From the model that such observation and acknowledgement make evident we can begin to appreciate that not only do the stars hold each other in the sky, but man is “held” in place by his fellow man within the relationships in families and neighbourhoods and society. (Besides getting the “art” that reflects our agenda, we also get the government that reflects our society). The “holding-together” is not rigid nor of course is it “forever”. A good analogy to how tightly people (and everything) are held by each other would be that of elasticated Velcro. As in is it is possible to tear people “lose” without perceptible damage, except that they are then lose. A further analogy might be that when we look at Swallow Falls in Betws-y-Coed and see that the “water” has scooped out “bowls”, or the sort of “sculptures” of rocks in cowboy films “by the wind” it is neither that have done that. It is the lose particles of rock that the water and wind carry that damage and erode those particles which are still held in place. People who are not held “in place” by intrinsic relationships can be extremely damaging in like fashion. Very often a person can continue to perform perfectly adequately even if relationships have been ripped away, if that person had developed within a situation that was reasonably “stabilising”. And there are a great many dimensions to what those influences might have been. Some may not be in the least apparent to any outsider, so “judgment” by a social worker, or anyone else, is something that simply can’t be done. My own mother, for instance, had very little reason, on the face of things, to be a “good person”. But she was. And I know of many others who are far more than they “ought” to be, just as there are so many who are far less. Doing well academically is not always a measure. I have often wondered if some people are born the conscience equivalent of colour blind or tone deaf. And without a conscience it is comparatively easy to apparently be “successful” in this current world. I digress.
So the two tendencies of both “going apart” and “holding together” work together as a couplet. Betwixt and within the “tension” between the two of going apart / sharing (what has been wrongly termed disorder) and yet holding together at the same time by intrinsic relationships there is an ever changing dynamic equilibrium of transient (as in not fixed, and not “forever”) order, in other words thus is creation possible / formed. A more concise way of putting that is that between these two we find what I choose to call the universal law which I believe for the mega-model obviously and necessarily should now supersede the entropy law. And this describes that
The universe tends towards maximum diversification
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