Introduction A title that seems to carry conspiratorial overtones (some might conclude). Well, as my esteemed readers know by now, the so-called “Dutch nitrogen crisis” got me thinking; philosophically, scientifically, historically and otherwise. A few ‘scientific’ papers that have come out in recent years – let’s not dabble in shady referencing – really do envision a resetting of the whole of our global society, with agriculture at the forefront.
Putting ‘scientific’ in front of planning will not make it work, ever. Society is just too complex. Communists/utopians are so busy getting bent out of shape about wealth and the rich and equity they miss the fundamental point about money: it conveys information. The market system, through prices, aggregates the informational that is dispersed across society about what it needs. Production responds to this information and without it you get Soviet shoe factories that only produce left shoes, because of ‘scientific’ targets. Ironically, clowns like de Vries will look at you like you have two heads if you question evolution, that is natural unplanned optimisation of organisms to the environment over time, proposing instead Intelligent Design. Then publish this nonsense of Intelligent Design for the planet.
There is a connection between humans leaving the Garden of Eden and the results as described in the Book of Revelation.
I like to grow/hunt/fish/forage and eat healthy food, everything else is, at great risk of raising your hackles, about feeding the useless eaters concentrated in cities, including these so many great planners.
Putting ‘scientific’ in front of planning will not make it work, ever. Society is just too complex. Communists/utopians are so busy getting bent out of shape about wealth and the rich and equity they miss the fundamental point about money: it conveys information. The market system, through prices, aggregates the informational that is dispersed across society about what it needs. Production responds to this information and without it you get Soviet shoe factories that only produce left shoes, because of ‘scientific’ targets. Ironically, clowns like de Vries will look at you like you have two heads if you question evolution, that is natural unplanned optimisation of organisms to the environment over time, proposing instead Intelligent Design. Then publish this nonsense of Intelligent Design for the planet.
There is a connection between humans leaving the Garden of Eden and the results as described in the Book of Revelation.
I like to grow/hunt/fish/forage and eat healthy food, everything else is, at great risk of raising your hackles, about feeding the useless eaters concentrated in cities, including these so many great planners.
“dangerous scientistic hubris in the worst utopian tradition.”
You can say that again.
How poppycock, many insufferable drivel, such much extirpative expertocracy, so problematique indeed! Wow 😈 <Gödel nods approvingly>
Ahh, and big ty for suffering through these PB treatises, so we blessedly don't have to! 🤩