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Sometimes it pays to be speculative, not with the intention of digging up something new but in the hope of finding another aspect of familiar situations. Laziness for example. We all understand laziness. Well I do – which is close enough for a blog post.
One might begin by suggesting that laziness is linked to the natural law of least action. In the absence of confounding factors, nature selects processes with the lowest expenditure of energy. The laziest natural processes are the most energy efficient and that includes moderately important human processes such as thinking.
Which may be why democracy doesn’t work. If a large electorate is supposed to do the thinking for a comparatively small number of legislators then that has the principle of least action the wrong way round. Least action would require the legislators to do all the thinking. A more rigorous version would be one where neither body does any thinking. Hmm…
The dark side of this is obvious enough – it is easier to think predigested thoughts than construct new ones via imagination, research and analysis. Not only is it easier but it the problem gets worse – it is easier to adopt a predigested justification for the predigested idea. Easy begets easy and that is the problem. Or maybe that idea is also too easy.
There is no way out of lazy thinking unless things go so badly wrong that even the laziest folk are prodded into peering out of their ruts. They may even summon up enough energy to ask Google what the blue blazes is going on. Sometimes it appears that our entire civilisation arose as a support for laziness, as if that was always the point of it.
