Hello all, while looking for different music videos I stumbled upon this one and could not stop thinking about all the different systems within this woman's life working together. It is a good video (plus I really enjoy the music), hope you all enjoy it also.
What intrigued you the most about this video?
This is a video I found a couple years ago and was hook both on the style of animation and on the band itself. Seeing the animation resurface and in the light of systems made me appreciate it all the more.
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What *didn't* intrigue me this video? I thought the whole thing was fantastic - and a poster child video for a systems class!
ReplyDeleteOne thing that it does make me reflect on is the idea that when we notice all the larger systems we are a part of (both natural and man-made), it can make us feel so small and insignificant, like we are just cogs in a wheel. This is some of the effect of the movie Koyaanisqatsi that I showed a clip of in class. I think this video also gives the feeling that she is quite alone within all these systems (we don't see her social or emotional life - except hinted at with the beer at the end!), even though she is smiling and seems content.
I think systems viewpoints don't need to make us feel this way though. Dynamic systems are not mechanically redundant, not predictable, and they are influenced by the slightest variations (e.g. human actions) in ways that may seem magical later, as illustrated by the butterfly effect. I think the next step for this video from a dynamic systems perspective would be to explore what would happen if some little thing changed... maybe nothing, maybe something...
If something did change it would correlate to the nonlinear effects as I just finished reading in Chapter 4 by Meadows, we can predict that everything will work correctly but if something did go wrong (like if the train system went down for a day) then the whole day would be completely changed from the norm.
ReplyDeleteBefore I read Keli's comment, I felt much the same way. I am only a miniscule part of this big wide world! Much like the butterfly effect theory though, every action that woman took affected another and so on. Every action she takes is so connected to the others. What actions in our daily lives aren't connected? Anything? It is interesting to think about gossip as a subsystem of communication because it spreads so quickly, it almost makes us interconnected to people we don't even know exist. It's too bad we don't spread our new found information about non-linear systems as fast as we do things about our roommates..
ReplyDeleteI think one of the main things that fascinates me so with this course is that it can be taken so much farther than the physical systems that we live and take part in. Within every human lies the ability to choose which physical systems affect them internally (emotionally and mentally, etc) and how- and the limits upon that are put in place by said physical systems affecting you internally before you could really choose! I like the psych. factor in this class.
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