Conclusion

    While we can't say that people really obey the same laws as heat engines based on this particular model it could still be possible. After all, how can we truly know how much each person is benefitting from some great cultural change like this? How can we know how much hostility these events truly generated that simply did not culminate in physical violence, or that manifested itself in other ways throughout time.

    On the other hand though, it could be a good thing if humanity doesn't follow these same patterns. This would imply that the things we can change about the world around us are not limited by differences of opinion. This is a much more hopeful conclusion. Of course, in our calculation it was specifically the second law of thermodynamics that was violated by the engine so maybe this implies that ideas just don't always spread.