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   {:-]))) to Tang   
   Re: Chattering and shattering   
   13 Nov 16 04:00:37   
   
   XPost: alt.philosophy.taoism, alt.buddha.short.fat.guy, alt.philosophy.zen   
   From: wudao@wuji.net   
      
   Tang wrote, in part:   
      
   >> ...   
   >> Trump is disrupting politics.   
   >>   
   >> Disrupters don't fix what's broken because they don't innovate   
   >> from inside the system. They break the mold, change our   
   >> thinking about the mold and then hand us the new rules for   
   >> how things work.>> Mel Robbins, CNN.   
   >>   
   >> All the above fits into a Kuhnian paradigmatic shift or a   
   >> revolutionary phase of change, in this case political and social   
   >> change. It is as neat as the real world allows methinks. Trump   
   >> is a disrupter. The bewilderment of the political chattering   
   >> class, including pollsters and Republicans, represents a   
   >> Kunh-loss of near-catastrophic proportions. Such a class works   
   >> on an incremental, cumulative view of change, which a   
   >> revolution (like the Communist one) shatters. Ding dong the   
   >> witch is dead!   
      
   Big business has always run politics.   
   To think a big business man is going to change that   
   might be to think something is going to happen that   
   might or might not actually be going to happen.   
      
   TTC 38 may end with saying something about knowledge   
   of the future, prognostication, and how it is the beginning   
   of something that is said that is going to happen.   
      
   - translations/interpretations vary   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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