Bureaucracy vs. humanity

The Poles have a real chance of skipping a "step" in the "modernization" myth. Instead of killing off their small farms in favor of agribiz and then going organic when they realize they are being poisoned by the resulting food, they could find a way to get the best balance of small organic farms right now. If anyone can do it the Poles can, if only the mighty EU will let them.

They might even find a way around breaking up their communities to have generations move to the city only to find poverty and alienation. Again this is skipping a step, thanks to the internet many city-dwellers are enthusiastically finding their way back to rural areas. Maybe the Poles can be spared the social breakdown of the rest of Europe, maybe they can find ways to prosper and keep their best traditions.

All the talk of the "newly acceded states" growing economically at the rate their older siblings in democracy had in past decades is just so much crystal ball gazing. The credit that fuelled the financial products and services industry "bubble" is statist and may not permit much more competition before it all goes poof! The Poles would do better to develop their own models for growth that encourage intelligent co-operation rather than a discredited variety of dog-eat-dog hardscrabble lobbying for publicly-assisted capital-currency speculation that has no domestic production component.

Franklin: "The capitalist emphasizes profit. The socialist emphasizes the human contributions at every stage of production to consumption."

This sentiment I understand, but the logic not:

__capital__ is value-neutral and may not reward sloth just because its American. Money's much quoted "liquidity" is only released when thawed out of a saver's ice-chest and flows as earnings for services rendered.

__socialists__ recognize no values and reward arbitrary whims of their GreatLeader of their MotherLand. Like an ice-cube tray frozen in the ice-chest of public finance coffers, which emphasizes a contribution at every stage of production, a worker receives whatever ration of ice resources determined by the government's tray-status committee, to consumption where proletariat are awarded defrost certificates for their years of loyalty to the Despotism Memorial Historical Association trade system that entitles them to request a quantity of freeze-dried resources, which may be exercised at an ice-box storage warehouse that will accept them, if yields on the Five-Year Plan created sufficient reserves in that location.

I know its not fashionable, yetlaissez faire means "lets make" not "let's pay no attention to what we need to make..." its not the enemy...

We people of faith have a very important role to play - we can supply the values vocabulary to the secular "value-neutral" markets debate for the institutions we manage (a stakeholding of land, family assets, the public or private corporations who need our skills, our children schools, our health-care systems, retirement benefits systems and our local, state and federal Government) and abolish the "socialist" Fed: their "invisible hand" isn't invisible its tyrannical -- some "insiders" obviously get to see it in advance of when it decides to strike.

And work to change hearts and minds of our lawmakers so that our currency and our legal frameworks are reformed to guarantee balance in the "caring-hand" that defends liberty. Enshrine natural rights "subsidiarity" as a legal principle of liberty: removes the bias for BIG institutions "homo economicus" where manipulation of the "process" for special interest gains presents alarming risks to the common good, and redress the balance in favor of local, smaller entrepreuneurs whose "homo socio-economicus" commitment to long-term personal success trough traditional inquisitive and intuitive creativity naturally limits the risk to the common good.

"Homo economicus rests on the silent premises that human communication today is no different than it was in Adam Smith’s day and therefore human beings relate to each other and to themselves no differently than 225 years ago. In essence, the development of the telegraph followed by the telephone, radio, television, fax, email, and internet have had no bearing on the way we think about economic agency. Homo economicus never changes. Proclaiming a requiem for homo economicus is more than just clever rhetoric. It is based on more than just expressions borrowed from other disciplines. The call is grounded in an understanding of human nature that surfaced with the development of electronic communication which altered our awareness of others and of ourselves and gave birth to the philosophy of personalism. Burying homo economicus and substituting homo socioeconomicus bring the basic unit of economic analysis out of the individualism of the 17th and 18th centuries into the personalism of the 20th century.

REQUIEM FOR HOMO ECONOMICUS
www.mayoresearch.org/files/REQUIEM.pdf
Edward J. O’Boyle, Ph.D.
Mayo Research Institute