I think we get excited by thinking we've "cracked the code". The renaissance, the enlightenment, the industrial period, and now the technology period all convinced many that we "had the answer" we could apply at scale.
Yeah. And it is based on a belief that history and in particular the history of progress is linear, always moving forward. The reality is that time is cyclical. We keep having to learn the same lessons over and over again.
A timely reminder for me this morning Richard, thank you.
I'm wondering if I have the courage to walk away definitively from a long-term organisational client where both old and new generations are showing up just as you describe (before the last piece of work I'm prepared to do is completed next week).
The challenge remains of how to make a decent income without contributing to the technocracy - possibly the most inhuman, idiotic and morally reprehensible thing man has ever invented - and become truly resilient.
I guess there's only one way to find out. Reminds me of Apollinaire's famous quote about coming to the edge.
Only now are realizing that the machine metaphor was for a very limited period of time. Humans transcend time. We are beginning to figure this out.
I think we get excited by thinking we've "cracked the code". The renaissance, the enlightenment, the industrial period, and now the technology period all convinced many that we "had the answer" we could apply at scale.
Oops. :-)
Yeah. And it is based on a belief that history and in particular the history of progress is linear, always moving forward. The reality is that time is cyclical. We keep having to learn the same lessons over and over again.
Absolutely.
A timely reminder for me this morning Richard, thank you.
I'm wondering if I have the courage to walk away definitively from a long-term organisational client where both old and new generations are showing up just as you describe (before the last piece of work I'm prepared to do is completed next week).
The challenge remains of how to make a decent income without contributing to the technocracy - possibly the most inhuman, idiotic and morally reprehensible thing man has ever invented - and become truly resilient.
I guess there's only one way to find out. Reminds me of Apollinaire's famous quote about coming to the edge.
Wonderful reminder - thank you!!
“Come to the edge," he said.
"We can't, we're afraid!" they responded.
"Come to the edge," he said.
"We can't, We will fall!" they responded.
"Come to the edge," he said.
And so they came.
And he pushed them.
And they flew.”
― Guillaume Apollinaire