To: lurqer who wrote (17779 ) 10/24/2002 4:37:00 PM From: elpolvo Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 104191 LQD-How do you strike that balance? Is the balance dynamic (moving)? What "feedback mechanisms" will keep the balance? Wish I knew. keep thinking on it. from the "big picture" prospective it's already in place and it's working on the galactic scale. even much more narrowly focused down to the planet earth herself - the self-governing, self-sustaining, self-evolving life system is working already. we just need to observe and emulate and build upon and into the "natural way" or "nature of the universe". the network is the infrastructure of the system and the information flow is the feedback that maintains the balance. and yes, the balance is dynamic. it HAS to be. <talking in broad generalities now> if the core is aligned with natural law and the matrix is aligned with the properties of the core and the superstructure is aligned with the matrix, then eufrickin'reeka! you've got the perfect system. it's outgrowth can then become ultra-complex without everyone having to be a genius to understand it and operate within the bounds of the system -- all one has to do to functionally participate, contribute and reap is understand the simple natural law of the core and remain in alignment with that. am i making sense? am i spouting obvious, over-simplistic ideas that have been postulated by economists for centuries? i don't know, i've never studied economic theory beyond simplistic fundamentals like laws of supply and demand. there has to be someone out there that has already studied and formulated, and proposed, and written extensively along this line of thought... help me out here lurqing dude. i'm a guy whose education is based on witty one-line quotations and observations of the weather and the stock market, not on volumes of scientific study and research. -overmyhead