FROM AN EMAIL TO MLPF
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>Military paradigms in business (Re:The War for Talent)
>Posted by: “Scott Allen”
>Tue Jul 3, 2007 10:00 am (PST)
>Do you want to create more peace in the world? I do.
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>If you want to create peace in the world, you must first create peace within
>yourself, your home, your community and, I believe, your business.
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>Is it any wonder our current political leaders don’t seem to really
>understand how to create peace through any other means than superior
>firepower, or at least the threat of it?
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Interesting that this comes up on (around) Independence Day which, like most “facts” taught in gooferment skoolz, is wrong. But that’s a topic for another day.
I usually try to make people smarted by laughter. However, this is a “deadly” topic. So I’ll be “deadly serious”.
It’s hard to conceive of a peaceful world. Humans have paradigms and memes.
(Paradigm is consultant speak for how you see things; like an optical illusion.) (Meme is like the concept of gene applied to ideas; a fad is a meme that sweeps thru humanity like a virus while “democracy” is the specific meme of majority rule.)
It’s our paradigms and memes that may help us survive or kill us. We didn’t become a dominant species by virtue of anything but out brains.
So how can we have “peace” (a meme that implies either “the lambs and lions lie down together” or “we stop using force on our fellow humans”)?
Well, more and more, it appears that the meme of government kills us, prevents “peace”, and generally makes our lives more miserable. It’s inefficient, ineffective, and some times immoral.
As a little L libertarian, I disavow the use of force to achieve political or social goals. I also vote (a meaningless exercise) small government every time. And, I try as best I can to “respect the rights of others”, but as the good Nuns in grammar school graded me, I’m a sinner there. But, I try. Gooferment isn’t really even trying!
So “democracy” is a flawed meme (i.e., two wolves and sheep deciding what’s for dinner). “Government” may be a very flawed meme (i.e., consult the works of Lysander Spooner). And, “genocide” is how governments can go “rogue”. “Political leaders” are usually a disaster (i.e., power attracts the people who want to use it to enforce their own vision). And the meme of “scarcity” ensures that we see the world in a “dog eat dog” view.
What works?
- A republic (i.e., the two wolves are voting about dinner with one well-armed sheep — everyone has certain Lockian “negative” rights) with minimal power to use against the people appears to have worked for a few decades from the American Revolution until Lincoln.
- The free market (think no regulation, no law, no gooferment) seems to peacefully allow humans to integrate their respective needs and wants in a complex calculation that satisfies everyone to as great an extent as possible. It enforces peacefully (a contradiction in terms) a balancing or matching of inputs and outputs. As the input, it’s the quantity and quality of your contributions to satisfy the needs of your fellow humans. As the output, it how your specific needs are satisfied.
- The meme of “money” is used to facilitate these transactions. Money allows the division of labor to take place (i.e., the shoe maker does NOT have to find a baker who needs shoes. The marketplace buys the shoe maker’s shoes and sells him bread. It does this by locating the candlestick maker who wants shoes and had a candlestick that the baker wants. For simplicity, lets leave out the butcher, the farmer, and the fisherman for now. See Milton Freedman’s excellent video on the pencil and how countless greedy people cooperate to give him a cheap pencil. Money makes the world go round. It itself has to be created by a free market to prevent government inflation (i.e., the silent tax). When the gooferment has to overtly tax people (i.e., steal their money for services they don’t want) for wars and social programs, people tend to get testy. Printing money without backing it with something is a fraud on the people and the marketplace.
We NEED honest money to allow the division of labor. We NEED a meme that values peaceful coexistence with our fellow humans to prevent all the bad isms that will enslave us. We MAY NEED a tiny republic to prevent force or fraud upon the people and the marketplace. We NEED smarter human beings to learn from our past blunders (i.e., genocides) to avoid them in the future. We NEED political institutions that minimize the power of one person, tribe (i.e., Democrats; Republicans; even Libertarians), clan (Kennedy’s, Bush’s, Clinton’s) or gang (i.e., Hells Angels; the Crips ‘n’ Bloods; the DC politicians) can acquire.
I think that is how we create peace. Not with “political leaders”, but with the right paradigms, memes, and “moral leaders”. We need to end the DOLE (i.e., welfare for people and companies), end intrusive Big Gooferment, free people from the Gooferment Propaganda and Reeducation Camps, and return to honest money (i.e., not fiat paper but backed by gold and silver.
Sigh, I don’t feel very “independent” today.
Funnier is more fun,
fjohn
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