just as lynn margulis showed in her detailing of mitochondrial incorporation, the great turning will happen by symbiosis. inside of protective, semipermeable membranes, small cooperative communities are inventing new patterns. and they are beginning to replicate within their own watersheds. eventually these new, local scale patterns strengthen and form federations between each other. the old way is not destroyed or eliminated by too down macro forces; that’s just another totalitarian impulse. instead, the new ways are symbiotically incorporated by the old way. over time, the new patterns continue relatively faster regeneration and come to be the norm. even then, many pockets of the old way remain. holo or hylo may be these local patterns. i am sure that sovereign indigenous nations are another. when you look closely, like chanterelles after a soaking fall rain, you can see them popping everywhere.

so i pulled one card from a deck my good friend brought as a present. wouldn’t you know? i pulled void 🧐

there is a drop from the old way to the new. it is the small minority that lets go because of the mind or reason. a few let go because social aspiration and people like to follow the cool. but for the largest majorities, they will only let go and drop into the new when they tire, can no longer hold their own weight or the old way breaks entirely. same old same old.

this sunny sunday in vancouver was a sex party. late summer 74 degree bacchanalia. amateur olympiads, tight two pieces, bouncing volley balls all over the beaches. and lovers, hand in hand, around each bend. making out in broad daylight as if mourning incipient, endless gloom.

this is one of the dopest pieces of infrastructure since digital communications. it lets you build intimate, real and relational micro services; by and for your own community, with their values. if we can gel the pattern, it can replicate far and wide. sayonara, uber; motherf@&$r. it could be like ios for *your* community.

i’m feeling warm and toasty. if anyone out there is in vancouver, come to our meditation at 5:30 on monday evenings at the yurt.

tpot might love this.