[FRIAM] anthropological observations

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Hm. The only reason it's wrong to harness people is because there's no credible alternative. If we had a well-connected safety net so that a harnessed person could doff one harness, survive without a harness for awhile, then don a different harness, then harnessing would be a good thing.

Its not the harnessing that's bad, it's the lack of inter-harness or non-harnessed options that's bad.

And the only reason I feel this point tacitly is in trying to "describe" the Tempus Dictum (TDI) harness in a coherent way. Several people have flowed through my tiny business. But *most* of those people wander elsewhere because they *want* a harness. And TDI's either doesn't make sense to them ... or it's really just a loosely tied rope that falls off all the time, merely hinting at a direction one might go, but never really canalizing anyone's behavior.

Said another way, there is a "tyranny of choice" (or "paradox of choice"). Too much freedom limits one's freedom. So, e.g., when the Rotary guys adopted the purpose to eradicate polio, one might say they were/are *fascist* in their common purpose. But Eco's got 14 points for a reason, because no single attribute really defines the quality.

On 4/13/20 10:36 AM, Marcus Daniels wrote:
> When Trump is out in the rose garden with Wal Mart and Target, CVS, etc. to address COVID-19 that's fascism in America.  Sure there are different agents with different objectives, and they compete to some extent, but it is still a common belief system that views harnessing people as good, and harnessing them more as better.   Harnessing like a horse.   Rarely does anyone ask if it is the kind of personality that would do that to people is the real problem.  It's usually called leadership and not just an indication of being a psychopath.


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