Re: excess meaning alert? (was, Re: are we how we behave?)

Posted by Steve Smith on Mar 30, 2019; 6:19pm
URL: http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/are-we-how-we-behave-tp7592651p7592858.html

Marcus -

I commend you for your ability to remain distant from the subject...   I do believe there is an analogy to the Observer Effect in quantum theory which suggests that one *never* decouples entirely from anything,  though such invocation might represent an abuse of the metaphor and risks indulging in "excess meaning", etc.

Tweaked in them.

 

I think Trumpism is one of those... He was just trying to tweak up his brand and now he's halfway to being the world-dictator, and we helped do it by under-estimating the hope/fear we carry around the topics he tweaked in us?

"Sometimes the most you can do is nothing" - Anonymous friend full of Aphorisms

"To know your enemy, you must become your enemy" - Sun Tzu

"The biggest risk in a confrontation is to *become* your enemy in the process"

"He who must not be named" - JK Rowling

"I just call him 45, I won't reinforce his brand/name"  Anecdotally pervasive

"To be IN the world but not OF the world" - Sufism

"the Observer Effect" - Quantum Theory

- Steve

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