Just to follow up, after which I'll shut up about this, I presented my speculation, mechanism, and hypothetical tests, yesterday at the Cascade Systems Society and didn't get laughed out of the room. [whew] It sparked a lot of controversy. In particular, there were 3 people who totally rejected the idea that entitlement is the dual of (a sense of) collectivism. And 2 people just kept hammering me on the fact that I have no data. [grin] Nobody seemed to pull out the "correlation is not causation" widget. Perhaps that's only useful once one has data.
Perhaps the most interesting outcome was the argument it sparked over what we mean when we say words like "the commons", "collectivism", "cooperation", and "altruism". In any case, the moderator (Teresa) subsequently sent me the following links, which I thought were interesting and relevant: http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/social_issues/jan-june10/millenials_02-24.html http://pewresearch.org/pubs/1501/%20millennials-new-survey-generational-personality-upbeat-open-new-ideas-technology-bound -- 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
