I have often used a biological metaphor for economics, comparing a free market, where countless self-interested parties interact in a certain environment to produce a stable system that benefits the whole, to similar systems in nature. A rain forest works like that.
A book called "Bionomics" by Michael Rothschild also goes into some of this.
I'm beginning to conclude that there is something in the human mind that is allergic to the concept of "spontaneous order," of things working out for the best when individuals deal with each other in a seemingly random way (it isn't really. It's just too complex to easily grasp.)
I wonder if the psychological reason people can't accept a free society without a "controller" making sure everything works, is the same reason other people can't accept the idea of a universe of this complexity without a "Watchmaker."
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- Neo Nazi throwbacks outnumbered by sentient humans at rally
- The only thing that keeps 'em alive is the folks who protest them.
- this image should be publicized ..
- I imagine the other fist is holding a hammer and sickle. (n/t)
- The Nazi's might as well have been Communists.
- that doesn't even deserve a real response, you miserable Neo-Nazi cretin
- So the Americans that stomped the trash regime you worship into the mud were communists?
- BTW, it didn't look like an American sign to me.
- The means failed, the agenda did not.
- The agenda is fatally flawed.
- Recommended reading
- Actually...
- Order
- Social Darwinism, Creationism and "Intelligent Design", and other misunderstandings
- re: Order and constraints
- BTW...I don't have anything against genetic engineering of humans as a concept...
- Order
- PS
- Rocks Paper Scissors.
- The agenda is fatally flawed.
- Really?
- I imagine the other fist is holding a hammer and sickle. (n/t)
- Doesnt the fact that these morons are losing and dying out....