Why All Attempts to "Turn Back the Clock" Have Failed.

The Enlightenment sought after mankind's unlimited progress into the future.  However, the Enlightenment project largely failed as the increasing empowerment of the individual led to a decline in culture and the rise of a useless conformity.  Following, this decline various attempts have been made to "turn back the clock" by reactionaries hoping to achieve a return to a simpler or less technologically dependent era.  All such attempts have failed and will continue to fail.  One of the reasons for this feared by reactionaries of all sorts concerns the role of the Second Law of Thermodynamics.  This is the idea that eventually the content of a system will dissipate to be thinned out and replaced by a static vacuum.  This is referred to as heat death and a maximization of entropy.  The Enlightenment may be understood in this respect as an exponential explosion of entropy into the system which has brought only further advances and followed by an information era along with a decline in the standard of living for a vast majority.  The information era represents the lowest level of entropic collapse in which good information is driven out by bad and trivial information.  The greatest increase in trivial information represents an increase in entropy as society ceases to function properly