On Wed, 2 Sep 1998, Jay Hanson wrote:
>
> My analysis is based on personal experience of four years ago. It doesn't
> make any difference whether a $2000 donation comes from Mitsubishi or from a
> mom and pop grocery store, the result is the same: one-dollar, one-vote.
> That's just the nature of our money-based, corrupt political system.
-- Pretty naive explanation, if you ask me. One dollar to mom and pop has
greater value than one dollar to a Fortune 1000 company. Let's face it:
corporations rule the world, and they've defined the rules to enable it.
>
> Public financing of elections would help more than anything else, but
> "economic growth" is still the only kind of future people can imagine. No
> one will willingly forego "economic growth" even though universal physical
> laws tell us that "economic growth" can only end in "crash".
-- Who will implement this? How can it be implemented? It's my belief
that the opportunity is gone, Sancho Panza.
>
>
> "According to Prigogine, systems contain subsystems that continuously
> fluctuate. At times a single fluctuation or a combination of them may become
> so magnified by possible FEEDBACK, that it shatters the preexisting
> ORGANIZATION. At such revolutionary moments or 'bifurcation points', it is
> impossible to determine in advance whether the system will disintegrate into
> 'chaos' or leap to a new, more differentiated, higher level of 'order'. The
> latter case defines dissipative structures so termed because they need more
> energy to sustain them than the simpler structures they replace and are
> limited in growth by the amount of heat they are able to disperse. "
> http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/ASC/DISSIP_STRUC.html ]
-- How's Illya these days? The corporations ARE dissipating structures:
they're changing the "state" of polity, such that nation-states are no
longer the center of authorities, i.e., they're dissipating the powers of
state authority. The world is now ruled by business cartels that
function as Feudal networks.
//CJR
