I get the feeling there’s a pitch coming about buying into a timeshare.

From: Friam <[email protected]> on behalf of Prof David West 
<[email protected]>
Reply-To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <[email protected]>
Date: Thursday, May 14, 2020 at 5:40 PM
To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Gentleman's Club

Should FRIAM aspire to "club" or to "salon?" I would hope the latter.

davew


On Thu, May 14, 2020, at 6:27 PM, Frank Wimberly wrote:
You are eminently clubbable wrt Friam, Jon.

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On Thu, May 14, 2020, 6:22 PM Jon Zingale 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Glen astutely begins:
"We talk a lot about filosofy, culture, and politics on this list. And we quote 
a lot of old white guys. Sporadically one of us will lament..."

From a wonderfully humorous wikipedia article on The Gentleman's 
Club<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gentlemen%27s_club>:
"An increasing number of clubs were characterised by their members' interest in 
politics, literature, sport, art, automobiles, travel, particular countries, or 
some other pursuit. In other cases, the connection between the members was 
membership of the same branch of the armed forces, or the same school or 
university. Thus the growth of clubs provides an indicator as to what was 
considered a respectable part of the "Establishment" at the time.

By the late 19th century, any man with a credible claim to the status of 
"gentleman" was eventually able to find a club willing to admit him, unless his 
character was objectionable in some way or he was "unclubbable" (a word first 
used by Samuel 
Johnson<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Johnson>).[2]<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gentlemen%27s_club#cite_note-2>
 This newly-expanded category of English society came to include professionals 
who had to earn their income, such as doctors and lawyers."

Is it possible we are a gentleman's club? If so, I suspect I am unclubbable.
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