Re: Please change the damned thread

Posted by gepr on Dec 08, 2020; 11:45pm
URL: http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/Please-change-the-damned-thread-tp7599810p7599831.html

Awesome! "Nucleating bad faith". I've looked for a concise phrase for the headlines on hard left aggregator sites for a long time. Now you've given it to me. I don't read them. But I assume hard right sites like Drudge and Breitbart are the same.

Despite my nauseatingly regular evocation of the Great Man Theory, I sympathize a little bit with those who yearn for trustworthy heuristics. Even consultants can't *always* get away with the answer "it depends". We ordinary mortals get tired out trying to sieve the wheat from the chaff. So I guess I can't blame them for buying products from Goop or looking for a nucleator of some kind. I don't know. I think I'll test my blood sugar ... fasting on weight days probably makes me susceptible to faulty reasoning. 8^D

On 12/8/20 3:22 PM, Marcus Daniels wrote:
> I suppose it is unsurprising that people are intrigued by celebrities like Trump as leaders.  A projection of the complex needs of a large population to something much easier to process.    Like Hedges rhetoric simplifies a set of tradeoffs (e.g. Kerry's efforts toward energy independence versus their environmental consequences).    It seems that's what many people want from social networking platforms, is to maintain local or interpersonal type dynamics.   Accusation is perhaps the wrong word -- nucleating bad faith for the sake of a pitch, is more my objection.   Preventing that nucleation pretty much requires confrontation.   Of course, many will turn back to the consensus of their tribes, finding it unpleasant to have everything they say stripped down to the bone.

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