Quote Originally Posted by MadHatter17 View Post
You know its funny because there's also an considerable group that gets most of its satisfaction from intangible things. Namely, video gamers. I play video games too, but you wont catch me yammering on about my gamer score or any such thing.

Meanwhile these same people are slow to realize the value of certain sentimental material things.

Reminds me of this old conversation about table top miniature games, the kind that cost a fair amount of money for figures you paint.

Guy 1: Well why would you spend so much money on those, you have to do all this work on them, and they're only an inch tall.

Guy 2: Well think about this have you beaten Halo 2?

Guy 1: Yeah

Guy 2: And what do you have to show for it? Thousands of people have done the exact same thing, that game was expensive 2 but after a few times playing it it loses all value. This figure *holds up a customized painted figure* is one of a kind, no one else in the world has one quite like this.
That's true, although the same can't really be said for dreams - in that "thousands of people have done the exact same thing." Though there may be similarities, most of the experiences are absolutely different. I understand your analogy, though.

However, both of those mind-frames are flawed (and I would assume that the materialist paradigm is the majority). What is important (IMHO) is recognizing the significance in each side - the material and the immaterial. If Bob had this kind of mind-frame, he wouldn't have taken the same stance with Jim trying to share a dream with him. Jim, however, could be the type of person that understands both sides, but would still want to share the dream with Bob.

You may not yammer on about your high score to someone who doesn't care, but if you are one of the first to beat a game billed as the "hardest game in the world," and you are around a bunch of your friends who are also gamers, I'm sure you'd at least bring it up in conversation.