Friday, December 25, 2015

Digital Cascades

I have recently begun to think of these posts as a fluid. I act as tippler, dropping a few gallons of water here and a few gallons of water there, not really fuel, but transfer mechanism for other energies which heat, pressurize, and change the water to steam, where it can do the most good and then pass on again into the watersheds of the global knowledge base.

A digital cascade is a set of processes in which one person shares with another person the very same idea and they begin to talk about and think about it. this allows for virtually instant movement of ideas and virtually endless permutations of the idea through languages, cultures and locations. These in turn are multiplied and have cohesive force throughout society, instantly and worldwide, changing the nature of our future discussions, our ideation and descriptions of the world around us.


Permutations are endless, like a giant flowering fractile, memes can be given birth, rise throughout the digital-friendly world and provide fodder for next gen thinking and filial memes that drive conversation across continents, political systems and ecotones. The concept of island culture is nothing new and at this point in our understanding of the fact that the entire Earth is under pressure from the way we choose to treat her, understanding how to not only release that pressure, but heal and soothe the natural world. It is true that if humans were erased from the planet, within a few hundred thousand years, our creations would be barely recognizable. However, if we understand what has been lost and how to build it again, it is absolutely possible to recreate Eden and allow the ugly scars across the face, the heart and breast of Mother Earth to heal.

The crucible of creation requires that too much gets crammed in, into too small a space, vibrating against and around one another, everything that went in combines, explodes into and rearranges with all else that has gotten in there as well, this, when heated, becomes a fusion, a force to be reckoned with. A completely new entity. Creation cannot be kept down, it is. When all of our words flow out as torrents, fueling the fusion of ideas across nations, across devotees, across tribes, with one sentiment, That is when evolution of our species will occur.

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