<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div dir="ltr"><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div dir="ltr"><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div dir="ltr">I’ll just say at this point, </div><div dir="ltr">What a weird thread to have associated with my name. </div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Masks, frilly dresses, hiking, bears. Just another reason I love this list. </div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">A psychology lab could come up with, if it doesn’t already exist, a protocol to measure ‘consideration for others’ if that is a valid construct. Sounds to me like Conscientious in part. And it opposes selfishness but is not quite selflessness. It’s not quite altruism either. I’m not sure how humility would be measured btw. </div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">-Henry</div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">On Aug 6, 2020, at 5:10 PM, spike jones via extropy-chat <extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 15 (filtered medium)"><style><!--
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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div style="border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in"><p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> extropy-chat <extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org> <b>On Behalf Of </b>Dan <o:p></o:p></p></div></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">>…My hypothetical example wasn’t meant as me saying everything is political (though I believe just about anything can be politicized). It was meant to illustrate how non-conformity is contextual. Imagine a straight thirty year old male wearing a frilly dress. Is that non-conformity in action? Well, not if he’s doing the Mount Saint Helens Mother’s Day Hike. He probably is non-conforming, though, if he wears it to the Fourth of July picnic and he’s the only male there doing that.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Regards,<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Dan<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">Oh OK cool got it, thanks Dan.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">Regarding wearing frilly dresses and such, I am the most conformist person you will ever meet. Well, sorta. I found a source where I could get military surplus wool field trousers manufactured for army guys in 1951. It’s in my favorite color: olive drab. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">So I bought a dozen pairs of them and discovered I could actually wear something without modification directly off the shelf because of my oddball size (28 inch waist, 35 length). I just donated the last of every other pair of trousers I own. So now my trousers are all nearly 70 yrs old. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">Now that I think about it however… that isn’t conformist either really. I am the only person I have ever seen wearing such absurdly retro garb, outside an old John Wayne movie.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">OK then. I guess I hafta face the facts: I am just weird.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">However, BillW’s Hex scale should have a B factor. I would totally dominate that, for I am the most boring person in the world. Or rather I thought so, until I started bragging it up and several other fellers proposed a boring competition. I was winning, going for the world record in boring, but as soon as I achieved that, I was the world record holder which is interesting and they took my trophy from me and my record from me. Damn.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">spike<o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div></div><span>_______________________________________________</span><br><span>extropy-chat mailing list</span><br><span>extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</span><br><span>http://lists.extropy.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/extropy-chat</span><br></div></blockquote></div></div></body></html>