I am admittedly being trollish here, and as you all know who know me, I am no stranger to confused thought, but ....
He who criticizeth the reasoning of another without spelling out the reasoning thus criticized engageth in poor reasoning.
I say this not (just) to be a troll, but because I honestly feel we in this country have a terrible problem of communication. WE have lost any sense of why it is important to try to come of a shared view of our inevitably common future. And if people in FRIAM cannot talk to one another in a reasonable way, how are the people in washington ever to do so.
Now I know there are some right wingers on the FRIAM list. I talk to them every week. And I wager that they are just rolling their eyes and saying, “Wow! Talk about the pot calling the kettle black.” And while I agree with your conclusions, mostly, I cannot find any tools to defend this conversation against that patently just accusation.
In short, “Who’s that crossing my bridge!”
Nick
Nicholas S. Thompson
Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology
Clark University
http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/
-----Original Message-----
From: Friam [mailto:[hidden email]] On Behalf Of Steve Smith
Sent: Tuesday, January 07, 2014 10:42 AM
To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group
Subject: Re: [FRIAM] "rational"
>> I probably just caused a fork in the discussion which only you (Glen)
>> and I can fully enjoy... but... I think this is all a very important
>> if subtle point we are working over here.
> I'd originally typed much more. But after reading this, I decided to
> reduce it! ;-)
less than 10 pages
Mine was abnormally short
only haiku now on!
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