It is my firm belief that NONE of the various political 'isms can work, at least not in the long run. They all fail because they are all fixed systems that don't account for the dynamic nature of reality. Thus their main subject, human action, is described within an economic and rational framework that takes no account of the evolutionary aspect of human intellect, nor the biological roots of basic human action.

Frankly, they are all so heavily laden with stale intellectual baggage as to be virtually useless. What's needed now is not more polemics, but a fresh look at the data from an entirely new perspective. What that perspective might be is grist for some future mill, but I have no doubt that moment will arrive, if it isn't here already. People are fed up with pat answers that offer no real solutions. We're tired of listening to these self-serving arguments. We want something that can actually work. For all of us, not just the few.

To put it in perspective, how many people today think the Divine Right of Kings was a good idea? Or how about the Pope as supreme authority, or maybe the Emperor of Japan? Been there, done that. It's over. So that's where we're at now. Our political systems and the philosophies underpinning them have Failed. Now we're casting about for something new to replace what clearly isn't working for us anymore (if it ever did).

But it's not like we haven't been here before. History is full of examples where new thinking appears (usually in response to crisis) and old dogma is swept aside. That's the dynamic nature of social evolution. You can't escape it. The best you can do is try to understand it, and arrange your life accordingly.

Or as Sponge Bob would say, "good luck with that."

ebear

PS: this has to be the worst screen editor in the known universe. I can't even paste plain text without it messing up the formatting.