I'd like to respond explicitly to a few threads. Sheer complexity, however supple or recursively structured, doesn't necessarily advance human equilibrium and self-governance. The uncontrolled, quasi-biological proliferation of complex technology may well result in ecological disaster, as Joshua LaBare said in his post on suicidal intelligence. Negotiated consensus is an inherent requirement of complex societies, in which individuals are interdependent. I can understand D. Griffin's impatience with the blanket condemnation of progress.
Positive critique recognizes dangers in an existing state of affairs and seeks to go on ahead.
Humans already made the tremendously positive decision not to eradicate us as a species in the nuclear conflagration that threatened during the Cold War. I'm interested, especially since another post revealed that all kinds of un-productivist working people like Sarah Pierce, people who still read for pleasure, might get attracted by this meme. Randomness can always be channeled.