[MD] Democracy

[Christoffer Ivarsson]

> [Chris]
>> Well, I'd start out with the basics. Schooling, Medical care and other
>> basic
>> needs that people have to have fulfilled in order to all have a chance to
>> develop their intellectual capacity need to be ensured and regulated.
>> These
>> things can of course not be allowed to be subject to the social pattern
>> called the free market.

[Platt]
> I presume you are familiar with Pirsig's comparison of socialism to the
> free market. Also, do you see government regulations as social patterns?

State the specific comparison you have in mind please.

And as Bodvar pointed out before, the patterns are interrelated and are 
pretty much never separated, and so the laws a government makes will be 
social patterns, BUT, the social patterns can be formed by intellectual 
patterns to best suit the intellectual level.