[MD] Shouldn't we be, like, revolting ?

[Andre Broersen]

Hello Ham

and nice to meet you.
Yes, you are correct, I did misunderstand you and have not read Hayek. A
dictatorship is a far more efficient way of, not necessarily planning but
executing a particular course of action. When I read your argument I was
reminded of Gough Whitlam, former PM of Australia who (after he was kicked
out of office in 1975 by the Queen, through the GG Sir John Kerr) and boy
there were protests and marches and debates and frustrations all round, in
interviews and reflections of his time as PM regarded the first 6 hours of
his "gaining office" as his most satisfying and most productive. He had yet
to choose his ministers and the choice of these simply depended on whether
they would go along with his ideology and concrete plans. Stricly speaking
this is an example of dictatorial planning. But how is a situation like this
possible? I mean, where the populace/ call it proletariat/ call it everyday
people like you and me[hope this is not offending you] are feeling powerless
to influence "major" decisions except by going to the ballot box once every
4 years? This gap..how to explain?
Democracy is in real deep shit (the ligitimation crisis) because people do
not feel that their voice (i.e their social patterns of value,reflecting
everyday circumstaces of living[still very close to biological patterns of
value] are represented within the outcome of the political (i.e.
intellectual) deliberations/ i.e social/economic programs...when you
constantly compromise you end up representing nobody. and this creates
circumstances whereby people begin to scream for decisive action and the
more frustrated they become the more extreme the demands will become.
It will take one hell of a president or PM to stick to his/her own guns
(pardon this expression...perhaps it is better to say "Be firm in his/her
shoes i.e grounded in social patterns of Value) and reflect these in the
policies thought up and put into practice.
But alas I share Pirsig's lack of faith in grand programs.And perhaps this
will lead to a big D.
D's do not have, historically speaking , a very good reputation.

Tian tian gao xin (happiness every day)

Andre