What is Life

Life is the pursuit of what is rare and and endless fight against disorder.

Take a wall and take a massive hammer to it. Why isn't the wall growing taller and narrower? well in an almost infinitely number of cases it could but most commonly it will be parceled out into separate bricks laying down on the ground.

Why? probabilities teach us there is more permutations of bricks on the ground that there is of a wall standing upright and solidified by mortar i.e 1.

This is what is the essence of Entropy, or way things go from order to disorder. Life is about reversing that trend at the cost of more Entropy in the Universe at large.

What does it mean for human societies? those who strive for disorder are generally more than those who strive for order.

Those who are rich are less than those who are poor. It is easier to spend money than earn it. It is easier to break a window than use a lot of energy to melt one.

This is why we have Laws to somehow fight the entropic tendencies in society created by a large number of people with non coordinated actions.

More discipline means less Laws needed and vice versa.

It also means it is easier to commit a crime with a weapon than prevent a crime with a weapon, although the later is the only recourse against it.

And lastly it means there are groups and ethnicities which level of Entropy is higher than others, and their introduction in low Entropy environments only pushes for higher Entropy.