Build Soil[going to be writing out some thoughts. I like to talk with pictures so I'll it as a thread – bite-sized pieces. Please hold questions/comments until I've finished the thread. Think of this as a presentation.]
Every day we go about our lives in a world facing multiple, simultaneous, interconnected breakdowns coming at us from every angle.
They happen at different physical and temporal scales. Imperceptibly slow and enormous, as hard to perceive as the galaxy or the fast tiny humming life of a mayfly or pair of fundamental particles in the vacuum...
A cycling life of experimental newness, rapid growth, building potential through organization, then overconnection and rapid collapse.
When a scale is overconnected, the smaller crises escalate. a young forest might not notice a lighting storm, an old forest but be done by a tiny spark of static electricity.
(first image The Adaptive Cycle from CS Holling and Gunderson et al. Showing an infinty-shaped movement of systems from an exploitive stage of low potential low connections, to a conservation phase of high potential high connectedness, to rapid release dropping in potential and connectedness, to a phase of reorganization. and it starts again)
(2nd Image: now these cycles are shown on a graph of log time and log population, small cycles of moments, of months, years, and decades... crises amplify up, information and wisdom cascades down)
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