Chaos

Had one of the best conversations in a while today. Starting with his frayed Polo shirt, we somehow worked our way into talking about change. One of my friends is working on stop motion film about how the glaciers are melting, so we got to talking about how New Orleans would be totally under water in 50 years. He imagined what it would be like for Battery Park to be under water and how it’s funny that things like that happen. How he remembers no one ever thinking the Berlin wall would come down. I mention my friend who grew up in east Berlin before the wall came down and how he questions anyone who claims to know anything because he saw instiutional understanding (the things and ways of life you grow up understanding to be real as a child and unchangeble) totally fade away. People live a long time and he adds that the thing with change is that it moves exponentially faster heading toward chaos. It’s my stop. Union Square. Cisco is his name. I ask him what he does. Financial instruments analysis.

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