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<p dir="auto">Concerning Musk and Twitter, note according to Andy Borowitz (where I turn for news that doesn’t give me a headache),</p>
<p dir="auto">“<strong>Twitter in Chaos After the Elon Musk Who Offered to Buy It Turns Out to Be a Bot</strong></p>
<p dir="auto">The bid for Twitter is believed to be the largest corporate takeover ever proposed by a bot, mergers-and-acquisitions experts say.“</p>
<p dir="auto">—Barry</p>
<p dir="auto">On 10 May 2022, at 22:40, Prof David West wrote:</p>
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<div style="font-family:Arial;">Quotes:<br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;"><br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;"><i>"A thing without oppositions ipso facto does not exist ... existence lies in opposition."</i> C.S. Peirce.<br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;"><br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;"><i>"It is the hallmark of any deep truth that its negation is also a deep truth." </i>Neils Bohr.<br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;"><br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">Questions:<br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">What is the negation of evolution? Natural Selection? Survival of the 'Fittest'?<br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;"><br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">What is the negation of 'bleeding heart liberalism'? Of Trumpism? Of "wokeness?"<br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;"><br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">Quote:<br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;"><br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;"><i>"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; </i><b>[1]</b> <i>whether misfortune and external resistance, whether any kinds of hatred, jealousy, stubbornness, mistrust, hardness, greed, and violence to not belong to the <b><u>favorable</u></b> conditions without which any great grown even of virtue is scarecely possible." F. Nietzsche (emphasis his)</i><br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;"><br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;"><b>[1] </b>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.<br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;"><br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">Questions:<br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;"><br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">To what extent do we (denizens of FRIAM and their local cultures) require the kinds of stress being encountered in the world?<br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;"><br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">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?<br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;"><br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">Concrete example of last question: Will the Twitterites end up being a better or worse 'culture' post-Musk?<br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;"><br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">davew<br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;"><br></div></blockquote>
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