[FRIAM] The Insurrection Index

[glen]

As I read through your stories, I can't help but think of the "harm reduction" (HR) concept. There was a decent, recent Skeptoid podcast on the decriminalization of drugs in Portugal. It talked a bit about the difference between decriminalization and legalization. And that distinction seems to lie somewhere at the heart of being "in the system". And perhaps it's a manifestation of whatever core physiology it is that binds the [ma|pa]ternal-individual perspectives into a triangle. HR seems to cut a comfortable, practical slice through the mess, much like what I imagine a steely-yet-kind affect would look like. I haven't. But I'd *like* to buy some street drugs and take it to, say, a rave and have the HR team test it just to get a feel for that process from the user's perspective. I think I can project how it might feel to be on the HR team. But I really don't have any idea how the users feel about it. One of my neighbors back in Oregon, I'm speculating, would have thought the HR team was part of the "deep state" ... or spies for the DEA. But I've known many drug users who are more rational than she was.

On 1/6/22 09:41, Steve Smith wrote:
> Your use of Gaze worked for me, but I also understand Marcus' reaction to it.  I'm sure others would as well...  Gaze as you intended it and the rest of us received it is naturally a multi-spectral phenomenon... some of us have notches in our Gaze, as you suggested Q-shaman and Rittenhouse in their own Reflective Gaze perhaps.  I had not heard the reference to the nanny/daddy/libertarian triangle before but it fits how I do think about the tensions, up to and including my own internal apprehensions and intentions which sometimes have my mind/soul running a little bit like a Wankel engine... each combustion chamber taking it's turn (positive or negative pressure) on each of the three extrema you describe.   It seems like there is a meta-pattern in there, a first derivative of those quantities that can get a resonance set up, driving us forward (or backward).   In reflection on my ambitious youth, I think I was driven by that triad... 1) Wanting the freedom to 
> explore/experience with abandon; 2) Wishing someone would clear my path, pick up my broken toys and cut the crusts from my avocado toast; 3) Wishing someone would bitch-slap the people who were getting in my way or not cooperating and maybe give me a hearty slap on the back anytime I did something bold.
> 
> I also like your invocation of the Steely Affect Judge in these cases. I have my own distrust/judgement of the "<Adversarial> Criminal Justice System", mostly from having worked as a PI for a few years (in my ambitious youth) but the few members of those professions (judges, lawyers, LEOs) that I developed a lot of respect for were those that seemed to have a truly humanist center AND the Steely Affect you suggest. Unfortunately those were as Unicorn as the apocryphal Benevolent Dictator and the GoodGuyWithGun...   I left the biz because (partly) I didn't see a righteous niche for me (or anyone?) in that game.
> 
> <aside> As an antidote to those judgements/kneejerks of mine, I *was* very pleased to see how hard the judge, prosecutor, and ultimately Governor of Colorado worked with the recent Manslaughter Case where the sentences for the trucker were required by law to be consecutive, leading to a 100+ year sentence for something that I think ended up being reduced to order 10 years.  I wanted to see more of that kind of unity (vs adversarality) in cases like Floyd, Rittenhouse, Aubery, etc...
> 
> I have only begun to follow politics closely in the past 6 years or so but was not surprised to find how few *statesmen* we had among our elected officials.  Among those who seem to have truly dedicated their life to trying to make this nation (or any given state or locale) a better place for all who live in the jurisdiction, many have a very different idea from me of what "better place" would look like, but at least they seem to engagable on the topic.

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glen
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