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Mythos was concerned with what was considered timeless. It looked both back to the origins of life and culture and inward to the deepest levels of human experience. It was concerned with meaning, not practical affairs. Humans are meaning-seeking creatures.
Myth and Meaning
tricycle.org
The Burning Man community works, then, like one of the emergent systems that get Wired-type intellectuals all aflutter — an unexpected and rich order that arises not from central planning but from the myriad choices of seemingly disconnected individuals. Those choices create highly complicated results that no individual, however brilliant or driven, could have planned.
This Is Burning Man
Brian Doherty
Many of the surprising insights in Bill Tancer’s Click,4 a book about what web traffic analysts see people doing online, have to do with these when, where and who questions. Among the six W questions (What, Why, hoW, When, Where and Who) that are involved in any decision, when today stands supreme as the fundamental one. If you restrict yourself to just the first three questions, instead of managing all six, you will find yourself in the world of the Red Queen in Alice in Wonderland.
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