Comments on: New book by Dean Baker: Making Markets Progressive https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/new-book-by-dean-baker-making-markets-progressive/2011/11/03 Researching, documenting and promoting peer to peer practices Thu, 03 Nov 2011 07:14:12 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.5.15 By: Øyvind Holmstad https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/new-book-by-dean-baker-making-markets-progressive/2011/11/03/comment-page-1#comment-486640 Thu, 03 Nov 2011 07:14:12 +0000 http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/?p=20588#comment-486640 I’ve not studied at any university, but I think I’ve read that conservatism is basically/originally about creating a strong civil society where the individual is protected from the state’s intervention. Today we can surely sideline corporations with the state!

This is in my opinion not happening in today’s free markets. The invisible hand of the market existed on the time of Adam Smith, but this was in the time before globalization and WTO. In fact, the invisible hand, which is today cut of, consisted of evolved patterns and languages.

Thus, to create a “true” conservative community of a strong sivil society, where most important of all the HUMAN SCALE is existing EVERYWHERE, both in economy, architecture, and democracy, we must use the Pattern Technology of Christopher Alexander: http://www.metropolismag.com/pov/20111007/the-pattern-technology-of-christopher-alexander

Today’s conservatives are fundamentally flawed and utterly bewildered. Although I’ve left ideologies as I don’t know why we need them when we have permaculture and the technologies of Christopher Alexander, I’m from a conservative background and it pains me when I see how today’s “conservatives” are promoting accumulation of capital and other antipatterns that violate the human scale and destroy the civil society: http://permaliv.blogspot.com/2011/10/multilayered-anti-pattern.html

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