Wise Playground, episode 14: Adjacent Possible

In a network, the adjacent possible is always in the intersect of revolution and communication.

David Bowie:
“I would like to believe that people knew what they were fighting for and why they wanted a revolution, and exactly what it was within that they didn’t like.

I mean, to put down a society or the aims of a society is to put down a hell of a lot of people and that scares me that there should be such a division where one set of people are saying that another set should be killed. You know you can’t put down anybody. You can just try and understand.

The emphasis shouldn’t be on revolution, it should be on communication.

Because it’s just going to get more uptight. The more the revolution goes on, there will be a civil war sooner or later.”

Resist All The Memes!
Understanding communication is also why you need to resist all the memes. Resist them utterly and on principle, until the packaging crumbles and dissolves, leaving you with the essential signal, the hidden message.

Contextual Intelligence For The Win^n
In order for you to achieve this, to transcend shared misery and find yourself in communication, you need to learn. A learning in five stages.

Deck: Wealth Card: Undone

Don’t start on the wrong think

context, ritual and rut and habit turned presence, change, essential character and action

1. Don’t end up a billiard ball
   Starting with action is always a mistake. You’ll end up a billiard ball, hitting at other billiard ball people, all utterly convinced that their unique action is the most actionable. Billiard balls. Don’t be a billiard ball, become human. Suspend your billiard ball belief and your disbelief in adjacent possibles. Play.
2. Don’t turn spirituality into neither cope, nor virtue signalling
   Starting with essential character, as all the mindfulness and integral people do, is slightly less wrong than the doers, but still wrong. Because going “ohm” is almost invariably a cop out from and a resistance towards change.
3. Don’t go process junkie
   Slightly better still, but still wrong, is starting with change — like all the coaches, the novelty seekers, the adventurers — the quest for the true Quest — the process junkies. The change buffs are trying, more or less desperately to avoid facing their own embodied, here and now, selfhood. Those who are crazy busy doesn’t like who they are all that much.
4. Never play to the gallery
   What used to work, inside the Tribe, Institution and Market Thinks, doesn’t really work that well anymore. Which means, never start with ritual. Never play to the gallery. Never please others. Never ever worry about what other people think. What other people think, is figuratively and literally, none of your business.
5. Always start from a place …
   Always start from a place of deep, spiritual, mindful, creative, compassionate, intelligent, passionate and practical understanding of context. Now, go back to the previous sentence and spend a couple of days, weeks and months on that. Percolate inside yourself, until it hits you like a convivial ton of bricks: your own context.

The context and the damage undone
The rest is simple. Do the sequence. In that order:

context, ritual and rut and habit turned presence, change, essential character and action

“Trust movement.”
— Alfred Adler

Trust generative sequences, trust structure-preserving transformation.