When two six-sided dice are rolled, some numbers appear more often than others, not because the dice are biased, but because the combinations that make them possible are more numerous. A two requires only one pairing—one and one—while a seven can be produced by six different pairings: one and six, two and five, three and four, and their reverses. Probability converges on what has the most possible paths leading to it. Entropy is nothing mystical here—it is simply the spread of possibilities, the way multiplicity accumulates around certain outcomes.
Large-scale communication systems work the same way. Ideas, identities, and conflicts spread not because they are the most truthful or valuable, but because they have the most pathways to reproduction. Fear, outrage, and division generate more combinations and echoes than calm or careful reasoning, so they rise to the surface, amplified by the very structure of the network. Politics becomes not about solving problems but about riding the wave of what multiplies fastest, which is often insecurity and conflict. The dice are not loaded, but the outcomes are still predictable: entropy favors what spreads, and what spreads is rarely what sustains us.
Daedelus Kite 
One reply on “Loaded Dice: Global Chaos”
It raises the question: does media have any responsibility here? So much of the institutional, corporate apparatus of journalism seems to have simply ridden the entropic profit wave of disastrous outcomes—describing collapse without ever positively affecting it. If anything, amplification of conflict and fear has become its own business model.
And if human value itself has been co-opted by bureaucratic power and corporate technology, then media too is complicit, bound into the same logic. What spreads is not repair or accountability but anger, division, spectacle—because that reproduces most efficiently. Without confronting this refusal, without naming denial as the problem, nothing changes. And if nothing changes, then yes—we are (all) quite literally doomed.
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