Gaia feeling sneezy.   Blow those 'lil boats up in the air.  

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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.
>

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