[FRIAM] More distraction

[Marcus Daniels]

I want to have the city with no people.   And it was like that for a wonderful moment!    The underlying principle being Familiarity Breeds Contempt.   In the country, the contempt is still there, but it is worse because one is bored by the same cast of characters.

From: Friam <friam-bounces at redfish.com> on behalf of Gary Schiltz <gary at naturesvisualarts.com>
Reply-To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <friam at redfish.com>
Date: Wednesday, May 27, 2020 at 1:55 PM
To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <friam at redfish.com>
Subject: Re: [FRIAM] More distraction

Steve, with tongue only partially in cheek, I have to say I often sympathize with those views. The fact is, despite being somewhat of an intellectual (I hope) and technically savvy guy, I have little use for large cities and would be fine seeing them go away. I grew up on a farm, went away to college (Manhattan, Kansas, population 40K including students), lived for a time in the suburbs of Detroit (low population density, large space between houses), moved to Pecos, New Mexico to work in Santa Fe, and now live in the boonies in the cloud forest of Ecuador. Social distancing has been a way of life for me :-)

On Wed, May 27, 2020 at 3:46 PM Steve Smith <sasmyth at swcp.com<mailto:sasmyth at swcp.com>> wrote:

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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