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Side-Boob is Not my Ultimate Concern

2010-03-17 · Hank · watch on YouTube · Philosophy & meaning · reflection essay

Answering John's ultimate-concern question, Hank lists five things he would die for but cannot rank them, and says the more interesting question is where the limits of what we care about lie; he wishes his mom a happy birthday and posts a Truth or Fail.

What is said

00:00:00 — Side-boob video abandoned for John's ultimate-concern question; method: list five things he'd die for

  • ★★ To find his ultimate concern, Hank lists the first five things he would give his life for, planning to narrow them down. — 00:00:00

00:00:29 — Five things Hank would die for: wife, freedom, the Library of Alexandria, alien contact, free clean energy

  • ★★★ Hank would die for his wife, freedom for people he cares about, restoring the lost Library of Alexandria, peaceful alien contact, and free non-polluting energy for everyone. — 00:00:29 · Katherine Green
  • ★★ Hank thinks he would die for the freedom of the people he cares about before he would die for their lives. (hedged) — 00:00:29

00:01:14 — Floor tangent: Felix Baumgartner's planned supersonic skydive from a balloon 23 miles up

  • ★★ Hank says Felix Baumgartner will soon try to break the sound barrier skydiving from a helium balloon 23 miles up, where thin air won't slow him. — 00:01:14
  • ★★ Hank would not give his life to be the first to break the sound barrier skydiving; he calls Baumgartner a bit of an idiot and hopes he doesn't die. (playful) — 00:01:14

00:01:41 — The tournament fails; Hank doesn't know his ultimate concern; circles of concern (rocks, diamonds, the Grand Canyon)

  • ★★★ Hank tried to rank his five in an imagined tournament but couldn't; he doesn't know his ultimate concern and isn't sure it interests him. — 00:02:11
  • ★★★ Hank finds it more interesting to ask where he draws lines between what he'd die for, fight for, care about at all, and not care about. (hedged) — 00:02:11

00:02:40 — You can't care about everything; family is central; happy birthday, Mom, with a party-blower song

  • ★★★ Hank says you can't care about everything: you can't care about a neighbor's baby as much as he cares about his nephew a child of the brothers. — 00:02:40
  • ★★ Family is always central to Hank's concerns, so he wishes his mom a happy birthday and plays her a song on party blowers. — 00:02:40

00:03:16 — Mama Green's birthday vs St. Patrick's Day; a new Truth or Fail episode (clover and shamrock facts)

  • ★★ Hank appends a new episode of Truth or Fail that he has just made. — 00:03:16 · Truth or Fail
  • ★ Truth or Fail candidate facts: one four-leaf clover per 100 three-leaf clovers; by legend St. Patrick used the shamrock to explain the Trinity to pagan Irish. (playful) — 00:03:16 · Truth or Fail
    • number check: one ... for every 100 — doubtful

Humor (significant)

  • Hank says he had planned the top 10 celebrity side-boob shots of 2009 before John's question. — 00:00:00 > «You think YouTube is for discussing ultimate concern. Everyone else thinks it's for side boob pictures.»
  • Hank's first thing he'd die for is his wife. — 00:00:29 > «which is much more selfish than you think. I mean, she's the one that gets stuck here without a best friend.»
  • Hank's plan was a tournament between his five things, forced by a hypothetical villain. — 00:01:41 > «Like a terrorist would show up and he'd be like, the contents of the library at Alexandria, or your wife.»
  • Hank claims the world wears green and dyes beer and rivers green for his mom's birthday, which falls on St. Patrick's Day. — 00:03:16 > «If you think they're celebrating this St. Patrick's guy, you got another thing coming.»

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