Maturation of a systems correlates with mimetic momentum. There’s more to pick and combine. There’s greater depth of history and more to be inspire by and derive from.
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Mature systems change less often. Works fairly well as the definition of maturity.
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China as a civilization for example has great depth spanning thousands of year. It lives on today in language, customs, stories, and traditions.
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Every drama already has existed within this framework. There are witty aphorisms and idioms to describe the full range of human drama.
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That’s what a tradition with strong roots should do. It has explored so widely that the best thing to do is repeat the same thing. Have a family, celebrate holidays, etc...
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If something loses it’s meaning after experiencing it once it isn’t timeless. It is rejected by tradition as unworthy.
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The core weakness of tradition is its inherent mortality. Nothing lasts forever but tradition fights this inpossibility just like life fights entropy.
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A tradition cannot truly recognize and affirm the timeless just as DNA thrown on the ground does not become a plant or an animal. A tradition is the code but only runs successfully in certain contexts.
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A tradition can change and morph to fit the new contexts but only if the rate of change is slower than its ability to self repair. An animal can eat a new type of animal but can’t suddenly digest grass or photosynthesize.
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As new experiences reveal themselves as different colored sugar pieces stuck together for instagramming we eventually retreat to more timeless values.
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In times past we would shackle ourselves to such tradition and train constantly for the strength to carry these traditions forward. The son carrying on the dreams (and sins) of the father.
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Nowadays we see this as a burden akin to slavery. We want to be free. We feel stuck between a comfortable prison and the endless freedom of a bottomless pit.
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The failure to impart an aspect of tradition leads to suicide just as leaving someone naked and alone in a jungle leads to physical death.
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Suicide is devastating because it is the clearest signal that something went wrong in the family. Often the parents weren’t strong enough themselves to wade into the dark places the child got lost in or were enticed into.
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Each suicide is an earthquake for a family. Chains of suicides create the cracks and fractures that eventually destroy a tradition.
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There’s an interesting parallel in online games too. When one teammate constantly feeds and purposely dies to the enemy team. It makes everyone want to quit.
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Trolling is also a form of suicide. The troll avator is only a shell identity on a suicide run.
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The edge of a bounded system is a mirror facing inwards creating the illusion of infinite space. The boundedness of the prison is only apparent as a sense of deja-vu.
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Beyond the mirror is the feeling of being unseen and lost that leads to falling past the event horizon of the void.
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The desire for more all the time requires charging into the future. To break the symmetry between past and future you have to shatter all the mirrors so that only the future remains.
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Systems that don’t have enough anchors of symmetry for their volume of content don’t produce beautiful kalaeidiscope effects. Just glitter and sparkle explosions, one after the other until only smoke and fire remain.
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