Gaia feeling sneezy. Blow those 'lil boats up in the air. -----Original Message----- From: Friam <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Steve Smith Sent: Friday, March 5, 2021 1:31 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Score one for Wokeism!
Whack-a-Mole vs Frogger? On 3/5/21 11:06 AM, uǝlƃ ↙↙↙ wrote: > I can't believe that. The act of flattening is a natural part of the > dynamics. What you (and Marcus) are equating is the act of flattening with a > system-wide tendency to flatten *everything*. By saying the flattening is > good, I'm not saying everything should always be flattened. That's a false > equivalence that I doubt Arendt would support. > > And this also applies to endogenous objective functions. Facile flattening > encourages new peaks ... encourages a bumpy, complex landscape. > Totalitarianism and authoritarianism are exogenous functions. > > On 3/5/21 10:01 AM, jon zingale wrote: >> Hannah Arendt (wink to Merle) argues that the flattening (both >> externally and >> internally) is perhaps the salient feature of totalitarianism. I find >> myself often looking for the original reference and unfortunately not >> finding it. > - .... . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. .... . .-. . 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/ - .... . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. .... . .-. . 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/
