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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.
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So if monotemporality’s murder was planned let’s say “to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful” our new time lords custodianship is degenerating into a stagnated ceremony-bound oligarchy pretty fast. can we thrive in non linear narratives?
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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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Not just individually: collectively, in both loosely and tightly coupled ways. Several countercultures I'm connected with have already been developing finger-feel for this, for a while. (I'm also on a non-linear track, myself, but individual practice is far less interesting.)
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Yeah, I sense a lot of people are almost there. Future unevenly distributed. My project is to generalize these into a broader theory. At some point I should design a careful survey to try and extract the gist of personal/subcultural temporality case studies.