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Resilience as a two-edged sword : Comments

By Chris Harries, published 21/4/2011

Will this icon term morph into meaningless, like so many others have done?

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Collective solutions are unstable and unresilent for the same reasons that monocultures are much less stable and resilient than biodiverse communities. Political solutions mean imposing on the whole population a one-size-fits-all measure dreamt up by politicians. Since the state, by its very nature, consists of a claim of a monopoly of coercion, the state's rulers are able to avoid the person costs of their own measures by externalising them on to their subjects. The knowledge of the problems and the solutions is dispersed among the millions and billions of people in the world. There is simply no way that a single decision-maker, or a single committee, no matter how clever is able to approximate even the tiniest fraction of the knowledge available to the people as a whole. Since the state does not have the knowledge, the incentive, or the capacity to fix the problems better than the people they falsely claim to represent, there is no reason to assume that they are better fixed by the state.

So the constant resort to the state to try to fix dispersed social problems is just a modern fetishism. If the author lived in a different age, he would be shaking bones or reading bird's gizzards. But he lives in the modern age, so his fetishism takes the form of assuming without reason that the state can fix any particular problem. We need to recognise this modern fetishism for the destructive anti-social nonsense it is.
Posted by Peter Hume, Friday, 22 April 2011 11:33:34 PM
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Many of our words have been losing their original meaning as they are abused by the Politically Correct Thought Police.

Take Loony Left wing politics as a perfect example.

They call it socialism to disguise the fact that when you get past the flowery rhetoric to the "devil in the detail" of the practical policy, it is in fact Anti social, Communism, when it is, Anti Community, Women's Liberation, when it is their, wage enslavement.

Revolution, when it is in fact, Counter Revolutionary, by training the blue collar, working classes, to avoid co-operating with the white collar, bourgeois, middle classes, against the super rich.
Posted by Formersnag, Sunday, 24 April 2011 4:38:35 PM
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