The Hierarchy of Fluidity

     

The more rigid/solid something is, the more manipulatable or "moldable" it is. The more controlable it is. The more fluid something is, the harder it is to mold and control. This is obvious and on full display in our reality. Solid, rigid systems implies high control and order. High "leashability" and "moldability." 

   The more fluid something is, the harder it is to interact with, manipulate, or control. It's easier to mold clay than mold water into a definable edge and shape, but is easier to mold water than it is to mold air. It is easier to interact with and manipulate air than it is to interact with and manipulate light. Its even more difficult to interact with and manipulate the fabric of space and time than it is to do the same with light. 

Fluidity implies freedom and independence and lack of controlability, rigidity implies control, dominance, repression and high levels of order and structure.

 Fluidity is complex in its mathematics, movement, dimensions, and measurements. 

Rigidity is simpler in these things.

Fluid systems are more resilient and enduring and can recover quicker and more effectively from stress and attack and disturbance. 

Rigid systems, although many are strong, can and do break, and the more solid and rigid a system is, the harder it is to fix when it does break.

Fluid, complex, dynamic intelligence and thinking is considered more advanced and "smarter" than simpler, rigid, structured, "stuck in its ways" thinking.

Fluid systems adapt quicker and easier.

Rigid systems don't adapt as quickly or easily.

It is tempting for societies to have rigid social and political systems because rigid systems are easier to control, but they also break easier and are harder to fix when they break.

You can't break a fluid. You can't tie the wind to the ground. You can't shatter the ocean. But you can break and shatter societies and political systems. You can break and shatter economies. You can break and shatter rigid systems. All things solid can break apart, but a fluid is unbreakable, and just eventually reforms when disturbed or disrupted.

The Hierarchy of Fluidity is, from most rigid to most fluid ; solid substance ranging from dimonds to clay and rock, liquid substance like water and oil, gases like the air we breathe, plasmas like the contents of a star, light, and the fabric of spacetime. Each element of the hierarchy gets less and less controlable and manipulatable and less and less breakable the more fluid you get to where the most fluid thing in the universe, spacetime, is unbreakable by man. Uncontrolable by mankind, but if two black holes in space collide with each other, they will create gravitational waves in that fabric like ripples in a lake. 

The most fluid thing in the universe is spacetime, then light following closely behind. You can't tie light to the ground, or wind, or even water. You definitely can't tie spacetime to the ground.

The more fluid a system is, the more free it is.

Fluid systems are more free, more enduring, more adaptable, and more liberty-oriented systems in general than rigid structures and systems could ever be. 

Even though a diamond is strong it is hard to fix it when you shatter it.

But you can never break an ocean.

Happy Fourth of July everybody!