New New Story: 02/01/2009

Every so often, the world changes, sometimes quickly,sometimes very slowly but sometimes unnoticeably fast. Change is constant and constantly changing. There is no timetable and you cannot predict or trend the unknown but you can change with it as quickly as it evolves. That's what this blog is about. The new new world that is unfolding right now. Human habits have usually evolved to manage change and to nurture stability because its feels less dramatic but our story is a story of inevitable chaos and randomness. Change is inevitable, Chaos is part of the Universe. We cannot create stability and we shouldn't even try. If you could go forwards in time or backwards for about 4 million years you might see how random the human story is. Our less than 100 years lifetimes make the randomness seem counterintuitive because we are so focused on controlling the current. Clocks and Calendars, a fairly modern thing also give us a sense of order that is false. Many people even President Obama believe that we can control the chaos, because it seems like the drama is created by the Fed messing with interest rates. We can’t control the chaos. Random change is the way the Universe works. We can learn to respond to it but we can get the stability that we wish we had. That’s what this blog is about the new new normal created by random and chaotic events that change everything, everyday for all time.

Which is part of the reason why, in addition to dealing with the banking crisis, it is so important that we put the economy on a sounder footing. We've got to get past this bust and boom-- or-- or this-- this boom and bust approach to economic growth. And what we've got to do is to start making things again. We've got to get our health care system on track. We've got to make sure that we are leading in the clean energy economy and not trailing other countries that are moving ahead of us. And we've got to educate our kids.

Below is a time line of all the main events in the history of the Universe since humans