[Makiavel]

A little bit of uselessness.
"The world consists of... systems, if I am at liberty to say so. Certain logical patterns, that are somewhat similar in most of the cases. But I am not going to talk about it now, for that is a subject for other time.
Basically, each system has it's rules, but some rules are similar among them. Each system has a rhythm of changes, that shapes its existence.
Sooner or later every system faces a crisis. And in a state of crisis inner laws become weak enough, to lower the amount of force, required for the system to shift its course.
And this crisis state is exactly what I am interested in. It can be divided into a few distinct sections:
First - a slow descending curve of events, that slowly leads the system to the critical point.
Second - series of seemingly random events, that occur with increasing power and frequency. Events, that are the result of a current state of the system. To put it simply, the system itself produces these events, because it is an unavoidable flaw of its structure. These events shake the system from the inside, make it vulnerable.
Third - the action window. That is a rather precious state of every system. The force required to change a system is so low, that it becomes vulnerable to other forces, from the inside, as well as outside. The action window doesn't last very long, but it can be used to achieve the required results. It closes with a minor event, after which it becomes harder and harder to change anything.
Fourth - this stage is a reflection of a second one. Whatever order prevailed during the action window, now it begins to force itself into control. Series of events, each time more and more significant and strong. These events bring the system back into a stable phase.
Fifth - an ascending curve, that leads the system out of the crisis state.
Now here is where it gets interesting. Theoretically, the third stage has three points. Beginning, end, and a so called breaking point. The difficulty of changes descends to the breaking point, and then rises again.
People tend to pay attention to the fourth phase, considering it the main one. It is understandable, because it contains the largest events that stabilize the system into a new balance. But it is a common mistake, to consider the size of event, without considering the conditions of it. Event must always be correlated with its conditions. So the object of interest should be a proportion between the size or strength of an event, and difficulty of conditions. And that is why the breaking point is so important. There is a minimum amount of force required to change a system, and at the breaking point the requirements are at the lowest possible level, so even the weakest forces are able to shift the balance.
Simply put, a weak force at the breaking point can have an effect similar to a strong one at any other moment.
That is why I urge you to think of events before they happen. So that you would be able to avoid the situation, when you realize the situation only during the fourth stage, when there's nothing you can do."