On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 7:26 AM, Anthony
<wikimail(a)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(a)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(a)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:
http://www.jofreeman.com/joreen/tyranny.htm
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.