01-13-2017, 08:53 PM
(01-13-2017, 08:50 PM)Odin Wrote:(01-13-2017, 10:12 AM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote:(01-13-2017, 07:51 AM)Odin Wrote: To me the problem is when people's nice, neat "logical", "rational" ideas start getting in the way of the lives of actual human beings. Libertarians and doctrinaire Marxist-Leninists are good examples of this. Architects, urban planners, and sociologists with grand plans of utopian social engineering also run into this problem, it's one of the reasons the GIs Great Society projects went off the rails.
Yep. I can agree with this. Damn these humans, always getting in the way of improving society.
This might also touch upon the iNtuitive / Sensor divide. Is one interested in the forest, or the trees?
Well, improving society really isn't the problem. The problem is when you get one person or a group or people who think they know "The Way" to Utopia and try to impose it on everyone else without caring what people actually want. The whole "New Left" idea of Participatory Democracy came from the backlash to that.
Although, funnily enough, other segments of the New Left are all about "The Way". Meet the new boss...