<div dir="ltr">I have to agree with you, Nick. If we as a species are to survive, we've got to stop this reversion back to our pre-civilized roots. I'm not really a bleeding-heart liberal, but I do want to evolve beyond survival of the fittest.</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Oct 28, 2021 at 1:30 PM <<a href="mailto:thompnickson2@gmail.com">thompnickson2@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div class="gmail-m_1069049429866506366WordSection1"><p class="gmail-m_1069049429866506366MsoPlainText">Ok, So, Marcus, <u></u><u></u></p><p class="gmail-m_1069049429866506366MsoPlainText"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="gmail-m_1069049429866506366quotation">> What do categories want?<u></u><u></u></p><p class="gmail-m_1069049429866506366quotation"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="gmail-m_1069049429866506366quotation">Love, recognition and safety? Someone phone HR and get the ball rolling on a new policy!<u></u><u></u></p><p class="gmail-m_1069049429866506366MsoPlainText"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="gmail-m_1069049429866506366MsoPlainText">Spoken from the high perch of Irony. Irony is like wormwood, delightful in small doses but ultimately toxic. Do we not all want love, recognition, and safety? Do we also want excitement and challenge. Go figure! Some of us crave more of the one; some more of the other. Given the contradiction between those things, can we expect the right balance be guaranteed for each and every one of us, for all time? No. Of course not. But is that reason to mock human striving toward these goals? Or to mock Utilitarian attempts to facilitate their achievement? No. I don’t think so. Irony is a guilty pleasure. Even though I use it and enjoy it, I have to admit that it is a an abdication and fails as a policy. <u></u><u></u></p><p class="gmail-m_1069049429866506366MsoPlainText"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="gmail-m_1069049429866506366MsoPlainText">Nick <u></u><u></u></p><p class="gmail-m_1069049429866506366MsoPlainText"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="gmail-m_1069049429866506366MsoPlainText">Nick Thompson<u></u><u></u></p><p class="gmail-m_1069049429866506366MsoPlainText"><a href="mailto:ThompNickSon2@gmail.com" target="_blank">ThompNickSon2@gmail.com</a><u></u><u></u></p><p class="gmail-m_1069049429866506366MsoPlainText"><a href="https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/" target="_blank">https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/</a><u></u><u></u></p><p class="gmail-m_1069049429866506366MsoPlainText"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="gmail-m_1069049429866506366MsoPlainText">-----Original Message-----<br>From: Friam <<a href="mailto:friam-bounces@redfish.com" target="_blank">friam-bounces@redfish.com</a>> On Behalf Of Marcus Daniels<br>Sent: Thursday, October 28, 2021 8:18 AM<br>To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <<a href="mailto:friam@redfish.com" target="_blank">friam@redfish.com</a>><br>Subject: Re: [FRIAM] we are lost</p><p class="gmail-m_1069049429866506366MsoPlainText"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="gmail-m_1069049429866506366MsoPlainText"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="gmail-m_1069049429866506366MsoPlainText">> So, not only do we attribute teleology to inanimate objects, weather, animals, and people, but also to the platonic solids. Which probably leads to:<u></u><u></u></p><p class="gmail-m_1069049429866506366MsoPlainText">> <u></u><u></u></p><p class="gmail-m_1069049429866506366MsoPlainText">> What do categories want?<u></u><u></u></p><p class="gmail-m_1069049429866506366MsoPlainText"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="gmail-m_1069049429866506366MsoPlainText">Love, recognition and safety? 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