Am I so bold as to proclaim a new philosophy?
Why yes, I am…
the universe flows from order to disorder and back again…
we can think of the universe and all the parts of the universe as being
on some stage between order and disorder… everything is along the line
between order and disorder…
the next idea we need to understand is about systems…
we and everything in the universe is in a system of some sort…
and even our bodies are systems…
we have various systems within the human body…
we have among other systems in the body,
the cardiovascular/circulatory system,
digestive/excretory system
endocrine system
lymphatic/ immune system…
these are some of the systems that exist within the human body…
and we can include into this idea of systems the solar system and the galaxy systems
and even the universe… so we have this very large systems and we have the very small
systems…
just as we have the large and the small within the universe…
you exist on planet earth as you are part of the earths system
and the earth exists as part of the solar system which exist as
part of the galaxy system and so on but we can go down also…
from the galaxy to the solar to the earth to you to even smaller as
dogs and then ants and then even smaller all the way down to atoms…
this is important to note, we have large systems and we have small systems…
what connects them? they are all connected and interconnected…as they exist
inside of each other like Russian Matryoshka dolls…
every single system is at some point on the line between order
and disorder… so what allows a system to continues?
that is the second brick in the wall…
how do humans maintain their system?
we eat and drink and breath… that eating and drinking and breathing are
resources of some sorts… we eat food, that is a resource, we drink water,
that is a resource, we breath air, that is a resource… so resources such as
food, air and water allow us to maintain our system… as we are just like
every single other system, that means every single system also requires
resources…now the resources any given system needs might be different but
every single system needs those resources to exist… what are resources?
this is the interesting part… a resource for a system could be anything…
we have as our resources for our system as being food and water and air but systems can
also use energy, fuel, time, money, effort, space are all resources needed for various
systems…in other words, systems can use a wide variety of things as resources needed
to exist…this is important to remember…
so let us return to the human body… as I have aged, systems have gone from
ordered to disordered… as I grow old, my body doesn’t work as well… my knees
are shot, my back is always hurting, I need hip replacements on at least one hip…
whereas in the past, my body work and worked very well as I ran cross country and
track and I rock climbed and I backpacked in the mountains… my body was in order…
it worked quite well… now my body is moving to disordered as everything living
does…when I was young, I could stay up all night drinking and still went to work the
next day and I could abuse my body and it was no big deal…as I age, to maintain
what I have now (which doesn’t work that well) I need to put in greater resources
then I did when I was younger… I need resources like time and effort to accomplish
today, what I did with no effort when I was younger…I need resources like sleep
much more then when I was younger… it takes greater effort to maintain my current
state then it did when I was younger…and this is important…
and that greater effort is increased resources… in other words, to maintain
order in a system, it takes greater resources as the system gets older to maintain
that order…
resources needed to maintain my current state increase has I get older…
and as I am just another system among millions of systems, believe
this to be true of all systems… my body is going from order to disorder and
to maintain my order takes more resources like time, money, effort energy,
at some point, no matter how much resources I use, I cannot maintain my
“order” and thus at that point, I die… the disorder overcomes the order…
and this is true of everything in the universe… at some point, disorder overcomes
order… so does disorder eventually overtakes the universe? Perhaps, that remains
to be seen…
but order is created every single day with the birth of living beings who then
travel from order to disorder which last a lifetime by the way…
but as we have mentioned, we have the large and we have the small
I am describing the small, what about the large? what resources do they
use to get and maintain order… here is where it gets interesting…
we have the universe and we have the solar system and we have earth
what are their resources? We call them the 4 forces of physics…
gravity, the electromagnetic, the strong nuclear and the weak nuclear…
the solar system is kept in order by gravity… our solar system is
keeps revolving around the sun and that is accomplished by gravity,
that gravity is a resource is hard to understand but it is true…as
time is a resource and space is a resource…in fact, to return to the
human being, time is one of the key resources that help create human beings…
for life to exist, time is a key factor in the creation of life and the
continuation of life…anyway…so we have the large like the galaxies
and the solar system which use resources like gravity to maintain order…
now we have the underpinning of my philosophy… we can connect
it…
Kropotkin