Saturday, 30 August 2025

The Lattice and the Flow

This moves from ripples of change into symbolic infrastructures as constraints on possibility:


TOPO:
If change persuades the collective,
what persuades change?

RHEO:
The lattice.

TOPO:
The lattice?

RHEO:
The symbolic infrastructure—
the patterned constraints
that shape what can be said,
what can be seen,
what can even be imagined.

TOPO:
So the flow of change runs through a fixed frame?

RHEO:
Not fixed—
but slow to move.
Like the banks of a river:
they channel the water,
but over time,
the water can carve them new.

TOPO:
And yet the river never runs free.

RHEO:
No.
Even freedom has its channels,
and those channels are symbolic.


RHEO & TOPO:
To change the current,
sometimes you must first reshape the banks.

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