The Markov Chain replaces the Mark of Cain*
I knew the term (Markov Chain) from Robert Anton Wilson's Illuminatus, which had a character named Markov Chaney. I planned to use it mostly as a homonymial pun contrasted against the negritude of Mr Cain referring to one of the ongoing religious (Christian-esque) slanders against people of color. ("They're inherently evil and their dark skin is the Mark of Cain so all can see their guilt.")
After researching it a bit, it seemed to me that the fictional Mr. Chaney's dubious personality characteristics were almost identical to those shared by Mssrs Romney and Gingrich. In fact, it seemed to be a near-perfect description of the opportunistic slimes and shifts and trademark say-anything unprincipled behavior (flipflopping) of the "last two" standing in the traveling circus known as the Republican Presidential Candidate Debates.
It's a mathematical term relevant to quantum physics.
from Wikipedia:
A Markov chain, named after Andrey Markov, is a mathematical system that undergoes transitions from one state to another, between a finite or countable number of possible states. It is a random process characterized as memoryless: the next state depends only on the current state and not on the sequence of events that preceded it. This specific kind of "memorylessness" is called the Markov property. Markov chains have many applications as statistical models of real-world processes.
To repeat:
"It is a random process characterized as memoryless: the next state depends only on the current state and not on the sequence of events that preceded it."
In other words, habitually changing what they claim they believe -- straight-faced lying that depends on "memorylessness" of both the speaker and the listener ("You're wrong -- I never said that.")
Their only consistency is devotional adherence to the principle of "Any way the wind blows, that's what I will swear to you is my firm, unshakeable, lifelong belief."
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*If you're not familiar with that phrase -- "Mark of Cain" -- it refers to persons with dark skin, asserts that such dark skin is the result of sin, i.e., Cain murdering Abel -- to find out how this plays in the world, have someone ask Mormon Bishop Willard Mitt Romney about how welcome such folk have been in his church (until grudging acceptance forced by federal law in 1978).
Or go to this link: Mormonism and the Negro
Maybe some day that church will stop telling the rest of US -- people who do NOT believe in their version of moonlight and are NOT devotees -- to deny social and civil rights to various people THEY are afraid of (millions of dollars they sent to California to promote their vicious and virulent Proposition 8 because they couldn't stand the fact that we had passed a law in order to correct a long-standing civil wrong, i.e., stop denying the right of marriage between people of the same sex.)
Maybe some day they'll allow the rest of us the right to pursue our own ideals and beliefs.
After researching it a bit, it seemed to me that the fictional Mr. Chaney's dubious personality characteristics were almost identical to those shared by Mssrs Romney and Gingrich. In fact, it seemed to be a near-perfect description of the opportunistic slimes and shifts and trademark say-anything unprincipled behavior (flipflopping) of the "last two" standing in the traveling circus known as the Republican Presidential Candidate Debates.
It's a mathematical term relevant to quantum physics.
from Wikipedia:
A Markov chain, named after Andrey Markov, is a mathematical system that undergoes transitions from one state to another, between a finite or countable number of possible states. It is a random process characterized as memoryless: the next state depends only on the current state and not on the sequence of events that preceded it. This specific kind of "memorylessness" is called the Markov property. Markov chains have many applications as statistical models of real-world processes.
To repeat:
"It is a random process characterized as memoryless: the next state depends only on the current state and not on the sequence of events that preceded it."
In other words, habitually changing what they claim they believe -- straight-faced lying that depends on "memorylessness" of both the speaker and the listener ("You're wrong -- I never said that.")
Their only consistency is devotional adherence to the principle of "Any way the wind blows, that's what I will swear to you is my firm, unshakeable, lifelong belief."
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*If you're not familiar with that phrase -- "Mark of Cain" -- it refers to persons with dark skin, asserts that such dark skin is the result of sin, i.e., Cain murdering Abel -- to find out how this plays in the world, have someone ask Mormon Bishop Willard Mitt Romney about how welcome such folk have been in his church (until grudging acceptance forced by federal law in 1978).
Or go to this link: Mormonism and the Negro
Maybe some day that church will stop telling the rest of US -- people who do NOT believe in their version of moonlight and are NOT devotees -- to deny social and civil rights to various people THEY are afraid of (millions of dollars they sent to California to promote their vicious and virulent Proposition 8 because they couldn't stand the fact that we had passed a law in order to correct a long-standing civil wrong, i.e., stop denying the right of marriage between people of the same sex.)
Maybe some day they'll allow the rest of us the right to pursue our own ideals and beliefs.
posted by Saintperle at
1:53 PM
