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Pattern 18

Waiting

Patience could be life's greatest lesson
because there is always so much waiting
it is tempting to think
what we call life
is a ritual of repetitions
to which we attach a Meaning
that is its orbital period, a prime number
refusing to meet Time at its cadences,
as if this very tension
is the very consciousness
that created the experience which is the human life;
this consciousness,
spinning itself into a restless energy
clenched in hands afraid to open
knowing that should ever its spin connect with Time
Time would pull it into itself
And at that fearful angular velocity
of one Second per Second -
one Eternity per Eternity -
Time would not exist; neither would
this consciousness
that would choose to learn patience
between distractions in its unstable spin
and call it waiting.

Pattern 17

Disagreeing elements cannot naturally reside together, but there are many ways to make it possible for them to do so. Just as living and dying are never good or bad, acceptance and rejection in their different forms are neither good or bad - they just reflect what everything alive does to remain alive.

- Organic integration / aka bound by Chemistry
Host and guest elements find a way around each other and find a part that allow them to click together. Many functional marriages are probably a kind of organic integration, but a good number of those probably go under "cooperation".
(being/balanced,being/additive)

- Synergy / aka aligned by a Vision
Host and guest elements put differences aside and focus on co-operating towards a goal that host and guest elements cannot achieve apart from each other. Host and guest elements need not be intimately related; they can have functions separate of each other.
(doing/additive)

- Cooperation / aka united by the Task
Host element invites guest element to participate in its effort towards a common goal. Host and guest elements need not be intimately bound together; they just need to be functionally complementary.
(doing/balanced)

- Submission / aka bound by Power
Host element invites or forces guest element to participate in its effort towards its own goal. Slavery in all its different forms will come here.
(doing/unbalanced)

- Compartmentalization / aka agree on the Rules
A box is drawn for the guest element so that it does not come into conflict with the host elements. Buffering disagreement elements with mutually-agreeing elements is a form of compartmentalization. Territorial lines, urban planning would come here.
(rejection accepted)

- Cognitive dissonance / aka Escapism
Imagine that the guest element doesn't exist. Or, imagine that conflict doesn't exist. Societies and families are full of this.
(rejection rejected)

- Assimilation / aka trained through Conditioning
Where a guest element is slowly changed so that it fits in among host elements. Brainwashing would come in here.
(being/unbalanced)

- Reconstruction / aka one in Homogeneity
A guest element is taken apart and reconstructed so that it is exactly like the host elements. Digestion?
(being/destructive)

- Rejection / aka there can only be One
Host element rejects or destroys guest element. Eg, antibodies fighting foreign particles; war on a country with a different religion.
(doing/destructive)

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Imagine that we lived in a world where costs are measured by the total impact of our actions and consumptions on the sustainability of the planet, and the perceived environmental costs of transportation become so expensive that almost everything is produced and consumed in the same region. The only thing that really crosses state and country borders are electronic money and information. MNCs and Franchises exists but only in payments and in contracts - knowledge and technologies, expressed as specifications and manufacturing data are provided, no goods are actually moved.

The most accessible transports are the bus and the train, and buses are run by a highly optimized scheduler that allows them to come to your doorstep within 10 minutes of booking. High speed transport is provided by trains. Air and space travel are available, but prohibitively expensive, not just in terms of money costing, but in terms of environmental costs.

And in this world, every human being is entitled to two trips by air, to anywhere you want to go on the planet - either that, or one single trip on a rocket to another planet human beings are living on - without a return trip.

You could take the trip to leave the society on the planet.

You could use it as one single holiday of your life.

Two people could save their trips for their honeymoon.

You could experience live abroad and return to your country and make use of your experience abroad.

You could take the flight to another country, and try to live there and have the second ticket as a back-up plan, in case you want to return.

You could take the flight to another country and live there, and then take the other flight to yet another country, settling down wherever you go.

Or you could just be where you are, and offer your tickets to another person who would want to use it.

Or you could be collecting tickets from people who do not want to travel in their lives, and use them to fuel holidays.

Or you could live a migrant life, moving from city to city with tickets that people around you bestow on you.

Where would you go?

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