#continuous time

[tomorrowalready]

[thedaveandkimmershow]

And that’s it.

Last day of the year.

Really, though, it’s the last day of our Christmas season.

Ohhhh we’re not taking the tree down anytime soon. And we are gonna keep catching up on all the Christmas movies we haven’t seen yet since last Christmas. Seriously, there are too many on our list to see them all in just December.

My point is only that nothing significant is ending. What was in progress yesterday is still in progress today and will be in progress tomorrow. And whatever “end” we perceive, or feel we are experiencing, is simply a mental bookmark. A chapter end.

The turn of a page.

The larger narrative, each individual story that unfolded this year after unfolding the year before that and the year before that... continues unabated.

The story just keeps rollin’. You know?

So today we’re bringing our family’s Christmas chapter to a close and turning the page onto January.

For us, it was a good month. We improvised successfully with the restrictions, managing to maintain most of our traditions, add to our traditions, and temporarily let go of some of our traditions without taking our eyes off the ball of what this season, what this holiday, what Christmas day represents.

We’ll call that a win, by the way.

As for what comes next, what happens in the chapter after this one? Well, we’ll take that one page at a time, one step at a time, one day at a time. We’ll try to develop a wide angle view of our world and its future. And we’ll do it carefully. And we’ll do it thoughtfully.

Because seriously.

What else works?

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My comments: Consider the possibility that the appearance of digital granularity is an emergent property of the very distance that we are introducing by observing through our body rather than directly with our awareness. Space and time are intrinsically continuous by our naive definition of it. It is the index by which other comparisons can be made. When we use our body's organs to observe the exterior of other physical bodies and substances, we are extending our native frame of reference, but losing one level of authenticity. When we use a technological instrument, we are extending our extended frame of reference, but we are also losing at least one, and maybe many more levels of authenticity, leaving us with a drastically reduced epistemological set. I think that it may be this process of reduction and dilution of authenticity which gives the unnatural image of granular space and time the illusion of seeming natural. Think of how we digitize; we sample and clip until we have a homogenized unit. It is a refined, conditioned, artificial fragment. It may be the functionally relevant fragment as far as communication is concerned, but the actual content of what is being communicated is minimized and we are left increasingly with measurements of measurement. It is measurement which fragments space and interrupts time.