“Transistor Flow”

-- November 13, 2015 in Paris. FR.

A small pressure against a large flow can change its direction.

Whether it is electricity or another flow of energy, water or society that moves on credit and merchandise, a small pressure that differs from expected causes a large change in direction.  

In 1947, we were offered the transistor. It works on this concept. The battery provides a constant supply of power. The transistor controls the power to the audio output (for example) to the speakers.

Compare this abstraction to what happens in current society. The battery, in this analogy, is the social current of “it’s all just fine”, “my credit is good”. Life is good and I’m safe. I don’t care about anywhere but my world.

It only takes a small force from an event (read media focused) to amplify a local event into national news. Change and confrontation happens not all at once. These small  forces to move society go back no less than twenty years…

Friday, 13 November in Paris is only the latest example of a small force redirecting society. We get upset---for a moment---about the happenings elsewhere.

Take a look at the list of small ‘forces’ that have nudged western society to suicide by ignorance.

Have a beer, don’t cost nothing. (Animal House, 1978)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Islamist_terrorist_attacks