5/25/15 Entropy Will Undo Us?

    Why are we always fighting to put things back where they belong?  It seems our house is always in chaos.  I can go with the flow for a time, but eventually the disorder bothers me enough that even I get off my ass.  Every week, the same trash piles up by the trash can inside.  We have a half wall separating the kitchen and living room and it seems to have been put there to hold refuse before it gets taken outside.  If it isn't trash getting put up there, then it's kid's books, toys or other crap.  Entropy is one of the laws of thermodynamics stating that things move from order to disorder.  Maybe I'm stretching the definition here, but you try writing a blog every day. 
    The difference is that our chaos is caused by two distinct blobs, thing 1 and thing 2, for the sake of this discussion.  Thing 1 is older, sleeker, but also carries a feeling of entitlement.  1 thinks this is his hamster cage and therefore can do as he wants, leaving clothes strewn about the place, leave food in his room, and now even take whatever he wants from habitat 1 to his mini habitat 2 closer to his daytime daycare.  Thing 2 is younger and more naïve.  He takes things slower, still learning basic functions, such as reading.  Because of this, he will take piles of books, read them, then forget about them and leave his little piles of books wherever he may roam.  He does the same thing with his play toys, and his clothes.  Thing 2 is not about entitlement, just unaware.  Either case leaves us as the caretakers of house and home to pick up way more than our fair share.  Some day these two hamsters will have homes of their own and they will finally see and understand what it is to try and keep a good home clean.
    Ergo, we can surmise that if my two blobs stopped moving, then disorder would stop.  Therefore entropy is caused by blobs not just the homogenization of the system attempting to reach uniform temperature.  But we must also remember systems are rarely inert.  We may flush out the blobs and send them to their own habitats one day, they will repay us by sending back miniature versions of themselves, thus propagating the whole system into flux once more.  This is, after all, As the World Turns.