I often ask something like, "How did a guy with a name like Roger Wilson get an Indian accent?"
--- Frank C. Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, Santa Fe, NM 87505 505 670-9918 Santa Fe, NM On Wed, Apr 28, 2021, 11:20 AM uǝlƃ ↙↙↙ <[email protected]> wrote: > Well, I've always admired the Monty Python troupe's ability to *sustain* > absurdity. It's relatively easy to be absurd for something as small as a > minute long joke. But to do a 5 minute or more skit is impressive. > > If Wolfram adopts his ridiculous tone merely to antagonize people, that > would be even more evidence of his genius ... and his ability to lie with a > straight face ... and his ability to lie to himself. Play a role long > enough and the abyss stares into you. > > On that note, this series was very interesting/disturbing: > > Generation Hustle > https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11210524/ > > I couldn't help but find myself empathizing with the scammers and some of > their seeming lack of remorse or even lack of understanding that they did > anything wrong. Never mind whether what they did (are doing) is actually > "wrong" somehow. It's like that scene from "Wall Street" when Douglas/Gekko > gives his famous speech arguing greed is good. Never mind whether it's > true. The question is whether the role player is playing a role or > expressing themselves ... or both. > > On 4/28/21 9:59 AM, Marcus Daniels wrote: > > In defense of Wolfram, it is possible he writes in the passive voice > just to antagonize people like the author of that article. He's not a > part of the academic world, and doesn't have to use their currency. > > -- > ↙↙↙ 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/ >
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