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{{a|bi| | {{a|bi|{{image|Pace layering|jpg|}}}}{{Quote|In Europe you can see it in terminology, where the names of months (governance) have varied radically since 1500, but the names of signs of the Zodiac (culture) are unchanged in millennia. Europe’s most intractable wars have been religious wars. | ||
}}{{Quote|In Europe you can see it in terminology, where the names of months (governance) have varied radically since 1500, but the names of signs of the Zodiac (culture) are unchanged in millennia. Europe’s most intractable wars have been religious wars. | |||
:—{{author|Stewart Brand}}, ''Pace Layering: How Complex Systems Learn and Keep Learning''<ref>https://jods.mitpress.mit.edu/pub/issue3-brand/release/2</ref>}} | :—{{author|Stewart Brand}}, ''Pace Layering: How Complex Systems Learn and Keep Learning''<ref>https://jods.mitpress.mit.edu/pub/issue3-brand/release/2</ref>}} | ||
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{{Quote|''“Fast learns, slow remembers. Fast proposes, slow disposes. Fast is discontinuous, slow is continuous. Fast and small instructs slow and big by accrued innovation and by occasional revolution. Slow and big controls small and fast by constraint and constancy. Fast gets all our attention, slow has all the power.”''}} | {{Quote|''“Fast learns, slow remembers. Fast proposes, slow disposes. Fast is discontinuous, slow is continuous. Fast and small instructs slow and big by accrued innovation and by occasional revolution. Slow and big controls small and fast by constraint and constancy. Fast gets all our attention, slow has all the power.”''}} | ||
So to understand how deep and persistent a system effect is and how fixable it is, consider the level are which it presents. A local gang conflict can fix easily, a religious grievance won’t. | So to understand how deep and persistent a [[system effect]] is and how fixable it is, consider the level are which it presents. A local gang conflict can fix easily, a religious grievance won’t. | ||
If an issue presents as a matter of ''fashion'' but proves inexplicably resistant to change, it may be an indication that it is really operates at a deeper level. | If an issue presents as a matter of ''fashion'' but proves inexplicably resistant to change, it may be an indication that it is really operates at a deeper level. | ||