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What if the least resistance at some magnitudes drive the most resistance at higher orders of magnitude? If there’s a finite scale to all of life, perhaps resistance is proportional to scale/complexity?
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All of the above. Our existing mental models are poorly equipped to relate to the whole thing at once. I think describing our condition as "the Dance" brings directionally accurate connotations.
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Probably works as hard as “corporations” do. All the hard parts are delegated as far down the hierarchy as possible; at the corporate level the thing slouches along without any effort whatsoever.
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One conversation that can provide listeners with a mental picture of all of the above options is this imagined one between Confucius (optimality to preclude struggle) and Lao-Tzu (mediocritizing as least resistance). twitter.com/longhandnotes/.
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Lao-Tzu's uneventful peace may suit cinéma vérité: yellowbridge.com/onlinelit/daod But Confucius demands redemptive arcs! youtube.com/watch?v=m8JB3r.
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I always go back to Bill Bryson in A Short History of Nearly Everything- (from memory) Life wants to be but it doesn’t want to be much