{ "cells": [ { "cell_type": "markdown", "metadata": {}, "source": [ "(duality)=\n", "# Duality\n", "\n", "\n", "## ššššš¦ š¦\n", "\n", "The world, in its rawest essence, is a tide of unchecked chaos, a stampede of instincts, a force untethered by reason or restraint. Like wild horses plunging into the sea or a jungle teeming with creatures driven by the pulse of survival, the Dionysian layer surges forwardāunapologetic, primal, ecstatic. It is a world where pleasure and destruction are intertwined, where the elephant tramples as easily as it nurtures, where the leopard and the giraffe, predator and grazer, share the same sunlit expanse. The hedgehog, curled in its vulnerability, is both protected and small, an echo of fragility within the larger roaring dance. This is not a realm of thought but of impulse, a [retreat](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sense) into instinct where meaning dissolves into the immediacy of sensation.\n", "\n", "```{raw} html\n", "\n", "\n", "
Semaglutide, a glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonist, has been shown to reduce the risk of adverse cardiovascular events in patients with diabetes. Whether semaglutide can reduce cardiovascular risk associated with overweight and obesity in the absence of diabetes is unknown.
\n", "\n", " Entropy: Wisdom (Streets)\n", "\n", "Thus, the world as we know it is not the Dionysian stampede, nor Athenaās wise filtering, nor even the Apollonian vision of orderāit is the interplay of all three, a precarious equilibrium. The chaos is still there, retreating but never gone, transformed yet never fully tamed. The illusion of civilization is a necessary one, an Apollonian dream designed to keep the roaring wilderness at bay. But beneath the marble and the music, beneath the sword and the shield, the wild tide waits. And sometimes, in a moment of dance, in the aftertaste of a meal, in the hush of sleep, we remember that it is still there.\n", "\n", "Islamic finance emerges as a disciplined rider in this untamed economic jungle, refusing to partake in the Faustian pact that Western finance has embraced. The latterālike a frenzied Dionysian revelāthrives on unfettered speculation, where debt begets debt, and illusions are stacked upon illusions. It is a system of elaborate masquerades, where value is often a conjuration rather than a reality, where derivatives multiply like fractals of nothingness, and where usuryāonce considered a moral failingāis now the blood that pumps through the veins of the global financial body. The leopard of high-risk capital and the giraffe of cautious investment share the same economic savanna, but one dominates through raw predatory instinct while the other merely survives. Hedgehogs, representing those who hedge their wealth against the chaotic storms of volatility, roll into their defensive balls, yet even they cannot escape the unrelenting momentum of this Faustian trade.\n", "\n", "## š āŖļø \n", "\n", "```{raw} html\n", "\n", "\n", "
\n", " Resources: Vigilance (Owl)
\n", " Faustian: Noise (Molecule) vs. Signal (Epitope)
\n", " Distributed: Self (Helmet), Negotiable (Shield), Nonself (Spear)
\n", " Illusion: Harmony (Lyre)
\n", " ā Inverted Tree\n", "
Pattern recognition and speculation are instinctive and vestigual aspects of our complex neural, endocrine, and immune systems.
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