[FRIAM] Hope or Despair

[Nick Thompson]

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And who, exactly, is this “elite” of whom we speak with such assurance and contempt? 

 

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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 Owen Densmore
Sent: Saturday, January 07, 2017 9:38 PM
To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <friam at redfish.com>
Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Hope or Despair

 

On Sat, Jan 7, 2017 at 9:11 PM, Roger Critchlow <rec at elf.org <mailto:rec at elf.org> > wrote:

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/jan/08/blaming-fake-news-not-the-answer-democracy-crisis

 

-- rec --

 

​Amen!

 

​Democracy may or may not be drowning in fake news, but it’s definitely drowning in elite hypocrisy.​

 

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​ hope we're able to escape that ourselves​. I'm concerned that we too are "smug liberals". I hope I can invite my garbage collector to my next party as Pope Francis did.

 

   -- Owen

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