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The “Total Pwnage Of Passive Mediums Society” Is Born
I was able to recruit a group of 10 willing folks last night after tweeting: “Anyone want to experiment encouraging less tv & more reading/writing via facebook group accountability? (e.g. read a book, win a movie pass)” Here’s the idea: Inaugural members of the “Total Pwnage Of Passive Mediums Society” are laying the framework for using the influence of community to encourage a healthy diet of passive and active mediums. We put pressure on unhealthy “medium diets” by crafting incentives and experimenting with a point system: For instance if we establish that a society member consumes too much passive mediums like television, we’d recommend a diet that that may include various goals: e.g. Write two letters OR finish a book for access to watch a film. One medium doesn’t have more intrinsic value over another , but media consumption can become unbalanced and therefore unhealthy. The hope is that we develop a system that any group of diverse people can interact with in order to create a more impactful and well-rounded people. We operate on a premise argued by Neil Postman: namely that we adopt the characteristics of the technology we use. For instance the availability of search engines contributes to our cultures impatience and value of timeliness. Call To Action Inaugural members are asked for a month commitment—once we decide what we’re doing for a month that is. We’re capping it at 15. There are a few spots left if you want to join the closed facebook group where we’ve already begun collaborating. (And I’m sure a few people will drop out after they realize how philosophical and culty this is getting.) —Welp, got to go create some subculture with some amazing folks. I’ll report back.
I’m embarking on a social experiment.
