Murmurations Fall’n Apart

Some time over the past quarter of a century, an understanding of how starlings can pull off murmurations became modeled. Apparently if each bird is flying with an awareness of seven others, a computer can generate similar flight characteristics. Assuming such is a "how" relative to a question of the "what" of murmurations, something similar could also explain a "how" relative to human social behavior that seems modestly leaderless. Since humans tend to be adapted to be social, social groupings could be a substitute for a starling or three when it cones to explaining why cultures "fly" as they do ... into collapse. Maybe we are evolved to do some amalgam of individual and social groupings that max out at a metaphorical seven, and beyond that we are functionally clueless and dependent on trusted social stories to complete the math that adds up to our willful choice to become part of our plant's sixth great extinction event, which we have both caused ... and are disappearing into.

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The sound track is a remix of Pat McGuire's "Its Falling Apart" from his 1999 "Big Brown Sofa" album (https://patmcguiremusic.com/). The murmurations are a screen capture of a National Geographic productions (https://youtu.be/V4f_1_r80RY?si=l1Uf8UEHlzE2vu2O). ChatGPT had this to say about my musing: https://chat.openai.com/share/ee0f9456-8ce3-4838-8644-3d61d3be113d