[FRIAM] Santa Fe Plaza Riot

[Frank Wimberly]

I was going to remark about your breaking the thread too.  If that's what
it is.  Do you select "delete previous messages" when you reply?

Frank

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Frank C. Wimberly
140 Calle Ojo Feliz,
Santa Fe, NM 87505

505 670-9918
Santa Fe, NM

On Wed, Jun 3, 2020, 9:47 AM uǝlƃ ☣ <gepropella at gmail.com> wrote:

> Aside: Do you avoid using the Reply mechanism on purpose? The subject
> seems to be a normally formatted reply, but there are no References:
> headers in your posts. This prevents threading clients from treating your
> post as a reply. It seems like you're using the Gmail web client. But I
> haven't read email headers in awhile. So who knows?
>
> I entertain a long-running (longer than usual for me) ill-formed
> hypothesis that as our population density approaches the carrying capacity
> of the earth, such isolation will be more and more rare. And that diversity
> will also go down. We'll become more of a biofilm (or superorganism) on the
> surface of the earth and less of a seething constellation of differentiable
> agents. One hitch is that as climate change worsens, some places will be
> the exclusive playgrounds of the wealthy (wealthy enough to own the water
> and supply chains to move goods to these rarified places). So you
> optimistic elitists living in compounds like Santa Fe (parasitic off those
> of us who might still function more naturally as climate change blossoms)
> will become more and more isolated while the rest of us become more and
> more like a biofilm.
>
> So you'll need to cling to your diversity while it lasts because WE are
> coming for you! >8^D
>
> On 6/3/20 7:41 AM, Jon Zingale wrote:
> > I personally find the Santa Fe police force to be very good at being
> > empathetic and encouraging peaceful conflict. As someone who has spent
> > half of my life living in dense urban centers, I often feel a
> responsibility
> > to witness when I see police interactions with others. Moving to Santa
> Fe has
> > done a lot to remediate my feelings around the police. Further, while
> there is
> > a very long way to go wrt race and equity, the discussion has been
> explicitly
> > in motion here in New Mexico for a long time. Is it possible that our
> apparent
> > /isolation from the broader unrest/ is a sign of maturity within our
> social
> > discourse? I have some concern that there may be a rising pressure
> > across the diverse regions of our country to abstract away our
> differences,
> > and to behave as if the discourse is /everywhere the same/. Doing so in
> > many cases would erase the very good work that has been hard-won.
>
>
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