With reference to Richard K. Moore's posting:
A Quigleyan "instrument of expansion" is any social arrangement which: saves
surplus; invests surplus in invention; provides incentive for further
invention. Social movements and cultural practices may constitute an
"instrument of expansion," or not. Moore may be on to a genuine "instrument"
(or part of a larger instrument) in the form of the Hollywood-centered "dream
machine." Quigleyan instruments are always of shaky stability, on the edge
of crisis and breakdown: Hollywood's well-known propensity to imitate itself,
to recycle itself, would correspond well here.
For further information on "Quigleyan instruments," see Carroll Quigley, _The
Evolution of Civilizations_, NY: Macmillan, 1961. I also did a piece on
Quigley and Clinton for JWSR #1, 1995.