Reply #10: It was just an oversimplified metaphor... [View All]

[porphyrian]

...to help illustrate my point.

The system is finite because we are finite, and we are the origin of the system - unless it is possible that our social structures can exist without us. Don't misunderstand me, we are part of more than one system, some of which overlap. There are also any number of systems of which we are not a part. In my post, I was only talking about the system in which we operate with politics as a social construct, though I may not have made this clear.