civilization collapse

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Financialization In his 2006 book, American Theocracy: The Peril and Politics of Radical Religion, Oil, and Borrowed Money in the 21st Century, American writer and commentator Kevin Phillips presented financialization as “a process whereby financial services, broadly construed, take over the dominant economic, cultural, and political role in a national economy.” (page 268). Philips considers that the financialization of the U.S. economy follows the same pattern that marked the beginning of the decline of Habsburg Spain in the 16th century, the Dutch trading empire in the 18th century, and the British Empire in the 19th century: (It is also worth pointing out that the true final step in each of these historical economies is; collapse) ". . . the leading economic powers have followed an evolutionary progression: first, agriculture, fishing, and the like, next commerce and industry, and finally finance. Several historians have elaborated this point....

trends - increasing population increased population results in increased resource depletion increased resource depletion results in increased exploration increased exploration results in increased border tension increased border tension results in increased border hostilities increased border hostilities results in increased border skirmishes one border skirmish at the wrong time, at the wrong place, with the wrong people results in war what is more precious in war time than life & liberty? - resources - intelligence - labour - time what do armies consume? - men - weapons - medical supplies - munitions - alcohol - avionics - satellites - chemicals - vehicles - computers - telecommunications - debt / finance / bonds what will war do the stock market? bonds? mutual funds? gold? silver? what can produced and sold at a profit during war time? - hospitality services what happens to the civilian economy? what careers / skills will people pay gold for? - security - resources - health - me...

there was once a beautiful island in the pacific ocean, off the coast of chile. it was not too and not too small. it would take about 8 hrs to walk around the island. a long time ago the people that lived in chile sailed in large open boats for fishing. they carried lots of water and food so they could sail for weeks. one day a group of fisherman found the beautiful island. it was covered with great trees and had a spring with fresh water. the fishermen went back and brought their families, and live pigs. perhaps by accident or maybe on purpose they also brought rats. life was good. they cut down trees to build more boats for fishing. they cut down trees for houses. but still there were lots of trees on island. they were able to catch so much food from the ocean that they lots of spare time. over time the number of people living on the island as more and more babies were born. the people living on the island each wanted their own space so the island was divided in to 6 or 7 areas.

moai - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moai their construction mania is likely the cause of the collapse of rapa nui consider how big they ACTUALLY are:

Civilization collapse and willful blindness are likely linked. Roman senators were likely willfully blind. American congress members are likely willfully blind. The Sumerian elite were likely willfully blind. Tainter rising complexity addresses the how but not the why. Willful blindness addresses the why.

men compete for resources women reward men for collecting resources men that use a military industrial complex have better reproductive success men that build bigger moai have better reproductive success and the afterlife? if only it were true it breaks my heart that the meek will NOT inherit the earth that good deeds in this life will not be rewarded that ancient people's whose ancestors were all killed are gone forever from the gene pool we are the descendants of Cain make no mistake - the meek are dead and it breaks my heart to accept it

intuitively the conclusion i get from: "consider military industrial complex users - are they better able to reproduce than non military industrial complex users?" or "evolution has selected for weaponizers, exploiters, polluters" or "consider fossil fuel users - are they better able to reproduce than non-fossil fuel users?" is that this is true of the competition between males for females that is the males that have the most reproductive success are the weaponizers, exploiters, and polluters - and so those characteristics are propagated further when i consider this i am struck by other existing civilized high density populations in the ecosystem - ants and bees. they build complex structures, they alter their environment, they have complex communications - and they use males for reproductive purposes only because males are too expensive