Comments by "harvey young" (@harveyyoung3423) on "End Mass Migration - A New Grassroots Campaign Movement" video.
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Maybe it's just an analogy but, back in a past life I worked on nuclear radiation detection and measurement, specifically on scintillation and photomultiplier tubes for counting gamma ray events. There is an inherent problem with this method that really manifests as problematic when the total number of events over time, not the energy of each event, becomes large: its called Dead Time (Wikipedia), not to be confused with the event energy problem of full scale deflection limit. In a totally unrelated conversation years later I was told something that seemed analogous to this problem was a very general problem with alarm systems that can be exploited by people wanting to defeat the alarm systems.
I suppose there might be an Hegelian logic interpretation that goes something like the apparent Kantian difference between the categories of Quantity and Quality run into each other eg intensity or rate of one will effect the other. In Hegelian logic this to deal with this anti Kantian claim is the role of Hegel's "notion" and "sublimation" and process and later differential change. In left thinkers like Deleuze, who claim not to be Hegelian or dialectic, it the idea of gradual increase in numbers in one category changes what was thought to be a entirely separate metaphysical category.
An analogy or example, would be to think: if i have £3 i can buy a pint. if i have £30 i can go a night club, or restaurant too, or get dead drunk or buy a pint also for 9 mates, if i have £300 i can go on holiday, £3,000 take my mates on holiday too. But also if i have £300,000 i could maybe buy a pub and if i had £3,000.000 i could buy a brewery. With the former examples the quantity of money allows me to include others, but with the later my quantity of wealth can mean i can set the price of the pint myself. But with £30,000,000 i can begin to influence government policy. thus what were thought of as distinct categories of public and private, and subject and sovereign, and so notions of legitimacy and consent then run into each other. I think this informed Marx's analysis of capitalism and how quantities of private free use of capital become to effect the public realm. Obviously this logic can be the basis for the interpretation of how demographic change is not jsut changes in private content in a fixed formal constitution, but the demographic quantity can change the formal constitution over time. Other Marxist between Marx and Deleuze, like Walter Benjamin began to think of this in terms of the apparent distinct categories of humans and technology particularly with the arrival of the private car in Paris changing the social relations. After Deleuze i think post modernists explored this as blurring the apparent categorial distinctions between humans and animals too and the human as cyborg. Even in analytical philosophy with Wittgenstein and later pragmatists like Putnam and Dreyfus the apparent distinctions of persons and the world breaks down. Wittgenstein captures the lot with a nice phenomenological example something like: if i use a pen to push a cup on a table do i feel i am pushing the cup or the pen.
Going back to my original discussion of Dead Time then i would have to take a look at what this might mean for demographic data and public/private construction of time time, but one thing is for sure: that the distinction between government data on an apparently passive population, becomes representationally transcendent, when the population self consciously realise, as a whole, that they are being represented by data and so can then adjust their behaviour deliberately as a large quantity of people acting as a whole to intentionally and actively "distort" the data and so the representation. But now the distinction between a representor and passive "represented" breaks down. any ordinary view of objectivity and truth and science and fact then breaks down. This should be a very deep and foundational problem for the left who rely on data being objective fact of a passive population. it changes also notions of what a trust and consent relation is between agent and patent can mean since this distinction breaks down too. Real life examples are: in a budget some of the treasury changes have to be immediate to stop people from exploiting knowledge of the future new temporal norm and modalities. The notions of time here start to look like the Hegelain MacTaggert’s A and B series paradox of “subjective” aim and person orientated notions of time eg before and after, with “objective” Gods eye view of time as a sub specie aeternitious view a time series.
A non Hegelian view of energy intensity is just the problem of a limit of bellow detection threshold and Full Scale Deflection threshold. The place of the real as opposed to the representation distinction here is one kind of demarcation, but the place of the real as opposed to the representation distinction with dead time is not the same kind of distinction. In the former FSD problem the real can effect bellow the conscious representation as subliminal, maybe in the later there is a kind of Dead Time sublimity too. Maybe we might say black market transactions and so on relation to the legal market are not really distinct categories maybe Dead Time is the public blind to number of transactions velocity of money in the black market: a “shadow” market people smuggling and so on. Its now ten to eight I might have a go at exploring this some more after lunch or Breakfast in America. Couldn’t resist that sorry I've gone all 1979 after the death of David Soul and watching Salem's Lot again!
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