Everything But Not All At Once

You may recognize the title of this note as a nod to the movie "Everything Everywhere All at Once", which earned seven Oscars, and caused a lot of head scratching. Maybe the Oscars were awarded because nobody could figure out what it meant and didn't want to admit it. Dorothy left to read a book. I watched to the end scratching the whole time. I got something out of it in addition to a bleeding scalp. I thought it was about one thing not everything, a mother-daughter relationship full of possibilities that we, in this universe, can deal with only one or two or maybe three at a time, as demonstrated by this movie's failure to do it all at once. Maybe you saw it differently.

What I have in mind now is multiple relationships, involving everyone and everything. I will follow the example of almost every writer I have ever read and break it into parts and parts within parts, to be thought about one bit at a time because the brain has limited bandwidth. We deal with complexity by thinking it through again and again in new circumstances, each time with the illumination of accumulating experience. That's called recursion.

This time around, it is clear to me that reality can be viewed from two perspectives.

1. Structure: how things are arranged and why.
2. Dynamics: how one structure changes into another and why. 

I learned that from an old chemistry teacher (me) doing recursion. You can do it too. Couldn't be simpler. Follow along this time around, or join the majority and go read a book.