[ExI] Monetary Evolution Now! was REVOLUTION NOW!

[Amon Zero]

On 10 November 2011 10:44, Giulio Prisco <giulio at gmail.com> wrote:

> re "let's try to go for a modest common point, at least to begin with,
> and see where that gets us..."
>
> Nowhere. The range of political positions here is too wide to find
> concrete common points. I suggest that we focus on a subset of
> participants instead.
>

Yes, I agree that we'd never get more than a certain % agreeing, and nor
should we try (not least because being right is more important than being
popular, in almost all regards), however...

Imagine we are casting a net. Where should we aim to put the *centre* of
that net?

It seems that we can agree that something is wrong in our society, and that
as citizens we have not only a right but a duty to attempt correcting that
wrong. My own view is that the current wrong is associated with Capitalism,
but as I've said I think trade and innovation are important as a mettr of
principle.

Couple of other constraints off the top of my head:

A number of proposed solutions strike me as problematic, and it would take
a small essay to even sketch the likely problems with Socialism, Communism,
Libertarianism, Fascism, & Technocracy. Some of these systems have some
merit, but the moment you adopt any one as gospel then you'll eventually
come back to having a major problem of one sort or another, mark my words.

As mentioned in the original blog post, I think the answer lies in a kind
of radical democracy. The idea - no matter how "crazy" from a modern
perspective - that whenever some doctrinaire system is causing problems,
people should be able to tweak the system on the fly, in a purely pragmatic
way.

An image occurs...

Imagine two mechanics looking under the bonnet (US: hood) of a car. One
says "there it is - the fan belt has snapped". The other mechanic says "I
cannot acknowledge the existence of fan belts as a matter of Hegelian
Dialectic".
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