The idea of society based solely on individuals considers any collective form as an abstraction. This is due to the fact that it is impossible for humans to completely plan a society or economy in all of its details. In fact, the limits created by human ignorance can lead to an emphasis on individual liberty. The actions of society can be only an aggregate of human actions, but any knowledge of reality requires a collective system of meaning.

 
The phenomenon of countercultures has existed for many centuries, periodically emerging in times of static conformity and stagnation. It is a period of revival that stresses freedom and imagination as well as empowerment. The study of countercultures can be a field of history and sociology in itself.

 
The common traits of ecology and economics is that both follow the principles of systems. They have an interior and exterior, go through internal proceses of relationships and exchange, and produce information about themselves. Each system can also be embedded in larger systems. This analysis allows for a more open systemic perspective that prevents friction or tension between ecology and economics.

 
Courtney Love has been a focal point of controversy for some time, to such a degree as to be rumored to be behind the death of Kurt Cobain. She has been an example of a celebrity who is unable to deal with their staus of having acces to everything and engage in the excessive use of fame, drugs, and attention. However, even though these celebrities are criticized for their behavior they do not hold any power over average Americans. Rather, it is the heads of corporations who influence the lives of Americans and should be the target of more critique.

 
The death of Jean Baudrillard marks the end of a philosopher who clearly was able to describe the mediation of late modernity. Even though he worked in hyperbole, he showed that simulation of reality allowed power to be exercised over individuals and collectives. The only response to this mediation is action that disrupts the simulated world and shows the reality behind the image.

 
There is a great similarity between the production of commodities in economics and the production of signs in semiotics. Both begin with a production of a product or sign from matter and personal experience, then moves to the exchange of that product or sign, and ends with the consumption of that product or sign by others. There is a transition from an individual use value to a collective exchange value to another use value by another individual.