Viewers like you help make PBS (Thank you 😃) . Support your local PBS Member Station here: https://to.pbs.org/donateidea You asked, and we delivered: a Pokemon episode!!! Specifically Twitch Plays Pokemon, which it turns out is a metaphor for ... well, lots of stuff. Twitch Plays Pokemon is a version of Pokemon Red controlled via chat on the video streaming site Twitch. And TENS OF THOUSANDS of people are playing this one game simultaneously! How can a group steer the direction of a game? And what can this tell us about anarchy vs democracy? (Maybe that the US government is a bit more like Pokemon than we realized.) Watch the episode to find out more! ---------------------------------------­­­­­------------------------- Hobbe's Leviathan on Project Gutenberg - http://bit.ly/NV8Aho TPP Comment Sources: BPICampus.com - http://bit.ly/NV8Ixn CNET News - http://cnet.co/NV8N4r Gamespot Commenter Jerrei - http://l.gamespot.com/NV8OoT ---------------------------------------­­­­­------------------------- IMG Bibliography 1:02 - Ken Sugimori - http://bit.ly/1ci6X91 1:15 - Bill Watterson - http://bit.ly/1ci76cs 1:19 - Benn Marion - http://bit.ly/1ci78B3 1:26 - George Henry Hall, "An Ideal Portrait of William Shakespeare." - http://bbc.in/1ci7bge 1:48 - http://bit.ly/1ci7h7B 2:07 - Blair Sayer, "Casual Friday." - http://bit.ly/1ci7ffT 2:37 - Andy Singer, "Culture Wars." - http://bit.ly/1ci7mbv 2:43, 2:54 - Abraham Bosse, "Fronstpiece from Levithan." - http://bit.ly/1ci7uYn 2:44 - John Michael Wright, "Thomas Hobbes." - http://bit.ly/1ci7B6i 2:52 - Beatboxsamurai and lwazi, "GOTTA CATCH 'EM ALL." - http://bit.ly/1ci7DuX 3:10 - Get Milked, "The Social Contract." - http://bit.ly/1ci7GXA 3:14 - Ihon White, "A weroan or great Lorde of Virginia." - http://bit.ly/1ci7UxS 3:20 - The Unemployed Philosophers' Guild, "Calvin & Hobbes." - http://bit.ly/1ci7VBY 3:33 - themisfit, "Thomas Hobbes," - http://bit.ly/1ci7ZBI 4:31 Laura Howard, "Stop faffing about & just BLOODY GET ON WITH IT," - http://bit.ly/1ci81JV 4:39 - Purplemew, "twitch Plays Pokemon," - http://bit.ly/1ci80Wc 4:40 - Frenzied-Insanity, "NEW BATTLE STRATEGY," - http://bit.ly/1ci834u 4:41 - Alexis Royce, "Don't Give Up," - http://fav.me/d76xspk 4:44 - rsmv2you, "MAKE THE VOICES STOP" - http://bit.ly/1ci874c 4:53 - JohnMarkParker, "Order is Progress" - http://bit.ly/1ci87RP ---------------------------------------­­­­­------------------------- Comments: Dun tay http://bit.ly/1iau9Ee Philosophy Tube http://bit.ly/1iauAyn Thurston Sexton http://bit.ly/1lzs49Q Brien Malone http://bit.ly/1lzrM2x ZeroZivan http://bit.ly/1lzrNDS Jon Bohlinger http://bit.ly/1iauNSj David McNamara http://bit.ly/1lzrRDt Andrew Conlon http://bit.ly/1lzrSaF Ben Ferber http://bit.ly/1lzrSHJ sumtallbumdude http://bit.ly/1iauSWa ---------------------------------------­­­­­------------------------- Music: "Europe" by Roglok (http://www.roglok.net/) "Carry on Carillon" by Roglok (http://www.roglok.net/) Level 5: Room for the Homeless http://bit.ly/10N0Ykm "Bouncy Castle" by Roglok (http://www.roglok.net/) ":P" by Roglok (http://www.roglok.net/) Binaerpilot "Geeks" http://bit.ly/10N0UBf "Squarehead" by Roglok (http://www.roglok.net/) Chiptune - Kenzalol http://bit.ly/15vKwpN ---------------------------------------­­­­­---------------------------- Tweet of the Week: https://twitter.com/McPhersonPR/status/438701966047211520 Come hang out in the Idea Channel IRC! http://bit.ly/138EHBh Check out the Idea Channel SubReddit! http://bit.ly/GNklUq And the Idea Channel Facebook page! http://on.fb.me/1eVl4vP TRANSLATE THINGS @ http://ideachannel.subtitl.us/ ---------------------------------------­­­­­---------------------------- Let us know what sorts of crazy ideas you have, about this episode and otherwise: Tweet at us! @pbsideachannel (yes, the longest twitter username ever) Email us! pbsideachannel [at] gmail [dot] com Idea Channel Facebook! http://Facebook.com/pbsideachannel Hosted by Mike Rugnetta (@mikerugnetta) Made by Kornhaber Brown (http://www.kornhaberbrown.com/) _______________________________ Want some more Idea Channel? Does Fiction Exist? (ft. Harry Potter) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3gvubRsykI What is Fiction (ft. War of the Worlds) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dsXG8od4Ss What's The Deal With Unboxing Videos? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSUuO84BTSA