Sublime

Entropy kills.

Schneider and Sagan (2005) argue that complex nonequilibriumthermodynamic systems—societies, political systems, ecosystems, and economies—share a universal feature; they regress to earlier, more hierarchical, less complex and less open forms of organization under conditions of environmental stress such as plagues, wars and depressions. This propert

paleontology,

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Among humans, groups have all too often been the prime movers. It is their competition that has driven us on the inexorable track toward higher degrees of order. This is one key to the Lucifer Principle.

These are worlds that will be revealed not by better instruments but by new models and frameworks that allow us to see the familiar world in unfamiliar ways—to transform domains described into domains rigorously quantified and observations informally sensed into those formally understood.

To relate prices to quantities of goods consumed,

Economists refer to them as elasticities.

Money emerges from uncertainty, capital emerges from money, and uncertainty emerges from capital.