To some extent I agree, though I reject the choice of either A *or* B. I prefer to make room for longer formal expressions and attempt to make use of them as their own thing. When confronted by need I partially evaluate as needed.
We live in a post-net-neutrality era of Instagram influencers, Twitter mobs, doxers, and cancel culture. The post-net-neutrality constraint seems important as it contributes to defining an optimizing function for our polity. Today, the most politically savvy of us is so exactly because they *internalized* this. These are social times, and by that, I mean political times. Persona trades high and nearly all of us, especially in these unprecedented times, have a steady diet of dynamically curated media. There is to my mind ample reason for caution and skepticism regarding the rhetoric I, and those around me, adopt. My concern with acting on appearances, and seeking the Polly Anna I wish to see in the world, is one of Hebbian correction and is similar to the concern I feel when reminded that Jesus has a plan. The disconnect can be very real in its facilitating of future canalization, the very real danger of forming a banality of evil. OTOH, I agree that we *must* care for how rape victims respond to their treatment and elderly neighbors respond to news of gang violence downtown. That is if we hope for polity at all. -- Sent from: 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/
