Yup: *POSTED:*JAN 31 2017 05:33PM EST
*UPDATED:*FEB 02 2017 09:38AM EST On Thu, Feb 2, 2017 at 9:49 AM, Owen Densmore <o...@backspaces.net> wrote: > Roger: thanks for catching that. It was added after I saw the tweet and > the article. At least the False News was avoided, but sheesh, when do you > know something like that is fully baked. > > -- Owen > > On Thu, Feb 2, 2017 at 9:45 AM, Marcus Daniels <mar...@snoutfarm.com> > wrote: > >> Steve writes: >> >> >> "I just hope he manages to do it without snapping off the masts and the >> wheelhouse, and then careens overboard before he sinks the entire ship, >> rats and all. Maybe there IS an awesome, high-tech ship-of-state or >> ship-of-society just over the horizon or beyond the fog of culture-wars >> ready to sweep us up and jet us off into some unspecified utopian future, >> but I'm not seeing it." >> >> >> I mean: All they know is their canoe, and somehow even though they see >> all these other kinds of boats on the river, they can't imagine anything >> but huddling in the center of their little canoe in the wind and rain. >> Fellow canoers, let us build vessels with shelter! No, you say? >> >> >> At some point some subset will build those vessels, but they'll call them >> arks. >> >> >> Marcus >> ------------------------------ >> *From:* Friam <friam-boun...@redfish.com> on behalf of Steven A Smith < >> sasm...@swcp.com> >> *Sent:* Thursday, February 2, 2017 9:09:41 AM >> *To:* The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group >> *Subject:* Re: [FRIAM] on the obustness of globalism >> >> >> Steve writes: >> >> >> >> "I learned early in life that if a canoe is tipping to one side, you >> don't lean out the other, you drop to the bottom center, lower your center >> of gravity. Why is that so hard in sociopolitical contexts? Unless you >> want to tip into the drink!” >> >> >> >> Except that if we tip it over, we can swim over to that jet boat that is >> a hundred meters away. (See the thread on the 10 meter diving platform.) >> >> I think I get that part.... I grew up with a fascination with >> post-apocalyptic worlds and sci-fi themes of transcendence. I still have a >> soft spot for it. We have in our local circle (but surely not on this >> list) a near-inner circle Singularian, the futurist/author Steven Kotler: >> http://diamandis.com/abundance >> >> I put more stock in complexity thinking than exponential thinking. >> >> Your logic is the only hope I hold out for this Trumpian regime. He is a >> loose cannon who is in the process of clearing the deck of our ship of >> state. I just hope he manages to do it without snapping off the masts and >> the wheelhouse, and then careens overboard before he sinks the entire ship, >> rats and all. Maybe there IS an awesome, high-tech ship-of-state or >> ship-of-society just over the horizon or beyond the fog of culture-wars >> ready to sweep us up and jet us off into some unspecified utopian future, >> but I'm not seeing it. >> >> I also outgrew utopian fantasies when I realized they were a thin >> disguise for a dystopia. I'm still fascinated with the dual of >> utopia/dystopia, but I'm not easily taken in by the idea that when you >> can't react fast enough *already* to the things appearing on the road in >> your headlights, that you should just *drive faster*. >> >> - Steve >> >> >> >> Marcus >> >> >> >> >> >> ============================================================ >> 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 >> >> >> >> ============================================================ >> 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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