[OSList] Fall Reflections

[Arno Baltin via OSList]

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Arno




2015-08-30 22:16 GMT+03:00 Harrison via OSList <
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> 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.
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> A time of reflections.
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> 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.
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> *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.
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> *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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> It took 80 years. Fun!
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