Wednesday, August 03, 2005

A Superior Ideology Must Of Necessity Be Low Entropy

A true way of life from the personal to the social must of necessity mirror the laws of nature which make the world possible .These of course will be the most economical in terms of action used and the most expansive in terms of starting out from the lowest possible entropy.Just as economic value has an entropy scale with the most valuable objects and processes having the lowest entropy likewise a perfect ideology will have the lowest entropy and continually expand not just itself but knowledge of the world.What it is and what it claims to be are identical which is the ultimate in economy. This makes it valuable and it can prove it's value and low entropy which of course iron age ideologies cannot since entropy for them was unknown.This proof will not only be in theory but in practice for all to see.The thing and it's description are identical. High entropy societies create almost nothing and what they produce is only copied from others.High entropy ideologies or religions produce high entropy societies where most of the people's time and energy is spent just trying to survive and cope with a plethora of rituals and petty superstitions. People move from poor high entropy trading societies to wealthy low entropy producing societies and how else could it be. Empiricism must be a central tenet of thinking not just stories and promises of rewards or punishments in the afterlife.This leaves angels and the devil as historical curiosities which were useful only in the context of illiterate uneducated people.The high entropy religions of the past created only cycling societies where the same rituals and technology were used over and over and have no place in the present.They are a danger to scientific progress and therefore untrue.A modern religion will harness the inherent superiority and desirability of a low entropy set of axioms and be obvious for the rational minded and be irresistable in the world.