http://battellemedia.com/archives/2012/11/can-the-future-be-perfect-it-can-certainly-be-better.php?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=can-the-future-be-perfect-it-can-certainly-be-better Thoughts on the intersection of search, media, technology, and more. Thu, 23 May 2013 12:55:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 http://battellemedia.com/archives/2012/11/can-the-future-be-perfect-it-can-certainly-be-better.php#comment-31824 johnbattelle Fri, 30 Nov 2012 19:54:00 +0000 http://battellemedia.com/?p=6922#comment-31824 I think you're at least partly singing Johnson's song here. I think you’re at least partly singing Johnson’s song here.

]]> http://battellemedia.com/archives/2012/11/can-the-future-be-perfect-it-can-certainly-be-better.php#comment-31823 shenandoah Fri, 30 Nov 2012 18:59:00 +0000 http://battellemedia.com/?p=6922#comment-31823 "Third way" is oldest story in the political book. Politics is obsolete in a high tech world. Coercion does not work. Never has. Never will. All political action involves coercion. It involves using the threat of violence to force people to do things the way your crowd thinks is best. Problem with libertarianism is that it is not radical enough. I love it when people say they're looking for "non-market" solutions. The market is simply the sum total of all non-coercive interactions in a given society. I repeat: coercion does not work. Markets do. “Third way” is oldest story in the political book. Politics is obsolete in a high tech world. Coercion does not work. Never has. Never will. All political action involves coercion. It involves using the threat of violence to force people to do things the way your crowd thinks is best. Problem with libertarianism is that it is not radical enough. I love it when people say they’re looking for “non-market” solutions. The market is simply the sum total of all non-coercive interactions in a given society. I repeat: coercion does not work. Markets do.

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