Blockchain might be a very effective tool for creating decentralized networks, as well as the non-linear design implicit to the network, but it’s not exactly questioning the broader paradigm.
The linear, goal oriented model goes to the foundations of a narrative based culture, so how does one formulate a more cyclical, reciprocal, feedback generated model?
Here is my own effort;
Short version; Revisiting time, God, money.
We model time narratively, as the point of the present moving past to future, but the reality is that change turns future to past. Tomorrow becomes yesterday, because the earth turns. Though engaging that conversation runs up against the sequential thought process….
A spiritual absolute would be the essence of sentience, from which we rise, not an ideal of wisdom and judgement from which we fell. Given the distinction between the absolute and the ideal seems to have eluded our collective navel gazing, it’s complicated….
Money functions as a contract, not a commodity. It’s a useful medium of exchange, but lousy store of value. Blood is a medium, fat is a store. There is a difference.
