I'll think about you for $1.

I stumbled onto this:

Thinking About You for One Minute $1 


You will be thought of for one minute. An e-mail will be sent to you when the thinking starts and when it ends. If you wish, you may send details about yourself, but it is not necessary. 


I wonder if anyone ever takes him up on his offer. And how does one know if he really thought about you? 
What does an email really confirm? 


How much money do you think people could make if they were paid for thinking about others. Perhaps that is an idea for charity: merely by thinking about the suffering in the world, some signal would be sent to some database where for every thought sponsors would donate a specific amount of money. That would be cool: saving the world one thought at a time.

It would make one more aware of the different disasters as well. Perhaps the charity itself would be quite a failure: what if everyone thinks only about Japan and puppies, and forgets that rhinos are being slaughtered and Pakistanis are drowning in continuous floods. And what if no one wants to think of the bad? Not everyone can be an emokid. Moreover, they only think of their own suffering. And in order to count the thoughts, a thought-police would have to be established. Hello 1984. So perhaps not.

Strange how with so much to be depressed about, our brain is still wired for optimism.
Check out the Time article here.



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