The Virtous Circle

In Chapter 5 of "Here Comes Everyone" the idea of the virtuous circle is brought up. The idea that Shirky talks about in the book is how Wikipedia became a coordinating resource. "Because enough people thought of using Wikipedia as a coordinating resource, it became one, and because it became one, more people learned to think of it as a coordinating resource". This idea/definition can be seen as a revolving door of such. This revolving door can be seen in many different aspects of life. There is a commercial that talks about why a man doesn't have the life he wants. The main components missing from his life were going to school, having a good job, and not having money. He spends the whole commercial talking about how he can't do one thing without the other too. I made this connection to the "virtuous circle"; the idea that a cause and effect can be based off each other is interesting. Another connection that can be made is by using the episode of Family Guy "The Big Bang Theory". The idea used in Family Guy is the "Causality Loop". The episode states that Stewie was born inside the universe in order to go outside of the universe, in order to create the universe. I believe this is another example/connection that helped me understand the Virtuous circle.