[OSList] Fall Reflections

[Daniel Mezick via OSList]

so interesting Harrison: all are open, all are self organizing.

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mutual consent, or not at all.




On 8/30/15 3:16 PM, Harrison via OSList wrote:
>
> There comes a moment here in Maine when the season turns. It is not a 
> gentle, creep up on you quietly, sort of thing. It is an all at once, 
> very suddenly, kind of thing. There is a change in the light, a 
> different smell on the wind, a chill on the air. Fall. It’s here. 
> Ending. Beginning. Now.
>
> A time of reflections.
>
> It has taken me a lifetime of living. But. I have learned two things, 
> or maybe better, come to two conclusions. 1) All Systems are open. 2) 
> All systems are self organizing.
>
> /All Systems are Open/ is a complicated way of saying that everything 
> is connected, including all the things that aren’t really a “thing,” 
> which we don’t even know about. The net result is an infinite 
> complexity which is completely unthinkable. And what you can’t think, 
> you surely can’t control. So much for THAT vain hope.
>
> /All Systems are self Organizing/ -- I know of no way of actually 
> proving this one, but it does seem a natural concomitant of the first 
> conclusion. If you find yourself in an infinitely complex and 
> interconnected environment, where nobody is, or can be, in control, 
> such systems as are there, must have pretty well gotten themselves 
> together all by themselves. Of course there are a number of people who 
> are sure that God did it, and personally I don’t have any real problem 
> with that. But ascribing it all to divine agency doesn’t help us very 
> much. We still don’t have much control and the systems around us, 
> including those we think we organized, have a source other than our 
> selves.
>
> Life under the conditions described above (Open, Self Organizing 
> Systems) can seem a little peculiar to some people, but it is not so 
> much irrational as different. Certain “strange” things always seem to 
> happen. For example, Whoever comes are the right people, whatever 
> happens is the only thing that could have, wherever it happens is the 
> right place, whenever it happens is the right time, and when it is 
> over it is over. Always works out  that way, so I’ve found.
>
> All this appears conducive to a very passive existence. Not much for 
> us to do. And the truth of the matter is that doing less always seems 
> to accomplish a great deal more. That said, there is one thing that we 
> really have to do. Follow the Law of Two Feet! Strange sort of law 
> which says – If ever you find yourself in a situation in which you are 
> neither learning or contributing, you must move your two feet until 
> you find yourself a new place where you can do the one, the other, or 
> preferably, both. In a few words: Follow your passion and take 
> responsibility for it.
>
> It took 80 years. Fun!
>
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