oh hey if you play these funky little logic puzzle things you might discover them when bored silly at the airport nothing mysterious they give you a set of system rules which discipline you towards achieving a certain goal yes perhaps not the most exciting thing in entertainment today i don't know maybe there's something more to this whole logic and reason deal than just killing time while in transit of course we all naturally assume that we're being well reasoned in our de making right in fact it can be argued that to some degree such associative causal logic is inherently inescapable effectively wired into our brains with respect to how we interpret and link our experiences yet it's that very issue of degree that appears to be where the problems arise as all too often the foundational premises upon which we frame our conclusions are indeed utterly faulty or without proper evidence to be considered factual to begin with needless to say being logical within a cognitive framework of the illogical only takes you so far and today if you dig deep into the origins and basis of perpetuation of our most cherished institutions from religion politics economics to the social order itself you might discover something called faith rather than reason and faith by definition is not a premise of logic  belief without evidence and hence contradictory to the entire process of understanding itself stretch in nine hundred sixty one engineer our buckminster fuller created a global simulation called the world game the idea was to quote make the world work for one hundred percent of humanity in the shortest possible time through spontaneous cooperation without ecological damage or disadvantage to anyone unquote it's a pretty simple and rational thought exercise the puzzle if you will on the most grand scale which even in basic gesture actually stands in stark contrast with the organizational frame of reference our established society currently operates with in truth all this train of thought suggests is to take a broad design perspective to the earth and human society using what we now know regarding scientific causalities as opposed to the wheeling and dealing inherently elitist market anarky which moves the world by arguably a rigid superstitious faith that the invisible hand of the market knows all and sees all i ask you what if we dared to  earth as a single puzzle a problem to be solved with our logic based around the earth's natural rule set the known laws of physics science what if our goal was to maximize our economic efficiency to design out poverty to design else nationally or to work structurally to create a clean energy abundance and has to work to facilitate a material success for the whole of humanity in harmony with nature itself but that utopian you say too idealistic communist well i don't know about you but when i stumble around this planet we call home a system condition that demands one thing to ensure the prosperity of the human family adaptation i mean once impressed at our tremendous accomplishments of the species and it once horrified at the ignorant failures mostly resulting from a refusal to see the earth as one system design and humanity as one family bound with it so as the season finale of culture in decline will argue humanity is being faced with a choice a fork in the road it is my personal conviction that the broader social decisions made this generation might very well be what makes or breaks our species in the long run and perhaps by the end of this episode you like me will feel the need to think about which path you should choose a culture in a sense or a culture in decline science fiction writers scientists and so called futurists of the world painted many pictures of what the future may hold some are modest positive or even utopian some are dystopian dark impressive as far as the the best we can do is measure the trends and average out the projections with perhaps of course the most relevant trend being the influence of science and technology of course technological progress has its culture lead right however today doesn't seem like the gap between our scientific advancement and our actual and are standing in consideration of that advancement is growing wider and wider doesn't it seem a little bit obvious that technological capacity is exceedingly social it's actually a frightening point in truth as it's a cultural value issue science and technology put into the hands of forward thinking developers who perhaps recognize the profound pasadena to create an abundance stabilize ecological influence and become sustainable both environmentally and culturally tend to view the world very differently than the more common market nationalist elitist mindset which sees society through the filter of narrow self interest and competition constantly reinforcing that gain at the expense of others is a law of nature and hence a virtue to be praised and rewarded in this context we might see how those same tools will be used to bigger weapons more surveillance technology an ever stronger physical and psychological prisons for the vast majority of humanity to remain in servitude to a small group of people and essentially ownership class so with that in mind i present to you a thought exercise using my fresh new time machine here i'm going to be your guy on a trip to possible future first we will visit a world that just maybe the current social ecological and technical patterns persist as they are then we will visit a possible future that could be if we as a species were willing to simply employ our vast potential to forge a new highly efficient societal design with new practices by design which is not utopian or idealistic but rather quite simple practical and doable if we simply made the decision to change in accord with the logic of our natural exist new york city twenty one it's been a while since the fall of the us empire and by extension the general decline of much of the world massive influence of us economic policy along with the corresponding materialistic inefficient and wasteful values born out of the consumption based growth economy began to reach its physical limits in the may twenty first century until that point the race towards global industrialization continued unabated with the world still pining for the so called american dream not computing that if the entire world acted with the same waste patterns as the us we would have needed for more earths worth of resources just to keep it all going what happened well there were three nails in the coffin of societal collapse the synergy of these issues compounded each other vicious storm and by the time the earth had a population of eight billion right before the third world war global  reach levels of sixty five percent every government on earth was bankrupt to each other and the core hydrocarbon energy sources stabilizing scarcity and while china did win the war resolution was achieve polluting energy stores in the earth realizing the almost unlimited abundance of our regenerative universe and energy provide for everyone many times over if we only moved fast enough to create the proper infrastructure unfortunately such a transition and was met with great resistance financial interests you see there was this thing called the free market which was far from free in truth it was a war in the lead us protection system and the bigger and more profitable industry became the less financial incentive existed to alter it money was the goal of this game not sustainability or efficiency and the fact was we needed to move fast utilizing the remaining hydrocarbon resources to create new sustainable energy infrastructure it was a race against global population increases and sadly we failed in the point of no return as once the true scarcity of our hydrocarbon resources became understood social destabilization and panic rapidly commenced to further and what little progress did take place was wrong we destroyed their after by the water and energy at the same time the world faced the largest unemployment rates in history long considered a luddite myth the exponential increase in machine automation in the twenty first century created a powerful excel aeration of industrial productivity that ever cheaper rates displacing workers more rapidly than technology could actually create new jobs forward thinkers saw a great shift in the architecture of society perhaps ancient idea of earning a living could be replaced with living a life we could see the new capacity to create in abundance to meet the needs of every human being on earth eight billion and beyond but sadly this prospect met the same fate as our energy ambitions the corporations locked into a manner of thought which viewed mechanisation as not a means for abundance put rather a means to save even more money in the process of production and set up a violent clash not only a