Mikal posted this, I love it, and so I moved it here for future reading:

Democratic capitalism functions from bottom-up tools that have evolved over centuries of trial and error. It is a system which arises naturally from the human actions of free people which is why Adam Smith called it the ‘natural system of liberty.’ It serves the common good of the greatest number of people by forming a spontaneous order, based on voluntary exchange, free from coercion and we can play as hard or lazy as we want because the system is natural and spontaneous.

As William Gairdner stated, ‘government has only one legitimate role to play in this: to create and protect a climate in which the system can flourish with justice’ and his book was an early warning signal that government planned to vastly exceed this role.


The tools of the bottom-up system are very different from the tools of the top-down system which is a consciously created and forced set of regulations or methods imposed by government planners or intellectuals.

Beyond all the political philosophies which are numerous the kind of society we live in comes out the other end as either pluralism or authoritarianism. My studies, questioning and examinations reveal that we have went the way of allowing vested authority in thousands of bureaucrats, many of whom have police-like powers. We are merging into a closed, authoritarian system through the creation of imperative laws of the social-engineering variety.
I feel the protestors in the movement clearly understand what they are struggling against; I am just not sure they clearly understand the nature of the environment they are fighting in.

My late father was a politically aware man who allowed me at ten years of age to borrow his political books and also to debate with him. He taught me two terms I must understand in a semantical way: the real meaning of ‘the cow has hair on its tongue’ and ‘sleight of hand.’

“The very policies and transactions that are necessary to win, hold, and exploit an empire are destructive to an imperial power’s own cities and cannot help but lead to their stagnation and decay. Imperial decline is built right into imperial success.”—Jane Jacobs: Cities and the Wealth of Nations, Pg 182