#pace layers

[futuramb]

When Nature Changes Its State

I have been trying to understand why so much feels unstable lately. Not just politically or economically, but at a deeper level that is harder to name. What if this unease is not primarily a sign of systems failing, but of conditions shifting beneath them — and of us trying to make sense of the world from the wrong level. For a long time, civilization has operated on a quiet assumption. Nature…

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[lemme]

“Pace Layers” diagram from Stewart Brand’s The Clock of the Long Now. The fast layers innovate, the slow layers stabilize. The fast layers learn, the slow layers remember.