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himself a deeper hole of entropy. No matter how many walls we put up or straight lines we draw, we are incapable of actions that do not eventually propel the universe on its continuous journey to the ultimate chaos point.
Mowing the front lawn creates a picturesque, neatly groomed landscape. This local order you've just created, though, is nothing compared to the frenetic heat molecules expelled by the lawnmower in the process. In fact all our human endeavors require energy. All energy, once used, releases heat. This unleashed heat is pure chaos. Even the food we grow to fuel our own bodies is implicated in this process. Capitalism requires a lot of energy. International transactions and mass produced plastic and missile defense systems are not natural resources, they take an immense amount of energy to create. It's understandable then that the massive amounts of energy pouring from capitalist machinations should end up as concentrated chaos. It has, in the form of piles. Capitalism requires so much energy that it is producing piles at a rate of 160 per half-hour. Piles now cover approximately 1/75th of the Earth's usable land. Piles are home to more entropy than the Martian atmosphere, we promise. Piles are the shape of unpredictability. The 2nd Law of Thermodynamics predicts that the universe will eventually flatten into microscopic randomness with no discernible shapes or sizes or constructs left. This process is already taking place inside piles. Random artifacts of an overly energetic system |
coalesce into a homogeneous deposit of indistinguishability. The pile is reverberating the future of our universe – a flat expanse of random particles fluctuating in unpredictable patterns. Capitalism, despite its efforts to create an ordered, predictable, industrialized environment has unwittingly released just as much chaos into nature. The atmospheric chaos unleashed by capitalism had, until now, simply created piles. But is there anything more chaotic and entropic than the randomly allocated structural migration of piles that capitalism is now forcing us to embark upon?
This 2nd Law of Thermodynamics is not a bad thing. That would be like saying our bodies being made of 75% water is a bad thing. It is simply an inevitable parameter of our environment. We welcome this unbridled entropy. Pile migration is an attempt to cultivate chaos. Piles are inevitable. As long as humans are out-putting energy toward the cultivation of a society, piles will be the inevitable exhaust. Every attempt at ordering the environment around us must have an equally disruptive byproduct. Piles have been gathering since well before capitalism was conceived. Only since capitalism, however, has the rate of piles began to escalate so uncontrollably. So much is produced, overproduced, in capitalist economy that the excess and the discharge has no choice but to pile up. Here comes the hypocritical irony. The level of disorder presented by mass pile accumulation is unacceptable to the bureaucracy of capitalism. So the solution that capitalist powers have hit upon is to convert all its piles of excess into stacks (see
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