Re: co-ops + human behavior

[Jim Devine <jdevine@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

norm wrote:
> if you accept the above statements as facts, then why do ideologues advocate
> LARGE economic and political changes when the results of these are unknown?

I believe that only the people themselves can institute large economic and
political changes. Though I may think that they are necessary to the
creation of a more human world (in harmony with nature), it's not
sufficient. If the better world were imposed from above or from the
outside, it would most likely turn into crap.

> isn't it in the "public interest" for "interest groups" who want a certain
> form of society to prevail to advocate step by step changes toward that
> goal and proceed from experience as a safer way to achieve their goal and
> at the same time avoid the potential chaos (to the "public interest") of
> large changes, the effects of which are unknown?

I'm all in favor of incremental change, but the fact is that the powers
that be oppose such change and eventually will have to be shoved out of the
way. Further, the neoliberal elites -- the US Treasury, the IMF, the World
Bank, etc. -- have been imposing massive and non-incremental change on the
world for the last 20 to 25 years. Something has to be done to oppose them.

Jim Devine jdevine@xxxxxxx &  http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine