Growth is sluggish, but ruin is rapid.

Growth is sluggish,
but ruin is rapid.

Like 24 Jun 2022 at 16:31 | Open on merveilles.town

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@neauoire and rapid growth often leads to ruin

24 Jun 2022 at 16:32 | Open on mastodon.technology

@neauoire Yep, good things happen slowly, bad things happen fast.

24 Jun 2022 at 16:33 | Open on fosstodon.org

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@neauoire And everytime we make an inch of progress, politicians and corporations take us back a mile...

24 Jun 2022 at 21:00 | Open on chitter.xyz

@neauoire The way I think of it, ruin is an accumulation of complications, hindrances, wounds, driving a system toward quiescence.

The seeds of ruin are planted slowly, and fruit suddenly.

26 Jun 2022 at 18:01 | Open on merveilles.town

@neauoire What kind of growth?

17 Jul 2022 at 23:01 | Open on merveilles.town

@dualhammers It's a quote from Plato and it talks about empires and democracy.

17 Jul 2022 at 23:05 | Open on merveilles.town

@neauoire Ah, okay. I thought you came up with that one off the dome since there was no quotations.

I would add that the farther away from ecological equilibrium an entity goes the more energy it takes to maintain.

Human empires are deeply unbalanced organizations.

17 Jul 2022 at 23:08 | Open on merveilles.town

@dualhammers azolla event type stuff. The quote is usually associated with the Senneca curve that looks like: https://wiki.xxiivv.com/site/collapse.html

17 Jul 2022 at 23:09 | Open on merveilles.town

@neauoire This all seems right. Collapse is part of the great sine wave, continuing until the heat death of the universe

18 Jul 2022 at 2:22 | Open on merveilles.town