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Friday, December 19, 2008
K. Dick
Philip K. Dick discusses reality. "Do not believe — and I am dead serious when I say this — do not assume that order and stability are always good, in a society or in a universe." .
Static equals dead. Like rocks, the epitome of steady "stability". (Except maybe for the Rolling Stones, they felt quite alive!) Life is all about change, down to the very notion of metabolism, over to learning and growing up then old, all the way to Evolution. At all scales, there is motion, and it is essential. A static cell / individual / species is doomed.
As for "order"... (silent in petto laugh) Disorder is scientifically called Entropy. It is unavoidable, "just like taxes". The nature of Life is to use up entropy in order to create a smaller amount of order by doing so. That's anabolism, a.k.a. constructive metabolism. As opposed to catabolism which breaks down nutrients for energy in order to fuel anabolism.
People who hate all change are afraid of failing to adapt, and ultimately insecure about their aptitude to learn. So they cower in a bland, dark, rather damp and cold but reassuring cave and call it "living", or sometimes "good living". Plato told all about it a few thousand years ago.
Right. I think that's enough dry philosophy. Nobody with a STABLE mind in working ORDER would read any further anyway. :-)
He's a good writer until he loses the plot.
ReplyDeleteStatic equals dead. Like rocks, the epitome of steady "stability". (Except maybe for the Rolling Stones, they felt quite alive!)
ReplyDeleteLife is all about change, down to the very notion of metabolism, over to learning and growing up then old, all the way to Evolution. At all scales, there is motion, and it is essential. A static cell / individual / species is doomed.
As for "order"... (silent in petto laugh)
Disorder is scientifically called Entropy. It is unavoidable, "just like taxes". The nature of Life is to use up entropy in order to create a smaller amount of order by doing so. That's anabolism, a.k.a. constructive metabolism. As opposed to catabolism which breaks down nutrients for energy in order to fuel anabolism.
People who hate all change are afraid of failing to adapt, and ultimately insecure about their aptitude to learn. So they cower in a bland, dark, rather damp and cold but reassuring cave and call it "living", or sometimes "good living". Plato told all about it a few thousand years ago.
Right. I think that's enough dry philosophy. Nobody with a STABLE mind in working ORDER would read any further anyway. :-)