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On the internet, we spend even more time looking at other people, so I’d say mimetic desire is even more intense.
by streulpita 8y ago
On the internet, we spend even more time looking at other people, so I’d say mimetic desire is even more intense.
- freeflight 8y agoTho it hasn't always been like that. Mid-90's Internet feels like utopia compared to our modern social reality dominated Internet. When you met somebody online back then, you were just happy to have found somebody else. They didn't have profiles and pictures allowing you to put people into boxes before even talking with them. People actually had to talk to each other to find out more about whom they were talking to, it required actual back and forth interaction and not just browsing a half-invented profile page to use that as "ammunition" to put somebody else down for their listed views/positions.
- ams6110 8y agoThere were rudimentary profiles. If you "fingered⁕" someone, you could see the contents of their ~/.plan and ~/.project files, which formed something like a profile. ⁕ FINGER(1) NAME finger – user information lookup program
- lscharen 8y agoBack in the day John Carmack's .plan file was my social media feed. https://garbagecollected.org/2017/10/24/the-carmack-plan/ https://garbagecollected.org/2017/10/24/the-carmack-plan/
- david927 8y agoIn some sense, for some people, I think that's true. FB and IG certainly foster certain types of mimetic desires. But I think for the rest, it's less homogeneous in what we're seeing. When people used to watch TV, there was much more of a consensus on how we defined ourselves. That's going away.