First of all, don't be scared to death, I don't intend to bore you. Yet, the aim of this micro-essay is, once again, to see things from another point of view, with unusual faraway perspective.
Let's begin with a definition:
Inertia: is the property of an object to remain at constant velocity unless acted upon by an outside force.Today, it is most commonly defined using Sir Isaac Newton's First Law of Motion, which states:
"Everybody perseveres in its state of being at rest or of moving uniformly straight ahead, except insofar as it is compelled to change its state by forces impressed."
The term inertia has also been applied to psychology and sociology as "social inertia" to describe the reluctance to change presented by societies or social groups, usually due to habit. In this sense, I would plunge and dig even deeper into the core: As social group, a single individual will do the trick. In this context inertia pops up surreptitiously in the daily grind. How many actions are taken apparently freely? how many uncouncious decisions are made? One is just being driven by inertia. An straighaway example on this matter (although It's not my cup of tea): When much relationships are over, one tends to think back to past times, feeling an strange melancholy, longing for a nonsense continuity. Indeed, there is no wish to "repeat" anything which exists no more. It's simply inertia playing its dodgy role.
Let's begin with a definition:
Inertia: is the property of an object to remain at constant velocity unless acted upon by an outside force.Today, it is most commonly defined using Sir Isaac Newton's First Law of Motion, which states:
"Everybody perseveres in its state of being at rest or of moving uniformly straight ahead, except insofar as it is compelled to change its state by forces impressed."
The term inertia has also been applied to psychology and sociology as "social inertia" to describe the reluctance to change presented by societies or social groups, usually due to habit. In this sense, I would plunge and dig even deeper into the core: As social group, a single individual will do the trick. In this context inertia pops up surreptitiously in the daily grind. How many actions are taken apparently freely? how many uncouncious decisions are made? One is just being driven by inertia. An straighaway example on this matter (although It's not my cup of tea): When much relationships are over, one tends to think back to past times, feeling an strange melancholy, longing for a nonsense continuity. Indeed, there is no wish to "repeat" anything which exists no more. It's simply inertia playing its dodgy role.
1 comment:
There are many technical, physical, social words, etc, with similar meaning but different shades: resistance, reluctance, inertia, resilence, elasticity. They pìcture certain obstacle to something new flows through a stable system (meybe current intensity, magnetic flow, change of speed, propagation of an impact, strain etc.
There are always two opposited principles: stress-strain, current-voltage, force-mass, and like in the life or in the society the fight of contray is manifested.
I hope you excuse my poor english.
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