how stuff works

We are living in the last stages of Toffler's Second wave, and the Third wave is
here, and it accelerates the effects of the Second wave.

Barabasi's network laws ( IronLaw-o-Distro, esp)

Tainter
- low hanging fruit gets plucked first.
- increased complexity and sophistication and division of labour


division of labour leads to monoculture. ie, one company supplies all your food, and it picks the cheapest source. so one day we'll all be eating yeast.

bloom
conformity enforcers
diversity generators
resource shifters
utility sorters
intergroup tournaments

Cody Harwood/ Hubertus Bigend
subcultures innovate, this innovation then gets absorbed into the mainstream
- see bloom

//god split himself into parts so he could have friends

ross ashby

for the individual
campbell
 - hero's journey (individual growth)

mcluhan
- mediated world
- tools numb
- If I didn't believe it, I wouldn't have seen it
- affluence creates poverty ( see tao 2)


Alan Watts
' what is ' questions create a what isn't. but the group of groups has no other and cannot be hence asked. Cue Godel.
all good music expresses itself. Cue Hofstadter.

right and wrong are diseases of the mind ?

if you can find a depiction of something with good and bad characters, a good exercize would be to abstract the features away, and think in terms of numbers