Are Politics and Physics really that much different? | Eastern North Carolina Now

    Publisher's note: This is a reprise, here today on November 7, 2017, of a post published about 2 to 3 years back, is the most popular post in the history of BCN. Great post Bobby Tony; the most popular post of all time, and growing in favor with our readers daily.

    Starting or putting out a fire requires three components, So does a Political Movement

    This is the traditional Fire Triangle

    A fire needs all three of these conditions before combustion can begin. The absence of any one of them prevents a fire. In putting out fires, most methods involve either removing one or all three.

    This is an updated Fire tetrahedron

    An updated version of the triangle is the Tetrahedron, which adds the condition of a chemical chain reaction.

    "The fire tetrahedron represents the addition of a component, the chemical chain reaction, to the three already present in the fire triangle. Once a fire has started, the resulting exothermic chain reaction sustains the fire and allows it to continue until or unless at least one of the elements of the fire is blocked."

    So how do you stop a fire?

    "To stop a combustion reaction, one of the three elements of the fire-triangle has to be removed.

•    Without sufficient heat, a fire cannot begin, and it cannot continue..
•    Without fuel, a fire will stop.
•    Without sufficient oxygen, a fire cannot begin, and it cannot continue. "

The above quoted lines in red are from Wikipedia

    Why would anyone want to post an article on fire, which is documented numerous times over and over on the Web? Well, to stretch a point of course. Fires are somewhat akin to political discourse except they must follow the laws of physics.

    However, in politics there are no such physics laws OR ARE THERE?

    The political equivalent of a Fire could be "Movement".

•    Oxygen could be equivalent to Media, Newspapers, TV or Website.
•    Heat could be equivalent to Passion on any given subject.
•    Fuel could be the equivalent of a Audience.
    If you have Passion and access to the Media you don't need an Audience to make noise, but you do need an Audience to create A MOVEMENT.

    If you have two of the three things but lack an Audience, how do you attract one to get the Fire or Movement started? You need to generate some ATTENTION to attract the Audience.

    Can you think of any way to attract attention?

       Wear a clown suit. (Bobby Tony and his ego)

       Keep telling people how smart and educated you are.

       Make outrageous statements in hopes of gathering a crowd.

       Keep repeating buzzwords and cliques in hopes people will believe you.

       Align yourself with other people who are also seeking an audience. (Trump and the Media)

    The list could go on and on but you get the point if you realize that without an audience there will be no movement. You would just be singing to yourself in the shower.

   Money is the equivalent of the Chain Reaction which is used to increase the attention via media.

    So just like a fire, you can remove one of the three components and it will smolder down to a pile of ashes. It remains to be seen if we have a voting populace that just enjoys the show or really wants to build a fire or just put one out. Since I started this post one Republican candidate, Rick Perry has dropped out. I suspect it was the lack of Media Attention and Audience.