{"id":48542,"date":"2016-02-08T23:51:24","date_gmt":"2016-02-08T23:51:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=48542"},"modified":"2016-02-08T23:54:11","modified_gmt":"2016-02-08T23:54:11","slug":"sceenius-the-macro-in-micro-nepal-anyone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=48542","title":{"rendered":"Sceenius: the macro in micro, Nepal, anyone?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[ by <strong>Charles Cam<\/strong>eron &#8212; an interesting research angle to keep an eye on? ]<br \/>\n.<\/p>\n<p>I haven&#8217;t explored my friend <strong>John Kellden<\/strong>&#8216;s project, <a href=\"http:\/\/sceenius.com\/\"><strong>Sceenius<\/strong><\/a>, yet, but thought some <strong>Zenpundit<\/strong> readers might be interested in the suggestion by his colleague <strong>Ron Scroggin<\/strong> that accomnpanies this diagram:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/sceenius.com\/2016\/02\/07\/crystal-ball-nepal-how-do-we-design-the-future\/\">Crystal ball Nepal: How do we design the future?<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Nepal-culture-by-altitude-1.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-48547\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Nepal-culture-by-altitude-1.jpg\" alt=\"Nepal-culture-by-altitude\" width=\"462\" height=\"764\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-48547\" srcset=\"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Nepal-culture-by-altitude-1.jpg 462w, https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Nepal-culture-by-altitude-1-181x300.jpg 181w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The current tension between the world\u2019s momentum and its inertia is playing itself out in Nepal\u2019s ancient cultural landscape, revealed in interacting social, economic and geographical forms, which include some of the worlds lowest, and its highest features. What is happening in the world is happening in Nepal.<\/p>\n<p>Small in geographical area, Nepal\u2019s spectacular landscape rises from 194 ft elevation in the tropical Terai to 22,966 ft, at the summit of Sagarmatha (Mt Everest), where arctic weather conditions prevail. Its timescape spans the worlds of the ancient nomadic culture of the Raute people in western Nepal, and of the jet-age culture of capital city Kathmandu.<\/p>\n<p>Nepal\u2019s extremes in many dimensions make it a highly readable barometer of life\u2019s conditions. The people, divided by caste, religion, ethnicity, and politics are stitched together in a social quilt which mirrors the country\u2019s radically exaggerated terrain, weather, and ecosystem.<\/p>\n<p>Nepal is therefore a crystal ball into which we can project the world\u2019s social, organizational and political conditions, and see there the jobs, pains and potential gains they entail, reflected in exaggerated relief.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If you find that idea interesting &#8212; and any opportunity to study organic, high-dimensional &#8220;model worlds&#8221; seems worth checking out to me &#8212; the whole piece is worth reading, and maybe you&#8217;ll want to check in with Kellden, Scroggin and the Sceenarius team.<\/p>\n<p>**<\/p>\n<p>More on <strong>world-modeling<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=48588\">coming up<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ by Charles Cameron &#8212; an interesting research angle to keep an eye on? ] . I haven&#8217;t explored my friend John Kellden&#8216;s project, Sceenius, yet, but thought some Zenpundit readers might be interested in the suggestion by his colleague Ron Scroggin that accomnpanies this diagram: Crystal ball Nepal: How do we design the future? 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