Glen writes: < I realize Dave's argument is that people simply won't care if my mom dies alone with a broken hip and rib, shouting into the air that she's shit herself as some distraught nurse tries to help. But what those people don't understand is that such events *ripple* out, to me, beyond me, into the zeitgeist we see in the streets. >
Coming back from the park yesterday there was a man with a bicycle. I think it was a found object. (I see that a lot where homeless folks have a pile of random stuff that doesn't seem to serve any obvious purpose. And the piles change from time to time.) The bicycle wasn't being used for transport. The man was somehow interfacing the bicycle with the door of a broken down motor home, a residence. It wasn't like he was using a pedal or the handlebars to break a window, he was just kind of rolling it up against the door again and again to see what would happen. Maybe he was imagining how to build a bike holder for the motor home, and it was where he was living. Why not keep this found object? I don't know. It was like he was fascinated by the mismatch of the surfaces of the two objects. I saw him again when I left a half hour later and he was walking around randomly in the street with the bicycle, slowing cars. He did not act in any menacing way but made eye contact with people. He had not had a shower in a long time and did not appear healthy. I suspect that when people see all this indifference to public health, it doesn't lead to more indifference. Marcus - .... . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. .... . .-. . 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/
