Plus people get off on power & the attempt to bend the repugnant Other to their righteous will. https://t.co/DujB9CgFyx
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Have you been mobbed? Just curious.
On the internet/social media? Yes. But I'm not fussed. I don't have online friends (or other kinds of friends), not a part of online communities, I don't depend on social media or reputation to earn money... so there isn't really anything at stake. Not true for other people.
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My objections to crowd behavior/mobbing, etc., are longstanding. The major part of my PhD, written in the late-1980s, is about in-groups/out-groups, the psychology of crowd behavior, all that kind of stuff.
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Is it available to read?
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Yes, but I don't think you to read it. It's technical, very technical in places, theoretical sociology: http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/1446/
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I will brace myself for rare and grotesque deep-sea jargon species.
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