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505 670-9918 Santa Fe, NM On Tue, Nov 24, 2020, 11:50 AM <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Marcus, > > > > But what is the metaphor, here? When people say “spin up /down” I think > of a centrifuge. What is it that you think of? > > > > N > > > > > > Nicholas Thompson > > Emeritus Professor of Ethology and Psychology > > Clark University > > [email protected] > > https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/ > > > > > > *From:* Friam <[email protected]> *On Behalf Of *Marcus Daniels > *Sent:* Tuesday, November 24, 2020 12:29 PM > *To:* The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group < > [email protected]> > *Subject:* Re: [FRIAM] The next Heterodox University faculty member > > > > I think of being “spin up” or “spun down” in this context as someone who > has too little self-control. > > Someone that is easily “spun down” can be easy manipulated into despair. > They are the audience for programs like CNN Heros, or people that go on > spiritual retreats. Someone that is easily “spun up” may lack the > ability to see the consequences of their mania. Like JD Vance’s mother > who would never speak at a reasonable volume when screaming would do. > Both are too coupled and reactive to their environment. > > > > *From:* Friam <[email protected]> *On Behalf Of * > [email protected] > *Sent:* Tuesday, November 24, 2020 9:57 AM > *To:* 'The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group' < > [email protected]> > *Subject:* Re: [FRIAM] The next Heterodox University faculty member > > > > Mmmmm! > > > > I always assumed that it had to do with diseases (rabies?) associated with > bats. People who cleaned belfries got sick. Kind of like, “mad as a > hatter”. What is wonderfiul about all of this is that how our attempts to > understand metaphors that other people use leads to new meanings of the > metaphor. Surely “spin up” and “spin off” arise from totally different > realms of discourse. Shirley? And “spin” in the political sense arises > from a totally different realm, entemology: i.e., to “spin a web of > deceit.” > > > > Nick > > > > > > Nicholas Thompson > > Emeritus Professor of Ethology and Psychology > > Clark University > > [email protected] > > https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/ > > > > > > > > *From:* Friam <[email protected]> *On Behalf Of *Stephen Guerin > *Sent:* Tuesday, November 24, 2020 11:42 AM > *To:* The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group < > [email protected]> > *Subject:* Re: [FRIAM] The next Heterodox University faculty member > > > > Glen, your wingnut footnote put me in the mood to chase down the origin of > "batshit crazy". Here's one that makes sense: > > > https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=batshit%20crazy > A person who is batshit crazy is certifiably nuts. The phrase has origins > in the old fashioned term "bats in the belfry." Old churches had a > structure at the top called a belfry, which housed the bells. Bats are > extremely sensitive to sound and would never inhabit a belfry of an active > church where the bell was rung frequently. Occasionally, when a church was > abandoned and many years passed without the bell being rung, bats would > eventually come and inhabit the belfry. So, when somebody said that an > individual had "bats in the belfry" it meant that there was "nothing going > on upstairs" (as in that person's brain). To be BATSHIT CRAZY is to take > this even a step further. A person who is batshit crazy is so nuts that not > only is their belfry full of bats, but so many bats have been there for so > long that the belfry is coated in batshit. Hence, the craziest of crazy > people are BATSHIT CRAZY. > > > > > > > > > > On Tue, Nov 24, 2020 at 10:19 AM uǝlƃ ↙↙↙ <[email protected]> wrote: > > > http://www.quantumthom.com/LetterToFerrisCommunity.pdf > https://fsutorch.com/2020/11/18/science-professor-denies-science/ > > The account’s other tweets in regard to COVID-19 say things such as: > > “Guess what the covid stunt has failed. You won’t get your leftist new > world order.” > > “Covid19 is another jewish revolution.” > > “F— this evil wizard,” in reference to a video of Dr. Anthony Fauci. > > “Stand up for yourselves people, and stop falling for this corona virus > hoax!” > > “I’d say covid-19 is fake. An evil medical system just killed a bunch of > old people.” > > > From the Amazon page for his book: > "Thomas Brennan is a professor of physics at Ferris State University in > Big Rapids, Michigan, where he's taught physics and astronomy since 2014. > He completed his PhD thesis on the topic of sonoluminescence in 2009 at the > Illinois Institute of Technology. He also received a BA in Physics from the > University of Chicago and an MS in Physics from UCLA. His research > interests include both experimental and mathematical physics as well as > astronomy." > > I continue to marvel at how someone seemingly intelligent can fly off the > bolt [⛧] so easily. As one who regularly expresses my opinions about > non-professional things, I consistently wonder how/when it will or has > already come back to bite me, not to assert that I'm seemingly intelligent > or anything. It also questions the coherence of the "public intellectual", > best exhibited by people like Chomsky, or Pinker, or Tyson. We need them > ... but they put themselves at great risk. So thanks to all those people > who manage to speak outside their competence, but do so without flying off > the bolt. > > > [⛧] Yes, I'm aware that "wingnut" is often understood as a nut who sits > on the wing of a political spectrum. But I prefer to think of it as someone > who's easily "spun up", spun on, or spun off. This fits nicely with the old > saying that there's a fine line between genius and crazy, it's only a > difference in chirality. That batsh¡t old man who spends his lifetime in > his basement working on his time machine exhibits the same dedication as > the non-batsh¡t microbiologist who spends his lifetime in the cancer lab. > They're both easily spun up, wingnuts on a different spectrum. > > -- > ↙↙↙ 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/ >
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