Susan diRende

Changes is a process, I could argue the fundamental process of three dimensional space. One of the big conundrums of our particular dimension of the multiverse is that time is the only process that can’t be reversed. It can’t be reversed because of something called entropy. It is entropy that exercises the future multiple scans of possibility down to the single one that’s in the past.

Fantasy literature is littered with noble nobles and magnificent monsters. They’re larger than life virtues and flaws justifying in some way their position, their wealth, their power of life and death over the citizenry. But it seems, if you read unvarnished accounts, the only thing larger than life about these monarchs was the solipsism their position permitted and the casual brutality they exercised over the populace.

Susan diRende · Follow Published in Making Marks: Art, Writing, and Being · 3 min read · -- If you are freaking out about the way “other people” voted — and I’m not coming down on either side here because it seems that everybody is eye-rolling about the other side — it’s good to remember something from behavioral economics that Danny Ariely recounted in one of his TED talks. One of his experiments involved students paid to take a test.