Ripples in the Pattern

This moves from unraveling to scaling symbolic change across the collective:

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TOPO:

When a symbol changes,

does the whole weave feel it?

RHEO:

Not all at once.

The shift begins as a ripple,

small and local.

TOPO:

But ripples spread.

RHEO:

Yes—

if they align with the currents already moving in the weave.

TOPO:

So the collective is not a single surface,

but a set of interlocking currents.

RHEO:

Exactly.

Some flows carry the change outward.

Others resist,

turning the ripple back on itself.

TOPO:

And when a ripple reaches enough dancers?

RHEO:

It ceases to be a ripple.

It becomes the new rhythm

to which the weave now moves.

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RHEO & TOPO:

Change does not conquer the collective—

it persuades it.