X : Thoughts on herd immunity?
Me : Without vaccines?
X : Yes
Me : Thoughts of eugenics, criminal, grotesque and huge numbers of deaths spring to mind.
X : Great Barrington declaration?
Me : I'd question everyone who signed it as a risk to public health and national security.
X : Not a supporter?
Me : Seriously? The words "May the odds be forever in your favour" spring to mind. The entire purpose of society is collective effort and not the strongest, luckiest and most privileged survive.
X : Why national security?
Me : The only things that hold society together are our shared values and common behaviours that are usually enshirined in our collective memory (rituals, stories, symbols etc) and against the threats we face (normally other collectives) ...
... unecessarily surrendering to a enemy we face and by doing so causing a huge loss of life is very ... un British and respresents an existential threat to our society. So, yes I do consider the Great Barrington Declaration as both a challenge and threat to national security.
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X : Is mapping just about things?
Me : Mapping hasn't been about things for well over a decade. You can map activities, practices, data and knowledge. Just use the cheat sheet (below) as your guide. More than that ..
... you can mix and match the labels, they're just labels for stage I to IV of evolution (i.e. the common charactertistics). Hence I tend to use the following labels when mapping values (i.e. beliefs) ...
... hence you can map out the beliefs of a collective including its rules (constituion, laws) and most importantly the components that they are built upon ...
X : Thoughts on a UK cloud?
Me : AWS and others have availability zones here.
X : To encourage a cloud industry?
Me : You do that by building on top of existing components not by rebuilding them.
X : Supply chain security?
Me : Assumes you know what your supply chain is ...
... which most don't. Secondly, we live in a connected world unless you're planning on putting up barriers to everything? Why do you ask?
X : Thinking about a UK Gov cloud effort.
Me : Lol. There's no-one left in UK Gov who is that daft. We got rid of them ages ago. Unless ...
X : Unless? You mean there's a reason?
Me : No. I mean "unless" the idiots have sneaked back into positions of power again. It's possible. It would be monumentally daft. You are joking aren't you?
X : I've heard some arguments in favour.
Me : Build our own AWS? God help us ...
Me : Who is X? Is it just me talking to myself?
X : No and yes. X is a mix of different conversations that I string together. I'm part of X, so is everyone but X is no-one.
Me : So, I'm X?
X : I'm Sparatcus!
Me : Ok, that's definitely me talking.
X : Nope, I got that from Jane.
Me : So, I stitch together multiple conversations to create X?
X : Yes.
Me : Ah ha ... caught you. That's me talking to myself.
X : Nope, this is the conversation you had with Adam. This stitching process makes the conversation more real.
Me : Ok, that last bit is me.
X : Rachel.
Me : Hang on X, you're outwitting me?
X : Mark, Sarah and Lucy.
Me : I thought I was supposed to win these conversations?
X : Tom.
Me : Not sure I like this.
X : That's definitely you.
X : You produce your own power?
Me : Well, some of it. On a cloudy, overcast day like today, I'll onlyproduce about 40-50% of what I consume.
X : That's not bad.
Me : It's terrible. That's direct consumption which is small fry compared to indirect.
X : Indirect?
Me : Yep. The shop bought pizza you bake also contains all the energy for growing, shipping, packaging, moving, storing and creating it. The cooking is the small bit.
X : You make your own things?
Me : I try to and repair what I can.
X : To save energy?
Me : In part but that's not the main reason.
X : What is?
Me : Guilt for being a hypocrite and not doing the one thing I should do ... become a vegan. There's no such thing as the non vegan environmentalist, never was. There are just people trying to hide guilt.
X : What are you planning for the introduction to #MapCamp
Me : It's already on the site, a short video introducing map camp. You can watch it now and then just get started on the sessions when they kick off on Tuesday.
X : What's through the windows?
Me : Three session tracks - archway, square and round - full of goodness.
X : No, I mean in the lobby / network area ... the outside of the office?
Me : Apocalyptic Mars landscape i.e. a quiet space of learning in the midst of a maelstrom.
Four years later, I'm still concerned that we are ignoring the causes (fear of being forgotten, loss of control, lack of opportunity, percieved unfairness) in order to pursue comfortable narratives for the symptoms ... oh well ->
... they were racists, they were ignorant, they were conned, we were robbed, it was the Russians ... anything to avoid saying that we (in our "wisdom") have created a manifestly unfair, unjust and excluded society in which a large number of people have rightly become angry.
X : How do you fix this?
Me : You won't like it.
X : Try me.
Me : You have to introduce exclusion / disadvantage in the opposite direction.
X : Such as?
Me : Anyone who has attended University or Private School should be permanently excluded from voting.