Ron Jeffries@RonJeffries@mastodon.social
@GeePawHill@mastodon.social
I'm wondering here ... ISTM ... just riffing here ...
ISTM that excellence is by definition rare. Every successful system (plant, animal, species, any complex system) succeeds not because of its most excellent elements, but because its mediocre elements are good enough.
Maybe what we, you and I, care about really doesn't matter to success, not because of extractive capitalism, bad as it is, or the like, but because excellence, by its nature, is just a lovely irrelevance.
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Ron Jeffries@RonJeffries@mastodon.social
@GeePawHill@mastodon.social
That might not even be bad. As we both know, striving for excellence is its own reward, quite often its only reward.
But it is a reward. You know, as I do, the joy of making.
I suspect that that joy, and the joy of sharing, of once in a while sparking someone ... might be what it's all about.
Mediocre works. It has to work. It's a fundamental law of complex systems (that I just identified).
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