Heh, you mistake me for someone who thinks clearly and understands social interaction. I have no idea why you forwarded that or why you direct it at me. In fact, culturally, I wonder why so many of you *direct* your posts at all. So many of you start your posts with "Bob, ..." or "Tim, ...". It's weird and confusing to me. I tend to think quoted preambles like "On 2/12/2050 5:56 PM, Frank Zappa wrote:" as the person most likely to *respond* to my post. But it's a post to a lot of people and not really directed *at* Mr. Zappa. If anyone would like to throw some words out that may clear up my confusion, I'd be grateful. Seriously.
But back to the topic, I think the majority of the people on this list are, and have been for most of their lives, committed materialists. Affiliations can be tricky, of course. E.g. I've been agnostic my entire life (as far as I can tell), but I was affiliated with St. Martha's Parish from age 4-16 or so, until my affinity for Satanic metal stressed that affiliation. 8^) I didn't "identify" with the Satanists until the Satanic Temple emerged. The Church of Satan, though I appreciated their libertarian and entheogenic overtones, had too much "social darwinism" to it. I didn't learn the term "social darwinism" until I started arguing about neo-Darwinism back at Lockheed Martin, where a fellow engineer asserted, very confidently, that black people were bred to be extraordinary athletes. I struggled to find ways to communicate with someone I had thought to be a fairly thoughtful person until he put that forth at our weekly salon over Guiness and darts. He single-handedly coerced me to identify as a politically correct snowflake. Anyhoo ... what were we talking about? 8^D On 5/1/19 12:13 AM, Nick Thompson wrote: > This Article > <https://www.researchgate.net/publication/312489651_Alphabet_Soup>, published > in the 70's, will show that my materialist affiliations go way back. Please > let me know if the link doesn’t work. > > My children, who are now pushing sixty, admit that I have become a somewhat > better cook. -- ☣ uǝlƃ ============================================================ 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 archives back to 2003: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove
