I agree at every point, Marcus. Didn’t Luke Skywalker do that zooming-in thing in one of the Star Warses? Would have been fun to see that done to Wednesday’s crowd, with the whole Capitol a hologram. Leave them standing in an empty field hooting.
Eric > On Jan 9, 2021, at 1:34 PM, Marcus Daniels <[email protected]> wrote: > > Eric writes: > > < On the other hand, if I zoom out and look at material events stripped of > symbolism, the officials managed to get several thousand ignorant, stupid, or > simply lost people through a day of mostly chest-beating without very many > people getting killed. That that seems to define a kind of “proportional” > outcome, which would have been lost if, say, all those inside the capital had > been locked in and set on fire, as might have been done in Ancient Rome or > even by the resistance in Nazi-occupied countries. Would those inside have > “let themselves in for it”? Yes, and I would not have had a large emotional > response of sympathy for them. But it would have cemented the US as a > country that institutionally was incapable of getting itself through any > conflict with something like limited damage. > > > The gatherings of the government and against the government are symbolic > anyway. Really our country's business can be conducted over a Zoom meeting. > I suppose one could make it look like the business of the people was going > on in the capitol building so that when the white supremacists stormed the > place, they could be neutralized in one place without any collateral damage. > Perhaps an incapacitating gas with a tunable concentration depending on the > nature of the event. Of course, any defensive technologies that are > installed could be used for offense with a more sophisticated opponent. One > could imagine directed microwave weapons that could be controlled from remote > locations, say. And then there is the dark possibility of the next set of > fascists that could take over one arm of the government or another -- maybe > proliferation of such technology is not such a good idea! > > The institutional responses I see is mostly after the event. It is not > clear to me there was any strategy to the government response at the capitol, > other than to take a defensive position because they were understaffed. > But *now*, Trump has lost his platform. If he is disqualified from running > again and his allies are radioactive that's a step forward. The catharsis > cost them, at least in the short term. > > Marcus > - .... . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. .... . .-. . > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam > un/subscribe > https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=http%3a%2f%2fredfish.com%2fmailman%2flistinfo%2ffriam_redfish.com&c=E,1,kiplSeplld8KOWCMrKvHuSq8PsMXeRdjjfyv5nVZYfUSJGWriH4-TIJT3HpF2vzeMJ9Om1yg3b_Lc9fGhZuTmQ3XQXnI8nduOJniHIYhl-iFxbZFdVHLwXK6B0nc&typo=1 > archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ > FRIAM-COMIC > https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=http%3a%2f%2ffriam-comic.blogspot.com%2f&c=E,1,GGXfpG5BCZbpb4yx6JtceZw6nTDNk1zDpzAXNvce5lH0OmefK_BZ2waDQW3nC-9w2AVj5ir_W9nlEVXWwpw7FTDPqdPisq9eM-sNIVknDO29fj0u&typo=1 > - .... . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. .... . .-. . 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/
