[ExI] Meta question again

William Flynn Wallace foozler83 at gmail.com
Thu Aug 25 16:06:26 UTC 2016


How water, or an economic situation feels is highly dependent on what
you are used to.  keith

Here is the full shebang:

.://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_exchange_theory

Look down for Comparison Level theory

bill w

On Thu, Aug 25, 2016 at 10:59 AM, Keith Henson <hkeithhenson at gmail.com>
wrote:

>  On Thu, Aug 25, 2016 at 8:22 AM, William Flynn Wallace
> <foozler83 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I.e., if we want less crazy in US politics, it take fixing the
> > economic outlook for a large segment of the population.  keith
> >
> > You are likely right.  But the irony is that about 95% of the world's
> > population would love to be here, even in the lower classes.  Someone
> said
> > that this is the first generation in a long time where the kids will not
> be
> > better off than the parents.
>
> Not irony, physiology.  Classic experiment:  How can the same bucket
> of water feel both warm and cold?  Soak one hand in hot water, the
> other in cold water then put them both in a bucket of lukewarm water.
> How water, or an economic situation feels is highly dependent on what
> you are used to.
>
> > Did you get all you wanted out of the irrational discussion?
>
> I hope it was not "irrational discussion."   The intent was to explain
> how genes can wire up human behavioral mechanisms to act in what is
> irrational from a human's perspective while being rational from the
> perspective of the genes.  Maybe discussion about how behavior is
> irrational from one viewpoint and rational from another.
>
> Keith
>
>
> > bill w
> >
> > On Thu, Aug 25, 2016 at 10:06 AM, Keith Henson <hkeithhenson at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >>
> >> Regardless of how this election turns out, I think we mostly
> >> understand the reason for the rise of crazy in politics in the US.
> >> It's fundamentally rooted in the falling expectations of a large
> >> fraction of the population.
> >>
> >> http://www.vox.com/2016/8/24/12552602/breitbart-trump-explained
> >>
> >> Things like this simply would not have happened when the future was
> >> looking good.
> >>
> >> I.e., if we want less crazy in US politics, it take fixing the
> >> economic outlook for a large segment of the population.
> >>
> >> Best wishes,
> >>
> >> Keith
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