Oh no, Steve, I'm not at all that creative, but I sure as hell am very derivative!
On Wed, May 27, 2020 at 2:46 PM Steve Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > Merle - > > Is this of your coinage? As a word monger (munger?) I do appreciate it's > aptness for the moment. > > Cassandrafreude. > > One definition offered is "the bitter pleasure of things going wrong in > exactly the way you predicted but no one believed you when it could have > made a difference." > > However... > > I think like many sharp things, it cuts both ways. I'm sure there are > any number of Red Staters (with or with Red MAGA hats) saying emphatically > "I TOLE YA!" about the complement of things that Blue Staters (with or > without Bernie or Biden 2020 hats) are saying. > > Remember, my sympathies are mostly with the Blue Caps, but... > > People living in small, remote, rural towns where the social distancing is > built in somewhat and where R0 is naturally lower (and subsequent rates of > infection) than in say downtown NYC or Rome or Tehran or Delhi or Tokyo, > may be saying "see I TOLE YA that citified living is dangerous" or the > same people who might only take one airline flight in a year or decade or > lifetime might say "see I TOLE YA that flitting all around the world is > crazy business and would lead to no good!" or even more judgementally "see > I TOLE YA excluding Furriners would keep us safe!" or "see I TOLE YA that > office/retail/service work ain't righteous, you gotta get yer hands dirty!" > > In any case, I enjoyed Cassandrafreude and will probably find it springing > to mind for the duration... > > - Steve > -- --- .-. . .-.. --- -.-. -.- ... -..-. .- .-. . -..-. - .... . -..-. . > ... ... . -. - .. .- .-.. -..-. .-- --- .-. -.- . .-. ... > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam > un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ > -- Merle Lefkoff, Ph.D. President, Center for Emergent Diplomacy emergentdiplomacy.org Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA [email protected] <[email protected]> mobile: (303) 859-5609 skype: merle.lelfkoff2 twitter: @Merle_Lefkoff
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