EricS > > Fascist Quorum Sensing When 'Q' emerged in the right wing popular attention, I did make a brief connection with "Quorum" in the sense you reference it, though more specifically as Bee Swarm/Nest trigger/choice. Having once been a holder of a DOE 'Q' clearance, the very idea that that level/style of clearance would give him the kind of insider information attributed to him/her/them was absurd. Some of the other clearances, *maybe*, but not obviously the 'Q'.
The news today with the lame-O-bomber wannabe kicked off another round of DHS/domestic-terror-watch warnings that another "quorum" is trying to rise up. The (liberal) news media is giving lip-service to not "amplifying" his signal, etc. Seems like something similar (but not responsibly scientific) about how the Taliban was able to flip the whole country almost overnight is afoot. - SteveS > > (For those who don’t do this for a living, the reference is to the > phenomenon in bacteria like Anthrax (B. anthracis), which will > multiply inside a victim for many generations with no real chemical > activity besides a normal parasitic metabolism, but will secrete > signaling chemicals. When those chemicals hit a threshold > concentration because the population has multiplied enough, which the > bacteria all know because they all have the same genome, they switch > state, turn on the chemical attack machinery, and dissolve the victim > on a timescale far too short for any inflammatory or immune response > to do much about them.) > > Google does not show anyone as having used it yet, even though it is a > no-brainer. > > The idea being to say something productive about the abruptness of it > all. > > From Gingrich and Norquist up through end-2020, the right thought its > best strategy was to do the usual dissembling and dogwhistling, just > at higher intensity. Something has switched and they think this > —specifically — is the time to make a run for it and to parade the > fascism instead. > > While the strategic-games crowd (and military people etc.) will say > they have long written about shifting modes, the idea that there can > be an unplanned component at the popular level akin to quorum sensing > might have something to be said of it. > > Even on the question of whether trump mattered, I can see a sort of > SFI angle on it, with the idea of “slow timescale variables” that > Jessica Flack makes central to the rubric that for a while (perhaps > still) she was calling “construction dynamics”. The idea that a sort > of order-parameter stuck thing can smooth out fluctuations and make an > inference problem easier and more stable, or a transition in domains > more likely. Here the fast variables would have been the Lindsay > Graham characters, who flutter like day-traders among all possible > positions, trying to guess from minute to minute what is safe. Those > guys would not have put Steven Miller’s face on TV, because they would > have judged that he was too ugly to use. > > Enter trump, whose 2024 motto can be “The Worse, The Better”, who said > “I can make ugly work.” But it didn’t change the system state in a > few months, or even in a year. The flutterers took years of > reassurance, and a couple of election cycles, before they switched > from the lysogenic to the lytic phase. Without trump as a slow > variable, would the flutterers have continued to flutter a while > longer? Can one say anything about that that has any scientific > worth, and isn’t just firing off buzzwords? > > Eric > > >> On Aug 20, 2021, at 7:53 AM, Marcus Daniels <mar...@snoutfarm.com >> <mailto:mar...@snoutfarm.com>> wrote: >> >> Eric writes: >> >> “I have wondered whether trump in the presidency was like an adjuvant >> in a vaccine. Just having the antigen leaves room for highly >> variable responses, because if you don’t manage the inflammatory >> response that initiates the immune response, you have only a weak >> control system. Trump was so awful in so many dimensions that he >> triggers inflammation in those who would have remained asleep under >> Clinton.” >> >> The mask protests like this one.. >> >> https://www.cnn.com/videos/health/2021/08/19/mask-wars-unrest-flores-pkg-dlt-vpx.cnn >> <https://www.cnn.com/videos/health/2021/08/19/mask-wars-unrest-flores-pkg-dlt-vpx.cnn> >> >> ..strike me as something that M. Night Shyamalan could not even >> invent. Say the guy at 1:40. >> I should be thinking of these folks as my fellow citizens? Really? >> >> Is it just me or is maybe the “inflammation” getting a little out of >> control? For example, >> the other day I was driving down a narrow part of the road in my >> residential area and pulled off to the side to let a car pass that >> was coming the other way. He (white middle-aged man) was not >> signaling, but as soon as I spent five seconds off the side to let >> him pass he started screaming at me and waving his fist out the car >> window. Apparently I had dared to block his driveway. Is it >> really that hard for some people to get through their day? >> >> It increasingly seems to me that maybe there is just all this crazy >> just below the surface, and all that can be done is to keep the >> inflammation down. >> >> Marcus >> - .... . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. .... . .-. . >> FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv >> Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam >> <http://bit.ly/virtualfriam> >> un/subscribe >> https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=http%3a%2f%2fredfish.com%2fmailman%2flistinfo%2ffriam_redfish.com&c=E,1,ti6Y6jcxl9OpXb1Yp-0JMfnlnFmIvhIiP1fE69pfNChbbbOolHCxc8VLUM1V62guVC1_6eOOOtwl3Y5-lPRdVlqhnlaO4O7Hu6HzAec9dXbQPXr6kX8T1fGWXg,,&typo=1 >> <https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=http%3a%2f%2fredfish.com%2fmailman%2flistinfo%2ffriam_redfish.com&c=E,1,ti6Y6jcxl9OpXb1Yp-0JMfnlnFmIvhIiP1fE69pfNChbbbOolHCxc8VLUM1V62guVC1_6eOOOtwl3Y5-lPRdVlqhnlaO4O7Hu6HzAec9dXbQPXr6kX8T1fGWXg,,&typo=1> >> FRIAM-COMIC >> https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=http%3a%2f%2ffriam-comic.blogspot.com%2f&c=E,1,Rjspjwh_cP7lp0nUAqcrQacZ3sBpP7dHhWsCe6uayLgIhIuSd5Uq34dtfngvXfeCvmGvVXzfIDcqT_mtxvJA7cme_9yb0H_tN8s0sfJg9Uo7G7E5VEH-Xyjabg,,&typo=1 >> <https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=http%3a%2f%2ffriam-comic.blogspot.com%2f&c=E,1,Rjspjwh_cP7lp0nUAqcrQacZ3sBpP7dHhWsCe6uayLgIhIuSd5Uq34dtfngvXfeCvmGvVXzfIDcqT_mtxvJA7cme_9yb0H_tN8s0sfJg9Uo7G7E5VEH-Xyjabg,,&typo=1> >> archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ >> <http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.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 > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ > archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/
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