2 things to know about women
Published March 16, 2021 · 4:57 · 666,750 views
About This Video
Van is alone in Mexico. Truck, motorcycle, books, solitude. He sought counsel from a spirited woman: a sailor who'd been twice around the world, a friend, not a lover, and came back with two insights he treats with the weight of revelation.
The first is diagnostic: he had been perceiving women as drugs. Medicine to treat his ails, chemicals to bring him joy. He names the pathology plainly, without performance. The second is literary: he finally understood what the poet meant: that women are the other half of the sky. The shift is from consumption to recognition. From instrument to counterpart. It's one of the quietest videos on the channel, and one of the most honest about the kind of man Van was before he became the man making this.
Transcript
on occasion the spirited man will feel the need to bug out to leave the situation not to escape no but for a break at times the spirited man has had it perhaps he cannot afford it but he feels he'll die if he doesn't so he goes anyway perhaps it is a woman a lover who has inspired the bug out perhaps it is two women two lovers perhaps three perhaps all of them what can i do anything perhaps the spirited man has been unfair perhaps he needs solitude for a while perhaps he needs a break from lovers
the spirited man seeks counsel counsel from a spirited woman this particular spirited woman is not a lover this particular spirited woman is a friend an old friend from far away an adventure a sailor twice around the world proximity to this particular spirited woman gives this particular spirited man insights and reflection gives him perspective he will carry this perspective these insights all through mexico in this year of no winter he will be an adventurer in this land of strangers
in truck on motorcycle in mountains in water he will think about women in mexico with his books and his music and his paper and his solitude this spirited man will learn two things has learned two things learned two things in this year of no winter first he has learned that his entire concept of lovers has been wrong before his bug out he had unbeknownst to himself seen lovers as drugs as medicine to treat his ales and his chemicals to bring him joy he has learned that perceiving women as drugs has caused harm he has learned that women are not drugs the second thing he has learned well not learned but understood finally
was the meaning of the words of another spirited man the words of a poet he finally understands what the poet meant and the poet said this the poet said that women are the other half of the sky women are the other half of the sky this the spirited man has come to understand alone during the year of no winter you