In and around Tokyo
Energy & Entropy in Society
If you use energy more you can build a great city like New York with Wall Street in it.
But, a potential of disorder will be accumulated around the big city. For example, Haiti is one of surrounding areas of New York. The more New York is organized with huge energy spent, the more Haiti will be put into a mess, say, even before the occurrence of the great earthquake in 2010.
Similarly, a potential of disorder will be accumulated around Wall Street. The more Wall Street businesses earn profits, the more ordinary people will face a threat of unemployment. However, the subprime loan scheme supported a higher level of consumption by Americans, so that many businesses hired many people till the 2008 Lehman Shock. With the debacle of subprime loan mortgage business, the hidden potential of instability of the society emerged.
But, social advancement needs energy to achieve great stability. Yet, energy increases instability. So, this paradigm is wrong. There is a discrepancy. But, can it be possible to attain higher social advancement and stability without increasing entropy while consuming a huge amount of energy?
So, correctly,
To satisfy desire for material success, mankind uses energy. As long as it is within a range that does not trigger a big shift in the domains of entropy, social stability, and spiritual advancement, the world can sustain itself. But, if it goes beyond the range, disastrous deterioration in the human spirit would prevail all over the world, no matter how if it looks like advancement of society superficially.
(If any of the four components gets out of the effective range, the relationships between them will be broken and an extreme situation can happen. For example, it might be just like Nazi Germany or Stalin's USSR had conquered the whole world: great social stability but not spiritual or even no social advancement.)
This one of major reasons that the American material civilization would collapse sooner or later, maybe, like the Roman Empire.
(to be continued...)
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Along with material success of the society, people naturally become happy materially.
Electricity, foods, information, and entertainment are abundantly provided. The superficial economic success hide various problems, but human spirit is being degraded. Materially happy people do not need God. So, the whole society would become fragile. Energy used to support civilization would increase entropy. A potential of total collapse of social systems will increase, though further energy is used to control and prevent it.
The issue at point is a future state of mankind, though nobody can connect himself to the world of future, say, 100 years after, 10,000 years after, or one million years after.
Luk 11:14 And he was casting out a devil, and it was dumb. And it came to pass, when the devil was gone out, the dumb spake; and the people wondered.
Luk 11:15 But some of them said, He casteth out devils through Beelzebub the chief of the devils.
Luk 11:16 And others, tempting him, sought of him a sign from heaven.
Luk 11:17 But he, knowing their thoughts, said unto them, Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation; and a house divided against a house falleth.