[Etymology of] Empathy

At the top of the hierarchy of selves that defines us, there exists a kind of capability that we can best describe as empathy. ... The English word “empathy” was suggested in 1908 by a pair of psychologists. They based its meaning from the German word Einfühlung and the Greek “em” for “in” and “pathos” for “feeling”. Although ... See more

Don’t Panic, Know Where Your Towel Is 9.22.2020 Medium

1. The basic technique is to maintain a ferment of strong emotions and attach them to the topic of the moment.

2. The technique is profitable and a path to political power.

3. Politicians give the illusion of stability by creating a narrative that it’s us vs. them; we’re the good guys, and they’re... See more

Christopher Alexander’s pattern languages can be introduced in a creative, conversational design process in several key ways:

— As a framework for design conversations — ... Pattern languages provide a shared vocabulary and structure

— To spur creative re-framing — pattern languages encourages designers to re-see design challenges from different per... See more

"Narrative and Database: Natural Symbionts” N. Katherine Hayles PMLA , Oct., 2007, Vol. 122, No. 5, Special Topic: Remapping Genre (Oct., 2007),pp. 1603-1608

1. Narratives and databases need each other; narratives give meaning to datapoints, and narratives need databases for cultural authority and to test whether assertions can be generalized.

2. Na... See more

Jordan Hall Game A Problems 4.4.2021

1.Game A Governments and toolkits can’t handle complex problems.

2. Complicated systems don’t have enough computing power to bound complex systems.

3. Complicated models of complex systems rely on rounding errors that lead to black swans.

4. Tainter Boundary Problems:

A. Regenerative capacity of complex natural syste... See more

Inside the Trump machine: the bizarre psychology of America’s newest political movement Gwynn Guilford 4.1.2016

1. Hitler’s melancholia-paranoia-megolamania rhetorical style, and Trump’s class kinship (he says what they believe & gives them permission to be themselves.)

2. Roger Money-Kyrle: The people seemed gradually to lose their individuality an... See more

You can have an article that’s completely correct with all the facts it cites, but that leaves out so much other stuff and so much other context that you’re getting a completely deceptive understanding of what’s occurring, even though nothing has been said that’s factually incorrect, and none of the fact checkers will have any problems with it.

the-... See more

Illich — his spirituality if we can put it that way for brevity's sake was

something ... intimate ...it was very real and ... [not] that kind of

dragging it out in order to make his points more convincing or to give it a

kind of authority that's borrowed from religion as if the faith becomes a

means towards something other than itself

DO 93 LM Sacassas

Kranzberg’s First Law: “Technology is neither good nor bad; nor is it neutral.”

Kranzberg's Laws Of Technology LM Sacasas 8.25.2011