(Q - Yanou: My question, I have the impression, in my head, I tell myself that this hunt has something counter-intuitive, that is to say something hyper
counter-intuitive. That is to say that we all want to search, so sometimes we have to be patient. We have to wait for the moment when Max really tells us to go there, really to put the corresponding elements in front of us.
Is that perhaps what's wrong with us? Maybe we're too excited to find it, so maybe it's too early.)
MB: Are you too excited? That’s an interesting question. It deserves a little thought to answer as precisely as possible. I spent 2 hours with the director who is planning a feature film on the golden owl. Of which, some of you may be part since she contacted a certain number of researchers, but all that is none of my business. In any case, I talked for 2 hours with her, so I talked with someone who is focused on how to communicate this story to as many people as possible, to the general public. How to communicate it, how to tell it, what is the golden owl? And it's quite similar to this notion: are we too excited, are we too involved, etc.? In the answers I provided, I first said that, personally, I was not interested in intervening because well, personally, I have nothing to demonstrate, I have none to give a damn about all that. I like the story to be told, I like it to be told in all its truth, but I don't care about being an essential actor.
And on fundamentals, are researchers really overly excited people? What is actually happening in terms of researcher involvement? As you can see for yourself on the discord exchanges, there is still a passionate factor that is very present. Some people argue, it's not gentle, there's a significant implication, there's affect, there's all that. And how do we explain it and how do we answer a question like, are we too passionate, are we too involved, are we too much of this or not enough of that. My response in relation, at least to the producers, was to say that I think that the story of the golden owl came completely out of the context of an organized treasure hunt game as is done almost every day. Today. We are in a story that is very different, we are in a story that has lasted for 30 years where there have been a lot of uncertainties, a lot of events, twists and turns, controversies.
And we realize that the participants, the players, the fun, whatever you want to call it, there are different ones at different levels. They get involved, become passionate and end up, when they discuss the subject, putting their ego to the fore and losing their ability to put things into perspective. This is a bit of what happens quite frequently on discord.
MB: Are you too excited? That’s an interesting question. It deserves a little thought to answer as precisely as possible. I spent 2 hours with the director who is planning a feature film on the golden owl. Of which, some of you may be part since she contacted a certain number of researchers, but all that is none of my business. In any case, I talked for 2 hours with her, so I talked with someone who is focused on how to communicate this story to as many people as possible, to the general public. How to communicate it, how to tell it, what is the golden owl? And it's quite similar to this notion: are we too excited, are we too involved, etc.? In the answers I provided, I first said that, personally, I was not interested in intervening because well, personally, I have nothing to demonstrate, I have none to give a damn about all that. I like the story to be told, I like it to be told in all its truth, but I don't care about being an essential actor.
And on fundamentals, are researchers really overly excited people? What is actually happening in terms of researcher involvement? As you can see for yourself on the discord exchanges, there is still a passionate factor that is very present. Some people argue, it's not gentle, there's a significant implication, there's affect, there's all that. And how do we explain it and how do we answer a question like, are we too passionate, are we too involved, are we too much of this or not enough of that. My response in relation, at least to the producers, was to say that I think that the story of the golden owl came completely out of the context of an organized treasure hunt game as is done almost every day. Today. We are in a story that is very different, we are in a story that has lasted for 30 years where there have been a lot of uncertainties, a lot of events, twists and turns, controversies.
And we realize that the participants, the players, the fun, whatever you want to call it, there are different ones at different levels. They get involved, become passionate and end up, when they discuss the subject, putting their ego to the fore and losing their ability to put things into perspective. This is a bit of what happens quite frequently on discord.