The Power of Thought vs Flappy Bird

First off, before I get into the subject, I am not really sure where this post should go, but I know it's kind of an off-topic subject. it only contains one paragraph and a few sentences here and there about gaming, and it's mostly to get my main point across. Anyways for the moderators:- tell me if this is the right place for the blog subject, as I can't find any off-topic or general sections for blog posts. For the readers:- tell me your thoughts.

Flappy Bird. I don't get it. I don't get what's all the fuss about, I don't get what's so amazing about this game. People and critics admit that it's a silly game, but they say it's an addictive game. I don't see the "addictive" part, all I see is the "silly". Now a game like chaos rings, sword and sorcery Ep, fangz, or even the new marvel alliance game, could all be described as addictive, but not flappy bird, not at all. I played the game spent an hour on it, got a score of 12. I felt compelled to beat that score the next day, so I played again for another 30 min, then I got bored.

Personally I think flappy bird's success is a great example of the power of the media. See when all your media outlets are talking about any given entity, especially if they're praising it, you're bound to be curious, thus you go about trying to find out what it is they're talking about. In this case it's a silly game called flappy bird. If you are mentally weak, or just not a very knowledgable individual, (which is the state of most people in the world, very few people are knowledgeable, and fewer actually know how to use their knowledge to achieve their goals, or to use it in their daily interactions) you will give in to the hype of that certain entity that the media is praising. Now in this case it's meaningless. It's meaningless to give in to the hype of a game, if it can be actually defined as a game. But what happens when hat entity is a political candidate for the presidency? What happens when that entity is other countries with conflicting cultures and traditions and because of that, are being labeled as the "enemy" by the media because they prefer wearing head turbans/scarfs and not NBA starter caps. What happens........??

I have experienced the power of the media first hand. I am Egyptian, and was part of the original Egyptian revolution on the 25th of jan 2011, when Mubarak was ousted. I also took a "mild" part in the second revolution that happened 6 months ago on the 30th of July 2013, this time the Muslim brotherhood member president Morsi and his extremist religious regime where ousted. Throughout this turbulent time, the media machine was working on extra/high power mode. Now just so we are clear, I think the Muslim brotherhood are terrorists to the fullest, I've seen them kill and use weapons against unarmed civilians with my own eyes. I also know that Mubarak was the definition of corruption in Egypt. In both cases the media was very biased. You either find channels that paint the brotherhood as angels from god carrying out gods plans, or channels that paint them as lucifer's henchmen. This is also supported by false claims and false footage, very evident in channels such as aljazeera which was the go to hub for the Muslim brotherhood (MB). I said before that the MB are terrorists, but there are members within the MB that are against violence, and there are members that are just confused and believe anything the MB heads/chiefs say (brainwashed) due to these members being mentally weak. This is not a local problem too, this is a worldwide issue. Everywhere in the world news channels are very biased to one side of a story.

My point is, you should think about anything you hear or see. Think about it in a non emotional, non religious, non traditional way. Be very pragmatic when you think about what is being said. Even when it comes to gaming, the console wars for example, a lot of things being said within the console wars saga doesn't make any sense if you really think about from a logical, scientific point of view. Draw a table of pros and cons, split the sensible and the non-sensible in two categories, think logically about what you hear and what you see. Most of the time if you think about a lot of subjects out there for a few minutes you'll find out that logically it doesn't make sense. These subjects might be common conceptions within a community, theories and dogmas that the community just follows without asking why. Also, remember that when it comes to thoughts, there is no taboo, for example, a very common subject in all communities across the world is religion, most people don't really give it much thought, they just follow the word of god. A lot of communities consider thinking about the relevance of religion is taboo. Actually, if most people tell you it's taboo to think/argue about a certain subject, then that should be more reason and should give you more motivation to examine it with your thoughts, and ridicule it. Think about the logic behind religion, what the bible, Quran and Old Testament/Torah say (the 3 official words of god as most people would say). Do these words of god sound logical and systematic to you? Do you really think these are the words of god. How come god has 3 different "official" words? Think.

Apply these questions to all aspects of life, apply it to things you take for granted in your daily interactions. Think about everything and anything, if you are confused then ask. Ask everyone and anyone, a homeless street beggar can know something that a doctor wouldn't, a 12 year old might tell you something about chemistry that your office co-worker wouldn't know about. Still confused then search, search everywhere. Searching for information is so easy in this day and age, just as the internet can be used for Facebook posts about how sexy you look beside the pool, it can be used for knowledge. I once was looking for a new router to buy, so I searched the net for the newest routers, one thing lead to another and I spent about 5 hours that day getting to know all about the different a/b/g/n modules, how the connection actually works, what's the true meaning of hertz, what's a dual signal, how the internet as a whole came about. In 5 hrs I learned about Internet networking what I couldn't learn in an elective course about the internet during my university years. A lot of the times I am also able to gain valuable knowledge from gaming, movies and music. Think. Search. Ask . Then search some more. Don't believe, instead, ridicule. Don't be a follower. Don't be a flappy bird.