Why We Feel Lonely & Alienated – Charles Bukowski’s “The Crunch”
Charles Bukowski reads a version of his poem, “The Crunch.” In which, he describes how the cruelties and corruptions of humankind lead us to all feel alone and alienated from one another. He implies that this is merely a feature of our nature and can not be avoided. That fundamentally we are all deeply flawed, confused, and self-interested, and consequently, many of us become cruel and detached from our fellow persons. However, Bukowski leaves us with a crumb of potential hope at the end of the poem. The notion that his brain still tells him there is hope, even if he has yet to find it. It is this message we would like to hold on to. The hope that there’s a better way. The hope that there’s hope.
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@TheRealShadowX
October 10, 2025 at 8:46 pm
Amazing
@sweetsilence5642
October 10, 2025 at 8:46 pm
this is such a weird but wholesome edit
@robertb.5369
October 10, 2025 at 8:46 pm
wow
@birdman9091
October 10, 2025 at 8:46 pm
https://youtu.be/D3YvF2HjOzY
@CitizenCult
October 10, 2025 at 8:46 pm
anyone knows the song playing in the background?
@stevep4574
October 10, 2025 at 8:46 pm
Is this guy bipolar?
@xe2bio64
October 10, 2025 at 8:46 pm
People are just fuckin animals.
No pain no game
No love just an attachment to sex
And bored to death for twenty years.
No regrets no regrets cause we're just a fuckin animals
@abdulmueed2844
October 10, 2025 at 8:46 pm
Ohh he speaks my language.
@swampbillies1776
October 10, 2025 at 8:46 pm
9 to 5
The hours of my slavery and misery
Physically and mentally . The anxiety of having everything ready for work. Or setting an alarm and hoping that my short nap doesn't keep me from missing my alarm that would make my boss judge me for being late . The hours I spend watching the clock and calculating the freedom to do as I please before going to work is poisoned by the anxiety of being late to a job that doesn't pay enough for the simplest necessities. The anxiety and fear of ruining my reputation for a job that I could care less about as I make my lunch and bag my tasteless water to please my anxiety of gaining weight . The sick feeling I get from living a pointless life to please the culture I want no part of . I listen to music and podcast to escape this anxiety and uncertainty of my future that I've not planned or thought out a way out of . yet not having this slavery job would bring more anxiety so I do as I am told and conform to the culture that I've been brainwashed into serving. The only thing I have is a mental rebellion to one day find a way to talk myself out of this trap or to find someone to help me out. I pray that 9n3 day their will be a road I can run as fast as I can down and escape this rat race . Until then I drink and write to keep me sane and survive this mental prison.
@liminality8791
October 10, 2025 at 8:46 pm
“Fucking virgins” -Charles Bukowski
@funkymunky
October 10, 2025 at 8:46 pm
A sad drunk projecting. Nothing more. Nothing less. Why he feels lonely and alienated.
@GreenEnvy.
October 10, 2025 at 8:46 pm
You showed a picture for everything he said, except the virgins.
@c-lokes3636
October 10, 2025 at 8:46 pm
I’ve read practically all of Bukowski’s books. He is a soundtrack to a miserable life.
@DeathMagnetic-x5v
October 10, 2025 at 8:46 pm
Would love to know who the background music is by…
@happylurch9202
October 10, 2025 at 8:46 pm
This should have a black screen
@StephJ0seph
October 10, 2025 at 8:46 pm
"Who put this brain inside of me?"
@no_one_worth_knowing
October 10, 2025 at 8:46 pm
people are not good. full stop.
@ilqar887
October 10, 2025 at 8:46 pm
People are always afraid of being alone or end up alone I have never understood that I like to have fun I love to spend time with friend or a woman but interns of living I can't live with someone but by myself ..when I'm alone im.more free more comfortable more healthy
@gottfriedzimmerman5033
October 10, 2025 at 8:46 pm
can i know how he made the video?? i kinda want to make the same thing on my poems
@mildredwilliams8107
October 10, 2025 at 8:46 pm
This is a great poem.
@trifanpopovic
October 10, 2025 at 8:46 pm
Thanks for sharing this clip! It helped me a lot regarding my shotfilm about Bukowski, where I argue that he isn't a mindless sexist rather a loving humanist.
If anybody is interested in that, you can find it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQzSid0xWYg&t
Sincerely
Hemlock
@beatleme2
October 10, 2025 at 8:46 pm
A world that is upside down is the same world at a different angle,
@newagehorror873
October 10, 2025 at 8:46 pm
He became so hipster lol
@tonytafoya6217
October 10, 2025 at 8:46 pm
Doggerel
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