[FRIAM] Hope or Despair

[Owen Densmore]

Interesting! The Pogo cartoon and saying is a family staple.

On Sat, Jan 7, 2017 at 11:21 PM, Nick Thompson <nickthompson at earthlink.net>
wrote:

> Hey, Owen,
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> When I was 32 or so, I ran for the post of Planning Board Chair for the
> Town of New Braintree.  I was young and very idealistic about participatory
> democracy, and so I set as my goal to visit every house in Town to talk
> about the future of the Town, which was just small enough that that goal
> was plausible.   Like every small New England town, New  Braintree it was
> riven with factionalism and anger.  However, my hosts agreed upon one thing
> for sure:  “they” were responsible for all that was wrong with the Town.
> Thing was, I never found out who “they” was.  I never even found a “We.”
> Political unity existed only in the mind of those who saw themselves the
> victims of it.
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> It was about that year that the this cartoon appeared.
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> Nicholas S. Thompson
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> Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology
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> Clark University
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> http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/
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> *From:* Friam [mailto:friam-bounces at redfish.com] *On Behalf Of *Owen
> Densmore
> *Sent:* Saturday, January 07, 2017 10:09 PM
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> *To:* The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <
> friam at redfish.com>
> *Subject:* Re: [FRIAM] Hope or Despair
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> All those who were outside the set of those hurt by their decisions.
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> On Sat, Jan 7, 2017 at 9:50 PM, Nick Thompson <nickthompson at earthlink.net>
> wrote:
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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
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> Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology
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> Clark University
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> http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/
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> *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
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> On Sat, Jan 7, 2017 at 9:11 PM, Roger Critchlow <rec at elf.org> wrote:
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> https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/jan/08/
> blaming-fake-news-not-the-answer-democracy-crisis
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> -- rec --
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> ​Amen!
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> ​Democracy may or may not be drowning in fake news, but it’s definitely
> drowning in elite hypocrisy.​
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> I
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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.
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>    -- Owen
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