Were you to give a subject the attention and care you gave it the first week of college your experience would be the same. This is why I hate "I'm so smart" Youtube videos - they give you a superficial, dishonest, clickbait-driven view of something and any greater wisdom is buried by the bullshit. You can't get an "everything is connected" sentiment out of a six minute Flash video, nor can you get it out of a thousand word Nautilus article. You have to go long-form. The master of "bullshit Youtube videos" was definitely James Burke, who did the column "Connections" in Scientific American for 30-odd years, and then three 1-hour shows for PBS. However Burke was all about showing how one thing you know well has its roots in something completely different and he uses that as a slice of history to show you a very specific thing. And that took him 2000 words, or an hour. Longform. There is no substitute.
But I am a longform.org addict. Weird question. Half a decade ago someone on reddit recommended Milan Kundera's books in a comment somewhere, saying that Life is Elsewhere is the best of the bunch. Was this you? This thread reminded me of it and I binged it. The Poet Masturbates, haha. My name is Jaron, and the main character's name is Jaromil. If it is you, well, thanks for influencing my self obsession.
Loved _Life is Elsewhere_, though it gave me something of a hyper-self-analysis problem as a young poet. I'll never forget the scene of Lermontov on the balcony. I think ultimately though, _Immortality_ became my favorite Kundera. Still haven't read _The Joke_, though, and to be honest, his oeuvre is so much cut from the same cloth that I often misremember which characters/scenes were from which novels.