Small Arcs of Larger Circles: Framing through other patterns

The models, graphs, and charts that communicate this methodology carry ‘fact’ packaged in such a way that its authority is unquestionable. It says, “this is serious,” “this is how things are done,” and most insidious, “this is how life works.”

The evolution will not be commodified. The value is intrinsic, and there is no zero-sum game. But there is implicit cost everywhere. Currency is in units of curiosity, empathy, unity, and sentiment.

Each has a perspective, each has a changing narrative, each in relation—umwelt.

The thing about numbers is that they pretend to be ‘objective,’ they carry a tone of ‘facts & figures,’ when in fact they are objectifying and are much more slippery in the stories they carry than poetry.

While the tendency is to contemplate replacement forms of order, it may be more appropriate now to consider how to prepare to be in chaos more creatively.

Defining life in terms of ‘parts and wholes’ quickly slips into thinking in terms of arrangement and mechanistic function.

Looking ahead we must ask: Who do we want to be in this transforming world? Who are we, now? … And what of Humanity?

Mutual learning is only possible when all participants are willing to be wrong… willing to learn, to explore new ideas, to go off the map, out of the known, and together grope in the shadowy corners of new ideas, new plans, new territories.

Perhaps this is more about the unique arrangement that each person learns to live within. Proclivities and aversions, aptitudes and challenges all form an aesthetic of learning and mutual learning that we might call ‘character.’