So, I randomly got to watch that South Park episode in which PewDiePie is guest actor and Cartman basically copies him.
The idea behind the whole episode is how most of the people think it is dumb to watch someone commenting while he is doing something, while that’s basically the concept behind:
- Reality TV
- Talk shows
- Bullshit reality tvs
- Modern shows about competition (masterchef, the voice, got talent)
I must say that I agree in the fact that watching others doing their thing is stupid.
But I want to add something.
In fact I believe that spectating someone is as stupid as:
-Watching TV
-Playing videogames
-Reading
-Working for more than 2 weeks at the same job
-Getting drunk
-Doing family reunions
-Cleaning ourselves
-Learning something, because “yo, you’re not going to be the BEST at it”
I received a news, we are not robots.And I also noticed something, that is so banal and obvious, yet nobody ever said out loud to me:
Everything cool and noteworthy, even those shitty reality shows, has never been entirely done by a single person.
To me this is huge.
Because I lived thinking that I gotta free myself, I gotta live the dream, I gotta do stuff.
When in reality nothing noteworthy is achievable by a single person.
I mean, yeah you can say a single guy climbed mount everest, good for him.
But so what?
I wrote this shitty post.
Here’s what. lol
Stories sell, yet stories cannot be shared without someone else:
-Setting up the book (You can do that)
-Publishing the book (I guess you can do that too)
-Crafting cool images (You can do that)
-Preparing the checkout page so people can buy (You can do that aswell)
-Promoting the book (You can do that)
-Buying and sharing the book (OH WOW, you cannot do that)
So you can make remarkable things, but they become remarkable once people make them so.
Think about making a movie, I always wanted to make a movie.
But how can you be “director, director of photography, actor, camera-man, writer, scripter, editor….
mmmmh.
Maybe we all make the American Dream. We just never thought about it as a collective effort.