KISS has an army. do you?

From a profile by Chuck Klosterman on his favorite band, KISS:

“One thing I’ve learned in my life is that — creatively — it’s better to have one person love you than to have 10 people like you. It’s very easy to like someone’s work, and it doesn’t mean that much; you can like something for a year and just as easily forget it even existed. But people remember the things they love. They psychologically invest in those things, and they use them to define their lives.”

Is this true for individuals on a purely social level, or only when it comes to creators and their work?
Would you be happier with fewer “friends”, but more very close ones?
What kind of people, or in which situations, is the opposite actually true?

Imagine we’re in the future. The Earth is about to be destroyed.

Luckily, we’ve discovered another habitable planet that’s like Earth in every way. All the same natural resources. Advanced teams have already pre-built all the same stuff we have here. The only problem: it’s less than half the size.

Before we send people to the new planet, we have to decide who gets to go. We can’t take everyone. We can’t just try to squeeze into less space. 2 out of 3 people have to be left behind.

You and your friends have been chosen to create a 5 question test to select who goes and who stays behind. (This will be distributed and administered by all local governments around the world). As a perk for creating the test, all your friends and family get to go automatically (if you want them to), so if one of the questions would normally eliminate them, they still get to go.

What 5 questions would you use to choose who gets to live on the new planet and shape the future of humanity?

(hat tip to my buddy Alex for this one)

“Man is free; but his freedom does not look like the glorious liberty of the Enlightenment; it is no longer the gift of God. Once again, man stands alone in the universe, responsible for his condition, likely to remain in a lowly state, but free to reach above the stars.”

Jean-Paul Sartre asks us to think: is freedom a privilege or a burden?