Civiliztion can be described as a prodigiously complicated mechanism: tempting as it would be to regard it as our universe's best hope of survival, its true function is to produce what physicists call entropy: inertia, that is to say. . . . "Entropology," not anthropology, should be the word for the discipline that devotes itself to the study of this process of disintegration in its most highly evolved forms.
--Claude Levi-Strauss
Tristes Tropiques
Quoted in Robert F. Murphy's The Body Silent
Saturday, March 11, 2006
Entropology
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