Notes to self:
Saturation of consumer durables. Saturation of social media. Saturation of technology. Saturation of knowledge.
How do we know when societal adolescence is approaching completion and we’re advancing into the solar age. The restructuring of society will approach relative stability. Opportunities to restructure society for increased material efficiency will become harder and more costly to exploit. This includes restructuring to reduce the material costs of alienation among the populace. It includes adopting formal and informal institutions that promote or enable individuals to find meaning and purpose and thereby avoid feelings of alienation. We will have figured out how to address the fair distribution of resources between rich and poor, locally, nationally and globally, between present and future generations, between humankind and its natural environment. Rather than achieve fixed distribution and division of resources, we will have achieved institutional mechanisms to determine such issues of fairness, in a flexible and constantly changeable manner.