My stumbling block is Stephen Miller. After some effort, I could muster up Buddhist compassion for Trump and wish that he be healthy, strong and happy. But I chastised myself for wishing Stephen Miller would get it when I saw a picture of him walking next to Hope Hicks. Then when I heard that he has it too, I couldn't help smiling.
On Wed, Oct 7, 2020 at 12:54 PM Jochen Fromm <[email protected]> wrote: > I started to feel sorry for Donald when I saw him gasping for air on the > balcony of the White House. We are all just humans, and he really seems to > be a Covid19 victim. As Barack Obama said let us hope that the President > and all those affected by the Coronavirus are getting the care they need > and feel better soon. > > But shortly after the old Donald was back, and to me it looks like he has > not learned much. No signs of remorse for his behavior, no pity for Covid19 > victims and no apology for the people he has infected in the last days. > Instead we can see rage tweeting in uppercase (is his Caps Lock Key broken > now?) in increasing intensity and frequency. > > How do you see it? > > -J. > > > -------- Original message -------- > From: Frank Wimberly <[email protected]> > Date: 10/7/20 18:29 (GMT+01:00) > To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <[email protected]> > > Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Trump as a victim > > I feel empathy and sympathy for the little baby Donald before the remote > mother and the overweening father made their imprint on him. > > --- > Frank C. Wimberly > 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, > Santa Fe, NM 87505 > > 505 670-9918 > Santa Fe, NM > > On Wed, Oct 7, 2020, 9:38 AM Marcus Daniels <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Empathy requires attention and time, and anyone else is a better use of >> it. Quoting from Utopia, "What you have you done today to earn your place >> in this big crowded world of ours?" >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Friam <[email protected]> On Behalf Of u?l? ??? >> Sent: Wednesday, October 7, 2020 5:54 AM >> To: FriAM <[email protected]> >> Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Trump as a victim >> >> A collection of people, who shall remain nameless, recently tried to >> shame me for objecting to their waste of empathy for poor lil ol Trump, in >> light of his infection. One argument went something like "His father was >> horrible." One primary argument went something like "empathy begets >> empathy". Empathy is not zero-sum. Etc. >> >> I started my objection to all this Trump-as-a-victim talk by listing >> several aspects of his CHARMED LIFE, like the fact that he's lucky enough >> to have lived to a ripe old age (when so many of us die young), he was born >> wealthy (when so many of us live our entire lives dirt poor), his stupid TV >> show was wildly successful (when so many of us are serial failures), his >> weaponized litigousness has benefited him throughout his life (when so many >> of us can't even afford a lawyer). Etc. >> >> All that *privilege* has been bestowed upon him. And it seems, to me, >> he's squandered it all. He reminds me of those pitiful pictures of Saddam >> Hussein in court and then prison and then dead. Oh boo-hoo, poor little >> dictator being mistreated. Such sentiments are not merely weird to me. If >> game theory and the success of simplistic tit-for-tat has taught us >> anything, it is that the algorithmic *depth* required to beat >> straightforward (poetic) "justice" is academically interesting, but >> pragmatically degenerate. >> >> So, no. I will not waste any of my finite lifetime feeling sorry for poor >> lil ol Trump, our Privilege Squanderer in Chief. If that magically limits >> my ability to empathize in some other context, so be it. If it implies that >> when I die pathetically, under some bridge, eating partial hamburgers from >> the Wendy's dumpster, my colleagues *rightly* avoid wasting their finite >> lifetimes feeling sorry for me, then I'm ready for that day. Like it or >> not, tu quoque is a fallacy. >> >> -- >> ↙↙↙ 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.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/ >
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