Why "Drama" is Inevitable

[mbarrick]

This is a graph of the interconnectedness of everyone on the friends list of tharsis's journal. It's a relatively small system and it is easy to see all the connections. Everyone on the chart is there because they are on Tharsis's friends list. If any of those friends have one-way or mutual friends connections between them, then they have an appropriate single or double headed arrow. Tharsis has 16 friends and belongs to 2 communities.

This, severely reduced because the full-size image is over 14,000 pixels wide, is the same sort of chart for the 65 people and 26 communities on my friends list. You can see how complexity of the connections is exponentially increased over the example above. Any expectation that a system this complex would remain stable is pretty much absurd. In fact, like any complex dynamical system, it's far more likely that one tiny change is going to cause unpredictable ramifications throughout the system.