Monday OT: 11/09/2020 - Chaos Never Dies Day

Today is day 314 of the Gregorian Calendar year,
The Aftermath 21, 3186 YOLD
And let us not forget 13.0.8.0.0 mlc (the Mayan Long Count)

Chaos du Gouet, Paysages, Rivière.jpg

Chaos du Gouet, by David Melard, public domain

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CHAOS: noun - disorder; in physics, behavior so unpredictable as to appear random, owing to great sensitivity to small changes in conditions.

Disorder prevails, as well it should, because it is what is going down (but don't forget fractals and taffy machines). Order, where not meaning slavish regimentation of humans, is an artifice, a seeming systemization imposed on reality by those too lazy to search for things where they may be found. The seeming efficiencies thereby created come at the cost of discovering new and unexpected things while seeking the ordinary.  It is arguable that this voluntary sacrifice of possible encounters with the extraordinary is non-beneficial.

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On this day in history:

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0694 – At the Seventeenth Council of Toledo, Egica, a king of the Visigoths of Hispania, accused Jews of aiding Muslims, sentencing all Jews to slavery.
1520 – About 100 people were executed for heresy in the Stockholm Bloodbath
1620 – Pilgrims aboard the Mayflower sight land at Cape Cod, Massachusetts.
1791 – Foundation of the Dublin Society of United Irishmen.
1799 – Napoleon Bonaparte led the Coup of 18 Brumaire 
1867 – Tokugawa shogunate gave power back to the Emperor of Japan, starting the Meiji Restoration.
1913 – The Great Lakes Storm of 1913, destroyed 19 ships and kills more than 250 people.
1918 – Kaiser Wilhelm II abdicated after the German Revolution, and Germany was proclaimed a Republic.
1923 – Police and government troops crushed the Beer Hall Putsch in Bavaria.
1935 – The CIO was founded by eight unions belonging to the AFL
1953 – Cambodia gained independence from France really pissing off Alan Dulles.
1965 – Several U.S. states and parts of Canada were hit by a series of blackouts lasting up to 13 hours
1967 – The first issue of Rolling Stone magazine was published.
1970 – The Supremes voted 6–3 against hearing a case to allow Massachusetts to enforce its law granting residents the right to refuse military service in an undeclared war.
1979 – The NORAD computers erroneously detected a massive Soviet nuclear strike. After reviewing the raw data from satellites and checking the early-warning radars, the alert was cancelled.
1989 – East Germany opened checkpoints in the Berlin Wall
1994 – The chemical element darmstadtium was discovered.
1998 – A U.S. federal judge ordered 37 U.S. brokerage houses to pay US$1.03 billion to cheated NASDAQ investors to compensate for price fixing.
1998 – Capital punishment in the United Kingdom, was completely abolished
2004 – Firefox 1.0 was released. 
2007 – The German Bundestag passed the controversial data retention bill 

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Born this day in:

Whatever a person may pray for, that person prays for a miracle. Every prayer comes down to this - Almighty God, grant that two times two not equal four.

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We sit in the mud... and reach for the stars.

-- Ivan Turgenev

1801 – Gail Borden, surveyor and publisher who invented condensed milk 
1818 – Ivan Turgenev, author and playwright
1850 – Louis Lewin, pharmacologist and academic
1853 – Stanford White, architect who co-founded McKim, Mead & White 
1854 – Maud Howe Elliott, activist and author (
1871 – Florence R. Sabin, American medical scientist
1877 – Muhammad Iqbal, philosopher, poet, and politician
1885 – Theodor Kaluza, mathematician and physicist
1885 – Hermann Weyl, mathematician, physicist, and philosopher
1891 – Louisa E. Rhine, botanist and parapsychologist
1914 – Hedy Lamarr, actress and inventor
1918 – Florence Chadwick, prodigious long-distance open water swimmer
1920 – Philip G. Hodge, engineer and academic
1922 – Imre Lakatos, mathematician, philosopher, and academic
1924 – Robert Frank,  photographer and director
1928 – Anne Sexton, poet and academic
1931 – Valery Shumakov, surgeon and transplantologist
1934 – Carl Sagan, astronomer, astrophysicist, and cosmologist
1936 – Mary Travers, singer and songwriter
1941 – Tom Fogerty, singer, songwriter, and guitarist
1946 – Benny Mardones,  singer and songwriter
1948 – Joe Bouchard, bass player and songwriter
1948 – Michel Pagliaro, singer, songwriter, and guitarist
1954 – Aed Carabao, singer, songwriter, and guitarist
1960 – Demetra Plakas, drummer
1960 – Sarah Franklin,  anthropologist and academic
1961 – Jill Dando, English journalist (d. 1999)
1969 – Allison Wolfe, singer and songwriter, riot girl
1970 – Susan Tedeschi, singer, songwriter, and guitarist
1972 – Corin Tucker, singer, songwriter ,and guitarist
1973 – Alyson Court, Canadian actress and producer
1978 – Even Ormestad, bass player and producer

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Died this day in:

Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

-- Dylan thomas

1492 – Jami, poet
1623 – William Camden, historian and topographer
1953 – Dylan Thomas, poet and author
1958 – Dorothy Canfield Fisher, educational reformer, social activist, and author
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1997 – Carl Gustav Hempel, philosopher from the Vienna and the Berlin Circle
2004 – Iris Chang, historian, journalist, and author
2006 – Ed Bradley, journalist
2006 – Ellen Willis, journalist and activist
2008 – Miriam Makeba, singer and activist; Mama Africa
2013 – Kalaparusha Maurice McIntyre, free jazz saxophonist
2015 – Andy White, drummer (and beatle)

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Holidays, Holy Days, Festivals, Feast Days, Days of Recognition, and such:
Carl Sagan Day
National Chaos Never Dies Day
World Freedom Day (United States) Now THAT's Funny!
World Orphans Day

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Music goes here, iirc, well, With apologies Wink

Mary Travers

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Tom Fogarty

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Aed Carabao

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Demetra Plakas

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Susan Tedeschi

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Corin Tucker

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Miriam Makeba

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Kalaparusha Maurice McIntyre

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Andy White

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It's an open thread, so do your thing

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Lookout's picture

entropy reigns supreme.

Tis the nature of nature to increase the disorder. You ought to see my shop as proof of the law. None the less as you suggest there are patterns even in chaos...perhaps especially in chaos.

Hope you all have a great day. Thanks for the OT and music el.

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“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”

enhydra lutris's picture

@Lookout

that shops evolve an order of their own. In and an-mid the chaos, you can usually readily locate what you are looking for,something about it triggers some weird mirroring in the mind. Sometimes when we, as a team, are looking for something that has gone astray, my wife will check the shop, especially as it overlaps the pantry and other utility spaces. Because it is chaos, she looks eveywhere, but because it is a shop i know with certainty that for any given specific thing there are places it simply could not be, places I would never put it and places where I would have already found it by accident and moved it.

be well and have a good one

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That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --

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@Lookout
I started to clean up the chaos, now nobody finds anything and the chaos remains chaotic, just looks as if there were no chaos. So, let's love our own chaos, each on his/her own. Smile

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enhydra lutris's picture

@mimi

certainly qualifies as an inspirational poster. Now we need to find appropraite art to superimpose it over.

Be well and have a good one.

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That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --

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@enhydra lutris

I came to a house in full chaos,
I started to clean up the chaos,

now nobody finds anything
and the chaos remains chaotic,
just looks as if there were no chaos.

So, let's love our own chaos,
each on his/her own.

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of the river has a beautiful order to it. The many elements in that ecosystem have so many intertwining and complicated relationships that fit like a glove with each other that you could spend a lifetime studying what is going on there. It looks like order to me. I suppose that at many levels including the subatomic level it is also pure chaos. The two, order and chaos, are not necessarily mutually exclusive? Dunno. I'm trying to wrap my mind around that.

If I take the definition of 'chaos' down a notch or two to a more prosaic meaning, it just means a disordered or confused condition.

To be in a state of disorder and confusion can have a variety of outcomes. I think that anticipating the potential outcomes is a useful exercise. The people who "Never let a good crisis(confused state) go to waste" are one step ahead of those who are mired in confusion. There is a high price for that level of confusion.

Thanks for the OT el, and opening up a can of worms. Worms are good, vermiculture is on my to-do list

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@randtntx

of the same coin, or perhaps two views of the same scenery. Sometimes it is a question of scale, as with turbulent flow. There is a special order and beauty to models and representations of "strange attractors" (and fractals), but I like the plain old taffy pulling machines. The motion of the mechanical apparatus is, on most scales, rigorously determined and formulaic, the movement of the taffy, on ever decreasing scales, ever less and less so. I think we need to embrace chaos and try to fully appreciate it, because that enables dealing with it. Turbulent systems are all around us and we have harnessed and controlled many of them (on some scale where it is feasible). The extent to which that could be seen as a metaphor for human society is up for grabs.

be well and have a good one

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That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --

usefewersyllables's picture

good things to say about our current state of affairs, including losing things... Here, from the "Secret Policeman's Ball", Cook, Rowan Atkinson, the Pythons, and a few others perform what I think is the absolute definitive version of "The End Is Nigh". [video::https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hd8PCJ3pTHE]

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Twice bitten, permanently shy.

enhydra lutris's picture

@usefewersyllables

sketch.

"Nigh" turns out to be a somewhat weird word, nigh on to bizarre. We us it as a substitute for immanent, but it appears to have been "near" almost in the sense of "not far", because there was also a nigher and a nighest. Curiouser and curiouser, as Alice said.

That said, it seems that we never lose the things we should and often misplace the things we shouldn't, as a society, polity, or culture. Strangely enough, the model is not so much akin to entropy and the great leveling as it is to gravitational collapse akin to the formation of a black hole, with the exponential concentration of resources, wealth and power eventually imploding upon itself. Brings to mind this wee ditty

be well and have a good one

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@enhydra lutris

wonderful Britishisms that I learned at a tender age through the miracle of television. By careful study of Monty Python, Beyond the Fringe, and the various Secret Policemen's Balls that followed years later, I've managed to keep my banter pretty much incomprehensible to the folks around me in meatspace. Now, I can just sit back with a Damaging Adult Beverage and binge my DVD collection of British humor in peace...

"What-ho, Squiffy! Bally Jerry pranged his kite, right in the how's-your-father. Hairy blighter dicky-birded, feathered back on his Sammy, took a waspy, flipped over'n his Betty Harpers and caught his can in the Bertie!"

Currently bingeing AbFab, so tonight's Damaging Adult Beverage will be either Bolly-Stoli or Veuve n'Bourb, depending on what we have cold...

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Twice bitten, permanently shy.

magiamma's picture

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Chaos reigns in my garden, in my studio and in mi casa.

[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AXkfhqvO44]
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Embrace chaos. heh. Have a good one. Take good care, all.

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Above regarding prayer is a clueless and ignorant statement.

I don't understand why people who are atheists are so sure they know all about believers' relationship with a Diety. It is in the same category as people who have never been around children being sure they know all about parenting.

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@Granma

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@Granma

though possibly only at an early age. The quote seems to be to be aimed at the vast multitude of prayers we have all seen and heard asking for some sort of devine intercession with respect to something or other.

be well and have a good one.

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That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --

snoopydawg's picture

except that they are going to leave the schools open which has not gone over well with students. Many have taken to the street to protest against it.

At a similar protest on Tuesday, riot police pepper-sprayed students who blockaded a high school to protest over "packed" classes and poor sanitary measures that had been put in place.

French police deployed tear gas to remove blockades outside at least 10 high schools in Paris as students staged protests over coronavirus protocols not followed properly as the new academic year got underway in the country.

Hundreds of high school students in the French capital protested against inadequate social distancing and coronavirus transmission mitigation measures on Tuesday, a day after schools reopened for a new term across France - less than one week after the country entered its second lockdown amid a surge in Covid-19 cases.

How does it make sense to lockdown the country but not the schools? Kids don't get sick? They still can spread the virus. And whose plan was it to ignore the epidemic in this country? Sure let's just blame Trump. Everyone else does. But let's be honest.

The Wall Street Journal's Pitch for Mass Murder is Catching on in Capitalist Circles

After opening paragraphs congratulating the response to date, hoping that “with any luck” the nation’s health care system won’t collapse, they lay out their basic thesis:

“Yet the costs of this national shutdown are growing by the hour, and we don’t mean federal spending. We mean a tsunami of economic destruction that will cause tens of millions to lose their jobs as commerce and production simply cease. Many large companies can withstand a few weeks without revenue but that isn’t true of millions of small and mid-sized firms.”

After some attempts at pulling heart strings over the entrepreneurs that will eat the most shit in the months to come -- using the petit bourgeoisie as human shields for big business, as is custom -- and some other telling admissions we’ll return to, they end with this:

“Dr. (Anthony) Fauci (Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases) has explained this severe lockdown policy as lasting 14 days in its initial term. The national guidance would then be reconsidered depending on the spread of the disease. That should be the moment, if not sooner, to offer new guidance on what might be called phase two of the coronavirus pandemic campaign.”

They do not have the guts to explicitly state that this “phase two” would mean allowing most normal activity -- the contact the virus needs to continue its spread -- to return, but their weasel word description of “substantial social distancing… in some form” (emphasis mine) says it all. “This should not become a debate over how many lives to sacrifice against how many lost jobs we can tolerate… But no society can safeguard public health for long at the cost of its overall economic health.”

They don’t want to debate how many lives to sacrifice in the name of saving “jobs,” -- a euphemism for the fortunes of employers, the bourgeoisie -- but that’s a great way to describe dialing back the only measures so far demonstrated to work against this plague in the name of economic “health.”

I've read that the Koch org is funding the return to work protests. Who is funding the left? Besides Soros. That's too easy. Bosses know that if you don't work or do and get sick and die there will be 10 people waiting to take their place. For whatever wage. After the UBER vote went for Uber worker's rights are in lots of danger. I hope people can see what is happening.

Great essay....

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Was Humpty Dumpty pushed?