Samuel Alexander > Quotes

“Time is the Mind of Space.”
― Samuel Alexander, Space, Time and Deity: The Gifford Lectures at Glasgow Part One

“Money is not energy. Wars would also arise as competing political forces saw opportunities to advance, but military expenditure would simply draw more energy and funds away from maintaining social systems and infrastructure, generally leading to the fragmentation or breakdown of centralised systems of administration, governance, and rule.”
― Samuel Alexander, Entropia: Life Beyond Industrial Civilisation

“While not everyone can be expected to be an ‘expert’ in all matters of governance, we know that any of us might one day be called upon to serve on the People’s Council,”
― Samuel Alexander, Entropia: Life Beyond Industrial Civilisation

“Put simply, the growth model assumed that the overall wellbeing of a society was approximately proportional to the size of its economy, because more money or higher Gross Domestic Product (GDP) meant that more individual and social desires could be satisfied via market transactions. No matter how rich a society became, growing the economy was thought to be the only effective way to eliminate poverty, reduce inequality and unemployment, properly fund schools, hospitals, the arts, scientific research, environmental protection programs, and so on. In other words, the underlying social problem (even within the richest nations) was believed to be a lack of money.”
― Samuel Alexander, Entropia: Life Beyond Industrial Civilisation