Randomness--A house divided.

It's been a long time since I explicitly mentioned randomness, even though it the concept that always commands my attention.

Teenagers speak of "random" as if it is everywhere. Always available and operative. Ordinary.

But, as I've explained elsewhere, it is not. It is a highly-prized commodity, whose existence must strongly be supported by high degrees of order. In the interconnected world of matter and life, the level within a system in which randomness appears is crucial.

Any perception of randomness somehow also corresponds with a delineation, a bifurcation of some set of opposites that polarize in relationship to the capability of randomness.

And our current political/social system is caught in a highly-visible exercise of the condition in which the capability of randomness that enables evaluation is not operating in its usual mode. So where is it functioning now? What exactly IS the new order that is forming? We can feel the polarization, but what is it really?

If we could first know where we are and whither we are tending, we could better judge what to do and how to do it.

We are now far into the fifth year, since a policy was initiated, with the avowed object, and confident promise, of putting an end to slavery agitation.

Under the operation of that policy, that agitation has not only not ceased, but has constantly augmented.

In my opinion, it will not cease, until a crisis shall have been reached, and passed--
"A house divided against itself cannot stand."

I believe this government cannot endure, permanently half slave and half free.

I do not expect the Union to be dissolved--I do not expect the house to fall--but I do expect it will cease to be divided.

It will become all one thing, or all the other.

---Opening lines of A. Lincoln's Speech delivered at Springfield, Illinois, at the Close of the Republican State Convention, June 16, 1858

Creation.