Wednesday, March 21, 2012

Condos are Communistic

Even the most affluent Condominium communities largely populated by right wing free market capitalists are living in a communistic enclave. Those communities contain community owned pools, exercise rooms, entertainment rooms, roads and even the building exterior and HVAC systems are properties that everybody living in the community shares. All the hallmarks of a communist system are present in any housing community that shares ownership and responsibility for some of the property existing in the area that the residents call home.

Motivational Categories

By Glen Wallace

I'm thinking of modifying my motivation theory to having just two very general categorize of types of motivation; Social and Creative. In so doing the altruistic motive would be merged into as a subset of the Social motive.

The practice of engaging in computer games is a very popular activity that usually involves both of the basic categories. Even when a human is playing just against the computer I believe the social motive still comes into play. The human player ends up anthropomorphizing the artificially intelligent computer generated competitors. The human also brings imagination to play by imagining that there are real human spectators either watching the event on television or are in the stands viewing the event. And when the human does well against the computer generated components, in the mind of the human player, the same reward with the sense of having ones social status among both the competitors and spectators exists just as it would in the real world with real human competitors and spectators.