Patachon wrote:
> The law of the death X mileage.
Actually, that's:
Event Magnitude
Immediacy = ----------------- where,
Distance * Time
Spatial Distance * 2(Social Distance)
Distance = -------------------------------------
3
So, for any individual, if 1 person you know gets killed next door ten
minutes ago, that has a high immediacy factor. If 10,000 people you don't
know from Adam's housecat die halfway around the world a few years ago, the
immediacy of the situation is significantly less. This is pretty much an
immutable law of human nature.
As for importance, this is a related, but separate, issue from immediacy.
We can look at it this way:
Importance = Immediacy * Value Significance
So, though an event might be distant in time and space, if it is of
sufficient magnitude and has sufficient value significance to the individual
in question, it may be very important indeed. This is why some people care
about distant events, and others don't.
~g
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> The law of the death X mileage.
Actually, that's:
Event Magnitude
Immediacy = ----------------- where,
Distance * Time
Spatial Distance * 2(Social Distance)
Distance = -------------------------------------
3
So, for any individual, if 1 person you know gets killed next door ten
minutes ago, that has a high immediacy factor. If 10,000 people you don't
know from Adam's housecat die halfway around the world a few years ago, the
immediacy of the situation is significantly less. This is pretty much an
immutable law of human nature.
As for importance, this is a related, but separate, issue from immediacy.
We can look at it this way:
Importance = Immediacy * Value Significance
So, though an event might be distant in time and space, if it is of
sufficient magnitude and has sufficient value significance to the individual
in question, it may be very important indeed. This is why some people care
about distant events, and others don't.
~g
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