New MQL is out. https://www.dhs.gov/publication/st-master-question-list-covid-19
On Thu, Apr 2, 2020 at 10:50 AM <thompnicks...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > FRIAMMERS: > > > > "the government cant print money fast enough to save the economy" > > > > I have to say, this made me wonder just exactly what an "economy" is. > > > > Imagine us like so many well fed rats in our separate cages. Food and > water is brought to us daily by Amazon. Municipal Services cart the waste > a way. We exercise in our wheels. Our mates and young are by our sides. We > can see and smell our neighbors through the wires but we cannot touch. Life > is perfect! But there is no economy? What's an economy? See attached > <https://www.researchgate.net/publication/238356686_A_Utopian_perspective_on_ecology_and_development>, > especially page 2. > > > > N > > > > Nicholas Thompson > > Emeritus Professor of Ethology and Psychology Clark University > thompnicks...@gmail.com https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/ > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Friam <friam-boun...@redfish.com> On Behalf Of u?l? ? > > Sent: Thursday, April 2, 2020 9:43 AM > > To: FriAM <friam@redfish.com> > > Subject: Re: [FRIAM] YIKES!: Coronavirus New Mexico numbers.xlsx > > > > I've seen a few articles with titles like "Coronavirus is the death of > Neoliberalism" or "... Capitalism" and whatnot. I'm skeptical. As much as I > reject analogies between societal upheaval/collapse and phases of matter, I > do believe in inflection points. My guess is that authoritarianism is what > lies ahead of us on the other side of this inflection. We were already > trending that way and I bet we'll continue. This inflection looks more like > a minor rate change than anything fundamental. > > > > This article was hopeful: > > > > The coronavirus crisis has exposed the ugly truth about celebrity culture > and capitalism > https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/mar/31/the-coronavirus-crisis-has-exposed-the-ugly-truth-about-celebrity-culture-and-capitalism > > > > There's nothing more disgusting to me than our celebrity fetish. But this > article was pessimistic: > > > > Invisible man? Amid pandemic, Biden sidelined by omnipresent Trump > https://news.yahoo.com/invisible-man-amid-pandemic-biden-sidelined-omnipresent-trump-082411045.html > > > > My faith in my fellow humans' *tastes* is always crushed. Everyone tends > to flock to the least common denominator. (My primary objection to > instant-runoff/ranked-choice voting and pop music, as well as overly > reductive rating systems like Rotten Tomatoes, etc.) The "wisdom of crowds" > is an oxymoron. >8^D > > > > On 4/2/20 8:05 AM, Prof David West wrote: > > > Governments cannot print and distribute money fast enough to prevent a > major collapse of world economic order and concomitant social breakdown. > > > > -- > > ☣ 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 > ============================================================ > 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 >
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