Natural enterprise is a self regulating and adaptable environment.
Applying environment and evolution themes to the world of commerce.
"When governments intervene and regulate - they decrease the biodiversity of the economic ecosystem, resulting in a limiting of natural selection within commerce." - Allan R. Wallace
We are risking a rapid die-off phase in both natural and economic systems. Contrary to publicity and propaganda, they are related. It is time to pay attention to the man behind the curtain.
Those well connected and unconscionably self-centered reap the benefits of coercive fraternal organization.
That's one reason the rain forest burns; slash and burn farming is the only viable route for poor in centrally managed economies to feed their children. When an economy is centrally regulated and controlled, it limits options for those without access to its authority - they can starve.
Dieoff
"We elect government officials to referee a game; they have come to believe this means they own the teams, the stadiums, and the sport." - Allan Wallace
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My oldest sister passed away a year ago. Marti was a very intelligent and well informed gal. In reviewing our correspondence, I discovered this graphic she had sent on how the earth would shape up if man were eliminated.
This was my response; slightly shortened, edited and with links updated:
"I reviewed the graphic quickly.
But as I understand it methane is largely a by product of animal waste - so it will not be gone unless all animals are gone. I'm sure some of the other science is likewise overly enthusiastically presented - I know, thats not the point.
Thomas Malthus proved in the late1700s that the earth could not support its then current population - similar scientists and economists are still proving the same thing. Some century they may be right - just not this one. There is plenty of food - just lousy, government controlled methods of distribution. Again - not the point of the graphic.
I could concoct a similar time-line of what could be accomplished if creative people were not shackled with unreasonable societal constraints, laws, taxes, and regulations. It would not have to be too accurate; like this graphic, it would spread only through those that already believe, and be ignored by those that don't. But it could be used to raise contributions for an organization that published it.
The graphics point seems to be that Mother Earth would be better without everyone else. I'm sure the author would like to preserve their little tribe - maybe. A few selected individuals will remain. How do they plan to de-select the rest of humanity?
Man's ingenuity can clean up this mess much faster - and all done by enlightened natural enterprise.
A first step from my admittedly extremist viewpoint is to disassemble the TOO BIGS; big government, big corporations, big religions, big NGOs, big media, big unions, big education, etc. I happily can be an optimist because I believe the end of the bureaucratic age is already doing this.
Individuals and small teams empowered by technology can and will define solutions to the pressing problems now faced. We just need to keep freeing them so they have sufficient rewards for study, innovation, and hard work. Governments and legal systems that punish success and reward bad behavior are a continuing danger to the world.
Love and blessings,"
Allan
"In a free society the state does not administer the affairs of men. It administers justice among men who conduct their own affairs." - Walter Lippmann
Joseph Sobran
"People who create things nowadays can expect to be prosecuted by highly moralistic people who are incapable of creating anything.
There is no way to measure the chilling effect on innovation that results from the threats of taxation, regulation and prosecution against anything that succeeds.
We'll never know how many ideas our government has aborted in the name of protecting us."
The Collapsing Economic Ecosystem
The ruling elite Zoo keepers are quickly gathering a couple from each industry group. The others will be turned into fodder.
"Bureaucratic nations are inherently unjust. But bureaucrats are like weeds, pull one and tomorrow there will be two. Leave them alone and there will soon be a walled compound with administrative tower buildings and perimeter signs proclaiming that this invaluable sanctuary is off limits - except to more weeds." - Allan R. Wallace
We have been trained to cherish the world's environment, and to despise success - except in the cases of a few celebrities.
The result is we hurt at the possible loss of a specie's self-sustaining gene pool; and ignore the loss of sufficient diversity in commerce. They are very similar. From hundreds of auto companies in the US before the prior depression, there now exist two and a half - soon perhaps just one auto company caged in the Washington zoo. An incestuous relationship with congress and the rest of their TOO BIG family has eliminated the chance to stop interbreeding hillbilly royalty.
The same has happened in other industries, and is happening in banking and investment companies as I write. "When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators." - P.J. O'Rourke
Truth and justice are not determined in a ballot box.
Humans, you and I, naturally flow toward relationships based on respect and referral based on reputation. One of the many ways commerce is distorted by governments is in guarantees, promises, and in the "wink, wink, nod, nod" of smoke filled rooms. The implied promises remove required caution in dealings, and encourage gambling that is classed as speculation.
The current bailouts are a gamble, they are guessing at what will make them look good, and stealing as much as they can from your children's lifestyle to provide it. It will be ugly for a decade or two - borrowing and spending to solve a debt problem is not logical.
There is a solution. It's personal. It may help you and those you love.
Plan ahead, organize resilient neighborhood support, start your own natural enterprise, consider going back to the farm. Personally embrace decentralization, in everything from energy to food production.
I'm not into hubris, I don't expect my rants to change the course that has been chosen for us. I do expect that it is time to build the phoenix's nest, so at least those you love are prepared to rise from the ashes.
Allan R. Wallace
"The risks and rewards of natural enterprise are greater, and of far more value to society, than any illusions of security that bind human cogs to a social machine."
The only chance our world has is in the liberation of creative and productive individuals.
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." - Benjamin Franklin
They want to make all the complex human herds and packs composed of individuals into a single hive of drones. They have always failed, they will always fail; for outstanding individuals will continue to emerge - imagining and accomplishing exceptional goals - changing everything." - Allan Wallace
I'm not the only wacked out weirdo - others (brilliant of course) have seen the same trends.
We''ll offer one video, and a smallish slew of books (4), to supply collaboration.
"IT has not happened, does not mean IT will not happen. If the fire department told you your untrimmed weeds were a fire hazard - they were not wrong because your house has not yet burned down." - Allan Wallace
Brazil
Just another day in the bureaucracy. Monte Python meets the Vogans. Very humorous yes, Scary in today's world? I'll let you judge.
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Reinventing Collapse: The Soviet Example and American Prospects
Nice treatment of a difficult subject. Query: Is Afghanistan where empires go to die?
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Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution
Natural Capitalism is what I call natural enterprise; there is too much baggage with the other phrase. Balancing the world? - it is being done, and resisted.
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Extraordinary Popular Delusions & the Madness of Crowds
We need a new chapter for the last fifty years and the next fifty - current delusion aren't over yet.
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The Skeptical Environmentalist: Measuring the Real State of the World
As environmentalists are we fighting the wrong battles, just 'cause the publicity is better there? A scientific look at where to start.
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Leonard Read
"Only among free men do pioneers emerge."
Self- challenging our world view.
No one else can do it for us, truth can only be found by those that willingly seek it. Become willingly adaptive.
The hardest and easiest thing to change is ourselves. We must give ourselves permission to change before we can honestly consider other viewpoints.
If you have a steal trap mind, but it has rusted shut, you may want to skip these other lenses.
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We all have errors in our world view. The only way to discover truth is to challenge our own beliefs.
"We hear fables about the past, we develop dreams of the future, but the work needs to be done today." - Allan R. Wallace
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- BFuniv.com BFuniv.com May 9, 2009 @ 10:44 am
- [reply to California_Dreamin] Yeppers they are.
I've read that "traffic jams are at the intersection where the freedoms of car ownership run into the inefficiencies of centralized planning."
On the 91 fwy near me, they do not add needed lanes, it would decrease revenue from two lanes of highly paid bypass. They have admitted this. That makes a deliberate inefficiency another hidden tax.
The pay-road was a private solution, but was taken over by the state - because it worked.
It can take hours to get the short distance from Anaheim to Chino. Pay a lot - no hassles. Save money, pay in increased pollution and gas consumption; on a freeway turned parking lot.
Without central planning a solution would be found. Eventually every government program achieves the opposite of its intended result. If private companies are inefficient, they go broke and disappear - good.
Privatize.
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- California_Dreamin California_Dreamin May 9, 2009 @ 9:02 am
- "Every government program interferes with and adds injustice to what we humans would do naturally."
Hmmm, aren't roads and sewage systems government programs?
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