On 11/05/2016 11:59 AM, Owen Densmore wrote: > We do need to get over "who's going to win?" and ask "why has Trump got such > a *huge* following?"
The Anti-Democratic Heart of Populism https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/anti-democratic-politics-of-populism-by-andres-velasco-2016-10 "Populism rests on a toxic triad: denial of complexity, anti-pluralism, and a crooked version of representation." Perhaps we, here in an applied complexity clique, are at least partially to blame for allowing people to deny complexity? Of course, I suppose I could be pissing in the wind, here, because at least half of the people who study complexity are crypto-reductionists who believe that all complex phenomena arise from simple rules (with particular characteristics). If we just dig deep enough, think hard enough, compute fast and large enough, everything is, deep down, essentially, foundationally, simple. But even were that true, practical, near-term solutions to complex problems will be complex. -- ␦glen? ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove
