I think of the preferers of poetry as the preferers of simplicity. ----------------------------------- Frank Wimberly
My memoir: https://www.amazon.com/author/frankwimberly My scientific publications: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Frank_Wimberly2 Phone (505) 670-9918 On Fri, Aug 17, 2018, 5:41 PM uǝlƃ ☣ <geprope...@gmail.com> wrote: > That article paints a fantastic contrast between "speaking to" in an > ungrounded state vs. "speaking to" in a grounded state. When speaking to a > collection of idealists, it's relatively trivial to sidetrack them into > some region where their evocative triggers are "dog whistles". But when > speaking to a collection of skeptics, it's fairly difficult push them into > an ungrounded region. > > But the problem is invariant: that of "speaking to". Trump beat Clinton, > hands down, on the "speaking to" front. "Sophisticated" people, who are > used to and comfortable with parsing the details of some complicated plan > or infrastructure, tended to go with Clinton, whereas those of us who would > prefer our representatives to speak in "poetry", allowing us to fill in the > [whatever] details, went with Trump. > > A fundamental problem these days is "political stalking" and "viral > memeing". It's difficult to balance one's presentation to both the nerds > and the consumers of poetry. Obama does it fairly well. Clinton did not. > > On 08/17/2018 04:18 PM, Marcus Daniels wrote: > > Perhaps Texas< > https://www.thenation.com/article/when-will-the-lone-start-state-turn-blue/> > is key to putting a stop to all this? > > > > > > > > On 8/17/18, 4:52 PM, "Friam on behalf of Barry MacKichan" < > friam-boun...@redfish.com on behalf of barry.mackic...@mackichan.com> > wrote: > > > > > > > > Clusterf**k ? > > > > > > > > Oops, sorry, I was thinking of Trump. Also it’s after 5 on a Friday > > > > here on the east coast. > > -- > ☣ uǝlƃ > > ============================================================ > 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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