Jubilee Prosperity

9. [44]

K. Lewin, Resolving Social Conflicts: Selected Papers on Group Dynamics, Gertrude W. Lewin, ed. (New York: Harper & Row, 1948).

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Lazarsfeld worked with, and studied Jacob Moreno’s “sociometry.” The following quote is from “Leadership and Sociometric Choice,” Helen H. Jennings Sociometric Institute: “The Sociometric test, devised by Moreno, discloses the feelings which the individuals have in regard to one another in respect to membership in the groups in which they are at a given moment (ideally all groups in which they are or could be). It is an action test. The criterion for choice must have the explicit meaning for the subject and offer him the specific opportunity to give the information for reconstruction (or retention) of the situations in which he is. The results are put into operation to the optimal satisfaction of subjects. Thus, in respect to the criterion of the group’s formation, the psychological position of every member in the composition of the group’s structure is brought to light. By periodic testing, in like manner, changes in this structure can be traced, followed, and evaluated.” (Sound like an ad for MySpace?)

The models are referred to as sociograms. INSNA refers to Moreno as one of the most important figures in social networking. Moreno worked as a self-appointed psychiatrist to the prostitutes of Vienna. He was also a psychiatrist at Sing Sing Prison, and then later at a “reform school” known as the Hudson School for Girls, where he gathered data to be used in his book, Who Shall Survive? (which he wrote with Helen Jennings). This is one of the key documents for those interested in game theory, mass psychology, and social engineering.

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Theodor W. Adorno et al., The Authoritarian Personality (New York: Harper, 1950).

12. [47]

Ibid.

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Norbert Wiener, The Human Use of Human Beings (Da Capo Press, 1950).

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For a quick summary of a “game theory matrix” without any of the “matheze,” get a paperback “Choose Your Own Adventure” book. If you become bored flipping back and forth among the pages, don’t buy another one, but try “Dungeons and Dragons” this time. If you still don’t understand game theory, witness a MySpace or Facebook addict going from page to page and then back again for hours on end. If all of these predetermined games bore you to tears–good, you have escaped the matrix.

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