2/ This excitation-refraction phenomenon occurs often in complex systems. Social ones, too. In recent US history, each generation has been faced with a choice: continue on the given societal trajectory, or turn around and course correct. They've done the latter.
1/ This is a BZ reaction. (Video: Tim Kench) Refractory zones follow waves of excitation, giving rise to the brilliant, surprising spatial patterns.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YF_hI7azYFA …
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3/ Blame calculus. Course corrections are expensive, and the cost is born by the generation implementing it. The path of least resistance is to ignore all the fuckery, and gift the next generation those accumulating problems as their endowment.
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4/ Said differently, course correction requires following the gradient back through the inhibitory territory. For people it isn't a chemical gradient, it's a social one. But it exists; people perceive it; and they delude themselves into thinking they didn't have a choice to make.
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5/ Related: People imagine themselves resisting fascism "if it gets bad." They won't. It's bad now. If it gets worse, it costs more. The inhibitory zone is comprised of your friends who don't oppose it; a government that enforces it; and, a fear that pervades everything.
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6/ That's how the status quo works. It isn't an absence of motion. It's the failure to change course, reinforced by asymmetric costs. Right now the status quo -- as executed by POTUS and enforced by the terminally corrupt
@GOP -- is fascism. That's the direction we're going.pic.twitter.com/TIOvx4zmHr
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