Roger: thanks for catching that. It was added after I saw the tweet and the article. At least the False News was avoided, but sheesh, when do you know something like that is fully baked.
-- Owen On Thu, Feb 2, 2017 at 9:45 AM, Marcus Daniels <[email protected]> wrote: > Steve writes: > > > "I just hope he manages to do it without snapping off the masts and the > wheelhouse, and then careens overboard before he sinks the entire ship, > rats and all. Maybe there IS an awesome, high-tech ship-of-state or > ship-of-society just over the horizon or beyond the fog of culture-wars > ready to sweep us up and jet us off into some unspecified utopian future, > but I'm not seeing it." > > > I mean: All they know is their canoe, and somehow even though they see > all these other kinds of boats on the river, they can't imagine anything > but huddling in the center of their little canoe in the wind and rain. > Fellow canoers, let us build vessels with shelter! No, you say? > > > At some point some subset will build those vessels, but they'll call them > arks. > > > Marcus > ------------------------------ > *From:* Friam <[email protected]> on behalf of Steven A Smith < > [email protected]> > *Sent:* Thursday, February 2, 2017 9:09:41 AM > *To:* The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group > *Subject:* Re: [FRIAM] on the obustness of globalism > > > Steve writes: > > > > "I learned early in life that if a canoe is tipping to one side, you > don't lean out the other, you drop to the bottom center, lower your center > of gravity. Why is that so hard in sociopolitical contexts? Unless you > want to tip into the drink!” > > > > Except that if we tip it over, we can swim over to that jet boat that is a > hundred meters away. (See the thread on the 10 meter diving platform.) > > I think I get that part.... I grew up with a fascination with > post-apocalyptic worlds and sci-fi themes of transcendence. I still have a > soft spot for it. We have in our local circle (but surely not on this > list) a near-inner circle Singularian, the futurist/author Steven Kotler: > http://diamandis.com/abundance > > I put more stock in complexity thinking than exponential thinking. > > Your logic is the only hope I hold out for this Trumpian regime. He is a > loose cannon who is in the process of clearing the deck of our ship of > state. I just hope he manages to do it without snapping off the masts and > the wheelhouse, and then careens overboard before he sinks the entire ship, > rats and all. Maybe there IS an awesome, high-tech ship-of-state or > ship-of-society just over the horizon or beyond the fog of culture-wars > ready to sweep us up and jet us off into some unspecified utopian future, > but I'm not seeing it. > > I also outgrew utopian fantasies when I realized they were a thin disguise > for a dystopia. I'm still fascinated with the dual of utopia/dystopia, > but I'm not easily taken in by the idea that when you can't react fast > enough *already* to the things appearing on the road in your headlights, > that you should just *drive faster*. > > - Steve > > > > Marcus > > > > > > ============================================================ > 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 > > > > ============================================================ > 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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