@JessieLydia posted to ‘The Clock of the Long Now’
Great changes of World View are also Life Changes such as the experience of being born to grow up, enjoy life and pass on the wisdom as one declines. It seems ALL NATURAL FORMS develop and pass away by some variation of that same chain of START-UP TO END-UP flowing organizational experiences and developments.
- germiation
- emergence and formation of a new system by rapid growth of the germinal design
- the turn to the future design seen happening at the growth inflection point, to begin adapting to its new environment as it adapts, refines and matures its internal and external relationships
- To then enjoy and endure the rite of “having a life” in the roles it finds in the ecosystem it was born into to engage with others
- There is the downside, too, having possibly richly contributed to the lives of many others during its life, taking on new roles of sharing the wisdom of the experienced for the inexperienced to consider, like makijng the rain.
The Whole Long Now – and the Rain
The Long Now clock is to be found and potentially read nearly everywhere you look, from the S-curves tracing the universal progressions of emerging systems. Both the physics of change (requiring continuity of processes) and the universal evidence of the natural systm growth stages that the S-curves are generated by, indicate that the universe as a whole goes through the same characteric organizational stages, of:
THE CONTINUITIES THAT DEVELOP WITHIN & AROUND THEM, TO HOLD THEM TOGETHER DURING THEIR LIFE CYCLES AS THEY GO THROUGH THEIR COMING, LASTING AND GOING CHANGES OF FORM CHARACTERISTIC OF EMERGING SYSTEMS.
As animated systems, using energy to self-organize, they transition from being lifeless to lively as they emerges within their ‘natal context,” and then perhaps mature and ‘grow up’ as enduring and adaptable as part of the system of “systems with a life” to enjoy as part of an environment, or to waste, whatever the case available that may happen by itself or that it may be attracted to.
IT MAKES EVERY NOW A LONG NOW, IN SO FAR AS S-CURVES OF ORGANIZATIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND DECAY ARE NATURE’S TIMEPIECES FOR LIFE CYCLES OF NATURE. SO ALL THE MAIN LIFE STAGES OF COMING AND GOING ARE EXPERIENCED BY EVERY LONG NOW; WHATEVER THE SCALE AND KIND, BEGUN AND COMPLETED BY EVERY NEW THING AND EVENT IN NATURE AS “WHAT’S NOW HAPPENING,” FROM BEGINNING TO END.
It’s all happening in the S-curve ¸¸¸.•´ ¯ ¯ `•.¸¸¸ So, the question is, how do we make the one that suits us?
