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Re: Bionomics

The idea behind bionomics occurred to me long before I saw the book.

It always amazed me that liberals and leftists could easily comprehend the idea of a rain forest (or any other ecological system), a completely uncontrolled mass of living things, each out for only itself (cooperating at times when it can benefit by it) and killing off competition (literally!). Yet the forest is a stable system, lasting for thousands of years, adapting to changes in environment and thriving.

If I were to suggest going to Brazil and begin agriculturally controlling and managing the rain forests to make them work better as wild rain forests, environmentalists would think I'm nuts. And they'd be right.

Yet the idea of a stable and workable market economy, which even in a totally free market is considerably milder than the rain forest (one does not normally kill and eat a rival), is completely unbelievable to them.

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