Stormy Winters

I'll decide what I'm doing with this account when I have a better idea of what this place is turning into.

In the meantime, I'm just playing in the wreckage.

[leidi @una_leidi]

amzing

[Stormy Winters @SecretyStorms]

@ThatEricAlper Gaudy Night is a good book all round.

[🥷 @_iamhabeeb]

One of the cruelest things poverty takes from you is the freedom to make mistakes. Every decision has to work.

[Stormy Winters @SecretyStorms]

@GreenRupertRead The desire for control is far more dangerous than the fear.

Everyone will militantly ignore this fact.

They cannot be prevented from doing so.

And it will go how it goes.

[Stormy Winters @SecretyStorms]

@GreenRupertRead Everyone will insist on waiting until the system breaks on its own.

The excuses will change over time. The behaviour will not.

Everyone loves to declare that we know how to fix this. But we don't. We know what the desired outcome is.

That's not even remotely the same thing.

[Stormy Winters @SecretyStorms]

@GreenRupertRead Success can't be planned. It can only be incompetently stumbled into by chance.

There is extreme danger in the overpowering urge to try and exert control despite being in possession of inadequate information.

A mathematical sequence of compounding errors ensues.

[Stormy Winters @SecretyStorms]

@GreenRupertRead Whatever cumulative outcome we're able to achieve from this mess will be determined by local and regional decision making. Made independently, and with highly variable success.

AFTER people are forced to engage with the fact that they are in real danger.

There is nothing else.

[Stormy Winters @SecretyStorms]

@GreenRupertRead It doesn't mean the situation is hopeless.

It's never over.

But it does mean that no one can ever stand up, take charge, and fix it. Because complex systems don't work that way.

The end result of all this WILL be emergent, not chosen. It cannot be anything else.

[Stormy Winters @SecretyStorms]

@GreenRupertRead We are terrible at manipulating complex systems successfully. There is a functional limit beyond which complexity overwhelms us.

The planet demonstrates this.

But so does our civilisation. WE are also a complex system that we have no idea how to manipulate successfully.

[Stormy Winters @SecretyStorms]

@GreenRupertRead We keep circling around the fundamental problem. The underlying reason we're all talk and no action.

That we don't actually know how to redesign an entire civilisation from the ground up while it's still functioning.

It's not just bad actors ruining it. The hesitation is real.