[lbo-talk] Christian Parenti: Pakistan One Year After the Floods

shag carpet bomb shag at cleandraws.com
Wed Jul 13 04:04:41 PDT 2011


At 11:47 AM 7/12/2011, lbo83235 wrote:
>It's not (solely, or even primarily) personal; it's about testing and
>understanding the group dynamics, the self-selecting social system (and,
>sorry, its leadership) and what that whole mix throws up [!] when
>confronted with a willful rule-breaker.

Ooooo. It's not a Turing Test. It's a Breaching Experiment! How thrilling! Every year,LBO gets new members who join up and initially feel like outsiders. Sometimes, they are defensive and dicky. Sometimes, they are defensive and overly obsequious. But always, they see themselves as observers of a group to which they don't (yet) belong. Happens all the time and eventually, they forget they are outsiders and ther's a magic point at which they become insiders, seeing themselves as part of the gang,etc. Happens all the time. Yay! Fresh Meat!

But it is very very rare that anyone calls what they're doing noble. This is so exciting!

shag

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