Thermo-Dynamic Society

The North: Achim Reichel, 2003    "100% life"   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xchDsoDFfNw&t=75 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKEoX9iXvj0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUyZP3w8_6o The South: Hubert von Goisern & Zabine - Juchitzer (Austrian) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TvaqDNEppwQ 1994 - "It's over" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FsSTR33xiAg       Nis Randers – by Otto Ernst (1901) (As performed by Achim Reichel , above) Crashing and howling and bursting of night, Darkness and fire in a furious hunt - A shout through the breakers! The sky is afire, and now you can see: A wreck on the sandbank! In the tide it does sway; The abyss will claim it! Nis Randers peers out - and says without haste: "I can see a man in the mast; We have to go get him." His mother grabs him: "You're not going in! I want to keep you, you're left me alone, I demand it, your mother! Your father went under, and

Rainhard Fendrich - Tango Corrupti [Verse 1] We may never really know the gentleman, who in a summer's night on a parking lot lay low and in his hand he's holding something tight Two headlights come in from afar A crunch - we see a dark-blue Jaguar Pale faces sit inside the car but the chauffeur is from Nigeria The envelope goes in the car with beating heart The deal now is perfect For such a generous donation you'll acquisition almost any project The minister's softly cackling for he knows that silent crackling And he whispers, through his lips just a tiny melody: [Chorus] Tango Corrupti... If someone names you and he spills it you'll simply just employ a lawyer that can help you and then swoopity- whoop you're gone Even the tax inspector's audit won't excite us, not one little bit For everything we have we have by now anyhow on the Bahamas [Verse 2] The old police chief has his worries now that he's married to a top model He dreams of debt

Reinhard Mey, The Ship of Fools - 1998 A sea shanty The mercury's falling, all signs point to storm But bitching and giggling is heard from the helm And a dull grinding sound coming up from the machine With rolling and pounding, and heavy seas The deck orchestra plays "Nearer to Thee" And crazed laughter rings out from the latrine The cargo is rotten, all the papers are fake The bulkheads block, and the bilgepumps leak All hatches wide open, alarm bells are a-ringing The seas roll in, man high, down the hold St. Elmo's fire flickers from the derrick yard But no one on board is able to see what's coming The helmsman's lying, the captain's a junky The engineer's lost in his lethargy And the crew, all villains on perjury, Won't send SOS, they're too cowardly On the ship of fools that a Hobgoblin steers Full speed ahead, and straight for the reef! Sheet lightning afar - the signs o' the times Wickedness, and petti

" They were trying to hit the weir, of course " the old lady said suddenly. It was her last sentence before she turned away. I had been standing with a group of people who were looking at a forgotten place, a place where the dammed millstream re-enters the river in the middle of my town. It had, together with a small hydroelectric power plant that is run by it, been fenced off to the public for decades, and was now being opened for refurbishing; it had been that way, more or less, since the war. I looked around. There was not much too see. Peaceful, unused meadows spread, falling off into the riverbank in some distance. Empty abandoned houses were lining the road. " We used to do the washing here, "  the old lady continued. " My father almost drowned once over there one day. The millstream had dragged him in. We used to use the meadows to dry and bleach the laundry. " She pointed to a dilapidated two-story house, old and battered, which had obviously b

There was a Land - where the wind blows cold over empty land ... Written and read by  Agnes Miegel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=au5wsjtHWRc (Born 1879 in Königsberg , Prussia ; died 1964) (& damn good looking she was as well, if I may say so, old chap!) Shortened and set to Pink Floyd's " Shine On You Crazy Diamond Pt I " https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8UXircX3VdM By someone I don't know, salvaged, damaged, from a cassette deck and repaired: Agnes Miegel There was a Land [Es war ein Land] (MP3) Enjoy, or recoil, as you will. There was a land ... Where ashes blow easier than dust and sand Where nettles grow high on burst, broken walls And higher still thistles on the edge of the land. There was a land - where are you, time? Where rye billowed as wide as the sea Where thrushes sang from the alder tree When herd and foal went to water. Farm up, farm down, like a gentle heart rang The tappin

Go on to the next article / content      Gravity and the Thermodynamics of Human Economy and Existence  The prerequisitions of life  The physical order of the material world  The source and the sink  Fast forward to life on Earth  You cannot short-circuit a thermodynamic process and then expect it to go on  A perhaps clearer summary of the above  A Second Opinion  The prerequisitions of life " What an organism feeds upon is negative entropy. ... Thus the device by which an organism maintains itself stationary at a fairly high level of he orderliness (=fairly low level of entropy) really consists continually sucking orderliness from its environment. ... An organism's astonishing gift of concentrating a 'stream of order' on itself and thus escaping that the decay into atomic chaos - of 'drinking orderliness' from a suitable environment - seems to be connected with the presence of the '

Let it Begin   [ or visit my substack ]   He who wins, loses; he who loses, wins. That's how you play the game. (Unknown Drama)