated, solar sands is trash

@chloroplast8611 10 ай бұрын

I think hes schizophrenic

@ZaLewdWarudo 10 ай бұрын

@@lonron5018 vsauce is normie trash

@pelago_ 4 ай бұрын

You really smashed it with this one. For a Monday morning I’m tapping out half way through but this was a great effort.

@craindrelescuillieres6629 10 ай бұрын

Love your style and these videos, so entertaining and informative! Also i love the "Stuck In The Sound: Lets Go" reference and music video, its one of my favourite songs.

@theoppwhoshallnotbenamed3550 10 ай бұрын

I’m currently halfway through college and this video basically summed up all my dread about continuing school despite all that’s going on.

@PsRohrbaugh 10 ай бұрын

Eh, we'll probably be OK. That said I just bought 200 acres in the middle of the woods to become self sufficient.

@igortasovac848 10 ай бұрын

Listen son, I know things might look scary and bad right now, but truth is... They gonna get a lot worse.

@NoName...... 10 ай бұрын

Don't focus on things you can't control. Focus on the community around you. When you try to help everyone, you help no one.

@rampantmutt9119 10 ай бұрын

@@PsRohrbaugh Everything is connected. Living in the woods does not prevent one's self from experiencing the effects of ecological collapse, ocean acidification, wildfires, and wet-bulb temperatures that exceed survivability.

@j.2512 10 ай бұрын

@@PsRohrbaugh ah yes, just be a millionarie bro

@oogaboogabe3464 10 ай бұрын

The scariest part is that there isn't really a lot a single person can do about any of these. We have to trust those in power with doing whats best. And they don't seem to have a very good track record

@bjzaba 10 ай бұрын

It’s not enough just to trust as individuals that they will do what is right - we need to hold those in power accountable through collective organising, even as they continue to try to prevent us from doing so. The challenge is immense and there is little hope… but that isn’t an excuse to do nothing.

@sumkindacheeto 10 ай бұрын

You're all being too hopeful of the coming ages. You should stop that. Attempt to be the much needed change instead of thinking someone, something else will come in to save you. They will not.

@lambda653 10 ай бұрын

At the very least, intellectual experts can try their best to warn the public of potential irreversible dangers present with certain technologies, but yeah it usually doesn't work. Almost every time, scientists' curiosity and obsession overpowers their common sense and they wind up pushing the technology farther than reasonable. The demon core is a good example of this. Hopefully Robert Miles, Eliezer Yudkowsky, and other AI safety advocates can convince governments to start funding much more intensive alignment research because I suspect that if humanity opens a pandora's box with respect to AGI then that will be the last ever pandora's box to open.

@Beyfreak321 10 ай бұрын

@@sumkindacheeto Yea just try your best and you'll have no regrets

@lizardthatwillbiteyourball3280 10 ай бұрын

@bjzaba unionising, voting and workplace democracy seem to be some good non revolutionary method to move towards holding those in power accountable

@ericwilder9892 9 ай бұрын

The music that starts at 22:35 sounded so familiar & been used in videos in the past but didn't click until now when I heard it begin to match the melody of the synch outro to "Closer" by NIN but different key. Love these videos & Emplemon's thoughtful, studious insight into so many varied topics. Always prepared to learn something about anything when watching the latest video. Just wanted to finally leave a little bit of appreciation for the Emp & comment. Keep digging, brother.

@thegrimghoul 9 ай бұрын

Tech bros are the modern day pandora, the bane of society.

@joelr7854 10 ай бұрын

All my existential anxieties packaged into a convenient 30 minute video essay.

@willythewyno 10 ай бұрын

I started having a panic attack at the prion part. I had to stop the video because I was going to throw up or faint.

@weevil_bob 10 ай бұрын

@@willythewynoit's basically a really simple virus

@gray5485 10 ай бұрын

@@willythewynothanks for commenting this bc i was about to watch this at 3am but i think it would have destroyed me

@IlllIIIIllIIlIIlIlIlllI 10 ай бұрын

I've been telling my family and friends for years why I will NEVER have kids and they look at me shocked mouth agape eyes wide open then when I tell them the same things this video is talking about the smart ones drop their surprise and look down in shame and say "I understand you now"... the dumb ones say "you're thinking too hard" or "but don't you want someone you can call your own" and I just say why would I bring someone into a world that gives me limitless dread about the terrible direction this planet is going only to see them grow up in a world akin to if not a straight up apocalypse of unimaginable proportion just to satisfy my own monkey brain need to reproduce just to quintuple my own internal dread knowing they'll blame me for seeing the rapid acceleration towards the cliff and knowingly bring them along for the ride..

@_layman_ 10 ай бұрын

@@IlllIIIIllIIlIIlIlIlllI you have put my exact feelings into words

@Sir_Opus 10 ай бұрын

These videos are honestly so incredible. The quality not only of the video itself but also the masterful storytelling, hopping from one topic to the next in such a natural way. Emp is truly a blessing to this world.

@bajasummit6209 9 ай бұрын

I love how just everywhere your channel is, I can never guess what your next video is gonna be about

@ewanherbert3402 8 ай бұрын

I have recently been thinking about the William Carlos Williams quote (via Steve Reich's "the Desert Music") a lot: "Man has survived hitherto because he was too ignorant to know how to realize his wishes. Now that he can realize them, he must either change them or perish."