[FRIAM] Personhood: A Game for Two or More Players | Melting Asphalt

[Nick Thompson]

Dear Friammers, 

 

At last Friday's service, the group was kind enough to talk about my insane
idea that the same internet,  which had deformed all my fellow citizens into
insane narcissists who would engage in no website that did not begin with
the word "I-" or "You-", etc., could transform them back again by creating a
space for calm, rational, argument.  Afterward, Jon Zingale sent me this
extraordinary article.  

 

http://www.meltingasphalt.com/personhood-a-game-for-two-or-more-players/

 

Reading this article, my original insane idea became transformed into a new
insane idea.  Could personhood be propagated on the internet as a virus?  

 

I am hoping that we could carve out a few minutes at next Friday's meeting
of the home church to discuss this, but I would love to hear some discussion
of the article here in the meantime.  

 

One thing:  The discussion of "Aspies" at the end seemed totally out of
keeping with the rest of the article.  One of the first steps toward
depersonalization is the assignment of some cute name.  "Girls" comes to
mind.  As somebody with marginal Asperger's tendencies myself,  my whole
being cried out, "I am not your Aspie."  Please do not get hung up on this
part of the article.  I want you all to grapple with the idea that civil
argument could become an attractor in a system with the right parameters.  

 

Thanks, 

 

Nick 

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