The optimistic future of Bin Salman's mile-high mirror-cities, Musk's Martian transplantation; an optimism based on number and algorithm, the machine in dominant-mode, humans reduced to ferrying through the sky in flying taxis.
Everything planned to the last pfennig. Apollonian perfection. The counter is to allow things to be relatively unplanned, and this allows-in disorder. Germs and physical strength; natural cycles and psychic equilibrium (generations.)
Where there is disorder, metamorphosis from disorder to order happens with the strength of carrion-feeders, the processing of pathogens through the guts of scavengers.
Optimism seems to discount the power of the underworld to replenish through the natural processes of fermentation, rotting, growth and revival. Future-optimism will establish hygienic monocultural cowsheds run by AI, while realistic-pessimism will let nature take its course in a rough-and-tumble mixed farm with totally inefficient hens running around, and kids throwing stones at crows on fallow ground.
The big question is, how does one provide sufficient grain in a system that is mixed and not monoculturally efficient (on view of the Ukraine situation)?
There's no easy answer but, as was said previously (PM5), generational rhythms are vital and the imbalances of age can be disastrous (China, less so Japan.)
Where there is no equilibrium the psyche is weakened. Furthermore, where disorder and germs provide no support for the immune-system, poor health and weakness will proliferate. Possibly diseases that affect elderly such as Alzheimers.
Feeding the world is an optimistic aim, but pessimism predicts there are factors outside of the aim at perfect efficiency. There is also the point that a logical order is ruled by the cerebrum (number), while an illogical disorder is much more amenable to the cerebellum, through movement, breath, blood (PM3.)
The world of movement is less logical, and implicates the underworld through the strength of metamorphosis. The revival of the future - in crops, the vine - occurs from decay and carrion.
The gross or bestial in nature is associated with fecundity (see Greek comedy, the human piglet PM2.) Camels and horseshit would predominate in a disordered future of fecundity. The balance of seeming opposites in dirt and ability to achieve health through cleanliness.
Hygiene is an optimistic dream of a perfect future that cannot exist and is weak, unhealthy, in disequilibrium. Angus McKie had a story in HM where the payoff was, 'It depends if you're an optimistic or a pessimist', and that's about the size of it!
Capital-democracy has to have a bright future to sell, but it depends if it's all just words and numbers (when words become numbers). What is convincing to an acolyte of variable time (ones and zeros, GPS machines) is not necessarily right for the spinning Earth in its invariable strength (P200), the balance of sun and moon.
Rather than absolute logic, a type of disordered feuding that has a casual stability, a calm disposition, a history. Don't forget the snake.
