Goodbye Administrative State, Hello Community Resilience

This is a brilliant article by Heinberg and answers many questions for the TINA crowd ("there is not alternative" -- think Margaret Thatcher, Ronald Reagan and Hillary Clinton) and the anarchist and revolutionary side as well.  Spinning off Trumps clumsy, brutal and dangerous efforts to roll back regulation, he identifies two areas wherein reduction is administrative complexity would indeed have outsizes positive ramifications for the world -- Finance and Energy.  He outrageously suggests a managed collapse of both the sectors as being our best hope for our survival

"Are there other, better opportunities for reducing societal complexity? Maybe it would make more sense to seek simplification in the areas of the system that most threaten its overall stability. Two obvious candidates are the financial sector and the energy system. For the past four decades, America's financial system has grown faster than any other segment of its economy -- by piling on debt. And as we've seen, debt levels are now unsustainable. Previous societies have been able to extricate themselves from similar dilemmas in only one way -- by forgiving debt, cancelling it, and repudiating it on a large scale. This will eventually happen, quite literally by default, one way or another; why not get ahead of the curve by managing a financial collapse? If it were managed really, really well, perhaps it might not even feel like a collapse". -- Richard Heinberg

I love this guy, a local and he plays a mean violin. And, lot of great book references here.

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