A fragmentation of society on all levels is most certainly coming down the tube for the GAE. I hear of the totalitarianism of California and NY; while simultaneously hearing my own state is allowing concealed carry without a license. The center breaks and the edges scatter.
I do enjoy these non-tete-a-tete's that AA has with others....here's the rub: the underlying worldview of the current elites is that man can be 'cured'; that evolution, once prompted, will result in something 'not-man' and society will follow. Underneath this thought is the quiet acknowledgement that modern man is not really modern at all and they only need create a system to accomplish the change in man. Is it any wonder that this system would become more and more complex to attempt this feat of increasing magnitude and ultimate futility? Burnham was correct to title it the 'Suicide of the West'. What will it become? Where the current elite stay in power, Forever Gotham; in others, transcendent renewal. We won't be alive to see either.
Some immediate thoughts on complexity/size. Hayek pointed out the information problem of centralised systems. Knowledge is dispersed. Then you've got Nassim Taleb who points out how risks turn exponential in bigger systems. Everything big eventually fails. Anti-fragility is key. A look at one of those YouTube videos of maps of European power changing over time reveals a continual growing, shrinking and splintering of countries and empires.
A fragmentation of society on all levels is most certainly coming down the tube for the GAE. I hear of the totalitarianism of California and NY; while simultaneously hearing my own state is allowing concealed carry without a license. The center breaks and the edges scatter.
I do enjoy these non-tete-a-tete's that AA has with others....here's the rub: the underlying worldview of the current elites is that man can be 'cured'; that evolution, once prompted, will result in something 'not-man' and society will follow. Underneath this thought is the quiet acknowledgement that modern man is not really modern at all and they only need create a system to accomplish the change in man. Is it any wonder that this system would become more and more complex to attempt this feat of increasing magnitude and ultimate futility? Burnham was correct to title it the 'Suicide of the West'. What will it become? Where the current elite stay in power, Forever Gotham; in others, transcendent renewal. We won't be alive to see either.
Some immediate thoughts on complexity/size. Hayek pointed out the information problem of centralised systems. Knowledge is dispersed. Then you've got Nassim Taleb who points out how risks turn exponential in bigger systems. Everything big eventually fails. Anti-fragility is key. A look at one of those YouTube videos of maps of European power changing over time reveals a continual growing, shrinking and splintering of countries and empires.