{"id":304,"date":"2006-09-20T12:50:57","date_gmt":"2006-09-20T12:50:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/random-average.com\/?p=304"},"modified":"2006-09-20T12:50:57","modified_gmt":"2006-09-20T12:50:57","slug":"the-number-shall-be-five","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/2006\/09\/the-number-shall-be-five\/","title":{"rendered":"The number shall be Five"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Most folks have been mentioning this for a year, but I&#8217;m just getting caught up: <a title=\"Five Geek Social Fallacies\" href=\"http:\/\/sean.chittenden.org\/humor\/www.plausiblydeniable.com\/opinion\/gsf.html\">Five Geek Social Fallacies<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nGeek Social Fallacy #2: Friends Accept Me As I Am<br \/>\nThe origins of GSF2 are closely allied to the origins of GSF1. After being victimized by social exclusion, many geeks experience their &#8220;tribe&#8221; as a non-judgmental haven where they can take refuge from the cruel world outside.<br \/>\nThis seems straightforward and reasonable. It&#8217;s important for people to have a space where they feel safe and accepted. Ideally, everyone&#8217;s social group would be a safe haven. When people who rely too heavily upon that refuge feel insecure in that haven, however, a commendable ideal mutates into its pathological form, GSF2.<br \/>\nCarriers of GSF2 believe that since a friend accepts them as they are, anyone who criticizes them is not their friend. Thus, they can&#8217;t take criticism from friends &#8212; criticism is experienced as a treacherous betrayal of the friendship, no matter how inappropriate the criticized behavior may be.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There isn&#8217;t one of the five GSFs listed that I haven&#8217;t witnessed any number of times.  It&#8217;s not a &#8216;nice&#8217; list, but it&#8217;s not wrong.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most folks have been mentioning this for a year, but I&#8217;m just getting caught up: Five Geek Social Fallacies Geek<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}