The Machine of Civilization

civilization is a collective intelligence that is misfit for its ongoing continuation with itself. It has kind of mathematically self terminating processes built in. And we're getting close enough to the self termination points of those concerned to become eminent so we'll look at those. In general there's a movement towards extraction and commodification. We see that maybe the largest block of global economics writ large if we were to take all the things that make it up is the military industrial complex. If people can make money and survive doing a particular thing and they are less able to survive doing other things then there is a incentive to do certain things. So I'm going to explore the model applied to civilization in some detail