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*From:* friam-boun...@redfish.com [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] *On
Behalf Of *Douglas Roberts
*Sent:* May-06-11 7:37 PM
*To:* The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group
*Subject:* Re: [FRIAM] Terrorosity and it's Fruits
Salaam
Mohammed -
I want to second Peggy's thanks for your thoughts and would like to add
the following to hers:
I agree with Peggy on most points. Terrorism is always horrific (it is
designed to be so) and we should seek to avoid provoking it and prevent
it's occurrence and mitigate it's effects
Thanks Steve and Peggy, you give me more praise than I deserve.
I naturally see terrorism as abhorrent and I regret that Russel read
my few lines as an attempt to be an apologists for those who attack
the US and Israel. I am against any form of violence being exercised
against any human being,
Salaam Mohammed,
Speaking as an American, I'm afraid that I can assert with a fair degree of
accuracy that percentage-wise, very few Americans are aware of the
historical/current events vis-a-vis US interactions with
mid-eastern political entities that you so accurately denote below. For
reasons
I knew we could depend on you Doug!
My own twisted optimism is nicely complemented by your, what do you call
it, /pragmatism/?
Sadly, to first order, I think your description of us as a planet of
idiots comes way too close... my only bicker with it is perhaps whether
there is something to
Optimists usually view it as pessimism, Steve. But they're wrong.
Realism/pragmatism is my lodestone.
--Doug
Postscript: To those who wish to run away from the FRIAM list, taking their
marbles with them under the guise of *You're not complex enough for me!* let
me just say, Don't let the door
*But, to say that it is down to some group of human beings who are simply
evil and hateful is equally mindless. They US played a significant part in
this
monster creation. To my mind, the processes of monster creation is
still active. That worries me. That must stop.*
To use a LoTR analogy, I'd
I have a question I would like to pose to the group in that regard:
Can we model/simulate how in a democracy that is inherently open (as
stated in the constitution: for the people, by the people etc..) there
emerges decision masking structures emerge that actively obfuscate
the participatory
:37 PM
To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group
Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Terrorosity and it's Fruits
Salaam Mohammed,
Speaking as an American, I'm afraid that I can assert with a fair degree of
accuracy that percentage-wise, very few Americans are aware of the
historical/current
