0:02 Nothing was better in the past except
0:03 the things you were supposed to
0:05 remember. And yes, you forgot those,
0:07 too. I am Shinito Kuroda, Lord of
0:10 Gravity. 18,000 years and counting. I've
0:12 had many names, but I'm here to share
0:14 some dark wisdom with you. Pay your
0:16 devotion with your awareness. Oh, look,
0:19 don't get me wrong. I'm not angry at the
0:22 world. I'm just very disappointed, which
0:24 is what happens when you watch the same
0:26 mistake repeat itself for millennia.
0:28 Yes, I have lived 18,000 years in
0:30 counting. It just gets rebranded again,
0:32 but it's the same stuff on the inside.
0:34 You didn't lose meaning because someone
0:37 stole it from you. You lost it because
0:39 you outsource responsibility and then
0:41 told yourself a comforting lie about why
0:44 that was even necessary. Every age does
0:46 this in some way. In the medieval world,
0:48 for example, people outsource
0:50 responsibility to God and the church.
0:52 Their lives think very small, tightly
0:54 bound and predictable, not because they
0:56 are stupid. It was the price for their
0:59 comforting lies. Industrial societies
1:01 outsource responsibility to factories
1:04 and progress. Work became identity.
1:07 Productivity became the virtue. And
1:09 people learned to confuse motion with
1:11 purpose. And late modern societies,
1:13 that's you, by the way, outsource
1:15 responsibility to systems, algorithms,
1:17 and vibes, whatever that even means.
1:20 Parents outsource attention to screens.
1:22 Citizens outsource judgment to
1:24 institutions they no longer trust. H
1:27 Ironic. Different costumes, same
1:29 maneuver. And then inevitably you look
1:31 around and say, "Why does everything
1:33 feel hollow?" Yeah, the world is
1:35 indifferent to your distractions. It
1:37 keeps on moving anyway. And here's the
1:38 part that makes people flinch.
1:41 Everything is your fault. Relax. Mine,
1:43 too. And that's not an insult. That's
1:45 ownership. Responsibility is heavy.
1:48 Complaints are light. That is why
1:49 complaints travel much faster. And
1:52 responsibility gets left behind in the
1:53 ditch. Yeah, well, I'm the lord of
1:55 gravity, so someone has to carry what
1:57 others keep dropping, you know? So,
1:59 let's talk about the dark ages for a
2:02 moment. They didn't end. They optimized.
2:04 We didn't abolish the rack of shame. We
2:07 digitized it. Public humiliation used to
2:10 be slow, local, and ritualized. Now,
2:12 it's permanent, searchable, and
2:14 performed for strangers who will never
2:17 forgive you. Even after the apology
2:20 video, even after the tears, efficiency
2:23 applied to cruelty. So modern. I'm
2:27 intrigued. Very enlightened. And some of
2:29 you really love ancient Rome. H. Yeah.
2:32 The good times, huh? I mean, a man who
2:34 loved his horse more than people ruled
2:36 at its peak. That should have told you
2:38 how it was going to end. Late empires
2:41 always look the same. When meaning
2:43 collapses, everything becomes
2:46 ridiculous. Bodies become currency. And
2:49 you are surpassing their numbers. By the
2:51 way, that's not moral judgment. That's
2:53 pattern recognition. So yeah, I have
2:56 lived in Japan for a long time. It's not
2:58 perfect. It's not utopia. It is
3:01 continuous. It remembers that culture
3:04 isn't a mood. It's discipline. Rituals
3:07 are not just aesthetics. They're memory.
3:09 I don't have the patience for cults, and
3:12 I'm terrible at selling hope. But I am
3:16 offering you continuity. And continuity
3:19 is rare currency in an age addicted to
3:22 rupture. So stop waiting. That's usually
3:24 how the things that actually matter begin.
