You observed correctly, Steve. When I drove bumper cars my goal was to "win the race". Others' goals were to crash into as many people as possible.
--- Frank C. Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, Santa Fe, NM 87505 505 670-9918 Santa Fe, NM On Sat, Oct 30, 2021, 9:34 AM Steve Smith <sasm...@swcp.com> wrote: > The "bumper car" image does sound apropos in many ways. > > I never actually climbed into one of those but was fascinated the couple > of times I saw them at the State Fair... as I remember it, there was a > grid on the floor and one on the ceiling providing the two "rails" for > power and there were copious sparks where the "brushes" on the end of the > flexible wand contacted the ceiling grid. As a country hick, the whole > arrangement looked really sketchy to me. But as a (somewhat) rational > observer, I was pretty sure nobody died in those rides, or at least not > from flying sparks. I suppose, in the spirit of play-as-practice or > play-as-learning there is a significant element of "just jumping in and > smashing into one another". Being the hick that I am I sometimes have a > hard time ignoring the sparks that fly off of the floor and ceiling. > > I've also watched groups of guys (brothers, friends, frats) racing around > mini courses in go-carts and noticed that many of them seem happier bumping > into one another and impeding *others'* progress than actually making their > own progress. Occasionally women/girls join in, but not so much usually. > Maybe the calculated obstructionism in a game of Hearts or Spades is more > gender-inclusive? Some are better at "shooting the moon" than others... > > I munno, as usual I am probably stretching this too far. > > Carry On, > > - Steve > > Steve writes: > > < I think some of what Nick and Jon might have identified here as > "bullying" might actually be more in the spirit of "Counting Coup", but I'm > not really clear on where the two fit together in the > GrandUnifiedOntologyDuFriAM > > > In think it is more in the spirit of bumper cars. Here, gentle reader, > we have a car, and we can study its wheels and the electricity delivery > mechanism, its motor, and controls. We can take copious notes and make > predictive models of the maximum displacement it could impart to another > bumper car. Or we can just jump in and smash into each other. > > Marcus > > > .-- .- -. - / .- -.-. - .. --- -. ..--.. / -.-. --- -. .--- ..- --. .- - . > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn UTC-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam > un/subscribe <http://bit.ly/virtualfriamun/subscribe> > http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ > archives: > 5/2017 thru present https://redfish.com/pipermail/friam_redfish.com/ > 1/2003 thru 6/2021 http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/ > > > .-- .- -. - / .- -.-. - .. --- -. ..--.. / -.-. --- -. .--- ..- --. .- - . > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn UTC-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam > un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ > archives: > 5/2017 thru present https://redfish.com/pipermail/friam_redfish.com/ > 1/2003 thru 6/2021 http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/ >
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