https://www.propublica.org/article/californias-forever-fire
"We’re living through a discontinuity. This is Steffen’s core point.
“Discontinuity is a moment where the experience and expertise you’ve built up
over time cease to work,” he said. “It is extremely stressful, emotionally, to
go through a process of understanding the world as we thought it was, is no
longer there.” No kidding. “There’s real grief and loss. There’s the shock that
comes with recognizing that you are unprepared for what has already happened.”
I found Steffen’s sweeping, dark pronouncements comforting. He at least had
language and a functional metaphor to describe what was going on. Most of us
have dragged our feet and deluded ourselves for too long about the state of the
world. While we remain stuck, our world pulled away from our understanding of
it. We’ve now fallen into a gap in our apprehension of reality. We need to
acknowledge this, size up the rupture, then hurl ourselves over the breach."
Via Doug Senko, who wrote "Great article on the future of California and fires.
Particularly if you’re living on the west coast. Or Australia."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
