<html>
<head>
<meta content="text/html; charset=windows-1252"
http-equiv="Content-Type">
</head>
<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000">
I think Virginia Postrel nailed it with her division between
dynamists and stasists. Either can be politically or culturally
"right" or "left", but the difference is whether they believe in an
open future. Stasists think that either we should avoid change
because the past was better, or the future is dangerous so it must
be regulated. Dynamists are optimistic and want to explore the
different options. <br>
<br>
Thin cat capitalists would be the dynamist free marketers (while
many classical fat cats have vested interests that make them stasist
indeed). And even many of the people who abhor markets are
essentially thin cats - eager to disrupt the status quo, to freely
explore new ways of doing things that might be better or are just
curious.<br>
<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://lesswrong.com/lw/ipm/a_map_of_bay_area_memespace/">http://lesswrong.com/lw/ipm/a_map_of_bay_area_memespace/</a><br>
<br>
On 2016-05-02 15:40, spike wrote:<br>
<blockquote cite="mid:008901d1a480$8c4caf20$a4e60d60$@att.net"
type="cite">
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;
charset=windows-1252">
<meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 15 (filtered
medium)">
<style><!--
/* Font Definitions */
@font-face
{font-family:"Cambria Math";
panose-1:2 4 5 3 5 4 6 3 2 4;}
@font-face
{font-family:Calibri;
panose-1:2 15 5 2 2 2 4 3 2 4;}
@font-face
{font-family:Consolas;
panose-1:2 11 6 9 2 2 4 3 2 4;}
/* Style Definitions */
p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal
{margin:0in;
margin-bottom:.0001pt;
font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;
color:black;}
a:link, span.MsoHyperlink
{mso-style-priority:99;
color:blue;
text-decoration:underline;}
a:visited, span.MsoHyperlinkFollowed
{mso-style-priority:99;
color:purple;
text-decoration:underline;}
pre
{mso-style-priority:99;
mso-style-link:"HTML Preformatted Char";
margin:0in;
margin-bottom:.0001pt;
font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New";
color:black;}
p.msonormal0, li.msonormal0, div.msonormal0
{mso-style-name:msonormal;
mso-margin-top-alt:auto;
margin-right:0in;
mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
margin-left:0in;
font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;
color:black;}
span.HTMLPreformattedChar
{mso-style-name:"HTML Preformatted Char";
mso-style-priority:99;
mso-style-link:"HTML Preformatted";
font-family:"Consolas",serif;
color:black;}
span.EmailStyle20
{mso-style-type:personal-reply;
font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;
color:windowtext;}
.MsoChpDefault
{mso-style-type:export-only;
font-size:10.0pt;}
@page WordSection1
{size:8.5in 11.0in;
margin:1.0in 1.0in 1.0in 1.0in;}
div.WordSection1
{page:WordSection1;}
--></style><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
<o:shapedefaults v:ext="edit" spidmax="1026" />
</xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
<o:shapelayout v:ext="edit">
<o:idmap v:ext="edit" data="1" />
</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]-->
<div class="WordSection1">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext"><o:p> </o:p></span><span
style="color:windowtext">>…</span>(I wonder if one could
make something like catnip for humans? <span
style="color:windowtext"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext">Isn’t
that marijuana? Just askin’, I’m no guru in these matters.
From what I have seen, the hipsters hooting on reefers are
of no more use than a cat with her paws on the nip or the
mare in the loco weed.</span></p>
</div>
</blockquote>
<br>
I think they work very differently; catnip seems to affect the
social signalling and happiness networks rather than the
cannabinoids. There are of course many nice changes to
neurochemistry conceivable (some that even make you perform
usefully...)<br>
<br>
</body>
</html>