Sustain

CHAPTER 14

Leveling the Cycle

You win championships when the stands are empty.

—Dabo Swinney

Like Saturn, revolution devours its children.

—Jacques Mallet du Pan

Rich and poor differ greatly in outlook of what to do about sustenance. Seen from the street, it has a lot to do with learning and breakthrough. Then prosperity softens muscular ideals about change. Seen from the penthouse, sustaining looks like maintaining the sweet status quo. Thoughts of what we need turn increasingly to control (hold on), becoming less about breakthrough (move on).

It decomposes sustainment, to look to improvement as a cyclical reaction, something for when issues mount up to intolerable. Where change is a rollercoaster, we invest the dimensions of a next crisis, ...