Obverse to Civilization’s ordering aspects, such as its hierarchies, formations for applications of force, implements for command and control, technology regimes, processes and measures, etc. The disorder typical of catastrophe reveals the reasons for Civilization,, and provides justification for further, continuing expansion of Civilization’s defining, enabling powers.

The Virtual Spectacle, our third type, is actually a nascent, emergent phenomenon, about which we know only a little. At this stage, what we can assert with some certainty is that the nature of the virtual spectacle is 4 dimensional. As with any “new” phenomenon pertaining to evolving human perceptual (and technical) evolution, it is possible to project or invent “good” and/or “bad” trajectories. We will return to the virtual spectacle at length, in due course. Suffice for now to say that the virtual spectacle is central to our thesis and project.*

Wrapping up this section, and transitioning to the next, let us consider briefly another meaning for “spectacles,” namely corrective lenses. Glasses have been a sign of the user’s knowledge-seeking, maybe