“In nature, nothing exists alone.” – Rachel Carson
I don’t think cultural unification via globalization—i.e., tendency to be ‘mono-culturized’ by the widespread use of commonly used language such as English (e.g., see Daniel Everett p. 276)—is inherently bad because otherwise you will not benefit from economic network effects.
Related:
- 1-1a1 We don’t necessarily have to think hierarchically (i.e., in files and folders)
- 5-2 What counts cannot be counted
- 10-2g2c0e Synechism - the idea that everything is connected and nothing can be understood in isolation
- Ecosystem ≠ Synechism
- Synechism is more about 連続性 while ecosystem is about 連帯性develop
- Ecosystem ≠ Synechism
- Not everything is connected causallymultiversedevelop
- 1-2g2s7d A history has to be explained in multiversal terms. The true explanation of what happened involves many other instances of me.
- 1-2g2s8 The unobserved parts of the wider phenomenon have in no way affected what we observe, yet they are essential to its explanation. Causation doesn’t exhaust explanation.
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E.g.,
- Operation Epic Fury and its effect on global energy supply chain