Wednesday, March 11, 2020
The ultimate Patient People
Anthropologists have established that one South African tribe has been making the same ostrich-shell beads for 33000 YEARS.
That's fucking PATIENT.
Culture requires stability. Morality requires stability. Life requires stability. 33000 years is probably more stability than we need, but it forms a nice goalpost.
I'd guess the optimum is around a century. One long lifetime or three generations. Parents and teachers and employers should be able to count on their moral and mental training to benefit the second generation. Gradual change has a chance to determine its viability against a mostly constant ambient background. When everything is changing all the time you can't measure the results of your intentional changes and actions, which is of course the ENTIRE PURPOSE of the Github Universe.
In the Github era we're down to 7 seconds of stability, so we have a ways to go by either standard.
Labels: Natural law = Sharia law, Patient people, Patient things
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