[FRIAM] satire collapse

[Steve Smith]

On 3/26/26 5:09 pm, Marcus Daniels wrote:
>
> I just meant that it could be one possible coevolutionary outcome, not 
> yours
>
But acutely apt, nevertheless... it was a useful insight...  as often 
float around here in this space.
>
> .  It took me a long time to grasp a large organization (like LANL) as 
> a host organism.
>
I have a hard time not interpreting any complex human organization as an 
organism...  I was taught by my upbringing (parents, community, 
educational system, beyond) that in fact I needed to find a host 
organism to support the myriad needs I had beyond my 
hominid/primate/mammalian/vertebrate base...  which by some measure 
feels like *all* my needs.   Money, groceries, electricity, 
road-systems, fuel, etc.

I also find most "host" systems I inhabit to have a strong immune system 
which it behooves me to avoid triggering. <deleted anecdote about 
leaving a briefcase at the guardshack and having to deal with the bomb 
squad>

> I can thank Trump for learning it applies to nations too.
>
I am not sure I fully understand with what you mean but my version of it 
is that Nationalism (at all scales) is about, maintaining an 
immune-system response and often deliberately triggering auto-immune 
responses in your own nation (anti-immigrant, anti-LGBTQ, 
anti-Intellectual, anti-woke, anti ... ) or in others (provoking regime 
change from within, then assualting the "body" on the hopes that the 
internal immune system will expunge the current dominating 
microbiome/party/theocracy)...

> *From: *Friam <friam-bounces at redfish.com> on behalf of Steve Smith 
> <sasmyth at swcp.com>
> *Date: *Thursday, March 26, 2026 at 3:57 PM
> *To: *friam at redfish.com <friam at redfish.com>
> *Subject: *Re: [FRIAM] satire collapse
>
> On 3/26/26 11:55 am, Marcus Daniels wrote:
>
>     The benefit of this parental approach is that reinforces the
>     cognitive dominance of the parent without coercion.  The downside
>     is that it probably accelerates the evolution of the child’s
>     escape tactics.   They think more, reveal less.
>
>     “People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom
>     of thought which they seldom use.”  ― Søren Kierkegaard
>
> yes, this is a good analysis of my (childhood and beyond) nature...  
>  though I'm not sure "reveal less" is my signature here?   More likely 
> "hiding in plain sight"...
>
> I like your use of the term "cognitive dominance".   It was very 
> unequivocal albeit non-coerced.  Made it easy for me to submit to 
> institutional (LANL) life even though I sandwiched those 27 years on 
> either side with a decade or more of entrepreneurial activity.  While 
> it *was* chafing I came to it with good callouses.
>
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