Codesmith

Life, Or Something Like It
2004-08-24 07:47:53 (UTC)

HISH Theory

It's 304am. The night hangs over me, as if it were intent
on crushing me into the oblivion of sleep. It's a bit cool
outside, ... I just opened the window and now I can feel
the fresh lake air intermixing with the stuffy gas
confined in this room for the past 12 hours.

So I thought I would continue with what I was talking
about yesterday.

I have noticed that in a group setting you have people
that take up certain kinds of roles. These roles ...
personas ... personalities ... are either dictated by the
group or by the person themself. More often than not, it
is usually dictated by the group. But not ... forcefully.

It's dictated by the group in that, when a person who is
new enters a group ... the new person first surveys their
social surroundings. They usually don't do anything that
inanely wild, because they are unsure of what role to
adopt in this new social setting. After awhile of
observing and being within the group they will have
acquired a feeling for how the group responds both on a
social as well as on an individual level.

This can take anywhere between a few days to a few years.
In addition, the process can be accelerated or
deccelerated depending on many social and environmental
factors. However, I won't discuss what these factors are
as it would take me a very long time to jot down every
single one of them.

Once the person has a good feel for the group both
socially and individually ... they will go into a decision
process. This decision process is to determine what sort
of personality they should adopt for the group, and
usually does not take longer than ... perhaps a few
moments or even a few seconds.

I believe what happens, is that the person determines what
the group is lacking or how best the person can integrate
themselves into the group. Whether or not they adapt a
beneficial or harmful persona really depends on the
morality of the person in question. I suppose you could
argue that morality is dependent on personality.
Personality itself I think can be somewhat objectively
determined through a Strip Analysis.

Once the person figures out how best they can integrate
into the group, or by what sort of personality they want
to adapt in order to make themselves a part of the
group ... they just adapt to it.

It's important to note, that in referring to the
word "group" I don't specifically mean a friendly social
structure. Like the sort of social structure that exists
between friends who go out to coffee every weekend and
talk about what's been going on in their lives.

The social architecture of the word "group" loosely refers
to a collection of people who are either forced to coexist
for a relatively significant amount of time every day.

Once a person adapts themselves to this social
structure ... they usually remain static and don't ever
change their personality ... at least, for this particular
group.

It's possible for someone to have different kinds of
personas when addressing different groups. Likewise, the
reverse is also true. Once a clown, always a clown.

The reason for me wanting to archive this was because I
noticed an interesting change in the personalities of the
people in Big Brother 5. A change of personality that was
consistent with this theory that I had been working on for
the last year or so.

It seemed that in the very beginning it was quite obvious
that the two most hated people would be Scott and Jase.
Once they were evicted from the house, the newest evil
person was Adria. I believe, that the reason Adria adopted
this new persona was because once Scott and Jase were
gone, she re-evaluated her position in the "group" and
adopted this more aggressive strategy in hopes of winning.

You could almost say that there exists a similar kind of
linear hierarchy ... the same sort of hierarchy you find
in packs of wolves. There's the Alpha male, Beta, Delta,
Epsilon ... and so on. The same goes for the women.

However, I think there is a huge key difference between a
wolf pack and human group structure. Namely, ... you don't
have to be the beta to be second in line to "power".

That is to say, Adria was not exactly the "third" most
aggressive individual in the house next to Scott and Jase.
Rather, you could almost say that she was somewhat near
the bottom.

In context of my other theories on human nature, ... I
believe what happened to cause Adria to be the new "Scott
and Jase" was ... because she was human.

Humans, ... don't base their importance on strength and
speed ... not like the wolves do. Rather, ... humans have
a more extensive collection of traits that they rank in
order of most important to least important. This is what I
would call, the hierarchy of traits.

These traits somehow interact with each other, ... along
with influence from environmental factors which in turn
either greatly influence the "personality" of the
individual ... or maybe is even what you could call the
personality itself.

It's my belief, that Adria had the right combination of
traits in her hierarchy that allowed her to adopt a more
aggressive game strategy. Furthermore, the reason she
didn't adopt this strategy earlier is similar to the
reason why wolves ranked lower in the hierarchy do not
confront the leader.

Adria was devious and aggressive. But not anywhere near as
devious and aggressive as Scott and Jase. They were the
Alphas that overwhelmed anyone else who was lesser than
they in regards to aggression. In truth, maybe Adria knew
this so she decided to stay low in order to mask her Alpha
potential. This would give her an even greater edge in the
game as it would give everyone a false sense of security
around her. Speculation. It's also possible that through
luck and subconscious reasoning ... she became the new
Alpha.

It is worth noting that just because Adria became the
new "Scott and Jase" of the group, ... that this means she
was the one who was closest in personality to Scott and
Jase. It doesn't even mean that she values the same
personality traits as Scott and Jase.

It just means, she evaluated the situation ... and
integrated herself to it. Maybe she integrated herself for
the sole purpose of winning. It's also possible, although
I think a bit unlikely, that she integrated herself for
the sole reason that the group was just lacking a Scott
and Jase figure. It's also possible she integrated herself
because she saw that she could get away with being that
aggressive.

It's possible that once Scott and Jase were gone, that
there were going to be no more Scott and Jase's. My first
explanation for this phenomenon would be that ... there
are maybe two people who are preventing it from happening.
Maybe these two people both want to become the Scott and
Jase figures ... but are locked in a sort of personality
conflict. In turn this neutralizes the possibility that a
Scott and Jase ever emerge. Just a guess.

Ya, I think that's all I wanted to say about this
particular topic.

Since I'm really into somewhat ambiguous and rather adult
names for my theories ... I think I'll call this the Hish
Theory. HIdden Social Hierarchy ... theory. I wanted to
somehow use the previous entry title in naming this
theory ... but, there was one vowel and it was in an
awkward spot.




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