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glen e. p. ropella-2 on
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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.
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