Re: [FRIAM] [SPAM] Re: [[Narcissism Again]again]

2017-01-29 Thread Eric Smith
Yes, Eric, good points to modify the claim, It returns the discussion to the acts one does or does not want to commit, rather than to defense of an icon-group against an enemy-group that both, at this stage, have been bleached of much of the complexity of real people and are more cartoon than

Re: [FRIAM] [SPAM] Re: [[Narcissism Again]again]

2017-01-29 Thread Nick Thompson
net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/> http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/ From: Friam [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf Of Steven A Smith Sent: Sunday, January 29, 2017 9:56 AM To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <friam@redfish.com> Subject: Re: [FRIA

Re: [FRIAM] [SPAM] Re: [[Narcissism Again]again]

2017-01-29 Thread Steven A Smith
Eric - I appreciate your point here. I think the problem in *all* of our "culture wars" is not that one side is evil and the other must fight and defeat them, but that there is a schism in "Ways of Knowing" which, while unresolved, will lead to a schism in "Knowing" itself. I was raised

Re: [FRIAM] [SPAM] Re: [[Narcissism Again]again]

2017-01-28 Thread Nick Thompson
orning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <friam@redfish.com> Subject: Re: [FRIAM] [SPAM] Re: [[Narcissism Again]again] "2. But I read Nick as saying that The Problem, and the central accomplishment of the Right, has been to install this shift in position as a feature of the population.

Re: [FRIAM] [SPAM] Re: [[Narcissism Again]again]

2017-01-28 Thread Eric Charles
"2. But I read Nick as saying that The Problem, and the central accomplishment of the Right, has been to install this shift in position as a feature of the population That is what worries me, and drives a sense of urgency to fix a problem I do not know how to fix because I don’t understand

Re: [FRIAM] [SPAM] Re: [[Narcissism Again]again]

2017-01-28 Thread Nick Thompson
, January 27, 2017 9:29 PM To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <friam@redfish.com> Subject: Re: [FRIAM] [SPAM] Re: [[Narcissism Again]again] Thank you for forwarding this Owen, I didn’t receive the original. > So. Let me just share one thought. I have said a hundred tim

Re: [FRIAM] [SPAM] Re: [[Narcissism Again]again]

2017-01-27 Thread Eric Smith
Thank you for forwarding this Owen, I didn’t receive the original. > So. Let me just share one thought. I have said a hundred times that I think > the great achievement of the Right in my life time has been to problematize > (Ugh!) the Deweyan consensus of the 1950’s One of the elements of