Thus spake Douglas Roberts circa 10-03-23 03:08 PM: > So, the suggestion is that If you have a Facebook account, you got it > because you are a narcissist. Sounds a bit ... simplistic to me.
Oh no, that suggestion wouldn't come from me! [grin] I defended facebook users from Nick's accusation of narcissism, which he then admitted might have been over the top, if I recall correctly. But I do think there's something interesting, here. Our "information society" does one thing very well. It allows us to more completely ignore opinions we don't want to hear. If I don't like what's printed in the New York Times, I can read the Houston Chronicle. If I don't like what's on the NBC nightly news, I can listen to NPR. If I don't have any local victims for the nonsense I want to spout about "complexity", I can join a mailing list based in Santa Fe and annoy them. If I want to spout racist opinions and I get shouted down at the local pub, I can go home and log into an Aryan Nation website to hang out with my clique. I think this might be related to a hypothetical increase in narcissism. I could speculate that an increased narcissism is just one symptom in a hundred of them caused by multidimensional hyper-connectivity. -- glen e. p. ropella, 971-222-9095, http://agent-based-modeling.com ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
