 the prejudice you use to see them, fractals may be either mesmerizing or daunting. The ubiquitous fractal patterns are observed on a leaf, the branching of trees, the system of a river delta, the interplay of clouds, the shape of galaxies. From microscopic to macroscopic scales, the significance of fractals seems to be rooted deep in our existence.
In the early 20th century, Lewis Fry Richardson showed how the length of the British coastline depends on the unit of measurement. Building upon this theory, Benoit Mandelbrot introduced the word fractal in the 1970s after which it became a catapult for mathematicians and scientists. A measure of time was historically defined by the Earth’s rotation cycle of a 24 hour day. A more accurate representation defines a second in terms of the decay cycle of a radioactive Caesium atom which is more accurate than the historical definition which does not consider the constantly changing duration of Earth’s rotation.
Even time, which we humans are so tethered to fails the objective definition. It’s definition being relative, it is worthwhile to laugh next time at the thought that makes us scramble to catch up on every second. similar to time, the boundaries called countries encapsulating a collection of people, competing over territorial, communal and racial concerns, would be different if the unit for the judgment was different. Just as Earth’s rotation defines time, it is imperative to understand what prejudice determines this judgment and distinction of people.
Interestingly enough, the complexity of fractals is visible in its dimension. As a line has dimension 1, a square has a dimension of 2, a sphere is 3 dimensional, a fractal can have dimensions that are not integers. A fractal of dimension 1.585 is shown here as the Sierpinski triangle.
Dr. Richard Taylor has analyzed various types of fractal patterns such as the paintings of Jackson Polluck, and the entanglements of the trees. He found that the fractal dimension of Jackson Polluck’s life-sized paintings is similar to the fractal dimension of the natural patterns of trees. He found that observing fractal images of dimensions 1.3-1.5 has shown to reduce stress levels by 60 %. They have been found to activate the regions of the brain associated with high-level visual processing (ventrolateral cortex), spatial long-term memory (dorsolateral cortex) and emotion regulating (parahippocampus) which is active while listening to music. So the next time, stress tries to grip you and if you don’t believe in your self-awareness, believe in science and go for a walk in the nature to make yourself feel better.
The fact that the human brain is hard-wired to process such patterns raises a thought – Since resonance means alignment of two things, Do our minds resonate with these images because that is how our natural state is?
The fractal nature of humans, as an individual, a society and a culture also showcase the self-similarity as it becomes magnified from microscopic to macroscopic levels. The individual perceptions of events and processes happening around us carve our personality. Ayn Rand in ‘The Fountainhead’ said that “Man’s nature is the product of its premises”.
The perception of the premises is what conditions our nature and makes us as an individual.
A tree does not become a tree unless someone teaches a child that the poem written by the earth on the sky has a title ‘tree’.  As these unconscious and conscious decisions sculpt the pattern of thoughts that make up our individual ‘identity’, a family identity reflects the interpersonal relational dynamics, a local disposition highlights regional demeanor and a national identity gives birth to stereotypes. Our psychological development starts from the microscale teaching and bursts into an interplay of what was learned and what is ‘unlearnt’ through the conscious judiciary. The convoluted nature of human psychology is fractal.
A fractal dimension is not necessarily an integer, implying that the social and natural phenomena observed are not Euclidian, or linearly scalable, in nature. An extension of a stereotype to an individual dissolves the individual complexity through which the human character was developed. The complexity of the processes should be appreciated and addressed with the non-linearity of the natural world in mind. The simple linear extrapolations of the fractal nature of the world are ignored, lost and simplified.
The units of measurements which are our prejudices severely affect our ability to accept any individual for the way they are. The better we understand where these prejudices come from, and explore the hidden fractal pattern that lies under each prejudice, we can be more self-aware of ourselves and others. We would be in resonance with the fractal universe that is both inside and outside us.Someone posted a great comment, and then when I was typing a response, deleted it. Not sure why. The comment mentioned that Chechens have worked with Afghanis and Iraqis, trained them in sniper techniques, and have been fighting guerilla operations in both countries for a long time.

This commentor's brother's squad leader was killed by a chechen. This was my response, hopefully they'll see it:

You are absolutely right. (sort of)

Yes, the radicals identify first and foremost as members of the ummah, and yes they are very skilled. They handed the Russians their own asses on a silver platter many, many times. Here's an excerpt (with declassified sources) to give an idea of what you mean:

&gt; Over the next two days Chechen fighters ambushed and killed all 84 members of a Russian paratrooper unit and attacked a heavily armed convoy killing 40 and wounding 35.  In mid September, 2001, several days after OGV commanders declared the Chechens were no longer capable of putting up large-scale resistance, thirteen officers including three generals and eight colonels were killed when Chechens shot down an Mi-8MT command helicopter with a shoulder-held Strela-3 missile in downtown Grozny. On the same day a daring daylight raid was carried out in Gudermes, killing 20 troops.  Between 1999 and 2002, more than eight helicopters were shot down with an assortment of Soviet-era and newer, more sophisticated missile systems, killing more than 20 high-ranking military leaders. In one instance 127 men, many of them junior-grade officers, were killed in one helicopter strike.  Several days after Vladimir Putin’s reelection speech in 2004, in which he promised to quickly and decisively end the conflict, a convoy of MVD troops was ambushed and 37 out of 41 were killed.

&gt; [Later] a group of Chechen fighters launched a series of raids, killing 98 troops and wounding 104 while suffering only two casualties. Just three weeks later, 70 Chechen fighters ambushed FSB and police units, killing 18 and wounding 10. As a result of the sudden wave of insurgent successes, Putin dismissed the chief of the Russian General staff and several other high-ranking army, FSB and MVD officers responsible. Within the next month and a half, Chechens ambushed troops in Kizlyar, Dagestan, and conducted raids on Grozny and other surrounding cities, killing at least 120 security forces.

[sources: Hans Krech, *Der zweite Tschetschenien-Krieg: ein Handbuch*, 2002, p.151; Mark Kramer, "Guerilla Warfare, Counterinsurgency and Terrorism in the North Caucasus: The Military Dimension of the Russian-Chechen Conflict" in *Europe-Asia Studies* 57:2 (2005), 215.Middle-Earth: Shadow of War gameplay was shown running on Xbox One X. The gameplay showed Talon in an arena, fighting a huge orc leader. After delivering several blows, Talon was able to take control of the orc and bring him into his army. The orc revealed that a fortress controlled by a two-headed troll was nearby, and Talon commanded the new orc follower to collect his army and help attack the fortress.
The revenge feature of the Nemesis System was also featured, as an orc leader, known as The Machine, attempted to exact revenge; however, Talon was able to control him and recruit him to the army, too. Talon was able to use his two new recruits and their armies to attack the fortress.
Middle-Earth: Shadow of War will launch on October 10.
O.G. New York punk Richard Hell was not impressed with the first episode of Vinyl, the new HBO show about the music business in ’70s NYC. But the show does have at least one thing going for it. On its soundtrack, it has Julian Casablancas, arguably New York’s most important rock frontman of the ’00s, covering the Velvet Underground, arguably New York’s most important rock band of the ’60s. On the show’s soundtrack, Casablancas does a sloppy, staggering, generally faithful cover of “Run Run Run,” from the VU’s The Velvet Underground & Nico debut album. Listen to it below.
The track comes from the second volume of the Vinyl soundtrack, out today on Atlantic/Warner Bros.
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