And that a desperation born of inequality of wealth occurring concurrently with vital resource shortages (water and access to food especially) will produce populations willing to grudgingly accept oligarchical control in exchange for mere preservation of life at some minimal level.

Poverty, ignorance and fear have always been an oligarchies greatest asset…

Without new economic models we may well more resemble a colony of bacteria approaching the wall of the petri dish… when its incapability of changing its strategy confronts the limits of its world and the colony dies.

The global economic model is essentially identical to that colony of bacteria… consume and grow at an ever faster rate so it can consume ever more ever more rapidly.

That paradigm has to end…

(I’m no Luddite… but rather a technophile who understands that government, finance and money itself are technologies. And these technologies need attention. In a sense we’ve got to alter the DNA that has shaped these institutions before our global organism hits our planet’s resource wall.)