How South Park Promotes Inaction
Hay una confusión específica que está en el centro de todo esto y que vale la pena nombrar con precisión: la confusión entre ver el mecanismo y estar fuera del mecanismo. Son dos cosas completamente distintas.
Puedes entender perfectamente cómo funciona una trampa y seguir dentro. Puedes describir con exactitud los resortes de un sistema y ser parte de su funcionamiento. Ver no es salir, nombrar no es transformar,pero la postura que South Park instaló durante 25 años opera exactament...
notesThere's a specific confusion at the center of all this that's worth naming precisely: the confusion between seeing the mechanism and standing outside the mechanism. These are two completely different things.
You can understand perfectly how a trap works and still be inside it. You can describe exactly how a system's springs move and still be part of its operation. Seeing isn't getting out; naming isn't transforming, but the posture South Park installed over 25 years operates exactly on that confusion: it produces the feeling that lucidity is a real form of freedom, that understanding something is equivalent to standing outside of it.
The perfect viewer South Park manufactured isn't passive or ignorant. He's cognitively very active, well informed, capable of sophisticated analysis, who experiences that sophistication as a form of freedom and who, for that very reason, feels no pressure toward anything further, because he's already done what needed doing: he already saw, already understood, already laughed at the right things.
What he doesn't notice, what the installed posture prevents him from noticing, is that this whole movement happened entirely within the space the system can tolerate without any problem, that in this case lucidity isn't the first step of something — it's the first step and also the last.
Physiological Effects from Exposure to a Vaccum
Vacuum doesn’t have a temperature of its own,
so space is not really that cold. It’s a great insulator
too, meaning that your core body heat doesn’t get
sucked away. Without an atmosphere to transfer heat
away, the risk of exposure is somewhat mitigated. The saliva on your tongue may boil off, as it’s not
pressurized like your blood is, and you may get some
frost on your skin. Sunburn from direct contact with
the sun’s ultraviolet rays is a more immediate danger
than perishing from ... notesA good description.
How a Swim Bladder Works
The swim bladder is perhaps the major key to the teleosts' success, and it is well worth a
digression to explain it. It is an internal bladder filled with gas, which can be sensitively adjusted to
keep the fish in hydrostatic equilibrium at any desired depth. If you ever played with a Cartesian
Diver as a child you'll recognize the principle, but a teleost fish uses an interesting variant of it. A
Cartesian Diver is a little toy whose business part is a tiny upended cup, containing a bubble o...
1 A crucial adaptation for life in the sea.
