[FRIAM] Santa Fe Plaza Riot

[Marcus Daniels]

Today there’s a televised memorial service for George Floyd.
Moments ago I saw Al Sharpton giving a signature sermon about this stranger to an national audience of strangers.  It seems more significant to grieve for a person that is a stranger, but who has a story that is familiar.   Whatever cultural diversification that occurs naturally and is (supposedly) expensive to suppress seems like lower order bits and inconsequential.   This is what always annoys me about Libertarians.   It isn’t that they are selfish or cause harm, it is that they are just another set of more-or-less similar instances, and think they are special.   But they are just as boring.   They fail to create the entropy they claim is important.

From: Friam <friam-bounces at redfish.com> on behalf of Jon Zingale <jonzingale at gmail.com>
Reply-To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <friam at redfish.com>
Date: Wednesday, June 3, 2020 at 9:55 AM
To: "friam at redfish.com" <friam at redfish.com>
Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Santa Fe Plaza Riot

Marcus,

Your comment about televisions is part of my point about
resources and energy. I see the massive institutions and
structures that are in place to bring me globally syndicated
programming as being expensive and doing what it can
to constrain difference. Yet, places strike me as being
remarkably different. I don't really see the outrage around
Floyd as being a reliable sign for cultural differences as the
outrage strikes me as a kind of media event. Voter turn-out,
similarly, seems to rely on nation and imagined communities<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imagined_community>.

Jon
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