The blankfaces I have run into are cogs, they aren’t trying to regularize their world, they are just happy it has been regularized for them. When I'm stressed on my work, I go water the plants. It is a repetitive motion and easy, and easy is nice sometimes. My take is that the blankfaces like that kind of cognitive easy.
-----Original Message----- From: Friam <friam-boun...@redfish.com> On Behalf Of u?l? ?>$ Sent: Thursday, August 5, 2021 9:17 AM To: friam@redfish.com Subject: Re: [FRIAM] On Blankfaces My fellow Blakkfaces like Ms. Umbridge do not attempt to regularize the entire world according to their doctrine. They are more like feudal lords, attempting to regularize their small fiefdom. Further, most of them only regularize a subspace of all the possible behaviors they might try to control ... like your DMV provider telling you that you don't *have* to fill out the form at all! You just can't fill it out *that* way and expect me to stamp it. In many ways, Blankfaces are anti-authoritarian. "Choose your battles." By limiting one's freedom in dimensions X..Y, you have more energy to exercise your freedom in dimensions P..Q. For example, I'm quite happy that I don't have to spend very much time defending my property from thieves and murderers. That frees me up to spend my time arguing on the internet. On 8/5/21 9:08 AM, Marcus Daniels wrote: > How is a blankface different from authoritarian? > > -----Original Message----- > From: Friam <friam-boun...@redfish.com> On Behalf Of u?l? ?>$ > Sent: Thursday, August 5, 2021 8:45 AM > To: FriAM <friam@redfish.com> > Subject: [FRIAM] On Blankfaces > > Given some of the conversations I've had with some of y'all about bureaucracy > as technology, I thought this might provide you with some dopaminergic > confirmation: > > https://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=5675 >> What exactly is a blankface? He or she is often a mid-level bureaucrat, but >> not every bureaucrat is a blankface, and not every blankface is a >> bureaucrat. A blankface is anyone who enjoys wielding the power entrusted in >> them to make others miserable by acting like a cog in a broken machine, >> rather than like a human being with courage, judgment, and responsibility >> for their actions. A blankface meets every appeal to facts, logic, and plain >> compassion with the same repetition of rules and regulations and the same >> blank stare—a blank stare that, more often than not, conceals a contemptuous >> smile. > > Personally, I feel the same way about "deadpan" humor. Comedic Blankfaces may > well be hiding a contemptuous smile. *Or* ... or or or, they're more likely > hiding a deep and complex inner life that only finds expression when > painfully extruded through tiny little pin-hole filters forced upon them by > modern society. Blankface humor is the *best* type of humor. And it, at least > in my experience, often helps me find humor where none was intended ... a bit > like Inspector Clouseau, authentically trying to do a good job, but fscking > it up royally. I know I cite Poe's Law a lot. But it's *because* the > holographic principle does not apply to biological organisms that apophenia > can be a source of creative insight. > > So, contra Aaronson, Blankfaces are fscking dope. It's the way we *see* and > think about the Blankfaces that's the problem. To quote my dad again, "If you > are bored, then you are boring." > > -- > ☤>$ uǝlƃ > > - .... . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. .... . .-. . > 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 > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ > archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.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 > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ > archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ > -- ☤>$ uǝlƃ - .... . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. .... . .-. . 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 FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.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 FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/
