Common Denominator that is the Inherent Simplicity in the Complexity

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Permalink Reply by Ben Roberts on October 20, 2011 at 7:09am

And what will we leave as the legacy of our existence in the 21st Century?  

The Iroquois spoke of planning seven generations into the future.  I have heard it suggested that this number derives from the span of a single degree of separation in time.  I.e. I can personally know my great grandparents and my great grandchildren.  Not quite an eternity perhaps, but enough to make us think beyond the short term consequences of our actions.

Permalink Reply by Todd Ramage Wolf on October 20, 2011 at 10:28am

We are all students of existence where the past meets the future in the present. Our forever is limited to a lifetime and the influence of that forever is eternity. The constraint to realizing the endless potential of living human systems is intellectual snobbery ... the "us and them" paradigm ... contempt for those considered inferior ("them") and threatening to the "elitist us" superiority perception.

 

What will we leave as the legacy of our existence in the 21st Century is the question that matters. Hopefully, an eternity influenced by taking the time to understand and appreciate the value of "different", the interdependencies of "different", the hidden potential for indentifying meaningful relationships between "us" as a perfectly imperfect system.