Roberts says: "The country is on the wrong track. (Everyone believes this one)."
This sentence and the parenthetical convinced me of what RussA's already said, that Roberts is too trapped by his fear-based conservatism to see the asymmetry. What Roberts is saying is utter garbage. Everyone? Sheesh. I see the likes of Musk or the Y-Combinator crowd yapping all day about all the good things we're doing (here and in plenty of other countries). People as different as Hillary Clinton and Michael Shermer talk quite positively about our direction. I could go on. But the fundamental point is: Conservatives are afraid. _They_ think the country is on the wrong track. Other than Trump and the last dying gasps of the traits that got him elected, the rest of us believe the country was (and kinda still is) on a very good track! To think otherwise is to be guilty of exactly what Roberts says is happening ... living in your own little bubble. However, on the liberal side, we do have plenty of Chicken Little's. Stop freaking out and keep up the good work. Trump and his moron supporters are just one more problem we're working on. Tomorrow will be more like Starfleet as long as we keep working at it. On 09/13/2017 08:04 PM, Owen Densmore wrote: > Medium, my current outlet of choice, has an interesting "story" (Medium deals > in Stories, not Tech nor Politics nor ...). It echos a lot of what we've been > dealing with. > > https://medium.com/@russroberts/the-world-turned-upside-down-and-what-to-do-about-it-2dc27d1cf5f5 > > <https://medium.com/@russroberts/the-world-turned-upside-down-and-what-to-do-about-it-2dc27d1cf5f5> > > Somewhat dark, but awfully close to home. -- ☣ gⅼеɳ ============================================================ 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 FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove
