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The Principia Discordia
- rektide 5y agolove the whole thing, but the most memorable & perspective shifting little ditty is on page i think 47[1], referencing Norbert Weiner. It set the seeds for my appreciation of the balance of creation, maintainenance, and destruction (the prime thread of the the hindu trimurti, white wolf triat), of an appreciation of larger cycles of ongoing renewal. begin quote: The tendency for entropy to increase in isolated systems is expressed in the second law of thermodynamics-- perhaps the most pessimistic and amoral formulation in all human thought. It applies however, to a closed system, to something that is an isolated whole, not just a part. Within such systems there may be parts, which draw their energy from the whole, that are moving at least temporarily, in the opposite direction; in them order is increasing and chaos is diminishing. The whirlpools that swirl in a direction opposed to the main current are called "enclaves". And one of them is life, especially human life, which in a universe moving inexorably towards chaos moves towards increased order. [1] https://principiadiscordia.com/book/54.php https://principiadiscordia.com/book/54.php (url lies (as a would discordian might?))