[FRIAM] post you seem to have missed from FRIAM

[Prof David West]

Nick,

After Service, you might pick up a copy of Clifford Gertz's The Interpretation of Culture and read
     "Chapter 1 — Thick Description: Towards an Interpretive Theory of Culture;" 
       "Chapter 8 — Ideology as a Cultural System;" and
       "Chapter 3 — The Growth of Culture and the Evolution of Mind."

When you find that he is easy to read and yourself intrigued, go ahead and read the rest of the book.

In your spare time: please send me an accessible source by which I might come to understand "behavior" and "behavioralism" as you speak of them.  I confess to finding the whole notion untenable and that means I must not understand it sufficiently.

Thanks,

dave west


On Fri, Nov 22, 2019, at 4:02 PM, Nick Thompson wrote:
> Thanks for these comments. 
> 
> Sorry, I used the word "school" in a very idiosyncratic way -- to mean 
> a group of people who, while they don't agree, necessarily, are so 
> thoroughly familiar with one another's positions that they can state 
> them to the owner's satisfaction and represent them in the owner's 
> absence.  
> 
> I am going to think about all of this.  Now I have to get ready for the 
> Weekly Service. 
> 
> Nick 
> 
> Nicholas S. Thompson
> Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology
> Clark University
> http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Friam [mailto:friam-bounces at redfish.com] On Behalf Of Steven A Smith
> Sent: Thursday, November 21, 2019 6:48 PM
> To: friam at redfish.com
> Subject: Re: [FRIAM] post you seem to have missed from FRIAM
> 
> Nick -
> 
> I'll second Glen's suggestion that you delineate as best you can, 
> specific things you don't understand and iterate with one or more of us 
> an those as best you can.   As evidenced by my discussion with Glen on 
> "means of production", it can be rather grueling for both sides, but 
> since I have a lot of trust in Glen's good intentions and his 
> commitment to not just throw up his hands and give up on the 
> discussion, we are powering through it and I *think* getting somewhere. 
>  More on that on that thread soon.
> 
> What I hear you saying is that our perspectives/experiences feel too 
> foreign to you to to know where to start?   While my response was 
> rather wordy (as are all of my  submissions), I think my perspective 
> might be closer to yours than Dave's for sure and perhaps others. 
> 
> - Steve
> 
> On 11/21/19 5:08 PM, uǝlƃ ☣ wrote:
> > The only way to fix this is to do what I'm trying to do with Steve in the "means of production" thread. He seemed to use "means of production" as if it's a meaningful concept. And because I can't make sense of the phrase, I've asked him why he finds it meaningful. Then when he explains himself, I *try* to say what I thought he said but in my own words.
> >
> > Checking your rendition of what you think a person might say against that person is the only way to get better. You have to always ask "Did I restate your position right?"
> >
> > I don't intend to harass you, here. And I'm probably wrong. But I don't recall you ever doing that on this mailing list. You seem to hold quite fast to your side of the discussion. I'm a hypocrite, of course, because I don't do it anywhere near as much as I should. It's a flaw in our (particularly we males) ways of interacting. We're more interested in talking than listening. You could try it, now, by repeating back to one of us what you *think* we're saying and hope that person takes the (often significant) time, effort, and good will to iterate.
> >
> > Of course, that type of iteration is *nothing* like what we tend to get in "school".
> >
> > On 11/21/19 10:05 AM, Nick Thompson wrote:
> >> Your reactions to my "puritan" probe completely surprised me, and I realize that I don't have a good grip on your perspectives.  In a good "school", I should be able to anticipate, or even channel, the reactions of other members such that I could, if necessary,  fill in if one of you were absent.   But I can't.  I would like to do better.  
> 
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