trueromantic
06-17-2009, 09:35 AM
Last night I heard a philosopher called Philip Blonde on the radio. His ideas were interesting and it seems to me essentially humanitarian and democratic. This is a brief summary of what he was saying:
We have, apparently, become less communally minded as a society in relation to the degree to which we have become focused on individual happiness and increasingly anti-utilitarian in fiscal and political terms.
Or in his own words "unregulated economics is creating a Market State which really only exists for the benefit of those at the top"
He wasnt as acute when it came to the question of how to remedy this but he argues in favour of the benefits of local as opposed to national co-operative power, regulating big buisness in order to allow small enterprise capitalism and devolving government from centralised to regional level.
Some interesting stuff below including details of his published work for anyone remotely interested.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phillip_Blond
We have, apparently, become less communally minded as a society in relation to the degree to which we have become focused on individual happiness and increasingly anti-utilitarian in fiscal and political terms.
Or in his own words "unregulated economics is creating a Market State which really only exists for the benefit of those at the top"
He wasnt as acute when it came to the question of how to remedy this but he argues in favour of the benefits of local as opposed to national co-operative power, regulating big buisness in order to allow small enterprise capitalism and devolving government from centralised to regional level.
Some interesting stuff below including details of his published work for anyone remotely interested.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phillip_Blond