I recently saw an article that defined populism as something like the resentment of poorly paid, poorly benefitted, and for the most-part hands-on workers toward those who have reasonably well-paying, well-benefitted, and can-work-from-home jobs.
-- Russ Abbott Professor, Computer Science California State University, Los Angeles On Wed, Dec 23, 2020 at 8:38 AM Marcus Daniels <[email protected]> wrote: > To the extent I can be gzipped, am I not also redundant? > > -----Original Message----- > From: Friam <[email protected]> On Behalf Of u?l? ??? > Sent: Wednesday, December 23, 2020 6:55 AM > To: FriAM <[email protected]> > Subject: [FRIAM] if by 'populism' he meant ... > > Britain’s Last Day in Brussels: A Populist Punch-Up > https://bylinetimes.com/2020/12/08/britains-last-day-in-brussels-a-populist-punch-up/ > > I've struggled to understand what populism means. The dictionary > definition is no help (appeal to ordinary people) because I don't think > such people exist. There is no "average person". We're all "elite" > (special) in some way or another. Each thing has its own particularity. > (Down to Pauli exclusion.) Binning concrete things into classes requires > removing particulars. This kindasorta implies that populism means appealing > to the most common feature set. Average every possible feature and choose > the top, say, 5-7 most common features. > > But that's a problem because we people aren't very objective. So, a > data-driven populist would stick pretty close to an algorithm like that. > But a "populist" politician probably would not. There's some other criteria > at work ... some *conception* of the ordinary person that isn't objective > ... a kind of shared subjectivity, "intersubjectivity" < > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intersubjectivity>? > > My *guess* is that the way "populist" is used refers to a shared > *delusion* ... like the American Dream, which was always a delusion. It's > simply becoming more obvious as our information ecology changes. The > intersubjectivity involved seems to be a mass psychogenic illness < > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_psychogenic_illness> ... kinda like > popular music and the same damned person winning the pop contest year upon > year. > > I'd be grateful for any criticism of that conclusion. > > I have another idea that was triggered by the Byline article: that > populism is a kind of forcing structure [⛧], a reduction from high to low > dimension, from high to low diversity. Where "elites" take an appropriate > amount of time to, say, explain/understand quantum decoherence, a populist > over-simplifies it so that the "ordinary person" can believe they see it > everywhere. Or, where "elites" accept the cost of sympathizing with each > particular wak they meet, the populist stereotypes those [in|out] of their > tribe. This 2nd idea could be seen as a derivative of the 1st one, where > the shared delusion is the overly simplified model. I'm not as interested > in criticism of this 2nd idea. Killing the 1st idea would, I think, kill > the 2nd. But if the 1st idea sounds about right, then it might be worth > trashing the 2nd. > > > [⛧] ... whether [endo|exo]genous, which isn't irrelevant, but perhaps > tangential. > > -- > ↙↙↙ uǝlƃ > > - .... . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. .... . .-. . > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam un/subscribe > http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ > - .... . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. .... . .-. . > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam > un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ > FRIAM-COMIC <http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/FRIAM-COMIC> > http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ >
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