{"id":1926,"date":"2022-08-02T04:56:59","date_gmt":"2022-08-02T04:56:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2022\/08\/02\/jerking-and-twerking-toward-social-collapse\/"},"modified":"2022-08-02T04:56:59","modified_gmt":"2022-08-02T04:56:59","slug":"jerking-and-twerking-toward-social-collapse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2022\/08\/02\/jerking-and-twerking-toward-social-collapse\/","title":{"rendered":"Jerking (and Twerking) toward Social Collapse"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q\">\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">Thanks to &#39;progressives,&#39; our &#39;progress&#39; toward social and cultural collapse seems not to be proceeding at a constant speed, but to be accelerating. But perhaps a better metaphor from the lexicon of physics is jerking. After all, our &#39;progress&#39; is jerk-driven. No need to name names. You know who they are.<\/span><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#0160;<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<div dir=\"auto\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">From your college physics you may recall that the first derivative of position with respect to time is velocity, while the second derivative is acceleration. Lesser known is the third derivative: jerk. (I am not joking; look it up.) If acceleration is the rate of change of velocity, jerk, also known as jolt, is the rate of change of acceleration.<\/span><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">&#0160;<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<div dir=\"auto\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">If you were studying something in college, and not majoring in, say, Grievance Studies, then you probably know that all three, velocity, acceleration, and jerk are vectors, not scalars. Each has a magnitude and a direction. This is why a satellite orbiting the earth is constantly changing its velocity despite its constant speed.<\/span><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">&#0160;<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q\">\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">The &#39;progressive&#39; jerk too has his direction: the end of civilization as we know it.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to &#39;progressives,&#39; our &#39;progress&#39; toward social and cultural collapse seems not to be proceeding at a constant speed, but to be accelerating. But perhaps a better metaphor from the lexicon of physics is jerking. After all, our &#39;progress&#39; is jerk-driven. No need to name names. You know who they are. &#0160; From your college &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2022\/08\/02\/jerking-and-twerking-toward-social-collapse\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Jerking (and Twerking) toward Social Collapse&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[180],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-decline-of-the-west"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1926\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}