From: Alex Future Bokov (alexboko@umich.edu)
Date: Wed Dec 06 2000 - 16:04:05 MST
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My fascination with libertarianism stems from its viral,
self-perpetuating, scalable, *unpreventable* nature. It's unspoken (up
till now) assumption that "if something can possibly go wrong, it will,
so let's incorporate it into our design".
If the public is not morally ready and willing for a libertarian
revolution, either libertarianism is self-contradictory, or we've made
an unwarranted assumption in travelling from the theory to the practice
of libertarianism. An unwarranted assumption such as the following, for
example:
In concluding that libertarianism needs a populace that understands and
appreciates its merits, we're overlooking the other way anything gets
done-- because nobody can prevent it. Because the winds of entropy are
at just the right angle to the sails. For instance, nobody, not even
those who pollute, think that pollution is actually a *good* thing in
itself, yet it still happens.
A hierarchical authority can't keep up with the rapidly growing pace of
change and increasing complexity in society. It doesn't matter if
people want someone to micromanage their lives, or want to micromanage
others'. Any such authority will be too top-heavy to function
effectively. It will collapse, and it's in the mode of its collapse
that libertarians have a role to play. The more acquainted the public
is with libertarian ideas, the more gracefully hierarchical authority
will collapse and the less unnecessary damage it will do on its way
down.
Group decisionmaking is necessary, but effective organizations will
acquire the neural, complex, de/poly-centralized characteristics of
market/ecological systems.
I leave morality to the philosophers and clerics, but from a cybernetics
standpoint, libertarianism is inevitable.
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