THE DYNAMISM of CHAOS ...
Posted on May 26th, 2008
by 
Michael
Michael
within the SERENITY of ORDER
"There can be little doubt that order has become a more important element in the
competitive mix than it used to be. The frontier spirit of Britain's industrial revolution or of
US twentieth-century capitalism, with ALL its vigour, can make great ships and create giant oil companies, but IT DOES NOT foster the meticulous attention to detail and marketing that has enabled Japan to flood the world with video-recorders. The TOP-DOWN CONTROL by the bosses of Britain and America in the past has not proved as effective as the BOTTOM-UP SENSE of RESPONSIBILITY generated by the highly-educated workforce of Japan today. But if the added value in societies comes increasingly from services - for example, the programmes which are shown on the video recorders as opposed to the manufacture of the VCRs themselves - then societies must foster CREATIVITY alongside ORDER. At one extreme there is a society where people sit in rows and do what they are told. At the other there is one where everybody does their own thing.
The key to economic success in the future will be to find a way of balancing the two ...
GROUP RESPONSIBILITY and INDIVIDUAL CREATIVITY."
Hamish McRae
ALL great art, explores the tension between order and chaos, between growth and stasis,
particularly exemplified by the way Katsushika Hokusai beautifully captured all aspects of the fractal world in his creation of "The Great Wave".
The scientists of change have learned in recent years that the evolution of complex systems can't be followed in the context of detailed cause & effect, because such systems are holistic, in that EVERYTHING affects EVERYTHING else. An understanding of these complex systems can only be established through a process of SEEING INTO their complexity and fractal geometry abundantly provides the mechanism by which this vision might be achieved.
In confronting the orders of chaos, of growth and stability, it would appear that we are now coming face to face with something which is buried in the very foundations of HOMO SAPIENS' existence, which would lead one to believe that learning to handle complexity means learning to live more intuitively, because intuition is the key to making significant changes in complex systems, helping them evolve and evolving with them.
The FUTURE can only be told in the ... MOMENT by MOMENT unravelling of the present
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chaos
April 2018 
Beautiful Michael! So much is in the complexity of relations… I like how you have presented this world view. I wonder if my thoughts about celebrating neither here nor there would be a helpful concept in the telling of the future in the moment by moment unravelling of the present? Your work is so rich and complex that it provides a perfect example of the ideas that you are writing about!
Ah! It's like surfing–gliding like a feather atop the waters of the stream, but KNOWING that you're the feather, and deciding where to stop for lunch. Do you think there's synchronicity happening here?
There can be NO BETTER FUTURE “VISION” of our collective awakening to THE REALITY of synchonicity, than Katsushika Hokusai's 36 Views of Mount Fuji.
Therein lies the wisdom of knowledge of understanding …
just imagine surf-gliding ALL that THAT comprises ! …
and then, in the context of the entirety of the BIG PICTURE …
reflect on the “verbal observations” of Jeremy Rifkin …
” At first glance, terms like “perspective”, “scenarios”, “models”, “creative possibilities” appear to signal a newfound awareness by humanity of its own limitations, of its inability ever to fully grasp or comprehend the truths of the universe. NOT SO. It is not humility that animates the new cosmological jargon but bravado. When we take a closer look, the new vocabulary suddenly takes on an entirely new appearance, at once menacing and intoxicating. Perspectives, scenarios, models, creative possibilities. These are the words of authorship, the words of a creator, an architect, a designer. Humanity is abandoning the idea that the universe operates by ironclad truths because it no longer feels the need to be constrained by such fetters. Nature IS BEING made anew, this time by human beings.”
… as a result of A CONSCIOUS RECOGNITION …
of the INTERCONNECTEDNESS of THE WHOLE.
Reflecting upon this, I have postulated that there can be “serenity in chaos”. Change is constant and sometimes change is although slow can be chaotic but “serene”. Chaos can be beautiful if you know how to “ride the wave”. Just look at the billions of stars out there. That is serenity in chaos. Serenity in a sense that we are so far apart from it that it looks so beautiful and serene but chaotic in its own surrounding environment. If what we are looking at out there is what was happening millions of years ago, we don't know that in those galaxies right now also are flourishing civilizations. We are both looking at each other in outer space and both do not have a clue as to the mysteries of life. Indeed we are all interconnected.
ABSOLUTELY SO … which IS ALL part and parcel of the REALLY BIG PICTURE constant feed-back loop, itterative process, which ALWAYS results in A BIFURCATION POINT …
of course THE BIFURCATION POINT which HOMO SAPIENS IS NOW fast approaching will undoubtedly be a conscious awakening to, and an awareness of, syncronicity … beyond that THE SWITCH … switch on, tune in and drop out !!!
There are no passengers on Spaceship Earth.
We are all crew. ~Marshall McLuhan, 1964
On 5 March 1966, BOAC Flight 911, a Boeing 707, broke up in flight and crashed near Mount Fuji Gotemba New fifth station, shortly after departure from Tokyo International Airport. All 113 passengers and 11 crew members were killed in the disaster, which was attributed to extreme clear air turbulence caused by lee waves downwind of the mountain.
Perhaps if our crew truly listens at this time, our big wave will act as ONE love.
Love for our children's future on the planet.
But we must BE like a flock,
ALL land on the water,
and ACT now.
http://my-head.gaia.com/blog/2008/3/to_sense_worth_from_within
Let the children put in their 2 sense worth.
Aren't they who the the change is for?
Who better to lead the crew.
Fuji:
“a mountain standing up shapely as an ear (ho) of a rice plant”
Listen to the children.
They are our air traffic controllers.
In the context of the fact that the meteorological aviation experts of 1966 were only just coming to terms with the inter-action of jet transport and the high level eco-system … nevertheless as reductionist minded scientists … it was not until aeroplanes started to fall out of the sky that they began to listen to the pilots who had long since been reporting the phenomenon which we now call clear-air turbulence … and, as Janie has so rightly brought to our attention, the words of Marshall McLuhan were then ringing in the ears of those scientists, namely that - There are no passengers on Spaceship Earth. WE ARE ALL CREW.
Even President Mugabe's speech in Rome today has a ring of truth within it.
To sense THE WORTH of our collective contributions to the survival of our species on earth we must indeed think of children as our gurus…and have no problem with that.
ALL we have to do is listen to them and learn from their example.
Every word of yours come with a force ncluding that fractal picture, it reminds me the tsunami, we had recently.
chaos is order…perfect order… the mind just thinks thoughts like ” this should not be this way”… and even that is perfect too.
the What that drives chaos also is the same What that starts a meditation.
Truth never stays the same … IT IS ALWAYS CHANGING !
The video Indigenous Native American Prophecy you have shared on the other post is a great example of how truth is ever changing and our need to keep the balance. I would like to add a quoted that was gifted to me by a friend a couple of days ago…
Only when the last tree has died and the last river been poisoned and the last fish been caught will we realise we cannot eat money. ~Cree Indian Proverb
ABSOLUTELY SO … a proverb which rings loud in the ears of my family and friends, over the years, who no doubt have become weary from hearing me espouse it so much.
In the context of ”promoting sociability”, it is fitting that ”BOJO”, the new mayor of London, has agreed to a victory parade for the UK's returning Olympic HEROs.