#monkeysphere

[lonelinessfollowsme]

How big is your Monkeysphere?

Anthropologist Robin Dunbar studied societies like tribes and primate groups and learned that we can only have so many people close to us before things break down. Your Monkeysphere is the amount of people you have room to empathize for in your life. For humans, our Monkeyspheres are considered to be 150 people, and people outside of that number begin to turn into one-dimensional characters. It might explain why societies don't work as well as someone might think.

[rettenmundsolutions-blog]

Monkey Circle (oder Sphere) aka Dunbar-Zahl oder wieviele Kontakte können wir überhaupt eng pflegen? . Unter der Dunbar-Zahl (englisch Dunbar’s number) versteht man die theoretische kognitive Grenze der Anzahl an Menschen, mit denen eine Einzelperson soziale Beziehungen unterhalten kann. Das Konzept wurde vom Psychologen Robin Dunbar entwickelt. Die Dunbar-Zahl beschreibt die Anzahl der Personen, von denen jemand die Namen und die wesentlichen Beziehungen untereinander kennen kann. . Dunbar sieht die Anzahl als Eigenschaft bzw. Funktion des Neocortex. Im Allgemeinen betrage die Dunbar-Zahl 150, wobei die Anzahl der Freunde individuell zwischen 100 und 250 schwanken könne. Ob sie auch für sogenannte virtuelle soziale Netzwerke gilt, ist Gegenstand wissenschaftlicher Diskussionen. #dunbar #socialnetworks #research #monkeysphere #chimps #marketingonline #digitalmarketing #socialmedia #kurs #bern https://www.instagram.com/p/BpPnlBagkpA/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=3mxzf7hgxkty

[hermitprivilege]

No Matter What You Say - I Am 87% Immune To The Monkeysphere

[lordandgodoftheobvious]

Human beings only have enough emotional empathy to care about 150 other people and you want me to waste some of mine on xxxtension or whatever the fuck his name is???

[nocturnals-anonymous]

Population has an inverse relationship with general well-being. You can actually see a simple example of that...on any internet forum. As the number of subscribers goes up, the overall quality of the posts goes down. When there are few subscribers, it's easy to keep tabs on everyone. The shit posters can be and are easily recognized and singled out. As individuals, they can't overcome the disapproval of the rest of the community. They can keep plugging away, being shit posters, but it's neither pleasant nor simple, so it's rare for them to stay around. As the population grows, the number of shit posters increases alongside every other demographic. It reaches the point that they can establish a subculture of shit posters - that there are enough of them that they can join forces and affirm each other, and thereby ride out the disapproval of the rest of the sub. At that point, lots of things change rapidly. The more marginal shit posters no longer feel a need to restrain themselves since the standards demanded by the community are being driven downward, more shit posters move in more rapidly since they already have a community to join, and many of the better posters move out, unwilling to put up with the shit any more. Things very rapidly go from bad to worse, and you end up with r/anarcho_capitalism. The only solution is to have so few shit posters in the first place that even when the population grows, the number of shit posters doesn't reach that critical mass at which it becomes self-sustaining. Or, in broader terms, the solution is to have a better overall set of humans. And it's not for nothing that I regularly stress that anarchism demands exactly that - that humanity in general is going to have to advance philosophically, intellectually and psychologically before widespread anarchism will even be a possibility.

BobCrosswise

[hackwork]

Day 8: Shrinking the monkeysphere.

[earlgraytay]

The entire concept of the monkeysphere triggers some very bad brains for me.

I have neurodivergency Issues that make me fixate intensely on a few people. It’s to the point that I wondered if I had BPD*. My Favourite People are the center of my world and if I lost any of them I don’t know what I’d do with myself. I would probably literally go mad. I feel like a Bad Person for this, because making one person the entire centre of your world is a Bad Thing and Objectifying and tl:dr I do not want to wind up becoming so obsessed with someone who doesn’t know I exist that I wind up shooting Ronald Reagan.

I also have a Save The World complex. It probably gets annoying to my friends, because if they come to me for sympathy, I try to troubleshoot.  I have been told I am competent and need to take care of myself so often that I feel like I have to personally fix all the problems that anyone is having at any given time, including myself, and if I don’t, I am a Bad Person.

On top of that, because of autism, PTSD, and working in a customer service industry, I’ve been trained to be hypersensitive to the people around me. I have to assume the best of people, make myself as small as possible, try not to get into anyone’s way, not annoy or frustrate anyone or I’m a Bad Person. If anyone gets frustrated around me, even if it’s something that has nothing to do with me whatsoever... well, you get the idea.

The problem with these three things combined with the concept of the monkeysphere- well, holy scrupulosity triggers, batman. The whole idea seems to be “you need to care about EVERYONE with the SAME INTENSITY that you care about your Favourite People. You need to fix the problems of ALL SIX BILLION PEOPLE IN THE WORLD, and you need to do it RIGHT NOW, without annoying or frustrating ANYONE or getting in ANYONE’S WAY, or you’re a morally impure terrible animal who shouldn’t exist.” 

Yeah, that train of thought is Lovecraftian levels of counterproductive, and I am completely justified in ignoring it, for my own damn sanity. 

*thank apollon, i do not. bpd seems like it’s hell to live with.