Patience

An important feature of the litigator is PATIENCE. It makes no sense for me, as an impatient person, to write morals about patience. What is interesting, however, is the question of what PATIENCE is in the STRUCTURE OF REALITY. According to A. N. Whitehead, PATIENCE has a profound ontological and physical aspect. In “Principle of Relativity,” Whitehead says, “the universe preserves unity by making EVERY FACT PATIENT TO OTHER FACTS.” As a result, the universe, although IT FUNCTIONS IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE PRINCIPLE OF RELATIVITY (there is no absolute time in it), preserves unity. Whitehead wrote the relevant equations, because einstein’s equations reportedly cannot be read as to why the universe retains unity.

The only creation in our universe that fundamentally DOES NOT TOLERATE OTHER FACTS is BLACK HOLES (and therefore, they are impatient). To the consolation of the impatient, I would add that in the study of black holes there was a breakthrough: they were thought to devour everything IRRETRIEVABLY; it is now known that, however, information does not disappear in black holes, but can emerge from them: LITERALLY EVERYTHING. Perhaps CONSISTENT IMPATIENCE makes sense, too.

And perhaps that’s the secret: Consequently, which is almost synonymous with RESPONSIBILITY.