Logic and emotion
It was an earthquake. A really big one. Turns out the reaction and response reaches every corner of the globe. Perturbative, this event has challenged the dimensions of security, of rules sets, of money, of infrastructure, and of resources; and the world is challenged to provide strategic flows of security, aid, money, the [...]
Regeneration
Two things cannot be rightly put together without a third;
there must be some bond of union between them.
And the fairest bond is that which makes
the most complete fusion of itself and the things which it combines;
and proportion is best adapted to effect such a union. -Plato
The poetic hymn
“There’s an app for that.”
Underneath the hood
[black box [...]
Let history show
“It held the line against the bad, allowing for its deconstruction, and the universalization of our economic model, to be followed, through our continued success, by the universalization of our political model.”
via Thomas P.M. Barnett :: Weblog.
When lessons are learned
“Germany was a country where horrible crimes were committed in the second world [...]
Layers
Your ecosystem is composed of layers.
Look to the layers:
there
you will find
time and responsibility,
the order of civilization.
I’ve come to think this way from my reading of Stewart Brand’s, Clock of the Long Now. Tell me what you see?
Perturbating the order of civilization
Beneath Nature’s ground, an earthquake in Haiti.
One so devastating, it shocks Culture into chaos;
local Governance has no assembly.
With its Infrastructure crushed,
there is no capacity for Commerce;
and Fashion has no market.
Doctors are on the way
As is food and water. But who will administer the system? Who will provide physical security so [...]
