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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 3/26/26 5:09 pm, Marcus Daniels
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">I just meant
that it could be one possible coevolutionary outcome, not
yours</span></p>
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But acutely apt, nevertheless... it was a useful insight... as
often float around here in this space.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">. It took
me a long time to grasp a large organization (like LANL) as
a host organism. </span></p>
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<p>I have a hard time not interpreting any complex human
organization as an organism... I was taught by my upbringing
(parents, community, educational system, beyond) that in fact I
needed to find a host organism to support the myriad needs I had
beyond my hominid/primate/mammalian/vertebrate base... which by
some measure feels like *all* my needs. Money, groceries,
electricity, road-systems, fuel, etc. </p>
<p>I also find most "host" systems I inhabit to have a strong immune
system which it behooves me to avoid triggering. <deleted
anecdote about leaving a briefcase at the guardshack and having to
deal with the bomb squad> </p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">I can thank
Trump for learning it applies to nations too.</span></p>
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I am not sure I fully understand with what you mean but my version
of it is that Nationalism (at all scales) is about, maintaining an
immune-system response and often deliberately triggering auto-immune
responses in your own nation (anti-immigrant, anti-LGBTQ,
anti-Intellectual, anti-woke, anti ... ) or in others (provoking
regime change from within, then assualting the "body" on the hopes
that the internal immune system will expunge the current dominating
microbiome/party/theocracy)... <br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><b><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">From: </span></b><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Friam
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:friam-bounces@redfish.com"><friam-bounces@redfish.com></a> on behalf of Steve Smith
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:sasmyth@swcp.com"><sasmyth@swcp.com></a><br>
<b>Date: </b>Thursday, March 26, 2026 at 3:57\u202fPM<br>
<b>To: </b><a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:friam@redfish.com">friam@redfish.com</a> <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:friam@redfish.com"><friam@redfish.com></a><br>
<b>Subject: </b>Re: [FRIAM] satire collapse<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">On 3/26/26
11:55 am, Marcus Daniels wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">The
benefit of this parental approach is that reinforces the
cognitive dominance of the parent without coercion. The
downside is that it probably accelerates the evolution
of the child\u2019s escape tactics. They think more, reveal
less. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">\u201cPeople
demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the
freedom of thought which they seldom use.\u201d \u2015 Søren
Kierkegaard</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p>yes, this is a good analysis of my (childhood and beyond)
nature... though I'm not sure "reveal less" is my signature
here? More likely "hiding in plain sight"... <o:p></o:p></p>
<p>I like your use of the term "cognitive dominance". It was
very unequivocal albeit non-coerced. Made it easy for me to
submit to institutional (LANL) life even though I sandwiched
those 27 years on either side with a decade or more of
entrepreneurial activity. While it *was* chafing I came to it
with good callouses. <o:p></o:p></p>
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