[FRIAM] Globalism in the age of populism? .. & Open Source Software

[Pamela McCorduck]

No, you didn’t use the word pain. It was my inference, and I’m sorry you felt it was intrusive. Pain in this situation isn’t pathology needing some kind of medical attention. It’s a reasonable response to the events of the first few days of this president’s administration. Speaking for myself, my sleep is deeply and nightly disturbed by these events.

We have comedians here who mock Donald Trump with precision. They are mostly on television. They have not yet been arrested. They reach through their medium more people than the 19th century authors you cite, though their lasting power remains to be seen.


> On Feb 1, 2017, at 1:31 AM, Vladimyr Burachynsky <vburach at shaw.ca> wrote:
> 
> Pamela.
> Thank-you, 
> 
> but I rarely ever use the word pain and did not use it in my post.
> Some of us can endure more than others. The fear of pain seems to have also become more prevalent
> in the recent past. Now the fear of inconvenience or waiting in a line.
> Our fears have been trivialized or commoditized. Now stained teeth, white hair, or body odor. My how we have been held for ransom by wimpy ghosts.
> Where are the Three Stooges when we need them. We used to laugh at their comedy now we quiver and faint in a  politically correct swoon demanding military intervention.
> 
> So I do not expect sympathy or empathy or a meeting with a social councillor. Nor an appointment with a young med. grad. unless I Have a video camera to present to the world abominable stupidity.
> 
> I do not wish to be isolated from this congregation of struggling reasonableness, simply because you intuit that I might have pain.  Is there anyone living free of it.. No then lets resume being civil and keep the unpleasant truth under wraps.
> 
> Let's talk about mockery and a return to satire to dispel the demons of ignorance.
> Did Swift or Dickens or Conrad or Tolstoy  strike harder at injustice.  Whose pen was the mightiest.
> vib
> 
> So today I learned that the KKK were handing out flyers in Canada.
> I don't believe they can take the cold, so it is probably nonsense. Maybe they dress-up as Jehova Witnesses just to cross the border.
> How do you tell the difference?
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Friam [mailto:friam-bounces at redfish.com] On Behalf Of Pamela McCorduck
> Sent: January-31-17 11:35 PM
> To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group
> Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Globalism in the age of populism? .. & Open Source Software
> 
> You sound much more reasonable than Jacques Lacan ever did, Vladimir. But then I’m told you had to be there.
> 
> I am sorry for your pain. It shows in your post. It’s righteous pain, altogether justified pain, for we have all been deeply wounded in that place where justice and righteousness abide.
> 
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