''That's because we don't allow them to be like that. We preserve them from diseases. We keep their internal secretions artificially balanced at youthful equilibrium. We don't permit their magnesium-calcium ratio to fall below what it was at thirty. We give them transfusion of young blood. We keep their metabolism permanently stimulated. So, of course, they don't look like that. Partly, ''he added, ''because most of them die long before they reach this old creature's age. Youth almost unimpaired till sixty, and then, crack! the end.''
Equilibrium/Kurt Wimmer(2002)
Akıl Çağı’nda yatıştırıcılara ihtiyaç vardır. Makina Çağı’nda. Proziumlara. Prozaclara. Düşünmek ve hissetmek yasaklanmıştır çünkü. Düşünmeyi ve hissetmeyi harekete geçiren her şey! Felsefe ve sanat, kitaplar ve tablolar. İnsanı insan yapan her şey!
En önce La Gioconda (Mona Lisa) yakılır. En başta. Sonra ele ne geçerse. Kitaplar, tablolar, kısaca duygulanıma geçit veren her şey.
Hissetmek ve sevmek yasaktır bu evrende.
Başrahip John Preston (Christian Bale), kendisi gibi rahip olan en yakın arkadaşı Partridge’i (Sean Bean) öldürmeden evvel bir mabedde sıkıştırır. Bir katedral yıkıntısında.
Partridge, her şey bitti, der sakince, bizi biz yapan herşeyi yok ettik!
Ardından da tüm filme anlamını veren, William Butler Yeats’ın bir şiirinden, Cloths of Heaven'dan (1899) şu dizeleri okur:
"Elimde olaydı atlaslar sererdim ayaklarının altına
Ne ki garibanın tekiyim, varım yoğum düşlerim
Düşlerimi serdim ben de ayaklarının altına
Nazik ol lütfen, üzerine bastığın benim düşlerim"
güzel tavsiye:°°What we want is just a rest.°°
" Rest and a complete change, " said George. " The overstrain upon our brains has produced a general depression throughout the system. Change of scene, and absence of the necessity for though, will restore the mental equilibrium.
A cycle has been completed, all disturbances have been resolved, perplexities have been concealed, and things have returned to their original state. Around us, cause and effect join hands, and synthesis and division maintain their equilibrium. Everything, finally, unfolded in a place resembling a deep, inaccessible fissure. Such places open secret entries into darkness in the interval between midnight and the time the sky grows light.
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In mammalian neurons, the potassium ion permeability may be as much as 100 times greater than that for sodium ion and chloride, so neuronal resting membrane potentials are typically fairly close to the equilibrium potential for potassium ion.
Sayfa 147 - e-kitap
In all honesty, I’d had a harmless crush on my boss for years now. I didn’t give myself a hard time about it. There was no way to remain unaffected by Dane Davenport. “Good-looking” was too tame a term for him. Tall, dark, and supremely male, he exuded a raw sex appeal that could shake any girl’s equilibrium.
It wasn’t just his appearance that made him so lethally seductive. It was the entire package—his powerful personality, innate aura of authority, unshakable self-assuredness, and the untamed air about him that spoke of danger.
But while people can get rid of money individually, by buying things with it, they can’t get rid of money in the aggregate, because the $100 billion still exists, and they can’t get rid of it short of burning it up. But as people spend more, this drives up demand curves for most or all goods and services. As the demand curves shift upward and to the right, prices rise. But as prices overall rise further and further, PPM begins to fall, as the downward arrow indicates. And as the PPM begins to fall, the surplus of cash balances begins to disappear until finally, prices have risen so much that the $100 billion no longer burns a hole in anyone’s pocket. At the higher price level, people are now willing to keep the exact amount of $100 billion that is available in the economy.
The market is at last cleared, and people now wish to hold no more and no less than the $100 billion available. The demand for money has been brought into equilibrium with the supply of money, and the PPM and price level are in equilibrium. People were not able to get rid of money in the aggregate, but they were able to drive up prices so as to end the surplus of cash balances.
Sayfa 34 - PPM is the purchasing power of the dollar
It’s enough to make me ask the question: how well do we really know ourselves?
The more I think about it, the more I’d like to take a rain check on the topic of me. What I’d like to know more about is the objective reality of things outside myself. How important the world outside is to me, how I maintain a sense of equilibrium by coming to terms with it. That’s how I’d grasp a dearer sense of who I am.
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Anti...
"...there are two forces in the world, entrophy and energy. One leads into quietude, to happy equilibrium, the other to the destruction of equilibrium, to torturingly perpetual motion..."
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Adaption and overcome
Later this life invaded the land.
Some of our own early stock took part in that invasion. The moving equilibrium of the cells' life in our carly stock was almost literally an energy-eddy in the sea. The water of the sea conditioned it. Its energy-exchanges were based upon the sea. How if cut off from the sea could such a life exist? The Canadian biologist, Archibald Macallum, gave a reading of this riddle. The salts dissolved in our blood today are those of that long past geological epoch. Already in that sea the vertebrate creature, with many of its cells buried in the body's bulk, away from actual touch with the seawater, had evolved a system of branching tubes and a muscular pump, the heart, bringing to each buried cell a blood of salinity similar to that of the archaic sea, a substitute for that sea- water in which its cells had first arisen, to which their ways of life were adapted. When it left the sea altogether for its Odyssey on land, it had but to carry that habit of manufacture with it. It has done so. With that it has crossed mountain ranges and desert sands carrying its own medium with it. It has invaded air as well as land. It runs, and flies, and walks erect. The water of ocean itself has changed from what in that old sea it was. It has changed with the washings of rivers into it for millions of years since then. But the blood, a dynamic equilibrium, has in respect to those salts remained steady. The poet sang, with more literal truth than perhaps he knew, in- voking the sea, "the salt is lodged for ever in, my blood"s That some of them did give up that old ocean allowed the possibility of our becoming what we are
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Effects of taxation on the market:
1) Taxes create a wedge between the price that buyers pay and the price that the sellers receive. The wedge is equal to the tax.
2) The price that the buyers pay rises and the price that the sellers receive falls.
3) Taxation reduces the market size by reducing the equilibrium quantity, creating a dead-weight loss for the market.
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