[FRIAM] we are lost

[Frank Wimberly]

Does anyone understand why a couple of reasonable Senate Republicans
(Romney, Kinzinger, Cheney, ...) don't vote with the Democrats for the
Biden bills?  Getting "primaried" isn't an issue for all of them.

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Frank C. Wimberly
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On Sat, Oct 30, 2021, 6:18 AM David Eric Smith <desmith at santafe.edu> wrote:

>
> On Oct 29, 2021, at 4:32 PM, Steve Smith <sasmyth at swcp.com> wrote:
>
> excellent reference/article... thanks.
>
> I agree, Marcus; thanks.  I was struck that not only do I wish I could
> write that way; I wish I could _think_ that way.  There are few thoughts I
> have had that aren’t already contained in Packer’s synthesis, in forms
> compatible with or better than the ones I would have given.  (Usually those
> with which I overlap aren’t different enough that I consider his take on
> them a lot “better”: mostly I think he chooses well the things I would
> front.  The “better” part mostly comes from a view that goes well beyond
> any that I could have commanded, and much better ability to arrange it all
> into a coherent layout.)
>
> Is it a 4 component spring model, or is a four body problem in the orbital
> mechanics sense... probably no harder than the three body problem?
>
> But I think the whole core of Packer’s article is that it is not merely 4,
> but 2.x 2.
>
> There are axes of stress, and visible fractures along the first two
> principle components of stress.
>
> The Left-Right axis has resolved itself, in the current era, into a kind
> of cultural-status axis, with educational markers being a big part.  But
> the axis is somehow more and different than only that, as it has
> historically moved through primacy of other dichotomies that can still be
> seen, while retaining its essential nature: Open vs. Closed, Cosmopolitan
> vs. Parochial, Communitarian vs. Dominance-ordered.  None of these seems
> quite adequate as I write them, but something along that line.
>
> The Up-Down axis is probably about winners versus losers, itself existing
> along several dimensions that have become correlated.  It can be conditions
> of living, or hope versus despair w.r.t. power or agency as well as wealth
> or safety.  That is why Packer sets the Just up as an uprising against the
> Smart, and the Real as an uprising against the Free.  The nature of the
> uprising and the stress driving it is in a sense the same, and the
> establishment and the insurgency sort of remain within whichever silos they
> started in.  Mostly because that phase is still fairly young.
>
> Anything that becomes organized, it seems, becomes available as a tool to
> entrench advantage in a setting where competition never relents.
>
> Eric
>
>
>
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