It's been a while

There has not been a post for a while. This is unsurprising. Wisdom is in short supply! When any endeavour  struggles it sometimes helps to go back to basics. What are basics? In science the basics are maths (of course) and physics. Central  to physics are the laws of thermodynamics and the issue of entropy the details of which are well beyond me. The core issue is that we need order in our lives and there are many more ways of things being disordered than well ordered. To get things  the way we would like them we need to do work.  This is true in physics and equally in life. To get things done we need to do useful work. We need to study, develop our skills and do the right things. Modern society  seems to have stepped  back from this and politicians  have responded by promising the voters something for nothing. Read the physics books. It does not work. Elect people who will help us do this and reject those promising magical solutions or success by stealing from others.