You ignored the point I tried to make;
borroing expressions from physics such as
entropy
and using them willy-nilly to make
an economic or social statement
look as pseudoscientific as astrology
is.
Eva
> >
> > 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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