Bryan Moss wrote:
>
> Matthew Gaylor quoted David Brin:
>
> > Our point should be that simplistic "government-centered
> > solutions" that once worked, in a more primitive world,
> > may now be obsolete and holding us back. With rising
> > sophistication, we can move on to more mature synergies
> > that make progressively less use of coercive state power,
> > leveraging against individual effort more and more as time
> > goes on. [...]
>
> It's interesting to consider that greater knowledge of how
> societies function, assuming such knowledge is obtainable,
> implies a higher degree of centralisation. It's also worth
> noting that greater freedom may well come from government-
> centred solutions as opposed free market solutions.
Why would either of these assertions have any basis?
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