[FRIAM] More distraction

[Marcus Daniels]

A vaguely remember there was term used back in the LANS days for letting management do stupid things, in the hopes it would lead to that end of that management?

From: Friam <friam-bounces at redfish.com> on behalf of Steve Smith <sasmyth at swcp.com>
Reply-To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <friam at redfish.com>
Date: Wednesday, May 27, 2020 at 1:46 PM
To: "friam at redfish.com" <friam at redfish.com>
Subject: Re: [FRIAM] More distraction


Merle -

Is this of your coinage?  As a word monger (munger?) I do appreciate it's aptness for the moment.
 Cassandrafreude.
One definition offered is "the bitter pleasure of things going wrong in exactly the way you predicted but no one believed you when it could have made a difference."

However...

I think like many sharp things, it cuts both ways.   I'm sure there are any number of Red Staters (with or with Red MAGA hats) saying emphatically "I TOLE YA!" about the complement of things that Blue Staters (with or without Bernie or Biden 2020 hats) are saying.

Remember, my sympathies are mostly with the Blue Caps, but...

People living in small, remote, rural towns where the social distancing is built in somewhat and where R0 is naturally lower (and subsequent rates of infection)  than in say downtown NYC or Rome or Tehran or Delhi or Tokyo, may be saying "see I TOLE YA that citified living is dangerous"  or the same people who might only take one airline flight in a year or decade or lifetime might say "see I TOLE YA that flitting all around the world is crazy business and would lead to no good!" or even more judgementally "see I TOLE YA excluding Furriners would keep us safe!" or "see I TOLE YA that office/retail/service work ain't righteous, you gotta get yer hands dirty!"

In any case, I enjoyed Cassandrafreude and will probably find it springing to mind for the duration...

- Steve
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