Monday, March 07, 2005

Discussion of how regulating everything makes us all criminals.

One of the concepts I always found fascinating from Ayn Rand's "Atlas Shrugged" (several flaws in her philosophy, no question, but a more screaming damnation of communism than even Orwell) was the idea that the more collectivism/regulations you have, and the more subjective, rather than objective, your rule of law, the more you punish the law-abiding and empower the bureaucrats. A nice brief discussion is here:

http://www.mind-trek.com/articles/t12d.htm

This theme was given a different twist here, called "distributed governmental stupidity."
http://www.samizdata.net/blog/archives/007308.html

The authors are discussing how the use of the web and blogs can influence politicians, and hopefully prevent them from enacting more stupid laws that lead to more problems, which require more laws to bring about "solutions," which creates a whole new host of problems, and a new class of "solutions."

In my personal experience with the city of Chicago, I've witnessed firsthand how city bureaucrats (and federal agencies) can wield power to harm the average Joes who are just trying to own their home, or run their business. And argue that in doing so they are serving a larger purpose.

Not sure where I'm going with this yet. But it has given me some food for thought given how this medium was invaluable for many of you for staying informed in opposing the landmark districting initiative...

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