Everything is liquid, or rather fluid
Marcello Veneziani
https://www.marcelloveneziani.com/articoli/tutto-e-liquido-anzi-fluido/
And more above using translate in browser before this excerpt from the end of his essay.
At least three orders of objections can therefore be raised to the dogma of liquidity.
The first is that if we remain within a chemical or purely linear scheme, after the solid state and the liquid state there is the gaseous state and it is therefore time to declare liquid modernity obsolete to speak of the advent of an aeriform condition, more suited to the predominance of the ether and electromagnetic waves. We are in gaseous hypermodernity. The second objection is that liquidity does not coincide with absolute oblivion and the negation of all forms, because there is also, as molecular biology explains, the memory of water, which retains the imprint of the substances with which it has come into contact. There is Lethe, the water of oblivion but there is also the water of memory, the river that the ancients called Eunoè and which flows near Lethe. There is the undertow of returns, the water that brings back lost figures, places, times. There is also something negative that resists liquidity: for example, the plastic in our seas, which is neither biodegradable nor soluble in water.
The third objection is that despite the fluctuating, liquid and gaseous state of our relationships, there is something solid that remains in the heart of things and is called Nature. There is something that resists liquidity or re-emerges like a submerged land: this is also the time of rediscovered identities, of homelands, of rediscovered nations, of sovereignties, of territories, of borders. Beyond nature there is an energy, there is a wind that blows and that the ancients called spirit, there is a soul that is a vital breath. And we are made of water, of flesh, of bones; and of mind, of spirit, of memory. Much of us ends, much of us transforms, something of us persists. Under Bauman's waters, Heidegger's depths re-emerge. Finally, a liquid society needs containers that prevent its spillage and dispersion. The more liquid a society or a life is, the more it needs containers and channels. That is, a sense of limit, of bodies, of reality and the ability to channel flows in one direction. And a society in which everything flows needs something that remains. After all, we are creatures of earth, water and sky, not of a single dimension.
Indeed. Everything is fluid when subject to the appropriate force, governed by the laws of Nature which are at the heart of everything. The results should be predictable to the observant. Theoretically, human thought and behavior, which are at the root of economics and society and relationships, are governed by the same Nature and should be measurable and predictable. If not, it may be proof of the existence of God. In our current state of ignorance, it seems most prudent to assume that those laws do not apply, because our attempts at influence lead to much unpredictable chaos, harm to many, and little valuable knowledge from which to design a new investigation. Just a thought. And climate science does not flow. That science is settled, set in stone for all of eternity.
Re flow, re mixing, re building society instead of breaking it down....reminded me of David Byrne's book How Music Works, where the owner of the old CBGB's Bar said that much of the creativity that happened musically at the time around that 'scene' was because the bar owner created a place where folks could hang out, be part of this larger flow. The bar owner kept the prices low so the bands that performed would actually hang out and socialize, listen, before and after their gigs. Flow nurtures.