In the event of war please read this

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At the dawn of the twenty-first century we can no longer ignore that current trends are building toward critical thresholds. As we move toward these limits, we are approaching a point of chaos. Chaos theory shows that the evolution of complex systems always involves alternating periods of stability and instability, continuity and discontinuity, order and chaos. We are living in the opening phases of a period of social and ecological instability, at a crucial decision-window. When we reach the point of chaos, the stable "point" and "periodic" attractors of our systems will be joined by "chaotic" or "strange" attractors. They will drive our systems to the crucial point where it will select the one or the other of the paths of evolution available to it. In the current decision-window our world is supersensitive, so that small fluctuations produce large-scale effects. These are the legendary "butterfly" effects. In periods of relative stability the consciousness of individuals does not play a decisive role in the behavior of society, but when society reaches the limits of its stability and turns chaotic it becomes supersensitive, responsive even to small fluctuations such as changes in the values, beliefs, worldviews and aspirations of its members. We now live in a period of transformation when a new world is struggling to be born. Ours is an era of decision - a window of unprecedented freedom to decide our destiny. In this decision-window , "fluctuations" - in themselves seemingly powerless actions and initiatives pave the way toward the critical "chaos point" where the system tips in one direction or another. This process is neither predetermined nor random. As consumers and clients, as taxpayers and voters, and as public opinion holders we can create the kinds of fluctuations - the actions and initiatives - that will tip the coming chaos point toward peace and sustainability. If we are aware of this power in our hands and if we have the will and the wisdom to make use of it, we become masters of our destiny. Societal evolution is a long-term process, with roots extending back to our species prehistory. It is on the whole irreversible, and it is nonlinear, beset with periodic bifurcations. The current bifurcation takes human community-building from the nation-state to the planetary level. It is as profound as any evolutionary process in history, but it is incomparably faster than anything that went before. It means a shift from Logos, today's economically, politically, and culturally fragmented civilization, to Holos, a global civilization that possesses the will and the vision to achieve solidarity and translate it into international and intercultural coexistence and cooperation.

I haven't finish reading, but just wanted to say, very, very cool!

I haven't started reading yet but, as I look at a very smoky and very singular Russian warship/aircraft carrier going through the English channel, I might just say that perhaps a NWO is a good idea.
However the fecking logo's will not go away...just the language might change to texting.

The choice that I am manifesting, is a simple, beautiful, peaceful, loving life. A world of total equity, harmony and cooperation. No work. All play. Everything is enjoyable, so we can concentrate on spiritual advancement. PEACE.

a reply to: Holofractal

its an economic war not a military war with russia.

putin got greedy, tried a hostile takover of the banking and financial system

he gambled and lost, now the bankers will punish him and bankrupt him.

no bullets will be fired. just a family spat between the elites.

all they doing is increasing sanctions and dropping oil price.

oil and gas is 70 percent of russia's revenue.

putins burining through his gold reserves and will bankrupt russia in about 6 months with the gold he has left.

putin also is afraid of hillary

he knows after his hacks and intererence in election

in 22 days

fed rate hike

increased sanctions on russia

which means more bad news for putin

I hate the fact that if the US goes to war so does the UK...

Well hey its not as if you are alone, don't feel so bad. You can always rest assured Canada, Australia, Germany, France, sometimes even New Zealand will have friends right there with us. Friends stick together until the end! We're all BFF's on defense!!

a reply to: bluerabbit7788

Russia will be Bankrupt in 6 months... , I think I have been hearing that for two years now. They can do exactly what the US Federal reserve and Congress do as easily as they can, print unlimited money, raise a debt ceiling, and create money out of nothing. They will not be going bankrupt.

a reply to: Holofractal

Might be a good ebook to have stored away in the event of WWIII to help understand global events and the transition to another civilization:

you do realize that WWIII will likely end with a nuclear exchange and the resulting emp will render computers useless.
would be best print it.

originally posted by: hounddoghowlie
a reply to: Holofractal

Might be a good ebook to have stored away in the event of WWIII to help understand global events and the transition to another civilization:

you do realize that WWIII will likely end with a nuclear exchange and the resulting emp will render computers useless.
would be best print it.

Excellent point.

Toward a Type 1 Civilization

Our civilization is fast approaching a tipping point. Humans will need to make the transition from nonrenewable fossil fuels as the primary source of our energy to renewable energy sources that will allow us to flourish into the future. Failure to make that transformation will doom us to the endless political machinations and economic conflicts that have plagued civilization for the last half-millennium.

We need new technologies to be sure, but without evolved political and economic systems, we cannot become what we must. And what is that? A Type 1 civilization. Let me explain.

In a 1964 article on searching for extraterrestrial civilizations, the Soviet astronomer Nikolai Kardashev suggested using radio telescopes to detect energy signals from other solar systems in which there might be civilizations of three levels of advancement: Type 1 can harness all of the energy of its home planet; Type 2 can harvest all of the power of its sun; and Type 3 can master the energy from its entire galaxy.

Based on our energy efficiency at the time, in 1973 the astronomer Carl Sagan estimated that Earth represented a Type 0.7 civilization on a Type 0 to Type 1 scale. (More current assessments put us at 0.72.) As the Kardashevian scale is logarithmic -- where any increase in power consumption requires a huge leap in power production -- we have a ways before 1.0.

Fossil fuels won't get us there. Renewable sources such as solar, wind and geothermal are a good start, and coupled to nuclear power could eventually get us to Type 1.

Yet the hurdles are not solely -- or even primarily -- technological ones. We have a proven track record of achieving remarkable scientific solutions to survival problems -- as long as there is the political will and economic opportunities that allow the solutions to flourish. In other words, we need a Type 1 polity and economy, along with the technology, in order to become a Type 1 civilization.

We are close. If we use the Kardashevian scale to plot humankind's progress, it shows how far we've come in the long history of our species from Type 0, and it leads us to see what a Type 1 civilization might be like:

Type 0.1: Fluid groups of hominids living in Africa. Technology consists of primitive stone tools. Intra-group conflicts are resolved through dominance hierarchy, and between-group violence is common.

Type 0.2: Bands of roaming hunter-gatherers that form kinship groups, with a mostly horizontal political system and egalitarian economy.

Type 0.3: Tribes of individuals linked through kinship but with a more settled and agrarian lifestyle. The beginnings of a political hierarchy and a primitive economic division of labor.

Type 0.4: Chiefdoms consisting of a coalition of tribes into a single hierarchical political unit with a dominant leader at the top, and with the beginnings of significant economic inequalities and a division of labor in which lower-class members produce food and other products consumed by non-producing upper-class members.

Type 0.5: The state as a political coalition with jurisdiction over a well-defined geographical territory and its corresponding inhabitants, with a mercantile economy that seeks a favorable balance of trade in a win-lose game against other states.

Type 0.6: Empires extend their control over peoples who are not culturally, ethnically or geographically within their normal jurisdiction, with a goal of economic dominance over rival empires.

Type 0.7: Democracies that divide power over several institutions, which are run by elected officials voted for by some citizens. The beginnings of a market economy.

Type 0.8: Liberal democracies that give the vote to all citizens. Markets that begin to embrace a nonzero, win-win economic game through free trade with other states.

Type 0.9: Democratic capitalism, the blending of liberal democracy and free markets, now spreading across the globe through democratic movements in developing nations and broad trading blocs such as the European Union.

Type 1.0: Globalism that includes worldwide wireless Internet access, with all knowledge digitized and available to everyone. A completely global economy with free markets in which anyone can trade with anyone else without interference from states or governments. A planet where all states are democracies in which everyone has the franchise.

The forces at work that could prevent us from making the great leap forward to a Type 1 civilization are primarily political and economic. The resistance by nondemocratic states to turning power over to the people is considerable, especially in theocracies whose leaders would prefer we all revert to Type 0.4 chiefdoms. The opposition toward a global economy is substantial, even in the industrialized West, where economic tribalism still dominates the thinking of most politicians, intellectuals and citizens.

For thousands of years, we have existed in a zero-sum tribal world in which a gain for one tribe, state or nation meant a loss for another tribe, state or nation -- and our political and economic systems have been designed for use in that win-lose world. But we have the opportunity to live in a win-win world and become a Type 1 civilization by spreading liberal democracy and free trade, in which the scientific and technological benefits will flourish. I am optimistic because in the evolutionist's deep time and the historian's long view, the trend lines toward achieving Type 1 status tick inexorably upward.

That is change we can believe in.

Michael Shermer is an adjunct professor in the School of Politics and Economics at Claremont Graduate University, the publisher of Skeptic magazine and a monthly columnist for Scientific American. His latest book is "The Mind of the Market."

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a reply to: HUMBLEONE

No, there is no way we are stupid enough to start another war, dont even talk about it.

originally posted by: Alanimium
No, there is no way we are stupid enough to start another war, dont even talk about it.

"Two things I believe go to infinity. The universe and the stupidity of man.
I'm not quite sure about the universe".

Albert Einstien

I pretty sure no country ( except North Korea ) would be stupid enough to start a world war. As it would cost the millions of lives and billions of dollars!