This time is [not] different, but where's that Wile E. Coyote Moment?

[Michael Bailey]

 Keith Davis wrote:

> Talking to Bled, or Alice?!
>
>
glad to clarify...
in particular "holding their own destructive capabilities in abeyance"
relates to a train of thought I've been riding, i do a little thinking on
economics and current events from time to time and even less reading:
so, I read somewhere about how part of the added value that owners of
enterprises is the ability of a group to do more than the sum of individual
efforts, so the "owner" reaps disproportionate rewards for the same, or
often *much less* effort, than the enterprise pays other participants

2 lines of questioning arise from that:
a) exactly what is being rewarded, ie, if i own a share of a company, what
have i contributed that entitles me to such a handout?  defenders and
attackers alike tend to become emotional about this question...as for me, a
fairly dispassionate person in many respects, (excepting comma placement
and other interesting word issues, and the well being of people i care for
which includes but is not limited to relatives and friends and so forth...)
- it seems like what is being rewarded is previous effort, maybe?  of
course, if the provenance of the investment is cloudy it tends to abnegate
any self-righteousness on the part of said "owner"...I could follow this
down any number of interesting rabbit holes, and so could you, no doubt...

b) the other line is how wage workers and other non-owner participants give
up ("opportunity cost") their own potential leadership (except to the
extent that they creamlike rise within a group (assuming there's an up and
down in the group, which in my happiest theories i find ways to eliminate
painlessly via assiduous service and moral suasion)), thus deliberately -
while working within their roles - not availing themselves of all the
negative aspects of leadership such as bottlenecking, intimidation, so
forth...

anyway that's what my mention of holding negative capabilities in abeyance
was referring to within my own train of thought...a train which spends most
of its time in long tunnels, Reef and his lot digging them out I suppose...

as to M Welder, I'm thinking of his Thanksgiving description, a lyrical
invocation of that happy time of year through the eyes of a young
non-conformist.  i'd wager that his expostulations, pejorative and
expletive-fraught as they might be, do not represent the expression of his
destructive tendencies but rather an unleashing of vitality and word hoard
perhaps intended to stimulate discussion, even at the risk of appearing a
bit wild.
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