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- From: gorney@picard.med.ge.com (Felix Gorney Mfg 4-6983)
- Subject: Socialism/Liberalism
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- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 92 12:51:15 GMT
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- I haave often been dismayed by the self righteousness of socialists,
- and liberals. They have a holier-than-thou attitude because many
- people who call themselves scientists have wonderfull theories as
- to how to structure a less chaotic, and more compassionate society.
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- If these theories are based on a false premise, then all of the
- theorizing involved leads to a false conclusion.
-
- Marx based his opinions of capitalism on something that was actually
- quite a different animal indeed. In "The other Path" by Hernando
- DeSoto discusses mercantilism. This is a system where the means of
- production are tightly controlled, by none other than the Burgoise.
- If the king or the aristocracy determine who will be allowed to
- produce a given product, and at what price theuy may sell it ,
- then we obviously don't have free enterprise here. Unfortunately,
- many governments, and socialist societies, simply replace regulation
- by the aristocracy with equally stifling govt. regulation. This
- somehow gives the means of production to the people. As we have seen
- these systems never work, even after untold pain, and suffering,
- and even after millions have died in the attempt to create a true
- socialist system.
-
- These socialist theories seem to subscribe to the notion that a
- society can be created, and regulated just like any machine. The
- theories of thermodynamics, and statistics are great for building
- machines, and bridges, but they cannot devise or control a human
- society. Much like the weather, and nature, human society consists
- of many STRONGLY interconnected parts. As Sadi Carnot discovered,
- statistical analysis breaks down in systems where the elements
- have more than a weak interaction with one another.
-
- This leads me to an article in the Jan issue of Scientific American.
- "Adapting to Complexity". Much of the research is being done at the
- Santa Fe Institute. I have no doubt that many social(ist)
- scientists will try to find ways to make the theories of chaos,
- antichaos, complexity, and self organized criticality fit their
- socialist mold. However, I hope that the folly of the socialists/
- liberals , and their theories may one day be relegated to the
- anals of social alchemy.
-
- In any complex system, each of the elements must be able to change
- their response to given sets of inputs. If a system is on the verge
- of chaos (where these systems seem most efficient) I fail to see how
- any economist can accurately predict it's behavior, especiallly with
- 250 million elements. It is noted that a chaotic system will organize
- itself if each of the elements react to only 2 or 3 inputs.
-
- There is no centralized plan in New York city, yet millions of people
- are fed every day, even when hundreds of companies are doing the
- work, with nary a few days inventory. Supply, and demand do the work.
-
- Companies, and/or consumers become the elements in these complex
- systems. The outputs of one element leads to the inputs of many
- others. The resulting feedback mechanisms become highly complicated,
- and one researcher states that they can only be studied in
- computer simulations.
-
- With these feedback mechanisms, a complex system bordering on the
- edge of chaos, and order can itself make decisions it would take
- an econmist years to formulate.
-
- I have to wonder if this isn't the "Invisible hand" Adam Smith
- wrote about. Also, how can anyone think that a few peole can
- devise an entire econmy without such feedback systems?
-
- Finally, after millions have suffered, and died in the name of
- a more orderly society, science may be on the verge of showing that
- a little chaos is necessary for a strongly interacting society.
- Businesses, and countries can cooperate with one another, and
- at the same time be at odds in strong competition.
-
- Wealth can only be created by free enterprise. Wealth cannot
- even be redistributed by govt. as it is destroyed in the process.
- The problems we have in this country do not stem from too little
- govt. created stability, but rather from too much govt. created
- instability.
-
- Felix Gorney
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- gorney@picard.med.ge.com
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