tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2377252801421681569.post3578241724083316940..comments2023-10-28T04:53:32.505-07:00Comments on View From The Northern Wall: The Curvature Of Nature - Reprisechristopherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04201537517464996231noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2377252801421681569.post-54370792347200224192011-01-30T13:29:26.999-08:002011-01-30T13:29:26.999-08:00Joseph...LOL. Of course I wouldn't think of t...Joseph...LOL. Of course I wouldn't think of that and you would. A curvy use of language.<br /><br />Straight lines are a little like cheating in a way. They lead to efficiency but always at a price. When you have a large and open world with somewhere to put the left overs and it doesn't bother you that someone or something else is paying a price then major things can get done and that is the story of our technical civilization. But when the world is closed like ours is becoming, then it is ourselves that pay the price. Waking up is a bitch because karma is by now overwhelming, the burden too heavy to carry and too much to repair completely. Lately we fear that it is too late and we are caught in our own trap.<br /><br />Straight line thinking tends to be criminally forgetful of others. In Holland and in Europe more generally we have been forced to think more curvaciously and Europeans are a little bit ahead. In India and China where straight line thinking did not dominate until recently, the passions for comfort and success are making recall of planetary wisdom difficult.<br /><br />Straight lines are in the heart of a certain simple mathematical thought and this thought is not only relatively easy but is in potential in most four footed brains and some birds too. Thus we are not the only ones to behave poorly, but we are the only ones to develop it beyond very small localities. The point is that it would be a mistake to consider this kind of thinking unnatural. However it is surely not sophisticated and we can die of it after murdering much of the planet. If we were to die of it today it would already be after murdering much of the planet.<br /><br />One of the things we do is try hard to hide our left overs from ourselves. We are modestly successful at that, unless we are sufficiently low class, in which case we are immobilized by poverty and are left behind or pushed into the dump.<br /><br />Try not to take what I have said too seriously without pondering all that I have not said. Otherwise you will encounter straight lines. That's the trouble. Our very language tends to be linear. This is why poetry can be important. Poetry is not so linear.christopherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04201537517464996231noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2377252801421681569.post-46046838373475205262011-01-30T10:29:10.871-08:002011-01-30T10:29:10.871-08:00Leaving aside all obvious comments on straightness...Leaving aside all obvious comments on straightness (:P) and agreeing with you wholeheartedly, I think people do prefer the ragged, we just don't want to admit it. Remember fractals, remember the golden mean: they come from and are reflected in nature. It's when people try to over-intellectualize those beauties that it becomes aggravating; thankfully, only a handful of math and science people do that, and the rest of us can be surprised by the variations of a fern for hours.<br /><br />Well, ideally, at least. :)Joseph Harkerhttp://namingconstellations.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2377252801421681569.post-58990426423561304202011-01-30T06:54:53.763-08:002011-01-30T06:54:53.763-08:00The best lines nature
offers are curved and crooke...The best lines nature<br />offers are curved and crooked<br /><br />Which proves Nature is a true artist!Jinksyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01686101468214361004noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2377252801421681569.post-38165864643705436562011-01-30T06:40:20.948-08:002011-01-30T06:40:20.948-08:00I really dig this poem Christopher. I've colle...I really dig this poem Christopher. I've collected many of yours. This one shall go next to that one...the swell of a woman's hip between.Wine and Wordshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06778785233226804217noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2377252801421681569.post-13050853576567765902011-01-29T23:04:59.491-08:002011-01-29T23:04:59.491-08:00I can honestly say that I'm not a fan of strai...I can honestly say that I'm not a fan of straight lines. I think men prefer straight lines. Women know that life is messy, non linear, organic, circular.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com