BTW: Here's Bremmer's view of the threats ahead. http://time.com/4620424/ian-bremmer-risk-report-top-10-risks/
It does help to understand his Three Americas Ian is famous for his "three choices" for US foreign policy: 1 - Indispensable America 2 - Moneyball America 3 - Independent America .. Bremmer apparently believes Trump is a mix of 2 & 3, and definitely not 1. -- Owen On Sat, Jan 7, 2017 at 11:12 AM, Marcus Daniels <mar...@snoutfarm.com> wrote: > Owen writes: > > > "It all starts at home." > > > That certainly is a point of view. Here's another: > > > https://www.amazon.com/Against-Empathy-Case-Rational- > Compassion/dp/0062339338 > ------------------------------ > *From:* Friam <friam-boun...@redfish.com> on behalf of Owen Densmore < > o...@backspaces.net> > *Sent:* Saturday, January 7, 2017 11:06:00 AM > *To:* The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group > *Subject:* Re: [FRIAM] Hope or Despair > > I realized too late that my reference to the number of Damns one has may > not have been clear. From an earlier post: > > BTW: I realize I've posted this in the past, and my version of it uses s/ > fuck/damn/. But I've only got a limited number of Damn's to give, and the > fewer, the stronger. > https://markmanson.net/not-giving-a-fuck > > So I just don't give a Damn about the president, no matter who. I have > too few to give. My first Damn is for Love & Compassion, kinda weak I > realize but then I think I can stop war by being peaceful myself. It all > starts at home. > > > On Sat, Jan 7, 2017 at 10:31 AM, Owen Densmore <o...@backspaces.net> > wrote: > >> Clearly you need to attend to Kissinger and Bremmer. >> >> In terms of Russia, Kissinger's analysis of the Nation State suggests we >> have been far too shallow. There are very good reasons for the Russian >> people to feel exposed by the west's encroachment, and why they approve of >> Putin to the degree they do. >> >> Trump is no threat. I personally have not given up even one of my 25 >> Damns over him. Any threatened Rape and Pillage will likely just cause >> another economic implosion which we survived pretty well. >> >> I am curious, however, which of Bremmers 3 Americas Trump tends to, or >> what blend of the three. And what Trump thinks of Kissinger's recent >> defense of the nation state .. I know Kissinger is meeting with Trump. >> >> Presidential politics are unique. Presidential historians agree that, >> whatever a president has promised, he/she is always formed by unexpected, >> exogenous events. At a guess, they will be foreign affairs in Trump's case. >> I hope he takes the MoneyBall stance. >> >> -- Owen >> > > > ============================================================ > 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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