Your distillations of the American Zeitgeist are awfully good, Marcus. Eric
> On Feb 2, 2021, at 12:25 PM, Marcus Daniels <[email protected]> wrote: > > EricS writes: > > < I have so often in these emails wished I had an excuse to say what a high > and specific opinion I have of Warren. I view her as a designer, of > institutions, regulatory paradigms, etc. It is only in certain concrete > areas where a long career has built a highly specialized expertise, but it is > enough that it is perfect she was the one to design the CFPB. > > > It is hard to take discussions about mechanisms and paradigms very seriously > looking at a country that significantly just wants to burn everything down. > The larger culture war is about whether we will have the possibility of > design and experiment. Like in any experiment, unanticipated consequences > can occur. Beliefs may be falsified along the way. Coherent design can't > occur if every citizen claims to be an expert designer and expects their > representatives not to plan or negotiate, but merely reactively repeat their > raw frustrations and urges at louder and louder volume. That is in effect an > anti-design value system. > > 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,jSkbLvPHpW--fR3V_FBPfjSTEeltX_-bQzjgLuKdktInwjFNECksgbTfR7KmTlzuZrfJoqOiM4Nh4qTuSZshOreSeFGCDZEbiiIUgyN5OlEPnc1pJ2DuYQ,,&typo=1 > FRIAM-COMIC > https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=http%3a%2f%2ffriam-comic.blogspot.com%2f&c=E,1,ofmzlXG0CoQAQRwKRo3L7F3xEtGrl0V5bYboa8-1n7ZSN4RukwULLwTjL89lk808MBG58nHETvFoxsLZDTxtXpkuaqMAzlzF8yAY8Kgane2EKnTcW7lZ8AY,&typo=1 > archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.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 FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/
