A note to someone whose friend request I dismissed:
Your bio …
… 3 nouns and a plug for your blog.
The intent.com type who friended me just before you had "I work for intent.com" as her bio. That, and nothing more.
I gotta say, truthfully, frankly, to ignore this is to enter into a fantasy realm where what people actually do matters less than the persona they construct with aspirational values.
Kye.Ho
"Neo-realism" is an ideology/world-view that rests on framing conceptual constructs. I can declare myself to be "an intent ambassador" and that will magically concretize what it refers to … at least for othes who are sophistially inclined.
And here’s where karma swings into action: when I profess an aspirational value that has all the effects and consequences and ramifications of precisely what it is: hot air … rainbow-colored, perhaps, but nothing more. It serves as a communicative gesture, inviting others who are similarly abstracted out of actuality to cluster around me with acts of affirmation … the paradigmatic mutual admiration society.
"By their deeds shall you know them". Fellow, the 2nd thing that came into sight with your "friend" request was the URL to your personal blog. I recognize social marketing when I see it.
I’m certainly not the only person to have read M. Scott peck on how social exchanges have become little more than commercial transactions. Am I?
Addendum: A note from the fellow corrected my assessment; from his "it’s all a matter of perspective" I saw that he’s more radical relativist than neo-realist. And by his "The bio box is very small" (No, it isn’t. Not really. Not sort of. Not at all.) I see that his standard tactic is to dismiss / de-value / deprecate others’ experience of phenomenal world. What I won’t adjust is my sense that he’s merely fishing … "social marketing". Whether or not he’s actually selling snake-oil or not I don’t know. And don’t care to know, for that matter.
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