Re: [FRIAM] narcissism

2020-04-30 Thread uǝlƃ ☣
That's a fantastic question! I can't answer. But I'll definitely start injecting that question into what I read. I have run across those communities that talk about techniques for increasing one's charisma, mostly in the context of trying to understand the alt-right, involuntary celibates, pick-

Re: [FRIAM] narcissism

2020-04-29 Thread Prof David West
In early-mid 1970, I did a study of cults in California. It was an ethnographic study and my methodology was participant observation which means I spent a lot of time participating in cult activities as well as interviewing and observing cult leaders cult rituals, and cult practices. I spent th

Re: [FRIAM] narcissism

2020-04-29 Thread uǝlƃ ☣
Excellent! Thanks. The context always helps. Re: below -- The research I'm seeing uses measurement tools like the Narcissistic Personality Index for grandiose types, the Pathological Narcissism Inventory, the HyperSensitive Narcissism Scale, etc. and correlates (postively or negatively) with va

Re: [FRIAM] narcissism

2020-04-29 Thread uǝlƃ ☣
What little lit. I've seen so far argues that vulnerable narcissists don't tend to embark on difficult tasks. One paper argues they "self-handicap" so that they will never be in a position such that they fail. There are other "defensive" tactics as well. The paper argues that vulnerable types re

Re: [FRIAM] narcissism

2020-04-29 Thread Frank Wimberly
I know you're really asking and I'm really trying to answer but it's complicated. I will give you some background which may seem irrelevant. Bear with me. I was going to ask you what kind of evidence you would accept: assertion by authorities or empirical clinical evidence i.e. data. 1975 isn't

Re: [FRIAM] narcissism

2020-04-29 Thread Steven A Smith
Glen, et al - > As for Trump, I've *already* said that his narcissism interferes with his > competence. I said that explicitly. I've even said it more than once. But it > seems irrelevant to how we compensate for the situation we're in. I don't > think I said *independent*. I'm sorry if I did.

Re: [FRIAM] narcissism

2020-04-29 Thread uǝlƃ ☣
Well, to be clear, the journal articles I've seen *indicate* that the grandiose one's don't suffer much. I wouldn't know one way or another. I'm just going off what I read in the articles. And I apologize in advance, but without *some* evidence in support of what you're saying, it's impossible

Re: [FRIAM] narcissism

2020-04-29 Thread Frank Wimberly
By the way, you say ...that grandiose narcissists *don't* suffer much, but the vulnerable narcissists *do*... Grandiosity is a defense against vulnerability in these people. They're the same people. I find Kernberg to be more masterful and credible that Yeomans. Of course, the former is the te

Re: [FRIAM] narcissism

2020-04-29 Thread Frank Wimberly
But it's useful, to me, ... Well, that matters. On Wed, Apr 29, 2020 at 2:57 PM uǝlƃ ☣ wrote: > On 4/29/20 12:51 PM, Frank Wimberly wrote: > > https://youtu.be/DlopY4DfFV4 > > This one didn't seem to say anything about the 2 phenotypes. So it > (obviously) can't help distinguish them, which mea

Re: [FRIAM] narcissism

2020-04-29 Thread uǝlƃ ☣
On 4/29/20 12:51 PM, Frank Wimberly wrote: > https://youtu.be/DlopY4DfFV4 This one didn't seem to say anything about the 2 phenotypes. So it (obviously) can't help distinguish them, which means it can't help unify them. If one doesn't even recognize there could be a difference, then one can't un

Re: [FRIAM] narcissism

2020-04-29 Thread Frank Wimberly
Also: https://youtu.be/Ihu3k_j3KQk https://youtu.be/xoRuzpsLzTU https://youtu.be/OwVL-X_TRDo On Wed, Apr 29, 2020 at 1:51 PM Frank Wimberly wrote: > $75?! The Kindle edition of my memoir was only 4.99 before I unpublished > it. > > This isn't what you asked for but it supports my claim that al

Re: [FRIAM] narcissism

2020-04-29 Thread Frank Wimberly
$75?! The Kindle edition of my memoir was only 4.99 before I unpublished it. This isn't what you asked for but it supports my claim that all pathological(!) narcissism has a common dynamic structure. It only 3+ minutes long and it's free. https://youtu.be/DlopY4DfFV4 On Wed, Apr 29, 2020 at

Re: [FRIAM] narcissism

2020-04-29 Thread uǝlƃ ☣
I have not read Kernberg's "Borderline Conditions and Pathological Narcissism". The kindle copy seems to be $75, which is out of my price range for almost any book. If the libraries open up soon, I can probably get my hands on a copy. Regardless, I *do*, right now, have access to almost every sc

Re: [FRIAM] narcissism

2020-04-29 Thread Frank Wimberly
Have you read Kernberg? I would do that first and I would claim that he should dominate me and the others with respect to his/their/my credibility. My knowledge, such as it is, comes from informal conversations with senior psychoanalysts in Pittsburgh. Ragins, Schachter, Ratey, McLaughlin, et al

Re: [FRIAM] narcissism

2020-04-29 Thread uǝlƃ ☣
The evidence presented in Shröder-Abé et al does not support that. I worry about the authority with which you assert such things. At the very least, your lack of supporting evidence *prevents* me from doing any homework on my own that might support what you're saying. Everything I'm finding disa

Re: [FRIAM] narcissism

2020-04-29 Thread Frank Wimberly
Trump clearly gets frustrated by that very thing. I know, "So what?" By the way, regarding the subtypes of narcissism: They are distinguished by severity of symptoms rather than differences in the basic dynamic, which are the same. --- Frank C. Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, Santa Fe, NM 87505 5

Re: [FRIAM] narcissism

2020-04-29 Thread Frank Wimberly
I reject INFP. Pffft. Reminds me when I said to a young woman that astrology is rubbish. She asked what my birthday was and I said May 1. She said, "Taurus! Of course!" --- Frank C. Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, Santa Fe, NM 87505 505 670-9918 Santa Fe, NM .-. .- -. -.. --- -- -..-. -.. ---

Re: [FRIAM] narcissism

2020-04-29 Thread uǝlƃ ☣
Just FYI, you *forced* me to take another stupid personality test... I couldn't resist the link on that blog entry. It says I'm a good match for either INFP or INTP. At first, I was going to say there's no way in hell anyone would ever call me a "healer". But, then again, I got my first copy of

Re: [FRIAM] narcissism

2020-04-29 Thread Steven A Smith
> Waco > https://www.rottentomatoes.com/tv/waco/s01 I declined to respond to Glen's originating post on this topic until I had more time/background.   We finally watched the limited series the last two nights and it brought back a lot of memories of that era to both Mary and myself.   We had the

Re: [FRIAM] narcissism

2020-04-29 Thread Steven A Smith
I believe that this article (or a very similar one) was posted here a couple of years ago: https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2013/11/14/the-most-narcissistic-u-s-presidents/ /These researchers also found that, on average, presidents are more narcissistic than the average American. Mor

Re: [FRIAM] narcissism

2020-04-29 Thread Marcus Daniels
Glen writes: < [†] I think we've almost lost the chance to act on these "reopen protests". We could have come out ahead of the morons and argued for reopening in a *competent* way, emphasizing the 3 milestones: curve downturn, enough testing, contact tracing. Each of these could have been custo

Re: [FRIAM] narcissism

2020-04-29 Thread uǝlƃ ☣
It may look like analysis paralysis when one party simply restates their position with no more evidence each time. (Am not! Are too! Am not! ;^) But for my part, teasing out whether the narcissism is something we can actually use or not *is* an attempt to formulate plans of action. The question

Re: [FRIAM] narcissism

2020-04-28 Thread Marcus Daniels
Analysis paralysis: Execute plans against these individuals. From: Friam on behalf of Frank Wimberly Reply-To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group Date: Tuesday, April 28, 2020 at 6:27 PM To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group Subject: Re: [FRIAM] narcissism

Re: [FRIAM] narcissism

2020-04-28 Thread Frank Wimberly
If he weren't narcissistic he would defer to the experts which would mitigate his incompetence. The BS about being sarcastic is a pathetic way to rationalize his failure to defer. Since narcissism is universal adding "malignant" or "pathological" makes a useful distinction. On Tue, Apr 28, 2020

Re: [FRIAM] narcissism

2020-04-28 Thread uǝlƃ ☣
OK. Well, risking too much repetition, if he were competent, he wouldn't have said that ... and the policies would not have followed ... and he would defer to the experts. Because, as Dunning-Kruger and Zajenkowski et al, and Schröder-Abé et al, seem to point out, competent people have a good ha

Re: [FRIAM] narcissism

2020-04-28 Thread Frank Wimberly
Fellow Yapper, My assumed audience is not the American public thank God. An example of how his narcissism makes him dangerous is his saying the coronavirus will be gone in five days and the related policy positions. His grandiosity is threatened by the prospect of deferring to epidemiologists an

Re: [FRIAM] narcissism

2020-04-28 Thread uǝlƃ ☣
Well, Gil should accuse *me* of yapping, too. So yes, you and me both. But his narcissism is irrelevant. You may as well claim that his *hair* makes him dangerous. It's irrelevant. What's relevant is his incompetence. My guess is that Obama is a narcissist, too ... anyone who *wants* to be Presi

Re: [FRIAM] narcissism

2020-04-28 Thread Frank Wimberly
Trump's incompetence and his malignant narcissism *both* make him dangerous in the position of president. Were you referring to me when you wrote "yapping"? :-) --- Frank C. Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, Santa Fe, NM 87505 505 670-9918 Santa Fe, NM On Tue, Apr 28, 2020, 5:22 PM uǝlƃ ☣ wrote:

Re: [FRIAM] narcissism

2020-04-28 Thread uǝlƃ ☣
More on 2 types: Vulnerable and Grandiose Narcissism Are Differentially Associated With Ability and Trait Emotional Intelligence https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.01606/full Vulnerable Vs Grandiose Narcissism: Which Is More Harmful? https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/t

Re: [FRIAM] narcissism

2020-04-28 Thread Jochen Fromm
think of is himself and if something is good or bad for him. He uses subjective adjectives to express his own subjective judgements and to manipulate others.-J. Original message From: uǝlƃ ☣ Date: 4/27/20 20:13 (GMT+01:00) To: FriAM Subject: [FRIAM] narcissism Wacohttps

Re: [FRIAM] narcissism

2020-04-27 Thread uǝlƃ ☣
Sorry for any overemphasis. I was merely *wondering if* there might be 2 types. I was inferring it partly from the Alternate model in the DSM 5 and partly from my own sense that the way people talk about them is contradictory. Your quote from Kernberg only hints at it. Being episodic, myself, I

Re: [FRIAM] narcissism

2020-04-27 Thread Frank Wimberly
Does this quote from Kernberg have to do with your feeling that there are two types of narcissist: In general their relationships with other people are clearly exploitive and sometimes parasitic. It is as if they feel they have the right to control and possess others and to exploit them without g

Re: [FRIAM] narcissism

2020-04-27 Thread Frank Wimberly
I think I said that person's with NPD are almost psychotic. I checked with my wife, a very experienced clinician, and she says that is not correct. But she also says that there are not two types. One interesting thing that she said is that her mentor, a training analyst, said that after treating

[FRIAM] narcissism

2020-04-27 Thread uǝlƃ ☣
Waco https://www.rottentomatoes.com/tv/waco/s01 I don't know much about Koresh or the Branch Davidians. I remember watching it (and the Ruby Ridge coverage) on TV back then. (I was pretty libertarian back then ... but that was back when the word "libertarian" meant something ... it's a useless

Re: [FRIAM] [[Narcissism Again]again]

2017-01-29 Thread Marcus Daniels
Pamela: “But I don’t know if productivity of those 24/7 workers has been measured in a sound, qualitative way.” There is a certain euphoria in momentum even if it means long hours, especially if it is a task that is self-directed. Stopping hurts more than it helps. Days, weeks, months can pa

Re: [FRIAM] [[Narcissism Again]again]

2017-01-29 Thread Nick Thompson
xity Coffee Group Subject: Re: [FRIAM] [[Narcissism Again]again] Nick- Steve, For me, there are only two questions I want you to ask yourself: Is the Trump administration likely to do things that will irrevocably decrease the quality of life of people you care about? yes (How wide

Re: [FRIAM] [[Narcissism Again]again]

2017-01-29 Thread Marcus Daniels
Applied Complexity Coffee Group Subject: Re: [FRIAM] [[Narcissism Again]again] Is the FRIAM list social media? Frank Wimberly Phone (505) 670-9918 On Jan 29, 2017 10:11 AM, "Marcus Daniels" mailto:mar...@snoutfarm.com>> wrote: Pamela writes: “Turkle suggests all kinds of times out

Re: [FRIAM] [[Narcissism Again]again]

2017-01-29 Thread Pamela McCorduck
> On Jan 29, 2017, at 10:11 AM, Marcus Daniels wrote: > > Pamela writes: > > “Turkle suggests all kinds of times out from technology—dinner time, before > bed, that sort of thing.” > > There’s conflict that is created between those people that use electronic > communication non-stop for th

Re: [FRIAM] [[Narcissism Again]again]

2017-01-29 Thread Frank Wimberly
Is the FRIAM list social media? Frank Wimberly Phone (505) 670-9918 On Jan 29, 2017 10:11 AM, "Marcus Daniels" wrote: > *Pamela writes:* > > > > *“*Turkle suggests all kinds of times out from technology—dinner time, > before bed, that sort of thing.” > > > > There’s conflict that is created bet

Re: [FRIAM] [[Narcissism Again]again]

2017-01-29 Thread Marcus Daniels
Pamela writes: “Turkle suggests all kinds of times out from technology—dinner time, before bed, that sort of thing.” There’s conflict that is created between those people that use electronic communication non-stop for their work vs. those that don’t want to. The former are essentially workin

Re: [FRIAM] [[Narcissism Again]again]

2017-01-29 Thread Pamela McCorduck
> On Jan 29, 2017, at 12:14 AM, Nick Thompson > wrote: > > So we’re stuck, right, Pamela? There’s nothing we can do? Just sit and take > it? > > Nick Oh no. Partly it’s self-correcting. Sherry Turkle (Reclaiming Conversation, and also a new Kindle single interview with Turkle by Paula

Re: [FRIAM] [[Narcissism Again]again]

2017-01-29 Thread Steven A Smith
28, 2017 9:50 PM *To:* The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group *Subject:* Re: [FRIAM] [[Narcissism Again]again] Nick - I know I don't always seem to take your questions seriously, but I generally do. I DO think the computer industry HAS effectively contributed to a certain

Re: [FRIAM] [[Narcissism Again]again]

2017-01-29 Thread Pamela McCorduck
essor of Psychology and Biology >>> Clark University >>> http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/ >>> <http://home.earthlink.net/%7Enickthompson/naturaldesigns/> >>> >>> From: Friam [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com >>> <mailto

Re: [FRIAM] [[Narcissism Again]again]

2017-01-28 Thread Nick Thompson
orning Applied Complexity Coffee Group Subject: Re: [FRIAM] [[Narcissism Again]again] < So, the question is , “Should we do what we can do, no matter how lame or ineffectual it might seem?” Or, should we pull back, “move to Spain’, and leave it to others, “the politicians”, to lower themselves t

Re: [FRIAM] [[Narcissism Again]again]

2017-01-28 Thread Nick Thompson
ompson/naturaldesigns/ From: Friam [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf Of Pamela McCorduck Sent: Saturday, January 28, 2017 4:53 PM To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group Subject: Re: [FRIAM] [[Narcissism Again]again] Before we blame any particular technology for what seems l

Re: [FRIAM] [[Narcissism Again]again]

2017-01-28 Thread Nick Thompson
ickthompson/naturaldesigns/ From: Friam [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf Of Steven A Smith Sent: Saturday, January 28, 2017 9:50 PM To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group Subject: Re: [FRIAM] [[Narcissism Again]again] Nick - I know I don't always seem to take your que

Re: [FRIAM] [[Narcissism Again]again]

2017-01-28 Thread Steven A Smith
Sent:*Saturday, January 28, 2017 1:15 PM *To:*The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group mailto:friam@redfish.com>> *Subject:*Re: [FRIAM] [[Narcissism Again]again] Toolkit? This rusty old box filled with rusty things that once resembled sharp tools and useful fasteners? I was thinking th

Re: [FRIAM] [[Narcissism Again]again]

2017-01-28 Thread Steven A Smith
iversity http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/ <http://home.earthlink.net/%7Enickthompson/naturaldesigns/> *From:*Friam [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] *On Behalf Of *Steven A Smith *Sent:* Saturday, January 28, 2017 1:15 PM *To:* The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Gro

Re: [FRIAM] [[Narcissism Again]again]

2017-01-28 Thread Steven A Smith
*Reply-To: *The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group mailto:friam@redfish.com>> *Date: *Saturday, January 28, 2017 at 11:34 AM *To: *The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group mailto:friam@redfish.com>> *Subject: *Re: [FRIAM]

Re: [FRIAM] [[Narcissism Again]again]

2017-01-28 Thread Grant Holland
to:friam-boun...@redfish.com]*On Behalf Of*Steven A Smith *Sent:*Saturday, January 28, 2017 1:15 PM *To:*The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group mailto:friam@redfish.com>> *Subject:*Re: [FRIAM] [[Narcissism Again]again] Toolkit? This rusty old box filled with rusty things that

Re: [FRIAM] [[Narcissism Again]again]

2017-01-28 Thread Marcus Daniels
< So, the question is , “Should we do what we can do, no matter how lame or ineffectual it might seem?” Or, should we pull back, “move to Spain’, and leave it to others, “the politicians”, to lower themselves to do what needs to be done. > Andrés asserts it is not populism by another means.

Re: [FRIAM] [[Narcissism Again]again]

2017-01-28 Thread Pamela McCorduck
our tool kit more effective than that! >> >> Nick >> >> Nicholas S. Thompson >> Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology >> Clark University >> http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/ >> <http://home.earthlink.net/%7Enicktho

Re: [FRIAM] [[Narcissism Again]again]

2017-01-28 Thread Nick Thompson
lf Of Steven A Smith Sent: Saturday, January 28, 2017 9:38 AM To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <mailto:friam@redfish.com> Subject: Re: [FRIAM] [[Narcissism Again]again] What can WE hobbits do? Scratch our hairy knuckles and indulge in second dinnerses? Fun asid

Re: [FRIAM] [[Narcissism Again]again]

2017-01-28 Thread Gary Schiltz
>> >> >> >> Now what politicians and opposition leaders do to manage this problem is >> a different matter. That is about appearances not reality. >> >> >> >> Marcus >> >> >> >> >> >> *From: *Friam on behalf of &q

Re: [FRIAM] [[Narcissism Again]again]

2017-01-28 Thread Nick Thompson
PM To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group Subject: Re: [FRIAM] [[Narcissism Again]again] It is worth noting he’s living in Spain. From: Friam mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com> > on behalf of "Robert J. Cordingley" mailto:rob...@cirrillian.com> >

Re: [FRIAM] [[Narcissism Again]again]

2017-01-28 Thread Steven A Smith
/ <http://home.earthlink.net/%7Enickthompson/naturaldesigns/> *From:*Friam [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com <mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com>] *On Behalf Of *Steven A Smith *Sent:* Saturday, January 28, 2017 9:38 AM *To:* The Friday Morning A

Re: [FRIAM] [[Narcissism Again]again]

2017-01-28 Thread Gary Schiltz
is problem is a > different matter. That is about appearances not reality. > > > > Marcus > > > > > > *From: *Friam on behalf of "Robert J. > Cordingley" > *Reply-To: *The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group < > friam@redfish.com> > *Dat

Re: [FRIAM] [[Narcissism Again]again]

2017-01-28 Thread Steven A Smith
017 9:38 AM *To:* The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group *Subject:* Re: [FRIAM] [[Narcissism Again]again] What can WE hobbits do? Scratch our hairy knuckles and indulge in second dinnerses? Fun aside, I DO appreciate your sentiment here and agree that the Narcissist in Chief

Re: [FRIAM] [[Narcissism Again]again]

2017-01-28 Thread Marcus Daniels
It is worth noting he’s living in Spain. From: Friam on behalf of "Robert J. Cordingley" Reply-To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group Date: Saturday, January 28, 2017 at 11:34 AM To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group Subject: Re: [FRIAM] [[Narcis

Re: [FRIAM] [[Narcissism Again]again]

2017-01-28 Thread Marcus Daniels
e Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group Subject: Re: [FRIAM] [[Narcissism Again]again] The Washington Post has an interesting essay from a Venezuelan on what to do and mostly what not to do. https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2017/01/27/in-venezuela-we-couldnt-stop-chav

Re: [FRIAM] [[Narcissism Again]again]

2017-01-28 Thread Gillian Densmore
hen > > > Sent from my Tricorder > > Original message > From: Nick Thompson > Date: 1/28/17 01:57 (GMT+01:00) > To: Friam > Cc: penny thompson , 'Bruce Simon' < > bjs...@yahoo.com>, 'Dix McComas' , 'Grant Franks' <

Re: [FRIAM] [[Narcissism Again]again]

2017-01-28 Thread Robert J. Cordingley
*Friam [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] *On Behalf Of *Steven A Smith *Sent:* Saturday, January 28, 2017 9:38 AM *To:* The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group *Subject:* Re: [FRIAM] [[Narcissism Again]again] What can WE hobbits do? Scratch our hairy knuckles and indulge in second din

Re: [FRIAM] [[Narcissism Again]again]

2017-01-28 Thread Nick Thompson
ickthompson/naturaldesigns/ From: Friam [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf Of Steven A Smith Sent: Saturday, January 28, 2017 9:38 AM To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group Subject: Re: [FRIAM] [[Narcissism Again]again] What can WE hobbits do? Scratch our hairy knuc

Re: [FRIAM] [[Narcissism Again]again]

2017-01-28 Thread Steven A Smith
:friam-boun...@redfish.com] *On Behalf Of *Jochen Fromm *Sent:* Saturday, January 28, 2017 1:39 AM *To:* The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group ; Friam *Cc:* penny thompson ; 'Bruce Simon' ; 'Dix McComas' ; 'Grant Franks' *Subject:* Re: [FRIAM] [

Re: [FRIAM] [[Narcissism Again]again]

2017-01-28 Thread Nick Thompson
Bruce Simon' ; 'Dix McComas' ; 'Grant Franks' Subject: Re: [FRIAM] [[Narcissism Again]again] Yes, agree. Trump’s point of view is “Whatever I can win with is true.” And if he wins with what we call “a lie”, it is true for him. Exactly. If you ask how we can coun

Re: [FRIAM] [[Narcissism Again]again]

2017-01-28 Thread Jochen Fromm
n , 'Bruce Simon' , 'Dix McComas' , 'Grant Franks' Subject: [FRIAM] [[Narcissism Again]again] Hi everybody,I kind of got buried by the list last week, but we seem to keep coming back to this topic, even when we are  talking about globalism. So.  Let me just share one

Re: [FRIAM] [[Narcissism Again]again]

2017-01-27 Thread Nick Thompson
link.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/> http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/ From: Friam [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf Of Marcus Daniels Sent: Friday, January 27, 2017 8:42 PM To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group Subject: Re: [FRIAM] [[Narcissism

Re: [FRIAM] [[Narcissism Again]again]

2017-01-27 Thread Marcus Daniels
< What nick said was, "[For such a person as trump,] there is no truth of the matter, there is only the exercise of power." > I was capturing the essential bit. Nothing good ever comes from attribution. Marcus FRIAM Applied Complexi

Re: [FRIAM] [[Narcissism Again]again]

2017-01-27 Thread Gillian Densmore
ish.com> > *Cc:* penny thompson ; 'Bruce Simon' < > bjs...@yahoo.com>; 'Dix McComas' ; 'Grant Franks' < > grantfra...@earthlink.net> > *Subject:* Re: [FRIAM] [[Narcissism Again]again] > > > > Nick writes: > > > > “*

Re: [FRIAM] [[Narcissism Again]again]

2017-01-27 Thread Nick Thompson
els Sent: Friday, January 27, 2017 6:41 PM To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group Cc: penny thompson ; 'Bruce Simon' ; 'Dix McComas' ; 'Grant Franks' Subject: Re: [FRIAM] [[Narcissism Again]again] Nick writes: "There is no truth

Re: [FRIAM] [[Narcissism Again]again]

2017-01-27 Thread Frank Wimberly
riday, January 27, 2017 6:40 PM >> *To:* The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group < >> friam@redfish.com> >> *Cc:* penny thompson ; Bruce Simon < >> bjs...@yahoo.com>; Dix McComas ; Grant Franks < >> grantfra...@earthlink.net> >> *Subject

Re: [FRIAM] [[Narcissism Again]again]

2017-01-27 Thread Frank Wimberly
:40 PM > *To:* The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group < > friam@redfish.com> > *Cc:* penny thompson ; Bruce Simon < > bjs...@yahoo.com>; Dix McComas ; Grant Franks < > grantfra...@earthlink.net> > *Subject:* Re: [FRIAM] [[Narcissism Again]again] &

Re: [FRIAM] [[Narcissism Again]again]

2017-01-27 Thread Nick Thompson
lexity Coffee Group Cc: penny thompson ; Bruce Simon ; Dix McComas ; Grant Franks Subject: Re: [FRIAM] [[Narcissism Again]again] problematize (Ugh!) the Deweyan to see as problematic? On Fri, Jan 27, 2017 at 5:57 PM, Nick Thompson mailto:nickthomp...@earthlink.net> > wrote:

Re: [FRIAM] [[Narcissism Again]again]

2017-01-27 Thread Owen Densmore
Just a thought: Don't emergency rooms have to treat anyone who walks through the door? I recall seeing a *lot* of that when my mom-in-law was in the hospital. These were folks with fairly minor problems like a rash or the flu. And I'm delighted they got care. So all minimizing ACA will do is up t

Re: [FRIAM] [[Narcissism Again]again]

2017-01-27 Thread Marcus Daniels
Nick writes: "There is no truth of the matter; there is only the exercise of power. " [..] "So, if we are going to counter Trump, it cannot be by demonstrating that he lies. It has to be by demonstrating that liars don't win." He's old and nearing the last round of his iterated Prisoner's Dil

Re: [FRIAM] [[Narcissism Again]again]

2017-01-27 Thread Owen Densmore
> > problematize (Ugh!) the Deweyan to see as problematic? On Fri, Jan 27, 2017 at 5:57 PM, Nick Thompson wrote: > Hi everybody, > > > > I kind of got buried by the list last week, but we seem to keep coming > back to this topic, even when we are talking about globalism. > > > > So. Let me ju

[FRIAM] [[Narcissism Again]again]

2017-01-27 Thread Nick Thompson
Hi everybody, I kind of got buried by the list last week, but we seem to keep coming back to this topic, even when we are talking about globalism. So. Let me just share one thought. I have said a hundred times that I think the great achievement of the Right in my life time has been to

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2017-01-26 Thread glen ☣
From Street's article: "My guess is that he’ll try to tough it out, handing off most if not all the difficult work to his underlings." I agree with Street, here. There's an accusation that people like Bannon are writing a bunch of executive orders, not even knowing which ones Trump will sign.

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2017-01-26 Thread Robert Wall
Actually, I think the author, Richard Willmsen, got it right, Frank. I am seeing more of these predictions of a meltdown ... the following linked *CounterPunch *article says he is going to have a lot of help in the process ... Also, I think Paul Street has this same thought completely right in hi

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2017-01-26 Thread ┣glen┫
On 01/25/2017 09:01 PM, Frank Wimberly wrote: > This insightful essay about Trump argues that he will soon decompensate: > > https://infinite-coincidence.com/2017/01/22/donald-trump-is-going-to-snap-very-soon-and-here-is-how-i-know/ > > Since it is a prediction it will be easy to evaluate. That'

[FRIAM] Narcissism Again

2017-01-25 Thread Frank Wimberly
This insightful essay about Trump argues that he will soon decompensate: https://infinite-coincidence.com/2017/01/22/donald-trump-is-going-to-snap-very-soon-and-here-is-how-i-know/ Since it is a prediction it will be easy to evaluate. Frank Frank Wimberly Phone (505) 670-9918 ==

Re: [FRIAM] Narcissism and Mass Shootings

2016-08-02 Thread Marcus Daniels
" Granted the 'sovereign citizens' are very different from the Trumpists and the mass shooters." One is a wolf, one is a OCD barker that goes on all night, and the other is a feral biter that roams the neighborhood. They are all canidae.No offense to dogs intended. Marcus

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2016-08-02 Thread glen ☢
The recent filing of Ryan Bundy scared me a little bit: http://www.opb.org/news/series/burns-oregon-standoff-bundy-militia-news-updates/ryan-bundy-incompetent-subject-federal-law/ We're breeding these people, somehow. Granted the 'sovereign citizens' are very different from the Trumpists an

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2016-08-02 Thread Marcus Daniels
"In this context, mass shootings, fascism, kids who can't hold down jobs walking around with vape pipes in their mouths and earbuds in their ears, etc. are all evidence that evolution is searching for a _new_ solution to the new problem." The auto-immune analogy would seem say that the governme

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2016-08-02 Thread glen ☢
m/_ -- a sort of analogue to programmed cell death? > > > > *From:*Friam [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] *On Behalf Of *Jochen Fromm > *Sent:* Monday, August 01, 2016 4:13 PM > *To:* The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group > *Subject:* Re: [FRIAM] Narcissism

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2016-08-01 Thread Steven A Smith
/... //Must be terrifying to someone like Putin. Almost feel sorry for him. Merkel and Clinton to telling him what to do all the time. //J/ /Marcus/ If only we could get Stephen Colbert and Tina Fey on the ballot... and into the oval office... sure we'd have to fill the covet

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2016-08-01 Thread Marcus Daniels
“It has been suggested that Nixon and Coolidge were the only card carrying introverts with Jefferson and Madison being functionally introverted because of there extreme scholarly nature. Adams (senior, not JQ) also gets a nod. The rest are pretty likely not particularly introverted. It doe

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2016-08-01 Thread Marcus Daniels
Coffee Group Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Narcissism and Mass Shootings I don't understand everything you said but there seems to be a lot of anger in the air. So you would consider voting for Trump? My impression is that the old "American Dream" seems to be broken. No health care system c

Re: [FRIAM] Narcissism and Mass Shootings

2016-08-01 Thread Steven A Smith
6 4:29 PM To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Narcissism and Mass Shootings I don't think a reader should be forced to choose between (1) or (2), but I would prefer that the writer be aware enough to refer to context rather than restating it as if it were t

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2016-08-01 Thread Jochen Fromm
om: Gillian Densmore Date: 8/1/16 17:23 (GMT+01:00) To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Narcissism and Mass Shootings Hmmm well I apear to be the groups simple-person-type. Sure having some guesses as to why people are frankly snapping could be h

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2016-08-01 Thread Marcus Daniels
ion of social media has something to do with this. -Original Message- From: Friam [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf Of glen ? Sent: Monday, August 01, 2016 3:28 PM To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Narcissism and Mass Shootings Of

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2016-08-01 Thread Nick Thompson
http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/ -Original Message- From: Friam [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf Of Marcus Daniels Sent: Monday, August 01, 2016 4:29 PM To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Narcissism and Mass Shootings I

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2016-08-01 Thread glen ☣
Of course. But knowing/deciding how much to cite and how much to place in context is also part of the problem. Because everyone has a unique interpretation of words (and a unique graph of concepts), it can be difficult to know how much must be spelt out and how much one can rely on common u

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2016-08-01 Thread Jochen Fromm
To: "Friam@redfish. com" Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Narcissism and Mass ShootingsYes, and it also could explain Trump's "verbal violence." === Tom Johnson - Inst. for Analytic Journalism Santa Fe, NM SPJ Region 9 Director t...@jtjoh

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2016-08-01 Thread Marcus Daniels
al Message- From: Friam [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf Of glen ? Sent: Monday, August 01, 2016 2:00 PM To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Narcissism and Mass Shootings Well, sure, competence in communication involves both abilities: 1) to

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2016-08-01 Thread glen ☢
Well, sure, competence in communication involves both abilities: 1) to compress/abstract out detail so as to state your point clearly and 2) to place such a point inside a use case, a narrative. And although I think of abstraction as one of my skills (at least I tend to do it all the time, per

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2016-08-01 Thread Marcus Daniels
day, August 01, 2016 9:48 AM To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Narcissism and Mass Shootings Thanks for sharing more of your story! I believe it's our duty to share stories, the more personal the better. It's how we understand our and oth

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2016-08-01 Thread Steven A Smith
Gil - I second Glen's statement here. I personally value the fact that I know many people from many walks of life with many modes of apprehending and being in the world. This FriAM/WedTech Crowd is an important part of that (even though I rarely make a showing at either table in person). F

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2016-08-01 Thread glen ☢
Thanks for sharing more of your story! I believe it's our duty to share stories, the more personal the better. It's how we understand our and others' place in the world. Too many people are too terse and present context-less thoughts. It's possible that part of the steady increase in the na

Re: [FRIAM] Narcissism and Mass Shootings

2016-08-01 Thread Gillian Densmore
Hmmm well I apear to be the groups simple-person-type. Sure having some guesses as to why people are frankly snapping could be handy. I suspect as a simple-ol'fation kind of Countery-Bumpkinish type. These people had some frustrations that didn't get met. It possibly sat in there head while doing

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