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<p class="MsoNormal">I think everyone should have the opportunity to pursue their curiosity pretty much unfettered. That’s what prosperity depends upon. To approximate this freedom by issuing public debt for education is too little and too late. That said,
I voted for the issuance of such debt even though I am suspicious of the organizations that could receive the money and the thinking of people that like these organizations. (Of course, I am way
<b>more than suspicious</b> of the other side.) I would rather raise taxes to address mental health problems and to ensure a basic income because the zombie hoard is becoming a real danger. Another idea is to discourage reproduction through tax incentives,
recognizing there will be fewer jobs that can’t be automated. Jobs like communicating crystallized knowledge to young people.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">From: </span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Friam <friam-bounces@redfish.com> on behalf of Nick Thompson <nickthompson@earthlink.net><br>
<b>Reply-To: </b>The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <friam@redfish.com><br>
<b>Date: </b>Sunday, November 4, 2018 at 11:27 AM<br>
<b>To: </b>'The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group' <friam@redfish.com><br>
<b>Subject: </b>Re: [FRIAM] Vote: The future of our nation depends on it | Letters To Editor | santafenewmexican.com<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Hi, Marcus, </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">So, I take it, you </span><span style="font-family:Wingdings;color:#1F497D">è</span><b><i><span style="color:#1F497D">Don’t</span></i></b><span style="font-family:Wingdings;color:#1F497D">ç</span><span style="color:#1F497D">
think that “…the future safety and prosperity of our nation depends on...” getting more resources ”…to education at every level”?</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">My own view is (FWIW) that, despite the many faults you identify, some time in a college or university is a good idea for most people and that society gains from giving some highly-educated people the opportunity
to pursue their curiosity pretty much unfettered. I wish the professoriate was, as a rule, more grateful for the opportunities that academic freedom gives them and less arrogant in the expression of their inexpert opinions. I am an “alumnus” of the ferocious
battle between the California republican party and the Berkeley campus activists of the sixties. I am increasingly doubtful that recruitment for political action, in any sense, ought to be part of the portfolio of any professor. I hate to say it, but Reagan
may have won THAT argument. The moat around the ivory tower may be part of the deal.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">What I would hate to see is that because of well-founded distaste for some academics’ behavior, people like yourself adopt a global contempt for education at every level.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Nicholas S. Thompson</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Clark University</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><a href="http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/"><span style="color:#0563C1">http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/</span></a></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> Friam [mailto:friam-bounces@redfish.com] <b>On Behalf Of
</b>Marcus Daniels<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Sunday, November 04, 2018 10:00 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <friam@redfish.com><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [FRIAM] Vote: The future of our nation depends on it | Letters To Editor | santafenewmexican.com<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/academia-is-a-cult/2018/10/31/eea787a0-bd08-11e8-b7d2-0773aa1e33da_story.html">https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/academia-is-a-cult/2018/10/31/eea787a0-bd08-11e8-b7d2-0773aa1e33da_story.html</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">From: </span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Friam <<a href="mailto:friam-bounces@redfish.com">friam-bounces@redfish.com</a>> on behalf of Owen Densmore <<a href="mailto:owen@backspaces.net">owen@backspaces.net</a>><br>
<b>Reply-To: </b>The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <<a href="mailto:friam@redfish.com">friam@redfish.com</a>><br>
<b>Date: </b>Sunday, November 4, 2018 at 9:34 AM<br>
<b>To: </b>Complexity Coffee Group <<a href="mailto:friam@redfish.com">friam@redfish.com</a>><br>
<b>Subject: </b>[FRIAM] Vote: The future of our nation depends on it | Letters To Editor | santafenewmexican.com</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="gmaildefault"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Frank and Nick in the Santa Fe newspaper:</span></span>
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