Does anyone understand why a couple of reasonable Senate Republicans (Romney, Kinzinger, Cheney, ...) don't vote with the Democrats for the Biden bills? Getting "primaried" isn't an issue for all of them.
--- Frank C. Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, Santa Fe, NM 87505 505 670-9918 Santa Fe, NM On Sat, Oct 30, 2021, 6:18 AM David Eric Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Oct 29, 2021, at 4:32 PM, Steve Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > > excellent reference/article... thanks. > > I agree, Marcus; thanks. I was struck that not only do I wish I could > write that way; I wish I could _think_ that way. There are few thoughts I > have had that aren’t already contained in Packer’s synthesis, in forms > compatible with or better than the ones I would have given. (Usually those > with which I overlap aren’t different enough that I consider his take on > them a lot “better”: mostly I think he chooses well the things I would > front. The “better” part mostly comes from a view that goes well beyond > any that I could have commanded, and much better ability to arrange it all > into a coherent layout.) > > Is it a 4 component spring model, or is a four body problem in the orbital > mechanics sense... probably no harder than the three body problem? > > But I think the whole core of Packer’s article is that it is not merely 4, > but 2.x 2. > > There are axes of stress, and visible fractures along the first two > principle components of stress. > > The Left-Right axis has resolved itself, in the current era, into a kind > of cultural-status axis, with educational markers being a big part. But > the axis is somehow more and different than only that, as it has > historically moved through primacy of other dichotomies that can still be > seen, while retaining its essential nature: Open vs. Closed, Cosmopolitan > vs. Parochial, Communitarian vs. Dominance-ordered. None of these seems > quite adequate as I write them, but something along that line. > > The Up-Down axis is probably about winners versus losers, itself existing > along several dimensions that have become correlated. It can be conditions > of living, or hope versus despair w.r.t. power or agency as well as wealth > or safety. That is why Packer sets the Just up as an uprising against the > Smart, and the Real as an uprising against the Free. The nature of the > uprising and the stress driving it is in a sense the same, and the > establishment and the insurgency sort of remain within whichever silos they > started in. Mostly because that phase is still fairly young. > > Anything that becomes organized, it seems, becomes available as a tool to > entrench advantage in a setting where competition never relents. > > Eric > > > > .-- .- -. - / .- -.-. - .. --- -. ..--.. / -.-. --- -. .--- ..- --. .- - . > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn UTC-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam > un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ > archives: > 5/2017 thru present https://redfish.com/pipermail/friam_redfish.com/ > 1/2003 thru 6/2021 http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/ >
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