Got this from an link from the Hoffman article in the Atlantic on "reality". Regardless of the niftiness of the paper, I think it's interesting that somebody is using games to model how truth has come to fare so badly in our politics. Talks up some varieties of realism, so, hi, Nick.
http://cogsci.uci.edu/~ddhoff/PerceptualEvolution.pdf If there is anything to this, my reading is that paywalls and "click here to disable your ad blocker before you can continue reading" sorts of activities by online media are a strong disservice to the polity and need to come down. This is also stimulating some thought on" lingusitic determinism" vs "linguistic relativism" brought up by the "Arrival" movie. Never been much for "deep structure" linguistic theories. Carl On Sun, Dec 4, 2016 at 3:03 PM, Jochen Fromm <[email protected]> wrote: > Yes, looks interesting (somehow my mail client does not show all FRIAM > mails, for instance I don't see Nicks mails, I have only received Merles > response?). > > From a complexity science viewpoint the development in the US is > interesting, whether it will be a step back into an oligarchy or autocracy, > or even some kind of cronyism, nepotism, nationalism, imperialism or > fascism, because all these *-isms are like a cancer for society. There are > all sorts of fascisms, similar to the many different forms of cancer. > > From a psychological perspective Mr. Trump is interesting too because he > is obviously not a normal politician. Narcissism is mentioned frequently as > a character trait. > http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2016/06/the- > mind-of-donald-trump/480771/ > > As a European from a continent with a troubled past I'm worried that the > next 4 years will not turn out well. There will be an unpleasant wakeup > when people recognize they have been betrayed and there is no peaceful way > back into a glorified past in a globalized world. I bet there will be some > kind of staged event which will lead to the next war or a totalitarian > state. > > -Jochen > > > -------- Original message -------- > From: Merle Lefkoff <[email protected]> > Date: 12/4/16 21:57 (GMT+01:00) > To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <[email protected]> > > Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Autocracy: Rules for Survival | by Masha Gessen | NYR > Daily | The New York Review of Books > > Nick, thanks so much for sending this. I just sent it to one of our donors > and to my Canadian grad students and to our social network. It's > wonderfully written, although hardly "beginning a badly needed > conversation." I think because of Complexity science I actually did > imagine the future that has happened--starting about three years ago. > We've been organizing the ECOS gathering for almost two years (put on hold > because of the elections), and now we're organized and ready to go. We > need local volunteers to help with the final planning. Let me know if you > are interested. > > The Center's web site is: emergentdiplomacy.org. The ECOS website is: > ecosgathering.org. > > On Sun, Dec 4, 2016 at 1:39 PM, Nick Thompson <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Any, >> >> >> >> This article begins a badly needed conversation about what resistance >> must look like. >> >> >> >> http://www.nybooks.com/daily/2016/11/10/trump-election-autoc >> racy-rules-for-survival/ >> >> >> >> Nick >> >> ============================================================ >> 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 >> > > > > -- > Merle Lefkoff, Ph.D. > President, Center for Emergent Diplomacy > Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA > > Visiting Professor in Integrative Peacebuilding > Saint Paul University > Ottawa, Canada > > > > [email protected] > mobile: (303) 859-5609 > skype: merle.llfkoff2 > > ============================================================ > 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 >
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