Acrylic paint, 2020
idle thoughts during a chem II lecture
defining entropy:
a thermodynamic quantity that is
a measure of how dispersed the
energy of a system is among
the different possible ways that
a system can contain energy
& prof. commented that it is also known as
chaos & that it is a measure of
randomness—in the truest sense of the word.
anarchy is often equated with chaos. and drawing
from this chem definition, it actually follows:
a measure of how dispersed the
POWER of a system is among
the different possible ways the
system can allocate POWER
after all, anarchism is primarily a way of
analyzing the world.
that’s chaos. it’s a normal and natural
occurrence. to put order—now that’s
human. humans have to put order.
—my chem prof. literally 15 seconds ago.
oh! another neat little silly thing—
entropy is a state function. it
depends on variables, such as
temperature and pressure,
that determine the state of the
substance.
entropy is an extensive property.
it depends on the amount of
substance present.
the entropy of a social system, or of a state,
is also an extensive property & largely a
state function. if not, conservatism as a
political philosophy would not exist:
if POWER were an intrinsic property,
challenges to its consolidation would
never succeed, right?