Re: [FRIAM] The year ahead

2017-01-11 Thread Marcus Daniels 
IMO, it is like a tradeoff between adhesion and cohesion.   Education creates 
something to adhere to (or, more positively, to build upon), but in order for 
it to break local cohesive strength (of a local community full of chuch-goers, 
rednecks, etc.), it has to be pretty strong.   Merely being a little more 
enlightened doesn’t give that individual much more power in their world (and in 
some cases less by being a sore thumb that conspicuously sticks out), so many 
opt to conform to the norms of their community.   If you dive off the 
springboard, there better be water visible below.

Or think of education as being a magnet (or set of magnets), that, to first 
order gives a `right answer’, bias, or politically correct answer for a set of 
questions.   The uniformity of this field causes the influenced to look like 
many other influenced individuals.   But a rural person doesn’t have endless 
opportunities for social training compared to a person in a city.   Even if 
they are `as well biased’ by the magnets, they won’t necessarily seem that way 
because of how they interact.  Such individuals from the country are at not a 
competitive advantage to those in metropolitan regions.  They have fewer 
networking opportunities and less support infrastructure (e.g. subways).   So, 
low adhesion and high cohesion naturally leads to insular communities which 
have arbitrary, narrow, and prescriptive lifestyles.

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Why won't education make (a?) difference?

On Wed, Jan 11, 2017 at 11:08 AM, Robert J. Cordingley 
<rob...@cirrillian.com<mailto:rob...@cirrillian.com>> wrote:

“Give me a child until he is 7 and I will show you the man.” ― Aristotle, The 
Philosophy of Aristotle and from Psychology Today a build and an argument to 
get control of the media too: 
https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-power-rest/201303/give-us-kid-till-shes-7-and-well-have-her-life

Timing and Marketing is everything.

Robert C

On 1/8/17 11:30 PM, Marcus Daniels wrote:
It’s wildly optimistic to think education will make the difference.



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Re: [FRIAM] The year ahead

2017-01-11 Thread Gillian Densmore 
Just to poke fun at this whole thing:
I love being a skunk good amount of experience but it's pretty wonky
keeping my modest career going.

A man in his 70's, arguably neurotic and xenophic, possibly Autistic as
well, has a history of tanking what ever he does? Sure no problem be the
countries person-to-organize things
Anyone else both amused and bothered by that? Do we not see a problem here?



On Wed, Jan 11, 2017 at 11:20 AM, Merle Lefkoff 
wrote:

> Why won't education make (a?) difference?
>
> On Wed, Jan 11, 2017 at 11:08 AM, Robert J. Cordingley <
> rob...@cirrillian.com> wrote:
>
>> “Give me a child until he is 7 and I will show you the man.” ― Aristotle,
>> The Philosophy of Aristotle and from Psychology Today a build and an
>> argument to get control of the media too: https://www.psychologytoday.co
>> m/blog/the-power-rest/201303/give-us-kid-till-shes-7-and-
>> well-have-her-life
>>
>> Timing and Marketing is everything.
>>
>> Robert C
>>
>> On 1/8/17 11:30 PM, Marcus Daniels wrote:
>>
>> It’s wildly optimistic to think education will make the difference.
>>
>>
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Re: [FRIAM] The year ahead

2017-01-11 Thread Merle Lefkoff 
Why won't education make (a?) difference?

On Wed, Jan 11, 2017 at 11:08 AM, Robert J. Cordingley <
rob...@cirrillian.com> wrote:

> “Give me a child until he is 7 and I will show you the man.” ― Aristotle,
> The Philosophy of Aristotle and from Psychology Today a build and an
> argument to get control of the media too: https://www.psychologytoday.
> com/blog/the-power-rest/201303/give-us-kid-till-shes-
> 7-and-well-have-her-life
>
> Timing and Marketing is everything.
>
> Robert C
>
> On 1/8/17 11:30 PM, Marcus Daniels wrote:
>
> It’s wildly optimistic to think education will make the difference.
>
>
> --
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Re: [FRIAM] The year ahead

2017-01-11 Thread Robert J. Cordingley 
“Give me a child until he is 7 and I will show you the man.” ― 
Aristotle, The Philosophy of Aristotle and from Psychology Today a build 
and an argument to get control of the media too: 
https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-power-rest/201303/give-us-kid-till-shes-7-and-well-have-her-life 



Timing and Marketing is everything.

Robert C


On 1/8/17 11:30 PM, Marcus Daniels wrote:

It’s wildly optimistic to think education will make the difference.


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Re: [FRIAM] The year ahead

2017-01-09 Thread Steven A Smith 

Steve: You might like the RedNeck Liberal.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCTHsQd-vRXK1bp4vpifl6yA

Thanks!

His line: "being prejudiced against poor white poeple with a twang, 
still counts as prejudiced"  hits home.


I might identify with "country" but not with "southern".  I hear the 
voices of my relatives from KY and TN and all I can think of is 
"ignorant, racist whackjob!"  but half of them are none of that and of 
the other half, only a few are racist and a few more are ignorant 
(though the former is a proper subset of the latter).


I identify more with a mixed culture of hispanic, native and anglo (not 
just this area but other parts of NM/AZ) from the mountains and deserts 
of the rocky mountain region.   I think the isolation of rural living 
combined with the *extractive industy* is the main problem.   Rust 
Belters and modern farmers every where seem pretty similar as well!


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Re: [FRIAM] The year ahead

2017-01-09 Thread glen ☣ 

Have you turned on Payments?  And if so, how much money are you spending?

On 01/09/2017 10:20 AM, Owen Densmore wrote:
> It will use bitcoin for funding content providers brave users visit via 
> micropayments.

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Re: [FRIAM] The year ahead

2017-01-09 Thread Joe Spinden 

@Owen  What can you tell us about the Brave browser ?

Joe


On 1/9/17 10:00 AM, Owen Densmore wrote:

Interesting, thanks Tom.

BTW: Breitbart is apparently famous for malvertising, ads with 
malware. That's why I unabashedly use an ad blocker, and better yet, 
use Brave, the browser of the future, I hope.


 -- Owen

On Sun, Jan 8, 2017 at 6:13 PM, Tom Johnson > wrote:


How to Destroy the Business Model of Breitbart and Fake News

Many companies don’t know that their ads are appearing next to
abhorrent content. Tell them.


http://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/07/opinion/sunday/how-to-destroy-the-business-model-of-breitbart-and-fake-news.html



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On Jan 9, 2017 3:25 AM, "Gary Schiltz" > wrote:

What really worries me about the USA is how polarized the
society there is, so "mass resistance" will certainly, at
least in the short term, increase this polarization. From the
standpoint of this on-the-fence liberal, it would be nice to
have the luxury to be able to see the "other side" as being
evil, so that I wouldn't care how they feel. The problem for
me is that I can't, since many of the people I grew up with,
including nearly all of my family, are part of that other
side. And I see their point of view on a lot of issues. No way
could I ever support Trump, but a lot of good people really
do. And I don't know how to deal with this. I sure as hell
don't want to see another civil war, but sometimes I think the
passions are strong enough to instigate one.

On Sun, Jan 8, 2017 at 2:54 PM, Merle Lefkoff
> wrote:

   
Bekah Wolf 
January 8 at 7:17am

A year ago, an action against deportations:
https://www.facebook.com/toni.arenstein/videos/10208311021676102/


2017 is going to be the year of mass resistance.  This is
only thing that works now to overcome our slide toward
endless war and increasing social injustice. These
protests and the larger social movements emerging all over
the world are self-organizing systems with much to say
about applied Complexity.   Visit our website:
ecosgathering.org . Enough blah,
blah. Time for action.


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Re: [FRIAM] The year ahead

2017-01-08 Thread Marcus Daniels 
Gary writes:

“From the standpoint of this on-the-fence liberal, it would be nice to have the 
luxury to be able to see the "other side" as being evil, so that I wouldn't 
care how they feel. The problem for me is that I can't, since many of the 
people I grew up with, including nearly all of my family, are part of that 
other side. And I see their point of view on a lot of issues.”

New acquaintances are just as good in my book as old acquaintances.   Really, 
it was blessing to experience the bad old acquaintances as it created a drive 
to find something else.   (I’ll take the country out of the boy myself, thank 
you very much.)  Exactly what that `something else’ was, I didn’t know (and 
still don’t), but it has more features over time.   For example, one feature is 
curiosity, another feature is a desire to facilitate individual autonomy.   So, 
it is not a question of evil, simply that (the bad old) acquaintances lack 
those features; I know they won’t advance any cause I really care about.   Some 
acquaintances pursue contrary values like suspicion of disagreement or a desire 
for a group identity.   So, sure, I know people on the other side, but I’ve 
come to value other people more.   Actually, I would like to think I care less 
about individuals than I do the features.  Of course, some individuals are 
extremely good at developing or destroying features, so I have stronger 
opinions about them.

My experience (as a country boy) is that change isn’t just hard, it is 
sometimes impossible and often fought to the last breath.   It’s wildly 
optimistic to think education will make the difference.   More tools are needed.

Marcus


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Re: [FRIAM] The year ahead

2017-01-08 Thread Steven A Smith 


Gary -
 I remember a recent Facebook post by one of my cousins that said 
something along the lines of "people have forgotten what an alpha male 
is like, and Trump is going to show them."
I have been enjoying this kind of rhetoric among my Trumpian friends.  
It gives me the opportunity to exhibit my own often-hidden alpha male 
side.  I'm the guy who doesn't anger easily at all, but somehow manages 
to break up every bar-fight I have witnessed... other's anger and/or 
alpha-male behaviour brings mine out in (usually) fairly balanced and 
productive way.   I think I am not the only one.  I think we will see 
plenty of presumed "yellow bellied liberals" stepping up into the face 
of these "alpha males".   It will include females and plenty of all 
gender identifications who do not identify as alpha.   I recently saw a 
grey haired woman with a firm jaw and a steely gaze wearing a T-shirt 
that said "this pussy bites back!"   I've got her back (if she needs it).
This is closely tied to the religious fundamentalism of the south, 
which to my thinking, is damn close to that of Christian cults (I 
don't have any personal experience, just going by what I've read about 
figures like David Koresh and the Branch Dividians, and the Hollywood 
prortrayal of them).
There was a pretty good story/study on the history of the southern 
(redneck/hillbilly/???) aesthetic/mind-set, I'll try to find the 
reference.  My parents were both born and raised in the hIlls of 
Kentucky.  They identified as escaped or reformed, or recovering 
hillbillies.   They moved west in 1949 for my father to become a 
professional forester... "picnic" in the woods every day he called the 
work.  They left behind most if not all of their Applachian legacy.  The 
premise of the story had to do with the marginalized Scots-Irish 
immigrants on the eastern seaboard who flooded through the Cumberland 
Gap and then spread south as the pressures of civilization squeezed 
these strong people who had the wicked-pride and quick tempers of their 
"Highlander" forefathers.  These were the people for whom Hadrian had to 
build a wall, not unlike the one in China to slow the Mongols.The 
story included a study (I think using MRIs) showing that their subjects 
had an instant fight/flight response from stimuli that others did not... 
basically anything vaguely affronting their honor, triggered this.  I 
think the conclusion that this was a result of nurture, not nature, that 
there was something in the culture that propogated habituation to this 
response, not genetics.   I  think the recent book "Hillbilly Elegy 
" also 
touches on these topics.


I grew up in western redneckia, another hillbilly culture really. And I 
mean that fondly.  Salt of the Earth, hard working people who got their 
hands dirty every day, left plenty of sweat, and sometimes tears and 
blood behind on their work product (cattle, ore, timber). They worked in 
what is now considered "extractive industries" (ranching, mining, 
logging). In their mind, they are the *source* of all good and necessary 
things.  If you eat food or grain or produce from a store, use toilet 
paper, copper wire, or 2x4s, you have to admit they are "onto" something 
there.  They had good reason to be proud, but in my estimation, for 
better or worse, the time for that work and the way of life required to 
be good at is now long past. THEY came from two types of stock.  
Hispanic descendents from the Rio Grande Valley who moved 100+ miles 
west to "greener pastures" in the 1850s.  Younger sons of new world 
"nobility" who would not inherit much if anything in a strongly 
paternal/patronage system. And then a flood of Confederate Soldiers 
after their defeat in the 1860s.   The former were pastoral, the latter 
ranged from being "wild cowboys" to literal outlaws (think Billy the 
Kid, Ketchum, Evans, Kinney, High Fives, etc) .   The tale of Elfego 
Baca is a good read.  So is Conagher (L'Amour).  Romanticizes both sides 
of that equation.   I grew up with both Bacas and McCarty's, descendents 
of these two proud if nuttier than a fruitcake "hillbilly families" 
there WAS cultural if not genetic inbreeding afoot.This town 
(Village of Reserve, county of Catron, NM) voted to *require* every head 
of household to own a gun.  I'm sure my entire 1st grade class of 20 now 
own guns (with ammo) including the girls.  I don't know how well it was 
enforced... but you get the drift.


Somewhere in this mix, a big dose of fear of the government 
controlling our lives leads to fierce defense of the right to have 
guns - despite the more "moderate" views in the NRA of needing guns 
for hunting and self defense, the most strongly held view is that they 
are necessary to take back the country if the government gets too 
powerful. I must admit being torn on that issue myself. I don't buy 
the whole "I'll give up my gun when they pry it from my cold dead 
hands"

Re: [FRIAM] The year ahead

2017-01-08 Thread Merle Lefkoff 
Our ideas and beliefs are governed by many variables, and change is very
hard.  I grew up in rural South Carolina.  I think the key to being a good
person who does not cause additional harm in a very scary world, is a good
education that teaches us to be as open to new ideas as possible.

On Sun, Jan 8, 2017 at 7:36 PM, Gary Schiltz 
wrote:

> Merle, I think a lot about what makes ultraconservatives the way they are,
> since as I said, the majority of my family is of that mindset. I grew up on
> a farm in Kansas, so I do relate somewhat to the people I grew up with.
> However, I left that life behind decades ago, and have come to see how
> narrow-minded they (and I) can be. I believe a large part of it has to do
> with male authoratarianism. I remember a recent Facebook post by one of my
> cousins that said something along the lines of "people have forgotten what
> an alpha male is like, and Trump is going to show them." This is closely
> tied to the religious fundamentalism of the south, which to my thinking, is
> damn close to that of Christian cults (I don't have any personal
> experience, just going by what I've read about figures like David Koresh
> and the Branch Dividians, and the Hollywood prortrayal of them). Somewhere
> in this mix, a big dose of fear of the government controlling our lives
> leads to fierce defense of the right to have guns - despite the more
> "moderate" views in the NRA of needing guns for hunting and self defense,
> the most strongly held view is that they are necessary to take back the
> country if the government gets too powerful. I must admit being torn on
> that issue myself. I don't buy the whole "I'll give up my gun when they pry
> it from my cold dead hands" mindset, but I'm also pretty suspicious of an
> overly strong centralized government. You can take the boy out of the
> country...
>
> On Sun, Jan 8, 2017 at 8:18 PM, Merle Lefkoff 
> wrote:
>
>> Your candor and honest reflection is refreshing, Gary.  And I agree with
>> you. I'm a recovering international mediator, and in addition to teaching
>> graduate students in Canada in a course titled "Complexity Thinking for
>> Integrative Peacebuilding", I also teach in the Buddhist chaplaincy program
>> at Upaya Zen Center--so I try never to see "the other" as evil.  Some of
>> the men I've had at the table over the years in negotiations had committed
>> truly evil acts, but they are human beings nonetheless.  I've become quite
>> radical as our trusted systems at every level are collapsing, and that's
>> what is promoting revolutionary resistance.  In order for social movements
>> to be successful they must remain relentlessly non-violent, and they must
>> have as part of the self-organizing process some sense of how to replace
>> the structures underlying the failed systems that they have disabled.
>> Facilitating that process is, I believe, part of our political work as
>> Complexity thinkers.  If you're interested, a paper I wrote on applying CAS
>> principles to social movements has just been published in an academic
>> Canadian peace journal.  I'll send it if you like.
>>
>> On Sun, Jan 8, 2017 at 1:24 PM, Gary Schiltz 
>> wrote:
>>
>>> What really worries me about the USA is how polarized the society there
>>> is, so "mass resistance" will certainly, at least in the short term,
>>> increase this polarization. From the standpoint of this on-the-fence
>>> liberal, it would be nice to have the luxury to be able to see the "other
>>> side" as being evil, so that I wouldn't care how they feel. The problem for
>>> me is that I can't, since many of the people I grew up with, including
>>> nearly all of my family, are part of that other side. And I see their point
>>> of view on a lot of issues. No way could I ever support Trump, but a lot of
>>> good people really do. And I don't know how to deal with this. I sure as
>>> hell don't want to see another civil war, but sometimes I think the
>>> passions are strong enough to instigate one.
>>>
>>> On Sun, Jan 8, 2017 at 2:54 PM, Merle Lefkoff 
>>> wrote:
>>>
 
 Bekah Wolf 
 January 8 at 7:17am

 A year ago, an action against deportations:
 https://www.facebook.com/toni.arenstein/videos/10208311021676102/

 2017 is going to be the year of mass resistance.  This is only thing
 that works now to overcome our slide toward endless war and increasing
 social injustice.  These protests and the larger social movements emerging
 all over the world are self-organizing systems with much to say about
 applied Complexity.   Visit our website:  ecosgathering.org.  Enough
 blah, blah.  Time for action.

 --
 Merle Lefkoff, Ph.D.
 President, Center for Emergent Diplomacy
 Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
 merlelef
 ​k​
 o...@gmail.com

Re: [FRIAM] The year ahead

2017-01-08 Thread Gary Schiltz 
Merle, I think a lot about what makes ultraconservatives the way they are,
since as I said, the majority of my family is of that mindset. I grew up on
a farm in Kansas, so I do relate somewhat to the people I grew up with.
However, I left that life behind decades ago, and have come to see how
narrow-minded they (and I) can be. I believe a large part of it has to do
with male authoratarianism. I remember a recent Facebook post by one of my
cousins that said something along the lines of "people have forgotten what
an alpha male is like, and Trump is going to show them." This is closely
tied to the religious fundamentalism of the south, which to my thinking, is
damn close to that of Christian cults (I don't have any personal
experience, just going by what I've read about figures like David Koresh
and the Branch Dividians, and the Hollywood prortrayal of them). Somewhere
in this mix, a big dose of fear of the government controlling our lives
leads to fierce defense of the right to have guns - despite the more
"moderate" views in the NRA of needing guns for hunting and self defense,
the most strongly held view is that they are necessary to take back the
country if the government gets too powerful. I must admit being torn on
that issue myself. I don't buy the whole "I'll give up my gun when they pry
it from my cold dead hands" mindset, but I'm also pretty suspicious of an
overly strong centralized government. You can take the boy out of the
country...

On Sun, Jan 8, 2017 at 8:18 PM, Merle Lefkoff 
wrote:

> Your candor and honest reflection is refreshing, Gary.  And I agree with
> you. I'm a recovering international mediator, and in addition to teaching
> graduate students in Canada in a course titled "Complexity Thinking for
> Integrative Peacebuilding", I also teach in the Buddhist chaplaincy program
> at Upaya Zen Center--so I try never to see "the other" as evil.  Some of
> the men I've had at the table over the years in negotiations had committed
> truly evil acts, but they are human beings nonetheless.  I've become quite
> radical as our trusted systems at every level are collapsing, and that's
> what is promoting revolutionary resistance.  In order for social movements
> to be successful they must remain relentlessly non-violent, and they must
> have as part of the self-organizing process some sense of how to replace
> the structures underlying the failed systems that they have disabled.
> Facilitating that process is, I believe, part of our political work as
> Complexity thinkers.  If you're interested, a paper I wrote on applying CAS
> principles to social movements has just been published in an academic
> Canadian peace journal.  I'll send it if you like.
>
> On Sun, Jan 8, 2017 at 1:24 PM, Gary Schiltz 
> wrote:
>
>> What really worries me about the USA is how polarized the society there
>> is, so "mass resistance" will certainly, at least in the short term,
>> increase this polarization. From the standpoint of this on-the-fence
>> liberal, it would be nice to have the luxury to be able to see the "other
>> side" as being evil, so that I wouldn't care how they feel. The problem for
>> me is that I can't, since many of the people I grew up with, including
>> nearly all of my family, are part of that other side. And I see their point
>> of view on a lot of issues. No way could I ever support Trump, but a lot of
>> good people really do. And I don't know how to deal with this. I sure as
>> hell don't want to see another civil war, but sometimes I think the
>> passions are strong enough to instigate one.
>>
>> On Sun, Jan 8, 2017 at 2:54 PM, Merle Lefkoff 
>> wrote:
>>
>>> 
>>> Bekah Wolf 
>>> January 8 at 7:17am
>>>
>>> A year ago, an action against deportations:
>>> https://www.facebook.com/toni.arenstein/videos/10208311021676102/
>>>
>>> 2017 is going to be the year of mass resistance.  This is only thing
>>> that works now to overcome our slide toward endless war and increasing
>>> social injustice.  These protests and the larger social movements emerging
>>> all over the world are self-organizing systems with much to say about
>>> applied Complexity.   Visit our website:  ecosgathering.org.  Enough
>>> blah, blah.  Time for action.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Merle Lefkoff, Ph.D.
>>> President, Center for Emergent Diplomacy
>>> Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
>>> merlelef
>>> ​k​
>>> o...@gmail.com 
>>> mobile:  (303) 859-5609
>>> skype:  merle.lefkoff2
>>>
>>> 
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>>
>>
>> 
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Re: [FRIAM] The year ahead

2017-01-08 Thread Tom Johnson 
How to Destroy the Business Model of Breitbart and Fake News

Many companies don’t know that their ads are appearing next to abhorrent
content. Tell them.

http://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/07/opinion/sunday/how-to-
destroy-the-business-model-of-breitbart-and-fake-news.html

===
Tom Johnson - Inst. for Analytic Journalism
Santa Fe, NM
t...@jtjohnson.com   505-473-9646
===

On Jan 9, 2017 3:25 AM, "Gary Schiltz"  wrote:

> What really worries me about the USA is how polarized the society there
> is, so "mass resistance" will certainly, at least in the short term,
> increase this polarization. From the standpoint of this on-the-fence
> liberal, it would be nice to have the luxury to be able to see the "other
> side" as being evil, so that I wouldn't care how they feel. The problem for
> me is that I can't, since many of the people I grew up with, including
> nearly all of my family, are part of that other side. And I see their point
> of view on a lot of issues. No way could I ever support Trump, but a lot of
> good people really do. And I don't know how to deal with this. I sure as
> hell don't want to see another civil war, but sometimes I think the
> passions are strong enough to instigate one.
>
> On Sun, Jan 8, 2017 at 2:54 PM, Merle Lefkoff 
> wrote:
>
>> 
>> Bekah Wolf 
>> January 8 at 7:17am
>>
>> A year ago, an action against deportations:
>> https://www.facebook.com/toni.arenstein/videos/10208311021676102/
>>
>> 2017 is going to be the year of mass resistance.  This is only thing that
>> works now to overcome our slide toward endless war and increasing social
>> injustice.  These protests and the larger social movements emerging all
>> over the world are self-organizing systems with much to say about applied
>> Complexity.   Visit our website:  ecosgathering.org.  Enough blah,
>> blah.  Time for action.
>>
>> --
>> Merle Lefkoff, Ph.D.
>> President, Center for Emergent Diplomacy
>> Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
>> merlelef
>> ​k​
>> o...@gmail.com 
>> mobile:  (303) 859-5609
>> skype:  merle.lefkoff2
>>
>> 
>> FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv
>> Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College
>> to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com
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>>
>
>
> 
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Re: [FRIAM] The year ahead

2017-01-08 Thread Gary Schiltz 
What really worries me about the USA is how polarized the society there is,
so "mass resistance" will certainly, at least in the short term, increase
this polarization. From the standpoint of this on-the-fence liberal, it
would be nice to have the luxury to be able to see the "other side" as
being evil, so that I wouldn't care how they feel. The problem for me is
that I can't, since many of the people I grew up with, including nearly all
of my family, are part of that other side. And I see their point of view on
a lot of issues. No way could I ever support Trump, but a lot of good
people really do. And I don't know how to deal with this. I sure as hell
don't want to see another civil war, but sometimes I think the passions are
strong enough to instigate one.

On Sun, Jan 8, 2017 at 2:54 PM, Merle Lefkoff 
wrote:

> 
> Bekah Wolf 
> January 8 at 7:17am
>
> A year ago, an action against deportations:
> https://www.facebook.com/toni.arenstein/videos/10208311021676102/
>
> 2017 is going to be the year of mass resistance.  This is only thing that
> works now to overcome our slide toward endless war and increasing social
> injustice.  These protests and the larger social movements emerging all
> over the world are self-organizing systems with much to say about applied
> Complexity.   Visit our website:  ecosgathering.org.  Enough blah, blah.
> Time for action.
>
> --
> Merle Lefkoff, Ph.D.
> President, Center for Emergent Diplomacy
> Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
> merlelef
> ​k​
> o...@gmail.com 
> mobile:  (303) 859-5609
> skype:  merle.lefkoff2
>
> 
> FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv
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