Past Bing, Future Bing- Self-Indulgence

Okay, first off. If you want to feel the magic of Brotherhood 2.0 in terms of scale and inspiration (that has not failed like Dan 3.0) look no further than Past Bing, Future Bing.

Basic Synopsis: Chris Bingham has made a vlog every other day in 2011 but kept it in a hard drive, which he crashed but whatever, and released it exactly a year after it was made. He continued to make a video other day, which nicely feel in the gaps of the days in 2011 he has missed. So final product is that you get a Bing from 2011 in one day and Bing from 2012 in the next day. So we have this back and forth effect of seeing one people... basically acting like two.

Point: In the last video, everyone shed a cry about how inspired they were in this massive project and how it made them get better at life. Then I read this comment.

"Well, that's done with then, YouTube's biggest exercise in self indulgence this side of Dan Brown. Bye."

I know that this is just a inane comment, but it hit me like burst of misdirected energy. I stared at this comment (with its two thumbs) for a long time, trying make heads about it.

I talked about this for a long time, and I believe in that inherent selfishness that the comment is getting here. Sure it's all about ME! (That is not Maine, by the way) But it gives away to something more than that. 

What I'm trying to saying is that, this human civilization was about people working with others to benefit themselves. It's all about The Genetic Imperative! Protect the code! We want to mate, eat, and survive!

But what it happens is that we create this. We make laws to benefit others by doing stuff that you need or want. You need to give something to make money to get stuff. (Well, that's the basic principle.) You need to help others to get what you want.

I'm sure I said this on this blog, but there was this experiment that illustrated this in a simple way. So there was four people in a table. And in the middle of the table was a bowl. The proctor will put fifty one dollar bills on the bowl and said you can take much as you want, but if you leave some I'll match what you have in this bowl and start again. 

At first, people start to dart for the bowl and grabbed how many bills they could get. But soon after, people started to realize that if everyone waits, then they, as a whole, could get double the money, if not more. So they started to work together and wait for the money to rise. 

By making rules, we fuel our selfishness in something productive. Capitalism, I think, is a great example of this, and that I tend to say that the rules and regulation matter just as much as the market itself.

So what I'm saying is, yes PBFB may have been a great exercise of self-indulgence. But it made him do something; it made others to do something; learn something. And that's what Humanity is about, isn't it?

Lindsay Ellis + Tom Milsom + Mike Rugetta = ?

So I was watching Nostalgia Chick's review of Return to Me and I remembered an another movie I saw called Searching for David's Heart, which was also about a heart transplant and I was wondering how there was a thing about heart transplants back in 1990s. Then, I realized that internet and heat transplantation were starting to be in common place in 1990s.

Then I realized how weird it was... How we can send ideas with light and transfer someone's piece of body to someone else. It felt so weird and futuristic, but yet it was novel twenty years ago and no one even thinks about it. Heck, maybe in twenty years we could send actual hearts by light! (We have the technology...)

Just twenty years to be commercialized and twenty more to disappear into society...

I felt a strange optimism in knowing that technology that thought catastrophic in science fiction in the 50s are realized today, and yet people go on doing stuff people having doing for centuries. There was a optimism in the idea that we're still human after all the changes in technology, that they're still tools for us not the controller.

Then I realized that I finally got a response to Mike Rugetta's Futurama video. Louis CK's idea of Everything is Amazing, and Nobody is Happy is not a bad thing for me. It's actually good! It's actually good that life goes on with technology rather having technology ruling over us.

Being content means there's nothing to do.

That is really boring.

I'll tell you what I told someone after he found out I was an atheist and asked, "Why do you want to go to Hell rather than Heaven?"

"Because Hell has something to do."

Thanks for reading.

Two Puzzles...

My mind is going through the puzzles today...

These two have a proximate similarity and distant similarity... you have to name both to win.

First one was asked before and is about medium difficulty.
Second one is new and is slightly harder (especially if you use the internet.)

Puzzle 1: What does these four high school (approximately) have in common?

Newport High School
Skyline High School
Lynnwood High School
Lakes High School

Puzzle 2: What does these three people have in common?

Good Luck!