In the mid to late 1800s and the early 1900s, the world was unbelievably innovative and creative, and its accomplishments were truly astounding. And keep in mind that they didn't have much to work with back then. The world wasn't interconnected, there was no efficient means of distributing and accessing information, and there wasn't much in the way of accumulated technology and science. And yet, people just started inventing planes, telephones, alternating current systems, light bulbs, radios, etc.
If we take today's standards and place them back then, the new technologies they developed seem like sheer fantasy. A radio back then is like what a "beam me up, Scotty" machine would be right now. But the world created things like that regularly. And the world of industry brought down prices regularly.
But then here's what happened. Look at any picture from the 1920s where there's an assembly of people. LWatch a video of an outdoor event from that time. Look at all the men. And what do you see? Almost all of them are wearing the same hat! There was no law stating that they had to. It wasn't communist America. I'm pretty sure it wasn't. I'll check my history book. I just checked it. There was no law stating people wear that hat. But they did.
That marked the beginning of an era of conformity. The world standardized a hat-ish way of thinking. "You need to do this. You need to do that. Follow the protocol. Go to college. Learn this. This is what you should do. This is what you should believe. This is the way you should think."
Since then, we've had far less in the way of thinking outside of the box. We haven't had as many revolutionaries and innovators.
Modern colleges and science are heavily influenced by hat culture. The pre hat era was supposedly less educated and less scientific--and yet, it seems far more accomplished.
And I think we're getting even more hat-ish today.
Just look at TV ratings, DVD sales and rentals, blog traffic, YouTube views, book sales, radio ratings, etc. You'll see evidence of hats. Nowadays, there's an endless sea of choices--but the world is still flocking to a few things.
In the 70s and 80s, 15% of the population tuned in to a very popular TV show. Nowadays, that number is down to 5%--but we have access to 1000 timea as many choices.
The world doesn't have as many innovators, revolutionaries, and creative people as it used to. ut there are some. I'm not saying there are none at all. There have been plenty since the 1920s. Like Richard Nixon. He altered his state of consciousness quite a bit, in many different ways on numerous occasions. And Mr. T. Definitely Mr. T.
I'm that way, too. And to some extent, that explains why I'm kind of a nobody. Because I'm dealing with hat wearers. That's why they're not going for what I'm doing. Because of the hat culture. I'm a comedian, for instance, and I haven't made it to wherever the hell comedians perform. Where do they perform? Carnegie Hall? Somewhere. The point is, I'm not highly regarded. I haven't won any Grammys. I haven't even had an album. Nobody wants to work with me. Even though I'm hilarious. I'm hilarious! I'm funny! I'm funny! I'm the funniest person on the planet!
But we're part of this era of conformity. We're going crazy with the whole hat thing. That really explains why I'm so unpopular. Does that explain it? That's one of the reasons. There are many reasons why. That's one of the main ones, I think. That's really the whole point of Hat Theory. It explains why I'm not popular, why I'm a nobody. Is that the point? No--there's more to it than that. But that's a big part of it.
It's a good thing I am so unpopular. Otherwise, I might not ever have developed Hat Theory. The world needs my Hat Theory. It's very important. But yeah--I'm a nobody, and I kind of explained why. So now you know. Although you don't know, because you're probably wearing one of those hats, and you see things differently.
I should be the most popular person in the world. I am very popular among aliens, because they don't wear hats. They do wear hats, but not the way people did in the 1920s. But they occasionally wear hats. I'm very popular among aliens. My average YouTube video gets a billion views among aliens. But those views don't show up on my view counts, because the aliens download the videos, and then they store them on their own servers. They don't want to download them from the earth's servers each and every time. They're located a million light years away. Why would they keep on sending data from earth to another planet? Wait--do aliens live on planets? Where do they live? I don't know. They're pretty vague about that. I don't really talk to them that often. I don't know why. You'd think I would, being that I'm so popular among them. But for some reason, they just ... I don't know. I haven't figured that one out yet. I don't have that much information on them. I do know my videos are popular. And some of these other popular people that you see nowadays--they're nobodies among aliens. And among non-hat wearers in general. I bet Tesla would have loved my comedy. I'll bet Mr. T likes it. Does Mr. T know about me? Probably not. But Tesla would have loved it. The Wright Brothers would have loved it. I don't know. Well, probably.
So take off your hat. If you want to go to my university. No hats allowed around here. There are signs at every entrance. "Take off your hats!" Well, you can wear a hat if you want--but don't just stand in line to receive your state-issued hat that everyone has. But you can wear a hat--because if I just tell you not to wear a hat, that's like making you wear a hat.