America is 246 years young this July 4th. Such as, from whom did we snatch independence from the jaws of colonialism? In a more perfect union, the Fourth of July is the day the original thirteen colonies signed the Declaration of Independence, giving birth to a new America, and unbuckling itself from the nutjob King George III and Great Britain.
“To celebrate independence from some king, or something.” Well, yes, but I was looking for a more profound answer. Ok, so why do we celebrate? You there in the corner half asleep. Why do we celebrate Independence Day? If your answer is because some yokels in Boston tossed tea in an ocean, or it’s because we fly flags and blast fireworks into the night skies, one might want to dig a little deeper. There are too many of us in the demand side. Correct answer: The Law of Supply and Demand may affect other segments of society, but not so much the pipes and tobacco community. You in the front row with your hand half raised: “We have too many pipes on cargo ships.” You fail, too. Pop question: how do supply and demand affect pipe smokers? You in the back: “More supply means we have fewer pipes.” Wow, you weren’t paying attention. Pay attention, for another lecture of sorts is in order after this. We pipe puffers have our own law of supply and demand, similar to our law of biding energy. We have access to sufficient supply and, mostly, prices have not resulted in a bank shot off the charts. For us pipe smokers, supply and demand have been somewhat steady during these upside-down years. But if supply remains constant, and prices continue to rise, demand generally drops. In simplest terms, when all other economic factors remain constant, the law of supply says that if prices go up, supply generally rises. It is similar to the law of supply and demand for pipe smokers. Back to the original thought of our law of binding energy. Of late we have seen tectonic shifts in the “old normal.” The good old days, so it seems to the Pundit, have been pummeled by powerful events: the Covid pandemic virus and its many mutations of tragedy supply chain choke holds massive cargo ships becoming lodged in narrow river lanes like toy boats in a ditch the Great Resignation spreading like a virus a disastrous war in Ukraine and the threat of even more violence. There will be a pop quiz at the end of this discourse. This short lecture is a windy opening to what is today’s reality in the pipe world, and our daily lives. There is not enough energy to scramble one atom of our togetherness. You get it if you have ever participated in a pipe club gathering.
See, our energy is connected through a community of pipes and tobacco, a village of individuals who enjoy just sitting around pontificating and puffing our beloved pipes.
The Pundit has not run off the rails yet. It would require a great deal of energy to separate us from our hobby. Now, without getting too overwrought in the physics or chemistry of binding energy, let’s just say we are a bound community of pipe-loving groups.
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Seen another way, the law explains in a blackboard full of Einsteinian math the energy it takes to separate us from the universe. Harrumph! Simply put, the law says the universe is held together by binding energy. This may sound a bit over the top, but our pipe community is held together by some equivalent of the law of binding energy.
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