On 01/22/2018 05:17 PM, Marcus Daniels wrote: > The kind of people that will accept your service aren’t worthy of it, and > often don’t even know what to do with it.
Yeah, maybe. But to be clear, I'm not suggesting a complete and continuous abdication of agency, only a little more (and more frequent) embedding into the surrounding tissue. The fractures we're seeing in society, I think, are caused by an artificial discretization between individuals and tribes. Millionaires discretize themselves from minimum wage workers. Retired people discretize themselves from the working class. Cops discretize themselves from the populace they police. Etc. If people would, more often, set aside their (mostly illusory anyway) agency and focus on accepting a Pawn role in others' games, we'd see fewer fractures. No doubt it's generational. The septua- and octo-genarians are mostly stuck in their ways. Sad as it is to say, death is the most radical change they'll experience from here on out, despite the technological advances we've made in change inducers like nootropics, meditation, cognitive behavioral therapy, exercise, etc. 20 or so years ago, I would have lumped the 60 year olds in there, too. Perhaps only because I'm approaching that, am I unwilling to make the same assertion about that age frame. 8^) It seems increasingly clear that our young people accept and constitute a cultural fabric, a tissue, to a continuously increasing extent. While it's fair that a 70 year old would claim they "pulled themselves up by their own bootstraps" (even though they did not), it's safe to say that's less and less true as population density grows. Isolatory ontogeny requires lots of land area and a lack of nesting infrastructure like cities, roads, power grids, internet, etc. Such claims to "self-making" are directly proportional to age. -- ∄ uǝʃƃ ============================================================ 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
