For the free-market/libertarian inclined: Try to think human - TopicsExpress



          

For the free-market/libertarian inclined: Try to think human societies as chaotic systems, ie the outcome of setting the system free depends a lot on the initial conditions. My prediction is that setting people free from the current state of ideologies (nationalism, racism, naive belief in good and bad people, naive beliefs/wishful thinking in human rationality and the invisible hand etc) leads to a horrible outcome (like dystopia or even apocalypse level horrible of magnitude probably difficult to even imagine. Think global holocaust). Im sort of a small government guy myself, but for the small government to work, we must have a smooth transition in the society that prepares peoples attitudes and ideologies towards the point where societies can work with a minimal or even without a state at all. Most likely the transition would need a point with a larger government (but not autocratic!) that would provide a stable period with minimal scarcity for the attitudes to gradually change. Now if Ive hooked anybody to read until here, you may not have such a knee-jerk reaction to the c-word, so I can reveal that these arent actually my or even new ideas. This is largely Marxs communism, which was never intended to work with a revolution (that was the main Bolshevik idea), but through gradual shift from capitalism to socialism (think something like nordic countries and especially where they were headed before the 80s) to communism with very limited to non-existent government. Very similar ideas are actually presented in many different ideologies to, eg many forms of anarchism, the awesome Walden Two of B.F. Skinner (although how the transition should work was sadly largely ignored) and probably many many more. So actually eg communism and libertarianism are very similar in practice, but have very different assumptions on human behavior and how malleable it is and how benevolent it can be if we can do away with scarcity (real AND imagined) and people assess their own self-interest from a larger and more realistic perspective.
Posted on: Sat, 13 Dec 2014 11:26:25 +0000

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