Is there such a thing as a “good” or at least “benign” great (wo)man e.g. Chouinard of Patagonia and the mission statement to save the planet. OTOH — they are just as much a prod of circumstance as a Bezos, but the seem, at least superficially, qualitatively different towards the “good.”
Or is this just an instance of billionaire-asshole; millionaire-maybe? Davew On Fri, Mar 12, 2021, at 1:17 PM, uǝlƃ ↙↙↙ wrote: > To be clear, recognizing that all models are wrong, some are useful > isn't nihilistic. My favorite conception is (what I think I got from > Kierkegaard), the leap of faith from obsessing about how wrong our > models are, to something akin to "shut up and calculate" is what gets > us out of analysis paralysis. > > The trick, I suppose, is *when* to pull the trigger. How much do I have > to empathize with Jeff Bezos before I can just get on with pointing out > that his effluvium is destroying culture, market, and planet; and any > "effective altruism" he may engage in will never offset the damage his > effluvium's done. > > How much do I have to empathize with Michael Jackson ... or Trump ... > or whatever fictitious caricature (false but useful model) we might > choose, in order to get on with the consequential task of mitigating > their impact? > > > On 3/12/21 11:58 AM, Steve Smith wrote: > >> To look at our victims as full-blown humans gets in the way of our > >> progress. > > > > I don't know if Nietzsche said that first but it does seem like it could > > be a paraphrase of one of his nihilistic piths. > > > > I am inspired by the anti-Othering movement, it serves my own > > recovery/respite from a lifetime of participating in zero-sum > > victim/victor games as offered by our popular culture as (sometimes? or > > am I imputing again?) "the only game in town". > > > -- > ↙↙↙ uǝlƃ > > - .... . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. .... . .-. . > 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/
