Another Regime or, A Tale of Two Cities

At first this development was rather contained. But regarding the first society’s constant longing for authenticity and vitality (“the real life”), it was only a matter of time before the second society emerged as the new paradigm.

By spending more and more of its income on the second society’s goods and services, the first society not only became increasingly involved, but slowly the two once again merged.

Being based on extremely localized products irrelevant to the world market, this shift of course didn’t change Europe’s wider economic prospects. However, it strongly levelled access to the material resources (the fruits) the continent still had available. And with profits to be made, this also meant that the early days finally had come to an end. Investors moved in and the once informal new modes of production and consumption soon became more ordered.

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