Everything that has a beginning... has an end

FOR A THOUSAND YEARS the Modern World has grown - a series of expanding systems international trade, monetarization, the corporation, the church, agribusiness, democracy, medicine.
An open system that grows must take inputs. But then things change. Growing, expanding systems must change.

WRONG, KING DAWG, WRONG!
I was wrong, Post-Modernism is Still Modernism... it's just the last, big flowering... the tiny little twigs on the fine cashmere tips of the vast, rickety, old forest trees... our world system: Modernism - a huge success, has ossified... its going to seed

Our Systems End
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ue5zBGywmJM&feature=related

Here's what scares me, more than Collapse by Jared Diamond:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bc4bXIg8JDk

is Mandelbrot's prediction
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bc4bXIg8JDk
( http://www.amazon.com/Mis-behavior-Markets-Benoit-Mandelbrot/dp/0465043550 )