One minute you're hypnotized by the revolving oil drums of "False Movement (Stability and Economic Growth)"; the next, you're scrutinizing the numbered corn kernels on "Classified Cob".
Objects, he suggests, offer false promises of stability and security, just as writing offers a false promise of precision.
WIMBLEDON, England — The top four women's seeds are all through to the semifinals, a false indicator of stability on a women's tour that has been unable to achieve it.
It was no surprise that at the moment of truth, Syrians opened their hearts and minds to the winds of the Arab Spring — winds that blew down the wall that had stood between the Arabs and democracy, and had imposed false choices between stability and chaos or dictatorship and Islamic extremism.
The reason is that maps and numbers alone tend to instill a false sense of stability.
As a cautionary example the assumed modes approximation leads to false conclusions about stability.
Long periods between destructive earthquakes have contributed to a false feeling of stability in society.
The idea that a false, brutal, enforced stability is preferable to the brutality of a fascist, Islamist state unless we can break out of the mindset that those are the only two alternatives, then we're still living under the ideology of Mubarak.
For members of a society, especially one that has been lulled by false beliefs of stability, normality and healthy existence, it can indeed be a terrible shock to suddenly realize that they are faced with a disease that grew silently in their life and must now be dealt with no matter what.
