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Walter Watts
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virus: What's YOUR poison?
« on: 2005-02-05 23:03:37 » |
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What's YOUR poison?
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Racism.
Sexism.
Ageism.
Geographism.
Culturalism.
Religism.
Educationism.
Physical-Attributism.
Coolism.
Intellectualism.
Mediaism.
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What's YOUR poison?
Walter
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Re: virus: What's YOUR poison?
« Reply #1 on: 2005-02-06 12:41:49 » |
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My poison is Meta.
As a strategy.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Walter Watts [mailto:wlwatts@cox.net]
> Sent: Sunday, February 6, 2005 04:03 AM
> To: 'virus'
> Subject: virus: What's YOUR poison?
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> Racism.
> Sexism.
> Ageism.
> Geographism.
> Culturalism.
> Religism.
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> Coolism.
> Intellectualism.
> Mediaism.
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> What's YOUR poison?
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Re:virus: What's YOUR poison?
« Reply #2 on: 2005-02-06 17:42:12 » |
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Quote from: Walter Watts on 2005-02-05 23:03:37
If you're asking in the sense of a bartender, what do I choose even though I have good reason to worry about adverse effects, I guess it is elitism. If you're just asking about what -isms I subscribe to (knowing the inherent memetic dangers of any -isms), I would say pancritical rationalism and determistic compatibilism.
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Re:virus: What's YOUR poison?
« Reply #3 on: 2005-02-07 08:33:14 » |
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I seem to think everyone is cooler, smarter and just all around more superior than they turn out to be. You would think I would be more realistic. Don't really feel like sorting out all the idealism in the attic. Well, take your shots docs.
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RE: virus: What's YOUR poison?
« Reply #4 on: 2005-02-09 13:25:21 » |
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global_hijack@speakeasy.net
Sent: 06 February 2005 19:42
My poison is Meta.
As a strategy.
[Blunderov] A lot to ponder in this little partial word. A case can be
made that our extraordinary capacity for meta-thinking is what most
distinguishes homo sapiens from other species. More than opposable thumb
and forefinger. More even, and some will dispute this, than religion.
Global_hijack's posts on the subject have been haunting me for some days
and led me by circuitous routes to the notion that perhaps the capacity
for meta depends on the binary 'now/not-now' in the same way that our
capacity for differentiation and integration depends on the binary
'I/Not_I'*.
Sadly for me, it turns out - courtesy of the Politburo - that this wheel
has already been invented. Apparently it is well recognised that the
capacity for "temporal thinking" is very marked in homo sapiens and may
be even be an exclusive franchise of the ape family.
Still, I'm quite pleased with 'now/not-now'. Is it possible then that
the fundamental question in matters of strategy is "When?"?
Best Regards
* This is my own assertion and should not be mistaken for an established
fact.
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RE: virus: What's YOUR poison?
« Reply #5 on: 2005-02-11 06:35:30 » |
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Everyone has a poison. If you know what your poison is, it's no longer our
poison. You may think it is. It isn't. Only someone outside you can have
the perspective to tell you what it is. That's the nature of the feedback
information systems, of which we are.
Perhaps certainty is my poison, or chaos theory. I often think they are.
But in thinking they are, they probably aren't.
Maybe because I'm a new Dad, mine keeps changing. Kids are remarkable adept
at breaking up ingrained behavioral patterns in their parents.
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Re:virus: What's YOUR poison?
« Reply #6 on: 2005-02-11 18:08:48 » |
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[simul]
Everyone has a poison. If you know what your poison is, it's no longer our poison. You may think it is. It isn't. Only someone outside you can have the perspective to tell you what it is. That's the nature of the feedback information systems, of which we are.
[rhinoceros]
I think mine is scepticism. Since I said it, does it mean that it is not any more, or that it was not in the first place?
[simul]
Perhaps certainty is my poison, or chaos theory. I often think they are. But in thinking they are, they probably aren't.
[rhinoceros]
Certainty is definitely not my poison. I have been known to indulge in the occasional speculation and to be comfortable with that. On rare occasions, some of this speculation sticks with me.
Now, chaos theory... neither that. I have not done any modelling of non-linear deterministic systems sensitive to the initial conditions recently, and I have never discovered or used any strange attractors for predicting the behavior of such a system... at least, not by using the tools of chaos theory. No, chaos theory is definitely not my poison.
[simul]
Maybe because I'm a new Dad, mine keeps changing. Kids are remarkable adept at breaking up ingrained behavioral patterns in their parents.
[rhionoceros]
As an old dad, I can testify that everything seems to fall back into place eventully, with some big differences.
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RE: virus: What's YOUR poison?
« Reply #7 on: 2005-02-12 03:35:25 » |
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Walter Watts
Sent: 06 February 2005 06:04
What's YOUR poison?
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Racism.
Sexism.
Ageism.
Geographism.
Culturalism.
Religism.
Educationism.
Physical-Attributism.
Coolism.
Intellectualism.
Mediaism.
??
What's YOUR poison?
[Blunderov] This turned up.
'He's a slave.' But he may have the spirit of a free man. 'He's a
slave.' But is that really to count against him? Show me a man who
isn't a slave; one is a slave to sex, another to money, another to
ambition; all are slaves to hope or fear.
Seneca
--Epistulae Morales
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