From: Alexander Sheppard (alexandersheppard@hotmail.com)
Date: Fri Oct 25 2002 - 11:51:17 MDT
"Concentrations of power are dangerous, and antithetical to freedom. I'm
more interested in maintaining (encouraging) freedom than I am in
forwarding any particular economic theory, whether it is "natural" or not."
I agree. Dogmatic political theories are arbitrary and don't really make a
whole of sense as far as I can see. Marxism would be an example. There is no
particular reason to even treat the collection of ideas which we call
Marxism as a coherent body of concepts, I tend to think in fact that some
are conductive to libery and some aren't. So, you have to pick and choose.
Nobody has "the answers", they evolve as society evolves, and it is often
necessary to experiment.
>From another message,
"except, possibly, Tito and Mussolini"
Interesting enough to mention him-- Mussolini once said "Fascism may as well
be called corporatism because it represents the merger of state and
corporate power".
>From still another message,
"Now that alone is one of the more idiotic things said in this
diatribe (not that there's any shortage)"
I think mabye you should try to interpret the context in which that was
meant. I don't really have much idea of what you mean by chaos... what do
you mean? I assumed when you said chaos that you meant people not having any
knolwedge of what other people were doing around them, and hence not
participating in the collective affairs of large groups of people. If you
just mean that central authority is bad, that decentralization is good--
then I certainly agree. There are a lot of terms here where we can just jump
on eachother and start shouting about how stupid the other side is, or we
can try to find out how we're defining terms, and what our underlying
assumptions on both sides are, and reach some sort of common conclusion.
In fact, I once met a person who said that all the political problems of the
world were essentially a communication problem. Perhaps, at least in a
certain sense, that is the case.
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