Helllooooo SuperForest!
I have been in a TedTalks frenzy as of late, and I have shared a few!
I want to share more! But instead of just throwing you videos to watch I thought this time I’d give you some dialogue first!
I want to share with you two very amazing videos that I recently watched, and I really hope you watch them both. They both are 15 min. plus, but once you start they’ll be done, and you’ll wish they weren’t! So give yourself 45 minutes to sit down and enjoy these amazing people and their stories!
The first video I want to share with you a video about the multiverse! One of my favourite ideas, concepts, and toys is the universe, and just figuring out just what it is! I don’t have the math skills to jump into quantum sadly, but I certainly appreciate the theories. In this first video Sean Carroll shares his views on the universe, and his thoughts on what we will think the universe is in 50 years! Man o’ man it is so exciting! His ideas aren’t necessarily new ones, but they still blow my mind! We are constantly expanding as a universe, and we always will be! What can we get from that? Where did we come from? Why are we here? How are we here? What if our universe came from a universe maker? We are not a random mistake, but perfectly organised by nature itself. Ah! So many amazing ideas here! Give this video a watch, and feast!
Wow, right? Ok! Video number two!
This video actually hit me personally! John Hunter plays the World Peace Game with his students in public school in Virginia. A loonnggg time ago I played something very similar, and it changed my life.
In short, groups of kids, ranging from the ages of 11-14, were placed into real world organisations (i.e. FBI, CIA, U.N., etc.). Each day, over five days, we were given a scenario that built on top of itself based on our decisions daily. We were ask to respond as our organisation in the larger “world”. We did not know what the other organisations would actually do, but we could talk to them before decisions were made. The scenario played out like this:
North Korea got its hands on nuclear weapons and was ready to fire on the Western world. Our job was to save the world, quite literally. What made this special was the end (and the decisions we made as separate organisations and as human beings):
L.A. and New York were hit with nukes, but there were minimal casualties. The United States organisations decided to act for the world whole, ensuring that the world as a whole would benefit from any outcome, thus taking the heat. Because of that U.S.’s sacrifice to help the world, the world came to our side to hold us up and support us. We put humanity first, not our country.
I remember distinctly how surprised the simulation leaders were by the outcome. They told us they had never seen an outcome like it before, because usually the kids choose to save the U.S. instead of the world as a whole, leaving everything in a worse place. Because of those five days I learned to have faith in my generation and the future. Now John Hunter is playing a similar game with the kids in his classroom, annually. Watch this man do his work, watch these kids do their work, and watch yourself get inspired!
YES!
Love,
Mathew
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