Re:Fake it till you make it: the wolves of Instagram
by daodedickinson on Thursday May 03, 2018 @11:57PM
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The original is Goethe's The Sorrows of Young Werther causing so many to emulate the titular character and commit suicide.
Re:Fake it till you make it: the wolves of Instagram
by TheOtherHobbes on Friday May 04, 2018 @04:25AM
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Monkey see, monkey do.
I’m increasingly suspicious of the idea that humans are independent and rational, because so much humam behaviour can be explained as uncomplicated animal mimicry.
Re:Fake it till you make it: the wolves of Instagram
by Regardsyjc on Saturday May 05, 2018 @03:26AM
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Have you heard of mimetic theory?
Re:Fake it till you make it: the wolves of Instagram
by throwbacktictac on Friday May 04, 2018 @12:31AM
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I wonder what that says about people. I remember being extremely impressed/infatuated with Matt Damon's character in The Talented Mr. Ripley when I was 18 or 19. So impressionable I was!
Re:Fake it till you make it: the wolves of Instagram
by adrianratnapala on Friday May 04, 2018 @01:50AM
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Maybe it says they have a innate ability to not simply do as they are told. Instead they gather in lots of details from the movies and books, but don't necessarily trust the spin put on them.
It happened with books too: See "Liar’s Poker", by Michael Lewis. He says that he wrote it "so that fewer idealistic college kids would dream of working on Wall Street. ... Somehow that message failed to come across ... They'd read my book as a how-to manual."
http://www.gatsby.ucl.ac.uk/~pel/misc/The-End-of-Wall-Street... https://danwang.co/liars-poker-by-michael-lewis/
Michael Lewis also wrote "Moneyball" and "The Big Short" which were made into films.