Defects in Modern Day Democracy, 3 - Democracy As an Economic Self-Organizing Dynamic

Can Democracy become a self-organizingsystem and technology are acceptable and do not
dynamic? Historically the old land-owner-serfneed any changes, ignore the fact that their
attitude can be considered to have been revivedinformation based economy is built upon obsolete
by new property laws supporting bio-piracy byentropic foundations. As a result, corporate
such companies as Monsanto. Such companiesleaders need to fulfill two contradictory tasks,
genetically alter the crops that traditional culturessuch as. building up and then tearing down,
have cultivated for millennia and then claim theconforming to the chaos dictates of the second
new biogene as their own property. Adam Smith'slaw. The New wave economist Kevin Kelly
oppressive theories of economic self-organizationoutlined the situation with a ironic observation with
seem to be being resurrected, consciously or not,his suggestion that the network economy ordain
to bolster financial dictatorial vandalism.a Chief Destruction Officer. However, within an
Democracy within the marketplace can only beentropic market place this is completely logical.
effective if its internal self equilibrium, is maintainedThe concept of self organising principles existing
through recursive fractal logic "feedback loops".within the free market for the sole benefit of the
Although Democracy, as a self-organizing dynamic,established controlling management is a
involves complex "feedback loops" amongFrankenstein concept, ignoring Mary Shelley's
appointed representatives, delegates and citizens,warning that our human creations can get out of
it is obviously under constant assault in ourcontrol creating uncontrollable destructive
current plutocracy. While complexity theoristsmonsters. This destructive ethos has been
may offer insights into the holistic and dynamictransferred into areas of bio-nano technology and
behaviour of societies, they lack the neededartificial intelligence, in which robotic agents are
context of a critical social theory. For example,programmed with a destructive ethos based on
fractal logic is prohibited, by the unbalancedentropic unbalanced understanding of the second
understanding of the second law oflaw of thermodynamics.
thermodynamics, which totally governs WesternFree-marketeers, like Kelly present capitalism as a
culture, as Einstein's Premier law of all thecomplex system that will steer itself into order,
sciences.providing a replay of Adam Smith's individualism.
Traditionally, Democracy was based upon formsThis is an impossible concept when the life blood
of knowledge derived from Sir Isaac Newton'sof the free-market is based on a fractional
published physics principles. However, thefinancial system. Complexity can only become
discovery during the 20th Century of Newton'sordered through a fractal banking system based
more profound natural balancing philosophy, toon a free energy economy, which is why the
balance the entropic world view, which is'stimulus package' was implemented to bolster
governed by the second law, demonstrated thateconomic recovery.
their democratic concepts of liberty had beenExtreme pro free market technophiles, uncritical
based upon completely false physics assumptions.of the new economy, lack any sense of social
This erroneous world view has been successfullyand political consciousness as a moral concern,
challenged by the Engineer, Buckminster Fuller,when in fact the original balanced life-science of
whose energy system discoveries became basicthe Classical Greek Humanities was based upon
a new life-science, developed by the three 1996ethical fractal logic. Democracy can become a
Nobel Laureates in Chemistry.self-organising dynamic only when checks and
However democratic freedom comes at a price,balances, through effective feedback loops are
especially when extended to free marketing. Newbased on an economy that first and foremost
wave economists who think our socio-economicexists for the greater good.