Nature always wins
Continuing on the theme of Tanh vs Exp again. It's scary as hell when the whole world believes in Exp. Nobody is even trying to give suckers an even break. Everyone in power is trying to go exponential, to wipe out the rest of the universe. There is no counteracting bullypower, no unions, no insurers, no Mutual Benefit Associations, no Mafia. Governments stopped constraining bankers in the '80s, and governments are now supporting rioters and mobs.

Even so, Tanh ultimately wins. Everything hits a barrier of negative feedback ONE WAY OR ANOTHER.

Example: Mobs pulling down statues. "Conservative" Deepstate puppets are stirring up pointless outrage at the "liberal" Deepstate puppets. The outrage will not stop the mobs. In fact the outrage will STRENGTHEN the mobs, which is exactly why Deepstate wants it.

Statues aren't jobs or schools or lives. They're pieces of bronze. Why waste OUR energy on the outrage? It's much better to let the mobs waste THEIR energy. Energy is finite. After the orgasm, sanity has a chance. Some members of the mob will realize they have pulled down a piece of bronze that nobody was NOTICING in the first place. Most of them will move on to the next assignment by Deepstate, because Deepstate runs on Parkinson. Failure justifies greater failure, exponentially to infinity. But some of them will rethink their devotion to a pointless task. [Update two months later: Sure enough, the statue-pullers gave up quickly. The outrage was completely unnecessary.]

Trying to see the positive... The riots DID fade out here, thanks to careful policing plus a little help from the weather gods. After three weekends of gradually decreasing "protests", this weekend had no "protests".

Civilization functions when GOVERNMENT tries to give suckers an even break, as Harding and FDR did.

But when government has abandoned civilization, the basic limits of nature are still there.

Emerson:

Nature hates monopolies and exceptions. The varieties of conditions tend to equalize themselves. There is always some leveling circumstance that puts down the overbearing, the strong, the rich, the fortunate. Things refuse to be mismanaged long. Though no checks to a new evil appear [at first], the checks exist and will appear.

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Important: If insurers were still doing their job, they would already be the best countervector to the "virus" holocaust. A smart insurer would write a group liability policy for sane people, guaranteeing instant lawsuits, plus "private investigator" blackmail, against any corporation or government or school system that forced you to damage your own immune system with masks and lockdowns and distancing and unemployment. If the insurer was large enough and rich enough and nasty enough, the corporations and governments would soon back down.

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Later thought: I suppose the riots themselves can be considered as an Emersonian equipoise to the lockdowns, at least in terms of public awareness. All REAL science was immediately and constantly and perfectly opposed to the lockdowns, as I've been tiresomely repeating since Feb 27. But the REAL science wasn't publicly visible until the riots. A perfectly balanced esperiment, an ultimate test of the hypothesis. Thousands of people gathering in close crowds without masks, breathing heavily and shouting and exerting. Four weeks later, none of them have died. Now everyone knows the REAL science about viruses. The knowledge doesn't matter to the psychopaths; it just gives them another reason to kill us all. Of course the fact that we exist is already sufficient reason, since the psychopath's sole purpose is to eradicate everything outside his own universe-consuming body.

Labels: Emersonian justice, Equipoise, NOW I SEE, Parkinson

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