First let me admit I'm only on page 70 of this book, which I find fascinating but imagry and subject matter don't let me read for long at one time. While it's interesting to view the war machine overall as a system of bifurcations and singularities , everyonce in a while it'll come back that what we are talking about means individule suffering and death. I don't dispute that it is important to do overviews, or that when taken in combination with the rest of this weeks readings this is providing a insightful glance into the modern "war" of power, but at least for the opening chapters the reduction of human suffering into mathematical models essentially dehumanizing the proceedings disturbs me greatly. Still, the application of mathematical models to warfare/power sturucture as a means of understanding how we can identify and utilize current singularities is very intriguing.
Our culture is like a fluid that is flowing so fast I can't understand why turbulance doesn't break out. Our political power structure is completely fubar, our legal system has vast holes, and we flow on... but that's not completely true. There is some turbulance, some protesting, some disent, but it's as if the system is Jupiter's Red Spot and all that it does is serve to regulate the energy levels. -nici
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