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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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Specifically: Burning Man folk and SubGenius both understand this reasonably well, and the SCAdians seem to also have a reasonable grasp of it (since that's probably who I learned the most of it from).
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Pennsic (SCA) is probably the most notably multitemporal event I know. It's a simulation of a past which didn't truly exist, held two weeks with such regularity that generations have grown old in it, and which forges stronger relationships than the fifty weeks surrounding it.
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Probably in a few months. Not yet ready on my end to conduct the conversations. Might actually rope my wife in to help do it as focus groups.
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