“Gentlemen, we’ve run out of money; now we have to think.” ~Winston Churchill

If you’re reading this, it’s because of science and technology.

You know someone who is not reading this, but should, and is looking around themselves at a room enabled by science and technology, thinking they’ve never benefited from science or technology. It’s time to have a conversation with them.

It’s no longer possible to get away from science and technology. We simply no longer have the knowledge, stamina, or natural resources to go it alone as cavemen — you’d likely be dead in a month.

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I’m researching case studies to apply the Social Thermodynamics framework and stumbled upon an interesting find. Walter Scheidel, a renown author and Professor of History at Stanford University just published the book “The Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century.” A nice summary is given in this article in the Atlantic.

Wealth inequality is closely connected to social thermodynamics through the property Temperature, which is analogous to resources. It’s time I really explained what temperature is from a thermodynamics standpoint and how it relates to societal imbalance as Professor Scheidel has presented.

Thermodynamic Temperature
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Conformity versus Originality

Reproduce versus Reinvent

Generalize versus Customize

Sophistication versus Evolution

Work versus Heat

In Richard Dawkins’ 1976 book the Selfish Gene, he defines the word meme as the propagation of memories, ideas, and values in cultures similar to the propagation of genes in Darwinian evolution. Stated simply, advantageous memes or genes propagate from individuals into the collective. This concept is the core of the spiral value-Meme (vMeme) … » More …