On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 7:26 AM, Anthony wikimail@inbox.org wrote:
Like it or not, Wikipedia actually makes a good case study for why anarchy doesn't work.
On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 10:41 AM, The Cunctator cunctator@gmail.com wrote:
Or a good case study in how quickly factions and power grabs form.
How quickly factions and power grabs form *is* why anarchy doesn't work.
On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 4:21 AM, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
May I link yet again to "The Tyranny Of Structurelessness", about how hierarchies will form, and you can either account for this or have them bite you on the backside:
Absolutely. I'm going to make one of my rare "me too" posts echoing this.
Kurt, as a self-declared objectivist, maybe you will appreciate this quote:
"It is a grave error," writes Ayn Rand, "to suppose that a dictatorship rules a nation by means of strict, rigid laws which are obeyed and enforced with rigorous, military precision. Such a rule would be evil, but almost bearable; men could endure the harshest edicts, provided these edicts were known, specific and stable; it is not the known that breaks men's spirits, but the unpredictable." (http://www.tafol.org/bulletins/b07.html quoting "Antitrust: The Rule of Unreason," in The Objectivist Newsletter (February, 1962) 5.)
Simply ignoring the "Arbitrary Committee" is not enough. It must be replaced with a stable, predictable, system of governance.