The State is Entropy

The State is Entropy

What if I told you the biggest threat to your freedom, your wealth, and your future isn’t some shadowy cabal of global elites, a corrupt politician, or a specific political party? What if I told you the real enemy is a fundamental, inescapable law of the universe?

You’d probably tell me I’ve been spending too much time with my friend Dr. Bob Melamede. And you’d be right. But that doesn’t make it any less true.

The relentless growth of government, the suffocating expansion of bureaucracy, the endless multiplication of regulations that strangle innovation—we’re trained to see these as problems of policy, of ideology, or of corruption. We think if we just elect the right people, pass the right laws, or protest loud enough, we can fix it. We can clean up the system, streamline the state, and get back to some mythical, efficient ideal.

That’s bullshit.

You’re not fighting a political system. You’re fighting the Second Law of Thermodynamics. You’re fighting entropy.

The Problem: You Think You Can Fix a Waterfall

Think about every government program you’ve ever seen. Do they get smaller, simpler, and cheaper over time? Or do they metastasize, growing new departments, new rules, and bigger budgets until they’re an unrecognizable parody of their original purpose?

We see this and scream “Corruption!” or “Incompetence!” We blame the people running the show. And sure, there’s plenty of that to go around. But you’re missing the point. You’re looking at the symptom and ignoring the disease. The disease is entropy.

Entropy is the universal tendency for order to decay into disorder. It’s why your coffee gets cold, your headphones get tangled in your pocket, and your house gets messy if you don’t constantly expend energy to clean it. It’s the arrow of time, always moving in one direction—toward chaos.

A political state is a structure of order. It’s an attempt to impose rules, systems, and control on the inherent chaos of human interaction. To do this, it has to consume massive amounts of energy. Not just electricity to keep the lights on in government buildings, but your tax dollars, your compliance, your mental energy, your creative potential. The state is a dissipative structure, just like a hurricane or a star. It maintains its internal order by exporting disorder to its surroundings. And its surroundings are you.

The great lie we’re all told is that the state is a static, perfectible machine. It’s not. It’s a living, breathing, energy-hungry organism, and its natural life cycle is to grow, bloat, and decay.

Trying to “fix” government by adding more rules, more oversight committees, and more agencies is like trying to put out a fire with gasoline. You’re feeding the very beast you’re trying to tame. You’re increasing its complexity, and therefore, you’re increasing its entropy.

The Application: The Bureaucratic Singularity

So how does this play out in the real world? You see it everywhere.

You start a business. You have a great idea, you’re creating value, you’re hiring people. You are a force of negative entropy, creating order and wealth. Then the state shows up. First, you need a license. Then you need to comply with 50 different labor regulations. Then you have to navigate a tax code so complex that it makes quantum physics look like a children’s book. Each one of these rules is a little bit of entropy, a little bit of friction, a little bit of energy being sucked out of your system and fed into the state’s.

The people who create these rules—the BLPs—aren’t necessarily evil. They genuinely believe they are making the world a safer, fairer, better place. But they are operating from a fundamentally flawed, near-equilibrium mindset. They think they can design a perfect, static system. They can’t. The universe doesn’t work that way.

Every new regulation, every new agency, is an increase in the state’s complexity. And as the complexity of a system increases, the energy required to maintain it increases exponentially. The system becomes more and more top-heavy, more and more inefficient, until it collapses under its own weight. This is the thermodynamics of political decay. It’s not a theory; it’s an observation. It’s the story of every empire in history.

We are approaching a bureaucratic singularity, a point where the system becomes so complex, so opaque, and so energy-intensive that it can no longer function. It will simply grind to a halt, choked by its own internal friction. The state, in its quest for total order, will achieve the ultimate disorder: total collapse.

The Takeaway: Stop Fighting and Start Flowing

So what the hell are you supposed to do? You can’t repeal the Second Law of Thermodynamics. You can’t vote entropy out of office.

You have to change your strategy. You have to stop playing their game. Stop trying to “fix” the system from within. Stop being a BLP, clinging to the illusion of control. You have to become an FLP.

1. Become Radically Self-Reliant: The more you depend on the state, the more you are subject to its entropy. Build your own systems. Your own income streams. Your own communities. The more resilient you are as an individual, the less the state’s decay will affect you.
2. Embrace Decentralization: Centralized systems are fragile. Decentralized systems are robust. This is the lesson of Bitcoin, of the internet, of life itself. Support and build technologies and platforms that distribute power, that resist censorship, and that allow for self-organization.
3. Be a Creator, Not a Complainer: Complaining about the system is a waste of energy. It’s feeding the void. Instead, create something new. Start a business. Write a book. Raise a family. Create pockets of order and value in the midst of the chaos. Be the signal in the noise.
4. Nourish Your Endocannabinoid System: Dr. Bob’s other great insight was connecting thermodynamics to the body’s master regulatory network, the endocannabinoid system (ECS). A healthy ECS helps you adapt to stress and maintain homeostasis—it’s your personal anti-entropy engine. How do you nourish it? Good sleep, healthy fats, exercise, meditation, and yes, for some, cannabis. It’s about helping your body do what it was designed to do: adapt and thrive in a chaotic world.

This isn’t about being a damn anarchist. It’s about being a realist. It’s about understanding the fundamental physics of the world we live in and acting accordingly. You can’t stop the tide, but you can learn to surf.

The state will continue to grow. The bureaucracy will continue to expand. The regulations will continue to multiply. Let them. Let the BLPs build their Tower of Babel. It is destined to collapse.

Your job is to build the ark.

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