Scapegoats indeed. The chaos we see around us today is what happens when a civilization is 50 years past its best-before date and now firmly in the throes of entropy, entering its death-cycle. The chaos we see out there - and that we pin on our politicians - is what happens when entropy, the laws of thermodynamics assert, when the energy…
Scapegoats indeed. The chaos we see around us today is what happens when a civilization is 50 years past its best-before date and now firmly in the throes of entropy, entering its death-cycle. The chaos we see out there - and that we pin on our politicians - is what happens when entropy, the laws of thermodynamics assert, when the energy starts fleeing the model and the pie really starts shrinking. With the pirates predictably working to hoard the loot. We are in grief, without most understanding this, over the dying of our civilization, now. The state of our politics is not behind this, it merely reflects the chaos the situation has created in us. Hence the extremity of everything now, including our reactions and our states of personal fragility. In a way, it is more comforting to pin things on mere scapegoats indeed than to acknowledge the reality today, the tacit message being “if we just get the right guy or gal in office, things can be turned around!” The truth is, no ballot cast is going to alter our trajectory, alter natural law. We’d better work on toughening up.
Scapegoats indeed. The chaos we see around us today is what happens when a civilization is 50 years past its best-before date and now firmly in the throes of entropy, entering its death-cycle. The chaos we see out there - and that we pin on our politicians - is what happens when entropy, the laws of thermodynamics assert, when the energy starts fleeing the model and the pie really starts shrinking. With the pirates predictably working to hoard the loot. We are in grief, without most understanding this, over the dying of our civilization, now. The state of our politics is not behind this, it merely reflects the chaos the situation has created in us. Hence the extremity of everything now, including our reactions and our states of personal fragility. In a way, it is more comforting to pin things on mere scapegoats indeed than to acknowledge the reality today, the tacit message being “if we just get the right guy or gal in office, things can be turned around!” The truth is, no ballot cast is going to alter our trajectory, alter natural law. We’d better work on toughening up.