| Can Democracy become a self-organizing | | | | system and technology are acceptable and do not |
| dynamic? Historically the old land-owner-serf | | | | need any changes, ignore the fact that their |
| attitude can be considered to have been revived | | | | information based economy is built upon obsolete |
| by new property laws supporting bio-piracy by | | | | entropic foundations. As a result, corporate |
| such companies as Monsanto. Such companies | | | | leaders need to fulfill two contradictory tasks, |
| genetically alter the crops that traditional cultures | | | | such as. building up and then tearing down, |
| have cultivated for millennia and then claim the | | | | conforming to the chaos dictates of the second |
| new biogene as their own property. Adam Smith's | | | | law. The New wave economist Kevin Kelly |
| oppressive theories of economic self-organization | | | | outlined 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 be | | | | entropic market place this is completely logical. |
| effective if its internal self equilibrium, is maintained | | | | The 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" among | | | | Frankenstein 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 our | | | | control creating uncontrollable destructive |
| current plutocracy. While complexity theorists | | | | monsters. This destructive ethos has been |
| may offer insights into the holistic and dynamic | | | | transferred into areas of bio-nano technology and |
| behaviour of societies, they lack the needed | | | | artificial 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 unbalanced | | | | entropic unbalanced understanding of the second |
| understanding of the second law of | | | | law of thermodynamics. |
| thermodynamics, which totally governs Western | | | | Free-marketeers, like Kelly present capitalism as a |
| culture, as Einstein's Premier law of all the | | | | complex system that will steer itself into order, |
| sciences. | | | | providing a replay of Adam Smith's individualism. |
| Traditionally, Democracy was based upon forms | | | | This is an impossible concept when the life blood |
| of knowledge derived from Sir Isaac Newton's | | | | of the free-market is based on a fractional |
| published physics principles. However, the | | | | financial system. Complexity can only become |
| discovery during the 20th Century of Newton's | | | | ordered through a fractal banking system based |
| more profound natural balancing philosophy, to | | | | on 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 that | | | | economic recovery. |
| their democratic concepts of liberty had been | | | | Extreme 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 successfully | | | | and 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 basic | | | | the Classical Greek Humanities was based upon |
| a new life-science, developed by the three 1996 | | | | ethical 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. New | | | | based on an economy that first and foremost |
| wave economists who think our socio-economic | | | | exists for the greater good. |