> I’m thinking about [...] when changes become so fast that it goes beyond our “fastest rate to process changes” and it all becomes blurry, with no signs to slowing down. The problem here is not any specific change and how we adapt to it. The problem is the always-increasing part of reality that we have no time to process.
Another tangential reference that came to my mind is Poteat and Polanyi's Post-critical philosophy which I would summarized (probably incorrectly) as "knowledge is always personal, and the observer (processes) are as important as the object (reality) under study".
Another VERY interesting post!
(Im aware that this comment is probably too long and with too many references. Ignore anything that is not worth the time.)
I've been reading and thinking about the accelerated speed of change. And I even written a bit about it:
- In Maven: https://app.heymaven.com/discover/1192777
- In a couple of Summer of Protocols's forum posts: https://forum.summerofprotocols.com/t/cryonics-law/1499/3 / https://forum.summerofprotocols.com/t/the-questions-of-protocol-scales/1541
A couple of excerpts:
- McLuhan: to keep up with the pace of change, we became pattern-matchers.
- McLuhan Speaks: Pattern Recognition | The Marshall McLuhan Speaks Special Collection - https://marshallmcluhanspeaks.com/soundbites/pattern-recognition
- Robb: When social media arrived, we forcibly packetized our media into bite-sized narratives to catalyze pattern matching.
- Now we know that packetized media fuels networked tribalism.
- Packetized Media: [partially paywalled post] Packetized Media - by John Robb - Global Guerrillas https://johnrobb.substack.com/p/packetized-media
> I’m thinking about [...] when changes become so fast that it goes beyond our “fastest rate to process changes” and it all becomes blurry, with no signs to slowing down. The problem here is not any specific change and how we adapt to it. The problem is the always-increasing part of reality that we have no time to process.
Another tangential reference that came to my mind is Poteat and Polanyi's Post-critical philosophy which I would summarized (probably incorrectly) as "knowledge is always personal, and the observer (processes) are as important as the object (reality) under study".
FYI: The link to "Terror Management Theory" is broken. The correct one is: https://www.ernestbecker.org/terror-management-theory/