Unicycle, the Book of Fictitious Symmetry and Non-Random Truth: (Nature's Democratic Pi) - Couverture souple

Cornell Du Houx, Paul V

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1882190939 ISBN 13 : 9781882190935

Editeur : Polar Bear & Company, 2020

Synopsis

Democracy - a force of nature
The unicycle provides a singular image of balance and impending peril, lifted by whimsy for the weighty subject of this book. All the evidence of experimental science confirms that nature is asymmetric. No pure symmetry has ever been found. What does it mean to live in an asymmetric environment?
Unicycle introduces the logic of asymmetric change to interpret the evidence, while showing how our symmetry-based math has failed to grasp a vital ethical connection between humanity and the environment. The observation that nature is asymmetric allows us to introduce reasoning that is as organized as the logic of symmetries currently in use, by using symmetry as a foil in a proof by contradiction. One result is the discovery that nature, the universe, does indeed have a non-random sense of direction with vital ethical consequences.
Humans are drawn addictively to pure symmetry in the form of absolutes, like moths to the flame, or in this case - like fools to the unicycle. The more extreme the instability, the greater the requirement for balance. There is a Tao-like polarity where neither pure chaos nor absolute order can exist. The more monotural we become, the more we need to reach out for balance, as though we are bound for chaos. We must learn to navigate the River of Asymmetry.
A key finding is that symmetry and asymmetry are mutually exclusive. That nature's asymmetry is a creative continuum that cannot be stopped with absolute finality. That which connects us is more profound than the differences that divide us. Nature's asymmetry is multifarious and fundamentally inclusive. This provides the ethical basis for a democratic society and a fresh understanding of natural law.
Economic value is nature-based - not confined to the prices of an easily distracted market. We are not to be valued by what we are paid. Business cycles can be balanced with tural change.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

The Author's Story: Paul Cornell du Houx grew up among several Western countries. At Amherst College, he majored separately in economics and French. His honors thesis identified the aesthetic mysticism in the works of Gustave Flaubert. This led to his early attempts to bring cross-cultural insights to clarify a crisis some economists saw in the utilitarian way mainstream theory was moving. He decided to investigate the marketplace first-hand, rather than take the well-worn academic path that one day would lead the world economy into the Great Recession and now largely unprepared into the 2020 pandemic. Clearly, capitalism has gone begging for something more than money. While looking for answers, Cornell du Houx wrote currency reports for the MSA consultancy newsletter in the London Square Mile, audited companies for PwC, studied law at the Inns of Court, sold computers, and with his patented improvements on an electrical connector got involved in a start-up. Attracted to the succinct form of the ancient sutra, the author began gathering ideas in the late seventies under the Yoganomics portmanteau, written as a conversation piece, in the spirit of his storytelling grandfather, a Kansas farmer with a talent for making up words and combining disparate ideas with comedy. They would not be the only ones to be pleasantly surprised at further plays on the word, economics. Eventually, Cornell du Houx developed the math proposed in Unicycle that lets us read the ethics of natural law within the environment. In 2020, he decided to rewrite Yoganomics accordingly. Somewhere along the line, he wrote What the Farmer Told the Bard, a near-apocalyptic novel involving runes encoded in a Shakespeare monument. In 1991 Ramona and Paul settled with their children in Maine. Publishing books, art, and the news magazine Maine Insights led to founding the Solon Center for Research and Publishing, with the mission of helping to build community in Maine and beyond, through words and art, science and music. Gallery Fukurou at 20 Main St., Rockland, Maine, opened to the public in 2018. At the Solon Center, Elected Officials to Protect America (EOPA, ProtectingAmerica.net) works to combat climate change, often focusing on water security, with the help and leadership of military veterans. It is the author's hope that the sense of a deep democracy in nature, which inspired Native American communities and merged with our Founders' Enlightenment vision of natural law, will help bring hearts and minds together in time.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Polar Bear & Company
• Date d'édition: 2020
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1882190939
• ISBN 13: 9781882190935
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 3
• Nombre de pages: 348
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Buchpark GmbH; https://www.buchpark.de; ; Krügerweg 1; Trebbin; Brandenburg; 14959; Allemagne