Early adopters and electorate

2018-04-07 - It is harmful for early adopters and speculators to have [the idea of being part of a chosen people - democracy was born and grew in power as a reaction against being governed by minority [aristocrat

• Early Adopters and Speculaturs are in the minority.

• That idea of the superiority of a minority is an attack on democratic thought.

• It is harmful to cause internal conflicts in a situation where everyone has to work together to face “difficult challenges”.

• Early Adopters and Speculaturs may prefer to make an appeal to the Majority or Ranche that they are inferior!

  • E.g. I am crazy and love risk-taking. I like to fantasize and I don’t like a stable life.
  • I can’t think of an appropriate word to describe it, so let’s call it a “clowning thought.
    • Image from [Court clown - Wikipedia https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%AE%AE%E5%BB%B7%E9%81%93%E5%8C%96%E5%B8%AB
    • Clowns are not part of the hierarchical organization of the kingdom and are lunatic, so they are not punished for criticizing the king.
  • Related: state of madness.

• The pathology of the electorate

  • It’s not right for early adopters to be elective in the first place.
  • A person whose values are so far off the average that they take unreasonable risks earlier than average, so it’s unnatural to think of them as being comparable to average sensibilities.
  • Maybe that’s an “early adopter pretender”.
  • The anxiety filler theory.
    • People who choose the minority option because they really think it’s optimal don’t benefit from the electorate.
    • They are not sure if they are making the right choice, so they try to find reassurance by thinking that they are the chosen people.
      • self-assurance is compromised.
    • To make up for it, they’re dabbling in elective politics.
  • [Brand value theory
    • Before the concept of early adopters, people who were the first to buy new products were indeed risk takers.
    • It was risk taking, buying something that may or may not be worth it.
    • If you see brand value in “I’m an early adopter who buys new products first,” you are certainly an early buyer, but you are not a risk taker.
    • The same cluster of people who buy expensive watches to show off to others.

• Even the word “risk-taker” has an elective connotation, not a neutral one.

  • Just “people with lower than average risk sensitivity.”
    • insensitivity ！

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