Re: [FRIAM] What should we do?

2017-01-06 Thread Marcus Daniels
January 5, 2017 11:55:11 PM To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group Subject: Re: [FRIAM] What should we do? Interesting. Unfortunately the cancer of fascism (Trumpism?) has already broke out in the US now, the only way to stop the cancer of Nazism in Nazi Germany was to destroy the

Re: [FRIAM] What should we do?

2017-01-05 Thread Steven A Smith
lied Complexity Coffee Group <friam@redfish.com> Subject: Re: [FRIAM] What should we do? *“*The early stages of this make me think of cancers. The reason they are so difficult to deal with is that, for the most part, the cell populations are not completely disintegrated and non-function

Re: [FRIAM] What should we do?

2017-01-05 Thread Jochen Fromm
niels <mar...@snoutfarm.com> Date: 1/5/17 20:18 (GMT+01:00) To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <friam@redfish.com> Subject: Re: [FRIAM] What should we do? “The early stages of this make me think of cancers.  The reason they are so difficult to deal with is that, for t

Re: [FRIAM] What should we do?

2017-01-05 Thread Marcus Daniels
"The early stages of this make me think of cancers. The reason they are so difficult to deal with is that, for the most part, the cell populations are not completely disintegrated and non-functional. Most of their systems still function very robustly, which seems to be the cause of different

Re: [FRIAM] What should we do?

2017-01-03 Thread Marcus Daniels
Eric writes: "I wish there were still many Indians alive who had experienced living through the (Mohandas) Gandhi years. What was it like to coordinate hundreds of millions of people so that, when the institutions were getting unwanted control signals, they could, in a widely distributed

Re: [FRIAM] What should we do?

2017-01-02 Thread Marcus Daniels
Nick writes: "[..] doesn't cooperation of any kind make us vulnerable to manipulation?" Everyone should try to be useful -- being used is just the proof. We can try to be self-aware, too, and try to understand if we are being put to good use, but also humble enough to expect we won't always

Re: [FRIAM] What should we do?

2017-01-02 Thread Nick Thompson
son/naturaldesigns/> http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/ From: Friam [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf Of Marcus Daniels Sent: Monday, January 02, 2017 8:20 PM To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <friam@redfish.com> Subject: Re: [FRIAM]

Re: [FRIAM] What should we do?

2017-01-02 Thread Marcus Daniels
Nick writes: "Because part of what I was looking for from this inquiry was somebody to FOLLOW in the next four years. But is that avoidable. Isn't concerted action what we will need?" Systems that involve having somebody to follow are systems that can be surveilled and controlled. If

Re: [FRIAM] What should we do?

2017-01-02 Thread Nick Thompson
Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group' <friam@redfish.com> Subject: Re: [FRIAM] What should we do? When people like this <https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/arts-and-entertainment/wp/2016/12/31/an thony-bourdain-bashes-fellow-privileged-eastern-liberals-for-making-trump-wi n-po

Re: [FRIAM] What should we do?

2017-01-02 Thread Marcus Daniels
f of Nick Thompson <nickthomp...@earthlink.net> Sent: Monday, January 2, 2017 4:48 PM To: 'The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group' Subject: Re: [FRIAM] What should we do? Hi, Barry, This is great. I will paste it in below for those who are reluctant to click on stuff. I am struck

Re: [FRIAM] What should we do?

2017-01-02 Thread Nick Thompson
Friam [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf Of Barry MacKichan Sent: Monday, January 02, 2017 4:07 PM To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <friam@redfish.com> Subject: [FRIAM] What should we do? I’m sending a couple of links that might be relevant to part of the

[FRIAM] What should we do?

2017-01-02 Thread Barry MacKichan
I’m sending a couple of links that might be relevant to part of the conversation on Friday. http://qz.com/846940/a-yale-history-professors-20-point-guide-to-defending-democracy-under-a-trump-presidency/ and http://xkcd.com/1779/ --Barry