[ExI] book review

[William Flynn Wallace]

So, Spike, did you find any of Blueprints' ideas objectionable?

bill w

On Sat, Jan 8, 2022 at 1:11 AM spike jones via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

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> >…Blueprint: the evolutionary origins of a good society - Nicholas
> Christakis - M.D. Ph. D. Harvard …   bill w
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> I read most of Christakis’ book and agree with billw: it’s good.  I was in
> a hurry and skimmed parts of it.  A bit of a slow starter as Bill pointed
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> Fun aside: a bit over 2 yrs ago (before covid started) Blueprint was hot
> off the press.  I was in Denver at a wedding.  Being an early riser, I went
> downstairs in the hotel and met a man, struck up a conversation.  He was
> about 50, hard hard core social justice warrior.  I found him most pleasant
> and entertaining, so I kept asking questions and letting him do most of the
> talking, which he was happy to do.
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> The interesting part about this was he hated insurance companies, hated
> the concept of insurance, health insurance in particular, which is so
> strange because he worked for a health insurance company.  I have no
> heartburn with the concept at all.  What made that whole discussion so
> interesting is that this guy was attacking his own industry as I (kinda
> halfheartedly) defended.  Further irony: the young lady whose wedding I was
> attending works for the hospital system in getting insurance companies to
> pay the bills.
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> He was reading Blueprint.  So… I ordered a copy of it, liked it.  I am not
> endorsing all of Cristakis’ notions, just that I found the book and the
> deeply conflicted insurance exec most interesting.
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