[FRIAM] The World Turned Upside Down (and what to do about it)

[Steven A Smith]

Owen -

Thanks for the link to something I would otherwise not have found.

I particularly appreciated his quote of Yeats, and cherry-picking from 
his other text, I was particularly taken by:

    /subtlety is not our strong suit as human beings. We like simple
    stories without too much nuance./

I am wonderfully conflicted by this observation:

 1. I sometimes want to believe that a tiny ratchet up in the
    sophistication of our (individual and collective) awareness would
    resolve a lot of our misery.
 2. Other times I am in despair when I realize that we seem to be headed
    the opposite direction, with no obvious "bottom" to bounce off of.


> Medium, my current outlet of choice, has an interesting "story" 
> (Medium deals in Stories, not Tech nor Politics nor ...). It echos a 
> lot of what we've been dealing with.
> ​    ​
> https://medium.com/@russroberts/the-world-turned-upside-down-and-what-to-do-about-it-2dc27d1cf5f5 
> <https://medium.com/@russroberts/the-world-turned-upside-down-and-what-to-do-about-it-2dc27d1cf5f5> 
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> ​Somewhat dark, but awfully close to home.
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>  -- Owen ​
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