January 12, 2009
- Pay Close Attention -
A basic 3-part rule for balancing fun and security within a system:
1) Keep big changes to a minimum. When they are necessary,be as consciously aware as possible of how completely your life will be changed by them.
2) Allow smaller changes and inconsistencies to occur all the time. The more you are able to be caught by surprise and still maintain consistency, the better.
3) Pay close attention to the small changes. This is life talking to you, if you have formed a language with which it can do so…
Allowing a slower trickle of chaos into a system that is more or less orderly on large scales, keeps things alive and secure at the same time. (see quantum foam, perhaps?)
It’s how your body works, after all. Big changes in the system’s equilibrium (breath, food, sensations) come through very closely watched/controlled portals. Everything else moves and flows all the time in distinct channels. But try to keep everything exactly average and you kill the system.
PS: more updates on the information body idea-fore coming tonight, hopefully. Plus a few changes in my thoughts on some recent posts, am waiting to think about it fully until I get home.
