[FRIAM] Pandemic Over!

[Marcus Daniels]

Oops, yes, thanks for that.  Divided attention..

On 6/23/20, 10:19 AM, "Friam on behalf of thompnickson2 at gmail.com" <friam-bounces at redfish.com on behalf of thompnickson2 at gmail.com> wrote:

    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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