[FRIAM] Pandemic Over!
Marcus Daniels
marcus at snoutfarm.com
Tue Jun 23 13:48:27 EDT 2020
I meant the latter. Strengthening the boundary between in-group and out-group is one possible cognitive adaptation. I'm thinking of another, which is to just accept that this is how it is and try to anticipate a future which is more that way. I'm guessing that is more common because it is locally actionable.
The other day on the local NextDoor.com feed there was a self-described 98 year old veteran who was upset about the "shooting" outside his house. He said that Tucker Carlson had said he should go outside and shoot the Antifa troublemakers himself. In fact the "shooting" is fireworks, which has been ongoing for some time now.
Marcus
On 6/23/20, 10:35 AM, "Friam on behalf of ∄ uǝlƃ" <friam-bounces at redfish.com on behalf of gepropella at gmail.com> wrote:
Ha! Now I'm completely confused. I thought you were saying:
Seeing indifference to public health *leads* to outrage.
which is what it does to me. But what you were actually saying is:
Seeing indifference to public health leads to indifference.
I'm not so sure. It hearkens to the other thread on the Markovity of sedimentary flow and the scope of our composition functions. When Renee' was getting her Bachelor's, one of her assignments was to do a "window assessment" of our neighborhood's public health. So, we drove around on most of the streets in a 2.5 mile radius one afternoon. I drove while she took notes. Based on our conversations, her compositional scope increased by a HUGE amount. She was already primed to see things in a particular way. But that little tour had a huge impact.
That argues that witnessing indifference doesn't necessarily reinforce indifference *if* one is already tuned to seeing injustice. I suppose it does reinforce in- and out-group identity, though. "Which side are you on, boy? Which side are you on?"
On 6/23/20 10:27 AM, Marcus Daniels wrote:
> Oops, yes, thanks for that. Divided attention..
>
> On 6/23/20, 10:19 AM, "Friam on behalf of thompnickson2 at gmail.com" <friam-bounces at redfish.com on behalf of thompnickson2 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Marcus,
>
> Powerful image. But didn't you leave a NOT out of your last sentence? Or
> perhaps not?
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Friam <friam-bounces at redfish.com> On Behalf Of Marcus Daniels
> Sent: Tuesday, June 23, 2020 11:16 AM
> To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <friam at redfish.com>
> Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Pandemic Over!
> [...]
>
> I suspect that when people see all this indifference to public health, it
> doesn't lead to more indifference.
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