Re: dbts: Privacy Fetishes, Perfect Competition, and the (fwd)

[Duncan Frissell <frissell@panix.com>]

At 08:36 AM 11/13/98 -0600, Jim Choate wrote:

>So what we are left with is a system whereby people mediate their actions
>based on the compatibility of their personal philosophies. 

Standard interoperation of different protocols.  We do it all the time.

>As I've said
>before, anarcho- based systems make the same phsychological mistake that
>every system other than a democracy makes; if it works for one person the
>answer should be acceptable to another. The very fact that the contrary to
>this is one of the reasons behind anarcho- support doesn't seem to impinge
>upon the concioussness. Anarchy is contradictory at the axiomatic level.
>
>Another way to see it is: Let people do what they want and they'll naturaly
>                          conform to what I want.

Who cares what they do as long as they leave me alone.

>There is this same axiomatic problem with Hayek's economics and social
>theories.

He was not an anarchist.

If voluntary interaction doesn't work as a social system then we're all in
big trouble because persons (you?) who love to command others will have a
hard time doing so as everyone becomes rich, mobile, and technologically
powerful.  If you have figured out a way to push around rich, mobile, and
technologically powerful people you're a smarter man than I am.  I'm sure
the Feds could use your unique insights.

BTW we live in a representative republic not a democracy and the theory was
that it was to be a representative republic of strictly limited powers.
Our representatives have forgotten.  Technology and market institutions are
teaching them different.

DCF