[FRIAM] Score one for Wokeism!

[Marcus Daniels]

Gaia feeling sneezy.   Blow those 'lil boats up in the air.  

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From: Friam <friam-bounces at redfish.com> On Behalf Of Steve Smith
Sent: Friday, March 5, 2021 1:31 PM
To: friam at redfish.com
Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Score one for Wokeism!

Whack-a-Mole vs Frogger?

On 3/5/21 11:06 AM, uǝlƃ ↙↙↙ wrote:
> I can't believe that. The act of flattening is a natural part of the dynamics. What you (and Marcus) are equating is the act of flattening with a system-wide tendency to flatten *everything*. By saying the flattening is good, I'm not saying everything should always be flattened. That's a false equivalence that I doubt Arendt would support.
>
> And this also applies to endogenous objective functions. Facile flattening encourages new peaks ... encourages a bumpy, complex landscape. Totalitarianism and authoritarianism are exogenous functions.
>
> On 3/5/21 10:01 AM, jon zingale wrote:
>> Hannah Arendt (wink to Merle) argues that the flattening (both 
>> externally and
>> internally) is perhaps the salient feature of totalitarianism. I find 
>> myself often looking for the original reference and unfortunately not finding it.
>

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