[Arlo]
Chest-thumping about the "free market" is merely talk-radio rhetoric.
[Platt adds his favorite soundbite]
"A free market is a Dynamic institution..." yada yada yada.
[Arlo]
Well, since you posit this in "reply" to my points (although it
answers none), I can only assume you mean it to show that Pirsig does
advocate a completely unregulated market. So bye-bye copyright laws
and hello 1-800-Nuke-4-Me. (By the way, the restriction on
trafficking human slaves is an intellectual restriction on the
market, I suppose that goes too. Copyright law is the same, an
intellectual restriction on market activity.)
Again, the sensible dialogue is one how much regulation, where and
why, with what goal? But keep demonstrating that talk-radio chicanery
we all expect. Are laws requiring accurate content descriptions
"prohibitive", or do they provide enough "good" as to outweigh the
"burden" they place on producers? Minimum wage, if you recall, was a
response to the injustices of the market as experienced by the great
many. It was not foist upon the masses by a few "interllectuals", but
a popular demand by the many who suffered under horrible conditions.
Workplace Safety regulations.. same thing. Laws prohibiting porn
shops within a certain radius of elementary schools restrict the
"free market", but do so appropriately.
The point stands, any "market" is merely a reflection of the cultural
values of those who participate. This "Dynamic" institution would
just as happily move six year old sex slaves to wealthy individuals
as it is in brining my the latest PS3 games; it would just as readily
set up "Meth-R-Us" next door to your local elementary school as it
would bring another Red Lobster. It would just as soon sell nuclear
weapons to hostile dictators as it would bring boxes of books to your
local bookstore.
But that just underscores Krimel's point. "Dynamic" does not always
mean "good". Well, from the POV of those dictators, the market's
provision of nuclear arms may be "good", or from the POV of someone
wanting a child for a sex-slave or a darkie to do his menial labor.
But if that's "good", then I think I'd prefer a regulated "evil"
world where the market is regulated by intellectuals against these things.
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