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The world is woven. Any thread may be pulled.

:- Doug.

We all want a world simpler than it is: less capable of being bollixed by good intentioned things we do day to day. The mature response is to attend, to learn, to accept, and then to act.

:- Doug.

We are not isolable selves to be fulfilled; we are interwoven to weave, to fulfill the relatings. Simply put, we are part of one another.

:- Doug.

Transaction, process, play, flow, transience, pattern, dynamic, conversation.

:- Doug.

This concept of mutual causality is hard to understand, until you look around. We are forever throwing up our hands because, for instance, the opioid crisis is fueled by so many things: pain, the medical non system, drug companies, crime, ennui, malaise, boredom, addiction, religion, sin, philosophy, politics, and on. Is this not the description of relational process?

:- Doug.

Even more than the medium is the message, the message is the medium.

:- Doug.

All is in relation, that is, play, that is, conversation.

:- Doug.

Mutual causality: conversing.

:- Doug.

The general systems picture had greater effect upon the progress of the world during the 20th century than did the quantum picture.

:- Doug.