Where I live we have a saying, "If your geodesic yurt caves in on you in a NorCal winter, you get cold; in an Idaho winter you'd die."
My point? That certain geographic factors contribute to certain mindsets. Here in Cali we have a wildly experimental and edge-seeking attitude that stems from the mild climate moreso than other parts of the country. Perhaps that's why this ecotopia produces so much world leading innovation from the Silicon Valley to Redmond, Washington to even Hollywood (booo LA). How much of Marx is demonized, simply because his ideas were adopted by Russia? Russia of the cold winters and wide spaces and long-lasting serfdom. Everybody inside and outside remarks upon how little actually changes in the Rodina; the Tsar is replaced by the commissar, (commie-zar - hah) replaced by the oligarchs. The labels shift but the underlying attitudes of the people and what they choose in leaders stays the same. That's due to static inertia, of course, but I'd say also due to the shapings of the environment upon the organism and the society. And if you can threaten Californians with Russification, of course they're gonna blanch and tremble and vote republican. It is a completely different culture at the base of that economic socialism and it wouldn't work at all here. Likewise, Russians are pretty indisposed to see anything in a position of wealth and power as anything but a corrupt and greedy institution. Hauling yourself up by your bootstraps is simply an unthinkable concept there. The good citizen is the one that doesn't stand out, doesn't make waves and doesn't make a big deal of themselves. You see a similiar attitude in people from Minnesota. Latitude = Attitude. So what is the highest quality political system that any group of people can organize themselves into? Depends. Where these people coming from, historically and ecologically? Scandanavia? Montana? Guam? All those places and people have differing needs. Thus the right sociopolitical system depends upon the region you come from. The United States of America, where I live, would be better served if it broke up into autonomous regions( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nine_Nations_of_North_America) with a common defense pact, just like the USSR did; allowing for more dynamic response at the local level to the local needs. Not into 50 different states, but into bioregions (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bioregionalism)- where federal controls will not impose inappropriate policies from 1000s of miles away. Freed from the Fed, which no matter how much you feed it, it always wants to be more fed. Reagen rode his white horse into office along a similar bandwagon. It was called back then "The Sagebrush Rebellion." Wish he'd stuck with that theme in Washington, instead of returning us to reruns of "Death Valley Days" Today tho, it's interesting to contemplate: I wonder what would happen to all that Federal debt if the Federal Government was dissolved? Backed by the full faith and credit indeed ... heh heh. -- ------------ Self is simply Choice. ------------ Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
