A common criticism of modern liberalism is that it brings an increasingly centralization of power to complex systems, another way of saying concentrating decision-making to deal with unknown causes and effects. But there is a significant practical concern as well: The world is becoming more and more decentralized, more diffuse and diverse. The model of the centralized power having its will ripple through the community pyramid from the top down may not be an adequate reflection of the world as it now is. For example, powerhouse governments are having a hard time managing the resistance of small, disparate guerilla groups. Large but fragmented entrepreneurial drug cartels are as impervious as Tupperware parties to the powerful Washington hand.
We may be dealing with modern problems with outmoded techniques.
No comments:
Post a Comment