Aspirational Revolution by Michael Taillard

Author:Michael Taillard
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Springer International Publishing, Cham

In the early civilizations, the aristocracy would have multiple homes in the rural areas, so that when one became intolerably unhygienic, they would move to another one while the others are cleaned. This, of course, required the movement of people and resources to maintain the buildings and grounds, and the network of supporting laborers to produce food and clothing and everything else needed.

The Rapa Nui people of Easter Island, a vibrant civilization which no longer exists, is thought to have disappeared most likely as a result of such factors. As the population of this agriculturally based civilization grew, the available resources could not sustain that population, resulting in either overconsumption or deforestation-induced famine (similar to the Dust Bowl in twentieth-century United States), and so the majority of the population disappeared (i.e., either they left the island, or starved, or something—it is not real clear). The Rapa Nui people still exist, with Census data showing that roughly 4000 people still identify as ethnically Rapa Nui, but the Easter Island-based civilization never recovered. The productive energy produced consumed all the economic matter available, and the Easter Island was not able to generate enough economic gravity to attract additional matter, so it was all dispersed except for a small remnant of what it once was.

When one star sheds its layers and dies, though, all that matter dispersed throughout space will often gravitate toward other nearby matter, becoming the seeds of new stars. The automotive manufacturing lost to Detroit as the city, as it once was, shed its layers and died, spread across the nation, as domestic and foreign auto manufacturers set up plants in rural parts of Indiana, Georgia, and other places. Over history, grand civilizations have risen and fallen, only to be replaced by new ones. The Romans still live in Rome, though the Roman Empire no longer exists as it once did, yet its fall gave rise to other great cities across the globe.

One of those great civilizations was Great Britain, wherein during the 1700s CE the people went through their own Age of Enlightenment (not to sound Eurocentric—other cultures have had their own periods of great intellectual contributions to the world, but this period in specific is relevant to the topic at hand). It was during this period that the production potential of a labor-based economy had reached its maximum, and the average amount of production per person was slowing. The cumulative advancements of humanity until that time culminated in the British Age of Enlightenment, during which many innovations were made in science and industry which allowed for production to be automated. That is to say, production, which was previously done by people, could be performed automatically by machine. The realization that steam or electricity or chemical reactions could be used to generate enough energy to create mechanical movements was as fundamentally significant to human advancement as the discovery of agriculture. The idea spread quickly, and inventions were developed with the intention to perform just about any task thinkable, both

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