The Past We Can Never Return To - The Anthropocene Reviewed

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In September of 1940, an 18-year-old mechanic named Marcel Ravidat was walking his dog, Robot, in the countryside of Southwestern France when the dog disappeared down a hole. Robot eventually returned but the next day, Ravidat went to the spot with three friends to explore the hole.
And after quite a bit of digging, they discovered a cave with walls covered with paintings, including over 900 paintings of animals, horses, stags, bison and also species that are now extinct, including a wooly rhinoceros. The paintings were astonishingly detailed and vivid with red, yellow and black paint made from pulverized mineral pigments that were usually blown through a narrow tube, possibly a hollowed bone, onto the walls of the cave. It would eventually be established that these artworks were at least 17,000 years old.
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@kurzgesagt 3 жыл бұрын

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@JustCamilo 3 жыл бұрын

Found a Kurgesagt comment with 1 like :O

@CatLover3000_ 3 жыл бұрын

@navinater 3 жыл бұрын

Wow this is a new comment

@dhananjayvasudeva7628 3 жыл бұрын

It took you an year to write this

@hanulu1 3 жыл бұрын

@profdc9501 3 жыл бұрын

“No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man.” - Heraclitus

@human69. 3 жыл бұрын

Wise words, and true words

@sakatagintoki5895 3 жыл бұрын

I'm confused at not the same man part. Pls explain ty

@datnguyenquoc99 3 жыл бұрын

@@sakatagintoki5895 it meant that you cannot experience the same moment twice

@profdc9501 3 жыл бұрын

@@sakatagintoki5895 Through life, we change. Not just physically in that we age, but the person you are now knows and understands differently than the person you were. Think of places you have been at different times in your life, and how you perceived them differently because of your experiences. Words and pictures can be recorded, but thoughts and perceptions are fleeting, and change as we change.

@nuklearboysymbiote 3 жыл бұрын

@@sakatagintoki5895 every experience changes you a little. you are not the same person before and after reading this comment.

@erictaylor5462 2 жыл бұрын

Imagine those kids thinking, "We need to protect this" as the entire rest of their world was being torn to pieces. Pretty amazing.

@incendior 2 жыл бұрын

The very story of teenagers being so moved by what they saw that they did such a non-teenager thing: spending a year lovingly protecting cultural art - moved me strongly as well

@borskavin6395 2 жыл бұрын

@@incendior I think it's pretty much a teenager thing, as teenagers are also humans. Plus, I know several teenagers who camped in forests and moors to protect them from destruction. I am also deeply moved by their action and the whole video

@markhenley3097 2 жыл бұрын

It would've probably been amazing to be those teenagers, experiencing it for the first time, or second time, I guess.

@erictaylor5462 2 жыл бұрын

@@markhenley3097 Well, it inspired them tp protected it, even as their world was being torn to pieces.

@twelvecatsinatrenchcoat 2 жыл бұрын

It sounds like it'd make an absolutely incredible movie. Like The Goonies but with Nazis.

@ananyabhalla2520 3 жыл бұрын

"This a handprint, but not a hand. This is a memory you can't return to." This made me cry somehow.

@deaconnatsia1300 3 жыл бұрын

dude same

@robuxyyyyyyyyyy4708 3 жыл бұрын

It hits hard

@ananyabhalla2520 3 жыл бұрын

@@robuxyyyyyyyyyy4708 Exactly

@attacusatlas 2 жыл бұрын

You're not alone

@zolacnomiko 2 жыл бұрын

@leonoliveira8652 3 жыл бұрын

"ALMOST AS IF ART ISN'T OPTIONAL FOR HUMANS." This is good, and should be spread far and wide.

@wilhelmbittrich88 2 жыл бұрын

I also really liked this line

@xanderprangler8621 2 жыл бұрын

I like to believe it isn't optional. I think art is an intrinsical part of out human nature that would is present in every culture, past, present and future.

@ninangcasual 2 жыл бұрын

this touched me very deeply in the midst of the struggle to survive, humans will still make art

@zaxscat5357 2 жыл бұрын

I personally have a drive that is allways tugging on me, to make something anything to just create. So I do believe that there is a drive for art in all forms.

@veryanonymous3630 2 жыл бұрын

What does this say about religion?

@top10alltime47 3 жыл бұрын

20k years later : scientists are confused why there is 2 caves with almost the same cave art

@michellegodwin6567 3 жыл бұрын

Unfortunately, because so many people have visited the two caves, some damage has occurred to them. Therefore, we must build two identical caves so that people can still experience them.

@samueljanke4835 3 жыл бұрын

1.5m years later: An aboveground complex of identical human "art" is crudely copied across an expanse of usable land. The glixaxan alliance razes the earth and turns it into an interstellar parking lot.

@TheEnderLeader1 3 жыл бұрын

@@michellegodwin6567 He knows. He's saying that archaeologists from the future would be confused by it.

@johncaiwa 3 жыл бұрын

Nice

@6Mephisto666 3 жыл бұрын

@@TheEnderLeader1 He knows. He's saying that they must build two identical caves so that people can still experience them.

@Gameslinx 3 жыл бұрын

"If you've ever been a child" As someone born at the age of 24, I can't relate to this

@imveryangryitsnotbutter 3 жыл бұрын

At age 6, I was born without a face.

@anewspinonthings 3 жыл бұрын

I'm Very Angry It's Not Butter nice reference mate! ONE OF US

@josh34578 3 жыл бұрын

Your poor mother!

@SymmetricalDocking 3 жыл бұрын

Most people are still a child at 30, much less at 24

@Karolomen 3 жыл бұрын

Some say that the first 40 years of childhood are the worst.

@purplehaze2358 3 жыл бұрын

This honestly gave me a sort of...existential melancholic longing.

@FaerieHijacker 3 жыл бұрын

Dr. Bright experiencing existential crisis? Damn, 2021 is something.

@purplehaze2358 2 жыл бұрын

@@solomonreal1977 Lmfao. Dr Bright is a popular SCP character but alright lol

@joelcorreia9183 2 жыл бұрын

@@solomonreal1977 imagine trying to sound profound just to insult 🤣👌👌👌

@solomonreal1977 2 жыл бұрын

@@joelcorreia9183 thanks for calling me out man, it's been a weird year for everyone but I've been being stupid. I took it down. I'm sure there's lots of dumb stuff like this out there. Bleh Again, thanks. And sorry. Sorry everyone. Sorry Dr. Bright

@AtomicMonkeybutt 2 жыл бұрын

@@solomonreal1977 Good for you man. For real.

@mochievious1552 2 жыл бұрын

When I started watching this video, I didn't realise how emotional it would make me... "This is a handprint, but not a hand. This is a memory you can't return to." Isn't that going to be us one day? A beautiful, unattainable memory.

@pythonxz 2 жыл бұрын

Yes, the whole of humanity will be just a memory imprinted on the earth. Even that will be gone eventually, and then it will be as if we didn't exist at all.

@junglink2437 2 жыл бұрын

I also got more emotional than I expected to while watching this, glad I'm not alone.

@mozambique9113 Жыл бұрын

reject modernity, embrace tradition

@willtheprodigy3819 Жыл бұрын

@@mozambique9113Conservative?

@ceciliatran4522 3 жыл бұрын

John: why are there only paintings of animals ? ? Cavemen: well painting faces IS PRETTY FRICKIN HARD, JOHN

@mct8659 3 жыл бұрын

Died reading this

@thegreenwolf8838 3 жыл бұрын

@@smug1798 They probably just used actually sticks

@AC-zf3wo 3 жыл бұрын

I agree

@fluffybluefastboi103 3 жыл бұрын

Unga bunga

@MsDestroyer900 3 жыл бұрын

Animals were the original anime OC's

@Gloocifer 3 жыл бұрын

“Art is not optional for humans.” What a profoundly underrated line.

@Zeithri 3 жыл бұрын

Agreed

@Zaire82 3 жыл бұрын

Not something I'd thought about before, but we really can't avoid it. We enjoy it.

@SujanraAcoma 3 жыл бұрын

That John Green, maybe he should write a book.

@lucastardjopawiro3698 3 жыл бұрын

Made me think

@MutantSatan 3 жыл бұрын

Good thing I'm not human

@carsenmann5331 2 жыл бұрын

This made me feel similar to the “throwing a rock into a lake may seem simple but you could be the last person to touch that rock till the end of time” thing

@dheeraj12 4 ай бұрын

ohhh... wow!!! Never thought of it this way.

@elliecarlson2788 Жыл бұрын

My favorite story about these handprint walls is that because they are negatives, the handprints look a little bigger than the hands were, so for a little too long they claimed children and most women didn’t take part. But there’s a handprint of a child much too high for them to have reached on their own, so they must’ve sat on an adults shoulders to reach. I just will always hold that image close to my heart

@off6617 Жыл бұрын

Just burst into tears reading this

@newbie4789 10 ай бұрын

The idea that some human emotions were always there like care for children and their childish curiosity is heartwarming.

@CircusFoxxo 3 ай бұрын

@@newbie4789there is something of a joke from Sumer some 8,000 years ago about how dogs want you to throw the thing but don't want to give you the thing. We've always been humans.

@Alizudo 2 ай бұрын

@@CircusFoxxo The oldest piece of written language is a customer complaint of how the copper ingots he purchased aren't of the quality he was promised - carved into a stone tablet.

@CircusFoxxo 2 ай бұрын

@@Alizudo there's also Norse runes somewhere I don't remember that read "this is quite high" or something similar. We've always been the same.

@luniquekero7271 3 жыл бұрын

"we hoped you liked it" -*teary eyes*.... a little..!

@david_rocky_road 3 жыл бұрын

Lunique Kero omg sameeee 😉😭

@lyreparadox 3 жыл бұрын

I'm not crying, You're crying! 😥

@mavie3716 3 жыл бұрын

meeeee huhu

@Sandipan_Naskar 3 жыл бұрын

This video was emotional 😞

@aphexbubblebath 3 жыл бұрын

im just cutting onions

@AnimalKING 3 жыл бұрын

Every Kurzgesagt video: -Facts -Scares you -Then calms you down -Add birds

@hansellancephilippe4075 3 жыл бұрын

Literally tho.

@tiagoduarte6005 3 жыл бұрын

True

@jamesvb420 3 жыл бұрын

👏👏........ dude come on this is on EVERY video 👏👏

@rainbowthedragoncat6768 3 жыл бұрын

Either that or: -Nukes -More nukes -Even more nukes -Add marinias trench -Add alien beans

@Smrtelnikk 3 жыл бұрын

true but the ways it present things biology history facts "future" is just ... well interesting... i watched with cousin (11y) few videos including this while i tried my best to translate and he actually found it interesting i wish that there would be a lot more videos like Kurzgesagt and with more professional translations even for young/er people ... i may have set my future as simple manufacturing man and find this videos interesting but younger generations will be affected a lot more and maybe ... who knows one day i will see earth from above for cheap cash :D

@murrayp4 3 жыл бұрын

Imagine the family in the cave when one of their own dies. They would grieve their loss and with tears in their eyes place their hand on the print of their relative's hand on the wall.

@okenwaayomikun 3 жыл бұрын

now that you say it, it could be an explanation.

@sun-hi111 2 жыл бұрын

I think I've seen this idea before ... maybe in an animation about a small dinosaur idk

@ArsonPeaPlayz 2 жыл бұрын

@@sun-hi111 the good dinosaur?

@DhantExMachina 2 жыл бұрын

This hit hard, damn

@marxdc9657 2 жыл бұрын

It makes total sense. Especially in a figurative way. They didn’t print the hand itself, since that would mean your presence, and their presence on earth is extremely short (even shorter than ours nowadays), so they printed the opposite. The negative print would mean your absence… it would mean how other people feel, it would mean how much people miss you… represents both the feeling of being part of something, completing the whole (and literally the room, the clan, the family), and also the feeling of being the missing part… the hand that had to be there to fill the painting but it isn’t anymore

@MorganThaGorgan 3 жыл бұрын

Every single time I watch this video it makes me cry. Like even if I try my hardest to not cry, I find my eyes welling with tears. Standing in front of cave paintings or petroglyphs is such a moving experience. And John Green really accurately portrayed why it is so moving. I have tried to explain to people why these things are important or why I feel so emotional, but I never had the words for it. And listening to John is the closest I can get to expressing that overwhelming sense of time. It feels both very distant and yet very intimate. There is another cave in France called Chauvet-Pont-d'Arc Cave. Werner Herzog made a documentary of it called, "Cave of Forgotten Dreams." In that documentary, they interviewed scientists who determined that some of the paintings were 20,000 years old but some were as old as 40,000 years old. And that astonished me because the distance *in time* that we are to the people who made the paintings 20,000 years ago is the same distance *in time* that they were to those of 40,000 years ago. This means the people who made those 20,000-year-old paintings were coming upon paintings in the same way we are now. We often lump time together, thinking that people from 40,000 and 20,000 years ago were relatively close...but they weren't. There were just as many thousands of generations between 40-20 thousand years as there are from 20 thousand to now. Which means they must have looked at those paintings with a similar kind of wonderment. They must have also wondered who the painters were and what they were trying to say. To assume the people of 40,000 years ago were the same as the people as 20,000 years ago would be a mistake. Yes, they may have lived similarly, but I doubt the culture stayed the same in those thousands of years. There is a marked difference between different generations of people today...so many of those ancient people must have been just as perplexed by some of the paintings as we are now. I love these types of videos and I think the graphics complimented John Green's words perfectly.

@morosis82 2 жыл бұрын

One caveat: those of 20k years ago wouldn't have known how old the others were, though it's possible they had the sense of not recent.

@shiverarts8284 2 жыл бұрын

I could tell you what they was thinking I know oral stories that have great in knowing how these people thought.

@gnatdagnat 11 ай бұрын

@@shiverarts8284 do share?

@gnatdagnat 11 ай бұрын

@@morosis82 Yes, I was going to say similar. But they would be separated culturally by changes in climate/flora/fauna at least, and be a different lineage of people, or if not, maybe they had some oral tradition that informed their interpretation of artwork that old. Plus, they definitely knew what they were looking at better than civilized people 40,000 years in the future lol. I'd like to think they felt inspired or connected though.

@patfrog1213 8 ай бұрын

This comment made ME cry (not that the video didn't but yknow)

@waterunderthebridge7950 3 жыл бұрын

“...today we’re gonna do something different...” Me: So no existential crisis and depressive nihilism today...? They almost had us in the first half

@ThePenitentOneArg 3 жыл бұрын

...not gonna lie

@aneutralopinion1712 3 жыл бұрын

This is this entire channel summed up in one comments

@TacoJK 3 жыл бұрын

I mean.. it's kinda nice?

@snorgonofborkkad 3 жыл бұрын

Don’t: Comment Like: This It’s: Obnoxious

@dieselgeezer18 3 жыл бұрын

existensial crisis is for dumbasses

@hyagonery 3 жыл бұрын

“Just the act of looking at something can ruin it, I guess.” Schrödinger: ay this man spittin’!

@volffun7929 3 жыл бұрын

Hahaha

@BenTajer89 3 жыл бұрын

It was Descartes who said "we murder to dissect".

@charonder 3 жыл бұрын

@Typed Scroll haha wavefunction go brrrr

@jumpander 3 жыл бұрын

The cat is aliven't.

@vassalofthenight9945 3 жыл бұрын

Quantum physicists: you're goddamn right.

@miriga3927 3 жыл бұрын

“Almost as if art is not optional for humans” “Food feeds the body, *_art_** feeds the soul* ”

@fry.master 2 жыл бұрын

The fact that kid in 1940 had a dog named Robot was definitely a note worth keeping in... for some reason I never thought an 18 year old in 1940 would be familiar with the concept of an autonomous robot

@TheFlauschig Жыл бұрын

Science fiction already existed as a genre in the 19th century.

@infotraffic Жыл бұрын

"the modern term robot derives from the Czech word robota (“forced labour” or “serf”), used in Karel Čapek’s play R.U.R. (1920)." in Britannica.

@doubletapthatdotty4597 Жыл бұрын

@@infotrafficwow, i thought i was the only one who knew where it came from.

@jeremyd2676 3 жыл бұрын

Kurzgesagt: *apologizes for not having a normal video Also Kurzgesagt: Puts hours into designing music and animations You guys are incredible 👏 💙🥇

@malumy 3 жыл бұрын

It's great but the like to dislike ratio is actually relatively low. (only 98.2% likes instead of >99%)

@suvetum6763 3 жыл бұрын

@@malumy ok? you know some people disagree

@pavelowen8053 3 жыл бұрын

I was expecting a simple animation but they as usual under promised and over delivered

@kacperjankowski5508 3 жыл бұрын

I usually forget to but this made me like the video just in spite of the people disliking xd

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@FirstNameLastName-qt2hz 3 жыл бұрын

"Just the act of looking at something can ruin it, I guess." *Quantum Mechanics has entered the chat*

@benjaminchukwujama5259 3 жыл бұрын

can you explain please

@GodLeftAllOfUs 3 жыл бұрын

For now. Maybe the future will allow measurement without interference.

@nitrox5915 3 жыл бұрын

@@benjaminchukwujama5259 At the atomic level of zoom you still need light to observe where things are. But the photons of light hitting a small object(like an electron) changes their path. So basically if you try to look at very small things you change the thing itself.

@alitanveer3556 3 жыл бұрын

@@benjaminchukwujama5259 look up the observer effect

@markhenley3097 3 жыл бұрын

@@benjaminchukwujama5259 Double split experiment.

@piecesofandrew5483 2 жыл бұрын

When people ask me why I want to be an anthropologist, I think about cave paintings. I think about how art is present in almost every human society to ever live. I think about how, in Pompeii, there's graffiti on the walls that say "I was here." I think about how we seem to have always told stories to each other. I think about how there are many stories to tell, and sometimes the people of the past need a little help to be heard.

@Alizudo 2 ай бұрын

... How do I pursue a career like this?

@bradleytaniguchi1187 3 жыл бұрын

The end message of this video "You will know, this is not the thing itself, but a shadow of it. This is a hand-print, but not a hand. This is a memory you cannot return to." Is one of the most poetic things I've ever read.

@user-kz8zr4si3i 3 жыл бұрын

When he said "its almost as if art is not an option for humans but a requirement" i was shook

@ghuttsmckenzie4269 3 жыл бұрын

Art is everywhere, almost as if it's a genetic behavior we keep.

@sagorikaroy3505 3 жыл бұрын

I think since we're the only species with consciousness, it's a need in us to document and leave something behind as a legacy. Since ancient humans didn't knew how to write, they chose to paint it instead. It's like an archive of how many people that particular tribe had.

@jmlightning8045 3 жыл бұрын

@Arya Stark many creatures have consciousness. A good example that most people know of is a dog, dogs are aware of the environment and react to it and are thus conscious of it. If you mean self-awareness then off the top of my head i know Elephants have self-awareness.

@FrostySprite 3 жыл бұрын

I certainly stopped and thought at that part. Music is the same way. No one really thinks about it, pretty much every human likes music. We listen to it for entertainment, it appears in movies and advertisements, it's played during celebrations, and it even appears in educational documentaries and in professional environments. Music appears across all societies no matter how developed they are. But why? I'd like to watch a video on that, anyway.

@MrFahrenheit626 3 жыл бұрын

@@FrostySprite Humans like patterns so much we're constantly finding them where they don't exist, it only seems natural we'd enjoy patterns in all of our senses.

@knurled1 3 жыл бұрын

It seems to me that humanity has always had a drive to record their own existence by whatever way we know. We want to be remembered by those who come after.

@WhompingWalrus 3 жыл бұрын

Maybe it was just evolutionarily advantageous to want to pass on your knowledge to your offspring. Our ability to create/use tools and communicate about the things around us is a lot more useful that way.

@jk_ordeanneil3783 3 жыл бұрын

This is the closest we can get to being immortal-being remembered by others.

@Zenigundam 3 жыл бұрын

You'll all be forgotten, especially Gen Z. None of you have done anything original. I do wish we could go back to the 40s when women understood the alpha male patriarchy and technology had not yet advanced to the point that they could go on social media apps and dating sites and handpick girly beta males. Feminism is why the human population will decrease substantially, especially in America, in the coming decades. Women need to succumb to real men and apologize for their narcissistic and promiscuous behavior.

@sachiel197 3 жыл бұрын

@@Zenigundam I can't even begin to describe how idiotic that statement was so first of all: ok boomer, cause you earned it no one from gen z will be remembered? so what? I wouldn't mind being forgotten I'd rather just live life while I have it, I don't gain anything from being remembered when I'm already dead we haven't even lived one third of our lives, yet you expect us to have done something memorable already newsflash buddy, you won't be remembered either, especially not for comments like that

@Akshit.vats. 3 жыл бұрын

Look whos talking

@deusexaethera 3 жыл бұрын

"...it's as if art isn't optional for humans." Art _isn't_ optional for humans. It's a psychological imperative. Art is how we expel excess creativity during times when we have nothing productively creative to work on (i.e. inventions). For people who are prone to creativity and also lack technical skills, art is the only thing that keeps them sane -- and even then it isn't always enough.

@xyzzyxyzzy2 2 жыл бұрын

If art isn't optional, then why do most people produce no art at all?

@jamesmnguyen 2 жыл бұрын

@@xyzzyxyzzy2 People produce art in different ways. Either by making videos, making buildings, making computer programs, making gardens, making people happy, etc. Art doesn't have to be drawing.

@sappy.3xe 2 жыл бұрын

@@xyzzyxyzzy2 Even if people don’t create art, they certainly appreciate it. Music, drawings, inventions, making clothes, writing, and etc are all forms of art that we either create or consume. We need art to express ourselves and we need it to enjoy life.

@taisiewyong592 2 жыл бұрын

@@jamesmnguyen wow...you're right

@alankent 2 жыл бұрын

Creating art requires a skill set. It is just a different skill set possessed by engineers and inventors. Please do not belittle art in this manner

@prinkak577 3 жыл бұрын

To be very honest, I almost cried during the entire video. Something about it just made me very emotional

@ronaconcepcion5582 2 жыл бұрын

Same ;-;

@andreiemanuel89 2 жыл бұрын

It is called music . Dw. It makes me cry everytime, even though I watched this more than 50 times since it aired

@RizalBudiLeksono 2 жыл бұрын

same

@ms_ch 3 жыл бұрын

"we hope you liked this video" me, shedding some tears: okay yes

@stevevokhe 3 жыл бұрын

adorable

@bennet615 3 жыл бұрын

i literraly got tears

@shilohseaborn9800 3 жыл бұрын

Yeah that ending was really powerful and almost had me in tears

@hudsonhintze 3 жыл бұрын

Like I’m emotional as fuck now

@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721 3 жыл бұрын

Kurzgesagt and John Green are both incredibly talented and impactful educators because they have the remarkably magical ability to make us humans feel emotional about the existence of ourselves and our world.

@LoneTiger 3 жыл бұрын

_“We all have our time machines, don't we. Those that take us back are memories... And those that carry us forward, are dreams.”_ ― H.G. Wells & Jeremy Irons. EDIT: I put Jeremy Irons because of the way he quoted that line on the movie. Don't be so serious. 😁

@mrcrisme 3 жыл бұрын

They said it at unison or something?

@TheRealMirCat 3 жыл бұрын

@@mrcrisme A quote from the movie perhaps

@echoesman3439 3 жыл бұрын

@@TheRealMirCat Or maybe a book they wrote together? I don't really know if either of them ever co-authored a book, but it's possible.

@AhsanY2K 3 жыл бұрын

thats a beautiful quote

@Bell_Matt 3 жыл бұрын

Take out Jeremy Iron’s name. Your crediting him for a quote an author wrote.

@basdejong1598 2 жыл бұрын

Even though I've rewatched this video several times by now it still hits me hard once the realization sets in that such a hand print was made by somebody just as human as any of us. This has led to another thought occuring in my head; the person who'd made the handprint could've been one of my parents or sibling. However, it also left me feeling an inexplicable homesickness to return to that moment and to get to know this person who could be my distant ancestor. Edit: I've always had the idea that these handstencils were made as a kind of memorial possibly also part of a ritual of coming into adulthood. "I was there, and please do not forget about me, remember me". Not too far fetched if I say so myself considering how harsh life was back then. With no writing (or none preserved throughout the centuries) it may have been the only way to keep the memory of you alive when you've "joined the ancestors" as is likely a common corner stone of their religion/beliefs (which is a common trait of ancient faiths and beliefs).

@donsolos 4 ай бұрын

Survival would be something to be very proud of back then. You also almost certainly didnt live old enough to watch your kids come of age back then so it could be a form of connecting with their ancestors as well. Or some kind of celebration for surviving another year

@Daymickey 2 жыл бұрын

The scale of human history, the sum of every individual’s story, each one a full life, a world unto itself, is overwhelming and awe-inspiring. Like a galaxy of billions of stars.

@mikaelnilsson7822 3 жыл бұрын

"If you ever been a child" Me: Wow he is talking directly to me

@snuffsaid1703 3 жыл бұрын

@O 99 The last thing we was is a child

@flyingdoggo9887 3 жыл бұрын

*former child*

@sim7477 3 жыл бұрын

Dude thought the same thing

@khaledzaidan 3 жыл бұрын

nope.. coincidence!

@tjgodofchaos3186 3 жыл бұрын

"We have invented nothing" -Picasso Goddamn

@MR-ff2pq 3 жыл бұрын

I dont undrestand

@hunterofthenorth4482 3 жыл бұрын

@@MR-ff2pq basically a nod to the creations of humanity. Whatever has been created, or we thought of: our ancestors thought of a rudimentary version of it. Sure we think of larger and more exotic things they have, but look at the similarities. We create art, while they had so long ago. They made technology, so are we now. In the basis of all things, we haven't invented anything for it already was made BEFORE us. Art is made by nature, and that's why nothing has occured. But hey, I'm just a nerd don't mind my take on it!

@MR-ff2pq 3 жыл бұрын

@@hunterofthenorth4482 thank you

@hunterofthenorth4482 3 жыл бұрын

@@MR-ff2pq np homie

@miriga3927 3 жыл бұрын

@@hunterofthenorth4482 that, my fried was deep. Also I agree, and the patterns of nature follow the rules of the universe.

@MrPenguinFingers 3 жыл бұрын

“Infinity war is the greatest crossover of all time” Kurzgesagt and John Green:

@okenwaayomikun 3 жыл бұрын

It pains me a little because they left those to tell us 'WE WERE HERE' but we don't want to see them because we want to preserve that 'THEY WERE THERE'

@S3SSioN_Solaris 2 жыл бұрын

It's not because "we don't want to see them" but because if we keep going, eventually there will be nothing to see. By not going, their hand prints will go on for as long as they can.

@bas_ee Жыл бұрын

It pains me more that if they allow people to visit it people will destroy it within a year no boubt

@tenzin_0699 3 жыл бұрын

history teacher: talks about Lascaux me: emotionless Kurzgesagt: talks about Lascaux me: *tears streaming down my cheeks*

@mercifuldev 3 жыл бұрын

This is why teachers are invaluable. The ability to convey knowledge through depth, emotion, and passion is a rare gift.

@Stupidiusity 3 жыл бұрын

lmao I know the feel

@angelicabrieva7607 3 жыл бұрын

I don’t know why make me cry

@mv8908 3 жыл бұрын

Bruh

@marwa6192 3 жыл бұрын

Well, I love Kurzgesagt but this is all John Green ;)

@DownWithBureaucracy 3 жыл бұрын

The cave paintings mean the same thing art has always meant: we lived, we were here

@edithpatlan4752 3 жыл бұрын

the handprint to me is almost the equivalent of a time where i used to write on anything; a bathroom stall, a friends journal, a textbook, a whiteboard “edith was here”. simple and short. just the idea of knowing it would be seen by others, i would feel satisfied.

@gritzafur 3 жыл бұрын

Yes

@STAxTartaglia 3 жыл бұрын

Im goint to draw a random babling just to confused future archelogist

@Nanamowa 3 жыл бұрын

Gay

@auhsojacosta1672 3 жыл бұрын

I’m gonna scribble “sixkil” all over a wall so they would be confused on what it is supposed to say but in reality it just means that a sandwich is burying a dorito body

@ChaoticTeen16 2 жыл бұрын

I almost cried at that final sentence. "This is a memory we can't go back to." Existential dread doesn't even BEGIN to describe how that felt.

@chaim1842 6 ай бұрын

Ive watched this video a couple times now and every time I watch it I tear up. Its probably my favorite video on your channel

@vlogbrothers 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks to everyone at kurzgesagt for the extraordinarily moving animations and sound design. And I so appreciate the kind words about our work. I personally learn so much from kurzgesagt, as do my kids--not just about neutron stars and ants, but about how to approach the universe with curiosity and intellectual rigor. EDIT: Some people below have asked what this video is about. Fair question! It is mostly about the Lascaux Cave Paintings, of course, but I wrote it because I wanted to explore why we study history, and what we do and do not learn from looking at the distant past. Every record of the past is incomplete, and our personal experiences inevitably shape our understanding of what happened before us, and I think the history of Lascaux shows a lot of the nuances and complexities that accompany the study of history. I wanted the essay to be about how much we don't know and will never know when it comes to history, but why it is still productive and important to consider what we have of a historical record. p.s. A new episode of The Anthropocene Reviewed comes out this Thursday, and a backlog of 25ish episodes is available for free wherever you get your podcasts. Thanks. -John

@erkindanger 3 жыл бұрын

@silasg9869 3 жыл бұрын

I suggested years ago to make this hand symbol a symbol for humans from earth. Like a flag or something. But would it picture the right hand or left hand or perhaps both? Liked your contribution to this story

@mayattv4986 3 жыл бұрын

Sir John Green. From Philippines here. I JUST WANT TO THANK YOU PERSONALLY. I'm an IT I learned computing through crash course! And when I wad in highschool I learned biology and chemistry through your channels. I still have them downloaded on my pc. Sir, you are the best teacher. You are fun and not boring! 😍

@aedanhenry 3 жыл бұрын

@henrykramer365 3 жыл бұрын

This was a very moving story. I did a double take when you mentioned Jung - have you checked out his Red Book? It's his own personal fantasies and illustrations, all in a beautiful illuminated script and a gigantic folio manuscript. I know you're not a Jungian, but it's one of the strangest works of the last century and just worth looking at as art for sure! The hook- it was written in 1915 but only released from a vault in Zurich in 2009!

@vinniecairns8227 3 жыл бұрын

It's weird because John Green was speaking but the acoustics in my house made it sound like I was crying.

@haomakk 3 жыл бұрын

Maybe he was cutting onions right haha

@martinalejandro7600 3 жыл бұрын

@@haomakk Squidward left his onions there.

@DylanMourik 3 жыл бұрын

those damn acoustics

@thibaut2 3 жыл бұрын

Those were not the acoustics tho

@quintoselricho 3 жыл бұрын

@@thibaut2 no? what were they then?

@Talik13 3 жыл бұрын

I effing love this story - I was actually introduced to it via the 99 Percent Invisible podcast and I wanted to show it to other friends and family, but it's so different trying to get someone to listen to something without them getting visually distracted. So I love that there's one of your beautiful animations to accompany it now!

@leumaserdneg 3 жыл бұрын

I don't know if it's the subject, the narration or the animation that made me cry watching this video. It was awesome.

@mitcheltillman2461 3 жыл бұрын

“This is a handprint, but not a hand” Ok damn

@unnamedperson8619 3 жыл бұрын

Thats like stuff on a vsauce level

@isabelleteodoro441 3 жыл бұрын

Look for The Treachery of Images by René Magritte

@matthewmacfarland0 3 жыл бұрын

@@unnamedperson8619 i wouldnt call it that level higher than a Vsause level a Kurzgesagt level

@mbcommandnerd 3 жыл бұрын

That reminds me of The Fault in Our Stars, actually. That book is full of what are known as “metaphorical representations” of everyday things. That handprint is not a hand, sure, but it _is_ a metaphorical representation of it. Unless you understand that, the phrasing John used at the end there does seem a bit strange. Hope this helps.

@Mercure250 3 жыл бұрын

Ceci n'est pas une main.

@GabrielRamos-pj2ug 3 жыл бұрын

Never would have guessed talking about palms could be so emotional

@Silencedlemon 3 жыл бұрын

Go listen to his episode on googling people. No spoilers but bring tissues.

@coffeeisthepathtovictory1290 3 жыл бұрын

I know. I almost want to slap myself, this should not be making water leave my eyes.

@benjaminwells5388 3 жыл бұрын

Right! I was moved

@arielafrizal 3 жыл бұрын

@@Silencedlemon where do you listen to that?

@elderlyoogway 3 жыл бұрын

@@arielafrizal wherever you listen to your podcasts! That are many apps for that.

@SteveThibault Жыл бұрын

This is...BEAUTIFUL. John Green is great, and this is a great example. Great colab, thank you Kurzgesagt for this change of pace!

@jakestine1521 2 жыл бұрын

John Greene and his brother Hank have always spoken so eloquently and in such a way that I can't help but to be captivated.

@Maribro4 3 жыл бұрын

Imagine just checking out a cave with your friends and finding untouched history from thousands of years ago. That must’ve been such an incredible and larger than life feeling

@amandas2639 3 жыл бұрын

And now imagine it's 1940 and there's every possibility it could get bombed into oblivion during the war. That's enough to give anyone anxiety.

@suhandatanker 3 жыл бұрын

@@amandas2639 my friend's granduncle served in the battle of the Atlantic, imagine just sailing in the royal navy looking out for fellow cargo ships then suddenly you could blow up by a random German battleship anytime, pretty scary man

@osianshirley7175 2 жыл бұрын

the choice would be daunting too, interact with it and be the first person in thousands of years to touch that handprint and in a way continue that realisation that they were not so different, or let it be and not spoil its massive streak of being untouched

@letsb3nameless665 2 жыл бұрын

@@osianshirley7175 true, if i were them i wouldnt have told anyone

@osianshirley7175 2 жыл бұрын

@@letsb3nameless665 probably the best choice, but then id also worry about it being lost again so id probably tell some close friends so they could see it once and then get in touch with some museum or something so they could go about preserving it properly

@puiu102006 3 жыл бұрын

Wow at the end when John stopped talking i just remembered this was a Kurzgesagt video. He did a super good job

@BloodyClash 3 жыл бұрын

Yes. And it anyhow fitted really good into the kurzgesagt environment

@danielbrawner3677 3 жыл бұрын

Same!

@pentagramprime1585 3 жыл бұрын

But... He never brought up skoodalibooping.

@gridcoregilry666 3 жыл бұрын

YES that was so amazing

@Kampamba Жыл бұрын

On nights I can't sleep, I return to this video. It is undoubtedly one of the most beautiful things on KZfaq. Thank you all involved

@laithbot6318 2 жыл бұрын

I was not prepared for how deep this was going to be, and it's a relaxing kind of feel that made my brain wrinkly.

@lewismassie 3 жыл бұрын

I remember some years ago walking round a local castle with my dad. He pointed at the stones and said "A man put those there. I wonder what his name was" and I've never been able to look at the past the same way again

@qus.9617 3 жыл бұрын

I think the same thing about stone-henge. In Japan, I remember a castle had the names of a carpenter etched in on beams. Don't know whether it was considered acceptable or not lol.

@TheLifeOfTexan 3 жыл бұрын

@@qus.9617 european stone masons actually had personal marks they would put on stone blocks as well

@sanko111 3 жыл бұрын

@@qus.9617 Not sure about the "acceptable" part, but Japan has a rich history of woodworking, they figured out pretty elaborate ways to fasten pieces of wood together using geometry and some carpenters likely had their own secret methods, so having unique signatures kind of like a trademark is probably not far off either.

@pixeltrance 3 жыл бұрын

I live in a house built in 1432 and I wish these walls could talk. The people and events this house has been through...

@janhavitripathi8249 3 жыл бұрын

@@pixeltrance 1432...for real!

@benjaminharris9425 3 жыл бұрын

This channel is just like a teacher who genuinely enjoys his job and so do his students

@Yes-dc2gm 3 жыл бұрын

"What about the droid attack on wookies?"

@nersii4689 3 жыл бұрын

Yes :)

@idcgaming518 3 жыл бұрын

@@Yes-dc2gm what about the clone attack on the jedi?

@hhfbko 3 жыл бұрын

Copied

@beytullahberk3632 3 жыл бұрын

wait a teacher like that exists?

@Firestar9 9 ай бұрын

This video is probably one of the videos I think was the most influencing on me, while the others are cool and all, this one affected me deep inside and emotionally, John Green's voice over just sold this so much more with how he speaks and the emotion he puts into it, and years later I periodically rewatch this just because it still affects me the exact same way. I really hope we get more videos similar to the style of this one, and maybe John Greens return occasionally for voice overs.

@colintroy7739 Ай бұрын

Go listen to the anthropocene reviewed podcast or audiobook! There is a lot more of this style and almost all of it makes me cry (in a good way). Googling strangers and sunsets are good episodes with similar feels

@darklayton 7 ай бұрын

I hadn’t watched this video is a few years, it made me cry just like the first time ❤

@rishabhdave5773 3 жыл бұрын

John Green: fills people with existential dread with stories about the emotional pain of loss and emptiness Kurzgesagt: talks about the end of existence and all-powerful celestial mysteries but with cute birds and a bouncy tone Combined: fills us with existential dread while making faceless people with missing fingers look pretty and colorful

@gregoryyang8988 3 жыл бұрын

😂

@tomwalker389 3 жыл бұрын

STFU.

@vellstraus1555 3 жыл бұрын

@@tomwalker389 No U

@turbocharged213 3 жыл бұрын

No y r y'all always complaining about 'existencial dread' like bruh he's just talking bout some cave paintings my guy

@killmeister2271 3 жыл бұрын

bruh a video can literally be like "you are eternal" and niggas will still be filled with existential dread smh

@craphappens55 3 жыл бұрын

I've never seen a shorter 8 minutes video, this was so well narrated.

@user-ui6vo2uo8c 3 жыл бұрын

He is from Mars

@MarcosAmparo 3 жыл бұрын

Imagine if he had Morgan Freeman in one of his videos?

@LukasVos 3 жыл бұрын

Wait, what? That were 8 minutes?!... o.O I sat down, listened and it was fnished...

@MrUtuber29 3 жыл бұрын

I'm a big fan of John green's anthropocene reviewed for a long time. Check out his podcast, it's amazing.

@Vyom108 3 жыл бұрын

الشاقب ملک ??

@juliagulia9224 2 жыл бұрын

This was unbelievably beautiful. Goosebumps the whole time. Incredibly moving. Thank you!

@TH3SHUR1F 3 жыл бұрын

"What we do in life echoes in eternity." - Maximus

@kappaross6124 3 жыл бұрын

"Why were there no paintings of humans or reindeer?" *Ancient person begins drawing people and reindeer* Other Ancient Humans: Bruh all we see every day is humans and reindeer draw me something that ISN'T boring

@MrZaroc 3 жыл бұрын

On a similar note: "Dude check out this two headed Mega Sloth" "But that isnt real" "Yeah but its funny as shit"

@davidworotikan6730 3 жыл бұрын

@@MrZaroc Umm... Do you play Rimworld by any chance? Asking this question because you mentioned "Mega Sloth"

@Tejbegrizzly 3 жыл бұрын

@@davidworotikan6730 They were real though

@LinkZeraus 3 жыл бұрын

@@davidworotikan6730 Mega Sloths were real lmao

@juannaym8488 3 жыл бұрын

We still don't draw things that we don't find interesting People draw beautiful vases, but no one would draw a normal, cheap, plastic, boring vase

@namp2018 3 жыл бұрын

The narrator was so good. The ending nearly made me cry when I think about how there are people that can never return and are now only a part of one's memory. The handprints were like mementos of the people in the past. Forgotten in memory but never in spirit.

@clem719 3 жыл бұрын

I would recommend you check out his (John Green’s) podcast, The Anthropocene Reviewed, as they mentioned at the end of the video

@jean-lucpellerin2100 3 жыл бұрын

the 'whole thing' nearly made me cry :'(

@rc-pf1wq 3 жыл бұрын

yeah hes the dude from crash course, i didnt even know he was the guy we were watching in school while i slept in class, i regret that now

@o.fm.a5573 3 жыл бұрын

I shed some tears xD Ive gotten worse holding those in for these things

@herman7550 3 жыл бұрын

Wow this is interesting. The video seems like a personal essay, I will definitely use inspiration from this to write my last English essay for my final grade. Wish me luck!

@ashf585 2 жыл бұрын

7:31 Seriously? Wow... That little moment right there caught me off guard and made me tear up instantly. This is one of those videos where I'm so glad KZfaq exists and might be one of your best. Beautiful.

@javiersoler3158 2 жыл бұрын

dude first time I've ever commented on a youtube post... and honestly i literally cried watching this, so beautiful. hell of a message gave me chills to conceptualize such thought.

@sugardreamshk9282 3 жыл бұрын

This feels like when your teacher lets the class watch a movie not related to the unit. I love it.

@PritchDringle 3 жыл бұрын

We're allowed to drink Coca-Cola in history class.

@connorh2215 3 жыл бұрын

Mari Mcm so these are things that people thousands of years ago created and sometimes they are the only record of what these ancient people accomplished, we close them off to protect there legacy, it’s a part of history, and in the case of this cave, people actually did agree to this, also beaches are being closed because it’s a health risk to go to them, do you want to catch a potentially lethal virus there, the government doesn’t seem to want that for you

@russellmmo_8454 3 жыл бұрын

@Mari Mcm i I think i lost braincells reading this... What..????

@gericko4931 3 жыл бұрын

@Mari Mcm I agree with you, the earth is not even real, its an ilusion, there is no moon, no stars, everything is a lie, the real question is ¿Would you like the blue pill or the red pill? (?

@DonDaddaDanoDaDaneCalledDanno 3 жыл бұрын

@Mari Mcm You had me but lost me as soon as you turned religious in your statement.

@6Volken9 3 жыл бұрын

Crazy how art is prolific across all human history. Like a timeless language that speaks to everyone, no matter when or where we're from.

@fadel_rama 3 жыл бұрын

Well that explains anime

@catpoke9557 3 жыл бұрын

And look at me now, using it to intentionally draw horribly even though I can do better, and write "u gay" next to it.

@christophermorin9036 3 жыл бұрын

Yeah and some of the earliest art was apparently Air Brushing lol

@linuxares 3 жыл бұрын

Feels like during all of humanity. Math and art seem always be around.

@ike4584 3 жыл бұрын

"Whatever is human isn't alien to me."

@jhaybee2238 Жыл бұрын

Whoa... This video is deep. I actually got the feels watching it.

@ChristianKetterer6776 2 жыл бұрын

It really moved me. Thank you so much.

@IAmNumber4000 3 жыл бұрын

Wow. His voice sounds so different when he’s not doing Crash Course videos. John Green is crazy smart and insightful.

@javierfarinella3458 3 жыл бұрын

It's because Hank Green is the one who appears on Crash Course videos, John Green is his brother and the author of many best-sellers like The Fault in Our Stars

@poseidonfury 3 жыл бұрын

@@javierfarinella3458 John used to be on Crash Course as well. He did the World History and U.S. History series. Most people know CC from John's videos.

@SuperSixel 3 жыл бұрын

@@javierfarinella3458 John also appears in some Crash Course videos. His voice does sound very different in The Anthropocene Reviewed, I think it has a lot to do with the format. It's more of a narration than most of the other content he's in.

@javierfarinella3458 3 жыл бұрын

@@SuperSixel didn't know that, thanks for clarifying! It must be that i've mostly watched chemistry and psychology videos

@knz730 3 жыл бұрын

Both John and Hank have a slow, relaxing format show now: if you know them from their high energy work like Crash Course and Dear Hank and John, it's worth checking out The Anthropocene Reviewed (John, podcast) and Journey to the Microcosmos (Hank, KZfaq) for a very different experience. It's cool to see them both branching out.

@j.wicker6170 3 жыл бұрын

Imagine what archeologists in the future are going to think, finding 2 caves with the exact same artwork in both.

@GPatselis 3 жыл бұрын

Well one of them is basically called version 2 so I think they're gonna be able to piece the puzzle

@raetekusu1 3 жыл бұрын

Assuming records don't survive that long, anyway. We've generally gotten even more meticulous about recording ourselves than even the Romans did, so I'd be surprised if knowledge of how we were in the now didn't survive till then.

@stewfish1890 3 жыл бұрын

”Well, seems like they never stopped being cavemen”

@dreamlifter7569 3 жыл бұрын

They will build the 3rd copy

@thegreatmoustachio 3 жыл бұрын

J. Wicker I'm sure humans of the future would be able to use dating technology to find that one cave is 17000 years older than the other, which is probably a big enough puzzle piece to piece together the mystery.

@kentokae 4 ай бұрын

How did I miss this episode 3 years ago it brought tears to my eyes. I love this channel and Crash Course as well. All hail the might Duck Overlords!

@hmswarspite1064 3 жыл бұрын

I now hear Nightwish´s "The Greatest show on Earth" singing We Were Here in my head now. A single tear on my cheek.

@sranice 3 жыл бұрын

I rewatch this every now and then. It always makes me emotional. It humanises history, the billions of people who have lived and died between the people who made those paintings and it brings a new meaning to art. Maybe art is just a human instinct.

@sarveshdhiman9918 3 жыл бұрын

Well you should totally listen to the podcast

@RedStone_Cake 2 жыл бұрын

@@sarveshdhiman9918 why r u saying this on every comment?

@jonathanbr7_ 2 жыл бұрын

@@RedStone_Cake it's a good podcast

@ovencake523 2 жыл бұрын

if you want more humanizing history John Green's book is full of it

@thestudentofficial5483 3 жыл бұрын

Another 20.000 years into the future: "Why did our ancestors build a replica of their own ancestors' cave paintings?"

@davidpilny2803 3 жыл бұрын

"Yeah, why?... but you know what? Let's build a replica of their replica!"

@KungKras 3 жыл бұрын

"It must be some kind of fertility cult"

@codeisawesome369 3 жыл бұрын

Well hopefully this time they can just go watch this Kurzgesagt + John Green video about it. Whilst also commenting on the fascinatingly low-res 1080p resolution that was necessitated by primitive human networks, compared to what's state of the art 20k years into the future 🙂

@NXE212 3 жыл бұрын

@MrFr0stycave "Huh, why did our ancestors build a replica of a replica of a replica? This is to weird we should create a replica of this."

@betterert 3 жыл бұрын

they're gonna build a replica of our replica lol

@sugamochi3352 3 жыл бұрын

this made me realize that even that they lived so many years ago, they are just like us and now it makes me feel closer (??) in a way

@klssn34 3 жыл бұрын

Wow. That was actually very interesting and kind of mind opening to listen to. The things he wrote are a perfect way to describe the feeling of going on in time and looking back.

@rodrigoferreiramaciel4815 3 жыл бұрын

STOP DUDE, I'M LITERALLY CRYING TO A HAND ON A WALL

@ta.346 3 жыл бұрын

@@sarveshdhiman9918 tf?

@sarveshdhiman9918 3 жыл бұрын

@@ta.346 if my tf you mean that's a strange name for an episode... Well. In the podcast the guy reviews random things. Out of 5 stars. Things like Canadian geese, taco bell breakfast menu, Kentucky bluegrass and we'll, the act of googling strangers. If that's not what you mean, I have no idea what you mean.

@deusexaethera 3 жыл бұрын

CRY HARDER I STILL THIRST

@YuqinQinyue 3 жыл бұрын

YOUR NOT THE ONLY ONE!!!

@stevevernon1978 3 жыл бұрын

think of it this way, your crying to a CARTOON of a DUPLICATE of a STENCIL of a hand on a wall.

@ezriquinn6706 3 жыл бұрын

"almost as if art isn't optional for humans" *The school system disagrees*

@MadMax-ii8gq 3 жыл бұрын

@@PhillipBell Since when is physical education optional? At every school I went to from Elementary, Middle School, to High school physical education was always a required class.

@liwoszarchaeologist 3 жыл бұрын

Hey, if no child gets a well-rounded education, "no child [is] left behind"

@sarthakjoshi9824 3 жыл бұрын

Your teachers : get back to study table dont watch anything else on youtube other then your curriculum!

@kevlarincarnate 3 жыл бұрын

I loved this quote as well.

@edgamilcar92 3 жыл бұрын

you know? communism fix this... just saying...

@victoriamovchan8470 2 жыл бұрын

Going to visit Lascaux II this summer and stumbled upon this video by Kurzgesagt. What a beautiful recite of the ancient art! The animations are simple and impactful. You really done an amazing job!

@zolacnomiko 2 жыл бұрын

Oh man. This is among my favorite Anthro Reviewed eps and it always resonates with me, but somehow on this Nth time experiencing it I got really emotional and teary-eyed at the end there. John Green always hits me in the emotions when I least expect it! Lovely animation of a lovely podcast. I am here at Kurzgesagt channel because John and Hank have spoken so highly of it... enjoying my time here immensely! Optimistic Nihilism is definitely my vibe. Love your work!

@saikoujikan 3 жыл бұрын

Imagine if the handprints were just a convenient way for the artist to test they had the consistency of the pigment correct enough to paint with, and we’re all marvelling over test sprays.

@maggiewang2888 3 жыл бұрын

In that case, it is extremely interesting why such a test is done over a hand (instead of a rock, a leaf, or just spray straight on the wall) in so many different isolated regions.

@mustang8206 3 жыл бұрын

Exactly

@tworice 3 жыл бұрын

@@maggiewang2888 its convenient! i think its so normal to just stick your hand out and use it. instead of finding a leaf and holding it over the wall, it's so much easier (and arguably more fun) to just use your hand.

@Ahmed-jr1rc 3 жыл бұрын

@@tworice yeah, probably their hands got covered with painting either way all time

@e7venjedi 3 жыл бұрын

Is this the most compelling argument for why author intent doesn't necessarily affect the meaning of art? Perhaps...

@erichan4174 3 жыл бұрын

you know, my father just passed away this morning and I get this in my recommended. I got so many things I want to go in the past to ask him

@jesreelconde6908 3 жыл бұрын

Condolences buddy

@jobertjohngalang75 3 жыл бұрын

My condolences bro

@glutoxim 3 жыл бұрын

Very sorry to hear

@yodamaster757 3 жыл бұрын

- Your family has my prayers and heart 🙏🏽❤️

@archiepalmer-phelps6612 3 жыл бұрын

I'm sad to hear that bro

@BendySnowball 3 жыл бұрын

Honestly, very moving. It really spoke to me through my childhood, something I know I cannot return too. Something forever closed to access, like the original cave.

@arctrix765 Жыл бұрын

Tens of thousand of years before even our modern history began, a person, maybe a child like you and me just hold their hand against a wall, sprayed a bit of colour over it and was perhaps astonished by the thing he just did, just like we were as we first did it. He went on to doing his normal daily routine and living his normal life. That person had feelings just like us. He felt pain, fear, helplessness but also joy, happyness and love. He lauged, he cried, he hoped, he died, he failed, he tried he fullfilled many of his dreams but many weren't. They didn't even have our most primitive form of our modern technology and therefore had a much simpler but also a way more dangerous life. But still, the remnder of this ancient soal lasted long enough to whitness the construction of the pyramids, the rise and fall of countless empires and basically all of our history. This fact combined with this video made me cry.

@rozafisheikh7968 3 жыл бұрын

Why is it so satisfying to hear the duck going “Quack!” and see it floating in space at the end of every Kurtzgesagt video? 😁

@Fleetstreetbestone 3 жыл бұрын

It gives a sense of nostalgia even though we’re in the moment now currently, but I bet looking back at these videos I’m watching now as a 14 year old will bring even more nostalgia 🙃

@ubikledek 3 жыл бұрын

wow. i never realize the duck quack at the end of every video

@shayden4296 3 жыл бұрын

Oh, glad I'm not the only one lol

@SnazzyBeatle 3 жыл бұрын

Tiyān Quāis Tsariťsyan Buragohain simp

@clinrden9378 3 жыл бұрын

the chirp is what gets me

@masnun_abrar 3 жыл бұрын

7:30 "This is a memory you cannot return to." My dad died last week, and this video made me think of his legacy in a new way- it made me cry.

@cheshirecat7819 3 жыл бұрын

I'm very sorry for your loss. I'm sure he's an amazing man. May he rest in peace in Heaven.

@johnny2143 3 жыл бұрын

**Instantly pushes the golden buzzer**

@vsse14 3 жыл бұрын

R.I.P. Your dad miss you and hope you live well.

@TheE_G_G 3 жыл бұрын

My dog passed away on February. I miss her with all my heart.

@TheE_G_G 3 жыл бұрын

I feel your pain. No amount of torture can amount to something as bad as loosing someone you love.

@brokenfood2039 3 жыл бұрын

Your voice, and the way it was animated made the video so much more emotional and beautiful. Keep up the good work

@bernardzsikla5640 3 жыл бұрын

I was absolutely over whelmed by this video, and that is a great compliment. Thank you 💓

@Yayakamisama 3 жыл бұрын

Everyone wants something to say they existed.

@arunkhosh904 3 жыл бұрын

It's because you're afraid of oblivion. Oblivion is the ultimate truth. Nothing will survive. So why bother preserving memories after our death ? Our purpose is to live in the moment

@xXBallsackGamingXx 3 жыл бұрын

Arun Khosh is this a poem? It is beautiful

@Quantum-Bullet 3 жыл бұрын

@@arunkhosh904 Something about "You can kill people, but they will only really be extinct if you destroy their culture, art..."

@Szobiz 3 жыл бұрын

i dont

@DaDaHorst 3 жыл бұрын

thats not a problem, we have produced more than enough plastic for that

@littlephlox8255 3 жыл бұрын

Mechanic names his dog “Robot” Aight

@waynesanford2869 3 жыл бұрын

I've had to research Lascaux in school before, dog was actually named Robot. Though probably pronounced more French-y than in the video

@KJ4EZJ 3 жыл бұрын

@@waynesanford2869 That makes sense, since the term "robot" came from Isaac Asimov's books published after WW-II, which was after these kids found this cave.

@fulviopontarollo2952 3 жыл бұрын

Zach Butler wasn’t it from some Czech book or theatre opera from a few decades before that?

@LadmeB 3 жыл бұрын

@@fulviopontarollo2952 It was, but I'm not sure how popular the word was before Asimov borrowed it.

@fulviopontarollo2952 3 жыл бұрын

LadmeB I just checked it out, it came from a 1921 play, and apparently the play was popular enough that it was translated in 30 languages and was played in theaters worldwide, and the author still had interviews with the Czech press in the 30s

@KnowledgeCat 4 ай бұрын

Absolutely beautiful collaboration! John Green's contribution is fantastic, and this video is a prime example of his brilliance. Huge thanks to Kurzgesagt for this refreshing change of pace. Such a great mix of talents!

@alang.wilkinson8291 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you! So beautiful presented and told.....I was moved to tears. Thank you!

@Fizzgig_15 3 жыл бұрын

"Art isn't optional for humans" That struck something in me. I'm not sure what, but....something

@ThirdDimensionalBeing 3 жыл бұрын

In my own take of it, it seems like he was saying that expression is apart of all of us, and that is art, because are is expression. I guess.

@MrZiva82 3 жыл бұрын

Same here

@NoName-yd9fi 3 жыл бұрын

Same, sometimes words cannot describe certain things

@N3ONLUV 3 жыл бұрын

Exactly, wow...

@Jan96106 3 жыл бұрын

It is a spiritual need. We all need to create. It is part of what makes us human.

@ChenAnPin 3 жыл бұрын

4:49 "Yet somehow they still made time to create art, almost as if art isn't optional for humans." That's quite a thing to consider, that despite all their daily struggles of finding, hunting, and gathering enough food to survive winters, wild animals and frostbite and disease and injury, the dangers of childbirth and childhood, they still took the time to make art. This somehow moved me so much that my eyes had welled up. Thank you, and thanks for a new podcast I can listen to!

@briangallentine3810 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you Thomas. Me too. And then I had to search out your comment in hopes I was not alone.

@JP-sm4cs 3 жыл бұрын

Art is the highest form of hope - Gerard Richter

@FormerPessitheRobberfan 3 жыл бұрын

The quote and the last two sentences were all you needed to write.

@olgaustuzhanina6395 3 жыл бұрын

Hunter gatherers had more free time than working people have today. They had more time and energy for art than an average person has now.

@krankarvolund7771 3 жыл бұрын

Well, yeah... but hunter-gatherer societies may not be as dangerous as you think of it ^^ First, they were probably in a better health than the first agriculturals, maybe not as good as us with modern medicine, but still. According to studies, the life expectancy was higher during Paleolithic than during the Iron and Bronze age, and the average human was as tall as us today (size is an indication of nutrition). And we also think that they passed as much time hunting and gathering than agriculturals passed time to culture plants ^^ In addition, not every human had to hunt or gather, most of them did, but they probably already had specialists, for example the silex sculpter was probably a professionnal, because the late techniques of stone-making were very advanced. The artists could also be professionnals, or some kind of priests or shamans.

@leedayunderwood 4 ай бұрын

“I was here. You are not new.” Art isn’t optional. What a beautiful thing.

@smokeystarr 2 жыл бұрын

I remember when John and his brother were just starting to make videos where they made one video A-day and sent them back-and-forth. This was in the beginning of KZfaq and the Internet as we know it today. How things have changed....

@itoady 3 жыл бұрын

17,000 years from now: “Two teens find a cave of fake hand art.”

@coletakkish4389 3 жыл бұрын

@KrzysiuNet 3 жыл бұрын

Million years from now: two caves painted in almost the same time, one after another. (context: I'm joking about our logarithmic minds - there's a bigger difference between 1 and 2 than e.g. 500 or 600, which makes sense - it matters if there's one enemy or two, but makes no difference between 500 or 600)..

@kaministquiamahackamack336 3 жыл бұрын

ancient aluminum beer cans, the names of rock bands and "class of __" spraypainted on the walls.

@robertnagy985 3 жыл бұрын

probaably

@DrAdityaReddy 3 жыл бұрын

@@PhillipBell 😂😂😂😂

@workfleaux5600 3 жыл бұрын

“All history is current” I just can’t get over that statement.

@jimmybean420 3 жыл бұрын

i dont get it

@pratiklomte 3 жыл бұрын

@@jimmybean420 same me too

@specificocean2638 3 жыл бұрын

I think it means that current time is simultaneously becoming history and new current time is created at the same time and dominates and shapes reality as we know it

@BrendanSmallButera 3 жыл бұрын

@@jimmybean420 The length of our planet's existence is but a single tick of the universal clock. Every event that has ever happened and every being that has every lived has done so in such an incredibly relatively short amount of time, it is all current.

@BrendanSmallButera 3 жыл бұрын

@@pratiklomte I don't get everything displayed on this channel, but This, I understood. ^_^

@alexs.9865 3 жыл бұрын

There is something incredibly deep and touching about this video that I was not expecting, and I was deeply saddened in a way. This was absolutely incredible, and I have to say that I've never subscribed to a channel this fast.