On Thursday 14 September 2006 04:39, David Guest wrote: > Horst I knew you were an anarchist or, as Tim would have it, an an > anarcho-syndicalist.
I think any political conviction can only be seen in a current context. Yes, for now in the current climate I would regard myself as a cooperative anarchist. The way I see political evolution: conservative democracy (accumulates material wealth to allow next step) -> social democracy (accumulates education and health to allow next step - this is where the Scandinavians are already). -> cooperative meritocracy (most efficient distribution / investment of general wealth (resulting from generally highly educated and healthy population) to achieve next step) (this is where some individuals of the free software world are already, but no country - the concept of a "country" is obsolete and has no place in a cooperative meritocracy). Governance has moved on from being an instrument of administrating scarcity towards an instrument of making "wealth" a commodity for everybody. -> cooperative anarchy (enjoying general wealth and absence of any material scarcity, renaissance of arts and rediscovery of philosophy). The concept of governance has become obsolete. -> benign competitive anarchy (acknowledging that our solar system is finite timewise and resourcewise and that we have to start thinking about moving on, no more time for complacency, rediscovery of pioneering, enterprising and invention). -> posthuman society (at least artificial intelligence implementations have achieved legal recognition as equal sentient and sapient entities, so that humans have to start sharing resources and learn how to cooperate with something utterly alien - I hope so much that I will live to experience that stage). Jurisdiction moves on towards a single last crime that is still punishable: diminishing information or blocking access to information or inhibiting information transfer unfortunately, our current government is spreading both ways from the "conservative democracy" stage - a bit towards social democracy, but also quite a bit backwards towards the dark ages. A rather fluid political cow pat without dynamic but with a rather nasty smell. Horst _______________________________________________ Gpcg_talk mailing list [email protected] http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk
