[FRIAM] war footing
Steve Smith
sasmyth at swcp.com
Wed Mar 2 17:59:43 EST 2022
I like this conception, something ill-formed like this has been brewing
inside of me also.
I thought COVID would be an opportunity to refactor lots of things from
noticing how much relief wildlife (esp. whales?) experienced from our
"cooling our jets" to making telecommuting a reality for those who have
no good reason to schlep their bodies (and oversized vehicles) to the
workplace daily to refactor 2 income homes to 1 or 1.5 income homes.
But it looks like we are backsliding on all of those if not actually
making up for lost time? Maybe the "great Resignation" belies that...
I like to hope that the net effect of Putin's nonsense on the heels of
Trump&Co's nonsense is that everyone else might actually get fed up with
Authoritarian capriciousness and do what it takes to shove it out the
airlock and get on with our lives w/o so much of the toxic
something-ulinity.
On 3/2/22 10:07 AM, Roger Critchlow wrote:
> I'm thinking that a way to escalate our response to Putin, without
> actually fighting him, is to build a "green war machine". Start a
> crash project to research, develop, and deliver the technology to
> liberate our european allies from their energy dependencies on russian
> oil and gas. And everyone else as a side effect.
>
> That this is all stuff that we *cough* should be doing anyway is bonus
> content. But what we can't seem to do for the "right" reasons might
> be easily done as a way to thwart an enemy who is so
> successfully making himself the most reviled man of our age.
>
> Longer term, the economic effects of the sanctions, the social effects
> of the ukrainian refugee crisis, and the demoralization of watching
> brute force in action are going to hurt our side a lot. That may be
> Putin's actual endgame for the "operation" while he pretends to be
> Trump. Better to be doing something positive than to be waiting
> around to see how it turns out.
>
> -- rec --
>
> .-- .- -. - / .- -.-. - .. --- -. ..--.. / -.-. --- -. .--- ..- --. .- - .
> FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv
> Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn UTC-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam
> un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com
> FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/
> archives:
> 5/2017 thru present https://redfish.com/pipermail/friam_redfish.com/
> 1/2003 thru 6/2021 http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: OpenPGP_0xFD82820D1AAECDAE.asc
Type: application/pgp-keys
Size: 3122 bytes
Desc: OpenPGP public key
URL: <http://redfish.com/pipermail/friam_redfish.com/attachments/20220302/e7155d9d/attachment.bin>
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: OpenPGP_signature
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 840 bytes
Desc: OpenPGP digital signature
URL: <http://redfish.com/pipermail/friam_redfish.com/attachments/20220302/e7155d9d/attachment.sig>
More information about the Friam
mailing list