[MD] Straw Men and the Primacy of Trust

[Michael R. Brown]

Hi, Matt Kundert -

> you've just signaled yourself as an outsider.

Thank heavens. I wouldn't want to be anything but.

> outsiders have no rights to direct the ship.

Not trying to direct it. Offering an, IMO sorely needed, perspective. I fear 
that tunnel vision in the fog of war may have settled in.

> Outsiders are rightfully looked askance at when they make comments like 
> this

Again, that is all to the good. Do you think I'm trying to gain acceptance, 
or rise to the top of the list?

> you don't talk shit about people's family members--unless you are one of 
> them.

Blah blah blah. I call it as I see it. If you close a system off from the 
outside, you lose energy.

> Standing there on the outside and judging us

Which I did not do. Much projection.

> to leave, and move to the outside and reject the family

This sounds almost cultic.

> if you _actually_ take an interest in the future trajectory of the MD, 
> standing on the outside is not how to have an effect.

This is almost a confession of inability to easily deal with external input, 
to sort the useful from the non-useful. Sounds like a paradigm change is in 
order!


MRB
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