Wisdom and Complexity
“The war between good and evil is in reality an imposition of stupidity and simplicity over wisdom and complexity.” Tyson Yunkaporta Sand Talk
We confuse complicated with complex. Many intellectuals claim superiority of thought because they are trained in solving complicated issues, like how to get humans to Mars and back.
Complexity is an entirely different category. Complexity requires a whole systems approach. To solve complex problems requires at minimum the ability to be connected to the larger patterns in the patterns, to have a sense-making instrument that includes the warm data of human relationships, the relationships between humans and all sentient and non-sentient beings – life itself.
Complexity is unpredictable. You will never know the tipping point’s time of arrival in advance. To work in complexity is to be intrinsically comfortable with living on the edge of emergence.
Wisdom is hard-earned. There is an expansiveness to wisdom, infinite patience, and a source spring of love.
In an increasingly complex world, where all of our human-constructed systems are woven into the fabric of each other, such that to pull on the thread of one will affect the whole, our response needs to come from the field of wisdom and the ability to live in complexity.
Add to this the context of the current world, and a challenge we have.
Too easy is it for us to intend rescue and saving, and without coming from the source of wisdom and fluency in complexity, to be, despite our best intentions, a part of the problem.
**Tyson Yunkaporta is our guest on this months Syntropic Alumni + Open call. To register.
Photo taken August 6th 2020
