Securing your Basket

Choices are made in baskets. Once one is made, the set of options changes. There are both intended and unintended consequences. To explore, Economists simplify this pesky problem with an assumption. “Ceteris Paribus” meaning with other conditions remaining the same. All else equal. The world is complicated, ambiguous, and random. We see only a slice of it, and we see based on how we have seen before. We see only what is meaningful to us. We see only when we notice the change/contrast. We have limits. Our worlds bump into each other, and in the past we lived in bubbles with shared baskets and constraints. Now it is difficult to navigate the lack of shared context that stands in the way of staying in touch with other worlds. Our messages to each other arrive as foreigners. We are constantly unpacking and unpicking. Through the chaos, a foundation becomes more essential. A base. Secure space to retreat to and to advance from. Where conditions remain the same.