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Nick Thompson

Any,

 

This article begins a badly needed conversation about what resistance must look like.

 

http://www.nybooks.com/daily/2016/11/10/trump-election-autocracy-rules-for-survival/

 

Nick


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Re: Autocracy: Rules for Survival | by Masha Gessen | NYR Daily | The New York Review of Books

Merle Lefkoff-2
Nick, thanks so much for sending this. I just sent it to one of our donors and to my Canadian grad students and to our social network.  It's wonderfully written, although hardly "beginning a badly needed conversation."  I think because of Complexity science I actually did imagine the future that has happened--starting about three years ago.  We've been organizing the ECOS gathering for almost two years (put on hold because of the elections), and now we're organized and ready to go.  We need local volunteers to help with the final planning.  Let me know if you are interested.

The Center's web site is:  emergentdiplomacy.org.  The ECOS website is:  ecosgathering.org.

On Sun, Dec 4, 2016 at 1:39 PM, Nick Thompson <[hidden email]> wrote:

Any,

 

This article begins a badly needed conversation about what resistance must look like.

 

http://www.nybooks.com/daily/2016/11/10/trump-election-autocracy-rules-for-survival/

 

Nick


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Re: Autocracy: Rules for Survival | by Masha Gessen | NYR Daily | The New York Review of Books

Jochen Fromm-5
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Yes, looks interesting (somehow my mail client does not show all FRIAM mails, for instance I don't see Nicks mails, I have only received Merles response?). 

From a complexity science viewpoint the development in the US is interesting, whether it will be a step back into an oligarchy or autocracy, or even some kind of cronyism, nepotism, nationalism, imperialism or fascism, because all these *-isms are like a cancer for society. There are all sorts of fascisms, similar to the many different forms of cancer. 

From a psychological perspective Mr. Trump is interesting too because he is obviously not a normal politician. Narcissism is mentioned frequently as a character trait.
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2016/06/the-mind-of-donald-trump/480771/

As a European from a continent with a troubled past I'm worried that the next 4 years will not turn out well. There will be an unpleasant wakeup when people recognize they have been betrayed and there is no peaceful way back into a glorified past in a globalized world. I bet there will be some kind of staged event which will lead to the next war or a totalitarian state. 

-Jochen


-------- Original message --------
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Nick, thanks so much for sending this. I just sent it to one of our donors and to my Canadian grad students and to our social network.  It's wonderfully written, although hardly "beginning a badly needed conversation."  I think because of Complexity science I actually did imagine the future that has happened--starting about three years ago.  We've been organizing the ECOS gathering for almost two years (put on hold because of the elections), and now we're organized and ready to go.  We need local volunteers to help with the final planning.  Let me know if you are interested.

The Center's web site is:  emergentdiplomacy.org.  The ECOS website is:  ecosgathering.org.

On Sun, Dec 4, 2016 at 1:39 PM, Nick Thompson <[hidden email]> wrote:

Any,

 

This article begins a badly needed conversation about what resistance must look like.

 

http://www.nybooks.com/daily/2016/11/10/trump-election-autocracy-rules-for-survival/

 

Nick


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​Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA​

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Re: Autocracy: Rules for Survival | by Masha Gessen | NYR Daily | The New York Review of Books

Carl Tollander
Got this from an link from the Hoffman article in the Atlantic on "reality".  Regardless of the niftiness of the paper, I think it's interesting that somebody is using games to model how truth has come to fare so badly in our politics.  Talks up some varieties of realism, so, hi, Nick.


If there is anything to this, my reading is that paywalls and "click here to disable your ad blocker before you can continue reading" sorts of activities by online media are a strong disservice to the polity and need to come down.

This is also stimulating some thought on" lingusitic determinism" vs "linguistic relativism" brought up by the "Arrival" movie.  Never been much for "deep structure" linguistic theories.  

Carl 


On Sun, Dec 4, 2016 at 3:03 PM, Jochen Fromm <[hidden email]> wrote:
Yes, looks interesting (somehow my mail client does not show all FRIAM mails, for instance I don't see Nicks mails, I have only received Merles response?). 

From a complexity science viewpoint the development in the US is interesting, whether it will be a step back into an oligarchy or autocracy, or even some kind of cronyism, nepotism, nationalism, imperialism or fascism, because all these *-isms are like a cancer for society. There are all sorts of fascisms, similar to the many different forms of cancer. 

From a psychological perspective Mr. Trump is interesting too because he is obviously not a normal politician. Narcissism is mentioned frequently as a character trait.

As a European from a continent with a troubled past I'm worried that the next 4 years will not turn out well. There will be an unpleasant wakeup when people recognize they have been betrayed and there is no peaceful way back into a glorified past in a globalized world. I bet there will be some kind of staged event which will lead to the next war or a totalitarian state. 

-Jochen


-------- Original message --------
From: Merle Lefkoff <[hidden email]>
Date: 12/4/16 21:57 (GMT+01:00)
To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <[hidden email]>
Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Autocracy: Rules for Survival | by Masha Gessen | NYR Daily | The New York Review of Books

Nick, thanks so much for sending this. I just sent it to one of our donors and to my Canadian grad students and to our social network.  It's wonderfully written, although hardly "beginning a badly needed conversation."  I think because of Complexity science I actually did imagine the future that has happened--starting about three years ago.  We've been organizing the ECOS gathering for almost two years (put on hold because of the elections), and now we're organized and ready to go.  We need local volunteers to help with the final planning.  Let me know if you are interested.

The Center's web site is:  emergentdiplomacy.org.  The ECOS website is:  ecosgathering.org.

On Sun, Dec 4, 2016 at 1:39 PM, Nick Thompson <[hidden email]> wrote:

Any,

 

This article begins a badly needed conversation about what resistance must look like.

 

http://www.nybooks.com/daily/2016/11/10/trump-election-autocracy-rules-for-survival/

 

Nick


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​Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA​

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Saint Paul University
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Re: Autocracy: Rules for Survival | by Masha Gessen | NYR Daily | The New York Review of Books

Nick Thompson

Carl –

 

I would have thought that these results had been shown years ago, particularly with respect to self perception.  There is probably very little harm in quite a lot of over self-confidence. 

 

Interestingly, there’s an old result from years ago that married couples who are balmy about each other’s capacities do better than couples who are more realistic. 

 

It’s good to hear from you. 

 

nICK

 

Nicholas S. Thompson

Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology

Clark University

http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/

 

From: Friam [mailto:[hidden email]] On Behalf Of Carl Tollander
Sent: Sunday, December 04, 2016 9:37 PM
To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <[hidden email]>
Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Autocracy: Rules for Survival | by Masha Gessen | NYR Daily | The New York Review of Books

 

Got this from an link from the Hoffman article in the Atlantic on "reality".  Regardless of the niftiness of the paper, I think it's interesting that somebody is using games to model how truth has come to fare so badly in our politics.  Talks up some varieties of realism, so, hi, Nick.

 

 

If there is anything to this, my reading is that paywalls and "click here to disable your ad blocker before you can continue reading" sorts of activities by online media are a strong disservice to the polity and need to come down.

 

This is also stimulating some thought on" lingusitic determinism" vs "linguistic relativism" brought up by the "Arrival" movie.  Never been much for "deep structure" linguistic theories.  

 

Carl 

 

 

On Sun, Dec 4, 2016 at 3:03 PM, Jochen Fromm <[hidden email]> wrote:

Yes, looks interesting (somehow my mail client does not show all FRIAM mails, for instance I don't see Nicks mails, I have only received Merles response?). 

 

From a complexity science viewpoint the development in the US is interesting, whether it will be a step back into an oligarchy or autocracy, or even some kind of cronyism, nepotism, nationalism, imperialism or fascism, because all these *-isms are like a cancer for society. There are all sorts of fascisms, similar to the many different forms of cancer. 

 

From a psychological perspective Mr. Trump is interesting too because he is obviously not a normal politician. Narcissism is mentioned frequently as a character trait.

 

As a European from a continent with a troubled past I'm worried that the next 4 years will not turn out well. There will be an unpleasant wakeup when people recognize they have been betrayed and there is no peaceful way back into a glorified past in a globalized world. I bet there will be some kind of staged event which will lead to the next war or a totalitarian state. 

 

-Jochen

 

 

-------- Original message --------

From: Merle Lefkoff <[hidden email]>

Date: 12/4/16 21:57 (GMT+01:00)

To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <[hidden email]>

Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Autocracy: Rules for Survival | by Masha Gessen | NYR Daily | The New York Review of Books

 

Nick, thanks so much for sending this. I just sent it to one of our donors and to my Canadian grad students and to our social network.  It's wonderfully written, although hardly "beginning a badly needed conversation."  I think because of Complexity science I actually did imagine the future that has happened--starting about three years ago.  We've been organizing the ECOS gathering for almost two years (put on hold because of the elections), and now we're organized and ready to go.  We need local volunteers to help with the final planning.  Let me know if you are interested.

 

The Center's web site is:  emergentdiplomacy.org.  The ECOS website is:  ecosgathering.org.

 

On Sun, Dec 4, 2016 at 1:39 PM, Nick Thompson <[hidden email]> wrote:

Any,

 

This article begins a badly needed conversation about what resistance must look like.

 

http://www.nybooks.com/daily/2016/11/10/trump-election-autocracy-rules-for-survival/

 

Nick


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Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA


Visiting Professor in Integrative Peacebuilding

Saint Paul University

Ottawa, Canada

 

 


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Re: Autocracy: Rules for Survival | by Masha Gessen | NYR Daily | The New York Review of Books

Carl Tollander
Well, it *is* a 2010 paper.   Still relevant to the current contretemps I think. 

The more recent article (which I found to be fun but a bit less coherent (see, how that works!) is at:
Atlantic picked it up later.

Can anyone really talk to anyone?   I'm thinking about compositionality and languages and Open Source Insurgencies:

and
and
hmm, Google "open source warfare" (careful now)
and, one of my favorites right now is how very local traditional musics and oral traditions get transformed into and by different cultural processes:
(this will be Japanese to most folks, apologies sort of)

Carl






Carl


On Sun, Dec 4, 2016 at 10:15 PM, Nick Thompson <[hidden email]> wrote:

Carl –

 

I would have thought that these results had been shown years ago, particularly with respect to self perception.  There is probably very little harm in quite a lot of over self-confidence. 

 

Interestingly, there’s an old result from years ago that married couples who are balmy about each other’s capacities do better than couples who are more realistic. 

 

It’s good to hear from you. 

 

nICK

 

Nicholas S. Thompson

Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology

Clark University

http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/

 

From: Friam [mailto:[hidden email]] On Behalf Of Carl Tollander
Sent: Sunday, December 04, 2016 9:37 PM


To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <[hidden email]>
Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Autocracy: Rules for Survival | by Masha Gessen | NYR Daily | The New York Review of Books

 

Got this from an link from the Hoffman article in the Atlantic on "reality".  Regardless of the niftiness of the paper, I think it's interesting that somebody is using games to model how truth has come to fare so badly in our politics.  Talks up some varieties of realism, so, hi, Nick.

 

 

If there is anything to this, my reading is that paywalls and "click here to disable your ad blocker before you can continue reading" sorts of activities by online media are a strong disservice to the polity and need to come down.

 

This is also stimulating some thought on" lingusitic determinism" vs "linguistic relativism" brought up by the "Arrival" movie.  Never been much for "deep structure" linguistic theories.  

 

Carl 

 

 

On Sun, Dec 4, 2016 at 3:03 PM, Jochen Fromm <[hidden email]> wrote:

Yes, looks interesting (somehow my mail client does not show all FRIAM mails, for instance I don't see Nicks mails, I have only received Merles response?). 

 

From a complexity science viewpoint the development in the US is interesting, whether it will be a step back into an oligarchy or autocracy, or even some kind of cronyism, nepotism, nationalism, imperialism or fascism, because all these *-isms are like a cancer for society. There are all sorts of fascisms, similar to the many different forms of cancer. 

 

From a psychological perspective Mr. Trump is interesting too because he is obviously not a normal politician. Narcissism is mentioned frequently as a character trait.

 

As a European from a continent with a troubled past I'm worried that the next 4 years will not turn out well. There will be an unpleasant wakeup when people recognize they have been betrayed and there is no peaceful way back into a glorified past in a globalized world. I bet there will be some kind of staged event which will lead to the next war or a totalitarian state. 

 

-Jochen

 

 

-------- Original message --------

From: Merle Lefkoff <[hidden email]>

Date: 12/4/16 21:57 (GMT+01:00)

To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <[hidden email]>

Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Autocracy: Rules for Survival | by Masha Gessen | NYR Daily | The New York Review of Books

 

Nick, thanks so much for sending this. I just sent it to one of our donors and to my Canadian grad students and to our social network.  It's wonderfully written, although hardly "beginning a badly needed conversation."  I think because of Complexity science I actually did imagine the future that has happened--starting about three years ago.  We've been organizing the ECOS gathering for almost two years (put on hold because of the elections), and now we're organized and ready to go.  We need local volunteers to help with the final planning.  Let me know if you are interested.

 

The Center's web site is:  emergentdiplomacy.org.  The ECOS website is:  ecosgathering.org.

 

On Sun, Dec 4, 2016 at 1:39 PM, Nick Thompson <[hidden email]> wrote:

Any,

 

This article begins a badly needed conversation about what resistance must look like.

 

http://www.nybooks.com/daily/2016/11/10/trump-election-autocracy-rules-for-survival/

 

Nick


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President, Center for Emergent Diplomacy

Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA


Visiting Professor in Integrative Peacebuilding

Saint Paul University

Ottawa, Canada

 

 


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Re: Autocracy: Rules for Survival | by Masha Gessen | NYR Daily | The New York Review of Books

Steve Smith

Carl -

I'm not sure what you are suggesting "can anyone really talk to anyone?" here?   Obviously we ARE talking to one another, if perhaps sometimes somewhat "past" each other?

I had the benefit of Hoffman's presence at a small workshop on Perception which I participated in, in 2005 (I think) at USC... I was preconditioned by my own cynicism about reality and perception to want to believe his story.  

But I have to ask if you (or anyone else here) thinks the core of the issue he exposes is much more than:

    The map is not the territory

or

    All models are wrong, some are useful

?

regarding the current contratemps, it would seem that our political parties/perspectives have degenerated/evolved to a point of the Sufi story about the blind men and the elephant?   Is it a rope or is it a plowshare?

http://www.jainworld.com/literature/story25i1.gif

- Steve


On 12/4/16 11:21 PM, Carl Tollander wrote:
Well, it *is* a 2010 paper.   Still relevant to the current contretemps I think. 

The more recent article (which I found to be fun but a bit less coherent (see, how that works!) is at:
Atlantic picked it up later.

Can anyone really talk to anyone?   I'm thinking about compositionality and languages and Open Source Insurgencies:

and
and
hmm, Google "open source warfare" (careful now)
and, one of my favorites right now is how very local traditional musics and oral traditions get transformed into and by different cultural processes:
(this will be Japanese to most folks, apologies sort of)

Carl






Carl


On Sun, Dec 4, 2016 at 10:15 PM, Nick Thompson <[hidden email]> wrote:

Carl –

 

I would have thought that these results had been shown years ago, particularly with respect to self perception.  There is probably very little harm in quite a lot of over self-confidence. 

 

Interestingly, there’s an old result from years ago that married couples who are balmy about each other’s capacities do better than couples who are more realistic. 

 

It’s good to hear from you. 

 

nICK

 

Nicholas S. Thompson

Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology

Clark University

http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/

 

From: Friam [mailto:[hidden email]] On Behalf Of Carl Tollander
Sent: Sunday, December 04, 2016 9:37 PM


To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <[hidden email]>
Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Autocracy: Rules for Survival | by Masha Gessen | NYR Daily | The New York Review of Books

 

Got this from an link from the Hoffman article in the Atlantic on "reality".  Regardless of the niftiness of the paper, I think it's interesting that somebody is using games to model how truth has come to fare so badly in our politics.  Talks up some varieties of realism, so, hi, Nick.

 

 

If there is anything to this, my reading is that paywalls and "click here to disable your ad blocker before you can continue reading" sorts of activities by online media are a strong disservice to the polity and need to come down.

 

This is also stimulating some thought on" lingusitic determinism" vs "linguistic relativism" brought up by the "Arrival" movie.  Never been much for "deep structure" linguistic theories.  

 

Carl 

 

 

On Sun, Dec 4, 2016 at 3:03 PM, Jochen Fromm <[hidden email]> wrote:

Yes, looks interesting (somehow my mail client does not show all FRIAM mails, for instance I don't see Nicks mails, I have only received Merles response?). 

 

From a complexity science viewpoint the development in the US is interesting, whether it will be a step back into an oligarchy or autocracy, or even some kind of cronyism, nepotism, nationalism, imperialism or fascism, because all these *-isms are like a cancer for society. There are all sorts of fascisms, similar to the many different forms of cancer. 

 

From a psychological perspective Mr. Trump is interesting too because he is obviously not a normal politician. Narcissism is mentioned frequently as a character trait.

 

As a European from a continent with a troubled past I'm worried that the next 4 years will not turn out well. There will be an unpleasant wakeup when people recognize they have been betrayed and there is no peaceful way back into a glorified past in a globalized world. I bet there will be some kind of staged event which will lead to the next war or a totalitarian state. 

 

-Jochen

 

 

-------- Original message --------

From: Merle Lefkoff <[hidden email]>

Date: 12/4/16 21:57 (GMT+01:00)

To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <[hidden email]>

Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Autocracy: Rules for Survival | by Masha Gessen | NYR Daily | The New York Review of Books

 

Nick, thanks so much for sending this. I just sent it to one of our donors and to my Canadian grad students and to our social network.  It's wonderfully written, although hardly "beginning a badly needed conversation."  I think because of Complexity science I actually did imagine the future that has happened--starting about three years ago.  We've been organizing the ECOS gathering for almost two years (put on hold because of the elections), and now we're organized and ready to go.  We need local volunteers to help with the final planning.  Let me know if you are interested.

 

The Center's web site is:  emergentdiplomacy.org.  The ECOS website is:  ecosgathering.org.

 

On Sun, Dec 4, 2016 at 1:39 PM, Nick Thompson <[hidden email]> wrote:

Any,

 

This article begins a badly needed conversation about what resistance must look like.

 

http://www.nybooks.com/daily/2016/11/10/trump-election-autocracy-rules-for-survival/

 

Nick


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Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA


Visiting Professor in Integrative Peacebuilding

Saint Paul University

Ottawa, Canada

 

 


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