[FRIAM] Hope or Despair

[Nick Thompson]

Owen:

 

cause another economic implosion which we survived pretty well.

 

“We” did?

 

Nick

 

 

Nicholas S. Thompson

Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology

Clark University

 <http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/> http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/

 

From: Friam [mailto:friam-bounces at redfish.com] On Behalf Of Merle Lefkoff
Sent: Saturday, January 07, 2017 8:59 PM
To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <friam at redfish.com>
Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Hope or Despair

 

There's no need for a he/she, Owen.  The term has no relevance when talking about the presidency.

 

On Sat, Jan 7, 2017 at 10:31 AM, Owen Densmore <owen at backspaces.net <mailto:owen at backspaces.net> > wrote:

Clearly you need to attend to Kissinger and Bremmer.

 

In terms of Russia, Kissinger's analysis of the Nation State suggests we have been far too shallow. There are very good reasons for the Russian people to feel exposed by the west's encroachment, and why they approve of Putin to the degree they do.

 

Trump is no threat. I personally have not given up even one of my 25 Damns over him. Any threatened Rape and Pillage will likely just cause another economic implosion which we survived pretty well.

 

I am curious, however, which of Bremmers 3 Americas Trump tends to, or what blend of the three. And what Trump thinks of Kissinger's recent defense of the nation state .. I know Kissinger is meeting with Trump.

 

Presidential politics are unique. Presidential historians agree that, whatever a president has promised, he/she is always formed by unexpected, exogenous events. At a guess, they will be foreign affairs in Trump's case. I hope he takes the MoneyBall stance.

 

   -- Owen


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