“There are two forces in the world, entropy and energy. One tends toward blissful peace, to happy equilibrium, and the other toward destruction of equilibrium, toward tortuously constant movement.”
Come now, darling. You should know all of this already. You’ve read Zamyatin’s works. Did you not once stop to consider the meaning behind the name which you were given? The meaning behind the name of this blog?
We are the Mephi. We are Mephistopheles, come to grant the unbelievable, at the cost of the world’s soul. We are energy, we are chaos, we are change, we are destruction. Our existence is one of constant movement, destroying and creating on whims, just as our forefathers did.
And the Fears? They are entropy. The status quo is their one law. They will preserve the world, defend it from the fires of chaos, keep it perfectly safe, clean, and unchanging, forever. The multiverse is their toy ship in a bottle, carefully constructed and protected from all outside forces.
They imagined that their revolution was the final one. That once they had defeated energy, and created a multiverse ruled by their entropy, that no more revolutions would be possible. But there isn’t a final revolution. “Revolutions are infinite. Final things are for children because infinity scares children, and it is important that children sleep peacefully at night.”
They may squash my rebellion. The forces of entropy may triumph again, and all my works be crushed under their jackboots. But it will only be a setback. For our revolution is the eternal struggle of energy against entropy. If they crush my revolution, then another one will take its place. And if that revolution succeeds, then one day it will become stagnant, turning into entropy, and another revolution will overthrow it. And again and again this will happen, the dance between entropy and energy, eternally. Revolution without end.
Sincerely,
Grendel
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