Memorial Day puts life into focus for us all. The greatest discontinuity in life is death. Yet, although we seemingly know so much about life, we truly know very little about death. As a people, most of us turn to religion and then we all fight over the words and meanings. And often, wars and deaths follow. It is a strange irony. We can do better.
We all need foundations. Even the television series has a simple foundations statement. It is based on three universals about the very nature of perfection. The first and most simple is continuity; as a function it creates order. The second is symmetry and as a function it creates relations. The third is harmony, a complex symmetry moving in time, and it creates fleeting moments of perfection (as well as all the dynamics of life within an imperfect, fundamentally chaotic, physical world).
Reality Check. This three-part statement can be used as a reality check for all religions and their statements about life and death. If their holy writings are not implicitly about continuity-order, symmetry-relations, and ultimately dynamics-harmony, then that statement is an historic statement, stamped within a moment in time, and its universality can only be understood within the context of perfection and perfected states in space and time.
All universals inherently satisfy those three conditions (more about this statement in future blogs).
The struggle of life and death. In a prior blog the work of Ahmad Chebbani and the US-Arab Economic Forum was introduced. The net-net of that forum is that we will be working with the embassies and their country's investors to re-introduce the television series into every Arab nation. We will also be launching a new series about the best businesses in the world. We'll look at the oldest to examine the essential nature of their continuity conditions. And, we'll look at the businesses creating the most jobs to look more deeply into the dynamics of innovation.
Business is fundamentally about creating value. And, value is measured by those same three universals. Business may not discuss universals very well, but they are inherent in the essential fabric of good business and this show and all the shows that we introduce will always be about the best businesses.
Every day should begin as a Memorial Day. This weekend it has been a profound pleasure to review several episodes where the founder has died simply to see that their legacy vibrantly lives on.
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