Matthew Gaylor quoted David Brin:
> Our point should be that simplistic "government-centered
> solutions" that once worked, in a more primitive world,
> may now be obsolete and holding us back. With rising
> sophistication, we can move on to more mature synergies
> that make progressively less use of coercive state power,
> leveraging against individual effort more and more as time
> goes on. [...]
It's interesting to consider that greater knowledge of how
societies function, assuming such knowledge is obtainable,
implies a higher degree of centralisation. It's also worth
noting that greater freedom may well come from government-
centred solutions as opposed free market solutions.
BM
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