glen - I tend to agree with your intuition that something that seems egregiously "stupid" might well simply be registered in a different basis space... or more aptly "a different value system". It is easy/convenient enough to just "discount it" and move on, but if the subject is important enough, it is probably worth watching/looking carefully to see if there is something I'm missing about the (un)shared assumptions/axioms/values.
On the other hand I was raised to respect Rodeo Clowns on the basis that "you have to be really good to be that bad!" Which roughly describes Tricksters and Trolls who can concoct a very specific "clashing" narrative to your own. My own "stupidity" in the sense of "demonstrated ignorance" seems to come from operating not so much in a *different* basis space, but in a *subdimensional* one... which leaves my expressions limited in nuance relative to the conversation/context at hand. - steve On 2/14/20 9:24 PM, glen e p ropella wrote: > Hm. But you can't deny that we're all stupid at some time, in some context, > for some isolated decision. The point is that a slight deviation is "yet > another episode of my stupidity", whereas a large deviation implies a > different basis ... like the garbage poetry I wrote as a kid. It's so stupid, > I can't come to any conclusion BUT that those words came from someone else. > > On February 14, 2020 7:54:33 PM PST, Marcus Daniels <[email protected]> > wrote: >> A fundamental assumption is that one shouldn't be disgusting. Being >> slightly stupid and disgusting isn't redeeming. The meritocracy thing >> is a straw man. > -- > glen ep ropella 971-599-3737 > > ============================================================ > 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 > archives back to 2003: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.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 archives back to 2003: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove
