Near Crowley Lake, in fact, not far from the Hilton Creek Post Office, is an allegory. In the far background is the blue sky. That is the Unknown. Below the sky is the Sierra Nevada, representing Geological Order. In the foreground are a few horses, standing for Domestic Order, or, how humans go about ordering. These three layers are familiar. In the middle ground is a debris flow. It is Cosmic Disorder, aka Entropy, introducing itself into the landscape. The entire Universe will with age look more and more like this pile of rocks and dirt and bush. News of the shapelessness of things to come is broadcast to heavens and earth over the electromagnetic wires, also visible in the picture.
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