{"id":2112,"date":"2008-03-04T19:13:07","date_gmt":"2008-03-05T00:13:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/?p=2112"},"modified":"2008-03-04T19:13:07","modified_gmt":"2008-03-05T00:13:07","slug":"forces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/?p=2112","title":{"rendered":"Forces"},"content":{"rendered":"

Back here<\/a> I started talking about left and right, and I could never get anyone to grasp, for a moment, what I was talking about. I looked at “left” and “Right” as pure forces; nobody could comprehend what I was talking about and even Pascal would not divorce himself from his own prejudices about the terms ‘right” and “Left” for the purposes of the thought experiment. <\/p>\n

So rather than confuse the issue (it was never confusing to me) I’m going to speak of two forces. I’ll call the first one “biff” for lack of a better name. The force “biff” is equal to reason. Period. No further discussion is required. The second force, I’ll call “”tazz”. Tazz is the absence of reason. I don’t want to discuss what anyone else thinks of the terms Biff and Tazz. For purposes of this discussion, “biff” equals “reason” and “Tazz” equals “the absense of reason”. It would be easier to call these forces “right” and “left” (for me) but “biff” and “tazz” will do. <\/p>\n

The people of the left- liberals, communists, socialists, statists, are deeply imbued with ‘tazz”. They rely on “tazz” for their very ideology. But it does not mean they are utterly without “biff”. Likewise, the people on the right- capitalists, conservatives, etc. rely on “Biff” for their very ideology, but it certainly does not mean that “tazz” is absent from their lives. <\/p>\n

I cannot believe the depth of discussion I have had trying to make that point. I hope it’s clear now. because it is completely not the point of the discussion I want to have.<\/p>\n

The discussion I want to have is about force. At many periods during our history we have seen changes in the way the nation has turned, and we are witnessing one now. If, for instance, Barack Hussein Obama becomes our next elected president, it will be because the “tazz” force has become dominant. WHy is this? it’s a matter of differential pressure.<\/p>\n

When the two forces, “biff” and “tazz” are in equilibrium there is no flow. But when there is a marked amount of “biff” in an area, it will flow to an area of “tazz” until equilibrium is regained. <\/p>\n

This can be looked at as the desire of a people- like our fellow countrymen- to have change SO BADLY that the Biff is driven from their minds, leaving them full of tazz. And the tazz causes them to act in an unreasonable manner. <\/p>\n

Now, again, no person is ever completely without either. SO what causes the Biff to disapear leaving tazz in it’s wake? well, the media, for one. The educational system, for another. The desire for immediate improvement without considering the long term consequences. <\/p>\n

No well educated person knowledgeable in economics and social structiure can ever believe that “leftism” and the exces tazz it contains are good for the country- and in fact, it’s quite easy to make the case- as many have- that leftism is a mental disorder, which fits well with “tazz” being the lack of reason. I don’t believe that ther is a scale with reason on one side, and emotion on the other side, because I know some incredibly reasonable and well reaosned people who are quite emotional. No, I think it is more like this: In the absense of reason, people look to emotion, becuase they think it a good substitute for reason- anyone who’se ever been in love at 18 knows, the heart wants what it wants, nevermind the cost. <\/p>\n

I posit this thought experiment because I think old Hari Seldon had a small grain of reality in his freakisly stupid science. THe idea that things can be predicted as Asimov describes, is, well, flatly asinine. But it can be studied- and the quantitative analysis of the forces I’ve called “Biff” and “Tazz” may be a way to do that. As I said, only a thought experiment, but one that intrigues me. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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