sociodynamic law?--Sociodynamic Effect

[BARNETT WEISS]

I agree with Tom in his critique of Ann's post.  
The Internet itself has served to mitigate against the sociodynamic effect much to the shagrin of the powers that be especially the military who created it.  Everyone on the list serve has an equal ability to read or send posts to and from anyone either publically or privately so they have to a large extent equal access at least to see the posts of those who have achieved verticality through frequent posts which does not make them sociometric stars per se.


 Secondly in regard  to her statement about "many people have to read emails from a very few people, and a large number of people have to wade through it all to read something from the few remaining people still tuning in who have not sent messages to "unsubscribe"     People in that situation can read or throw out anything they wish to. They can also contribute at any time if they wish to and everyone has the difficulty in wading through all the posts to choose which one they will read or not based on their assay of whether that person has contributed something in the past that makes sense to them.  So again this is not in my opinion an example of the sociodynamic effect.

 
 The fact that certain people become more vertical by posting a great deal can just as easily disuade people from reading their posts and waiting for someone's who has posted infrequently or uses a subject that seems interesting to them; the latter being a kind of choice criteria upon which to base your choice which is still one which can reach everyone. 

There is much more that I could say here and this is sufficient for the time being.


Finally, One country using up more resources disproportionately from others is also not a demonstration of the sociodynamic effect, it is a partial consequence of it in terms of the long term concentration of power achieved through the sociodynamic effect potentiating the redistribution of capital and the arrangement of corporate structure being able to modify communication through their control of the media and subsequently the proported values in that particular country and so becomes a cultural conserve behind the scenes so to speak through the unspoken value of  keeping up with the Joneses supported by the legal and tax structure of that country.  Germany's citizens have as high a standard of living as the US citizens and yet they use something approaching half of the resources per person that the US does.  How do you account for the sociodynamic effect functioning there? Of course you could choose and even greater disparity if you spoke about the Netherlands or even
 New Zealand.  

My 25 cents, Bud


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