Tag: society

Social Media and a Self-Curated Spiral of Depression

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Post date Jul 6, 2019
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Does social media only really exploit us and invoke reflexive psychological and emotional dependency?

Tags angst, Complexity, dependency, depression, emotion, emptiness, ennui, entropy, fear, information, instagram, life, loneliness, loss, Psychology, sadness, social, social media, society

Uniform Individuality

Aspirations to difference and self-individuation through fashion, personal taste or behaviour are really just an evolution of tribal identity and group membership. Belonging to a group that does not belong to a group by virtue of adaptively-defined expressions and experiences of individuality is still to belong to a group.

Tags culture, difference, fashion, identity, individuality, information, logic, Psychology, set theory, society, sociology, uniformity

systems

Disentangling the Enigmatic Adversities of Socioeconomic Recursion

Post author By G
Post date May 11, 2019
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The distributed information systems which we experience as social, cultural, economic and cognitive (or technologically-mediated) reality are implicitly weighted towards the self-replication and reproduction of existing patterns and biases.

Tags alienation, axiom, bias, city, citylab, culture, economy, equitable, Equity, fair, fairness, foundation, Global, Global Systems, logic, opportunity, problem, recursion, rethinking, society, socioeconomic, stress, toxic, underprivilege

Psychology

The Emptiness

Post author By G
Post date May 7, 2019
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There may be something tragically inevitable in the procedural hollowing-out of social lives in an era of accelerating and technologically-mediated hyper-connectivity.

Tags alienation, commodity, ego, emptiness, fiction, isolation, loneliness, lonely, network, self, society, technology

culture Philosophy Science

Conceptual Homeostasis

Does the social (and psychological) context of science and technology fundamentally inhibit the free exploration and development of new modes of thought ?

Tags black hole, information, logic, paradigm, Psychology, Science, society

systems

The Purpose of Stupid Ideas

Post author By G
Post date Mar 7, 2019
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Does human stupidity actually serve a sociological purpose ?

Tags bias, clique, Complexity, culture, dumb, evolution, ideology, intelligence, life, order, society, stupid, stupidity

politics

There is no perfect social system

Post author By G
Post date Jan 22, 2019
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Just as there may never be any isolated closure and teleological endpoint to logic, physics and mathematics – there can also never be any such thing as the “one true way” or ideological and social perfection. There are only successive approximations and iterative algorithmic refinements towards a better world, without end.

Tags Complexity, democracy, Equity, fairness, freedom, ideology, incompleteness, justice, logic, political science, Psychology, society, sociology, systems

culture politics

Faltering Balance: the International Society of States

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Post date Jan 19, 2019
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The international society of states appears to be faltering and order looks to be crumbling from within.

Tags balance, disassembly, entropy, nation, nation states, society

Complexity culture Philosophy

Conflict as mandatory error of social self-replication

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Post date Jan 15, 2019
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Systems-theoretical analyses of human conflict suggest that it may be an inevitable error or fault in the self-replication of those complex patterns of information and energy that we recognise as society, technology and historical metamorphosis.