The Vortex Model - Insights

 Layers of observation (social context): 1. (1 minute): Sensory perceptions present: colours, sounds, smells, lights, shapes. Moods. Facts. Superficial impressions. Explicit relationships. 2. (1 hour): Rhythms. Short-term cycles. Basic relationships. Cause-effect. Surface links. Sensory changes. Practical patterns. Conventions. Personality features. 3. (1 day/week): Implicit or hidden relationships. Expression of subtle cultural patterns. Circadian cycles. Local moods. Current social energy. 4. (1 month/year): Intuitive energetic relationships. Complex relationships. Historical momentum. 5. (+ 1 year): I as an element of observation and as an agent of change. Transformations manifested on a human scale.

 A couple of themes have been very present in my life in recent years: On the one hand, the need for a paradigm shift as a priority in the face of a balloon that is swelling and cracking much faster than the patches we put on it can slow it down (let alone deflate it). Alternative economies, community subsistence, the permacultural vision in its most holistic vision. "It is not worth fighting for a future that does not exist in the present. So let's bring the future as soon as possible because in the present we are losing the battle. On the other hand, a theory that emerged with two friends on a cold beach some years ago. We could call it the theory of the dying. It comes from reflection in the face of a paradox. The planet that hosts us, the living organism in which humanity lives, is sick, with symptoms of a disease that could be fatal. We, that cancerous cell that is killing it from within. Does it make sense for us to continue fighting for a humanity that seems to want to ...