User talk:Jambro

time marches on while space distances us from events. the further we are from events in time and space, the less contextual experience we bring to any evaluation of such events. however much objectivity of distance may serve to "objectify" or neutralize emotional or psychological subjectivity, that does not always happen. factoids and mythologies, ideology, and rigidity of opinion may counteract potential objectivity. but increased inquiry from a greater range of researchers and commentators may also expand our options for viewing any such event, whether or not we actually have experienced it directly, or not. yet even direct experience of an event may not always provide either contextual accuracy or a "birds eye view", especially the larger the number of participants and/or complexity of the structural processes of the "event"

shifting from event to longer and/or wider processes — most events are non-events, but elements within larger processes — we can see the logic of fernand braudel and fellow french social historians to study la longue duree, the long lasting process that may or may not have a distinct and identifiable point of origin or conclusion.

in short, life is process, as is human experience, the project of mind and science, of observation, recording and documentation, as well as varied analytic measurements, and such, may never solve either issues of isolation (out of context) or integration (holistic complexity).

thus, like science, any study is a process that may never be conclusive, rather relative to our own human limitations, and that of our linguistic qualitative or quantitative measuerements.