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There is a war on ordinary people and feminists are needed at the front : Comments
By John Pilger, published 7/6/2013With honourable exceptions, the bourgeois media club relegates and distracts from the fact that a full-blooded class war is under way.
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It seems to me that social structures are inherently stable in the absence of a significant environmental change and that the less energy available, the more stable they are. In other words, the primary impetus for social dynamism is environmental and that energy is what drives it all. The individual human responses are interesting or tragic or inspiring but they don't lead to an empirical undertanding of the behaviour of the system.
It also seems to me that the rate of change in the environmental factors is important. A population that slowly increases will not be as destabilising as one that has a sudden spurt in growth. A sudden change in energy availability in either direction will be much more disruptive than a slow gain due to better farming practises. Trade with familiar partners won't disrupt like a sudden influx of new products.
There are feedbacks, of course. Population and energy are entwined and influence each other. Technology makes more energy acessible and population increases, or population increases and can access a larger area to source energy.
The worst social disruption occurs when there is a sudden increase or decrease in energy leading to fighting and war or social revolution and a change in the essential structure of society, especially in the distributive mechanisms.
The spike in population and energy availability over the last 500 years has created enormously disruptive and rapid change.
Feminism was a creation of the corporatist model that lead to globalism. I'm not sure it will survive through the next transition phase, which I suspect will be here within a decade or so, following the surge in available energy caused by globalism