"When a complex system is far from equilibrium, small islands of coherence in a sea of chaos have the capacity to shift the entire system to a higher order."
Iya Prigogine, Noble prize-winning chemist
Iya Prigogine, Noble prize-winning chemist
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Do care a lot about the idea expressed in the quote.
And appreciate your recognition of how important it is to post something like that now, when so many people are looking for something to hold onto as the ground shifts beneath them.
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Flap your butterfly wings and conjure a hurricane!
In a sea of chaos
Be a small island of coherence
(We understand the assignment)
#ShiftToAHigherOrder
We always need to have our villains, don't we? What would we do without them? It's so comforting to be able to focus our outward rage (our inward loathing) towards some Emmanuel Goldstein character so that we may purge our bile, if only for a moment.
It's how we find each other, too.
So we are necessarily required to be flexible, responsive, and adaptable, ... surfing the liminal harmonics on the glorious edge of chaos.
a lot of the elites who are ceos are satanists, and this is basically a religion for people to keep doing what bad christians do, where they hold a book and justify whatever they were going to do anyway as "good" except satanists believe in "balance of evil"
cuz without it, is the real hard cold reality of what they are doing.
But people commenting here will throw all caution to the wind to pick and choose whichever bits they like. That's a fast way to empty the quote's idea...
I'm not saying I will follow her lead into combat just yet, but I am armored up.
Encouraging.
the connections are all around us, we just need to look, have an open mind, and satiate that curiosity!
apples & stars birthed some of the greatest advancements to humankind... what will you find?
Prigogine was not thinking about contemporary American politics, that's incompossible.
But it's all so depressing that it would be stupid to spit in the soup.
I was thinking of Hippase from Metapontum...
For politics, the opposite proposal would be more coherent:
Small islands of incoherence in a (roughly) organised system have the capacity to tip the whole system into a sea of chaos.
(or an ocean of uncertainty)
However, I think we can objectively say that we live in a real mess.
On this side of the Atlantic, things aren't exactly rosy either.
But your fucking Trump is no help!
You're from Montreal, my niece and nephew are Canadian and live in Montreal too.
I'm French, my wife is Anglo-Irish. We used to live in England on Dartmoor, but we're coming back to live more in France (Brittany) now that our last daughter has left home for university.
In chemistry that means entropy, but in social systems no one wants entropy. They want respect and stability.
The power of butterflies 🙏🏼
We rely on coherence and compassion for survival.
Which is kind of where we are now. A higher order of evil.
on the horizon
No human systems are closed and cognitively self-aware.
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The seeds of change - AOC, Sanders, Mark Elias, Maddow, Lincoln Project, Timothy Snyder, … add your names
One frees your money, the other frees your voice.
Additionally there is this social reagent from Albert Szent-Gyorgi, Nobel prize-winning scientist (Psychology or Medicine in 1937) https://bsky.app/profile/geneahern.bsky.social/post/3lgdzyqvdj22p
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I think the crab might represent domestic resistance
I don’t know the context of this quote but it sounds very similar!
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Imagine how one powerful truth thought by many, can make a huge positive difference.
Let us amalgamate once again to save democracy! There are more of us than the destroyers.
1. Gerrymander every district possible, suppression votes where not.
2. Refuse to vet a SCOUTS Nom.
3. Stack SCOTUS.
4. SCOTUS says corps are people, kills Roe, says POTUS us king.
They get the pedo POTUS elected.
We make the difference. Each of us has a role to play. WE need to show up everyday, even when it is hard. You are not alone. We must lean on each other and relentlessly manifest our vision, stop the coup hold Trump+team accountable ⚔️
An anthem for our times! 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦
https://youtu.be/1q82twrdr0U
It feels like there’s more stirring music from/about failed revolts than successful ones. 🤔
Thanks for posting.
Lookin' for that rapid change!
The attack is really coming from the anti-democracy movement: JD Vance; and Vance’s and Peter Thiel convinced Trump to make Vance vice president; and from Thiel’s early business partner, Elon Musk.
https://www.alternet.org/behind-trump...
The system has to be in the right conditions though.
The metaphor can be extended and Blue sky could be an archipelago.
Or as Warren Zevon wrote- "I was born to rock the boat, some may sink but we will float. Grab your coat, let's get out of here. You're my witness, I'm your mutineer."
Chaos or calm?
I hate to say it but as moderates become a rare breed we need more of them.