“It must vary. For in truth, all things vary, and of these time is the most fundamantal. The »concept of an abstractly universal linear metric time is absurd in every aspect of nature that is not deprived of actual relation; in other words: outside of theories.

So our language supposes, in nearly every case, static nonvariance. We call this by strange names like norms or invent schizoid clichés of expected nonvariance, i.e. ‘what things are supposed to be, appear as, or do’. As if it never occurred to anyone at all that the world and reality have nearly nothing to do with our traditionalized stupidities.

Indeed, any actual exposure to nature or even true relation… must first obliterate endless armies of these to even manage to emerge in our awareness as opportunity, reality, or humanity.

Our norms and expectations, based on wrongminded verbal ideas and concepts of identity, are catastrophically primitive — as if by advancing our technical and theoretical knowledge, we actually burned down the ancient rainforests of relational participation, integrity and insight that are the only possible foundations of our biology and personhood.

There are no norms that we ‘should’ expect, and our metrics should serve our minds rather than obliterate them. We become impossibility … walking. Or, we are busy elsewhere, in ceaseless analysis of our own actual absence from relation, reality, learning and intelligence.”

— an intelligence agent