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    <p>I found "Grain" to be the most relevant to my own sensitivities
      but I've a friend whose sensitivities are maybe closer to your own
      who turned me onto "Art" because of that.   The former is more
      about the human transition into Sedentary Agriculturalism and the
      implications for societal order while the latter is more about the
      geopolitical circumstances throughout southeast asia which allowed
      for a significant population/cultures to emerge/exist/continue
      mostly out from under the thumb of any particular nation-state, no
      matter what the lines and colors on the map said.  <br>
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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 5/8/21 7:38 AM, Prof David West
      wrote:<br>
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      <div style="font-family:Arial;">I am not, but will purchase and
        read asap.<br>
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      <div>On Sat, May 8, 2021, at 12:30 AM, Steve Smith wrote:<br>
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        <p>I think I have referenced these before  but your anecdotes
          here remind me of Jim Scott's "Against the Grain" and "The Art
          of Not Being Governed".  I wonder if you are familiar with any
          of his work?<br>
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        <p>- Steve<br>
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        <div class="qt-moz-cite-prefix">On 5/7/21 8:02 AM, Prof David
          West wrote:<br>
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          <div style="font-family:Arial;">Russ,<br>
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          <div style="font-family:Arial;">Your intuition is partly
            correct: these societies, for the most part, were embedded
            in an extensive cultural web of kinship, norms, rituals,
            world-view — like any culture or any people. It appears to
            us that their culture was more pervasive, expressed more
            consistently, and "enforced" more dramatically, but that is
            not necessarily true. It would be the case that those
            participating in those cultures would not experience their
            culture as, in any way, oppressive. In fact, they would be
            just as oblivious to their culture as we are to our own.<br>
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          <div style="font-family:Arial;">None of these cultures were
            authoritarian in any sense. Leadership was situational - a
            "war chief" when threatened, a "forager chief" during the
            harvest season. The only permanent leadership position would
            be the "shaman" who was, more often than not, female.<br>
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          <div style="font-family:Arial;">Some of the societies were
            hierarchical and authoritarian to some degree, like the
            Inca. But even they were able to establish and maintain a
            vast trading network from southern Chile to Meso-America and
            even into what is not the southwest US - all without money.
            Quiipu, knotted strings, recorded facts or information, like
            how much of what commodity was sent where by whom, but no
            concept of money or 'exchange rate'.<br>
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          <div style="font-family:Arial;">All of these societies were
            'brittle' in the sense that none of them survived encounter
            with European colonizers.<br>
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          <div style="font-family:Arial;"><br>
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          <div style="font-family:Arial;">If you ever have the
            inclination, explore water management on Bali. The
            indigenous culture allocated water among rice fields based
            on a complicated system of myths, rituals, and interpreted
            omens, a classical intra-cultural solution, The Dutch came
            along and implemented a "scientific" water management system
            and immediately lost 50% of rice production and initiated a
            decade of near starvation before they gave up and let the
            priests take over water management again.<br>
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          <div style="font-family:Arial;">Bali is an excellent example
            of how an optimum solution to a complex (in the SFI sense)
            problem "evolves" over generations of trial and error with
            successes preserved via myth and ritual.<br>
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          <div style="font-family:Arial;">A related curiosity (for extra
            credit) — in every hunter-gatherer society of which
            anthropology is aware, the men hunt and the women gather. 
            To date, no one has been able to explain why. It cannot be
            explained by maternal roles or physical capacity. The range
            of theories proposed and debunked over the years is quite
            large and often very amusing.<br>
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          <div style="font-family:Arial;">davew<br>
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          <div>On Thu, May 6, 2021, at 10:20 AM, Russ Abbott wrote:<br>
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                      hearing about societies that function effectively
                      without something like money. My intuition
                      (perhaps wrong) is that the only ways to make that
                      work over extended periods are rigid societal
                      structures (enforced, perhaps by powerful,
                      well-established cultural norms) or force/power
                      (as in authoritarian societies). In both cases, it
                      seems likely (although, again, I could be wrong)
                      that such societies will be quite static,
                      inflexible, and brittle in the face of challenges.
                      Are the societies you cite different from such
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              <div dir="ltr" class="qt-qt-gmail_attr">On Thu, May 6,
                2021 at 7:30 AM Prof David West <<a
                  href="mailto:profwest@fastmail.fm"
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                  <div style="font-family:Arial;">Russ raised the
                    question about alternatives to capitalism. A quick
                    perusal of a good Economic Anthropology textbook can
                    provide numerous examples. Many of which worked at a
                    scale far greater than 150 people. Example: an
                    Aboriginal economic system that incorporated
                    multiple tribes in an area from the north coast of
                    Australia to the interior of the continent; or,
                    pre-Columbian Incas.<br>
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                  <div style="font-family:Arial;"><br>
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                  <div style="font-family:Arial;">These systems were
                    established and maintained by being embedded in the
                    overall culture: i.e. because of a vast web of
                    kinship, inter-personal, obligation, concrete
                    resources, myth, and ritual. In contrast, modern
                    economic systems (capitalism or Marxism, or ...) are
                    divorced from "reality" and exist in a world of
                    abstractions.<br>
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                  <div style="font-family:Arial;">Christopher Alexander
                    illustrated this distinction with regard to
                    architecture and the difference between what he
                    called the selfconscious and the non-selfconscious
                    process of building. In the latter, the knowledge of
                    how to build and maintain a house, for example, was
                    embedded in myth and ritual and "common sense
                    knowledge." Ideal designs, ones adapted to the
                    context — physical and cultural — evolved over time
                    and preserved by being embedded in the culture.<br>
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                  <div style="font-family:Arial;">Selfconscious design
                    is epitomized by academic schools of architecture
                    where abstract concepts of design arise and "good"
                    design is judged by conformity to the abstractions
                    and is divorced from reality.<br>
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                  <div style="font-family:Arial;"><br>
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                  <div style="font-family:Arial;">Similarly with
                    economic systems. The root of all evil is money
                    which is an abstraction. How much "wealth" is
                    grounded in abstractions of abstractions of
                    abstractions in capitalist economic systems? Marxism
                    might be marginally better than capitalism simply
                    because it has never had the time an opportunity to
                    develop the same kind of meta-abstraction structures
                    that are prevalent in capitalism.<br>
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                  <div style="font-family:Arial;">Human evolved a
                    left-brain and it is our ruination.<br>
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                  <div style="font-family:Arial;">davew<br>
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                  <div>On Thu, May 6, 2021, at 5:21 AM, David Eric Smith
                    wrote:<br>
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                    <div>Hi Pieter,<br>
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                    <div>Not that it matters (to anything), but No, zero
                      support for Chomsky from me.<br>
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                    <div>He is the archetype of a bully and a
                      demagogue.  It was his MO in linguistics his
                      entire career, a field that was susceptible to
                      that sort of thing, and to which he has done great
                      harm.  It’s a shame, too, because as you say, he
                      is smart, and some of his early ideas were
                      interesting and insightful.  <br>
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                    <div>That is not an ad hominem to the side, it is a
                      propos de his political writing.  I do think some
                      of his criticisms of the predatoriness of the
                      American system are correct, and they benefit from
                      his intelligence and energy.  But I think your
                      criticism that all he does is stand in judgment
                      from the sidelines and not bear human
                      responsibility for what happens when you get
                      things wrong is just the right one.<br>
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                    <div><br>
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                    <div>Have you noticed that there are some people who
                      seem deeply grounded in a concern for others’
                      wellbeing, and seem to work tirelessly to help?  I
                      have the impression that, for instance, Karen Bass
                      (a US congresswoman who was for a time considered
                      for Vice President) is such a person.  The best
                      kind of people who rise within civil rights
                      movements and causes.  I am struck by how often
                      they have no interest in blaming and judging; it
                      is a distraction from the work they are trying to
                      do.<br>
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                    <div>On the other side, there are people who choose
                      causes that may have righteous elements, but seem
                      to choose them for the reinforcement of identity
                      it gives them to stand in condemning judgment on
                      others.  That is all I can see in Chomsky.  It
                      doesn’t mean everything he says is wrong, and
                      criticisms have a place.  But a premise that there
                      is any kind of anarchism that doesn’t instantly
                      get taken over by gangs seems way too
                      anti-empirical to be claimed as a “smart”
                      position.<br>
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                    <div>But fair enough to argue the claims,<br>
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                    <div>Eric<br>
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                          <div>On May 6, 2021, at 4:28 PM, Pieter
                            Steenekamp <<a
                              href="mailto:pieters@randcontrols.co.za"
                              target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">pieters@randcontrols.co.za</a>>
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                                <div>I have a little book On
                                  Anarchism by Noam Chomsky. <br>
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                                <div>Chomsky is IMO a very smart person
                                  and it's maybe worthwhile to pay
                                  attention to his ideas?<br>
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                                  <div>Although I don't want to reject
                                    his ideas, my mind is open, I'm not
                                    convinced it will work out as
                                    intended. The problem is he offers
                                    anarchism as an idea without
                                    specifics of how to implement it and
                                    how the valid concerns about it can
                                    be addressed.<br>
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                                  <div>At least, Chomsky's abhorrence of
                                    capitalism will maybe find fertile
                                    ground among some members of this
                                    group?<br>
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                                <div dir="ltr">On Thu, 6 May 2021 at
                                  08:34, Russ Abbott <<a
                                    href="mailto:russ.abbott@gmail.com"
                                    target="_blank"
                                    moz-do-not-send="true">russ.abbott@gmail.com</a>>
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                                  <div dir="auto">Eric, You explained
                                    many of the problems in much more
                                    depth and detail than I did. Well
                                    done. Thanks.<br>
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                                    <div dir="ltr">On Wed, May 5, 2021,
                                      4:46 PM David Eric Smith <<a
                                        href="mailto:desmith@santafe.edu"
                                        target="_blank"
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                                        <div>Yes, agreed, Russ, with
                                          amendments.<br>
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                                        <div><br>
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                                        <div>I wrote some long awful
                                          thing on this yesterday and
                                          had the good manners to delete
                                          without sending.<br>
                                        </div>
                                        <div><br>
                                        </div>
                                        <div>I think capitalism isn’t
                                          even about money; there are
                                          two issues: capitalist
                                          property rights and monetary
                                          or financial layers in the
                                          economy.<br>
                                        </div>
                                        <div><br>
                                        </div>
                                        <div>I know Glen doesn’t like
                                          the terms “means of
                                          production”, but we can
                                          capture a big subset with an
                                          everyday term like “tools”. 
                                          Tools are durable things,
                                          built at cost with the intent
                                          that they can be repeatedly
                                          used.  They are not a monetary
                                          store of value, but they are,
                                          in other material senses, a
                                          store of transformational
                                          power over things one wants to
                                          transform.<br>
                                        </div>
                                        <div><br>
                                        </div>
                                        <div>But as soon as there is a
                                          tool, there is a decision
                                          problem over how it can be
                                          used and by whom.  I think
                                          “ownership rights” is the name
                                          we give to any solution to
                                          (meaning, “commitment to some
                                          protocol for”) that problem. 
                                          With ownership then comes at
                                          least an incentive, and in
                                          many real, limited-information
                                          settings, a realized ability,
                                          for the de facto owner of a
                                          tool to guide where the
                                          productive output using the
                                          tool goes.  It’s kind of the
                                          default basic-layer dynamic
                                          that follows from tool
                                          creation and tool ownership. 
                                          We can understand how tricky
                                          that instability can be to
                                          manage from study of these
                                          intricate and fancy mechanisms
                                          in hunter-gatherer societies
                                          to blunt the concentration of
                                          power (arrow-sharing that
                                          guides who gets meat; the kind
                                          of thing Sam Bowles studies). 
                                          Ownership provides a channel
                                          for itself to concentrate, and
                                          to concentrate other things
                                          (obliquely, referring to
                                          “wealth” by whatever
                                          measure).  That seems to me
                                          the essence of the capitalist
                                          problem, which then takes
                                          various forms depending on
                                          social institutional choices.<br>
                                        </div>
                                        <div><br>
                                        </div>
                                        <div>It seems to me that we
                                          don’t want to give up tools,
                                          so we can’t give up the
                                          problem of committing to some
                                          solution for ownership, and
                                          with that, we have to face up
                                          to the complex problem of
                                          regulating against the
                                          tendency of ownership to
                                          concentrate its de facto power
                                          by redirecting the proceeds of
                                          things produced.<br>
                                        </div>
                                        <div><br>
                                        </div>
                                        <div>This is why I don’t buy, as
                                          an empirical matter, Pieter’s
                                          optimism about things’
                                          becoming too cheap to meter. 
                                          In some ways, and in
                                          projections to some
                                          dimensions, yes, that is a
                                          fair description.  Computer
                                          operating systems used to be
                                          pay-per-version, now many are
                                          free.  Communication used to
                                          be charge-per-use, now much of
                                          it is paid for by advertising
                                          (“free” only in an extreme
                                          distortion of what dimensions
                                          carry value, but nonetheless
                                          one that has taken most people
                                          some years to become aware
                                          of).  But the very way the
                                          rise of the concentration of
                                          wealth in the Tech sector
                                          before, and even more
                                          grotesquely so during the
                                          pandemic, is raising all the
                                          old arguments about the
                                          capitalist class, seems to me
                                          to show even in quite abstract
                                          domains of information and
                                          coordination services, that
                                          tool ownership has default
                                          instabilities that always act
                                          unless we can find effective
                                          regulatory strategies to blunt
                                          them.<br>
                                        </div>
                                        <div><br>
                                        </div>
                                        <div>In this sense I think Glen
                                          does make the most important
                                          point, which is that if there
                                          is a strong argument about
                                          UBI, its context is
                                          overwhelmingly about the
                                          problem that innovations in
                                          absolute output seem always
                                          coupled to concentrations of
                                          inequality.  Relative to that,
                                          almost everything Shapiro said
                                          in that piece was tropes that,
                                          at 15 places in the short
                                          talk, gave me an internal
                                          impulse to go cite the person
                                          who shows they are tropes by
                                          providing the good-faith and
                                          well thought-out
                                          counterargument.  It is a bit
                                          sad that Yang doesn’t feel
                                          able (and maybe isn’t able) to
                                          take that bull by the horns
                                          and say that this is where the
                                          UBI question lives.  <br>
                                        </div>
                                        <div><br>
                                        </div>
                                        <div><br>
                                        </div>
                                        <div>To me, money is a somewhat
                                          separate question: a mechanism
                                          for the distribution of
                                          permissions, communication,
                                          authority, etc., which makes
                                          certain coordination problems
                                          tractable that otherwise
                                          wouldn’t be.  I don’t think we
                                          want to give up the ability to
                                          use that, and even if some
                                          did, so many others don’t that
                                          there probably is no path for
                                          society that keeps it gone. 
                                          But, as many in the thread
                                          have so well said already,
                                          money is a terrible
                                          dimension-reducer, and the
                                          problems of “store of
                                          transformation power” that
                                          come with tool ownership, then
                                          take on new versions as “store
                                          of value” which is a kind of
                                          exchangeable access to
                                          ownership rights over
                                          everything.  But again, if we
                                          either can’t or (I will accept
                                          the position of) don’t want to
                                          give up what it allows us to
                                          do, we again face the
                                          complexity and difficulty of
                                          inventing or evolving (in
                                          whatever combinations)
                                          regulatory strategies to try
                                          to limits its default
                                          instabilities.<br>
                                        </div>
                                        <div><br>
                                        </div>
                                        <div>Anyway, to say I agree with
                                          Russ’s motivation to push this
                                          point.<br>
                                        </div>
                                        <div><br>
                                        </div>
                                        <div>Eric<br>
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                                              <div>On May 6, 2021, at
                                                8:15 AM, Russ Abbott
                                                <<a
                                                  href="mailto:russ.abbott@gmail.com"
                                                  rel="noreferrer"
                                                  target="_blank"
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                                                wrote:<br>
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                                                  <div><span
                                                      style="color:rgb(34,
                                                      34, 34);"><span
                                                        style=""><span
                                                          class="qt-font"
                                                          style=""><span
                                                          class="font"
                                                          style="font-family:Arial,
                                                          Helvetica,
                                                          sans-serif;"><span
                                                          style=""><span
class="qt-size" style=""><span class="size" style="font-size:small;">Earlie</span></span></span></span></span></span></span>r,
                                                    uǝlƃ ↙↙↙ said:<span
style="color:rgb(34, 34, 34);"><span style=""><span class="qt-font"
                                                          style=""><span
                                                          class="font"
                                                          style="font-family:Arial,
                                                          Helvetica,
                                                          sans-serif;"><span
                                                          style=""><span
class="qt-size" style=""><span class="size" style="font-size:small;"> If
                                                          we're stuck
                                                          with
                                                          capitalism,
                                                          then I'm for
                                                          UBI. If we can
                                                          get out from
                                                          under
                                                          capitalism,
                                                          then I'm not.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span
                                                      style=""><span
                                                        class="qt-font"
                                                        style=""><span
                                                          class="font"
                                                          style="font-family:arial,
                                                          helvetica,
                                                          sans-serif;">  </span></span></span><span
                                                      style=""><span
                                                        class="qt-font"
                                                        style=""><span
                                                          class="font"
                                                          style="font-family:arial,
                                                          helvetica,
                                                          sans-serif;">Nick
                                                          added: </span></span></span>it
                                                    is the "triumph" of
                                                    capitalism to reduce
                                                    all relationships to
                                                    money. <br>
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                                                  <div><span style=""><span
                                                        class="qt-font"
                                                        style=""><span
                                                          class="font"
                                                          style="font-family:arial,
                                                          helvetica,
                                                          sans-serif;"></span></span></span><br>
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                                                  <div><span style=""><span
                                                        class="qt-font"
                                                        style=""><span
                                                          class="font"
                                                          style="font-family:arial,
                                                          helvetica,
                                                          sans-serif;">I
                                                          wonder if this
                                                          is not
                                                          assuming that
                                                          there is an
                                                          alternative to
                                                          what you are
                                                          calling <i>capitalism</i>. </span></span></span><span
                                                      style=""><span
                                                        class="qt-font"
                                                        style=""><span
                                                          class="font"
                                                          style="font-family:arial,
                                                          helvetica,
                                                          sans-serif;">A</span></span></span><span
                                                      style=""><span
                                                        class="qt-font"
                                                        style=""><span
                                                          class="font"
                                                          style="font-family:arial,
                                                          helvetica,
                                                          sans-serif;">s </span></span></span>uǝlƃ
                                                    ↙↙↙ points out<span
                                                      style=""><span
                                                        class="qt-font"
                                                        style=""><span
                                                          class="font"
                                                          style="font-family:arial,
                                                          helvetica,
                                                          sans-serif;">,
                                                          co-ops can
                                                          work on
                                                          relatively
                                                          small scales, </span></span></span><span
                                                      style=""><span
                                                        class="qt-font"
                                                        style=""><span
                                                          class="font"
                                                          style="font-family:arial,
                                                          helvetica,
                                                          sans-serif;">but
                                                          if we are
                                                          going to live
                                                          in groups of
                                                          larger than
                                                          ~150 people,
                                                          how are you
                                                          imagining that
                                                          we will
                                                          arrange
                                                          interactions
                                                          without
                                                          something like
                                                          money? Even on
                                                          small scales,
                                                          how will a
                                                          collective </span></span></span><span><span
                                                        style=""><span
                                                          class="qt-font"
                                                          style=""><span
                                                          class="font"
                                                          style="font-family:arial,
                                                          helvetica,
                                                          sans-serif;">without
                                                          money </span></span></span></span><span><span
                                                        style=""><span
                                                          class="qt-font"
                                                          style=""><span
                                                          class="font"
                                                          style="font-family:arial,
                                                          helvetica,
                                                          sans-serif;">organize
                                                          itself in
                                                          anything other
                                                          than a very
                                                          static
                                                          structure? And
                                                          on larger
                                                          scales, what
                                                          is the
                                                          organizing
                                                          principle
                                                          other than
                                                          power? It's
                                                          not clear to
                                                          me how an
                                                          alternative
                                                          that </span></span></span></span>uǝlƃ
                                                    ↙↙↙ is supposing
                                                    possible will
                                                    actually work.  uǝlƃ
                                                    ↙↙↙, would you mind
                                                    elaborating what you
                                                    have in mind?<br>
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                                                          <div dir="ltr"><span></span><span
style="color:rgb(33, 33, 33);line-height:24.75px;"><span style=""><span
class="qt-font" style=""><span style=""><span class="qt-size" style=""><span
                                                          class="size"
                                                          style="font-size:16.5px;"></span></span></span></span></span></span>--
                                                          Russ Abbott 
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                                                  <div dir="ltr">On Wed,
                                                    May 5, 2021 at 2:17
                                                    PM jon zingale <<a
href="mailto:jonzingale@gmail.com" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank"
                                                      moz-do-not-send="true">jonzingale@gmail.com</a>>
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                                                    <div>Yeah, I think
                                                      it is safe to say
                                                      that "huge costs"
                                                      are a sign of
                                                      progress in<br>
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                                                    <div>the same sense
                                                      that smoke is a
                                                      sign of fire.<br>
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                                                      . -. -.. -..-. ..
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