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@windows-into-spaces

6 ай бұрын

yooooo mr horses this is SO SICK

@boxn

6 ай бұрын

I don't get the golden martyrs shirt. Who's masters are they reffering to? The pope or the man killing the monks?

@kaidenlech

6 ай бұрын

sword is so dope

@kaidenlech

6 ай бұрын

you should go back to the blue profile picture its more recognizable and iconic

@KPerez-cm9sd

6 ай бұрын

So good

"In the forest of fortune, the true archer is not he who hoards the golden arrows, but he who aims to share the bounty with those who have none." - some guy living in a forest...

@Wazboom

6 ай бұрын

The medieval society and its future, by Robin Hood

@lorenzomizushal3980

5 ай бұрын

The true archer doesn't care what some guy living in a forest thinks about archery.

@doingbettereveryday

3 ай бұрын

"aims" to share the bounty( golden arrows) with those that have none? That sounds like he's aiming and shooting golden arrows at homeless people lmao.

On my recent trip to Japan I came across the grave site of Nakamura Jirokichi aka Nezumi Kozō (The Rat Kozo). He was the "Robin Hood" of Japan. After being caught, he confessed to burglarizing over 100 samurai estates worth over 30,000 ryō (yen at the time) in a span of 15 years. When Nezumi was arrested, very little money was found on him making the daiymo believe he gave his taken treasures to the poor. Prior to being caught, Nezumi Kozō served his wives divorce papers to save them from perishing from the same kind of persecution and punishment, as devreed by the law of the time. He was tied to a horse, a true spectacle as he was paraded around town, and was eventually beheaded at the Suzugamori execution grounds. He is revireed as a folk hero and his exploits have been dramatized in Kabuki theater for years and years. I guess people frequently take pieces of his grave stone because I saw signs specifically stating how it is a crime to do so, I suppose people want some of Nezumi's luck/skill with them?

@PBunyanOx

5 ай бұрын

"Steal this grave stone"😂 but seriously, thanks for that cool info.

@tezcatlipoca3466

5 ай бұрын

Goemon Ishikawa is another Robin Hood-esque folk hero of Japan. They boiled him in oil

@insaneperson7766

3 ай бұрын

Ryō wasn’t really yen, it was a measurement of gold during the edo period. He didn’t just steal about 30,000 yen, each Ryō at the time had the buying power of about 100,000 yen!

@Supya67

3 ай бұрын

That's so sick, about people stealing from the grave stone there's a very similar situation with a Mexican folk Saint named Jesus Malverde, also a Robin Hood character. People steal pebbles from his grave because of a belief that stealing from him gets his attention and blessings because he was a thief in life, so maybe it's something like that. Super cool info though thank you for sharing!

@dariushamid4231

3 ай бұрын

wow with so many examples of "robin hood figures" in the world it would make you think maybe we are living in a corrupt system

Horses casually selling a sword named "deathbringer" in his merch shop is exactly the correct amount of insanity

hi mr horses. i suffered a loss on my family and these past few days have been horrible. this video was able to make me focus on something else for a while. thank you for providing me some minutes of distraction from my grief.

@sapodetenis

6 ай бұрын

also, the soundtrack of this video was especially amazing and, at some points, reminded me of the album "flood", by the japanese band boris. its an amazing piece of ambient/post-rock/drone. i recommend it.

@nikitatan1992

6 ай бұрын

i’m so sorry for your loss, may you have better days soon 🙏

@MacLeodddd

6 ай бұрын

Hope things get easier for you soon. ❤

@zvidanyatvetski8081

5 ай бұрын

I hope you find peace and strength around you in this time ♥️

@mrfoodskater

5 ай бұрын

Womp womp

He's selling a f**king sword😭😭😭✨✨✨✨

I take issue with the counter-examples proposed at 10:30. The Robinhood philosophy does not need to mean "steal everything from the rich until they are poor" but "steal enough from the rich to redistribute to the poor until all are equal". So the example of a doctor killing one person to save 5 feels like the result of a slippery slope when the Robinhood approach could actually be better interpreted as "take a kidney from one person to save the life of another" now both people have one working kidney. In this case then, the correct thing to do to save those 5 people is to find 5 donors that can give what they can without themselves dying. An extreme case might be a heart transplant in which case it would not make sense to trade one person's life for the other when they're supposed to be valued equally. That whole thing sounds like some economists slippery slope fallacy as to why we can't have universal healthcare.

@jamesderrenkamp7535

6 ай бұрын

This was also an issue with me. Robin Hood stole money from the corrupt. In no way is that analogous to taking the life of an innocent man or breaking a promise to satisfy the masses.

@dancincoolkid

6 ай бұрын

Commenting to say I agree with the original comment and the above reply to the original comment. Seems like a weird false equivalency to try to equate donating kidneys to redistributing wealth ... 💀

@amyfox3877

6 ай бұрын

I found that a lot of the counter-examples are pretty straw man. A doctor that kills a patient for organs would shatter trust in the profession as a whole, causing people to stop going to or listening to the doctor. Also, stealing (in this case, from a corrupt vassalage-based elite) is more efficient in his time and less destructive to individual wellbeing ($1,000,000 from King John's crony who doesn't need the money vs $10,000 from 100 merchants who might miss it) and more prone to create a sense of collective interest among the mass of people.

@MonnizProductions

5 ай бұрын

It was just an example. Imagine one guy with 6 kidneys, but will die during operation. And 6 others that will be saved. Utilitarianism says do it. There the extreme is and between your scenario and it, there is a line that goes away from extreme Utilitarianism.

@amariexd1249

5 ай бұрын

I took the same issue, glad I'm not just crazy

A big factor that led to the rise of gangs and squatters doing "robin hood" activities were the introduction of enclosure acts and the phasing out of the open field system during this period, which led to many being uprooted from the land their families had spent generations on and many having to leave and become day laborers or starve. It becomes a lot easier to decide to try and make it as a thief and outlaw living outside the system than toiling for pay.

This channel is pure gold. Thank you for the visual, audible and philosophical treat.

on the commentary at the end about reductiveness in the folklore - i believe truly mythic memes that stick around for centuries like this aren't reduced, but distilled. there's a core essence that appeals to us, and the historical-contextual details of the original story are essentially boiled away through time and repetition. the result is something like a nugget of wisdom in story form, but it also acts as a pointer referring us back to the historical context that created that story so we can understand that wisdom more fully

@davidnotonstinnett

5 ай бұрын

Very good comment. Not being ironic, I found this very insightful.

A new Horses video AND it's about philosophy? Today's a good day!

@greenvelvet

6 ай бұрын

​@@dead79134 Watch it. It good.

@paramoreparks9960

6 ай бұрын

I know right. I've had so many discussions with no one already😂 Didn't know I'd be breaking down Ribbon Hood when I woke up this morning. It's lovely.

@Piper_2098

6 ай бұрын

Word … we being spoiled

@morgjones13

6 ай бұрын

​@@dead79134 There's philosophy in everything and something to learn from everyone

@jakflasdick

6 ай бұрын

AND it's 45 minutes long!

He stole from tax collectors and gave back to the taxed. I think the depression is when it really started getting heavy handed into “stole from the rich, gave to the poor”.

@totalnewb123

6 ай бұрын

At the time the tax collectors worked for the rich who happened to control the country. In a sense the same thing has been going on today.

@beewasere

6 ай бұрын

@@mdm032it never happened. Yours faithfully, Nottingham citizen.

@NeroVuk

6 ай бұрын

The rich don't pay taxes. If you're rich enough, there's no way any state can stop you from keeping your money in a tax haven. The tax collectors are not the problem. We elect them, and we can remove them from power. We can't do shit to the rich because they have at this point in history accumulated far too much power and too much wealth. Our governments are controlled by the lobbyists. AKA, the rich. The tax collectors are not the problem. Robin Hood has fuck all with that.

@rugrugrugrug

6 ай бұрын

@@mdm032 nah we just need to start taxing the right people

@pivomanslovensko

6 ай бұрын

@@rugrugrugrugNo half measures.

This topic has fascinated me since I was a kid watching the anthropomorphic Robin Hood. Ty for making this

Hey man, I just wanna say that I appreciate the hell out of these videos. You're an essential part of my schedule and I watch your videos before work. Thanks man

best merch I've seen from any youtuber hands down

The plaque at 9:15 is located in a little village called Fulking, in West Sussex, UK. It’s about 20 minutes from my house and is right next to a very nice pub 😊

@KanyeWestwasRight

6 ай бұрын

thats fulking awesome

@SutekhTheDestroyer

6 ай бұрын

@@KanyeWestwasRight Haha, I see what you did there! 😁

That's not a horse

Absolutely love your editing, narration, and scripts. It's inspiring to see how you make so few assets interesting to watch

How does this only have 74k views? I am basically writing this and hitting like, which I never do, in support of this quality.

just sliding in to say the new thumbnail is so sick

@cg1906

6 ай бұрын

I literally watched your new video before this one. Feel free to use that mildly interesting data however you will

37:43 those two "o"s perfectly align with the eyes *chef's kiss

im from nottingham and fairly into history so ive done a fair bit of research into it and william of collingham does also have a fairly local link in that he's named for a village 15 or so miles east of nottingham on the trent river which was essentially a major trade highway for river boats in the medieval period meaning word of him would've easily gotten around

@YuaMoon-lf9qz

6 ай бұрын

Im from Nottingham too! I sometimes wonder if Robin Hood was more like a medieval version of what Guy Fawkes Mask / Anonymous has become. Simply cause the word Robbing and Hoods are associated with stealing lol xD Either way, whoever he really was. I love the symbolic aspect.

I love your videos. Thank you for continuing to be amazing. I'd love to pick your brain with a convo someday.

@ehallam08

6 ай бұрын

This channel kicks ass!

it’s been amazing to see you grow dude never stop

I was lookin for a proper deep dive into Robin Hood just last month and came up short. This is lovely, thank u

WTF WHY DOES YOUR MERCH GO SO HARD? LOVE THE GRUNGE AESTHETIC

@alexanderleuchte5132

5 ай бұрын

Black Metal is my favorite style of Grunge too

@HonestDepression101

5 ай бұрын

It's more black metal then grunge. If you like this style check out the band The Body. Their music and their band shirts.(I'd love to see your reaction to it tbh). The band Thou too. That yellow long sleeve that says "I hope your masters suffer" is the best shirt I've seen in a while. ❤ if I had money I'd order it immediately.

@northamericandeer1429

5 ай бұрын

@@HonestDepression101 Thanks, I'll check it out!

@SwashbucklingToday

Ай бұрын

You have no idea what grunge is

It is "Thou shall not murder" not just kill, that is a bad translation as hebrew has two words for "killing" like we have. An unlawful one "retzach" (murder) and a lawful one/more general term "horeg"(kill). And it is definitely retzach in the original hebrew text. Just wanted to clarify as many gets it wrong. Sorry for rambling 😂 superb video, I really the liked style and quality sir 👏❤

I’m completely committed to watch all your work it is extremely entertaining

I've been in a book study, discussing civic disobedience and morality, and this video is serendipitously relevant. Love your content!

Is it wrong that I have the urge to google every line in this essay after the James Somerton debacle?

@accendidap5791

6 ай бұрын

Same xD

@foragegrasspause2gotoloop961

6 ай бұрын

Was just thinking that :(

@gaelen5868

6 ай бұрын

Not wrong at all! That's how Somerton and the rest got caught in the first place.

@copisetik5984

6 ай бұрын

That is an excellent response to have though! The best persuasive essays-- which @HorsesOnYT is brilliant at--have the goal of sharing their point-of-view and asking the reader/listener, "Do you agree? Why or why not?" Having a person desire to dive deeper into references and resources in order to come to a well researched conclusion is the best possible outcome! Having more people looking at the thing you are passionate about is the best feeling.

@foragegrasspause2gotoloop961

6 ай бұрын

@@copisetik5984 well said!

I just hit the bell so I'll always see your video essays!

You're a real one for using the Disney art for the thumbnail

@hoppy23

6 ай бұрын

The fox Robin hood is THE ONLY ROBIN HOOD

@gildedpeahen876

6 ай бұрын

underrated disney era

@ItsAshInMyCupImMadAsAMuh

6 ай бұрын

Well well well

I have been obsessed with Robin Hood since I was little and saw the Disney movie.

One of your best ones yet:) Thank you so much,great topic idea,great execution! Again,thank you!

always spectacular work. happy to be here!

Can’t get enough of your channel

Reminiscin', this-'n'-thattin' Havin' such a good time Oo-de-lally, oo-de-lally golly, what a day

out of curiousity why is your channel named horses?

I love your videos so much, thanks for putting them out!

Excellent. Great balance between long form and short form content.

One of the only KZreadrs out there that keeps my attention the whole time 👏🏾

its always my fav day when u post

Oh wow, another great unexpected topic. Good stuff man 😎

Great video. Im sick at home right now and just rewatched a lot of your content! So good. 😊

@HorsesOnYT

6 ай бұрын

feel better! -michael

@MacLeodddd

6 ай бұрын

@HorsesOnYT Thank you that's super duper sweet. Showed your videos to my father, he adores your work too. He's used one of your videos in his class regarding artwork analysis, the one focused on the Wanderer above the Sea of Fog. Have a great evening. 😊😊😊

Mf really juat dropped a sword with their first merch drop. Most epic KZread Channel of all time!!!

New Horses video? Hell yes.

Your videos are so amazing and informative

In a Australia we have our own Robin Hood, a man called Ned Kelly. all completely factual and a real man who's deeds, both good and bad, are notorious. In modern day Australia he is mostly a notorious villain of the people who held power, or a hero for the working class and poor. Would love to see an essay done on him, his life and philosophy was incredibly interesting, and is still to this day an incredibly iconic name in Australia.

@dgritsak147

6 ай бұрын

Whos is he? You didn't include his name

@muntmunt3155

6 ай бұрын

​@@dgritsak147Ned Kelly! Thank you for pointing that out

@dgritsak147

6 ай бұрын

Oh ok, I am familiar with Ned Kelly. I watched Count Dankulas video on him him. Some of those Aussies are wild

@pivomanslovensko

6 ай бұрын

​@dgritsak147 Count dankula is a goober

@alexanderleuchte5132

5 ай бұрын

He even looked a bit like a medieval knight with his armor, the craziest part of that story

Just the color choice on the thumbnail and then the mask to boot are so evocative

As always, quality content. Keep up the good work.

I almost scrolled past this until I thought, "That seems like a videos Horses would upload..."

You have such an amazing channel! I love your videos❤

new merch, baby!

Good content! Keep the insane quality

In my opinion, utilitarianism is best used as a tool in a belt of moral ethics. The belt itself can be your own subjective moral code, which is influenced by the weight of different ethical “tools.” For instance, I tend to consider it for certain decisions and let my own sense of virtue ethics - which mostly lines up with my own morality - inform on those which it is best employed, as well as how it is employed. I like to think that real people don’t necessarily follow one strict ethical philosophy, as is often portrayed in discussion and tales like these, or by philosophers themselves, but that we draw on a multitude to inform our decisions (whether or not we have studied ethics). And that subjective multitude is informed by things like culture, experience, and education. It has been many years since I studied ethical philosophy, so forgive me if any of this sounds ignorant. Just wanted to add some thoughts on the subject. Feel free to rebut my position or laugh at my weak analogy 😅 I can already see ways to write it better, but I think you’ll get my point.

Horses, your descriptions of the violence in ballads of that time call to mind the brief scene in Monty Python and the Holy Grail when Sir Robin's minstrel went into gruesome detail what could happen to his liege. Good to know they were historically accurate.

you are a master of aesthetics my friend

Gotta finish your Robin Hood video still but will your video on Madame X and John Singer Sargent be back up again?! Brilliant work!

i love your channel. keep it up

Love any vid you do with literary stuff

No justice, no peace

Hello Mr. Horse. Have you considered releasing audio versions of your episodes so I can listen to them on my podcast app while I go for walks?

Such a cool and informative channel 😊

@OptionsForSale

5 ай бұрын

We have identical first and last names.

excellent stuff. thank you.

this guy's voice... so relaxing

Man your video style choices from the thumbnail to editing is veryyy impressive! like how did you learn to do this?

@Philomath12345

6 ай бұрын

He has a q&a that might answer this 😊

Remember when this channel only had like 30k subscribers. Glad it’s grown massively recently.

You assume there is a “moral” way to amass riches. I do not believe there is and therefore redistribution is always just. Nobody gets a billion dollars ethically and should not be considered innocent while others starve around them.

You are one of the reasons I'm relearning english. You are great storyteller.

@SwashbucklingToday

Ай бұрын

Needs more work

@twicedeadmage

Ай бұрын

@@SwashbucklingToday Cut me some slack, dislexia ain't making this easy.

another banger from Horses

Superb video!

I got an end sem tomorrow but Horses + one of fave folktales bruuuhhhhh

This is the best Chanel on KZread

Love your videos You should really do a collab with Russell Walter. You two have very similar editing styles and themes. He does interviews. Maybe you two could have a discussion.

So, Robin Hood is more of a Chaotic Neutral kind of guy (instead of the Chaotic Good type we often hear about).

Waking up to a Horses video? Has Christmas come early??

we dont steal from rich people in these parts, we just eat them

@HonestDepression101

5 ай бұрын

What parts are those? I'm serious. Where in the world are the poor ACTUALLY not getting fucked?

Woooooo Horses uploaded

RIP the Disney thumbnail

@HorsesOnYT

6 ай бұрын

we barely knew ye

There’s a triforce in the side of that building at 20:51

Love your stuff 🫶

great vid, thanks.

I just came from History Buff's review of the 2010 Ridley Scott directed Robin Hood movie. What luck 😂

youre the first non sword/blacksmith channel ive seen sell a fkn sword. respect, thats cool as hell.

Every time I see this channel's name, a little song plays in my head that somehow self-references how I feel about that same song snippet. It's from Bullet For My Valentine's song 'Curses,' but it goes like "There's horses lurking in my head and I don't understand it..."

Masterpiece

@11:12 there was no middle class during this time period... if anybody wants to debate, let's GOooo- great video so far :) Robin Hood is an Icon for me! Who knows... one day... we may pass the Robin Hood Act and force the Rich to share the wealth

HORSES IS ART!

We have our own Robin hood in mongolia aswell

The comparison of feudal medieval England with modern inequality is inappropriate. Nobody in good faith would suggest the depraved taxation of a serf is the serf's fault, nor that serfdom is the result of individual choices. The idea that anyone is out there telling medieval commoners to pull themselves up by their bootstraps is as silly as suggesting that the modern person's freedoms (and responsibilities for their own outcomes) are as narrow as the medieval peasant's.

Can you please do a video on Plato's Allegory of the Cave??? You would be the perfect youtuber to go really in depth on it

babe wake up new Horses video just dropped

Is the music beginning at 13:50 a cover of William Grant Still’s longing (Afro American symphony)? Where can I find it?

Ah, I see Prince John (Disney) noticed Robin (Horses) stealing some artwork and Robin decided that discretion is the better part of valor.

I'd love to see a subsequent video about the philosophy of the Wee Free Men. Fightin', Drinkin', and Stealin'! But never from the poor; they never have anything worth the effort.

Great video so far 15 min in. I'm happy with the patreon, as well. Thank you for the recent personal post. And thank you for posting sources. Have you kept up with the hbomberguy thing?

@HorsesOnYT

6 ай бұрын

Thanks for your support. I've kept up with it as much as I can, and it's a really important situation. Certainly it has made me re-assess how I handle sources and citations, in a very positive way. Hopefully all KZread essayists take note of the saga in one way or another. -Michael

On the topic of violence in tales of knights, I used to have this pretty old book of Arthurian legends and always got a kick out of this one. Two knights duel to the death at one point, and the victor makes some kind of snarky comment to the other. The narration goes on to say, "He didn't have much to say, as he had a sword lodged in his brain-pan."

shaping up well thus far

“Two wrongs don’t make a right, but it damn sure makes us even!” - Onyx

@mikepj67

6 ай бұрын

Two Wright’s can make a Wrong - nomeansno

Robin Hood justice would be a dope shirt…just sayen….nudge, nudge, wink, wink….kiss,kiss