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Jen Sern's avatar

This deserves a follow up: The Great Reintegration

At the risk of sounding it it might be some kind of movement waiting to happen, if it took X amount of time and effort to disintegrate, it will take even more to reintegrate.

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Zac Solomon's avatar

Wow, great observation. Definitely something IтАЩll need to mull over.

Also feels like the incentives are stacked against us to reintegrate. By optimizing and then productizing each of the elements of our lives, companies have created a flywheel for disintegration.

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Jen Sern's avatar

I think it's true - the world tends to "chaos" and fractalizing outwards. Yet at the same time in each civilizational shift forward, it relied upon a great effort to pull everything back into a new configuration, carrying forward the benefits of what was passed on by the predecessor.

An analogy is culture. Once it's "lost", it will be much more difficult for succeeding generations to regain it; until perhaps it is rediscovered due to a necessity or by chance, revealing the underlying utility of that cultural practice once again. Similarly for values, societal configurations, philosophies.

I'm a preservationist and I get nostalgic when good things are fading away. I'm 100% with you on reintegration.

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