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?
No comments:
Post a Comment