From: Thomas Lunde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Now, as to your insightful comment re "breakthrough", I take that to mean
>that society is not breaking down, but is breaking through and if I can
>follow your unspoken thought "into a new sensorial basis".
I'll say we are "breaking through" "into a new sensorial basis"!
We are running out of energy, and we are "breaking through" into
forced simplicity (e.g., no running water), and will be sensing
a lot of pain. <G>
Seriously though, one can't eat infoburgers or Third Wave Stew.
Energy is the prerequisite to complexity in society -- it always
has been and always will be. See Joseph Tainter's paper at:
http://dieoff.org/page134.htm
Jay
