[MD] Problems with Intellectual control of Society

[plattholden at gmail.com]

On 10 Oct 2009 at 2:41, francisco albano wrote:

> 
> Platt:
> One look at history is all one needs to be convinced that capitalism 
> (profit motive/competitiveness/self-interest) fosters innovation, the result 
> of being open to the evolutionary force towards betterness of DQ. This is 
> well explained in Lila, Chp. 17.  
> 
>  
> Paco:
> Competitive capitalism fosters innovation until it transforms into monopoly-monopsony capitalism and becomes superexploitative of peoples and nations, and has to impose globalized neo-liberal liberalization, privatization, denationalization and deregulation. Thus the next stage of socialism as a higher form of evolution.
> 

Platt.
Well at least I learned a new word: monopsony. And example given in 
Wiki: "A single-payer health care system, in which the government is the 
only "buyer" of health care services, is an example of a monopsony." I  
take it "monopsony" along with "monopoly" symbolizes something of low 
value. 

Paco's solution to capitalism's downside (no social pattern is perfect) is 
to "impose," among other things, " privatization" and "deregulation" two 
value patterns I heartedly endorse but that would seem to enhance, not 
reign in, capitalism's perceived faults. 

Paco also argues that "the next stage of socialism" (which I take to 
mean a global socialistic government) is a "higher form of evolution." I 
fail to understand how a system that stifles DQ at the national level 
would somehow find enlightenment at the global level.   

> "From a static point of view socialism is more moral than capitalism. 
> It's a higher form of evolution. It is an intellectually guided society, 
> not just a society that is guided by mindless traditions."
> lila chpr 17

Platt;
The problem is, as Pirsig explains, socialism's static pattern that tends 
to ignore and/or smother DQ.