Life as videogame

[izquierdista]

Here's an interesting take on how people choose their loyalties, including politics:

The Psychology of Fanboyism

In order to understand what motivates "fanboys" and "fangirls," we investigate the behaviors behind video-game fanaticism with the help of esteemed psychologists, authors, and experts on the subject.

All gamers eventually encounter one. The fanboy and fangirl, who you can find lurking on message boards or can hear shrieking over headsets on Xbox Live, are by no means a recent phenomenon-the first recorded use of the term "fanboy" dates back nearly a century to 1919. First used to describe passionate boxing fans-and later comic-book readers who prided themselves on knowing their cherished fictional universes inside and out-the word has since devolved as a description of immature and often obnoxious behavior in the world of video games.


Rest of the article at: http://videogames.yahoo.com/events/plugged-in/the-psychology-of-fanboyism/1407764

[RandomThoughts]

1. People should be fans of concepts not people.

Although honestly, one of the biggest delusions is that life is a computer game, and it shreds peoples empathy.

It can be proven not true. Although it melds with Toy doctrine, Pet doctrine, Farm doctrine. and a few others to create despair.

If you add up all the conflicting false doctrines, they have something in common, they want to create despair. Since they are so different from each other, that commonality shows the intent behind the concept of them, and if that is the intent, then explaining existence is not the intent of those doctrines.


On a side note, something like a segmented copy of this forum could easily be a research project, since it would be easy to segment Internet, some post could even be AI responses, so not saying that things like these forums might not have computer influence, but existence does not match that conclusion.

[Odin2005]

2. That is quit relavent to all the Obama fanboys here.