Feb 08 22
Some impressions and an implication.
The shortest distance between two points is a straight line. Similarly, the most economical distribution of repeated elements, over a period of time, is a rhythm.
Just like it is water’s situation to find the lowest ground, our psychologies, and the rest of our bodily functions, seek lowest ground in the contained economic repetition of homeostasis.
So, much of life (if not all) is oriented towards an economy of means. Nothing is really willy nilly. It is not predetermined, but it is calculated or planned for.
So yes, this economy of means can be seen everywhere, in the repetition of a beating of a heart, in the inhale/exhale of the lungs, the structure of memories, the structure of naming, the arrangement of roads, xylem and phloem cells in plants, in the reiterations of alphanumeric characters like those you are reading presently, in the persistence of species (whether Belted kingfishers, Ashe junipers, or Homo sapiens) etc, etc.
As well, if one looks closely one can see economic structures in places that don’t seem economic at all, like a child’s (or adult’s) tantrum. Isn’t a paroxysm of frustration (silly or gross as it may seem) simply an effort to create defensible space around a rhythm that is felt to be threatened or compromised? Is this not unlike the swelling, inflamed tissue around a damaged muscle or ligament?
But if all is aimed at an economy of means why are there perturbations? All is not in unison. All is not symmetrical. All is dervishing and swirling.
All is change.
So then, the situation is: repetition through the economy of rhythm, struggling to persist against novelty through the strategies adaptation and mutation.
The situation is simple to understand but infinitely complex in interrelation.
The general implication to us is that when considering and accepting such notions, outward confidence, though common, is really just grotesque bombast, bullying really. Awe (reverential respect mixed with fear or wonder) seems the preferred mode when really seeing all this transcendentally economic interconnectivity.
The shortest distance between two points is a straight line. Similarly, the most economical distribution of repeated elements, over a period of time, is a rhythm.
Just like it is water’s situation to find the lowest ground, our psychologies, and the rest of our bodily functions, seek lowest ground in the contained economic repetition of homeostasis.
So, much of life (if not all) is oriented towards an economy of means. Nothing is really willy nilly. It is not predetermined, but it is calculated or planned for.
So yes, this economy of means can be seen everywhere, in the repetition of a beating of a heart, in the inhale/exhale of the lungs, the structure of memories, the structure of naming, the arrangement of roads, xylem and phloem cells in plants, in the reiterations of alphanumeric characters like those you are reading presently, in the persistence of species (whether Belted kingfishers, Ashe junipers, or Homo sapiens) etc, etc.
As well, if one looks closely one can see economic structures in places that don’t seem economic at all, like a child’s (or adult’s) tantrum. Isn’t a paroxysm of frustration (silly or gross as it may seem) simply an effort to create defensible space around a rhythm that is felt to be threatened or compromised? Is this not unlike the swelling, inflamed tissue around a damaged muscle or ligament?
But if all is aimed at an economy of means why are there perturbations? All is not in unison. All is not symmetrical. All is dervishing and swirling.
All is change.
So then, the situation is: repetition through the economy of rhythm, struggling to persist against novelty through the strategies adaptation and mutation.
The situation is simple to understand but infinitely complex in interrelation.
The general implication to us is that when considering and accepting such notions, outward confidence, though common, is really just grotesque bombast, bullying really. Awe (reverential respect mixed with fear or wonder) seems the preferred mode when really seeing all this transcendentally economic interconnectivity.