From: Emlyn (emlyn@one.net.au)
Date: Fri Sep 29 2000 - 23:43:42 MDT
ie: the state will wither away. Hmm.
Emlyn
----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael S. Lorrey" <retroman@turbont.net>
To: <extropians@extropy.org>
Sent: Saturday, September 30, 2000 4:24 AM
Subject: Re: Some thoughts on Politics
> "J. R. Molloy" wrote:
> >
> > Michael S. Lorrey has written,
> >
> > > Anarchy is not about chaos or lawlessness, it is about privatizing law
and
> > > making its providers competitors in the market to provide the best
justice
> > > possible.
> >
> > Will a technological spike render politics obsolete by enabling
instantaneous
> > social justice or will it simply offer perfectly privatized legal
systems?
>
> I don't know what you mean by 'perfectly privatized'. There will likely be
some
> institutions that remain that provide some sort of services to all at some
level
> of abstraction, though to a decreasing degree and weight of authority as
> individuals become more capable of ensuring their own rights and lives at
a
> lower more personal level.
>
> Politics as we know them will not exist. Politics as a means of dispute
> resolution in a society will likely remain in some form at ever greater
levels
> of dilution down to more local, individual levels, in one form or another.
>
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