[FRIAM] if by 'populism' he meant ...

[Frank Wimberly]

Glen,

As an alternative to reading Garry Boulard's book you could read the
Wikipedia article on Huey Long


https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huey_Long

He was an early example if not the defining one of "populism", I believe.

Frank

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On Thu, Dec 24, 2020, 6:37 AM ⛧ glen <gepropella at gmail.com> wrote:

> The idea of an induced expression centroid that provides a spanning basis
> for a large proportion of people's expressiveness is interesting. The
> tricky part is that any such basis may be too dynamic to provide a
> persistent compression, reliable over time [⛧]. If it were stable, I feel
> like it would amount to an assertion of cultural universals. And if that's
> the case, then it might reduce to biology, which would make it another form
> of Nick's criticism, albeit a data-driven one.
>
>
> [⛧] Maybe that's a plausible idea for populism is an ambiguous term?
>
>
> On December 23, 2020 1:20:05 PM PST, Marcus Daniels <marcus at snoutfarm.com>
> wrote:
> >If there is an ordinary person class or subclass, which I also doubt,
> >then it is dispensable, or even a liability, because it is just another
> >person heating up the atmosphere and accelerating the demise of life as
> >we know it on earth.   In  this view, one would compress out the
> >sameness using the population for context (the Great Dictionary), and
> >whatever is unique is the value of that person.  One might not be
> >surprised if individuals with low residual entropy might find safety in
> >numbers or even declare their concerns to be a movement.
> >
>
> --
> glen ⛧
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