Er! Is this a real law? Like something people use? If so, how do you
quantify these things into your equations? Are they rigorous or just
silly-billy scientific sounding muck overlaying some nice home-grown
boorishness?
One, that explains a lot of American assertions, I always wonder as to
how they could just keep ignoring their humiliations all over the world
-- haven't they bled power for the last couple of decades or more?
Two, no wonder everybody is into digging knives into American stuff, and
it is not just the 9/11 events ("humans biting the dog's ears") I refer
to.
Wish I had the time to get into a discussion over this, especially your
concepts of value -- I will certainly refer it to the [non-American]
people around me, they will find it of some use. Thanks ~g, most
insightful, a picture of the thinking that fast drives your country to
the status of the world's first post-powerful nation!
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From: Basic and applied design (Art and Architecture)
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Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2002 12:28 PM
To: DESIGN-L@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: nuts or huts !
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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quantify these things into your equations? Are they rigorous or just
silly-billy scientific sounding muck overlaying some nice home-grown
boorishness?
One, that explains a lot of American assertions, I always wonder as to
how they could just keep ignoring their humiliations all over the world
-- haven't they bled power for the last couple of decades or more?
Two, no wonder everybody is into digging knives into American stuff, and
it is not just the 9/11 events ("humans biting the dog's ears") I refer
to.
Wish I had the time to get into a discussion over this, especially your
concepts of value -- I will certainly refer it to the [non-American]
people around me, they will find it of some use. Thanks ~g, most
insightful, a picture of the thinking that fast drives your country to
the status of the world's first post-powerful nation!
-----Original Message-----
From: Basic and applied design (Art and Architecture)
[mailto:DESIGN-L@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Gregory Wharton
Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2002 12:28 PM
To: DESIGN-L@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: nuts or huts !
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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