The Conservative MP, Nick Boles, who recently said that we need more
chaotic government in modern times was very silly to use the word even
though he was using it in a strictly mathematical sense. The word "random"
would have been better. After all, each of us is the product of a random
mixture of genes from our parents. Furthermore, throughout our lifetimes,
our genes will be constantly randomizing their coalitions in order to fight
disease or adjust to difficult circumstances. A better word still would be
"serendipitous" -- accidental discovery. What Boles is saying is that the
sort of top-down, monolithic type of governance that civil services have
perfected in the last century is no longer working. We need far more
decentralization where there might well be less uniformity across a culture
-- indeed, chaos and randomness in some cases -- but in which, here and
there, individuals and small groups might make serendipitous discoveries of
how to solve problems. That's how evolution -- and the whole innovative
history of man -- has always been.
Keith
Keith Hudson, Saltford, England
<http://allisstatus.wordpress.com/2010/12/>http://allisstatus.wordpress.com/2010/12/
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