tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5587346.post7910595781692360106..comments2024-02-15T13:20:14.813-06:00Comments on Gordon's Notes: Miep Gies and the Zani scoreJGFhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14580785981874040314noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5587346.post-17742555666112082932010-03-28T10:19:01.050-05:002010-03-28T10:19:01.050-05:00Paul,
Some time ago I read an analysis of modern ...Paul,<br /><br />Some time ago I read an analysis of modern conflict that made the case that we were doing very well by historic standards -- even when the baseline was the post-WW II period. I think it was in The Economist.<br /><br />I went looking for that article a few months ago but, oddly, I couldn't find it.<br /><br />As to the future of civilization in the face of low cost havoc (JGFhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14580785981874040314noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5587346.post-20668466664332101902010-03-28T10:13:39.361-05:002010-03-28T10:13:39.361-05:00Curmudgeon,
The Zani score isn't a retrospect...Curmudgeon,<br /><br />The Zani score isn't a retrospective measure of harm caused. By that scale Greenpeace would beat the Tea Party, and both would be indistinguishable from the Red Cross on any scale that included, for example, the Khmer Rouge.<br /><br />The Zani score is intended, semi-seriously, to be a measure of how concerned one should be about nascent entities or organizations. It JGFhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14580785981874040314noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5587346.post-11629680912854262052010-03-28T07:38:17.246-05:002010-03-28T07:38:17.246-05:00And now to Paul’s theories on the journalistic rep...And now to Paul’s theories on the journalistic reporting of death. You’ll have to adjust these to your own geography and nationality but they do, I believe, hold true the world over. I live in Leeds – the third biggest town in England – and here is an incomplete list of whose deaths I hear about. I take a local newspaper occasionally, read a national paper most days, watch the local TV news most Paulhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06512897087177787157noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5587346.post-39753069365365799892010-03-28T07:38:17.245-05:002010-03-28T07:38:17.245-05:00To this I’ll add my thoughts on the post nuclear g...To this I’ll add my thoughts on the post nuclear generation and also the unwritten laws of journalism and the reporting of death. I’m not sure they sit squarely with your Zani (nice anagram btw) metric scale but feel they need to be taken into consideration.<br />From the dawn of time, well since the start of recorded history there have been wars. Until the establishment of civilisation and/or Paulhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06512897087177787157noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5587346.post-8103376236095635602010-03-27T23:57:43.481-05:002010-03-27T23:57:43.481-05:00I don't think your scale goes far enough to dr...I don't think your scale goes far enough to draw a meaningful distinction between would-be fascists, like the teabaggers, and genuine genocidal maniacs, like the Nazis.<br /><br />A reasonable interpretation of your scale would place the teabaggers at about 9 of 10, due only to half marks with points #3 and #4. This is an absurdity if the highest score--reserved for NASDAP itself--is 10.<br /Curmudgeonhttp://www.talisiorder.ca/rapidcommentsnoreply@blogger.com