<snicker> On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 10:57 PM, Robert Holmes <rob...@holmesacosta.com>wrote:
> A thread on narcissism in FRIAM? Let me just go check the definition of > irony... > > -- R > > > On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 8:52 PM, Nicholas Thompson < > nickthomp...@earthlink.net> wrote: > >> "Nick's accusations of narcissim" >> >> Was that me? >> >> Nick >> >> Nicholas S. Thompson >> Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Ethology, >> Clark University (nthomp...@clarku.edu) >> http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/ >> http://www.cusf.org [City University of Santa Fe] >> >> >> >> >> > [Original Message] >> > From: glen e. p. ropella <g...@agent-based-modeling.com> >> > To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group < >> friam@redfish.com> >> > Date: 3/23/2010 6:39:47 PM >> > Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Narcissism Epidemic Spreads Among College Students >> > >> > 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 >> >> >> >> ============================================================ >> 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 >> > > > ============================================================ > 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 > -- Doug Roberts drobe...@rti.org d...@parrot-farm.net 505-455-7333 - Office 505-670-8195 - Cell
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