Dear Vik, > If we disagree about anything, it is that you appear to wish we could just > cut back or stop growing. I must correct you on your interpretation here. I > only said to cut back on government.
Ah, let me be more precise then: I do not believe it is possible to “cut back” on government in any substantial way without radically restructuring society. If you have a concrete proposal otherwise, I’d love to hear it. In my view, government (all identity, in fact) is a complicated negotiation between various internal and external parts. Like software, it is much, much easier to tack on a new feature to solve an immediate problem that rewrite an entire stack other people are still using. Also, most rewrites fail, or make other things worse. Yet, sometimes we reach our generative limit and have no option left but to try something different… E -- -- Centroids: The Center of the Radical Centrist Community <[email protected]> Google Group: http://groups.google.com/group/RadicalCentrism Radical Centrism website and blog: http://RadicalCentrism.org --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Centroids: The Center of the Radical Centrist Community" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/RadicalCentrism/2D0CA6A1-E529-424C-BB7D-E05CB149A1B8%40gmail.com.
