On 01/22/2018 05:17 PM, Marcus Daniels wrote:
> The kind of people that will accept your service aren’t worthy of it, and
> often don’t even know what to do with it.
Yeah, maybe. But to be clear, I'm not suggesting a complete and continuous
abdication of agency, only a little more (and more fr
< The fractures we're seeing in society, I think, are caused by an artificial
discretization between individuals and tribes. Millionaires discretize
themselves from minimum wage workers. Retired people discretize themselves
from the working class. Cops discretize themselves from the populace
On 01/23/2018 08:32 AM, Marcus Daniels wrote:
> This may be true, but for me it is not about agency or identity. My `tribe’,
> if you insist on that word, is anonymous and (I believe, at least) pursues
> group goals not individual goals. I don’t even know a Dreamer, but if there
> is a governm
< But, in the end, I reject that argument. That need for celebrity, that need
for drama, or "strong amplification of conflict to bring things into focus" is
the problem, not the solution. >
I certainly wasn’t thinking celebrity or drama.
Marcus
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-01-22/south-korea-tops-global-innovation-ranking-again-as-u-s-falls
From: Friam on behalf of Alfredo Covaleda Vélez
Reply-To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group
Date: Saturday, January 20, 2018 at 11:56 AM
To: The Friday Morning Appl
Glen writes:
< If people would, more often, set aside their (mostly illusory anyway) agency
and focus on accepting a Pawn role in others' games, we'd see fewer fractures. >
Suppose that there are roles in others’ games that need to be filled for the
game to keep going, or to improve the chances
