Today there’s a televised memorial service for George Floyd. Moments ago I saw Al Sharpton giving a signature sermon about this stranger to an national audience of strangers. It seems more significant to grieve for a person that is a stranger, but who has a story that is familiar. Whatever cultural diversification that occurs naturally and is (supposedly) expensive to suppress seems like lower order bits and inconsequential. This is what always annoys me about Libertarians. It isn’t that they are selfish or cause harm, it is that they are just another set of more-or-less similar instances, and think they are special. But they are just as boring. They fail to create the entropy they claim is important.
From: Friam <[email protected]> on behalf of Jon Zingale <[email protected]> Reply-To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <[email protected]> Date: Wednesday, June 3, 2020 at 9:55 AM To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Santa Fe Plaza Riot Marcus, Your comment about televisions is part of my point about resources and energy. I see the massive institutions and structures that are in place to bring me globally syndicated programming as being expensive and doing what it can to constrain difference. Yet, places strike me as being remarkably different. I don't really see the outrage around Floyd as being a reliable sign for cultural differences as the outrage strikes me as a kind of media event. Voter turn-out, similarly, seems to rely on nation and imagined communities<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imagined_community>. Jon
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