The productivity myths of modern politicians are pretty simple - terribly simple , scarily simple. That wannabes run on simple ideas is completely understandable and quite rational but ,,,, if you haven't worked that out yet , not everything important comes to those who can follow the last line of an argument ; like Tony jones does on Q&A when he " moves on " ( and would be stupid to describe this point as " the end " ( go see The Best Marigold Hotel ")
While the wannabes havago at each other in the house, they are all singing from the same song sheet . "It its efficient, it will save us ". Note it is not the song " if its efficient it will screw us" ( much more realistic and balanced ) or if ( could be Julia's footnote on history ) if it doesn't work ( not effective) even the greatest tax idea of the century will be lost .(TGEINOBI)
The depth of the efficiency / effectiveness paradoxes are too deep to explore here - except to say that while we need both , we can't afford a disconnect between both .(esp effectiveness and purposefulness.)
Clearly if we are to be like nature, we should, at the very least , be efficient ( esp in the sense that we don't waste things . Even Aristotle got that - see Etiene Gilson ) .
Our problem is that we are not very effective and .a bit arrogant ....worse, we don't admit why we are poorly targeting our technology ( Ellul and other knew why but we are .. ... well to be generous, not at that line yet )
Why don't Liberals go back to talking radical
liberalism rather than contining to follow Labor into the cul de sac of mere market
fundamentalism . After all , if economic policy amounts to balancing the budget , the Libs can't win. The Libs can
save all they like ,but if Labor spends
it all - Labor wins . If people see themselves as mainly dependant consumers and not independant producers the traffic is one way, and even if efficient - its not effective in the long term .
http://monthlyreview.org/2001/03/01/refuting-the-big-lie
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