When human contact takes place, the language is either harsh, impersonal corporate-speak or the raucous alcoholic camaraderie of nervously competitive men in packs.
They represent instances where social sharing is either utterly impersonal or occurs among loosely affiliated individuals who engage in social practices that involve contributions of the capacity of their private goods in patterns that combine to form large-scale and effective systems for provisioning goods, services, and resources.
Also, reading Emerson fueled his interest in what Beran calls "the problem of the underconfident soul" -- the conditions that cripple the growth of confidence, a prerequisite for success in an urban setting, and in a world increasingly ruled either by impersonal market forces or by faceless bureaucracies.
Participants low (versus high) in SOP-verbal more frequently used (a) internal sources of information but did not differ in frequency of use of external sources of information either (b) impersonal external or (c) personal external.
The idea of individuality was Zweig's intellectual passion: individuality either as buttress against impersonal forces or as portal to a more meaningful life.
So rather than the local causal explanation being either mainly naturalistic (explained in impersonal, systemic terms) or personalistic (caused by a human or supernatural agent) [ 39], it is both.
The men he meets for furtive sex in desolate settings are not his friends, either — their intimacy is physical but utterly impersonal and not at all emotional.
According to Tolkien, "the inflections of [Qenya] verbs are always pretty regular", and Quenya verbs are either in a personal form or an impersonal form.
In monotheistic religions providence is a quality of the one divinity; in polytheistic religions it may be either a quality of one or more gods or an impersonal world order on which the gods too more or less depend.
Still, most people had no direct contact with either type of computer, and the machines were popularly viewed as impersonal giant brains that threatened to eliminate jobs through automation.
