Friday, November 21, 2014

Social Tension

Social circumstances lead to our individual behaviors, putting our social compositions into “states.” For example, if multiple people engage in selfish behavior, then non adherents have to revert to that sort of behavior to survive, lest they fall behind and lose out on resources. But if the society as a whole is in a cooperative state, then it is the selfish actors that are censured and excluded from the social product. It takes a certain critical threshold from one state to snap to another. It is the social connection and the reciprocation between connections that provides the tension that keeps the state coherent and stable. If you take a few high energy individuals that project a certain amount of energy that is a certain quality to enough nodes, it spreads through the network in a sympathetic manner. 

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