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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">A period comes to its end by means of a crisis and restarts
as something partially new<span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Dear Diego,<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">One needs no factual proofs as a support for the thoughts
expressed in this chatroom, we are not in the business of factual things here,
I believe. If we were discussing facts, we would be sitting in some Committee
on Standards and Norming: where the conceptual work has already been done, and
there are facts and relations among the facts the participants had already
agreed on. We discuss concepts here, of which we are not even sure that they do
exist, like Order and Information. In your valuable expose you discuss order
concepts, as being visible in social stratification and allocation of goods and
justice to different participants. Let me talk in more general terms about
order.<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">1. The end of a period<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">We do live in interesting times. We are witnessing, and
taking part, in a slow-motion process of a collapse. There is a change in the
air. The frame had become widened, more aspects can be pictured, from
perspectives spaced wider than before. <span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">The historical perspective of exporting culture by killing people
and raping the present, traditional culture, has been with us, without
questioning, since times writing up records of history have begun, and probably
since even earlier times. Our generation has understood that although killing
your opponent may be explained away into doing and having done something
honourable, by using traditional terms and rhetoric, but the procedure itself cannot
be actually done maximally effectively – and if you don’t want to do something in
an efficient manner, why do it at all? The ultimate war defeats its own goal,
as it leaves all participants dead, victors inclusive: so why begin an
escalation if all know that it is unthinkable to escalate fully. Let us credit
Hitler with having fought the last ultimate, total war, although Truman would
be a serious contender for having that named after him, which we since then
have understood to be a complete idiocy. If the last step of a correct chain of
reasoning leads to a nonsense, then the whole chain of reasoning is severely
discredited. This is what falls us now on the head: that the ideology of the
Normative Power of the Factual has proven to be conceptually finite and local.
We cease to believe in the magic power of <i>Individual q</i>, which he used to
derive from the <i>position</i> that the individual has occupied. The
legitimacy of his teachings is demolished. He may keep declaring, that such an
order <i>q</i> has to be maintained, because this is the order that keeps the
world running, and him on his position, but we see in the rural communities,
outside of the inner circle of the courtiers of Emperor <i>q</i>, that order <i>q</i>
is actually dis-allocating matter to places, resources to families. There is
apparently a much better order <i>r</i>, the details of which may at the moment
not yet be fully spelled out, but a general agreement lies in the air, that a
differing set of relations among the elements is definitely called for, and that
such an alternative order is possible.<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">The end of a period is marked by a crisis. Then, a
re-evaluation of all concepts is permissible and will take place. Among the
teachings that experience a re-evaluation by society is the interpretation of history,
as Orwell has pointed out. If the cultural export, causing a violent import and
division in the subset of elements subjected to being civilised, is defined to
be a positive value, the system of measurements yields that all is well and
order <i>q</i> keeps on ruling based on reason, insight and tradition. If the
costs caused by the extermination of the previous form of organisation appear
to be higher than the benefits received from being civilised into someone
other’s design, then unrest will present itself. Nature likes to be in an
optimal position and state, and elements (relatively) free of external
prescriptions tend to migrate towards their natural places. There is a web of
tension when we regard the two webs created by the ruling ideology of order <i>q</i>
and the instinctive feeling of there being a more just and sensible way of
distributing things, which is a version of the natural order, felt by the
participants on a gut, instinctive, pre-intellectual level of hormonal facts,
which we called order <i>r</i>. The tension between these two is again a web,
which is not represented on the level of objects, matters and distribution of
goods among the members of the public. The meta-web is not built on places,
elements and resources, but on the <i>differences</i> of two webs which are
represented in reality. This is a dimensionless measure of distortion. But this
is what the people feel, and can instinctively agree on, that the time has come
<i>now</i> that something happens. To this level of interplay of symbols is the
mombomat looking forward and pleased to provide a wild rhythm to.<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">The collapse relates to the order in society. We do not have
any more <i>one</i> version of teachings of history, and we have differing ways
of assigning positive or negative values to observed facts and relations among
facts. The concept of total wars, and therefore of wars generally, has become
discredited: therefore, the traditional way of settling rivalries does not
serve its purpose any more. The export of population surplus in the traditional
fashion, by subjugating the inhabitants of other places, is frowned on. The
heroic interpretations of cultural rape have lost their credibility. Additionally,
to the credibility issues of traditional social norms, we experience the
problem that money is created out of thin, hot air, not to speak of problems with
the surface temperature of the planet: what else is needed to add to the
instability? It can well be, that the present version of the invention of the
Phoenicians will follow the way of the commodity money cowry clams. If the
rules of the distribution game had been conceptually biased, skewed by the
writers of the rules, and had a built-in bias preferring those in the
sub-procedure of accumulating capital, who already have had accumulated some
capital, then a concentration of wealth in fewer and fewer hands is a built-in
consequence, to be expected as a certain outcome of the game. Once all the
wealth has been won from the other players, the losers will lose interest remaining
in the game, of continued play. This would in itself not disturb the haves,
that the have-nots are unwilling to cooperate: if they don’t want to starve,
they will cooperate. The problem for the haves comes rather from the drying up
of flows from the have-nots, as the have-nots had become actually too poor to
continue subsidising the haves. If the steady income stops, the haves, too,
have no interest in continuing the game. Then a decoupling of bonds takes
place. The haves and the have-nots are no more members of the same community,
they will not be depicted any more as <i>one</i> Sachverhalt, there ceases to
exist a word to describe their common interests, because the former antagonists
have no common relation any more as participants of distribution and
re-distribution. This can happen in intellectual relations also: it is no more,
that a person’s views are irritating: they just become irrelevant. <span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">2. Several, competing concepts of order<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">A European of some age, one will remember thankfully our
variants of Emperor <i>q</i> in the 1968ff years. (In Europe, only one person,
Benno Ohnesorg, was shot during political demonstrations, no Kent State
University or Tienanmen Square style massacres. This has given the 68-ers a
feeling of victory.) Not being too repressive, the European version of <i>q</i>
had made it possible for the 68-ers to do the <i>Long March Through the
Institutions</i>. Antiauthoritarians pop up at times from the most unlikely
places, like anarchists throwing bombs at royalty. Now the right honourable
learned friends are co-participants in the spectacle of a big bang of the
numbering system, with the fragments caught and reassembled into a mombering
system. This is truly a <span lang="FR">réussit</span>,
if it goes through, of <i>change the system from within, from its basis</i>. <span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">The concept of order is the anatomy of the Emperor. Order
concept <i>q</i> is differing to order concept <i>r</i>, which is how we call a
version of the most natural order that is ever possible. Order prevails, if
requirements are met. We know the requirements from the words: all are, where
they should be. If requirements change periodically (see influences of Earth,
Moon, Sun), there will appear a collection of possible, maybe including some of
them: ideal, arrangements and strategies for the elements to be on or to
progress towards their ideal places. This is what we are looking for: the most
sustainable compromise among differing requirements that change periodically.
If we turn up in our archaeological work on relations among variants of <i>(a,b)</i>
some generally valid rules of order, then we have unearthed, uncovered,
unveiled a new faith, a new concept of basic order, at least as legitimate as
all other existing order concepts. <span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">3. The powers above us<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">The Emperor’s message is, invariably along the centuries,
that it is necessary and rational to keep faith with him. “I represent the
order. The fact, that I am <i>up</i> and you are <i>down</i> keeps reinforcing
archaic knowledge of our species, from the times we still dwelt on trees. The
chief is up and he pisses down: his urine’s flavour and <i><span lang="FR">haute-gout</span><span lang="FR"> </span></i>are the
key properties, on which members of the group recognise each other as belonging
to the same group. The most basic of all relations – gravity itself – is
normed, adjusted, defined, rediscovered, reinforced on my being up and you
being down. If you don’t believe in me being up, you don’t believe in gravity.”<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Gravity is one of 3 axes that appear by themselves if one
orders diverse forms of appearances at his hearth’s leisure in a systematic
fashion. It is important to remind the learned friends, that numbers have so
far nothing to do with the idea of order relations to be proposed as useful and
practical. The numbers will eventually validate the hypothesis, that
predictable patterns appear if one orders some glitzy puppets around. Dogs have
a perfect understanding of spatial geometry, as their ability to catch a
frisbee shows, but dogs will not be credited by using numbers as the basis and
method for their calculations of paths. We discuss the instinctive intelligence
here, which arrives at correctly predicting coordinates in space, without using
that Sumerian invention, <b>N</b>, 1,2,3,…<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">The basic order, visualised as three axes, has one, additive
and oriented, which serves as our basis of experiencing the effects of gravity,
because it exerts a continuous ordering requirement on the elements. The other
two are conceptually symmetric, de facto not quite symmetric. <span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">4. Oh, to be different (diverse, alien, biverse)<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">There is a rather archaic feel to a pre-Sumerian deal, where
two partners in commerce try to establish the value of an item of exchange. How
much it is, both parts together, has already been agreed on: the merchants
themselves being subject to an equaliser, they have no difficulty in imagining
an objective equaliser that is valid for other, factual objects of reality,
too. The equal gradation and additivity of the vertical axis, which depicts <i>a+b=c</i>,
allows the connection of a mental image, of <b>N</b>, with an experience rooted
in natural order, which we call gravity. The idea of the pre-Sumerians, with <i>putting
the two pieces together</i> and agreeing on rules on how to establish names for
the procedure, has been developed into a strongly rooted and organised mental
system, the present numbering system. This was the easy part.<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">To compare two things with each other, it helps to consider,
what they yield if joined. It also helps if we see by how much the blue
smaller, <i>a</i>, is different to the green bigger, <i>b</i>. The discussion
has two points: how the blue relates to the double of the green, and how the
green relates to the double of the blue. This may appear rather alien, even
extra-terrestrial alien, to us, but this is the pattern the orderings bring
forth. How much the <i>two parts of something</i> are <i>different t</i>o each
other is as good a question as how much they are <i>together</i>. The inner
difference can have two voices: once the smaller narrating how he would experience
the difference to the bigger, if only he was double his size, once the bigger,
telling us, by how much he is bigger, and even by how much more bigger, relative
to the smaller, if he was double his size. (The songs of the equal are haikus.)
These are two different tales of order, which give a descriptive structure,
creating a background for the experiences to be placed in. Combined with the
upright axis, of which the effects are independent (the two parts remain additive,
even as they are classified according to their inner alienation), which is <i>semper
et ubique,</i> the three axes generate a space. Right-left and front-back are
describing measures of diversity, the upright axis describes the similarity
property of objects. <span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">The two diversity axes disperse the elements across a wider
territory than their similarity property. There are more ways to be different
than to be similar, which is no great wonder, given that there are two
narrators of diversity, who have to fuse into one to sing about similarity. The
natural order is visible in the form of a lentil, at times in the form of a flat
doughnut. Saturn makes the example well visible: one would assume that the
things circling Saturn are ordered according to their inner diversity
(alienation), as predicted by the measurement gradation of the two horizontal
axes. The two degrees of alienation <i>{a-2b, b-2a} </i>give the position <i>(x,y)
</i>of any <i>(a,b)</i> on a plane exactly, and with their sum <i>{a+b} </i>giving
an exact value <i>z</i>, the individual called <i>(a,b) </i>could be assigned a
place in a 3D space. Diversity (alienation, biversity) is as much a valid
property of two objects included in the same Sachverhalt, as is their most common,
and commonly used, property valid. If it is legitimate to derive the <i>additive
</i>property of <i>(a,b), </i>then it is equally legitimate to derive the <i>diversity
(alienation, biversity) </i>property of the same <i>(a,b).<span></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">5. Oh, to be subversive once again (Urban guerrillas of
number theory)<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Your position suggests, that you believe in the existence of
a better order than presently exists. You discuss the social context of the
apparent disorder. Physicists will be interested in the forms of the breakdowns
of the order. Chemistry will investigate, how assemblies are built, which
common sub-orders govern associations, and genetics investigates, which is the
perfect stage for the artistic performance of a piece called folding and
unfolding, following the rules of folding and unfolding. Some will be
interested in how the assembly blows up for containing too many inner
contradictions, some will watch and discuss, what measures are to be taken to
reduce the overall distortion between the actual web of allotments and a more
natural one, and some discuss, how the inner peristaltic of the system
invariably leads to destabilisation of power structures and dissolution of
order, allowing for a different form of organisation. Some theorise about ideal
circumstances, trying to use the pause signal of the system as a carrier
frequency.<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">The ideal order, in which theoretical genetics functions, is
well different from the social order actually existing in different forms among
regions of the planet and across species. However, both approaches discuss the
identical idea of a system of ordering principles having several forms of
realisation, and judgements being possible regarding differing forms of
appearance of order. You say: “There must be a better order!”, I say: “There is
a natural order.”.<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">6. We have to talk about the issue<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">What the Congress could contribute is a discussion about the
meaning of the term Order. The possession of the megaphone has given some
groups of society structural advantages. The guy with the megaphone sounds
forcefully convincing, compared to those who rely on the quiet voice of reason.<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Discussing tales of Utopia and contrasting them with
descriptions of actual reality will direct attention to the distortion measure,
describing the alienation between two variants of order. Addressing what we
understand what the word “Order” means is a great and brave task.<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Maybe in a quiet corner some fellow-accountants will happen
to have an exchange, talking shop among <i><span lang="FR">jongleurs des cycles</span></i>, periodic and rhythmic learned friends;
such a meeting of minds could be an invigorating experience, if you have
sympathies for new wilds, shakers of fundaments among those in the philosophy
of numbers. Similarly, learned friends whose revolutionary impulses express
themselves in more Earthbound subjects, will meet in their own biotope. Sex,
drugs, crime are the retro side of the web of concepts that is order, so the
order concept is always eminently trendy. If the web is folded in fashion <i>q</i>,
the result is called ordered, by the guys with the megaphone, but then
Spartacus, Robin Hood and Che Guevara demonstrate that perspectives exist,
which maintain order concepts that are radically different to <i>q</i>. <span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Wishing you the best:<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Karl<span></span></p>
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