Civil disobedience is intended to provoke or it's just a parade. It may be time to review your personal criteria for civil disobedience, however, when that list includes arson, especially when it brings a major city down.
Likely you heard about the huge fire under the I-85 freeway in Atlanta but the latest newsflash on it gives us the beauty part: some homeless fellow torched it. There was a great deal of material stored under the freeway and it was tough to get it burning but the material goes berserk if you can get it started. The homeless fellow did it and the result was an inferno which dropped about one-hundred feet of the freeway to the ground.
It will take months for repair to I-85 and Atlanta already has some of the worst traffic gridlock in the country but they're going to find out what's even worse than that.
CNN: I-85 collapse: Three arrested after major fire under Atlanta highway
Civil disobedience should piss them off but it's probably better if you don't get them hating you so much they want to kill your whole family. No-one seems to know why the King of Anarchy did it but this had to be by design because it's hard to get the material burning.
We may not get an answer since the King of Anarchy's mind may be so blithered by alcohol he started the fire because he thought he was fighting for Mordor to win favor with Sauron.
- Insert long boring editorial on the absurdity of solving gridlock with smart cars, electric cars, or Uber taxis which, coincidentally, are a great way to find drugs in new cities -
Perhaps we could review the Vonnegut of the situation since we have one homeless bum who managed almost single-handed to bring a major city to a crawl simply by starting a fire and that city is screwed for months because of it.
Fundamental to the Silas Theory of Everything is the more complex the system the easier it is to wreck it.
I present Atlanta and rest my case. Previously the Silas Theory of Everything was generally used only regarding computer systems so it's a new age when it applies to entire cities.
There's no driver on the bus, mates, and we're probably going to need one before too much longer.
Ed: isn't this just advertising for terrorists?
Nah. No-one was killed and what fun is any event for terrorists from whichever side if no-one gets dead. Besides, it would be tough to stage something like this as an attack because a great deal of that material is required. This looks like a one-off from a state of total madness. The intrigue is the consequence of it since it's so whacking improbable that some impotent loon can manage to be so destructive.
Ed: so everything is going to fall apart because of impotent loons and we're all going to die?
Have whatever fantasy you like but in mine we bring systems theory and systems design to the management of things whereas the current situation is revealing one-off solutions all over the place and the parts fit more by miracle than grand design.
Some of you are motor builders and you can see each bit of the motor for its effect on each other so you don't wind up running the pistons into the valves or so. I've seen what you read and you probably know this is a holistic view and that's exactly what we don't see in the way government or corporate systems are often built.
If you have done the required reading, you know this is straight out of "The Mote in God's Eye" by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle. The Moties were redesigning things constantly and it all worked but only by constantly screwing with it. Sound familiar?
Holism, we need some of that.
Yes, that was today's Silas Deep Thought.
Likely you heard about the huge fire under the I-85 freeway in Atlanta but the latest newsflash on it gives us the beauty part: some homeless fellow torched it. There was a great deal of material stored under the freeway and it was tough to get it burning but the material goes berserk if you can get it started. The homeless fellow did it and the result was an inferno which dropped about one-hundred feet of the freeway to the ground.
It will take months for repair to I-85 and Atlanta already has some of the worst traffic gridlock in the country but they're going to find out what's even worse than that.
CNN: I-85 collapse: Three arrested after major fire under Atlanta highway
Civil disobedience should piss them off but it's probably better if you don't get them hating you so much they want to kill your whole family. No-one seems to know why the King of Anarchy did it but this had to be by design because it's hard to get the material burning.
We may not get an answer since the King of Anarchy's mind may be so blithered by alcohol he started the fire because he thought he was fighting for Mordor to win favor with Sauron.
- Insert long boring editorial on the absurdity of solving gridlock with smart cars, electric cars, or Uber taxis which, coincidentally, are a great way to find drugs in new cities -
Perhaps we could review the Vonnegut of the situation since we have one homeless bum who managed almost single-handed to bring a major city to a crawl simply by starting a fire and that city is screwed for months because of it.
Fundamental to the Silas Theory of Everything is the more complex the system the easier it is to wreck it.
I present Atlanta and rest my case. Previously the Silas Theory of Everything was generally used only regarding computer systems so it's a new age when it applies to entire cities.
There's no driver on the bus, mates, and we're probably going to need one before too much longer.
Ed: isn't this just advertising for terrorists?
Nah. No-one was killed and what fun is any event for terrorists from whichever side if no-one gets dead. Besides, it would be tough to stage something like this as an attack because a great deal of that material is required. This looks like a one-off from a state of total madness. The intrigue is the consequence of it since it's so whacking improbable that some impotent loon can manage to be so destructive.
Ed: so everything is going to fall apart because of impotent loons and we're all going to die?
Have whatever fantasy you like but in mine we bring systems theory and systems design to the management of things whereas the current situation is revealing one-off solutions all over the place and the parts fit more by miracle than grand design.
Some of you are motor builders and you can see each bit of the motor for its effect on each other so you don't wind up running the pistons into the valves or so. I've seen what you read and you probably know this is a holistic view and that's exactly what we don't see in the way government or corporate systems are often built.
If you have done the required reading, you know this is straight out of "The Mote in God's Eye" by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle. The Moties were redesigning things constantly and it all worked but only by constantly screwing with it. Sound familiar?
Holism, we need some of that.
Yes, that was today's Silas Deep Thought.
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