Life is a chemical System that uses energy to keep itself from reaching chemical equilibrium. Equilibrium is the situation in which chemicals no longer have a tendency to react over time.
What are a Society's Eschatological Goals for the End Times. To Immanentize it, or to Catechize it? And to serving and achieving what 'ends' should a Society devote its' Surplus (Luxury - Necessity) energies?
While Marx seeks to understand and optimize the production of wealth through human effort [Anthropogenic Energy?}. Bataille seeks to understand the necessary destruction of wealth through energy expenditure [Energy in all its' forms?].
