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[Frank Wimberly]

My experience of academia was very different from Marzoni's.  I wasn't in
the humanities, however.

Frank

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On Sun, Nov 4, 2018, 12:13 PM Marcus Daniels <marcus at snoutfarm.com wrote:

> I think everyone should have the opportunity to pursue their curiosity
> pretty much unfettered.  That’s what prosperity depends upon.   To
> approximate this freedom by issuing public debt for education is too little
> and too late.   That said, I voted for the issuance of such debt even
> though I am suspicious of the organizations that could receive the money
> and the thinking of people that like these organizations.   (Of course, I
> am way *more than suspicious* of the other side.)  I would rather raise
> taxes to address mental health problems and to ensure a basic income
> because the zombie hoard is becoming a real danger.   Another idea is to
> discourage reproduction through tax incentives, recognizing there will be
> fewer jobs that can’t be automated.  Jobs like communicating crystallized
> knowledge to young people.
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> *From: *Friam <friam-bounces at redfish.com> on behalf of Nick Thompson <
> nickthompson at earthlink.net>
> *Reply-To: *The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <
> friam at redfish.com>
> *Date: *Sunday, November 4, 2018 at 11:27 AM
> *To: *'The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group' <
> friam at redfish.com>
> *Subject: *Re: [FRIAM] Vote: The future of our nation depends on it |
> Letters To Editor | santafenewmexican.com
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> Hi, Marcus,
>
>
>
> So, I take it, you è*Don’t*ç think that “…the future safety and
> prosperity of our nation depends on...” getting more resources ”…to
> education at every level”?
>
>
>
> My own view is (FWIW) that, despite the many faults you identify, some
> time in a college or university is a good idea for most people and that
> society gains from giving some highly-educated people the opportunity to
> pursue their curiosity pretty much unfettered.  I wish the professoriate
> was, as a rule, more grateful for the opportunities that academic freedom
> gives them  and less arrogant in the expression of their inexpert
> opinions.  I am an “alumnus” of the ferocious battle between the California
> republican party and the Berkeley campus activists of the sixties.  I am
> increasingly doubtful that recruitment for political action, in any sense,
> ought to be part of the portfolio of any professor.    I hate to say it,
> but Reagan may have won THAT argument.  The moat around the ivory tower may
> be part of the deal.
>
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> What I would hate to see is that because of well-founded distaste for some
> academics’ behavior, people like yourself adopt a global contempt for
> education at every level.
>
>
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> Nick
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> Nicholas S. Thompson
>
> Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology
>
> Clark University
>
> http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/
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> *From:* Friam [mailto:friam-bounces at redfish.com] *On Behalf Of *Marcus
> Daniels
> *Sent:* Sunday, November 04, 2018 10:00 AM
> *To:* The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <
> friam at redfish.com>
> *Subject:* Re: [FRIAM] Vote: The future of our nation depends on it |
> Letters To Editor | santafenewmexican.com
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> https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/academia-is-a-cult/2018/10/31/eea787a0-bd08-11e8-b7d2-0773aa1e33da_story.html
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> *From: *Friam <friam-bounces at redfish.com> on behalf of Owen Densmore <
> owen at backspaces.net>
> *Reply-To: *The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <
> friam at redfish.com>
> *Date: *Sunday, November 4, 2018 at 9:34 AM
> *To: *Complexity Coffee Group <friam at redfish.com>
> *Subject: *[FRIAM] Vote: The future of our nation depends on it | Letters
> To Editor | santafenewmexican.com
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> Frank and Nick in the Santa Fe newspaper:
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> http://www.santafenewmexican.com/opinion/letters_to_editor/vote-the-future-of-our-nation-depends-on-it/article_75256ffa-c10f-565b-ac01-debb4dfe3d90.html
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>    -- Owen
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