Should FRIAM aspire to "club" or to "salon?" I would hope the latter.
davew On Thu, May 14, 2020, at 6:27 PM, Frank Wimberly wrote: > You are eminently clubbable wrt Friam, Jon. > > --- > Frank C. Wimberly > 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, > Santa Fe, NM 87505 > > 505 670-9918 > Santa Fe, NM > > On Thu, May 14, 2020, 6:22 PM Jon Zingale <jonzing...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Glen astutely begins: >> "We talk a lot about filosofy, culture, and politics on this list. And we >> quote a lot of old white guys. Sporadically one of us will lament..." >> >> From a wonderfully humorous wikipedia article on The Gentleman's Club >> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gentlemen%27s_club>: >> "An increasing number of clubs were characterised by their members' interest >> in politics, literature, sport, art, automobiles, travel, particular >> countries, or some other pursuit. In other cases, the connection between the >> members was membership of the same branch of the armed forces, or the same >> school or university. Thus the growth of clubs provides an indicator as to >> what was considered a respectable part of the "Establishment" at the time. >> By the late 19th century, any man with a credible claim to the status of >> "gentleman" was eventually able to find a club willing to admit him, unless >> his character was objectionable in some way or he was "unclubbable" (a word >> first used by Samuel Johnson >> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Johnson>).[2] >> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gentlemen%27s_club#cite_note-2> This >> newly-expanded category of English society came to include professionals who >> had to earn their income, such as doctors and lawyers." >> Is it possible we are a gentleman's club? If so, I suspect I am >> *unclubbable*. >> .-. .- -. -.. --- -- -..-. -.. --- - ... -..-. .- -. -.. -..-. -.. .- ... >> .... . ... >> 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/ > .-. .- -. -.. --- -- -..-. -.. --- - ... -..-. .- -. -.. -..-. -.. .- ... > .... . ... > 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/ >
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