Control the rhythm, change the system.
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rhythmic displacement
Control the rhythm, change the system.
Ignore the problem and it grows. Focus on the wrong thing and it all grows faster. The challenge is to change the conditions under which it reproduces itself: this is adjacent to a broader question of adaptive strategy in a complex world.
Second-order phase locking is what happens when systems stop reacting to reality and start synchronising to their expectations of disruption.
Coherence emerges from the continual negotiation of irreducible difference. Discrete boundaries and differences are contingent.
The more instability surrounds the Strait of Hormuz, the more valuable it becomes. The paradox is that a prolonged conflict may be increasing the strategic importance of one of Iran’s most powerful sources of leverage.