On a plane to China, I ran out of movies of interest, so I listened to a Masterworks series. These are commercial video presentations focused on adult education. The topic was on how to write. Kind of important in my job. David Sedaris was the presenter. He suggested that to change your perspective as a writer, ask questions that are unexpected. The answers to these inquiries would be fodder for writing, as people would respond by being more open. Just the next day ,Barry Jenkins, the movie director, was being interviewed elsewhere and the radio personality asked him one of these unusual questions – “Did he believe the universe tended to chaos or organization?”
Later in that trip to China, I was (negatively) impressed by the presence of VIP signs and areas, as well as priority accesses and perks. Always the idealist, I found this disappointing, as it seemed to violate the hope for a fairer, more egalitarian future. Further conversations ensured, and my hosts intimated, that whatever the government tried to do to level the playing field, a negative weed would grow, that would destabilize and disegalatarize society. Ban tutoring for tests and the wealthy and connected found another way to advantage their children. Is this a manifestation of Brownian motion, or do all societies organize by hierarchies that work to self-perpetuate? Jenkins, the director discussed above, answered that the universe tends towards chaos. Perhaps we just fail to see the pattern in the chaos and we organize, and that organization is towards privilege.
Is inertia a more powerful force than entropy? William Gibson, the science fiction writer, said “the future has arrived – it’s just not evenly distributed”. Perhaps it will never be. Gibson added a “yet” to the end of that quote “the future has arrived – it’s just not evenly distributed yet”. In order to ensure a less dystopian future, let’s hope he was right.
Mark E. Schweitzer, MD
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