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Politics : Politics for Pros- moderated
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To: greenspirit who wrote (128852)7/31/2005 5:52:38 PM
From: LindyBill  Read Replies (1) of 793927
 
a culture is either growing or slowly dying.

It's amazing how all things we do can be reduced to Physics. In this case, the three laws of thermodynamics.

The British scientist and author C.P. Snow had an excellent way of remembering the three laws:

1. You cannot win (that is, you cannot get something for nothing, because matter and energy are conserved).

2. You cannot break even (you cannot return to the same energy state, because there is always an increase in disorder; entropy always increases).

3. But you have to keep trying. (because absolute zero is unattainable).

I posted earlier that I use the definition, "life is an open, thermodynamic system that organises energy." That is what we as individuals do, and the sum of our effort is what our society/culture does.

The minute we quit pushing that pebble up the hill with our noses, it rolls down to the bottom again.
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