Pawns are entropic, meaning they can only move in One Direction, which also means their moves cannot be undone. (Spell checker is telling me I need to check out One Direction.) In a sense, though, pawns can move in two directions, forward and not at all. (They can, of course, at times move sideways, but only if they move forward.)
A game could be played in which each player moved many times and all the pieces ended up exactly where they began. I mean, it would be a game in the sense that pieces moved. Analysis reveals that Chess is indeed entropic because pieces must move if there is to be a game. There is the option of not moving any pieces, but then there is no game. True, there is a set ... with the possibility of a game. Still, there are rules which govern the game, even when it is not being played. This is the meaning of entropy. The rule of entropy is not that things always become more random, which they don't. The rule of entropy is that there are rules. One of those rules is that certain things which have been done cannot be undone, interestingly enough. But other things, once done, can be undone. And it's certainly not true that things always move in the direction of increased randomness. Things often move in the direction of increased randomness, and they often move in the direction of reduced randomness. A question is, can a state of complete unrandomness be achieved? That would be the unplayed game. Again, though, that game has in it the potential of play. (There's also the question of the game stored, with the pieces very randomly in a bag.)(Orange, with paisleys.)
The non-random state is the singularity. Within it there is no dimension, and thus no possibility of motion, and thus no possibility of time, and yet what follows is the big bang. It's a contradiction in terms. The singularity cannot be possible, yet, at the same time it must exist, because it is the limit on existence - beyond existence is the singularity -, and a thing cannot be a thing, which is to exist, if it there is nothing beyond it.
Philosophy is the wheels turning in your head, and, if you can't do anything else, that might be worth paying attention to. You know, the Buddha was not really a man of few words. There's a book called, I think, The Tathagata Sutra - available online quite for free, which is almost ridiculous - in which he goes on at very great length. Anyway, that's what he says, sort of. He has us pay attention to our minds.
Here's another wedge. It's got decent, even compelling development. I'm thinking over what that might predict, but what I want to point out is the wedge pattern in the price action preceding (before, that is) the big move towards the end of November.
Reporting at 5:30AM from my outdoor office, which is a gazebo in the garden where I have a desk and a chair - and a lamp. If it weren't for the light I'd be sitting in complete darkness, because the sky is still completely black - apparently there's not even a moon - and it's very dark in the trees around the gazebo.
I don't really feel that this post is working out. I started it late in the afternoon, but then I got kind of sick and had to go to bed. But the post was on my mind all night, along with associated questions, and finally I decided to get up, primarily to have a cigarette and a coffee, but perhaps also to work on the post, and maybe other things. It is sort of craziness. It's a weirdly early time to be up - although, thinking it's weird to be up at, now 6:30, is kind of weird itself.
It's still completely and utterly dark outside. That's weird. Of course, I know very soon the sky will lighten a little. The thought saddens me a little ... and that's kind of weird.
Again, I don't think this post is really going anywhere. What would going someplace mean, in this context. (I've washed a few dishes and put on the kettle, which means I'm in the process of making a pot of coffee. I still have some of the pot from last night, but it's going fast. Anyway, I'm working - on my phone - standing in the kitchen, absorbing a tiny bit of warmth from the stove. In addition to being very dark outside, it's pretty cold. So, this is a pleasant respite. But I'll probably move outside again momentarily. Maybe I'll put on slippers.)
It's official. It's not going anywhere.