Rich, Your faith in progress brings tears to my eyes. I don't think the world is one ounce better than it was when I was a kid. It is DIFFERENT, but we have given up at least as much as we have gained. Nor do I expect it to be any better in a hundred years. Thus, the sole rational defense of the neophilia that characterizes FRIAM is that new stuff is FUN! In making a decision to seek out new stuff or not, it cannot be evaluated by lofty ideals, but simply balanced against other forms of FUN!
I am not sure where this leaves me for a defense of higher education. It used to be defensible on the ground that it was a place where you could tuck away smart people so they couldn't get their hands on political power, social influence, money, or things that explode. Now even that has gone away. [sigh} Nick Nicholas S. Thompson Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology Clark University http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/ http://www.cusf.org -----Original Message----- From: friam-boun...@redfish.com [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf Of Rich Murray Sent: Wednesday, January 19, 2011 11:17 PM To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group; Rich Murray; Rich Murray Subject: [FRIAM] We'll be taking gentle, leisurely cruises to the Moon on Ni fusion hot H2 filled high altitude airships, 4 km wide...: Rich Murray 2011.01.19 McAfee SiteAdvisor Warning This e-mail message contains potentially unsafe links to these sites: friam.org We'll be taking gentle, leisurely cruises to the Moon on Ni fusion hot H2 filled high altitude airships,4 km wide...: Rich Murray 2011.01.19 The thoughts and understandings we share uniquely express and serve the global human awareness that is now self-liberating exponentally -- as we serfs soul surf adventurously each magical day, we reflect wonderful blessings into single creative fractal hyperinfinity. We volunteer to evolve quickly beyond previous levels of experience and thought, accepting help, giving help generously, transcending our personal pasts, moving quickly, travelling lightly, dancing resiliently with each hour's destiny, inwardly silent, happy, surprised >From midnight to 2 am, I savored 3 far-out, warm-hearted music videos on WingMakers.com -- the first site I've found that offers a venue for sharing meditative play -- soon this Net based collaboration will be intense and vivid mass media real-time meditation Andrea Rossi has 197 posts from all the world on his HNi fusion blog -- that focuses a lot of thought and blessing The vorte...@eskimo.com posts are suddenly much more alive, fresh, potent And I find myself reading only a few from the SethMessageBoard and ARequiredCourse , while reading ACIM and Brent Haskell for hours this morning with a new level of resonance and pleasure Hey, it's great, being sixty-eight ! We'll be taking gentle, leisurely cruises to the Moon on Ni fusion hot H2 filled high altitude airships, 2 km wide, shielded from cosmic rays by being in the middle of the H2 gases, cavorting and meditating in free fall with hundreds inside huge balls that image 3D views of every level of reality and art with cosmic music to match -- we'll learn multidimensional geometry by taking classes together inside the displays -- that's what Friam and SF Complex will evolve into... Rich Murray ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
