Howard The Humongous - Episode 2 - The Usefulness Of Feeling Useless

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WHO IS HOWARD BLOOM?
Howard Bloom has been called "next in a lineage of seminal thinkers that includes Newton, Darwin, Einstein, Freud, and Buckminster Fuller" by Britain's Channel4 TV. His books include The Lucifer Principle: A Scientific Expedition Into the Forces of History ("mesmerizing"—The Washington Post), Global Brain: The Evolution of Mass Mind from the Big Bang to the 21st Century ("reassuring and sobering"—The New Yorker) and The Genius of the Beast: A Radical Re-Vision of Capitalism ("an extraordinary book, exhilaratingly-written and masterfully-researched. I couldn't put it down." James Burke).

Bloom has founded three international scientific groups: the Group Selection Squad (1995), which fought to gain acceptance for the concept of group selection in evolutionary biology; The International Paleopsychology Project (1997), which worked to create a new multi-disciplinary synthesis between cosmology, paleontology, evolutionary biology, and history; and The Space Development Steering Committee (2007), an organization that includes astronauts Buzz Aldrin, Edgar Mitchell and members from NASA, the National Science Foundation and the Department of Defense.

From 1968 to 1988, Bloom did fieldwork in the world of corporations, mass media, and popular culture. As the founder and CEO first of Cloud Studio, Inc., then of The Howard Bloom Organization, Ltd., Bloom worked with companies like Sony, NBC-TV, CBS, Warner Brothers, Paramount Pictures, EMI, ABC, Gulf and Western, MCA/Universal, Mannesmann, Polygram, Coca Cola, Pepsi Cola, and Disney. Bloom helped establish or sustain the careers of Prince, Michael Jackson, Bob Marley, Bette Midler, Queen, Kiss, AC/DC, Aerosmith, Billy Joel, Billy Idol, Peter Gabriel, David Byrne, Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, Run DMC and over a hundred others. He advised the strategists putting together a new venture called MTV, he was featured on the cover of Art Direction Magazine, and he was profiled in New York Magazine, which called him the most thorough and efficient publicist in his field. Delta Airlines in-flight magazine went further and called him one of the most powerful people in pop publicity. No one realized he was a scientist in disguise.

Bloom's writings have appeared in The Washington Post, Wired, Knight-Ridder's Financial News Service, The Village Voice, The Wall Street Journal, Cosmopolitan, Omni Magazine, New Ideas in Psychology, The Independent Scholar, Entelechy—Mind and Culture, Across Species Comparisons and Psychopathology, PhysicaPlus, ArXiv.org and in two book series: Research in Biopolitics and the Disinformation Company's series of three books: You Are Being Lied To, Everything You Know is Wrong, and Abuse Your Illusions

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[Johnmorrisbeck]

Notice how TJ averages 7000 comments per video and this one has 700. That means 6300 of his viewers are on a short fucking leash from their attention span, or they just have incredibly productive and busy lives. But we both know the second one is unlikely.

[DrNaturalPhenomena]

@iluvpurplestew Moral is defined by the current state of mind of the human civilization, so basically, all or none is a good moral cause for a "crusade"

[iluvpurplestew]

Question for Howard: I saw in one of your other interviews that we (humans) have to fight for what is good and true. We have to "fill the void" in the cynics before someone like Hitler comes along and does it instead. How do we fill this void? What is a good, moral cause that we should all go on a crusade for?

[iluvpurplestew]

wtf, u cant just attribute a longer life expectancy to this one factor, "winning" on an international scale

[shikonotheos]

@Kuhnfuze Idiots have no attention span or appreciation for the good

[NitsuaNaed]

@Kuhnfuze and most of them are smarter too

[dab0r]

@Kuhnfuze Because they're long and serious. The people who watch these videos in their complete length possibly multiple times are a fairly small subset of TheAmazingAtheist's subscriber base.

[Kuhnfuze]

Why don't the Howard Bloom videos have more views? I don't understand.

[LddStyx]

@0:17 I have come to the conclusion that having no self confidence isn't a bad thing as long as I have self respect.

[CouldsSkyHigh]

LoL it's amazing how many people talk of things such as common sense when sense really isn't; just take a look at those who declare it to be. It's as if they thought of the idea themselves. Get this, it's exactly like when people don't know how to solve a math equation but when explained by the teacher they'd be like, "omg thiz is leik commen sence! I wus leik so clos I coud've get that myself." Pretty exaggerated but it's really sounding like that.