Goals & Sharing

I’ve been wondering about group activities, advertising and the internet. It seems insane that any type of event or get together of any size would not be advertised and or at the very least would have pictures and video from the event posted on the internet after the fact. I was wondering what it would be like to attend an event that wasn’t shared with the entire world. No video, no photos, but also no advertising. How would I have found out about it? Would people assume that if you didn’t advertise it through the internet that it was just for something nefarious?

...I doubt there is a place in Scotland that is inaccessible with enough money and/or connections.

I also assume that any advertising of no photos or video would be a red flag to some folks and there would be people (YouTube bloggers) sneaking in cameras to expose the debauchery even if it was just a handful of people sitting around a camp fire. I don’t know why I have a dislike of YouTube bloggers. I guess the overwhelming perception is that they are just attempting to churn out boring samey content in a bid to stay relevant to an algorithm rather than generate high quality content. I’ve also often wondered that if YouTube brags about so many petabytes of video being uploaded daily why do they only ever promote the same several hundred YouTube video makers? Even if you use different accounts or wipe the history to get a clean slate with what is being recommended you still get these same handful of content generators recommended. I would be hoping to find the equivalent of an r/all for YouTube.

In the same way I’ve been wondering about accessing places that aren’t easy to get to. I grew up with Everest standing in as the adventure of a lifetime and having grown up it seems that message has inspired thousands upon thousands of people to do it. So much so that I can find budget options to attempt climbing it now. Like wise it feels like every adventure minded rich kid has a travel YouTube blog about the weird places they’ve gone, and while it is very cool to see someone actually go to Tashkent, it is a capital city with international flights arriving every day.

I’ve noticed places in Scotland that I could traverse to that while not hugely difficult, is far enough away from roads and access points that accessing it is only available to those with a handful of skills, thus throwing up a barrier of entry. This isn’t a barrier that blocks enough money, I don’t know the rules of flying a helicopter, but I doubt there is a place in Scotland that is inaccessible with enough money and/or connections. Heck, if you can pay roughly £50,000 you can visit the North or South pole.

Taking this in a different direction I have recently started to look at exercise and even body building as an equivalent activity. The results are proportional to the amount of work you put into it. It isn’t something you can buy, obviously having money makes the whole task easier with personal trainers and supplements and the whole works, but there is a something wholesome about working to earn a goal.

I think I might want to find a goal that requires working for it. Not something that will make me famous, in fact it would be nice to do something that I am the only one who knows about it or could see it. I want a selfish goal only for me, even though for some reason this feels less selfish then achieving a goal to be displayed as content on a social media site.