It is also irrelevant." I think General Giap said that.
My point is that if you insist on casting political questions in emotional mind sets, you're playing into a major category error. Entrepreneurs only want to be left alone and earn an honest living selling a decent product at a fair price. Government ministers want to serve the public under the rule of law and administer justice for all. Most of them actually believe this, too. No one sees himself as a bad guy.
But if you watch them abstractly as simply large organizations inhabiting a social ecology, they exhibit remarkably similar behavior, both at the collective and individual level. The only way we can control this beast is to place it in an environment where Darwinian selection can operate. We tend to think of organizations in terms of predator and prey, in reality, parasite and host is a more appropriate metaphor.
No politician, no matter how honest, can survive unless he's elected. No
businessman, regardless of his comittment to his customers, can survive unless he makes a profit. Both inhabit an unstable social dynamic, and only in opposition can a truly stable and humane political economy evolve.
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