[FRIAM] quotes and questions

[Barry MacKichan]

Concerning Musk and Twitter, note according to Andy Borowitz (where I 
turn for news that doesn’t give me a headache),

“**Twitter in Chaos After the Elon Musk Who Offered to Buy It Turns 
Out to Be a Bot**

The bid for Twitter is believed to be the largest corporate takeover 
ever proposed by a bot, mergers-and-acquisitions experts say.“

—Barry


On 10 May 2022, at 22:40, Prof David West wrote:

> Quotes:
>
> *"A thing without oppositions ipso facto does not exist ... existence 
> lies in opposition."* C.S. Peirce.
>
> *"It is the hallmark of any deep truth that its negation is also a 
> deep truth." *Neils Bohr.
>
> Questions:
> What is the negation of evolution? Natural Selection? Survival of the 
> 'Fittest'?
>
> What is the negation of 'bleeding heart liberalism'? Of Trumpism? Of 
> "wokeness?"
>
> Quote:
>
> *"Examine the lives of the best and most fruitful people and peoples 
> and ask yourselves whether a tree which is supposed to grow to a proud 
> height could do so without bad weather and storms; **[1]* *whether 
> misfortune and external resistance, whether any kinds of hatred, 
> jealousy, stubbornness, mistrust, hardness, greed, and violence to not 
> belong to the *_favorable_* conditions without which any great grown 
> even of virtue is scarecely possible." F. Nietzsche (emphasis his)*
>
> *[1] *The Biosphere 2 project encountered a problem with trees falling 
> over far before they reached their maturity. It was from lack of wind. 
> Wind and mechanical stress was required to grow the hard tissues that 
> allowed the tree to stand.
>
> Questions:
>
> To what extent do we (denizens of FRIAM and their local cultures) 
> require the kinds of stress being encountered in the world?
>
> I suspect that there needs to be a balance between realizable 
> civilization and stresses, but how is that balance defoined and, more 
> importantly, found and maintained?
>
> Concrete example of last question: Will the Twitterites end up being a 
> better or worse 'culture' post-Musk?
>
> davew


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