"Trump seems to have nothing in his portfolio but a string of ghastly public failures where *he* slips out from under the crumbling building just in time to go on to slap a fat T on another one and start dismantling it from the foundation up like a hungry termite."
Animals are an approximate solution to the simultaneous problems of a given environment, and for us humans, the social component of that environment weighs in heavily. It is clear that our politics selects for an ever more distilled charisma in whatever form solves those simultaneous problems. I am not sure how we can begin to imagine that constraining the office of the president further, along the lines of charisma-centric contests, will give rise to a more compassionate, contemplative, and competent solution to the kinds of problems the office actually poses. We exactly select individuals unfit for the position we expect them to serve and ultimately we will suffer and they will suffer if we do not take responsibility, learn from this apparent flaw, and modify the process of selection accordingly. We run the risk of only treating symptoms. The president, as with any office, operates in a social context and it is clear that he has been enabled along his entire catastrophic trajectory. Enabled by his citizen supporters, his party, the "opposition", everyone. If any fool and I mean a classic fool, were to find themselves propped up in his position and enabled to carry out this tragic drama, I would feel the same way. I dislike it when I see exploitations of this kind at even smaller levels. When friends of mine with Down's syndrome are exploited by the neighborhood bully, it makes me angry and I feel empathy. Surprisingly, not just for my friend, but also for the bully. I don't know why, though probably something most similar to how Nick put it above. Empathy is something I feel and justify feeling later. -- 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 http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/
