[FRIAM] words for Nick

[thompnickson2 at gmail.com]

So, we add to Dave's list, as follows.

Liberal; was, "laissez-faire, free market"; is now, "humanist, socialist". 

Conservative: was "royalist, authoritarian;  is now, "fascist, oligarchic."


Nicholas Thompson
Emeritus Professor of Ethology and Psychology
Clark University
ThompNickSon2 at gmail.com
https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/
 


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From: Friam <friam-bounces at redfish.com> On Behalf Of Russell Standish
Sent: Friday, August 21, 2020 8:27 PM
To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <friam at redfish.com>
Subject: Re: [FRIAM] words for Nick

On Fri, Aug 21, 2020 at 11:24:20AM -0400, Eric Charles wrote:
> "Awesome" is one of my favorites. Now used to indicate general 
> goodness.  Not generally used in situations where one say "i was in awe".
> 
> "Liberal" and "conservative" are two of my least favorite.  Liberal 
> was about promoting freedom.  Conservative was about retaining past 
> ways. Note that those are clearly orthogonal issues in their original 
> usage,  and now we act like they are opposites,  which is terrible.

And just as bizarrely, in Australia they are synonyms. The Liberal party is
the conservative party.


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