By Jimmy Skogard:
Today’s episode is titled The Pattern Beneath: Finding Elegance in Unity in Motion.
Let me take you back. I’m talking old school.
It’s 1986, or maybe '87. I'm sitting in front of a borrowed computer, green text blinking on a black DOS screen. BASIC code. Lines and loops I barely understand.
I had this idea in my head, that if I could just write the right code, it would draw something… beautiful. A clover. A rose. Something that moved, something alive.
But I couldn’t get it right.
Every time I ran the program, it spat out… nothing, instead of the graceful loops I imagined. Until Steve, my college roommate, probably smarter than me, leaned over, made a tiny change... and the whole thing came to life.
Dots dancing into curves. Shapes blooming like petals. It was elegance, unfolding right there on the screen.
And it hit me.
This wasn’t just about math.
It was about harmony.
Not control, not domination, but contribution.
Each part doing its job, not the same job, but the right job, and together… something beautiful emerged.
We don’t talk about that kind of unity much anymore.
We’ve traded it for slogans. For soundbites.
We’ve confused unity with sameness.
But unity isn’t sameness, it’s synergy.
It’s the grace of coordination, not the enforcement of conformity.
Like the rose curves in math, where sine and cosine dance with each other to create spirals and bloom. That’s what we could be, if we chose to work together.
But too often, we don’t.
Instead of collaboration, we fight for dominance.
Instead of harmony, we fracture.
And when we do, we break the system.
The code fails.
The pattern disappears.
And all that beauty? Lost in the noise.
Human history moves in cycles.
Rise and fall. Harmony and chaos.
It’s a wave. We’ve seen it before.
There’s nothing wrong with repetition, repetition is how we learn.
But when we forget the lesson, and fall without remembering the last time we rose…
we risk losing our ability to rise at all.
And here’s the danger of today:
Repetition isn’t just natural anymore, it’s weaponized.
Algorithms amplify bias.
Echo chambers trap us.
Stories get told over and over, not to help us remember, but to make us forget.
To make us believe only one version of truth.
And so, our task becomes clear:
Not to reject repetition.
But to reclaim it.
Use it for remembrance. For reflection. For renewal.
That’s what this series is about.
Each episode will uncover a pattern, a deeper truth beneath the chaos. A rhythm that still pulses under the noise, if we dare to listen.
Because beneath the fear, there is function.
Beneath the politics, there is pattern.
And beneath all of it?
There is us.
This Is Us: The Power of Us.
And this… is just the beginning.
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