I think that on this particular spectrum, there are two locally stable attractors for closed social systems, though these attractors have different effects on the nonsocial environment, which can eventually push a system into the other attractor—this is approximately why there’s a large cyclical element to history.
So if a system isn’t clearly falling towards one attractor or the other, we can infer that it’s a frontier between other systems that are changing over time, and doesn’t self-govern.
I think that on this particular spectrum, there are two locally stable attractors for closed social systems, though these attractors have different effects on the nonsocial environment, which can eventually push a system into the other attractor—this is approximately why there’s a large cyclical element to history.
So if a system isn’t clearly falling towards one attractor or the other, we can infer that it’s a frontier between other systems that are changing over time, and doesn’t self-govern.