600 Degrees of Separation

The theory goes, you are never more than 6 people away from everyone in the world. So there are 6 people between me and Joseph Fritzel? 6 People between my next door neighbour and Bin Laden? Or even better, 6 people between me and Huan Fernandez, of Mexico mustache grooming fame?

Surely these frankly shocking figures can't be correct!

It all seems a bit like something a lone, bored male, living in a remote village of the coast of Greenland might have made up on a whim when his daily routine of Xbox and masturabtion became stale. However it has now become a recognised and believed concept, so much so that they are using it for an advert promoting blood donation. What proof could we possibly have that EVERYONE in the world is ALWAYS 6 people away from EVERYONE else in the world?

It's one of those things like ' If you walk round the perimiter of London once it's the same as a disabled snale crossing the equator with a backpack on' .. which for some reason people accept to be true purely because they have heard it said so many times.

If I were the lone male with excess time who made up this ridiculous, unprovable concept I'd give myself a stern talking to and pledge to never make bogus claims again and put peoples lives in jeopordy, like blood donors. Kind, innocent blood donors, thinking that if they give blood, their husbands, students, grandmas, bus driver's, daughter will receive their selfless gift. (the actual line of links in the advert)

Go back to playing Xbox you pathetic human.
There are 600 degrees of burning flames in hell for you to perish in.

Over the top as ever. But seriously, what a silly silly claim that you are only ever 6 people away from everyone else. Silly.

Peace out from the skeptical Elf x

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