AnarcoB Posted January 1, 2013 Posted January 1, 2013 Stef has made this argument in the past in relation to medicine, NASA, and other fields which have been co-opted by gov't control. The logic goes something like this. All that is and has been great in human history has come from individuals working voluntarily. Unrelenting hard work, innovative thought, resistance against the status quo, and oftentimes rare personalities have created nearly everything we value today. The effect of such is the creation of a strong vibrant optimistic new thing furthering human progress, health or knowledge. As the state co-opts such an endeavor, there is an initial inertia which resists the negative effects of the state. An industry/field can be carried for several decades on the residual culture and energy of the past before it succumbs. The question is simple. Has this also occurred within the political arena itself? It's hard for me to tell. It seems that politics is really really good at what it does. I wonder if it is reaching a pinnacle of purity, free from any true individual courage or integrity. It makes sense to me from a natural selection perspective. The men behind democracy when it was conceived might as well be a different species compared to their progeny of today. Over the centuries, has democracy now created the greatest and purist forms of political vomit the world has ever known? Have we finally lost any of the (perceived) valor of political participation at the individual level now? How many coin tosses (elections) does it take to define an outcome of a coin toss? Or am I just watching the news too much again? As an aside, I'm not really asking out of frustration or anger, but kind of an amazed curiosity at the absurdity;)
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