In your example of migrating zero and non-zero terms in the infinite expression of all things: As the correlations become more massive I start thinking let's replace that with a representative agent; let's compress that mess of proliferation back down to one thing. Religion is a virus and a fundamental cause of that mess of proliferation. All we've come up with in this country so far is to make them tolerate each other, no thanks to the best efforts of Bill Barr and so on. I would say it is slightly pleasing how they tend to eat each other. But man it is an expensive soap opera to produce.
-----Original Message----- From: Friam <[email protected]> On Behalf Of u?l? ??? Sent: Thursday, September 24, 2020 12:14 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [FRIAM] why some people hate cops I was recently triggered by what I thought was a disparaging comment from EricC about the recent attempt to redefine "racism" so as to (primarily) refer to systemic racism. The idea, I think, is that a minority can't be called "racist" because the majority has overwhelming control over the system in which they live. After asking a clarifying question (as I *always* have to do with EricC! >8^D), he elaborated that it's unreasonable to *expect* everyone to know that the definition has changed. Confusion will mount because language is fluid, ambiguity exists, definitions change, not all people are the same, etc. But there's depth to the discussion. Religious people have been in near TOTAL control of our world for a very very long time. Even today, atheists are nearly unelectable. If it weren't for some fluidity in the market of different religions, that control would be total. Part of why I like jokes like the Discordians and Flying Spaghetti Monster (and more deeply the Satanic Temple) is because they compete in that ridiculous market. To accuse a minority of hate speech against a majority is a little off-kilter, to me. It may be literally appropriate. But it misses the nuance of the conversation. On 9/24/20 11:59 AM, Marcus Daniels wrote: > To the extent any such people are “protected” is just because they are such > bullies to begin with that they presume to bend social systems around their > will. Keep it off my wave. -- ↙↙↙ uǝlƃ - .... . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. .... . .-. . 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/ - .... . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. .... . .-. . 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/
