Laissez-faire was planned, planning was not — Polyani Flexworking was planned, 9-5 was not — me When you look at the history, it’s amazing how much the synchronized monotemporality of ~1884-1984 was largely an emergent convergence towards a global equilibrium temporality
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To my original point, monotemporality was unplanned in the sense that people didn’t realize how deep the effects of synchronizing time globally would be. Railroads just wanted to manage ops. Labor unions just wanted more humane hours. Newspapers just had to win circulation wars.
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But all that somehow harmonized into a condition where everything got regimented and regulated. Like a bunch of unsynchronized fireflies coming into bottom up synchronization. And before you know it the whole world is synchronized.
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One reason OODA-loop type thinking (time-based competition in war and peace) was so effective starting with WW2 was that world had gotten into a homeostatic synchronized state, where everything had a tendency to harmonize with the global tempo. So breaking tempo = defection ftw.
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Humanity mistook the synthesized, emergent tempo of modernity for an immutable natural one, like seasons. Those who recognized it was fake could break temporal consensus for fun and profit. Monotemporality was not a Nash equilibrium of tempos. Just a false temporal consciousness.
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Though you can’t attribute its breakdown entirely to temporal defection. My estimate: 20%: temporal defection 30% destabilizing harmonics (like marching soldiers on flimsy bridges causing catastrophic failure) 50% growth yields of monotemporality becoming unpredictable
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Good question. The murder was planned (along with unbridled laissez faire actually) to preserve economic growth. The murderer was neoliberalism. The method was deregulation. The cases belli was panic over the rise of Japan. Motive, means, opportunity.https://twitter.com/bravojohnson5/status/1170385997177057280?s=21 …
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“Can we thrive in nonlinear narratives?” It’s not an inevitable outcome. We have to invent our way out of atemporality (the “murdered time” state). Half my project with multitemporality is to frame the invention problem. The other half is to survey experiments already underway.
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The invention problem, incidentally is almost exactly isomorphic to distributed computing. There’s some very detailed rhyming. The CAP theorem is tantalizingly close to the Mundel-Fleming trilemma in global macroeconomics. Both are 3-way constraints on global synchronization.
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