Re: L&J: Libertarians

[Franklin Wayne Poley <fwp@vcn.bc.ca>]

On Sun, 23 Jun 1996, Jean-Francois Avon wrote:

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> On 22 Jun 96 at 18:56, jim bell wrote:
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> > In practice, I think we'll discover we don't NEED politicians at
> > all!  
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> I was having a discussion with a retired physics dept director the
> other day.  He never heard of AP and we did not discuss it.  But we
> discussed the Net a lot.  And he made a very fundamental remark.  He
> said someting along thoses lines (not an exact quote but one that sums
> it up in essence) :
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> "It is amazing how the Net is.  It is a total anarchy and yet, it
> seems to work *perfectly* well without any central decision making
> authority.  Actually, no central authority could ever make it happens
> better than this actual anarchy led by self-interest on the part of
> each individuals each owning a tiny piece of the network."
> 
> It make me think about how essential the govt is, and especially in
> the field of economy...
> 
I think we need public administrators (not politicians) who are hired by 
the people for the people to do specific jobs, like looking after roads, 
public buildings etc. and the public administrators who don't do their 
jobs well are fired (not assassinated) like any other employee.... FWP.