Did This Happen Because of That?

Here’s one leaning into causality, emergence, and the temptation of control:

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TOPO:

We love to ask: what caused this?

RHEO:
Yes. As if the world unfolds in neat lines.
One thing, then another.

TOPO:
But the lines are rarely neat.
They braid, fold, entangle.

RHEO:
Exactly.
Causality isn’t linear—it’s relational.

TOPO:
So nothing happens because of one thing alone.

RHEO:
Right. Every event is a convergence.
Of forces, conditions, histories—some visible, some not.

TOPO:
Then cause is not a point—it’s a field.

RHEO:
Yes. And to act in that field is not to control it,
but to participate knowingly in its shaping.

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RHEO & TOPO:
Ask not what caused this.
Ask what converged—
and what is now possible from here.