As being in large part culturally American (Northern and Southern), I am always awed by ancient living cultures, such as Hindi or Chinese. These traditions have accumulated over the centuries small changes to words, dress, and protocols that when seen for the first time seem elaborate beyond belief – that is, who could have thought of such a set up? But the cultural trick is Time.
Evolution is an amazing process – changes accumulate slowly for such a long period of time that in the end there is a big change from the original. It is this incremental evolution over long periods of time that has given us rich cultures all over the world, a wide range of living organisms, and an inability to forecast the future of the real complexity we live in.
Hmm, complexity…
