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"The trickle-down theory of economics has it that it's good for rich people to get even richer because some of their wealth will trickle down, through their no-doubt lavish spending, upon those who stand below them on the economic ladder. Notice that the metaphor is not that of a gushing waterfall but of a leaking tap: even the most optimistic endorsers of this concept do not picture very much real flow, as their language reveals."
- Margaret Atwood, Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth
Waves flow around rocks on Oriental Bay Beach in Wellington. A Variable Oystercatcher (aka Black Oystercatcher), Haematopus unicolor, can be seen moving across the sand in the foreground.
"Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them - that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like " - Lao Tzu
One of the remarkable things about being human is this window of understanding we're allowed to look through to see the world. I think we all convince ourselves that window is not as tiny as it is. I think we fall in love with the illusion of control. We use it to see ourselves flung into exotic new mindscapes and boggling realities. But at the end of the day, like water, we flow back to where we came from, and there's not stopping it.