The Murky Pond - I think that's the correct pragmatist metaphor for the world and our lives in it.
My mother's parents owned a farm on the eastern shore of Maryland, a traditional summer retreat from DC or NYC. The farm, Leecote, had a roller coaster dirt drive that wound from the improved road to the farmhouse on the waterfront, a tidal creek which led to the Tred Avon River, to the Choptank River, to the Chesapeake Bay, and so on. On one side of the drive there was a swimming pond. Across the drive was another pond which my uncle assured me was the home of a snapping turtle. Hence I spent many hours of my early childhood haunting a murky pond looking for, and imagining various encounters with, a snapping turtle hiding in a murky pond. I really like the first four pages of The Pragmatist Enlightenment, I hope I can muster the will to read the rest. (Soundtrack, John Mayall and the Bluesbreakers, A Hard Road, "The Super-Natural".) -- rec -- On Tue, Jul 23, 2024 at 9:11 AM steve smith <[email protected]> wrote: > REC - > > well found and well quoted... blink blink. I would try to > expand/expound but would surely just stir the mud I've already raised in > this already murky pond... > > tx, > > - SAS > > > This was kind of enlightening, too, on hackernews yesterday, in the > > vein of 'Dude, what happened to liberalism?' > > > > > https://www.conspicuouscognition.com/p/the-marketplace-of-misleading-ideas > > > > From a marketplace of ideas to a marketplace of rationalizations is > > such a small shift, like one of those blink-and-it-flips optical > > illusions, blink, blink, .... > > > > -- rec -- > > > -. --- - / ...- .- .-.. .. -.. / -- --- .-. ... . / -.-. --- -.. . > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Fridays 9a-12p Friday St. Johns Cafe / Thursdays 9a-12p Zoom > https://bit.ly/virtualfriam > to (un)subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ > archives: 5/2017 thru present > https://redfish.com/pipermail/friam_redfish.com/ > 1/2003 thru 6/2021 http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/ >
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