[FRIAM] YIKES!: Coronavirus New Mexico numbers.xlsx

[Steven A Smith]

My observation is that from Dickens' "best of times, worst of times".  
I think as an inflection/bifurcation point,   many things are possible. 
"sensitive dependence on initial conditions".   In the spirit of
"creative visualization" and "self-fulfilling prophecies" there are
risks and opportunities around being too paranoid or too pollyanna and
opportunities around being creatively positive and thoughtfully wary.  
I think there is a quad-chart in there somewhere?

"Svaha" is a word for "the time between the lightning and the thunder...
when all things are possible". (alternately attributed to Native
Americans, to old Norse, etc... but apparently coined by this book:
https://www.amazon.com/Svaha-Charles-Lint/dp/0312876505 in the 90s... 

And not to be confused with the much older Sanskrit /svāhā /which feels
entertainingly relevant as well:
//https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sv%C4%81h%C4%81
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sv%C4%81h%C4%81>

On 4/2/20 9:42 AM, uǝlƃ ☣ wrote:
> I've seen a few articles with titles like "Coronavirus is the death of Neoliberalism" or "... Capitalism" and whatnot. I'm skeptical. As much as I reject analogies between societal upheaval/collapse and phases of matter, I do believe in inflection points. My guess is that authoritarianism is what lies ahead of us on the other side of this inflection. We were already trending that way and I bet we'll continue. This inflection looks more like a minor rate change than anything fundamental.
>
> This article was hopeful:
>
> The coronavirus crisis has exposed the ugly truth about celebrity culture and capitalism 
> https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/mar/31/the-coronavirus-crisis-has-exposed-the-ugly-truth-about-celebrity-culture-and-capitalism
>
> There's nothing more disgusting to me than our celebrity fetish. But this article was pessimistic:
>
> Invisible man? Amid pandemic, Biden sidelined by omnipresent Trump
> https://news.yahoo.com/invisible-man-amid-pandemic-biden-sidelined-omnipresent-trump-082411045.html
>
> My faith in my fellow humans' *tastes* is always crushed. Everyone tends to flock to the least common denominator. (My primary objection to instant-runoff/ranked-choice voting and pop music, as well as overly reductive rating systems like Rotten Tomatoes, etc.) The "wisdom of crowds" is an oxymoron. >8^D
>
> On 4/2/20 8:05 AM, Prof David West wrote:
>> Governments cannot print and distribute money fast enough to prevent a major collapse of world economic order and concomitant social breakdown.
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