1st article I tried on there was https://graymirror.substack.com/p/chevron-and-the-professional-republicans
The fundamental-error that that perspective is making, is that you CAN’T run a continent-sized-tiny-human-population ( ancient Africa ) the same way you run a 400,000,000-people, multiplied-through-technology, half-continent, like the US of A:
The no-regulations you can have on the whole-Africa-inhabited-by-few, doesn’t correctly map onto 1,000x the population, in less space, with 10,000x or 100,000x the resource-consumption, through technology.
When one’s ideology is dependent on ignoring that … then … it is impossible to respect the “integrity” ( with the falsifying-quotes on that word ) of what you’re pushing.
THE DENSER THE POPULATION, & THE GREATER THE RESOURCE-CONSUMPTION OF IT, THE TIGHTER THE REGULATION HAS TO BE, TO MAKE IT SUSTAINABLE
Think of a vehicle engine:
- consumer vehicle, it never is run to its limit, so it can be neglected, & it’ll still work for a reasonable-lifespan.
vs
- race-vehicle: it is ALWAYS run at it’s limit, & ANY neglect quickly becomes fatal.
See?
The low-population-density of ancient Africa didn’t need tight-regulation to be keeping it alive!
However, nowadays humankind’s tech-multiplied costing-of-the-world-ecology is sooo-great that if we won’t tightly-regulate our process, then we’re reducing the number-of-generations who are allowed to live on this world, with our shortsightedness.
Sloppiness is literally slaughtering our own future-generations.
He’s ignoring that, as most right-wingers do.
Notice, though, as the commuter-vs-race-engine example shows: if you want performance … then you want your “ship” to be the tightest-run ship in the race so that ALL of its effort goes into productivity:
leave the sloppy-unregulated “competitors” in the dust, behind you, when you reach the finish-line.
This identifies that proper regulation increases the value of an economy, not reduces it.
( Brexit might be an object-lesson demonstrating this principle )
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I just glanced-at https://graymirror.substack.com/p/its-easy-from-here & his intellectual-dishonesty is rank.
Is the “power” of a person who “controls” their body through endlessly taking drugs, according to their current-whim,
… somehow “the same” as the power of a ninja/yogi, who trains endlessly in self-management & self-conquering??
1 is ignoring-the-costs ( the drugs-user ) & the other is working-within-own-means ( which is what “yoga”, aka the verb “to yoke”, or “to harness” means ).
The same is true of governments.
Some are irresponsible, others responsible: it’s a spectrum, Duh…
& the far-upright has never been explored, by the politically-motivated.
Too bad the next-generation has only this disinformation, MSM’s normalizing-of-this, & anti-ideology-ideologies to grow in…
that’s going to cost LOTS of lives, throughout this century’s unfolding…
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