For Lilian and the Indigos - Above Top Secret

THE END OF ENTROPY:
A Look at Our Entropic World and the Evidence Supporting How We Could Change
This
by Amaterasu, 2010
Entropy… That measure of disorder that increases as energy is dissipated into unusable
forms effects many aspects of our present human condition. It is easy to grasp the
principle as it pertains directly to heat. We see the energy of a fire heat our food, but we
also can see a great deal of heat going out unused and unusable. This extra heat can be
seen as increasing the disorder, as the molecules affected move more rapidly and more
disorderedly. A more difficult aspect to see is the entropy inherent in our social structure.
In Jeremy Rifkin’s seminal work Entropy, published in 1980, he does an excellent job of
demonstrating that, because energy is at the base of life, itself, entropy can ripple through
society, creating disorder even as we try to clamp down and control the order of things.
In fact, he paints a very grim picture of what we can expect as we consume more and
more energy, explaining that fascist tendencies are most likely to crop up in the efforts to
overcome entropy in our society. Today we see more and more signs of encroaching
fascism.
The reason why energy and its entropy are tied in to our social structures is made clear by
Rifkin in his work (p. 89):
… Every time we add our labor to a product or perform a service we
expend energy and increase the overall entropy of the environment. Every
time we exchange money for a product or a service, the legal tender we
use represents payment for previous energy that we expend. Money, after
all, is nothing more than stored energy credits.
If money is merely the accounting of the available energy, it becomes clear that should an
energy source come along that has the properties of being effectively infinite, available
from anywhere, and negentropic (from “negative entropy”), the need for money
dissipates. “Infinite money” has no social application.
In fact, because of our limited available energy and the money system developed to
account for it, it is clear why we have a “power” elite, as well as poverty and exploitation.
Rifkin explains (p. 57):
Energy is the basis of human culture, just as it is the basis of life.
Therefore, power in every society ultimately belongs to whoever controls
the exosomatic [external] instruments that are used to transform,
exchange, and discard energy. Class divisions, exploitations, privilege,
and poverty are all determined by how a society’s energy flow line is set