Time is not something through which relations pass. Time is the finite propagation of relation itself.
Time is not something through which relations pass. Time is the finite propagation of relation itself.
The question is whether what we currently reward actually assists the capacity of civilisation to persist, adapt, repair itself, and create meaningful futures.
Every age reaches for old stories to explain new realities. The irony is that most stories survive not because (or even if) they are true, but because they are easy to transmit, to remember, to tell.
Wealth is usually treated as evidence that society is working. But extreme accumulation may also reveal something stranger: a system increasingly organised around preserving wealth, whether or not that preservation still serves the world around it.
Coherence emerges from the continual negotiation of irreducible difference. Discrete boundaries and differences are contingent.
Science has not stopped discovering reality. We have become less capable of surviving what those discoveries imply about ourselves.