So, we add to Dave's list, as follows. Liberal; was, "laissez-faire, free market"; is now, "humanist, socialist".
Conservative: was "royalist, authoritarian; is now, "fascist, oligarchic." Nicholas Thompson Emeritus Professor of Ethology and Psychology Clark University thompnicks...@gmail.com https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/ -----Original Message----- From: Friam <friam-boun...@redfish.com> On Behalf Of Russell Standish Sent: Friday, August 21, 2020 8:27 PM To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <friam@redfish.com> Subject: Re: [FRIAM] words for Nick On Fri, Aug 21, 2020 at 11:24:20AM -0400, Eric Charles wrote: > "Awesome" is one of my favorites. Now used to indicate general > goodness. Not generally used in situations where one say "i was in awe". > > "Liberal" and "conservative" are two of my least favorite. Liberal > was about promoting freedom. Conservative was about retaining past > ways. Note that those are clearly orthogonal issues in their original > usage, and now we act like they are opposites, which is terrible. And just as bizarrely, in Australia they are synonyms. The Liberal party is the conservative party. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders hpco...@hpcoders.com.au http://www.hpcoders.com.au ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- - .... . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. .... . .-. . FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam un/subscribe 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 un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/
