On 7/10/2010 4:05 PM, Ray Harrell wrote: > I love a zinger as much as the next person but "Socialist?"
Maybe you were not yet re-subscribed Ray, but Mike called my one prior Denninger post a "right wing rant." Sally jumps in now with a 'rah rah' for Mike who is always tops. The "cornucopian socialist" term is very descriptive; it has specific meaning/content for anyone familiar with ecological economics. There is not more than enough of what most people seek if only we would all share. And human nature (like the rest of nature) will not voluntarily share equally; it's not in our genes. Apart from a few exceptions like Keith and maybe Ed Weick, this list is populated with positive future type activists who deem overshoot non-existent. They also think governments ( read politicians and bureaucrats) are well intentioned and among the most competent of the populace. I disagree. They also seem suspect of any who excell at ( and are rewarded for) private endeavors. But I will teach locally, in person, beginning next winter. It is a better use of my time than to try to convert religious people into evidence based thinkers or utopians into realists over the internet. Mike and I have had a decent relationship re technological democracy. But that is only a small part of the human economy. Economics to me is not mainly fiat credit analysis. Borrowing money from the future merely permits a faster pace of rape of the planet. Denninger doesn't likely get that. But he is still right about the addiction to spending what one doesn't have to consume now what one wants. As long as 'someone else' pays, people will vote for it and politicians will spend it. Lazy is not just correct about the US, it is the species. Cultures modify behavior, but they do not change the boundary behaviors of animal homo superstitious. I'm aghast at the rationale anyone has for admiring Krugman. He wants to grow our way out of overshoot!! :-) Here's a final teaser for the smart folks on this list: http://www.world-science.net/othernews/100701_freewill Cheers on the downslope, Steve _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [email protected] https://lists.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework
