Disorder and Anarchism today
Zagovor | 28.06.2011 01:48 | Analysis
Though anarchism is now topical take a moment to see what it may be. Anarchism may be disorder, in fact it should be so that we are released from endless suffering and destruction.
The French philosopher A. Badiou has written a book on number and numbers. The few 5 chapters are important for our understanding of the world, science and mathematics.
It doesn't matter much for this article if Badiou is right or wrong in defining number but he is right in pointing out the mindless control that number has over our lives.
This reminds us that anarchy is traditionally against control and ORDER.
But the critics of anarchy ridicule it as the reversion to CHAOS.
But chaos in NOT disorder when we see disorder as the overturning of order as a form of control. There is no doubt that order today is the very basis of control and that control is the prime cause of suffering and destruction in the world.
Every year thousands of scientific articles are published on the assumption that PREDICTABILITY is the same as nonrandomness. That therefore science predicts and explins the world, that randomness is overturned in the light of predictability.
But remember every scientific experiment is a CONTROLLED experiment. And a controlled experiment is nothing else but the ELIMINATION of possibilities, the impossition of order.
So too those who control our lives constantly ELIMINATE possibilities. When we are without possibilities we are controlled, we have little to turn to and eventually we have nothing.
But this is not the NATURAL state of things (and here BADIOU may be wrong) and to see this clearly we must turn to NUMBERS and mathematics.
Every child at school studying mathematics knows (eventually) that the prime numbers are unpredictable. It is interesting that nearly all children will set about trying to disprove this. But it is the essential (in Aristotle's meaning of the word) nature of the primes to be unpredictable as this is NATURAL.
What is not known is that this GENERALIZES to ALL numbers. No professor of Mathematics can scientifically PREDICT what number follows 7 (or any number). No computer programer has ever written a program to show what foloows the number 5 (or any number). The essential properties does not entail their ORDER.
ORDER is imposed by human INTENTION, always. (see Fodor's argument against natural selection).
In jus a few words DISORDER and not ORDER allows for possibilities and is the opposite of ORDER because the latter disallows possibilities which leads to control and endless (infinite maybe) suffering, destruction and the imposition of a living hell.
Yes, anarchy is disorder and perhaps it should very well be.
ZDK
It doesn't matter much for this article if Badiou is right or wrong in defining number but he is right in pointing out the mindless control that number has over our lives.
This reminds us that anarchy is traditionally against control and ORDER.
But the critics of anarchy ridicule it as the reversion to CHAOS.
But chaos in NOT disorder when we see disorder as the overturning of order as a form of control. There is no doubt that order today is the very basis of control and that control is the prime cause of suffering and destruction in the world.
Every year thousands of scientific articles are published on the assumption that PREDICTABILITY is the same as nonrandomness. That therefore science predicts and explins the world, that randomness is overturned in the light of predictability.
But remember every scientific experiment is a CONTROLLED experiment. And a controlled experiment is nothing else but the ELIMINATION of possibilities, the impossition of order.
So too those who control our lives constantly ELIMINATE possibilities. When we are without possibilities we are controlled, we have little to turn to and eventually we have nothing.
But this is not the NATURAL state of things (and here BADIOU may be wrong) and to see this clearly we must turn to NUMBERS and mathematics.
Every child at school studying mathematics knows (eventually) that the prime numbers are unpredictable. It is interesting that nearly all children will set about trying to disprove this. But it is the essential (in Aristotle's meaning of the word) nature of the primes to be unpredictable as this is NATURAL.
What is not known is that this GENERALIZES to ALL numbers. No professor of Mathematics can scientifically PREDICT what number follows 7 (or any number). No computer programer has ever written a program to show what foloows the number 5 (or any number). The essential properties does not entail their ORDER.
ORDER is imposed by human INTENTION, always. (see Fodor's argument against natural selection).
In jus a few words DISORDER and not ORDER allows for possibilities and is the opposite of ORDER because the latter disallows possibilities which leads to control and endless (infinite maybe) suffering, destruction and the imposition of a living hell.
Yes, anarchy is disorder and perhaps it should very well be.
ZDK
Zagovor