But unless you have a way to overcome entropy, the energy comes to have less and less creative potential as your possibilities dissipate away into random noise.
I'm of the mindset that overcoming entropy (rising up in creative potential) is possible for small groups of people but not for the masses. Does that make me a chauvinist or a realist?
Overcoming entropy in a closed system is quite baffling to me, because it would require energy from the outside to do work against the trajectory of what is happening already. So when you theorise that a small group of people can do that, I read it as a small group of people have developed internal mechanisms within the closed system (either through innate ability or environmentally developed) which can intrinsically and autonomously alter internal energy arrangements.
What are you taking as your "closed system"? What is a closed system for most may not be so closed for some.
Total EclipseThe Emissary arrives in many disguises,
A shutter that opens and closes.
Two freeze time in a frame
Of painful and awkward poses.
Two charge and recharge the battery,
Repulsed by the Earth as a rocket.
Two ride on the wings of some lofty being.
I keep my Aim in my pocket.
Picture a tunnel (a cube, if you will)
With interchanging faces.
Which side has the door
Through which I might slide?
They taught me in School of such spaces.
. ............................ Spiral of Friends
It was an extension of what merej99 suggested. The fact that we have a finite amount of energy which can neither be dissipated or more created. Only re-arranged.
That may or may not be true for the Universe as a whole - I have no way of knowing and speculation is useless. But that energy cannot enter or leave a given subsystem of the Universe as a whole is certainly not true. Take the Earth within our solar system - energy both enters and leaves the earth. Take the thin skin of biological life upon the Earth. Energy both enters and leaves it. Take the tiny sub-system of humanity within the thin skin of organic life upon the Earth. Energy both enters and leaves.
Do you see where I am going with the anologies?