[FRIAM] The next Heterodox University faculty member

Tue Nov 24 15:04:34 EST 2020

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On Tue, Nov 24, 2020, 11:50 AM <thompnickson2 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Marcus,
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> But what is the metaphor, here?  When people say “spin up /down” I think
> of a centrifuge.  What is it that you think of?
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> Nicholas Thompson
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> Emeritus Professor of Ethology and Psychology
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> Clark University
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> ThompNickSon2 at gmail.com
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> https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/
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> *From:* Friam <friam-bounces at redfish.com> *On Behalf Of *Marcus Daniels
> *Sent:* Tuesday, November 24, 2020 12:29 PM
> *To:* The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <
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> *Subject:* Re: [FRIAM] The next Heterodox University faculty member
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> I think of being “spin up” or “spun down” in this context as someone who
> has too little self-control.
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> Someone that is easily “spun down” can be easy manipulated into despair.
>   They are the audience for programs like CNN Heros, or people that go on
> spiritual retreats.    Someone that is easily “spun up” may lack the
> ability to see the consequences of their mania.   Like JD Vance’s mother
> who would never speak at a reasonable volume when screaming would do.
> Both are too coupled and reactive to their environment.
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> *From:* Friam <friam-bounces at redfish.com> *On Behalf Of *
> thompnickson2 at gmail.com
> *Sent:* Tuesday, November 24, 2020 9:57 AM
> *To:* 'The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group' <
> friam at redfish.com>
> *Subject:* Re: [FRIAM] The next Heterodox University faculty member
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> Mmmmm!
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> I always assumed that it had to do with diseases (rabies?) associated with
> bats.  People who cleaned belfries got sick.  Kind of like, “mad as a
> hatter”.  What is wonderfiul about all of this is that how our attempts to
> understand metaphors that other people use leads to new meanings of the
> metaphor.  Surely “spin up” and “spin off” arise from totally different
> realms of discourse.  Shirley? And “spin” in the political sense arises
> from a totally different realm, entemology: i.e., to “spin a web of
> deceit.”
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> Nicholas Thompson
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> Emeritus Professor of Ethology and Psychology
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> Clark University
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> ThompNickSon2 at gmail.com
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> https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/
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> *From:* Friam <friam-bounces at redfish.com> *On Behalf Of *Stephen Guerin
> *Sent:* Tuesday, November 24, 2020 11:42 AM
> *To:* The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <
> friam at redfish.com>
> *Subject:* Re: [FRIAM] The next Heterodox University faculty member
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> Glen, your wingnut footnote put me in the mood to chase down the origin of
> "batshit crazy". Here's one that makes sense:
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> https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=batshit%20crazy
> A person who is batshit crazy is certifiably nuts. The phrase has origins
> in the old fashioned term "bats in the belfry." Old churches had a
> structure at the top called a belfry, which housed the bells. Bats are
> extremely sensitive to sound and would never inhabit a belfry of an active
> church where the bell was rung frequently. Occasionally, when a church was
> abandoned and many years passed without the bell being rung, bats would
> eventually come and inhabit the belfry. So, when somebody said that an
> individual had "bats in the belfry" it meant that there was "nothing going
> on upstairs" (as in that person's brain). To be BATSHIT CRAZY is to take
> this even a step further. A person who is batshit crazy is so nuts that not
> only is their belfry full of bats, but so many bats have been there for so
> long that the belfry is coated in batshit. Hence, the craziest of crazy
> people are BATSHIT CRAZY.
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> On Tue, Nov 24, 2020 at 10:19 AM uǝlƃ ↙↙↙ <gepropella at gmail.com> wrote:
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> http://www.quantumthom.com/LetterToFerrisCommunity.pdf
> https://fsutorch.com/2020/11/18/science-professor-denies-science/
> > The account’s other tweets in regard to COVID-19 say things such as:
> > “Guess what the covid stunt has failed. You won’t get your leftist new
> world order.”
> > “Covid19 is another jewish revolution.”
> > “F— this evil wizard,” in reference to a video of Dr. Anthony Fauci.
> > “Stand up for yourselves people, and stop falling for this corona virus
> hoax!”
> > “I’d say covid-19 is fake. An evil medical system just killed a bunch of
> old people.”
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> From the Amazon page for his book:
> "Thomas Brennan is a professor of physics at Ferris State University in
> Big Rapids, Michigan, where he's taught physics and astronomy since 2014.
> He completed his PhD thesis on the topic of sonoluminescence in 2009 at the
> Illinois Institute of Technology. He also received a BA in Physics from the
> University of Chicago and an MS in Physics from UCLA. His research
> interests include both experimental and mathematical physics as well as
> astronomy."
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> I continue to marvel at how someone seemingly intelligent can fly off the
> bolt [⛧] so easily. As one who regularly expresses my opinions about
> non-professional things, I consistently wonder how/when it will or has
> already come back to bite me, not to assert that I'm seemingly intelligent
> or anything. It also questions the coherence of the "public intellectual",
> best exhibited by people like Chomsky, or Pinker, or Tyson. We need them
> ... but they put themselves at great risk. So thanks to all those people
> who manage to speak outside their competence, but do so without flying off
> the bolt.
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> [⛧] Yes, I'm aware that "wingnut" is often understood as a nut who sits
> on the wing of a political spectrum. But I prefer to think of it as someone
> who's easily "spun up", spun on, or spun off. This fits nicely with the old
> saying that there's a fine line between genius and crazy, it's only a
> difference in chirality. That batsh¡t old man who spends his lifetime in
> his basement working on his time machine exhibits the same dedication as
> the non-batsh¡t microbiologist who spends his lifetime in the cancer lab.
> They're both easily spun up, wingnuts on a different spectrum.
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