[FRIAM] Rutt on Consensus v ideology
thompnickson2 at gmail.com
thompnickson2 at gmail.com
Mon Apr 27 12:27:17 EDT 2020
To the Covid19 obsessives on the list,
I want to call you attention to the latest installment of the Jim Rutt Show,
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/extra-key-covid-19-decisions-with-john
-robb/id1470622572?i=1000472461724
There an idea is introduced that the rest of you are probably familiar with
but was a new for me: that our politics has become not a red-blue politics
(which would be more ideological and therefore more stable) but a
consensus-reaction politics, in which, whatever consensus forms, a vehement
counter- reaction forms in response to it. Rutt and his guest seemed to
agree on something that I had also sensed: that the nation went into
lockdown BEFORE anybody sent it into lockdown, i.e, a consensus emerged that
the politicians just tagged along after. ("And then a miracle happened"?)
There is also some interesting talk about the "Swedish experiment". (Was it
here, or on the 538 thingy I sent you yesterday). The idea is that you can
"safely" adopt a herd immunity strategy in any nation where the average age
is under thirty. Sweden does not qualify. India does. The metaphor* with
controlled burn is spookily apt. Here's the 538 thingy again.
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/model-talk-forecasting-the-toll-of-cov
id-19/id1077418457?i=1000472325708
I can't imagine that any of you have the time to sit and listen to these,
but I would love to hear comments if you do.
Nick
*Stephen may assert that this is not a metaphor, but they are the very same
thing. I LUST to have that argument, but not on this thread.
Nicholas Thompson
Emeritus Professor of Ethology and Psychology
Clark University
ThompNickSon2 at gmail.com <mailto:ThompNickSon2 at gmail.com>
https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/
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