There are different ways a branch in a (spanning) tree might arise. One is some shared value, like right to choose or right to life. Identity politics is another. Then there's (Democratic) party politics where an umbrella is suggested to ensure many weak connections can be maintained.
A fasces is a picture of how easy that is break down: Easier to insist on sticks of equal size and diameter and bind them together into a weapon where the rope is part of the tree, Mussolini style. -----Original Message----- From: Friam <[email protected]> On Behalf Of ? glen Sent: Thursday, December 24, 2020 5:37 AM To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [FRIAM] if by 'populism' he meant ... The idea of an induced expression centroid that provides a spanning basis for a large proportion of people's expressiveness is interesting. The tricky part is that any such basis may be too dynamic to provide a persistent compression, reliable over time [⛧]. If it were stable, I feel like it would amount to an assertion of cultural universals. And if that's the case, then it might reduce to biology, which would make it another form of Nick's criticism, albeit a data-driven one. [⛧] Maybe that's a plausible idea for populism is an ambiguous term? On December 23, 2020 1:20:05 PM PST, Marcus Daniels <[email protected]> wrote: >If there is an ordinary person class or subclass, which I also doubt, >then it is dispensable, or even a liability, because it is just another >person heating up the atmosphere and accelerating the demise of life as >we know it on earth. In this view, one would compress out the >sameness using the population for context (the Great Dictionary), and >whatever is unique is the value of that person. One might not be >surprised if individuals with low residual entropy might find safety in >numbers or even declare their concerns to be a movement. > -- glen ⛧ - .... . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. .... . .-. . 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/
