Slow culture is what causes us to behave the way we do—our shared beliefs and values—and fast culture is a reflection of a community’s beliefs displayed in how society functions (most often seen in rituals, language, art, music, and film).
Marcus Collins • For the Culture
I propose six significant levels of pace and size in the working structure of a robust and adaptable civilization. From fast to slow the levels are: - Fashion/art - Commerce- Infrastructure- Governance- Culture- Nature
jods.mitpress.mit.edu • Pace Layering: How Complex Systems Learn and Keep Learning
Motion and pauses. The interplay between them is what leads to change. Agency often comes in sudden step changes rather than linear increases
The total effect of the pace layers is that they provide many-leveled corrective, stabilizing negative feedback throughout the system. It is precisely in the apparent contradictions of pace that civilization finds its surest health.