1900 House

[Gordon Fitch]

Dace:
> ... 
> What's different today is that the collapse of complexity could occur at a
> global scale.  If such an event came to pass (and Tainter discusses this
> possibility at length) it would mean that for the first time the overall
> interchange of energy between humanity and nature would decline, and it
> would do so rapidly and catastrophically.

One problem with this whole discussion (including what I
have written) is that it generally treats _humanity_ and
_nature_ as separate and distinct entities.  But in fact
humanity is in nature and nature is in humanity.  One can
construe certain things to be one or the other, but it is a
provisional artifice, a delusional one if the artificiality
is forgotten.

The division, of course, reminds me of the class system.