See: Masters, Lackeys and Serfs: Why Authoritarianism Persists in the 21st Century and How to Oppose It
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07FPZMBVN/ref=cm_sw_r_em_apa_bS44Fb1ZV2YVK Tom On Wed, Dec 23, 2020, 10:19 AM Frank Wimberly <[email protected]> wrote: > I first heard the word extensively as a description of the appeal of Huey > Long. He was a Louisiana farm boy who didn't like city people. As > governor he ordered the National Guard to occupy New Orleans' City Hall. > They set up machine guns in the hallways. > > See > > > https://www.amazon.com/dp/1565543033/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_fabc_MT34Fb7PP3SNJ > > He was famous for the campaign slogan, "A chicken in every pot." > > Frank > --- > Frank C. Wimberly > 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, > Santa Fe, NM 87505 > > 505 670-9918 > Santa Fe, NM > > On Wed, Dec 23, 2020, 10:07 AM Steve Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I held my own idiosyncratic (generally positive) apprehension of >> "populism" both for best and worst for the longest time... maybe right up >> until it was applied to Trump's appeal. I now map "mobocracy" much more >> strongly onto it. For me Mobocracy fails worse than the mere implications >> of "unwashed masses", but rather the entrainment aspects of mob-swarms. >> An idea doesn't have to be "good" to be "popular". >> On 12/23/20 9:47 AM, Russ Abbott wrote: >> >> I recently saw an article that defined populism as something like the >> resentment of poorly paid, poorly benefitted, and for the most-part >> hands-on workers toward those who have reasonably well-paying, >> well-benefitted, and can-work-from-home jobs. >> >> -- Russ Abbott >> Professor, Computer Science >> California State University, Los Angeles >> >> >> On Wed, Dec 23, 2020 at 8:38 AM Marcus Daniels <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> To the extent I can be gzipped, am I not also redundant? >>> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: Friam <[email protected]> On Behalf Of u?l? ??? >>> Sent: Wednesday, December 23, 2020 6:55 AM >>> To: FriAM <[email protected]> >>> Subject: [FRIAM] if by 'populism' he meant ... >>> >>> Britain’s Last Day in Brussels: A Populist Punch-Up >>> https://bylinetimes.com/2020/12/08/britains-last-day-in-brussels-a-populist-punch-up/ >>> >>> I've struggled to understand what populism means. The dictionary >>> definition is no help (appeal to ordinary people) because I don't think >>> such people exist. There is no "average person". We're all "elite" >>> (special) in some way or another. Each thing has its own particularity. >>> (Down to Pauli exclusion.) Binning concrete things into classes requires >>> removing particulars. This kindasorta implies that populism means appealing >>> to the most common feature set. Average every possible feature and choose >>> the top, say, 5-7 most common features. >>> >>> But that's a problem because we people aren't very objective. So, a >>> data-driven populist would stick pretty close to an algorithm like that. >>> But a "populist" politician probably would not. There's some other criteria >>> at work ... some *conception* of the ordinary person that isn't objective >>> ... a kind of shared subjectivity, "intersubjectivity" < >>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intersubjectivity>? >>> >>> My *guess* is that the way "populist" is used refers to a shared >>> *delusion* ... like the American Dream, which was always a delusion. It's >>> simply becoming more obvious as our information ecology changes. The >>> intersubjectivity involved seems to be a mass psychogenic illness < >>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_psychogenic_illness> ... kinda like >>> popular music and the same damned person winning the pop contest year upon >>> year. >>> >>> I'd be grateful for any criticism of that conclusion. >>> >>> I have another idea that was triggered by the Byline article: that >>> populism is a kind of forcing structure [⛧], a reduction from high to low >>> dimension, from high to low diversity. Where "elites" take an appropriate >>> amount of time to, say, explain/understand quantum decoherence, a populist >>> over-simplifies it so that the "ordinary person" can believe they see it >>> everywhere. Or, where "elites" accept the cost of sympathizing with each >>> particular wak they meet, the populist stereotypes those [in|out] of their >>> tribe. This 2nd idea could be seen as a derivative of the 1st one, where >>> the shared delusion is the overly simplified model. I'm not as interested >>> in criticism of this 2nd idea. Killing the 1st idea would, I think, kill >>> the 2nd. But if the 1st idea sounds about right, then it might be worth >>> trashing the 2nd. >>> >>> >>> [⛧] ... whether [endo|exo]genous, which isn't irrelevant, but perhaps >>> tangential. >>> >>> -- >>> ↙↙↙ 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://bit.ly/virtualfriamun/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/ >> > - .... . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. .... . .-. . > 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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