Satisologie II: Direct and Web Satisologie

“The limited and the limitless are negotiated by creativity.”

Might as well start with part 2, right?

In Economics there are the terms “Macro-” and “Micro-” economics. But an ant does not care about the microeconomy of the anthill, an ant is the microeconomy.

Since studying Economics in highschool, the terms “Microeconomics” and “Macroeconomics” always left a bitter taste in my mouth. There’s no real sense to the classification, other than in vague terms to try and describe that one is zoomed in on transactions, while the other is about aggregate and emergent patterns on the whole. It’s similar to trying to talk about how to bake bread, and breaking down the process of the oven cooking bread into a “loaf of creation” and a zoom-in on the actual process of each molecule transforming under heat, pressure, and ingredient-ation.

While it can prove to be an interesting exercise to see how a loaf is made and how the individual molecules correspond to the loaf, the idea of “macro” and “micro” in Economics just does not fit well. Square peg → round hole.

So while I am still gathering my thoughts on Satisologie I: Global Circulatory Systems, I thought I’d lay down some thoughts on Satisologie II: Direct and Web Satisologie.

Direct Satisologie, Web Satisologie

Broadly defining need: freedom, peace, shelter, hunger, thirst — to name a few.

Direct Satisologie is handing a hungry person an apple and the hungry person devouring it. In the devouring, there is digestion, in the digestion, there are neurochems created, in the neurochems, there are experiences enlivened by the brain, and in the experiences enlivened by the multipartite chain of living organisms where one link is the brain, we have our sensory apparatus and our inner mental sensorium — we have Experience.

Web Satisologie is the rhizomic, root-like branching of slime molds and circulatory systems that is incurred through the explorative mode of direct satisologie. That is, in the satisfaction of needs we must bridge distance, chasm, cliff, divide, and space. To do so, the web is formed, or an existing web is discovered. The blood vessels in the body are each operating under the provisions of web satisologie while the oxygenation of the hemoglobin is the direct satisologie — gasping for iron and air the thirst of each bloodcell is satisfied, and in aggregate the blood flows to each organ of the body.

In general, improvements to the web are improvements of delivery, access, and availability. I plan to demonstrate, through these musings on Satisologie, that access and availability are just as critical in economic transactions and satisological culminations as are the very vessels, routes, and by-ways of goods, and even just as critical as the goods themselves.

On the origins of Creative Products

Creative Products come in two broad flavors: the fruits of the branch, and the fruits of the brain. I say two broad flavors because everything that we interact with is either of the natural world, such as plums and apricots, or is of the mental imagination-come-to-life of characters such as Nikola Tesla and you yourself.

You ever hear the one question “Is it an invention, or a discovery?” This comes close to rending in twain the crux of this riddle. What if you discover somebody else’s invention? What to call that event? In short, mathematics might be a discovery, while mathematical symbols might be an invention. The direct satisologie of meaning-making and symbol-making is fulfilling in itself. The web satisologie of having a coherent set of rules and principles apply to mathematics — the consistency of addition and subtraction, the inverseness of division and multiplication — is something we take for granted but is, upon closer examination, simply part of the web that connects the symbols.

Fruits of Branch and Brain

The beautiful thing about the world is its impermanence. Through impermanence all is possible and nothing impossible. The plum and apricot seeds may sprout and bring with them the jampacked goodness of atmosphere, sunlight, and earthen carbon. Without impermanence there would be no way to build upon our discoveries or inventions, to lay truths down and let their meaning permeate into our bone marrow and inner resting mind. It is through change that life is possible, it is through change that we are freed from obstacles.

And just as the flowers of the cherry do blossom, the direct satisfaction of understanding something profound is viscerally felt by the one who comes to gnosis. Through conduct and aspiration one is able to benefit others in the realm, and thereby web satisfaction is achieved — a humorous joke and a single candle’s flame can be shared ad infinitum, the benefit is never reduced, only increased. In this way, in certain ways, wealth is created and not destroyed.

“Now, now” you might be saying to yourself, “Newton would not like this imbalance of yang and yin.” But we are short-sighted if we believe that the satisfaction of this human being is limited by what we can touch, feel, and sense. The cosmos is fathoms deep in this very body, and with proper application and intention the limits of what is knowable are illuminated. Were we to stay blind to the possibilities of web satisologie we are to neglect the very core of ourselves — for all beings (not just humans) have a desire for the basal satisfaction: freedom from all enhamperments.

Through sharing, wealth is multiplied. The apricot and the plum are no strangers to multiplication. The chasm and the mountain seem to cancel each other out when looking with a mathematical mind concerned with topographical features, but when looking at the world through the organic lens of transformation and successive regeneration, we find that the volcanic ash is now fertile soil, the fecund slope is right for trees to root, and the fruit is ripe for yak to smack. The apparent dissonance or contraposition of symmetry and organic chaos are where fertility makes her abode. Her self-organizing nature — like a dress of Autumn leaves — finds her way to glen and glade with a swirling and gently resting cosmic ease. She deigns to sit where only moonlight and coyote play, and in her humbleness all growth is possible.

The fruits of branch are infinitely recyclable, and the fruits of brain must honor the same. Without paying homage to impermanence, we are grasping at the impossible, and we must let go; we must loosen our grip — our psychic grip of this body, our psychic grip of what we believe to be the limits of possibility.

And while I am loathe to cut short such lovely musings on Nature and her glory, the fruits of brach are only helpful to us through delivery, access, and availability. Of course, the early-adopters, the explorers, the women and men of expedition may attain what has a natural access and availability without the need for delivery. It seems that delivery is where the cash is collected, where the positive vibrations (when cash is left out of the equation) are accrued.

The Internet Economy and the Brick-and-Mortar Economy

A new dawn is upon us, and it has been dawning for at least a few celestial hours on the sundial of the zodiac. It is the dawn of a new era where screens are ubiquitous, information flows like honey in the summer, and human ambition flows like honey in the winter.

The Brick-and-Mortar Economy was the result of human organization and coordination to improve delivery and thereby create access and availability for goods and exchanges of services otherwise difficult to determine or come by. It has served a tremendous purpose: storefronts, roads, infrastructure, and mainly the commercial world we all remember from the 90s — shopping malls and mega plazas, to help us satisfy the short-term necessities. We have brought our necessities within arm’s reach, and we have also started to value comfort over freedom. Like lions in the zoo, as my good friend Mario said, we have created socialist nations that ensure people are fed, clothed, sheltered, and entertained, all at the cost of a small, perhaps frivolous thing — freedom.

A lion in the wild may not eat for days or weeks, may not have the comfort of a trainer with a fresh carcass waiting for them in the corridor, but a lion in the zoo also feels deep down that her psychic and biological satisologie goes unsatisfied, untapped, untempered, unresolved.

Yet, I digress, for what is really astonishing in regards to the Brick-and-Mortar economy is how the Internet Economy is dismantling and reshaping the Brick-and-Mortar economy. There may have been thirty sandal stores in your locale before the screens arrived en masse, and now there may simply be room for one or two — a physical place to test the sandals and make sure you have your online order straight. The mom-and-pop shop better be Clojure based or it’s not going to survive. In other words, being able to make a digital storefront is more powerful than a physical storefront, for countries and localities with a plethora of screens and ubiquitous broadband. Naturally, we cannot remove all the physical goods — to go totally virtual is to go totally mental — but the number of retailers, shops, clothiers, luthiers, physical places to do hard-like-the-elements tasks will dwindle in favor of a new balance, a new homeostatis that emerges as our sophistication with our new web spins its yarn and does its magical dance.

The agglomeration of satisological fulfilment stations into screens and sparse-land-covering points of dominion serve as a reminder that the fruits of branch and brain are not limited by anything other than our grasping at them to be permanent, unchanging, and real.

Great minds have all agreed, the best way to honor her is to satisfy her many bellies. Be they bellies of intestine or introspection, their satisfaction is most vital, and is the mold, casing, and result of the cosmic imperative: union.

And it’s risky to keep things curt and pithy, since people might get you wrong, or might try and use your words for their own aims, but it’s better to have a handful of beautiful jewels than a rucksack full of diamond grains.

Be an ally to the creation of wealth, for it is both “of branch” and “of brain.”

May the forces of nature always be with you.