Boundaries of Order (Butler Shaffer)
- Highlight Loc. 983-86 | Added on Monday, January 02, 2012, 01:07 AM
As with other complex systems, societies are subject to the processes of chaos. Fluctuations within subsystems may generate increased turbulence that can reach a bifurcation point, at which the system may begin to function chaotically. Should this turbulence continue unabated, the system will experience either an entropic decline (e.g., western Rome) or total collapse, or transformation into a more refined order.
