Here’s an observation from Joseph Tainter’s “The Collapse of Complex Societies,” which is itself a complex book:
“More complex societies are more costly to maintain than simpler ones… As societies increase in complexity, more networks are created among individuals, more hierarchical controls are created to regulate these networks, more information is processed, there is more centralisation of information flow, there is increasing need to support specialists not directly involved in resource production, and the like… The result is that as a society evolves toward greater complexity, the support costs levied on each individual will also rise, so that the population as a whole must allocate increasing portions of its energy budget to maintaining organisational institutions.”
It boggles my mind how Vermont’s legislative Democrats and their camp followers in favored interest groups have layered so many levels of additional complexity upon existing complexity, so much so that they themselves struggle to describe how their laws will operate in the real world. Instead, they resort to bullet points and simplistic sound bites and slogans to explain their work. This is characteristic of the Clean Heat standard, the new housing programs, considerations of statewide education funding and the new renewable energy standard.
A more accurate description I could not conceive without inserting some profanity. Thanks for keeping us up to date on this tyrannical monstrosity. If only we could be sure our votes are counted honestly.
Would I be wrong to speculate that this oppressive level of intrusiveness is eroding public trust? Our society depends on a high level of co-operative acquiescence. We are law abiding. Is this in jeopardy?
Have we elected folks who are planting the seeds of resistance...rebellion?
Here’s an observation from Joseph Tainter’s “The Collapse of Complex Societies,” which is itself a complex book:
“More complex societies are more costly to maintain than simpler ones… As societies increase in complexity, more networks are created among individuals, more hierarchical controls are created to regulate these networks, more information is processed, there is more centralisation of information flow, there is increasing need to support specialists not directly involved in resource production, and the like… The result is that as a society evolves toward greater complexity, the support costs levied on each individual will also rise, so that the population as a whole must allocate increasing portions of its energy budget to maintaining organisational institutions.”
It boggles my mind how Vermont’s legislative Democrats and their camp followers in favored interest groups have layered so many levels of additional complexity upon existing complexity, so much so that they themselves struggle to describe how their laws will operate in the real world. Instead, they resort to bullet points and simplistic sound bites and slogans to explain their work. This is characteristic of the Clean Heat standard, the new housing programs, considerations of statewide education funding and the new renewable energy standard.
This. Will. Not. End. Well! Full stop.
"...this utterly pointless, ridiculously expensive, seriously damaging exercise in virtue signaling..."
A more accurate description I could not conceive without inserting some profanity. Thanks for keeping us up to date on this tyrannical monstrosity. If only we could be sure our votes are counted honestly.
Would I be wrong to speculate that this oppressive level of intrusiveness is eroding public trust? Our society depends on a high level of co-operative acquiescence. We are law abiding. Is this in jeopardy?
Have we elected folks who are planting the seeds of resistance...rebellion?