[FRIAM] Unrecognized Thinkers

[Gary Schiltz]

I vote to induct Nick into the Friam Hall of Fame (INFame?)

On Mon, Nov 1, 2021 at 11:56 AM <thompnickson2 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Ahem.  Speaking as the “Dean” (oldest surviving member) of this
> distinguished mostly geriatric community, I think respect goes both ways,
> or it goes nowhere.  So, those of us who seek to command respect must be
> prepared to give it, particularly to such memes as OK Boomer, which I think
> expresses quite aptly an impatience with anybody who asserts old knowledge
> just because it is old.  I, of course, am Pre-boomer, a Silent.  If a meme
> were started, “Be silent, Silent!” I would resist it (obviously) but I sure
> as hell would respect it, and try to mine it for its implicit content.
>
>
>
> I quite like my status as Dean, by the way.  When FRIAM is given a
> collective Nobel, I expect to lead you all into the celebratory dinner,
> bearing our staff in my crooked hand, shuffling along in my bedroom
> slippers, my shirt untucked from my honorific belt,  muttering over and
> over again, “Metaphor all the way down, you fuckers!”
>
>
>
> By the way, Jon, it’s funny to see you take so stridently a “youthist”
> position, you, who have perhaps more than any other, sought to support and
> harvest value from the fading *eminences grises* amongst us.  Still.
> Point taken.
>
>
>
> Oh, and, Glen: thanks for collecting the products of the firehose into
> puddles.  Otherwise I would surely have drowned.
>
>
>
> Nick
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>
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> Nick Thompson
>
> ThompNickSon2 at gmail.com
>
> https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/
>
>
>
> *From:* Friam <friam-bounces at redfish.com> *On Behalf Of *Jon Zingale
> *Sent:* Sunday, October 31, 2021 2:23 PM
> *To:* friam at redfish.com
> *Subject:* Re: [FRIAM] Unrecognized Thinkers
>
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> "Memes can spread as if they are amplified, for instance the stupid
> 'Let's Go, Brandon' meme or the dull 'OK Boomer' reply."
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> Well, it certainly is your thread to bend. My feeling is that corrosion
> and destruction can often arise as part of a creative process. Age
> demographics in politics in the United States, to my view, are pretty off
> balance. My personal plan is to help cultivate a different one. Nothing
> against old people, of course, but in the next elections I plan to rank
> choice not by party but simply by age.
>
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