System

No one can survive in the world alone. No matter how good that person is, he still needs to interconnect with another living organism. Because every organism living on this planet is a part of a system call ecology. It is a big system that one needs another in order to survive. Nothing is autonomous.

Every matter has its own potential to become something in community because there is “system” that gives the matter to become something. System makes the matters become form. There are two ways to look at the system, which are holistic view and ecological view. To view the object holistically is to look the system within the object. The example is to look at a bicycle, and see how each component allow another component to move and how that component drives the bicycle to move. Another way to look at the bicycle in a bigger picture, this way of looking is to look it ecologically. To see how the bicycle are made. To see how the making of bicycle affects another thing or to see where each component comes from.

To see things ecologically can also be categorized into two: shallow ecology and deep ecology. Shallow ecology is to look at the system without concerning about human. It is the way to see the system of how everything connects but excluding human. On the other hand, deep ecology is to look at the system that includes human as one of the factor. Human are the one who makes changes ecologically around the world. We interrupted the system with the new technology we invented, which it creates a great ecological impact.

The system causes us to look at the world differently causes our perception to be different same as palimpsest that we write on top of it.