Question: "Hmmm here's a hyper-energetic system whose dynamics are fundamentally chaotic. What should we do with it?"
Answer: "Poke at it above one of the major population centers in Indian Country!"
Today I talked myself into believing that the US government was flagrantly negligent at multiple levels leading up to the Rapid City Flood of 1972.
By 1964, the National Academy of the Sciences had already concluded that weather control was being hyped up on uncontrolled experiments rigged together with a posteriori findings. But Congress had already doled out the cash 3 years earlier, so Project Skywater was full steam ahead.
Surely enough, another uncontrolled experiment in 1972 killed 238.
Remember what Carse says: performatively low status is an anti-title. To play at being below everything, to posit a conspicuous absence, is the same move as playing above everything.
Anyone talking about abstract/intangible stuff "being shoved down our throats" can safely be ignored. If it's not literally an object being inserted into your throat, there's probably a better way to phrase it than that; and if you insist on using that phrase I'm just gonna assume it is a Freudian indicator of your own personal kinks & fetishes.
If I'm talking to a person and they reference the concept of balance then I stop taking them seriously.
Humanist interested in the consequences of the machine on intellectual history.