Would you prefer a life that's a mile wide and an inch deep, or an inch wide and a mile deep?
This world is make up of a pretty broad and rapidly increasing, at least before Covid, range of options and we do tend to select and edit them down to what works for us, because a few hundred million years of selection pressures tends us toward optimization. Signal from the noise.
Yet does getting outside the box on occasion mean we actually understand the box in the first place?
Yes, it is certainly healthy to grow our range of experiences, but might it also be useful to turn back and deconstruct the very notion of the box?
Quite simply, the box is order. The box will tell us the only alternative to order is disorder.
Complexity theory will tell us the optimal is this line between order and chaos. Which is what those seeking to get outside their box seek, as they will use it to expand and grow their own concept of order.
Yet what drives this desire to grow? It obviously isn't the order, as that's only the focus and object of desire.
Desire seeks to transcend order, but doing so, settles on a further stage of order. It's like when you were five and kinda figured you had it figured out, but was always curious for more, otherwise you got bored.
So there seems to be this cycle between desire and order. The heart and the head. Desire and judgement.
One pushing out, as the other coalesces in.
Galaxies are energy radiating out, while mass curves in, so maybe there is some cosmic connection.
As these biological organisms, we have the digestive, respiratory and circulatory systems processing the energy driving us on, while the central nervous system sorts and orders the patterns being generated. Signals from the noise. Further reducing them. Gut and heart, versus brain.
Societies are the organic social energies driving them, as the civil and cultural forms give them structure. Which is reflected in the political dichotomy of liberal and conservative.
Before I get taken to task for suggesting conservatism has any valid use, consider that every society that ever existed has had these seeking to transcend convention(the Box) and those seeking to strengthen it.
Even liberals build boxes. For instance, there is no more old fashioned multicultural liberalism, as it has coalesced into this monocultural identitarianism, basically becoming its own form of conservatism.
There are innumerable other layers of processes and patterns to peel away, but this gives some hint of where to take it.
People are linear and goal oriented, while nature is cyclical, circular and feedback generated. Actions begat reactions.
