Fun
Washington, DC 4.12.10
Fun.
What does fun have to do with hypnosis?
The sharp-eyed Pearlan, yes she of the FourTuned, alerted Hy.pnos.is recently upon finding a most remarkable viral video.
http://www.thefuntheory.com/virals The video shows a flight of stairs being converted into a ... flight of imagination ... by resurfacing them in black and white and installing electronics under the surface that emitted a chord when stepped upon. Voila: virtual 3 dimensional piano which played notes when walked upon. And many more people choose to walk the steps -- to experience the serendipitous and unexpected -- than to ride the escalators.
And this remarkable video, as well as other remarkable forays into the scary world of fun, traces back to a website sponsored by none other than Volkswagen. It's a site entitled The Fun Theory, a site dedicated to "the thought that something as simple as fun is the easiest way to change people's behavior for the better."
Pearlan offered an explanation of what this has to do with hypnosis by observing that they both are about changing behavior. Fair enough, but hy.pnos.is offers to do her one better. And that is, both fun and hypnosis work nonlinearly, encountering the unexpected, and engage our imaginations.
The imagination, really, isn't it a less pretentious word for the unconscious or subconscious mind?
So if our civic leaders were to design our day to day systems -- things of which we are mostly unconscious -- like stairs, trashcans, recycling bins, traffic cameras.... with just a bit of whimsy not only might these systems work far more effectively and at lower cost, not only would the government be able to give up most of its coercive tactics to enforce compliance with its ordinances, rules and statutes, but...
wouldn't it be fun to live in a city or town designed, on a routine basis, as whimsically as the Emerald City of Oz or the Red Queen's Castle in Wonderland?
Yes, I think it would. Be fun AND workable that is. Enough with both the Democrats and the Republicans. They are worse than incompetent or venal.
They are Boring!
Pearlan for President, 2012, on the Surrealist Party ticket. Campaign volunteers signing up at her page at FourTuned.ning.com.
Stand back just a little bit, hy.pnos.is is first in line.
Probably listening to the FourTuned 's latest hot release on his iPod.
Just having fun.
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