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  Meanwhile in Chapter 10... To date we have examined a variety of systems as a means of identifying their particular weaknesses through the utilisation of our Five Factor Framework. The question we now need to be asking ourselves is what happens when those systems fail? That is, can we identify metrics which will help us realise that a system is about to fail before it actually happens? For, if we can - as we have argued at the start of this book – then we could possibly help prevent the System Malfunction before it actually occurs. Wouldn’t this be great? It could potentially be a life saver for not only our own species but all of us on this blue-green globe we like to call home. We are, therefore, interested in putting systems under our microscopes during the times at which they are being stretched beyond their functional utility, that is, at the point at which they are about to break. Thus, by examining the systems at this crucial breaking point we can scrutinise the individual units of that system which are particularly exhibiting ‘typical’ stress behaviour. What we now need to do then is outline what a stressed system may look like. By way of example we can easily imagine breaking a piece of soft toffee. As we bend it and tear it apart in an attempt to break it into two, before we share it with our children perhaps, then strands of toffee will resist and wish to maintain their original form! It is only after we apply repeated pressure and twist and turn the ‘system’ that the toffee will finally succumb and separate. Similar phenomena can be witnessed at a sub-atomic level as materials fracture under stress conditions. It therefore makes sense for us to consider what these stressed systems look like in more general terms than we have explored so far. In other words we will pull the strands of our separate investigations of our selection of systems (in previous chapters) together here. Then, with an idea in mind of what stressed systems look like on a general level then we can (re-)examine a number of illustrative systems which may allow us to unearth indicators of a larger system breaking down. Just like the strands of our toffee example indicate that the whole bar is about to separate. First though let us consider some more general and philosophical issues concerning systems at breaking point. 3:18 AM 0 comments

  The Mark of TRUE Genius! First they steal from you
Then you challenge them
Then they call you mad
Then they lock you up
Then you prove them all wrong

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  'Secret' Societies and Not-So-Hidden Symbols I was once questioned as to whether I belonged to a "secret society". My answer, of course, was "no". What a silly question in an even sillier context. Why do people feel a prediliction towards forming such? I guess its because we all want to feel we belong to something a little bigger than our little lives afford us. We surround ourselves with "symbology" as Dan Brown likes to refer to it or, in more academic speak, semiotic intercourse. We even construct elaborate belief systems around these material artefacts in the hope that they can bestow some kind of honour upon us in terms of the adoration of our peers. So, just as the tribes of old would honour chiefs with the greatest of the posessions available to their meagre existences so we grow attachment to similar items in our hope that we too can elevate our standing within our communities.

One only has to take a look around on a fairly average day to note all manner of such material 'things' of worship - as opposed to places. Be they the instrument-based symbols of Masonic derivation or the more apparent cross-like symbols of more mainstream Christian ideology. Or be they a variety of handshakes which males in particular like to adorn themselves with. These 'not-so-hidden' symbols lie around us everywhere in the Western, nee all over the, world. Semiotics famously also exist in the spoken word, the ultimate 'hidden' symbol, as we use all manner of devices to 'connect' with our fellow species and place ourselves in a hierarchy by so doing.

It does not take too much initiative to master these symbols then start to unravel them, interpret them for one's own needs. The interesting aspect of travel in particular is that one is exposed to a huge variety and then can easily commence deconstruction of the semitotics of understanding on a cross-cultural comparative basis.

Ultimately, then, comes the realisation that they have no 'real' use, that their value is artificial. If we can all learn to deconstruct them, to recognise them for what they truly are - simple representations of stages of instruction - then their utility is negated and we can all live a more free life. One free of dislocation from each other and ultimately one of unity as opposed to discrimination. 7:11 AM 0 comments

  The Politics of Paper Paper this
Paper that
Paper planes
You stupid t@$&

Paper later
Paper now
Paper votes
Paper cow

Paper paper
Paper that
Paper's old school
Paid for that

Paper person
Paper hat
Paper's had it
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