Sunday, March 08, 2009
Subsidiarity
Our two greatest obstacles, progressivism and fraud, are related. Abandon the worldview of scientific optimism, and it's easier to address the institutionalization of fraud.
While prosecuting fraud is a vital and noble endeavor, it can't keep up as long as power is concentrated and public wealth is centrally controlled. Disbursing governance to lower, more appropriate levels whenever possible (termed subsidiarity) is one objective toward the goal of democratization of capital as well as decision making.
One can already observe this trend toward subsidiarity in some parts of Europe and some US states, not to mention the Indigenous Peoples' Movement of self-determination manifested recently at the UN.
While prosecuting fraud is a vital and noble endeavor, it can't keep up as long as power is concentrated and public wealth is centrally controlled. Disbursing governance to lower, more appropriate levels whenever possible (termed subsidiarity) is one objective toward the goal of democratization of capital as well as decision making.
One can already observe this trend toward subsidiarity in some parts of Europe and some US states, not to mention the Indigenous Peoples' Movement of self-determination manifested recently at the UN.
