Comments by "Harry Mills" (@harrymills2770) on "The death of democracy? Why unintelligent protest may wreck society | Heather Heying | Big Think" video.

  1. She has some good ideas and understands quite a bit, but she's letting her facts lead her thru a chain of reasoning that ends by concluding that we need to give power to the state in order to deal with problems in the world that are mostly created by the state. Yes. Climate change is real. That does not mean I give my life up to bureaucrats and carpet-baggers of the Al Gore variety. Yes. Nuclear proliferation is real. That doesn't mean the globalists running foreign policy got or are getting it right. Yes. Poverty is real. That doesn't mean that the answer is just a hand-out. Maybe you can make a case for free education, but public education has been failing for decades, and the costs go up, while the marginal cost of transmitting all knowledge is effectively ZERO. Yes. Illness and accident are real. That doesn't mean government should therefore take over health care. Top-down approaches to social engineering are very heady, and the Leontief model was good stuff for beating equally planned-economy types in World War II, but we remain in a state of perpetual crisis that KEEPS us on a war footing and essentially fascist solutions (government edict) to the human condition. We see all around us in nature how natural feedback systems work and how the incentives are always obvious and harmonious. We see all around us in society, where we ignore positive incentives and implement destructive incentives, because we haven't thought through the consequences of the use of compulsion to fix all of society's problems through laws, rules and regulations. She's right on the cusp of a big epiphany by recognizing how fast things are changing but she misses the obvious conclusion that our old bureaucratic ways of dealing with things can't evolve as rapidly as the culture, itself, but in the end, she brings an Establishment message.
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