Re: Ch. 1 (I): The Mystery of Manic-Depressive Economies
I share a similar (sympathetic?) perception, inspired by the viewpoint offered by Bloom. In terms of progress, or evolution, or growth, or just that which occurs, there are now living things where once there were only non-living things, measurable as observable complexity, even behavior.
What is the missing link between non-life and life? What caused the occurrence, what actually happened, when life spawned at its most basic level? In which chapter of the book does Bloom describe the emergence of living beings that consume rock?
How did those beings spring forth from a less animated form of matter?
For that matter how has any form of matter come into being? If that question is answered accurately will the answer also explain how matter reached a level of complexity that we call living?
Gravity and sunlight cause events where mass changes form, and the variety of forms of mass subject to change by gravity and sunlight certainly increases the possibilities of what can be produced by those occurrences. If only hydrogen were in existence, for example, there would still be mass, so there would be gravity, but would there be sunlight – the stuff that goes outward and heats things up.
Gravity goes inward and heats things up. I guess the analogy is such that gravity is conservative and sunlight is liberal?
I’d like to offer a perspective on that whole label game where some people gravitate to conservatism and others gravitate to liberalism and if I find the link I’ll link it. The idea here is to expose the effort behind label evolution. Labels evolve, they have evolved.
A liberal in 1775 was someone who gravitated toward the effort to minimize the power of government.
Why has that label undergone such a drastic change?