My opinion: scorn is a very powerful position; you can be scornful of God. People who feel powerless and left out find Trump appealing because they identify with the power implied by his scorn of the elite, the establishment, etc. Remember Spiro Agnew calling the educated "pointy headed intellectuals"?
In the meantime I'm very concerned with who's going to win the election. Frank Frank Wimberly Phone (505) 670-9918 On Nov 5, 2016 12:59 PM, "Owen Densmore" <o...@backspaces.net> wrote: > A quote from the article is pretty telling: > > In America today, compared with 50 years ago, three times as many > working-age men are completely outside the work force. This pattern is > occurring throughout the developed world — and the consequences are not > merely economic. Feeling superfluous is a blow to the human spirit. It > leads to social isolation and emotional pain, and creates the conditions > for negative emotions to take root. > > > If I were one of them, I'd surely vote Trump. > > We do need to get over "who's going to win?" and ask "why has Trump got > such a *huge* following?" > > -- Owen > > On Sat, Nov 5, 2016 at 11:58 AM, Owen Densmore <o...@backspaces.net> > wrote: > >> On Fri, Nov 4, 2016 at 2:51 PM, Marcus Daniels <mar...@snoutfarm.com> >> wrote: >> >>> I found the article from the Dalai Lama in the NYT today fairly >>> plausible explanation of why we have the current problem. But, I would >>> say, no, there will be no brotherhood with the Bundy's. The >>> redistributionist approach (that Brooks -- libertarian -- objects to >>> elsewhere) arises in order to give the possibility of free enterprise, not >>> to preserve it for those that haven't realized they've simply failed to be >>> sufficiently enterprising. >>> >> >> I just took a look at the article, and it certainly is interesting and >> puts into perspective why wealthy countries have a "The Sky Is Falling" >> syndrome. >> >> http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/04/opinion/dalai-lama-behind- >> our-anxiety-the-fear-of-being-unneeded.html >> > > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove >
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