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From: mrh@cybvax0.UUCP (Mike Huybensz)
Newsgroups: net.politics.theory,net.legal
Subject: Re: (micromotives & macrobehavior)
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Date: Fri, 30-Aug-85 14:23:06 EDT
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Summary: 

In article <3476@topaz.RUTGERS.EDU> josh@topaz.UUCP (J Storrs Hall) writes:
> .... What I want in the absence of a political system is, simply,
> the absence of any political system.

You may also wish for perfect vacuums.  The best you could approach is to
make political systems as little intrusive as possible.

> ....  A political system
> in a society is, simply put, a positive feedback phenomenon, and 
> will increase until the society begins to break down under its
> depredations.

You're leaving out several other options for both increase and decrease.
Increase will also take place by engulfing other less competitive systems.
Decrease can take place by overthrow from without or within.

> ....  The market forms an equally effective, and
> considerably more fair, decision-making mechanism for society.

The market also has its positive feedback growth of economic powers.
Fair?  Only by redefinition of the word to meet libertarian standards.
Effective?  Only in a few of the large range of social needs.  How would
the market provide defense against a competing political power, for example?
How would the market make preventing starvation or disease in the poor
economic?
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Mike Huybensz		...decvax!genrad!mit-eddie!cybvax0!mrh