Interconnected Networks – The Modern Day Norm For Understanding The Organization Of Information And Social Interactions
Manuel Lima, senior UX design lead at Microsoft Bing, shows how interconnected networks are increasingly becoming the modern day norm for understanding the organization of information and social interactions, and as a result, visualized networks are increasing in popularity as cultural memes. In An Interconnected Network, If One Element Changes, The Whole Network Changes As shown in the above video, a defining factor of an interconnected network is that if one of its elements changes, that change affects the whole network and thus the whole network changes. Accordingly, a collapse in one part of the network clearly causes all the other parts to be affected by it, as is most painfully and obviously exemplified by the global financial crisis. Thus, this interconnected network perspective of understanding the organization of social interactions clearly shows the need for mutual responsibility as a leading social value. When Will Commonly Accepted Social Values Grow To Harness The Interconnected Network Perspective In Human Relationships? As knowledge advances to harness the interconnected network outlook on every area of life, the social values that characterize “the world of the past” – individualism, maximizing profits and self-interest – and their methods of stratification and protectionism still prevail in human society. What will it take for society at large to realize how living to satisfy one’s individual interests is an outdated way of living, which leads to increasing crisis? Moreover, is it possible that the flourishing knowledge of interconnected networks could start penetrating and reformatting the way human beings relate to each other, before facing another crisis tipping...
Are We Destined To Pay The High Price Of Materialism Until We Die, Or Is There Another Way?
The Grip Of Materialism Every day Americans are bombarded with hundreds of messages suggesting that ‘the good life’ is attainable through ‘the goods life,’ by making lots of money and spending it on products that claim to make us happy, loved and esteemed. On the news shows we hear a near constant refrain from economists and politicians about the importance of consumer spending and economic growth. Around 150 billion dollars are spent most years to embed consumer messages in every conceivable space. Commercialization and consumerism also reach deeper, warming their way into people’s psyches and encouraging them to organize their lives around higher salaries and owning more stuff.” The Problem Of Materialism Research consistently shows that the more that people value materialistic aspirations and goals, the lower their happiness and life satisfaction, and the fewer pleasant emotions they experience day to day. Depression, anxiety and substance abuse also tend to be higher among the people who value the aims encouraged by consumer society.” The Stronger The Grip Of Materialism, The Lower The Care For Others And Nature Scientists have found that materialistic values and pro-social values are like a see-saw; as materialistic values go up, pro-social values tend to go down. This helps explain why people act in less empathic, generous and cooperative ways when money is on their minds. When people are under the sway of materialism, they also focus less on caring for the earth. The same type of see-saw is at work here: as materialistic values go up, concern for nature tends to go down. Studies show that when people endorse money, image and status, they’re...
3 Ways To Develop Mutual Responsibility
When it comes to the implementation of a new idea, whether it is in science, economics, culture, etc.—every idea, if it is new, has an uphill battle to undertake. When Galileo proposed that the earth revolved around the sun, and not the other way around, it was the beginning of that idea’s long trek up the hill of what had previously been thought. It was a similar trek walked by the idea of natural selection proposed by Darwin, or by Edison numerous times, or by hip hop to become accepted as a respectable form of music. And so it is now with the idea of mutual responsibility. Just as the earth revolving around the sun suffered through past arguments to the contrary, mutual responsibility does likewise. It has been said to be some sort of form of communism or socialism, a utopian idea, etc. But every new idea undergoes this sort of critique before it, if it has merit, is eventually accepted. Does Mutual Responsibility Have Merit As An Idea? When thinking of the idea of mutual responsibility, where instead of a person valuing individual ideals, or loose collective ideals for the sake of receiving one’s needs and not suffering harm from the rest of society; its value in an increasingly interconnected and interdependent world should be becoming apparent. Because if it can be shown that society, global society, is suffering as a result of interdependence not being valued, and that this then leads to the development of crises on all levels (economic, interpersonal relations, communities, states, nations, international relations), then what idea other than mutual responsibility—where people agree...![Is It Possible We Can Actually Extend Our Empathy To The Entire Human Race As An Extended Family? [RSA Video]](http://www.mutualresponsibility.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/rsa-animate-empathic-civilization.png)
Is It Possible We Can Actually Extend Our Empathy To The Entire Human Race As An Extended Family? [RSA Video]
Bestselling author, political adviser, and social and ethical strategist, Jeremy Rifkin, says we must “begin rethinking human nature” and “bring out our empathic sociability so that we can rethink the institutions of society and prepare the groundwork for an empathic civilization.” Empathy Is: the acknowledgement of death and the celebration of life and rooting for each other to flourish and be.” based on our frailties and imperfections, so when we talk about building an empathic civilization, we are not talking about utopia.” about the ability of human beings to show solidarity.” Empathy Evolves There was no such thing as Germany, there was no such thing as France. These are fictions but they allow us to extend our families so that we can have loyalties and identities based on the new complex energy communication revolutions we have that annihilate time and space.” Is it really a big stretch to imagine the new technologies allowing us to connect our empathy to the human race writ large in a single biosphere?” Science Shows: All humans are soft wired with mirror neurons” meaning, “if I’m observing you – whatever it is – the same neurons will light up in me as if I’m having that experience myself.” We are soft wired not for aggression, violence, self-interest, utilitarianism” rather, “for sociability, attachment, affection, companionship, and the first drive is actually the drive to belong.” We are “soft-wired to experience another’s plight as if we are experiencing it ourselves.” The Goal Is To: Begin thinking as an extended family.” Rethink the human narrative.” Bring out our core...