Environment and Culture often play a huge role in shaping an individual. Their behaviors are often targeted as the starting point of changes. As viewed by Ethan Watters in his essay “The Mega-Marketing of Depression in Japan”, culture plays an important in an individual’s life since culture has the ability to outcast its values and beliefs with other cultures therefore overpowering other individuals from different cultures. Just like Watters, Steven Johnson also focuses on individuals and their characteristics but with a different aspect using organized complexity in his essay, “The Myth of the Ant Queen”. And to add to other authors, Malcolm Gladwell also clears on how individuals behave according to their origin, background, and environment
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Having rules and regulations for the betterment of world for both people and context is an important part for their relationship. The idea of creating patterns is focused by Johnson when he discusses the ants, their culture, in terms of beliefs about queen and their actions, and their way of using organized complexity. He uses the idea of how ants create separate piles to distinguish dead ones/ cemetery and trash. He quotes, “its like there is a rule they’re following: put the dead ants as far as possible, and put the midden as far away as possible without putting it near the dead ants” (Johnson 195). He uses organized complexity in context of following rules and creating an organized environment. Just how Johnson describes this aspect of organized complexity, “organized complexity, on the other hand, is like [a] motorized billiards table, where balls follow specific rules and through their various interactions create a distinct macrobehavior, arranging themselves in a specific shape, or forming a specific pattern over time” (Johnson 203). Using rules and regulations is often the main aspect of organized complexity and thus following them create a pattern, just like for the ants, because of the rules that they kind of followed created a pattern for other ants and they started following them in that same terms since this pattern created an organized environment. Gladwell also uses the idea of patterns but he uses it in terms of culture of crime. He uses the Broken Windows theory to show the pattern and point out the faults in the theory. He points out, “if a window is broken and left unrepaired, people walking by will conclude that no one cares and no one is in charge. Soon, more windows will be broken, and the sense of anarchy will spread from the building to the street on which it faces, sending a signal that anything goes,” that if no one takes the initiative
Having rules and regulations for the betterment of world for both people and context is an important part for their relationship. The idea of creating patterns is focused by Johnson when he discusses the ants, their culture, in terms of beliefs about queen and their actions, and their way of using organized complexity. He uses the idea of how ants create separate piles to distinguish dead ones/ cemetery and trash. He quotes, “its like there is a rule they’re following: put the dead ants as far as possible, and put the midden as far away as possible without putting it near the dead ants” (Johnson 195). He uses organized complexity in context of following rules and creating an organized environment. Just how Johnson describes this aspect of organized complexity, “organized complexity, on the other hand, is like [a] motorized billiards table, where balls follow specific rules and through their various interactions create a distinct macrobehavior, arranging themselves in a specific shape, or forming a specific pattern over time” (Johnson 203). Using rules and regulations is often the main aspect of organized complexity and thus following them create a pattern, just like for the ants, because of the rules that they kind of followed created a pattern for other ants and they started following them in that same terms since this pattern created an organized environment. Gladwell also uses the idea of patterns but he uses it in terms of culture of crime. He uses the Broken Windows theory to show the pattern and point out the faults in the theory. He points out, “if a window is broken and left unrepaired, people walking by will conclude that no one cares and no one is in charge. Soon, more windows will be broken, and the sense of anarchy will spread from the building to the street on which it faces, sending a signal that anything goes,” that if no one takes the initiative