Refresh

The weather report usually calls rain bad weather. In French "beau" (beautiful) is the word for sunny skies. But rain feel's beautiful this lunch time.

Drought makes it so. No Hong Kong has had enough rainfall but not enough honesty and thirst for truth. For near-term gains and consolation, many chose to forget that truth is life.

Slaves may have enough to eat but only so they can work. Freedom is meaningful only if we find who we are and express ourselves fully with those we love. That is the truth we all seek.

Our governments are compromised by an imperfect system run like an outdated industrial factory. Change was hard for fabrication plants because capital equipment is expensive and hard to replace. So we were and still are trained to optimize our lives for fixed schedules, production lines, becoming cog-like because decisions are assumed to be  centralize for the good of the mechanistic organisation.

To fit the mold many feel the need to forgo "unrealistic" dreams. Even if this is true in many places still, it is more because the powerful are also used to running life and work and society like industrial factories. Even in the digital age of Informatics (or IT), even the technology companies that are running things are still stuck in organisations that only know how to become big and mechanical (rather than deepen collaborative quality and grow more like organisms in Nature).

Informatics (which is a better word than Information Technology or IT because the focus is no longer the technology but what and how expression is realized) should be used to reorganize, revalue and re-prioritize our lives. Organisations that don't actually make physical products should no longer be run like they are manufacturers.

For people are not machines. What is needed is a Refresh. Reboot. Reprogram.

Any change is hard because the outcome is unpredictable and habits often become tradition which in turn become standards or even law. It is also much easier to think, "everyone is entitled to their own opinion as long as it agrees with mine."

To think this way and refuse to hear the opinion of others is precisely the habit of the mechanistic organisation.

In Hong Kong, I don't think much will change today due to the week long civil movement for demographic reform. Tomorrow I don't know.

Besides the clash of the state vs the individual, the change towards democratic discussion has begun. The civil organisation, political intelligence, communication en mass, are all skills displayed by the protesters.

Incidentally these are all skills needed in developing a more organic, Informatics based organisation and growth. The refresh, reboot and reprogram have already begun.

The rain and wind that inspired this post has passed. The Sun is out.