L.R.R., or would you prefer, Lather(?): Your opinion has more than just free value - your post points out an interesting dichotomy between chaos and organizationally successful behavior. In chaos, the physically powerful quickly achieve dominance by ruthless removal of their opposition. In a non-chaotic environment, enough reasonably sentient persons have apparently banded together to ostracize chaos, and therefore finally fended off and eventually defeated the ruthless individualists that physically dominated chaos (politically, anarchists).
In effect, the organizationalists "remove" their more barbarian competition but have had to continually rely on organizational attributes and resources to defeat the more physically powerful.
Once enumerative superiority is guaranteed, it is more management than revolution. Eventually, without sound moral principles, that management decays from abuses of power and becomes so cumbersome that it drains the resources of the society and eventually fails.
Someone, IMO, has pulled the stopper out of the drain. Unless moral principles are used to prevent the slide back to chaos, and the masses that share them act in order to preclude that, our country will be circling the drain in the future.
Mr. K. |
