This is both beautiful and just, Jon. What’s the next action item, because surely you are right.
Eric > On Aug 17, 2020, at 3:35 AM, jon zingale <[email protected]> wrote: > > Please excuse the Cassandrafreude, but here we are nearly 7 months later and > we now have the app, it is called the U.S Postal Service. Will the app > manage to escape any of Dave's points of critique? It is beginning to occur > to me that manifesting beside the rise of bad-faith science (bogus climate > studies supporting denial, bogus pharmaceutical trials, and the like) comes > a reactionary position to increasingly support inaction as the path of moral > high-ground, in the face of incomplete knowledge. While some may believe > this strategy to be 'correct', it leaves bad-faith actors to make the big > moves while the purists hole up, finding themselves besieged and confined to > ivory towers. What remains of the republic is at risk and not just at the > hands of those that seek to dismantle it, but also by those too paralyzed by > the righteousness of certainty to protect it. Somehow, I would have much > preferred to find myself complaining in November about the failures of a > first-gen voting app than whining about losing another of our critical > institutions as we cower in the post-democratic apocalypse. > > > > -- > Sent from: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ > > - .... . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. .... . .-. . > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam > un/subscribe > https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=http%3a%2f%2fredfish.com%2fmailman%2flistinfo%2ffriam_redfish.com&c=E,1,vMBo1zC-0tEhuBNyZKegIgYvPPhlNy9AkwtZqZdaHs3V0Q3pinMQ4yDhC6vRURDCKb2itcSWW8UoyJhP2IVMeGX0C6VAjgymuYvTnAlRfQd9ckGtLd_1&typo=1 > archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ > FRIAM-COMIC > https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=http%3a%2f%2ffriam-comic.blogspot.com%2f&c=E,1,Yp7KttHUW-i94HaRizVxC7_TBqfTkdliUYXUxoSyctkkofnYRwc2kHWGRNXFWf0ePPCZqVGVDreuBON3cYlsmh5mR00g1ltVwirhGwEpbgINhIX4A3qCvg,,&typo=1 > - .... . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. .... . .-. . 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/
