Have you noticed that the USA is going down hill? I will explain why in this blog.
It is all because of "Entropy". That's right "Entropy" is doing it too the USA. Don't know about "Entropy"? It is a little like time, it only goes in one direction and that is away from order. It is a concept that originated as part of the steam engine and thermodynamics, but it applies every place where time applies and that is every place. You can think of "Entropy" as the enemy of order and order requires the use of energy of some kind.
Here is a simple example. If you had a random pile of lumber and you took that pile of lumber and built a house, that would be something representing order. Now "Entropy" comes along and starts tearing down your house one splinter at a time until you no longer have a house. That is how it works and it is working all the time even when you don't know it. If you want your house back, then you would have to come up with the energy to put those splinters all back together again. If you were out of energy the house would be gone for ever. Do you follow that?
Now look at the USA. It did not really exist until the Europeans came here and took the land away from the Native Americans and started building all the stuff that is now the USA. We are talking about roads, farms and cities that they built. It was not here and each part had to be built from scratch. They used muscle energy and their intellect plus all the resources that were already here. You could look at the whole project as one of organizing by the use of energy what was already here.
Now let's look as what "Entropy" has done to their work. What they had built and organized, has started to fall apart and the USA has gotten worse. It has gotten old just like you and me have gotten old and gray haired. For us it will take a new generation to replace us and it will be the same for the USA. The only problem is that those who have come after us are not putting the same amount of effort or energy into building or even maintaining what we have built. They want to work less and take advantage of what others have built before them. The USA is thus, going down hill just like a home that is not being maintained goes down hill. It is a little like the old expression, "Dust to Dust". It all started out as "Dust" and will end up as "Dust" if the same amount of effort that went into building it does not continue. Do you see the problem and the cause? Entropy is there waiting to undo what we have built.
Look at the concern about global warming and what we have done as a result? We declared war on coal. oil and natural gas. Most know that all energy on Earth comes from atomic energy from the Sun. That is where the coal and oil came from and it is where the energy for all the solar panels comes from. When we declare war on one form of energy it has to be replaced from some where or Entropy is going to take over. The cheaper the energy is the better it is for us to fight Entropy and what we have done is to make energy more and more expensive and that means Entropy is going to win.
Good bye to the USA as we have know it.
