On 02/06/2017 07:32 PM, Steven A Smith wrote: > One fine gem is the fact that the generally accepted most brilliant Chess > Player of all time, Garry Kasparov is a Tweeter and is one of Vlad's (Putin, > not Burachynsky) greatest critics!
Yep. I didn't realize how much of a public intellectual he was till that article. > Trump-bashing aside, I like your point(s) about self-policing/governance and > membership in a community. I think community membership it *is* a slippery > but key topic. I think we are suffering from a massive "tragedy of the > commons", where facts and truth, while somewhat mutable *are* part of the > commons. Or perhaps more to the point, Language is part of the commons, and > it has been pretty thoroughly mangled in many quarters. Very cool. I hadn't thought of the problem as one of the commons. My Trump-voting neighbor interrupted my yard work sometime before the election complaining about how the internet (and TV and phones) separated us from each other. I mumbled something about urban vs. rural populations and tried to go back to work. But I think there's something important there. Our increasing ability to choose our own bubble, albeit in a weak identify-with way, not a member-of way, is a large part of the problem. I think Nick's "problematizers" are really just opportunists jumping into that impoverished medium. > Your distinction between "identifying with" and "participating in" is > particularly apt. In our modern culture, it feels as if our consumerism has > lead us to "identifying with" as a substitute for "participating in"... > Further in-depth analysis seems worthwhile. The locals who manage our part of the city keep trying to put me into some position of responsibility. I continue to tell them that I don't have the right temperament for such a position, mostly because I enjoy both contrarianism and a bit of anarchy ... let's call it "annealing" ... adding enough heat to disrupt the current order just enough to (perhaps) bring it back into a better optimum. They're assuming my persnickety dialogue is an attempt to do things right or find the truth. But it's actually just heat. It's interesting that _they_ see me as belonging to the community because I participate, whereas I see me as simply twitching for a good time. -- ␦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
