{"id":5719,"date":"2013-04-30T21:34:30","date_gmt":"2013-05-01T04:34:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/?p=5719"},"modified":"2013-04-30T21:34:30","modified_gmt":"2013-05-01T04:34:30","slug":"artangel-the-artangel-longplayer-letters-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/2013\/04\/artangel-the-artangel-longplayer-letters-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Artangel | The Artangel Longplayer Letters: 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>From: Brian Eno, London<\/p>\n<p>To: Nassim Nicholas Taleb, New York<\/p>\n<p>30 April 2013<\/p>\n<p>Dear Nassim,<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re all used to the idea that actions and thoughts take on different values when we expand the &#8216;picture&#8217; within which we frame them. We realise that something which makes sense in a local frame may make less sense in a broader frame: dumping your waste in the river is fine as long as you don&#8217;t think too much about the people downriver. When you do, you might decide to stop dumping. Government ought to be the process by which such overlapping &#8216;bigger picture&#8217; considerations are negotiated: good government should make empathy practical.<\/p>\n<p>Indeed our geographical &#8216;circle of empathy&#8217; grows decade on decade: a hundred years ago it would have been impossible to imagine millions of people raising hundreds of millions of pounds for tsunami victims on the other side of the world &#8211; people they didn&#8217;t know and would almost certainly never meet. In terms of geography, we inhabit a much bigger picture than we used to, and we sense our interconnectedness within it.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artangel.org.uk\/\/projects\/2000\/longplayer\/artangel_longplayer_letters\/brian_eno_to_nassim_nicholas_taleb\">Artangel | The Artangel Longplayer Letters: 1<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From: Brian Eno, London To: Nassim Nicholas Taleb, New York 30 April 2013 Dear Nassim, We&#8217;re all used to the idea that actions and thoughts take on different values when we expand the &#8216;picture&#8217; within which we frame them. We realise that something which makes sense in a local frame may make less sense in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[145],"tags":[712],"class_list":["post-5719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-facebook","tag-brian-eno"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5719"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5719\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5720,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5719\/revisions\/5720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}