Concerning Musk and Twitter, note according to Andy Borowitz (where I
turn for news that doesn’t give me a headache),
“**Twitter in Chaos After the Elon Musk Who Offered to Buy It Turns
Out to Be a Bot**
The bid for Twitter is believed to be the largest corporate takeover
ever proposed by a bot, mergers-and-acquisitions experts say.“
—Barry
On 10 May 2022, at 22:40, Prof David West wrote:
Quotes:
*"A thing without oppositions ipso facto does not exist ... existence
lies in opposition."* C.S. Peirce.
*"It is the hallmark of any deep truth that its negation is also a
deep truth." *Neils Bohr.
Questions:
What is the negation of evolution? Natural Selection? Survival of the
'Fittest'?
What is the negation of 'bleeding heart liberalism'? Of Trumpism? Of
"wokeness?"
Quote:
*"Examine the lives of the best and most fruitful people and peoples
and ask yourselves whether a tree which is supposed to grow to a proud
height could do so without bad weather and storms; **[1]* *whether
misfortune and external resistance, whether any kinds of hatred,
jealousy, stubbornness, mistrust, hardness, greed, and violence to not
belong to the *_favorable_* conditions without which any great grown
even of virtue is scarecely possible." F. Nietzsche (emphasis his)*
*[1] *The Biosphere 2 project encountered a problem with trees falling
over far before they reached their maturity. It was from lack of wind.
Wind and mechanical stress was required to grow the hard tissues that
allowed the tree to stand.
Questions:
To what extent do we (denizens of FRIAM and their local cultures)
require the kinds of stress being encountered in the world?
I suspect that there needs to be a balance between realizable
civilization and stresses, but how is that balance defoined and, more
importantly, found and maintained?
Concrete example of last question: Will the Twitterites end up being a
better or worse 'culture' post-Musk?
davew
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