[FRIAM] Curmudgeons Unite!

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Well, hang on there, Marcus!  “More perfect” than what?

 

All species succumb to extinction, but that doesn’t make extinction our goal, does it? 

 

Nick 

 

 

 

Nicholas Thompson

Emeritus Professor of Ethology and Psychology

Clark University

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From: Friam <friam-bounces at redfish.com> On Behalf Of Marcus Daniels
Sent: Saturday, February 8, 2020 5:13 PM
To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <friam at redfish.com>; S. A. Johnson <s.johnson.002 at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Curmudgeons Unite!

 

Jon writes:

 

“A rhetoric which can be summarized as: failure legitimizes institutions.”

 

“We continue to form rhetoric about the impossibility of doing otherwise,

rather than calling these institutions out for what they

are, namely failing to adequately serve their functions.”

 

And one does what when the institution is both major political parties in the U.S. or the U.S. government itself?  One can choose to not shop at Target, or similar organizations that are careless about security.  But the other institutions might be disbanded as well.  We simply recognize there can be no more perfect union, and the experiment has failed.

 

Marcus

 

 

 

 

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