History Is A Wave That Moves Through

The Minimum That Most Minimalists Want Leaves In Place Just The Institutions Who Protect Their Interests. That's Libertarians For You - Anarchists Who Want Police Protection From Their Slaves.

Look At The Pattern This Seashell Makes. The Dappled Whorl, Curving Inward To Infinity. That's The Shape Of The Universe Itself. There's Constant Pressure, Pushing Towards Pattern. A Tendency In Matter To Evolve Into Ever More Complex Forms. It's A Kind Of Pattern Gravity, A Holy Greening Power We Call 'viriditas' And It Is The Driving Force In The Cosmos. Life, You See.

I Think The Us Is In A Terrible State Of Denial. Worse Than That, We Seem To Be Caught In A Kind Of Gotterdammerung Response: We'd Rather Have The World Go Down In Flames Than Change Our Lifestyle Or Admit We're Wrong.

Anyway That's A Large Part Of What Economics Is - People Arbitrarily, Or As A Matter Of Taste, Assigning Numerical Values To Non-numerical Things. And Then Pretending That They Haven't Just Made The Numbers Up, Which They Have. Economics Is Like Astrology In That Sense, Except That Economics Serves To Justify The Current Power Structure, And So It Has A Lot Of Fervent Believers Among The Powerful

In An Expanding Universe, Order Is Not Really Order, But Merely The Difference Between The Actual Entropy Exhibited And The Maximum Entropy Possible.