Balance

[alainbryden]

The significance of this video is beyond words. Watch it an discuss it's meaning. I think it's meaning is obvious, but the way it conveys it is groundbreaking.

http://x5.putfile.com/videos/c2-5412280041.swf

[talisman]

RE: Balance

reminds me of game theory.

[alainbryden]

RE: Balance

Well that's the type of thing game theory is suposed to prevent, yes.

[Majikman]

RE: Balance

That clip was terrible. The only way i could see that clip being considered groundbreaking would be if you were to read so far into it, its no longer a video, but a philosphy on life. Personally i think that they could have done a better job. It may have been simple and direct. But it wasnt interesting, or exciting. And i really feel that no matter how good of a point your trying to make, to really impact you have to first captivate them in what they're watching. /shrug. I consider myself a fairly intelligent person, and im not saying that that movei didnt have meaning, im just saying it sucked lol... Bash me now.

[Majikman]

RE: Balance

Note i say i consider myself intelligent and then spell movie wrong... lol

[ad0gg]

Re: RE: Balance

I personally think this video was about Communism and why it doesn't work. In theory, Communism works and everything is perfect and utopian, just like how everything was perfectly balanced before the radio came. Once the radio came into play, it brought dead weight onto the platform. Others had to work extra hard in order to balance out the weight of the radio. This is like Communism: when someone doesn't work, everybody suffers. Then, one person envied the one with the radio, so he stopped working, which made the one with the radio suffer and lose the radio. Everyone else still had to work much harder then they normally would need to to balance the platform. Again, someone was greedy and wanted the radio so they took it. Did anyone else get a break? No. Instead they had to work harder. It continued over and over again, until finally the people were overworked and couldn't handle the shifting of the load. So they fell off the platform. One by one, they fell off until there were two left: one standing, and one hanging. The one standing, being greedy, kicked the one hanging off, which left him on one side and the radio on the other side, and it was balanced. The slacking off got him no where, except loneliness. Communism does not work because humans are greedy; they want everything for themselves. Had these people not been greedy, they could have found a way to bring the radio to the center, and they could all walk to the center and everyone could enjoy the music. The greed of humans is what ruins the system of Communism.

By the way, I think this is my first post in Critical Thinking. I feel like I just wrote an english paper, but on a topic that actually interested me, not something stupid and boring like the explication of "My Papa's Waltz". :P

EDIT: Wow, I have a horrible memory. This is actually my 5th post in Critical Thinking.

[The_Q]

RE: Re: RE: Balance

I liked how eariler it took three or four bodies to counterbalance the box and one body whereas at the end it only took one body to counterbalance the box. The math is seriously messed up with that one.

That's a wonderful film, Alain. Thanks.

Q

[talisman]

RE: Re: RE: Balance

well at the end the one guy had to move alot further out than the three or four did. It makes sense.

[alainbryden]

RE: Re: RE: Balance

That's true. Majicman, you aren't in the right frame of mind if you gave the movie so little attention just because it was too simple for you. I found it absolutely captivating from the very beginning.

ad0gg, that's a really neat perspective. I saw many of the same concepts you did except I took it as an indicator no on communism, but on human nature in general.

[archevil]

It is necessary to first say that a little mutual suffering (a la communism), is better than heaping that suffering onto a few (a la capitalism).

I thought it was indeed interesting that the 'victor' removed everything he saw as an obstacle to his sole domination of the radio, without realizing that rather than being obstacles, it was only through the presence of the others that he was able to have the radio at all. If you think about it, this is very similar to how some people so long for 'freedom' (which is more accurately known as 'wanting everything for themselves'), not realizing that like goldfish their boundaries are the only things keeping them alive.