Government, Economics, Enterprise

What had me stymied and clay-footed for a long time was the idea that intelligent people are more likely to be liberal and tolerant. This led to a constant never-ending stream of win-lose situations.

Thomas Sowell saying that conservatives believe that each 'soul' is flawed and hence trade-offs are necessary seems to make a lot more sense. This, however, clashes with the above line and leads me to draw a new conclusion .. that means Left does not equal liberal.. 

The Left I know will typically walk up to a man returning from fishing, and demand half his fish, because, well, he has so many and they have none.

Following the conservative cred,  we conclude therefore,  that there can never be a perfect world, only one where one problem is alleviated by a lesser one taken on in exchange.

This cred of economics == scarcity is enshrined in the chapter on prices in his book on economics.

The first scarcity is of right to not being killed violently by man, the second to not being killed by starvation, cold, burnt by the sun drowned in the rains, set upon by wild animals, disease .... 

Government takes care of these. In exchange, it asks you to keep alive the system that brought it into being, by choosing democracy(?) and following its written laws.

Everything else is the work of (enterprise) man.

What recommends commerce to me is its enterprise and bravery. It does not clasp its hands and pray to Jupiter.       - Thoreau ,  Walden

By the turn of the century (1900?),  we had seen multiple control systems come and go.  Largest of the lot, the apex predators of these super-organisms were the monarchies and theocracies. Rule by kings, rule in fear of man-made God. From the time of the Egyptians mankind has recorded these political systems  come and go, each one flowering anew then snuffed out by another in a fugue of experimentation and variation, like a social genetic algorithm running its course. Each iteration did one better than the other in some way, the democracy of greeks beaten by the king-god form of top down control of the Persians, the guerrilla cheng/chi attacks of the riders , the innovative empire generating war machines unheard of  before, such as the  legionaries of the  romans and the Chinese war machines ... until today, if you see carefully, you'll see a flavour of ALL of those in our successful democratic business empires of today.

We can conclude, that nature seeks variety, and systems need to learn and keep variety in their stores. Usually as humans. 

This trail eventually leads to Emerson and Transcendentalism, but that's for another day