Hm. The only reason it's wrong to harness people is because there's no credible alternative. If we had a well-connected safety net so that a harnessed person could doff one harness, survive without a harness for awhile, then don a different harness, then harnessing would be a good thing.
Its not the harnessing that's bad, it's the lack of inter-harness or non-harnessed options that's bad. And the only reason I feel this point tacitly is in trying to "describe" the Tempus Dictum (TDI) harness in a coherent way. Several people have flowed through my tiny business. But *most* of those people wander elsewhere because they *want* a harness. And TDI's either doesn't make sense to them ... or it's really just a loosely tied rope that falls off all the time, merely hinting at a direction one might go, but never really canalizing anyone's behavior. Said another way, there is a "tyranny of choice" (or "paradox of choice"). Too much freedom limits one's freedom. So, e.g., when the Rotary guys adopted the purpose to eradicate polio, one might say they were/are *fascist* in their common purpose. But Eco's got 14 points for a reason, because no single attribute really defines the quality. On 4/13/20 10:36 AM, Marcus Daniels wrote: > When Trump is out in the rose garden with Wal Mart and Target, CVS, etc. to > address COVID-19 that's fascism in America. Sure there are different agents > with different objectives, and they compete to some extent, but it is still a > common belief system that views harnessing people as good, and harnessing > them more as better. Harnessing like a horse. Rarely does anyone ask if > it is the kind of personality that would do that to people is the real > problem. It's usually called leadership and not just an indication of being > a psychopath. -- ☣ uǝlƃ .-. .- -. -.. --- -- -..-. -.. --- - ... -..-. .- -. -.. -..-. -.. .- ... .... . ... FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/
