First of all a promise. This series is not a polemic about how awful we are. Nor is it without hope. Nor will it ask us to rise up and take action. I believe that forces are in motion today that will bring about all sorts of changes. My hope is that my own understanding of what is going on may help you make sense of where we are and where we may go. This series is my opportunity to share how I see things.
I use time and distance as my lens. See what I mean here.
Imagine you knew nothing about hurricanes and you were enduring one - just the people in this community are. What you would experience is chaos.
But now we can use planes and space to see them from a different perspective.
All hurricanes look like this as "wholes". None look exactly like this but all look like this.
So here is a galaxy. Seen this before? This type of pattern is driven by a law of nature that governs certain types of relationships.
Here it is again - This is part of the Mandlebrot set
Here it is again - The Fibonacci Curve - this set of relationships drives most living systems. If you think of the numbers there, they also show us the stages of a human life. The early years 1-6. This is why what happens there drives the whole curve and our lives. We reach true adulthood in our early 30's and ideally should break out of the grip of the "shoulds". In our fifties we can look back at our productive life and see death and old age.
The Fibonacci numbers also drive the relationships in body parts and living structures. They also determine what we feel to be beauty.
They are the math behind the "Golden Rule" and for book fans the Da Vinci Code.
My point? My point is that nature is not an arbitrary force. It has rules for key relationships. Not a lot of them. Only 4 elements in DNA and only 92 elements in chemistry.
My point is that there are rules for humans. Mostly we have either forgotten them or don't know them. Instead, like Alchemists, we rely on a set of of organizational theory that is as stupid as the hope that we could transmute gold from lead.
I will do my best to show you what I feel is the difference between the Alchemy of of fantasy and the Chemistry of nature.
Next stop the rules of how people have been designed to work and live with each other.
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