From: cryofan@mylinuxisp.com
Date: Tue Apr 01 2003 - 07:51:05 MST
Extropian/Libertarian/Freemarketeer dogma holds that "self-organizing" social
networks producing "social capital" will step in to take the place of Papa
Federal Govt in quasi-anarchist utopias.
At the same time that same Extropian/Libertarian/Freemarketeer dogma endears
itself to CorpGovMedia by maintaining that increased ethnic and cultural
diversity will increase social capital and that therefore a "there shall be
open borders" philosophy is beneficial.
However, here is article discussing a paper by an MIT social scientist that
indicates that social capital is decreased by ethnic and cultural diversity:
http://vdare.com/letters/tl_033103.htm
I have always thought that the basic premise that diversity is inherently
beneficial is flawed, just because of the conclusion drawn by the cited paper.
I have always thought that it was obvious, mainly because it is much easier
for the citizenry to control the govt when the populace is homogenous.
Witness Switzerland and Iceland, and to a (continually) lesser degree,
Scandanavia.
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