[resegooredo]

The crisis currently playing out on the world stage is a crisis of growth. Not, as we are regularly told, a crisis caused by too little growth, but by too much of it. Banks grew so big that their collapse would have brought down the entire global economy. To prevent this, they were bailed out with huge tranches of public money, which in turn is precipitating social crises on the streets of western nations. The European Union has grown so big, and so unaccountable, that it threatens to collapse in on itself. Corporations have grown so big that they are overwhelming democracies and building a global plutocracy to serve their own interests. The human economy as a whole has grown so big that it has been able to change the atmospheric composition of the planet and precipitate a mass extinction event.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisf...s-leopold-kohr That last sentence is nonsense, and marks an otherwise thoughtful article. In fact, the very forces this dildo is cheering are PART of the gigantic, oppressive oneness that the author goes on to argue against.

Anyway, the interesting part isn't this fucking faggot and his views on AGW.. It's about a man named Leopold Kohr.

Kohr argued that many different sorts of government might function well on a limited scale, and would all be fine so long as they were suffered by the locals who's lives they affected and provided that the locals interacted with and controlled them. However, once they were expanded beyond the reach of locals and local control, that they eventually became oppressive and too large. The particular system of Government didn't matter.. That the increase in size and reach made this outcome inevitable.

I have to say, events playing out across the world today certainly seem to make his case.. From what I've seen, he seemed to favor micro-states. I don't know that I would go quite that far, but it seems obvious that a return to Constitutional First Principles and a devolving of power from Washington DC to the 50 States would put an end to much of what plagues us as a nation today.

[TypeTeasiaDer]

um, there are a few corporations that are making a 15% profit margin while owing no long term debt, or an extremely small amount of it. and when they trade for a P/B of under 1, then that 15% is actualy less then what they realy do earn per share.

[Cabinanteerip]

http://youtu.be/G0t9I3vfNq4

http://youtu.be/cr8MONyBniw

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DOES HE PLAY THE BANJO WELL?

[Tryphadz]

That last sentence is nonsense, and marks an otherwise thoughtful article. In fact, the very forces this dildo is cheering are PART of the gigantic, oppressive oneness that the author goes on to argue against.

Anyway, the interesting part isn't this fucking faggot and his views on AGW.. It's about a man named Leopold Kohr.

Kohr argued that many different sorts of government might function well on a limited scale, and would all be fine so long as they were suffered by the locals who's lives they affected and provided that the locals interacted with and controlled them. However, once they were expanded beyond the reach of locals and local control, that they eventually became oppressive and too large. The particular system of Government didn't matter.. That the increase in size and reach made this outcome inevitable.

I have to say, events playing out across the world today certainly seem to make his case.. From what I've seen, he seemed to favor micro-states. I don't know that I would go quite that far, but it seems obvious that a return to Constitutional First Principles and a devolving of power from Washington DC to the 50 States would put an end to much of what plagues us as a nation today.

I agree. But yours is a federal system, and will always suffer from the difficulty of trying to balance the power. Especially where the country is as large as yours, with so many states.

It's much easier with a unitary system in a smaller country.

I immediately see the upshot of that proposition in theory, but I'm not sure how you'd make it practical. Subsidiarity supposedly bridges the gap, but even then, it becomes centralised over time, if it's not kept in check. We probably need to accept that no system will be flawless; only that certain models are more manageable then others.

[N95FzmMw]

I thought you might like it.. It's from one of your papers, actually.

[cxddfrxc]

I thought you might like it.. It's from one of your papers, actually.

I love all that power dynamics shit.

I'm not quite sure what that says about me, but I do love it.

Good thread.