From: Ed Weick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>I'm not sure of what you are mixing here, but I believe you are mixing
>something. I agree that a growing system relying on finite energy must at
>some point wind down. That is relatively simple and logical. However, I'm
>not sure of what corruption and power have to do with it. I'm not sure
that
>they are necessary condition for "bifurcation" in human societies, nor am I
>really sure that human societies must inevitably "bifurcate".
What all this means is that our society WILL be "simplified" -- one way or
another. If we had a genuine, virtuous political system, we could see this
coming and "simplify" our society in some planned, orderly way. (The
Scandinavian social democracies seem to be able to do this.)
A money-based political system like ours can only end in a massive die off.
Jay
