Thanks for posting this. I liked this paragraph, in P J O'Rourke's Adam Smith article - reminded me of our recent discussions about regulations. Concisely put: "That's the paradox of voluntary association: The personal liberty and moral persuasiveness of the free market depend on the coercive force of the law. We need law to protect property rights, to enforce contract, to thwart collusion and monopoly and to keep the weak safe from the strong. The political system that enforces this law then proceeds, all too often, to invade property rights, nullify contracts, promote collusion, create monopoly and become so strong that no one's safe.
"Maybe the Internet can help. The voluntary association of the Internet has no town into which the bad guys can ride. Or the good guys, either. Persuasion, and only persuasion, operates the Internet. You can't send a punch in the nose down a DSL line. True, fraud is abundant on the Internet, but in fairness to thousands of clever Nigerians, fraud is a form of persuasion." Rupert On 29 Apr 2007, at 11:54, Jan McLaughlin wrote: > With some great stuff relative to videoblogging: > > *http://tinyurl.com/279ky5 > > Just started reading, but I'm impressed, particularly as some of the > articles relate to vlogvertising. > > Jan > * > -- > The Faux Press - better than real > http://fauxpress.blogspot.com > http://twitter.com/fauxpress > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
