[105501] in Cypherpunks
Re: dbts: Privacy Fetishes, Perfect Competition, and the (fwd)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Duncan Frissell)
Fri Nov 13 11:55:32 1998
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1998 11:34:06 -0500
To: Jim Choate <ravage@einstein.ssz.com>,
cypherpunks@einstein.ssz.com (Cypherpunks Distributed Remailer)
From: Duncan Frissell <frissell@panix.com>
In-Reply-To: <199811131436.IAA32048@einstein.ssz.com>
Reply-To: Duncan Frissell <frissell@panix.com>
At 08:36 AM 11/13/98 -0600, Jim Choate wrote:
>So what we are left with is a system whereby people mediate their actions
>based on the compatibility of their personal philosophies.
Standard interoperation of different protocols. We do it all the time.
>As I've said
>before, anarcho- based systems make the same phsychological mistake that
>every system other than a democracy makes; if it works for one person the
>answer should be acceptable to another. The very fact that the contrary to
>this is one of the reasons behind anarcho- support doesn't seem to impinge
>upon the concioussness. Anarchy is contradictory at the axiomatic level.
>
>Another way to see it is: Let people do what they want and they'll naturaly
> conform to what I want.
Who cares what they do as long as they leave me alone.
>There is this same axiomatic problem with Hayek's economics and social
>theories.
He was not an anarchist.
If voluntary interaction doesn't work as a social system then we're all in
big trouble because persons (you?) who love to command others will have a
hard time doing so as everyone becomes rich, mobile, and technologically
powerful. If you have figured out a way to push around rich, mobile, and
technologically powerful people you're a smarter man than I am. I'm sure
the Feds could use your unique insights.
BTW we live in a representative republic not a democracy and the theory was
that it was to be a representative republic of strictly limited powers.
Our representatives have forgotten. Technology and market institutions are
teaching them different.
DCF
