Future California

What is the future of California? I ask various questions and generate discussion around what our future is. Particularly in light of Peak Oil and the resulting economic difficulties.

Wednesday, September 14, 2005

systemic volatility

who has not noticed a general increase in volatility? in the past five, ten years...

this seems to be occuring on multiple levels. natural phenomenon are becoming increasingly uncertain and extreme. our culture is experienced unprecedented fragmentation and polarisation. the economic system is embodying baffling contradictions. these aspects are all interelated one with another.

with any increase in volatility comes a decrease in predictability. we are reaching a major inflection point. as time reverts back into space so then the temporal volatility will be "fixed." like any precipitate in a solution, the resultant of multiple factors will be drawn out of the mix. if one agitates the solution then this process will speed up and become more uncertain.

it seems rather futile for humans to run around and respond to all these events. from famine, to disasters, to economic interventions. the net result seems to only increase the entropy of the system. we are caught in a giant paradox.

it remains to be seen what exactly is being precipitated out of this volatile solution. it seems this will be the seeds of the next cycle.

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