> What is the quote "Methinks the lady doth protest too much"? >8^D > > Dave's post held zero resentment, as far as I can tell. Maybe Steve resents. I was reporting on my own experience/introspection of/on/with resentment, yes. I was also noting that such lists are compressed caricatures. I don't know if Glen or Dave resents these people their success, but it sure sounds like whomever did the caricaturing was looking for a (not inaccurate, but possibly very carefully contrived) low-dimensional silhouette of a high-dimensional person/phenomena/career/movement. > I don't and I don't think Dave does. What's at work, here, isn't resentment. > It's an attempt to point out a fundamental flaw in our highly connected world > ... watching as GroupThink churns from one celebrity to the next, from > celebrity like Trump to the more sedate celebrity of Biden ... from the > celebrity of AI to the more sedate celebrity of ML. Sure, there is a pop-collective over-estimation of value going on in all of these examples. We here variously give folks like Pearce or Feynman caricatured celebrity status which in turn might evoke the desire in some to create a less flattering caricature. Caricature all. > If we replaced the people in Dave's list with technologies, we'd see the SAME > pattern. And some have called out the signifier "Science" and the things it pretends to point at as being a broad example as well. > And Dave explicitly said, and Jon remarked on, the fact that *we* make these > celebrities. They're the victims. And if we want to come to terms with our > highly connected world, we need to look hard in the mirror.
I think that was my fundamental point as well. I wasn't trying to contradict or impugn Glen or Dave or anyone else, just noticing that when there is snark there is ego. If those lists of traits of "Great (wo)men" were not dripping with snark then you may be accurate that I projected my own stuff into it and I'm entirely off-base. Wouldn't be the first time. - Sieve - .... . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. .... . .-. . 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/
