How would you know?
What if there was another way forward, coherent with the best of humanity, not the worst?
Obscured by the chaos, confusion & noise of current system and its inevitably horrifying & violent results.
The old patterns that mimic what we have, keep re-emerging. No matter how we attempt to solve the problems we face, after a time, any seeming relief, temporary chill in turbulence, invariably heaves the frost to trip us again.
Looking deeper we see the same undercurrents existed beneath the reflective surface, ready to strip again.
Then something qualitatively different emerges, a new pattern, a new system. not one that replicated or emulates the lack the old familiar story of not enough but instead flips it on its head, takes it in another direction altogether, obscured in its unfamiliarity.
How would you recognize it?
For years i’ve been inspired by two ideas (from quotes not included because they are both famous & findable) one of Einstein’s and one of Buckminster Fuller’s that suggest we can’t solve the big challenges we face from within the same consciousness (Einstein) or system (Fuller) that created them.
Both suggest it is necessary to jump the current frame. A new model or paradigm must be created making the old obsolete rather than fighting against an existing one. i like to think that both new system and consciousness are necessary in the effort to find a new way forward.
i understand that how this works is that the new system is unrecognizable and thus is able to develop simultaneously for a time until the old system becomes moot.
i wonder, how do we get outside of ourselves enough to see this new development and participate?
And while i’ve been exploring these ideas and contemplating the above patterns in the frost, i made some new open mic drawings last week and have begun adding more color to the drawing of Quinton hosting in his orange hat.
Thanks for being here!
