What is Washington if not a game of thrones? USA democracy has become a feudalism battlefield, a pendulum destined to swing left and right indefinitely. You can fit a camel through the head of its needle but you have to put it in a blender first. C. On Fri, Jul 24, 2020, 9:57 PM James Lyons-Weiler <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Cory, > On balance, religion, or I should say religiosity also acts as a safety > valve; > if all of the deferred and imagined conflicts had to be resolved > this time around, we'd be living in the Game of Thrones. > > > > > > On Fri, Jul 24, 2020 at 5:51 AM Cory David Barker < > [log in to unmask]> wrote: > >> I'm with you on this. >> >> Also, I'd like to include the impact of religion in the western world. >> Christianity has a self-destruction motif in most sects of Christianity. >> They believe that this world is doomed to fail, that a rapture or >> armageddon will occur, and God will sort it all out. They believe they hold >> positions of power and wealth on God selecting them. Everything good that >> happens to them is God and everything against them is a devil trying to >> sway them from the correct path. This effectively ignores science, facts, >> and wagers the future survival on invisible forces. They believe they will >> go to a heaven or paradise, those who stand up to them will go to hell or >> get eternal punishment, and believe the destruction of the world is gods >> will. This underpins what we are dealing with: people tryong to put the >> entire world on a cross to kill it. >> >> Cory >> >> On Tue, Jul 21, 2020, 10:29 AM James Lyons-Weiler < >> [log in to unmask]> wrote: >> >>> Cory, >>> >>> Thank you. >>> >>> "Its has become corrupted". >>> >>> Yes, worth knowing by what. In my view the corporatist influence must >>> be minimized. >>> >>> Here is a diagram I rendered last year showing The New Left and the New >>> Right which pulls aside the curtain to reveal that and how the D party and >>> the R party will exist into perpetuity regardless of "Democracy" (which we >>> do not have), State-Owned Corporatism, or Corporate-Owned Statism. >>> >>> [image: The New Right2.jpg] >>> >>> Due to de-regulation, partisan politics has become an agent of corporate >>> interests; >>> corporations have captured the regulatory agencies, and Soviet-style >>> committee bosses >>> outlast presidents. >>> >>> Bureaucrats and in-line accountants have more job stability and >>> accumulate more >>> influence and power than the 'doers'. The survival of the cabal becomes >>> far more >>> relevant in terms of operations than any over-arching concern for >>> societal well-being. >>> >>> Corporations, being by necessity, and by law amoral, must operate to >>> foster their own >>> survival Governments have a mandate to keep the nation but have not >>> mandate to >>> survive unto themselves. Parliamentary dissolution and re-negotiation >>> of cabinets >>> and entire governments may be expected to be more resilient and >>> inoculated against corporatist >>> corruptive influences, but they are not. >>> >>> We live in corporatist fascist states in which overt fascism is masked >>> by puppets of corporations >>> that call themselves politicians who answer not to principles, but to >>> platform, dictated by >>> their sponsors. >>> >>> I owe these insights to the research done in preparation of and while >>> writing "Cures Vs. Profits", >>> confirmed by my conscription into overt activism for objective science >>> on the steps and in the halls >>> of state capitals around the country, with politicians in deed and in >>> word echoing the fraudulent >>> talking points of their corporatist masters. >>> >>> Events caught on camera changing votes due to whispered words coming >>> down from party bosses, >>> leaving the people's true liberties and freedoms in the dustbin... Pick >>> your poison, the right is paid for >>> policies and laws tolerant of toxins in the air, water, food, and soils, >>> the nouveau-rich left tolerates them >>> in medicine, shanghai'd by their penchant for lifting up the >>> downtrodden, for the greater good, which >>> masterfully being beaten into the minds of Americans right now with the >>> non-science-based universal >>> and outdoors masking nonsense. Not the place for specific debate, but >>> the art of social programming >>> is so much clearer after a handful of blue pills. >>> >>> Thank you for suffering my diatribes in the search for a name that >>> captures the exigencies of our time. >>> >>> For me, it's corporatism. >>> >>> >>> >>> On Tue, Jul 21, 2020, 10:45 AM Cory David Barker < >>> [log in to unmask]> wrote: >>> >>>> Democracy is already a stage higher than meta systematic, its >>>> paradigmatic. Metamodernism has become spinning wheels. Yes, more people >>>> are getting inetrested in understanding that we need to go beyond left and >>>> right, but metamodernism is not any more complex than democracy. >>>> Metamodernism is what democracy already was, going beyond left and right >>>> (or going beyond the multiplicity of parties such as in Austria) to have a >>>> rule of governance and a way of life that is as satisfiable as possible to >>>> the most people. Metamodernism is basically just rediscovering the >>>> democratic ideals. But democracy does not work because there are always >>>> people who corrupt it. Similarly, just like what happened with democracy, >>>> so too is happening with metamodernity, it is fracturing. >>>> >>>> The United Nations was supposed to be cross paradigmatic, it was >>>> supposed to synthesize together across nations, it was supposed to uphold >>>> universal human rights. And what has happened? It has become corrupted. We >>>> need to go beyond the metacultural to find a solution. Metacultural >>>> solutions are building blocks towards but not the overall solution itself. >>>> What happens in democracy is proof. >>>> >>>> I mostly agree with Gregg's 5th joint point, but I do not believe we >>>> should be calling it meta. It will not be democracy, but it will build on >>>> its (and other forms of governance) best traits. It will be something we've >>>> never seen before. >>>> >>>> C. >>>> >>>> On Tue, Jul 21, 2020, 7:35 AM James Lyons-Weiler < >>>> [log in to unmask]> wrote: >>>> >>>>> Cory, >>>>> Thank you for this. >>>>> >>>>> Complex systems such as you described can succinctly be represented >>>>> and modeled and explicitly simulated when the maths become intractable. >>>>> >>>>> Let's revisit that in a brief moment. >>>>> >>>>> I'll risk capturing the issue succinctly: we do not know if how are >>>>> are governed, and how we govern, are even close to optimal in their >>>>> structure, form and >>>>> processes. We do know that we are not well-governed due to corruption >>>>> of an otherwise largely sufficient government process solution. >>>>> >>>>> Isn't it an obvious feature of human societies that when leadership >>>>> fails, they are replaced by those who seek harmony through leadership? >>>>> >>>>> Yet in spite of that nature of mankind, we have persistent >>>>> pathologies, for reasons you describe. >>>>> >>>>> Here are my thoughts. We need society-level metacognition processes >>>>> focused on optimizing process solutions; Gregg's ToK is attractive in that >>>>> it provides a framework for discussion of systems at different levels, >>>>> their commonalities and differences. It illuminates possibilities >>>>> without imposing constraint to one temporally parochial "other-than" >>>>> process solution. >>>>> >>>>> In contrast, the Magna Carta, the US Declaration of Independence, the >>>>> Communist Manifesto and Mein Kampf were all dangerous (to the >>>>> 'establishment' at the time) because they begat awareness in individuals >>>>> that as a collective they have the power to empower others on their behalf >>>>> in a different way. Individuals respond to pledges of loyalty, fealty, and >>>>> Unity in a common bond of "us-ness"; we emotionally surrender a past state >>>>> of relatedness to a new one, >>>>> and we pledge our wealth and send our sons and daughters on behalf of >>>>> that spoken and adopted unity. >>>>> >>>>> Let's presume that some of the obvious assumptions inherent in the >>>>> model you referenced we are discussing are correct: >>>>> >>>>> -That "the system" i.e., human societies are inherently, of necessity, >>>>> and optimally hierarchical >>>>> -That people acting at their own level of self-interest at every phase >>>>> can, in fact yield a sustainable governance >>>>> -That a minority can solve the issue on behalf of the majority >>>>> >>>>> Carrying in our present context, I've looked in Game B a bit, just >>>>> dabbling, and more into Unity2020, and I appreciate deeply the need to >>>>> optimize >>>>> quickly toward AI vs. human conflict and "move beyond" Game A >>>>> human:human conflict. Tendrils of Game A however are obvious even in >>>>> the truism that a motive for Game B is that Game A has not served us >>>>> sufficiently well. To me, Unity2020 will eventually fall under the plow >>>>> due to the corrupting influences of >>>>> corporate campaign funding. So let's presume that Unity2020 is a >>>>> temporally parochial defined process reactionary, not proactively optimized >>>>> solution because >>>>> the broken pieces that eroded both parties in the US remain (this need >>>>> not be true if, as party, corporatist influences are *better >>>>> contained*). >>>>> >>>>> An individual has human-recognized options, such as stoicism, or >>>>> religion, which attribute responsibility outside of their >>>>> locus of control; both are palliative and keep the ego intact via the >>>>> belief by the individual they are submitting to something >>>>> greater than themselves. At a societal level, to date, conformity to a >>>>> man-made power entity backed by the threat of force >>>>> has been the path to peaceful coexistence within societies. >>>>> Pathological overreach for control of one society over another >>>>> (even if mostly for resources) leads to the mutual application of >>>>> force (war). >>>>> >>>>> "Government" is a form of metacognition for societies. Our society >>>>> mentality has any number of pathologies. >>>>> >>>>> You wrote: "..(A)lmost all of the participants in economic, >>>>> political, and corporate systems who can perform meta systematically, are >>>>> stuck in the negation or oscillation transition step, which is what >>>>> metamodernism is an attempt to help solve." >>>>> >>>>> I love this sentence. Highly illuminating. Spot-on. >>>>> >>>>> What we lack, and what the forward-thinking simulations needed to >>>>> identify process solutions that can help us move from one place to the next. >>>>> >>>>> Safely. >>>>> With prosperity for all. >>>>> And (real) health for all. >>>>> >>>>> Should the new enlightenment include the high utility of prescient >>>>> modeling, millions of equally optimal process solutions may be identified. >>>>> >>>>> I had a discussion with someone close to me which "went well" for the >>>>> first time in years because I told him that in my mind, I was replacing >>>>> comparatively short-sight, subjective (experienced-based) culturally >>>>> parochial "principles", "norms", "mores" and "ethos" with a "search for >>>>> optimal >>>>> process solutions". >>>>> >>>>> Such a shift de-escalates the perceived threats over what otherwise >>>>> could be perceived as a threat to one's "identity" and what "one stands >>>>> for". >>>>> >>>>> It helps people remember that support "for Trump" or "for Biden" is an >>>>> adoption of a different constellation of process solutions, some of which >>>>> are "optimized" for >>>>> the benefit of particular subgroups in society. >>>>> >>>>> We have the ability and computational power to model (simulate) the >>>>> entire world with agent-based simulations; they are used to help route >>>>> traffic patterns, to optimize design of large hospitals, etc. but they are >>>>> not used to optimize rules and regulations, or how societies are structured. >>>>> >>>>> I'd love to see an arm of the new enlightenment adopt the task of >>>>> modeling societies as multi-layered processes on well-defined humanist >>>>> optimization >>>>> functions if only to find answers to meta-questions on the landscape >>>>> of solutions such as "how many way are there to structure a government that >>>>> are equally optimal" (for the sake of knowing) with the residual answer to >>>>> the footnote: "where does our current system lie on that landscape of >>>>> optimized solutions"? >>>>> >>>>> I would begin with agrarian societies, and modeling societies and >>>>> nation-states from around the world every 100 years or so. Where could >>>>> German have gone instead in 1933, for example? >>>>> >>>>> For the present day, once we know the landscape of optimal and >>>>> suboptimal process solutions, the question then becomes; what do we do >>>>> about them? That becomes less academic and more political. As a tool, of >>>>> course, interested parties could adopt this approach as a means to their >>>>> selfish ends, and thus the tail we thought we lost in evolution wraps >>>>> around the branch once more... >>>>> >>>>> JLW >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> On Tue, Jul 21, 2020 at 12:25 AM Cory David Barker < >>>>> [log in to unmask]> wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> The model of hierarchical complexity is a mathematical behavior model >>>>>> that defines discreet orders (also called stages) of increasing behavioral >>>>>> complexity. Each order of complexity is produced by the coordination of two >>>>>> or more actions at the previous order. The orders are domain-general, >>>>>> universal forms of behavior. There are 8 transition steps between each >>>>>> stage, and they are for fractally identical. And yes, it does apply at all >>>>>> building blocks of social organization, although the calculus to adequately >>>>>> represent it becomes profoundly complex. >>>>>> >>>>>> It is primarily quantitative, not qualitative and therefore not >>>>>> analogy based. However, analogies can be made in so far as an order of >>>>>> hierarchical complexity has been identified to be the same between two or >>>>>> more behaviors, so the characteristics that are shared between those >>>>>> behaviors can be related. >>>>>> >>>>>> The paper explicitly articulate the fundamental behavioral complexity >>>>>> required to resolve the current issues that are occurring right now. The >>>>>> problem is, most people hit a ceiling at formal or systematic stage, and in >>>>>> order for people to resolve the issues, they need to be no less then meta >>>>>> systematic stage, which consists of about 5% of the population. This is >>>>>> because the solution requires the coordination and synthesis of homomorphic >>>>>> principles that govern systems. >>>>>> >>>>>> Democracy was designed specifically for this purpose, for people to >>>>>> come together from different perspectives and design, append, and amend >>>>>> higher order principles (laws) to govern systems. Unfortunately, the >>>>>> systems have been corrupted. This is because almost all of the participants >>>>>> in economic, political, and corporate systems who can perform meta >>>>>> systematically, are stuck in the negation or oscillation transition steps, >>>>>> which is what metamodernism is an attempt to help solve. >>>>>> >>>>>> You cannot resolve the corruption directly. It does not work. Corrupt >>>>>> organizations consist of people who will understand your method for trying >>>>>> to prevent their corruption, and they will adapt to stop you. >>>>>> Anti-corruption only put Band-Aids on a larger problem. The paper I >>>>>> limetnked works, but only if you can get people to sit at the same table in >>>>>> good faith. And we don't see it happen very often. We need something more >>>>>> to solve these problems, but we don't have it yet. >>>>>> >>>>>> C. >>>>>> >>>>>> On Mon, Jul 20, 2020, 1:19 AM James Lyons-Weiler < >>>>>> [log in to unmask]> wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Thank you Cory, theirs (Sonnert & Commons') is a analogy-based >>>>>>> general theoretical framework but I'm afraid in my view it falls >>>>>>> short (as all analogies and models do to some extent) because it >>>>>>> attempts to apply and extend a model developed to understand >>>>>>> an aspect of the developing human brain, which society is not, and >>>>>>> thus is cannot succeed in providing much more >>>>>>> than a descriptive framework. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> RIght now, I'm more along the lines of "If we are asked to hang >>>>>>> those responsible, who are they, and what do we call them" (hanging being a >>>>>>> metaphor) and "once the king is dead, who shall be king (if anyone), >>>>>>> and how shall we live"? And "do we want to be informed or participate?" >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Take Greenspan's awakening, for example. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.theguardian.com_business_2008_oct_24_economics-2Dcreditcrunch-2Dfederal-2Dreserve-2Dgreenspan&d=DwIFaQ&c=eLbWYnpnzycBCgmb7vCI4uqNEB9RSjOdn_5nBEmmeq0&r=HPo1IXYDhKClogP-UOpybo6Cfxxz-jIYBgjO2gOz4-A&m=FcJBOAoBUt5bsSiVYXRjd8FQpeny2u7grBrHa1L-Hr0&s=F0K82pQqB6oCPnUFCcxj4mOAzGTbp5dn5a4-WlYWmHw&e= >>>>>>> <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.theguardian.com_business_2008_oct_24_economics-2Dcreditcrunch-2Dfederal-2Dreserve-2Dgreenspan&d=DwMFaQ&c=eLbWYnpnzycBCgmb7vCI4uqNEB9RSjOdn_5nBEmmeq0&r=HPo1IXYDhKClogP-UOpybo6Cfxxz-jIYBgjO2gOz4-A&m=D-9ZbkJ3UKJEqsE3Xl0MZ4WVjgIoHLzqIgKsT1Zylng&s=_d3QKD3iGMOSBKKVcI4PDm2FY7wggfASObJQ1wc65K8&e=> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> How could a society structure its economy on a model of infinite >>>>>>> growth in the first place? >>>>>>> A presumption that based on interest in one's own resources, one >>>>>>> would take good care of them and shepherd them well - with no >>>>>>> built-in safe guard for someone to sound an alarm, and practiced >>>>>>> routine of changed behavior that would allow a gentle >>>>>>> slide into a recession. We don't have any such safeguards, and this >>>>>>> is why in 2008 I called and wrote to Hank Paulson (Sec. >>>>>>> Treasury) from my office at the University of Pittsburgh the Friday >>>>>>> before Black Monday, pleading for him to use all >>>>>>> carrot and no stick, lest a lending freeze hold the bail-out money >>>>>>> for months. My solution was a sliding scale incentive plan: >>>>>>> The lower the interest rate banks offered to consumers, the larger >>>>>>> the size of the bailout a bank could obtain, and the better >>>>>>> the terms of the payback (longer terms, lower interest) to the Fed. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Equitably incentivized transactions at such times would appear to me >>>>>>> to dictate such terms - not further trust in >>>>>>> the survival instincts of drowning institutions. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Paulson ignored my pleas, instead he forced banks to accept bail-out >>>>>>> they did not need to "legitimize" the loans. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> The banks froze for 3 three months, and millions lost their homes. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> The absence of creative thought in economic modeling - in spite of >>>>>>> trillions of dollars worth of computers and software in which >>>>>>> simulations could be run to find good outcomes - to me an example of >>>>>>> is symptomatic of a larger pathology; parameterizing a strategy (and its >>>>>>> models) to an end that serves as a means to its own ends *because >>>>>>> doing so sanctifies the authority*. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> As base as that may seem, Left and Right have no meaning if their >>>>>>> shuffling of platforms are based on >>>>>>> multivariate versions of "Split the country and take the bigger >>>>>>> half", which they are. They are based on projections of surrogate outcomes >>>>>>> (elections) not long-term health of the country, economy, etc. I'm >>>>>>> convinced the two parties would survive quite well side by >>>>>>> side regardless of the type of economy or (nearly) government that >>>>>>> ruled the US. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> So who is culpable for not imagining and sharing such better ways? >>>>>>> Surely they have been imagined? >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Is it the drama players themselves? >>>>>>> The witting and unwitting electorate? >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Are there meta-influences who ride the ebbing political waves like >>>>>>> an investor >>>>>>> who knows how to make money when the stock market both rises and >>>>>>> falls? >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Or do societies flail - and fail - from the emergent properties of >>>>>>> self-serving nature of humans, who see fit to limit >>>>>>> themselves to conformed mold? >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Something else? >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Does for-profit medicine lead to medical injuries being the 3rd >>>>>>> leading cause of death by institutional negligence, or >>>>>>> personal callous disregard? More importantly - what do we do NOW to >>>>>>> address it? >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Reflect for a moment on why we so thoroughly enmesh our identities >>>>>>> with our positions, and why are we not warned (and do not warn those >>>>>>> we mentor) that to do so means risk of suffering an unwarranted >>>>>>> crisis should your position change? >>>>>>> >>>>>>> I imagine that there are many, many axes of morality - defined by >>>>>>> their ability to render useful and not harmful process solutions, which >>>>>>> sit right before us, but to which we are blinded by our >>>>>>> socialization and education: >>>>>>> >>>>>>> *-Conformity to the majority* >>>>>>> *-Appeal to (or deference) to authority* >>>>>>> *-Vague, inexact or unestimated "greater good" cost/benefit >>>>>>> calculations * >>>>>>> >>>>>>> I'm sure everyone can extend this list of behaviors that become >>>>>>> "default mode" operations that may have worked >>>>>>> optimally in our tribal and small village past. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> But now, we confuse "principles" with "process solutions". >>>>>>> Principles are subjective and experience-based, and >>>>>>> often outmoded by a rapidly changing world. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Principles are held onto dearly, and in staying with them are left >>>>>>> unscathed by later-life experience. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Process solutions are continuously optimized via intelligence and >>>>>>> tested by objective empirical evidence. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> "Principles" can collide and cause societal conflict. "Process >>>>>>> solutions" cannot collide, they can only enmesh and adjust to each >>>>>>> other toward some optimal solution. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> There are many possible outcomes for tomorrow given where we stand >>>>>>> today. Are we forbidden or >>>>>>> constrained from using the full suite of tools we have mastered to >>>>>>> envision a peaceful, creative, caring, even loving future? >>>>>>> >>>>>>> I don't know if you've noticed but there is a rising tide of >>>>>>> anti-scientism in the US - and it is not anti-science by any means. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> In part that is because those who call for objective science remain >>>>>>> heralded (for better or worse). >>>>>>> >>>>>>> My overt concern (not yet a fear) is a restructuring based on >>>>>>> partial comprehension of science, sociology, psychology, >>>>>>> education, economics, and that we may fall short of a society that >>>>>>> preserves liberties and freedom that permit >>>>>>> evolution or even free expression in these areas. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> My fear is that the collective academe in the US will wake up too >>>>>>> slowly to the reality that at 16.8% of our GDP, 3,600 >>>>>>> billion dollars are spent on (largely) for-profit healthcare; that >>>>>>> means that 1/6 dollars are being spent on for-profit medicine, and >>>>>>> the cost of healthcare is expected to rise dramatically. How will we >>>>>>> pay for the rest of what is needed to have a functioning >>>>>>> society? >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Most importantly I think is what process solutions can be envisioned >>>>>>> to reform an unsustainable model based on infinite growth? >>>>>>> >>>>>>> And what other sectors are pathological at this time, and what >>>>>>> process solutions might exist to help them improve as well? >>>>>>> >>>>>>> I don't think we can expect all of the answers here, but surely some >>>>>>> answers must exist. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> JLW >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> On Mon, Jul 20, 2020 at 12:13 AM Cory David Barker < >>>>>>> [log in to unmask]> wrote: >>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Read Sonnert and Commons >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.google.com_url-3Fsa-3Dt-26source-3Dweb-26rct-3Dj-26url-3Dhttps-3A__files.eric.ed.gov_fulltext_ED348600.pdf-26ved-3D2ahUKEwiPzMLk-2DtrqAhXELH0KHS5ZAs4QFjABegQIBBAB-26usg-3DAOvVaw1LOvMInu3N1o9iEJvVY8YB&d=DwIFaQ&c=eLbWYnpnzycBCgmb7vCI4uqNEB9RSjOdn_5nBEmmeq0&r=HPo1IXYDhKClogP-UOpybo6Cfxxz-jIYBgjO2gOz4-A&m=FcJBOAoBUt5bsSiVYXRjd8FQpeny2u7grBrHa1L-Hr0&s=bR9XIj9bCxsFmuivZo1BPITOjuAKGwpkMyAozf68sNs&e= >>>>>>>> <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.google.com_url-3Fsa-3Dt-26source-3Dweb-26rct-3Dj-26url-3Dhttps-3A__files.eric.ed.gov_fulltext_ED348600.pdf-26ved-3D2ahUKEwiPzMLk-2DtrqAhXELH0KHS5ZAs4QFjABegQIBBAB-26usg-3DAOvVaw1LOvMInu3N1o9iEJvVY8YB&d=DwMFaQ&c=eLbWYnpnzycBCgmb7vCI4uqNEB9RSjOdn_5nBEmmeq0&r=HPo1IXYDhKClogP-UOpybo6Cfxxz-jIYBgjO2gOz4-A&m=dV8LmVFnbOlj5VxkDUn5xSaqWHr5MCLS6uIA6M5o_K4&s=vlgU37ZZpN-_qz8Vk57BXX2HdUErNlYpohaDAUae824&e=> >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Cory >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> On Sun, Jul 19, 2020, 7:38 PM James Lyons-Weiler < >>>>>>>> [log in to unmask]> wrote: >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> With your permission, may I inquire on opinions and discussion of >>>>>>>>> root causes of the sociological developments in societies of the current >>>>>>>>> suite of what are easily - and not so easily recognized as societal >>>>>>>>> dysfunctions. My intended scope is US-centric, but need not be. I'll >>>>>>>>> initiate by listing a few issues. Which ones are causal? Which one are >>>>>>>>> symptomatic? >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> *Profit interesting bending Science (esp. medicine and psychiatry) >>>>>>>>> *Financial perverse incentives distorting Science >>>>>>>>> *Lack of meaningful ROI of research translating to effective >>>>>>>>> solutions >>>>>>>>> *"Left vs. Right focus" masking top-down control (cf. middle-out >>>>>>>>> or bottom-up) solutions >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> Please add to/extend as you like. >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> We need not agree, of course, but I am keen to see perspectives >>>>>>>>> and learn of voices willing to try to *name the issue* and offer >>>>>>>>> a definition. >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> It need not be an "ism", but I suspect it is on the scale of "*Imperialism, >>>>>>>>> Nazism, Communism*". >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> Lately I've been enamored with the phrase "Process Solution"; ie., >>>>>>>>> the identification of an ever-improving process that makes the >>>>>>>>> identification and adoption of a viable and helpful (valuable) solution >>>>>>>>> more likely - so if you have process solutions in mind and if they help >>>>>>>>> w/finding a name due to the present absence of that solution, I'd be eager >>>>>>>>> to learn of them. >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> James Lyons-Weiler, PhD >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> On Sun, Jul 19, 2020 at 5:56 PM Chance McDermott < >>>>>>>>> [log in to unmask]> wrote: >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> I support Gregg in this! >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> =Chance >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> On Sun, Jul 19, 2020 at 10:39 AM Cole Butler <[log in to unmask]> >>>>>>>>>> wrote: >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>> Well said, Gregg. >>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>> I’ve not been following this Pinker controversy (nor am I >>>>>>>>>>> acquainted with his work), but your points regarding contextualization of >>>>>>>>>>> the broader socio-political landscape of the US (and West, more broadly) >>>>>>>>>>> and the idealogical protection of egos so as to avoid offense both speak to >>>>>>>>>>> me. Within the smaller circles of my work, I’ve lately seen the science and >>>>>>>>>>> greater mission of our work threatened to be crumbled under the fear of >>>>>>>>>>> offending some big personalities. This is quite worrisome from my position, >>>>>>>>>>> as others seem to be apt to deferring these feelings toward me. I hope >>>>>>>>>>> that, within the academy and more broadly, we can work to be able to speak >>>>>>>>>>> freely [even when it threatens offending others (I’m not speaking here in >>>>>>>>>>> the context of race)] in the name of the ultimate ideal of helping others >>>>>>>>>>> through high-quality work. >>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>> Best, >>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>> Cole >>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>> On Sun, Jul 19, 2020 at 8:28 AM Michael Mascolo < >>>>>>>>>>> [log in to unmask]> wrote: >>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>>> Good, courageous work, Gregg. >>>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>>> M. >>>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>>> *Michael F. Mascolo, Ph.D.* >>>>>>>>>>>> Academic Director, Compass Program >>>>>>>>>>>> Professor, Department of Psychology >>>>>>>>>>>> Merrimack College, North Andover, MA 01845 >>>>>>>>>>>> 978.837.3503 (office) >>>>>>>>>>>> 978.979.8745 (cell) >>>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>>> Political Conversations Study: *www.CreatingCommonGround.org >>>>>>>>>>>> <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.creatingcommonground.org_&d=DwMFaQ&c=eLbWYnpnzycBCgmb7vCI4uqNEB9RSjOdn_5nBEmmeq0&r=HPo1IXYDhKClogP-UOpybo6Cfxxz-jIYBgjO2gOz4-A&m=aHGv2k0oV6dpAydV2ONDDuK5xZ5sLdP71WDfMW0XbNI&s=K2PXF679Gi2-qOfSEWxrsP_JOpf0k8E6dg80DGz9IqM&e=>* >>>>>>>>>>>> Blog: Values Matter >>>>>>>>>>>> <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.psychologytoday.com_us_blog_values-2Dmatter&d=DwMFaQ&c=eLbWYnpnzycBCgmb7vCI4uqNEB9RSjOdn_5nBEmmeq0&r=HPo1IXYDhKClogP-UOpybo6Cfxxz-jIYBgjO2gOz4-A&m=aHGv2k0oV6dpAydV2ONDDuK5xZ5sLdP71WDfMW0XbNI&s=yoB292j9_vxRNqpQUYPBaOqDuedD76JIVrr_rGIdgpg&e=> >>>>>>>>>>>> Journal: Pedagogy and the Human Sciences >>>>>>>>>>>> <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__scholarworks.merrimack.edu_phs_&d=DwMFaQ&c=eLbWYnpnzycBCgmb7vCI4uqNEB9RSjOdn_5nBEmmeq0&r=HPo1IXYDhKClogP-UOpybo6Cfxxz-jIYBgjO2gOz4-A&m=aHGv2k0oV6dpAydV2ONDDuK5xZ5sLdP71WDfMW0XbNI&s=pMuXe7MRO8Fbz4zNYqxauhFcWuqQ_AaAKsgiRHLpdkw&e=> >>>>>>>>>>>> Coaching and Author Website: www.michaelmascolo.com >>>>>>>>>>>> <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.michaelmascolo.com_&d=DwMFaQ&c=eLbWYnpnzycBCgmb7vCI4uqNEB9RSjOdn_5nBEmmeq0&r=HPo1IXYDhKClogP-UOpybo6Cfxxz-jIYBgjO2gOz4-A&m=aHGv2k0oV6dpAydV2ONDDuK5xZ5sLdP71WDfMW0XbNI&s=xAveSTJvhhxN43vKuO2aTElVIXp4b4RzpdaQOzSldjM&e=> >>>>>>>>>>>> Academia Home Page: >>>>>>>>>>>> https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__merrimack.academia.edu_MichaelMascolo&d=DwIFaQ&c=eLbWYnpnzycBCgmb7vCI4uqNEB9RSjOdn_5nBEmmeq0&r=HPo1IXYDhKClogP-UOpybo6Cfxxz-jIYBgjO2gOz4-A&m=FcJBOAoBUt5bsSiVYXRjd8FQpeny2u7grBrHa1L-Hr0&s=zyvk_7eElIemf7lM-wkjBwI5ACm0j5Iv-as11Oc0O7k&e= >>>>>>>>>>>> <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__merrimack.academia.edu_MichaelMascolo&d=DwMFaQ&c=eLbWYnpnzycBCgmb7vCI4uqNEB9RSjOdn_5nBEmmeq0&r=HPo1IXYDhKClogP-UOpybo6Cfxxz-jIYBgjO2gOz4-A&m=aHGv2k0oV6dpAydV2ONDDuK5xZ5sLdP71WDfMW0XbNI&s=LaEf5oyTeHm6B6f1Rf8Xx3f5cHf3mX6F0vvBXpOXARY&e=> >>>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>>> "*Things move, persons act.*" -- Kenneth Burke >>>>>>>>>>>> "*If it's not worth doing, it's not worth doing well*." -- >>>>>>>>>>>> Donald Hebb >>>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>>> On Jul 19, 2020, at 8:18 AM, Henriques, Gregg - henriqgx < >>>>>>>>>>>> [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>> wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>>> Hi TOK Folks, >>>>>>>>>>>> I thought I would share this post I made this morning on the >>>>>>>>>>>> metamodern forum I am on: >>>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>>> Hi All, >>>>>>>>>>>> I think when discussing these issues, such as the petition >>>>>>>>>>>> against Pinker, the Harper letter, and so forth, it is crucial to >>>>>>>>>>>> distinguish the setting/community/cultural context folks have in mind. For >>>>>>>>>>>> example, there is the United States as a whole. That might be one >>>>>>>>>>>> contextual setting. When folks look at the US as a whole, then you see >>>>>>>>>>>> Donald Trump as the President and you see the history of slavery and Jim >>>>>>>>>>>> Crow and the remarkable inequities, and much like *@handrews* >>>>>>>>>>>> <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__forum.metamoderna.org_u_handrews&d=DwMFaQ&c=eLbWYnpnzycBCgmb7vCI4uqNEB9RSjOdn_5nBEmmeq0&r=wjF8cZoiFchamTuxBdDEmw&m=_lla770peQlgRBFfwJwSfFiONQdygXo-fy8wGS3q6Ak&s=oF_YzrY5UCQAolXMPE6cNw9JH0qdAlyWGQslIJHNo3Q&e=> >>>>>>>>>>>> argues, the general complaints about word usage or political >>>>>>>>>>>> positions seem small potatoes. >>>>>>>>>>>> However, when we flip the context to inside the academia or >>>>>>>>>>>> leftist media centers or other left-leaning ideological contexts, the issue >>>>>>>>>>>> is VERY different. I can tell you, I live in the academy, in the social >>>>>>>>>>>> sciences (professional psychology) and the climate here is very different. >>>>>>>>>>>> We are MUCH closer to thought/language police than people seem to realize. >>>>>>>>>>>> Virtue signaling is everywhere, as is an almost Orwellian use of language >>>>>>>>>>>> regarding justice and morality (i.e., more often than not in such contexts, >>>>>>>>>>>> IMO, those who are doing the moralizing and shaming are not operating from >>>>>>>>>>>> a “higher ground”). Not only that, I believe much of it is ideologically >>>>>>>>>>>> misguided. Academics bending over backwards to eliminate anything that >>>>>>>>>>>> could be subjectively perceived by a person educated in postmodern critical >>>>>>>>>>>> race theory as being offensive is not where real change is to be had, IMO. >>>>>>>>>>>> Rather, as I saw firsthand in working on the inner city streets of >>>>>>>>>>>> Philadelphia from 1999-2003, there are deep class/race/structural issues >>>>>>>>>>>> that need to be tackled head on. >>>>>>>>>>>> If one is situated in the academy, one should object strongly >>>>>>>>>>>> to the letter against Pinker. It justifies language police, which is a >>>>>>>>>>>> problem inside hyper-progressive systems and much of the academy has been >>>>>>>>>>>> (is are being) captured by this troubling ideology (*see the >>>>>>>>>>>> footnote on pg 122 of this article I wrote* >>>>>>>>>>>> <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.gregghenriques.com_uploads_2_4_3_6_24368778_toward-5Fa-5Fuseful-5Fmass-5Fmovement.pdf&d=DwMFaQ&c=eLbWYnpnzycBCgmb7vCI4uqNEB9RSjOdn_5nBEmmeq0&r=wjF8cZoiFchamTuxBdDEmw&m=_lla770peQlgRBFfwJwSfFiONQdygXo-fy8wGS3q6Ak&s=MQ4zFryRZc6-i4sQiqrZFYHGgOzw33TjzpSB-H2qAOQ&e=> >>>>>>>>>>>> back in 2005). The bottom line is that we are living in >>>>>>>>>>>> massively polarized socio-ideological >>>>>>>>>>>> ecologies and because context is everything there are rarely >>>>>>>>>>>> general positions (i.e., Pinker letter was “bad” versus “an important >>>>>>>>>>>> signal”) that are defensible without specifying the context to apply to >>>>>>>>>>>> argument. Inside the context of academy, the Pinker letter is horrendous >>>>>>>>>>>> and the signatories should be embarrassed for their actions. In the larger >>>>>>>>>>>> context of a society that has elected Trump, it can be seen as a small >>>>>>>>>>>> issue that maybe oversteps but makes an important point on principle. >>>>>>>>>>>> My hope is that those who operate from a metamodern sensibility >>>>>>>>>>>> would have the general capacity to see that the extreme polarization in the >>>>>>>>>>>> US (which is probably infecting the West) is a function of inadequate >>>>>>>>>>>> cultural codes being defined against one another in problematic ways. We >>>>>>>>>>>> need to disentangle those conflicts, eliminate weak positions, and work to >>>>>>>>>>>> seek and create common ground based on a clear, rich sophisticated >>>>>>>>>>>> sense-making and deep value codes that can stretch across the >>>>>>>>>>>> socio-ecological levels of (in)dividual, dyadic, family, small group, >>>>>>>>>>>> community, state, nation, transnational and global. >>>>>>>>>>>> Best, >>>>>>>>>>>> Gregg >>>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>>> ############################ >>>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>>> To unsubscribe from the TOK-SOCIETY-L list: write to: >>>>>>>>>>>> mailto:[log in to unmask] or click >>>>>>>>>>>> the following link: >>>>>>>>>>>> http://listserv.jmu.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=TOK-SOCIETY-L&A=1 >>>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>>> ############################ >>>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>>> To unsubscribe from the TOK-SOCIETY-L list: write to: >>>>>>>>>>>> mailto:[log in to unmask] or click >>>>>>>>>>>> the following link: >>>>>>>>>>>> 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