Yes, it is one of the things Eric complains about:
"But what the hell am I supposed to do? Write another blog post? Our secretary
of state is the fucking Exxon
CEO."https://twitter.com/EricHolthaus/status/817505151720169472
Nothing to see here. Please disperse...
-J.
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Date: 1/7/17 16:43 (GMT+01:00) To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity
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Jochen writes:
"Many scientists and journalists feel desperate now that Mr. T-Rump will rule
the world, especially climate scientists like Eric Holthaus"
Move along, nothing to see here.. and certainly no conflicts of interest.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/12/world/europe/rex-tillersons-company-exxon-has-billions-at-stake-over-russia-sanctions.html
From: Friam <friam-boun...@redfish.com> on behalf of Jochen Fromm
<j...@cas-group.net>
Sent: Saturday, January 7, 2017 7:18:13 AM
To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group
Subject: [FRIAM] Hope or Despair
Many scientists and journalists feel desperate now that Mr. T-Rump will rule
the world, especially climate scientists like Eric Holthaus
https://twitter.com/EricHolthaus/status/817503888500633600
What are we going to do, hope or despair, resist or surrender? I'm not sure if
we are heading towards climate hell, criminal abyss or nuclear apocalypse, or
if America is just turning into Trumpistan...
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/02/opinion/america-becomes-a-stan.amp.html
Do you remember this odd meeting where Trump met the bosses of the big
IT-companies? None of them looked happy, but they all came. It felt like Sauron
is going to meet the Ring-wraiths. Each of the Ringwraiths already owns a ring
of power. Facebook, Google,
Amazon, and Apple have enormous power, some say a single one of them is worth
more than all corporations at the Russian stockmarkets together. In Tolkien's
epic story Sauron is beaten by the Hobbit Frodo who destroys the ring of power
in the mountain of doom.
Frodo seems to stand for the ordinary Joe, i.e. the ordinary people, who
eventually give up the desire for power. Now if everyone would give up using
Twitter and Facebook, Mr. T-Rump who lose his social media power there
immediately, he would become bored
of politics and quit. Too good to be true.
Likewise if the ordinary Joe would give up his desire to become great, rich and
famous, then Trump wouldn't have been elected in the first place. Isn't it
remarkable how Tolkien has observed that totalitarian dictatorships rest on the
shoulders of the
ordinary people? In Russia it is similar, the dictatorship here rests on the
few shoulders of the small people, who depend on the welfare state that feeds
them and tells them lies.
-Jochen
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