Eva Durant wrote:
>
> Except that this fatalistic "let's use the
> laws of thermodynamics" - would perhaps
> make some sense if the Earth was a closed
> local system. It is not even that.
>
> Eva
>
> >
> > It's because the "reality" of it is too much for people to cope with. The
> > "reality" is that Russia is merely the next country to be flushed down the
> > entropy toilet. It certainly wasn't the first, and certainly won't be the
> > last. None can escape.
> >
> > Jay -- www.dieoff.com
> >
> >
Russia wasn't flushed down any entropy toilet: It was
flushed down the *economic* toilet (i.e., its head was placed
under the water and held there till the body stopped
struggling) by the "White" forces (the good guys always
come in white!) of global capitalism.
Surely Stalin was
highly "entropic", but the West's strategy of
*strangling* the Soviet economy to cause the Russian
peole to revolt -- a policy which began in 1917 and
finally "succeeded" a few years ago (that's at least 70
years' sustained intention) cannot be called "entropy"
but rather malice of purpose. Reagan was *so* proud of
his "greatest achievement": that the victim finally
suffocated on his watch!
*Now* we can have entropy
in the "free market" (Brownian motion) of liberated
mother Russia and its unleashed "satellites" (loose
cannons on the deck)!
Oh, boy!
\brad mccormick
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