Valentine’s Day in the Levant — ‘Small World’
Everything sounds familiar, though Small-world Is also one of the specific terms describing the model of connections within the brain (Bassett D., Bullmore E., Small-world brain networks.Neuroscientist, 2006, Dec; 12(6):512-23. DOI: 10.1177/1073858406293182). These combinations largely allow us to behave that culture distinguishes as creation, creativity, optimal response to what is new in the environment. It is a structure that most likely determines the organisation of scattered information, the rhythm of its layering, where and how it falls on each other, the processes without which the whole body would react much less flexibly to changes.
Instead of babbling in a gliated head, it's better to travel the map with our finger. Let's look for some geographically embedded, Small-town Point, an unimportant dot on a global map bound by well-lubricated supply chains (Supply lines). In Witkacy's head it was Kielce for a moment.
"Kielce, a symbol, as the peak of abomination,
As some Paramount of the worst small-town ugliness.
Or maybe it's beautiful, ah, town, ah, and even nice"
(To friends of shit)
Today they are easy to find (not guided by their own geographical colonialism and metropolitan prejudices) in the titles of several series of maniacally painted paintings by Dwurnik (Wąsosz, 1990; Czerwieńsk, 1991; Radzymin, 1991). We could hear these names, they sound ordinary, but we've never been there, we're unlikely to go, because and why. Everyone has their own little world. One for one life is enough for him. You can read about the adventures of those who for some reason have ventured to stretch their private size of small town to the limits of the map (Sargon, Aleksander M., Julius C., Chingis Ch., Napoleon B.) into a universal criterion of taste (Salvador D., Andy W.), make it the norm for everything (Józef S.). Boredom, even in the cinematic version.
Are you going to Aleppo? It's not really like, let alone what. Aleppo, ancient, Canaanite Halpe is a model Small-world. A confoundation of unoverly tolerant ethnic people who have been pacifying each other for the past four thousand years. Today they are Arabs, Kurds, Armenians, Jews, Turks, Greeks, but also Catholics, Orthodox, Marothites, Melechites, Alawites, Sunnis, and Chaldeans. Everyone on the same bitch, on the same market can meet. Hypothetically, Avicenna and a little later General Bem, who commanded the defense of the city during the Bedouin uprising, could roam the same market. It's thick of stories that will never get out.
Aleppo is like a model Small-world More. It was probably bigger than Warsaw before the war broke out. And it was a long time ago, the last battle for Aleppo lasted probably four years with little interruptions since 2012. No one is sure who won. Apparently, government forces, but here it was already during the pandemic, the problems were different at that time.
The modern earthquakes, such as the one in 1822, were still supposedly smaller than the earthquake of 1138, when probably more than two hundred thousand inhabitants were lost.
The history of this town in the middle of nowhere, inhabited continuously for thousands of years, is so sad that it is better to read about Codex Aleppensis (Code of Aleppo, Keter Aram Tzova). This is one of those amazing things inherent in small-town, which sooner or later disappear or land from the centre of the world.
Sometimes someone important lands in such a place to see with their own eyes what a corner looks like.
Such short inspections are the relationship between Small-world And the big world.
If it was possible to eliminate emotions, then individual networks, Brain and social networks They could work more efficiently, faster. And we would have new, differently oriented supply chains and assembly lines of reality. We are working on it.
Graphic: Aleppo on a map referring to the 2nd millennium BC
Fragment of Edward Dwurnik's painting Sródborów, 1996