“They saw their injured country's woe;
The flaming town, the wasted field;
Then rushed to meet the insulting foe;
They took the spear, - but left the shield.”
Indeed. I'm perfectly happy to be led, provided I ultimately benefit in some manner. But how about when my leaders sacrifice me as a pawn for their own personal benefit?
""Non-equilibrium physics studies systems that are not in thermal or mechanical equilibrium with their surroundings. These systems can be driven out of equilibrium by external forces, temperature gradients, or other disturbances. Unlike equilibrium physics, which deals with systems at rest or in a stable state, non-equilibrium physics explores systems that are constantly changing and evolving. ""
“And do you know what “the world” is to me? Shall I show it to you in my mirror? This world: a monster of energy, without beginning, without end; a firm, iron magnitude of force that does not grow bigger or smaller, that does not expend itself but only transforms itself; as a whole, of unalterable size, a household without expenses or losses, but likewise without increase or income; enclosed by “nothingness” as by a boundary; not something blurry or wasted, not something endlessly extended, but set in a definite space as a definite force, and not a space that might be “empty” here or there, but rather as force throughout, as a play of forces and waves of forces, at the same time one and many, increasing here and at the same time decreasing there; a sea of forces flowing and rushing together, eternally changing, eternally flooding back, with tremendous years of recurrence, with an ebb and a flood of its forms; out of the simplest forms striving toward the most complex, out of the stillest, most rigid, coldest forms striving toward the hottest, most turbulent, most self-contradictory, and then again returning home to the simple out of this abundance, out of the play of contradictions back to the joy of concord, still affirming itself in this uniformity of its courses and its years, blessing itself as that which must return eternally, as a becoming that knows no satiety, no disgust, no weariness: this, my Dionysian world of the eternally self- creating, the eternally self-destroying, this mystery world of the twofold voluptuous delight, my “beyond good and evil,” without goal, unless the joy of the circle is itself a goal; without will, unless a ring feels good will toward itself— do you want a name for this world? A solution for all of its riddles? A light for you, too, you best-concealed, strongest, most intrepid, most midnightly men?— This world is the will to power—and nothing besides! And you yourselves are also this will to power—and nothing besides!”
Yes, its' chic to swim in rich people's drama rather than create our own. When you're drowning in excess, it's hard to focus on the important stuff... since there isn't much that is directly experienced. We 'scream our fake dramas' on the internet instead.
//Joe Conservative ps - I don't think that Christianity invented the Divine Rights of Kings and Emperors. If you recall, the Romans "deified" their Emperors, much as the Egyptians "deified" their Pharaohs. Such practices gave "divine rights" to their leaders. July 21, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Not "people". Yawn.
Pharaohs themself. And some of clergy, thar wanrted to gain their (and own) empowering.
//Joe Conservative To do the former without suffering, takes a "miracle". Jesus may be able to do that, but the Government cannot. July 22, 2025 at 9:20 AM
Naaah. He only can turn water into vine. To make em drunk and forgetful. ;-p
//Joe Conservative Your "absolute reality" is an imaginary mathematical Hilbert Space. I live in a "mixed" universe in which imagination supports and sustains life and the illusion of "reality" through the establishment of narrative (and yes, language is also a Hilbert Space
Naah, it not. In mathematics, a Hilbert space is a real or complex inner product space that is also a complete metric space with respect to the metric induced by the inner product. It generalizes the notion of Euclidean space. The inner product allows lengths and angles to be defined. Furthermore, completeness means that there are enough limits in the space to allow the techniques of calculus to be used.<\b>
And the mind isn't a space to allow the techniques of limbic emotion and "feelings" to be applied? The rendered judgements of "taste" or "smell" (approval or disgust in things tasted/ smelled)
Your Utopia 26 solution (exit to Space - ala 2001, a Space Oddity) turned into Kubrick's vision, of a journey into "Screen" Space (Virtuality... Hyper-Reality).
Sure it is. Technology is 'creative destruction" in a bottle. It destroys the "old ways" and creates "new ways". It's anti-conservative.
Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others. - Ambrose Bierce
So what?
ReplyDelete"Somebody need to lead" -- your words?
Yawn.
Indeed. I'm perfectly happy to be led, provided I ultimately benefit in some manner. But how about when my leaders sacrifice me as a pawn for their own personal benefit?
DeleteCui bono?
For her efforts, Tulsi Gabbard was labeled a terrorist. Trump got 93 criminal indictments and 2 assassination attempts.
Delete"Something's rotten in Denmark" (Hamlet)
That's... because you dunno history of USA. Yawn.
DeleteOh, well, you know it. Like assassination of Kennedy and attempt om Reigan.
But, you share DEMN propaganda narrative... that you changed, and nothing like that can happen anymore
You're right... maybe I was too naive and preoccupied to notice. And will always happen.
DeleteNaaah. DEMN propaganda got you.
DeleteThat from now on there'd be Progress... without actual progressing, in any sphere.
While progress -- means struggle.
Yawn.
Like now struggling Ukraine. And RFia.
And that last struggle, you need not to discount... yet.
But, you do.
There is such a verse.
Господа! если к правде святой
Мир дорогу найти не сумеет,
Честь безумцу, который навеет
Человечеству сон золотой!
Надсон
Gentlemen! If the world cannot find the way to the holy truth,
DeleteHonor to the madman who will bring
A golden dream to humanity!
Nadson
The alchemist...
DeleteSpengler was right. this is most certainly the Faustian Age.
Yeah. Life in Matrix. Result of development of DEMN narrative.(like for example through development in Star Trek)
DeleteYawn.
//-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jew
ReplyDeleteNothing in human beings is "physics". Life is anti-enthalpy.
Everything.
It's just your knowledge of Physics outdated.
"Ancient wisdoms tend to grow incorrect... with time passing.
Yawn.
No, circumstances change. They were the inspiration.
Delete""Non-equilibrium physics studies systems that are not in thermal or mechanical equilibrium with their surroundings. These systems can be driven out of equilibrium by external forces, temperature gradients, or other disturbances. Unlike equilibrium physics, which deals with systems at rest or in a stable state, non-equilibrium physics explores systems that are constantly changing and evolving. ""
DeleteYes, very Nietzschean...
Delete“And do you know what “the world” is to me? Shall I show it to you in my mirror? This world: a monster of energy, without beginning, without end; a firm, iron magnitude of force that does not grow bigger or smaller, that does not expend itself but only transforms itself; as a whole, of unalterable size, a household without expenses or losses, but likewise without increase or income; enclosed by “nothingness” as by a boundary; not something blurry or wasted, not something endlessly extended, but set in a definite space as a definite force, and not a space that might be “empty” here or there, but rather as force throughout, as a play of forces and waves of forces, at the same time one and many, increasing here and at the same time decreasing there; a sea of forces flowing and rushing together, eternally changing, eternally flooding back, with tremendous years of recurrence, with an ebb and a flood of its forms; out of the simplest forms striving toward the most complex, out of the stillest, most rigid, coldest forms striving toward the hottest, most turbulent, most self-contradictory, and then again returning home to the simple out of this abundance, out of the play of contradictions back to the joy of concord, still affirming itself in this uniformity of its courses and its years, blessing itself as that which must return eternally, as a becoming that knows no satiety, no disgust, no weariness: this, my Dionysian world of the eternally self- creating, the eternally self-destroying, this mystery world of the twofold voluptuous delight, my “beyond good and evil,” without goal, unless the joy of the circle is itself a goal; without will, unless a ring feels good will toward itself— do you want a name for this world? A solution for all of its riddles? A light for you, too, you best-concealed, strongest, most intrepid, most midnightly men?— This world is the will to power—and nothing besides! And you yourselves are also this will to power—and nothing besides!”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, "The Will to Power"
"Ancient wisdoms tend to grow incorrect... with time passing.
DeleteWhile information achieved through experimental procedures -- refine with each passing year.(and new techs can even speedup it, who knows how much)
...but dead men tell no tales... Harry Daghlian and Louis Slotin
DeleteOooops! Did I say 6 Megatonnes? I meant fifteen...
DeleteI forgot to add the 'tritium kick'...
DeleteThe Russians were MUCH better at this than us.
DeleteThat's... NUKElar, physics.
DeleteYawn.
Means.
ReplyDeleteIt's important to not center on "knowledge", but on "achieving (new) knowledge".
Or "ultimate understanding" as Lem have put it.
Sometimes you just need others to believe they know... alchemy.
DeleteNo need. Yawn.
DeletePeople like to and fooling oneself nearly all of the time.
As Nietzsche said, "It's what we do!" (falsify).
DeleteThat's... because of design of our brains -- our neurons summarise and summarise, and summarise again... with losing information on each step.
DeleteNot if you myelinate the axons. ;)
DeleteWhatever. It is process with losing information. By design.
DeleteForgetting. Demyelination.
DeleteNo wonder there's so much amyloid plaque laying around our cultural foundations... ;)
DeleteLindy must have gone on vacation.
...and left an incompetent electrician to re-wire the Deli in his absence. Short-circuits everywhere!
DeleteOh, I see. Sorry. I again forgot that you not programmer. And dunno what's the difference between compression with and without loosing information...
Delete//-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jew
ReplyDeleteMaybe we should throw is Poland as the second step of appeasement.
You think SAME trick will work for a SECOND time???
While everybody know it, already.
Exactly. Solidarnos was "Capacity built" by the CIA. Think they could fool the Russians 2x?
Delete...but that was economic Marxism (unions/ working class) not cultural Marxism (individual identity). One has leverage. The other does not (really).
DeletePft!
DeleteThat's Vivek's position, and I think he's convinced me.
DeleteThat proverbial blind wiseman... for at least touched REAL elephant.
DeleteAnd you discuss Marxism, or believe to a word of ones, who the same as you -- never touched that elephant.
But you, continue-continue...
Nah, "Physics"... rock & head stuff! ;p
Delete???
DeletePhysics isn't science? Covid wasn't science? Lyme disease?
DeletePushing science and technology can be dangerous.
Living without it -- even more dangerous.
DeleteYawn.
Not since the hydrogen bomb.
DeleteOh, please... yawn.
DeleteYou watch too much Silicon Valley... ;p
Delete:)
DeleteWatched. Long ago.
DeleteYawn.
...and you're still a Ukrainian "Pied Piper". ;)
DeleteAlso, I watched American Gods... ;-)
DeleteSo, what you talking -- USA drawning in shallow misticism and tryes to find new senses -- totally not a news for me... yawn.
Yes, its' chic to swim in rich people's drama rather than create our own. When you're drowning in excess, it's hard to focus on the important stuff... since there isn't much that is directly experienced. We 'scream our fake dramas' on the internet instead.
DeleteIts new to you. Because you dunno history. Yawn.
Delete100 years ago it was the same.
You're right. Most of the history I know is from 2000-2500 years ago.
Delete//Joe Conservative
ReplyDeleteps - I don't think that Christianity invented the Divine Rights of Kings and Emperors. If you recall, the Romans "deified" their Emperors, much as the Egyptians "deified" their Pharaohs. Such practices gave "divine rights" to their leaders.
July 21, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Not "people". Yawn.
Pharaohs themself. And some of clergy, thar wanrted to gain their (and own) empowering.
//Joe Conservative
To do the former without suffering, takes a "miracle". Jesus may be able to do that, but the Government cannot.
July 22, 2025 at 9:20 AM
Naaah. He only can turn water into vine. To make em drunk and forgetful. ;-p
//Joe Conservative
Your "absolute reality" is an imaginary mathematical Hilbert Space. I live in a "mixed" universe in which imagination supports and sustains life and the illusion of "reality" through the establishment of narrative (and yes, language is also a Hilbert Space
Naah, it not.
In mathematics, a Hilbert space is a real or complex inner product space that is also a complete metric space with respect to the metric induced by the inner product. It generalizes the notion of Euclidean space. The inner product allows lengths and angles to be defined. Furthermore, completeness means that there are enough limits in the space to allow the techniques of calculus to be used.<\b>
And the mind isn't a space to allow the techniques of limbic emotion and "feelings" to be applied? The rendered judgements of "taste" or "smell" (approval or disgust in things tasted/ smelled)
Delete...or in forcing a reaction to presented sense data... fight or flight. Sleep or waken.
DeleteIt all just a Final State Machine.
DeleteAn automaton.
Yawn.
Yes, we're all dead in the end (final state).
DeleteThat's why so important to do something here and now... while one can.
Delete"Are you mexiCANs? Or you mexiCAN'Ts?" ;-p
American'ts.
DeleteYou... have too many of everything, to say it that way. ;-p
DeleteSo, that is just your laziness... turned to eleven.)))))
Laziness? Or Exhaustion?
DeleteI built Utopia 25. You build 26.
Your Utopia 26 solution (exit to Space - ala 2001, a Space Oddity) turned into Kubrick's vision, of a journey into "Screen" Space (Virtuality... Hyper-Reality).
DeleteTechnologies -- utopia agnostic.
DeleteIt's... just a tool. One free to use this or that way.
But it seems, Humanity sees merit only in that tools that can kill FIRST.
Yawn. Not my fault. Not my design.
Sure it is. Technology is 'creative destruction" in a bottle. It destroys the "old ways" and creates "new ways". It's anti-conservative.
DeleteConservative, n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others.
- Ambrose Bierce
...and half the time we end up like Icarus, not Daedalus.
Delete...and everyone's always untying my portraits of Daedalus, and making him run away! Then I've got to go chase after him and nail/tack him down again!
//Sure it is. Technology is 'creative destruction" in a bottle.
ReplyDeleteWhatever.
We living in Creative Destruction Age (to name it your way). And either we'll ride that wave, or... gonna extinct.
Yawn.
I myself, prefer to survive. Though I hear serena calls of pleasant death too...
Yep. The Last Man's Creed:
DeleteA little poison now and then: that makes for pleasant dreams. And much poison at the end for a pleasant death
- Nietzsche, "Zarathustra"
... or perhaps a "Little Death".... ;)
Delete"To be. Or not to be... what a damn question"
ReplyDelete;=]
https://youtu.be/2-39ojFdnio?t=130
ReplyDeleteSoccer sucks! You guys need a real sport like curling!
ReplyDelete???
DeleteGoogle translate mentioned the World Cup...
Delete