[FRIAM] The apocalypse

[Nick Thompson]

Jochen, 

 

He’s out of his friggin mind.  There are those who feel that the risk arising from the stultification of our political system was so bad that it justified taking this sort of existential risk (Hey, Dave!), but I am not one of them.  Small interesting things ARE starting to happen, (meetings amongst scared non-crazy people in congress) and I am grateful for those, but whether they will develop in time to rescue us, is by no means certain.  

 

 

People keep offering me as comfort the fact that the South Koreans aren’t worried …. 30 million people on the edge of obliteration from conventional shells full of sarin.  Why does that not comfort me?  

 

No, we are back to the Cuban Missile Crisis. 

 

Nick 

 

 

Nicholas S. Thompson

Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology

Clark University

http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/

 

From: Friam [mailto:friam-bounces at redfish.com] On Behalf Of Jochen Fromm
Sent: Wednesday, August 09, 2017 3:34 PM
To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <friam at redfish.com>
Subject: [FRIAM] The apocalypse

 

What's the matter with your president? I am worried we are heading to the apocalypse. The "fire and fury" threat feels like the Cuban missile crisis or worse.

http://blog.cas-group.net/2017/08/the-apocalypse/

 

And then there is the issue of global warming which the Trump administration ignores now. This is not just one apocalypse, it is two.

 

-J.

 

 

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