[FRIAM] Pandemic Over!

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Marcus, 

Powerful image.  But didn't you leave a NOT out of your last sentence?  Or
perhaps not?

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


-----Original Message-----
From: Friam <friam-bounces at redfish.com> On Behalf Of Marcus Daniels
Sent: Tuesday, June 23, 2020 11:16 AM
To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <friam at redfish.com>
Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Pandemic Over!

Glen writes:

< I realize Dave's argument is that people simply won't care if my mom dies
alone with a broken hip and rib, shouting into the air that she's shit
herself as some distraught nurse tries to help. But what those people don't
understand is that such events *ripple* out, to me, beyond me, into the
zeitgeist we see in the streets. >

Coming back from the park yesterday there was a man with a bicycle.   I
think it was a found object.   (I see that a lot where homeless folks have a
pile of random stuff that doesn't seem to serve any obvious purpose.   And
the piles change from time to time.)
The bicycle wasn't being used for transport.    The man was somehow
interfacing the bicycle with the door of a broken down motor home, a
residence.   It wasn't like he was using a pedal or the handlebars to break
a window, he was just kind of rolling it up against the door again and again
to see what would happen.   Maybe he was imagining how to build a bike
holder for the motor home, and it was where he was living.  Why not keep
this found object?   I don't know.  It was like he was fascinated by the
mismatch of the surfaces of the two objects.   I saw him again when I left a
half hour later and he was walking around randomly in the street with the
bicycle, slowing cars.   He did not act in any menacing way but made eye
contact with people.   He had not had a shower in a long time and did not
appear healthy.

I suspect that when people see all this indifference to public health, it
doesn't lead to more indifference.

Marcus

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