One MP wants a new "economic system".
I think it may be an iron law that people who use the word 'system' invariably do not know what a 'system' is.
I think it may be an iron law that people who use the word 'system' invariably do not know what a 'system' is.
https://twitter.com/CarolineLucas/status/1375825664411107337
It's true of "systemic 'racism'" too, that people who claim it is a fact cannot identify the components or dynamics of the 'system'. Yet they are obsessed with 'systems'.
What people who demand the abolition of an (imagined) system invariably are in reality demanding is the instantiation of a system.
It is a mode of thinking that should have died in the 1970s.
But then, the Green Party (pka, Ecology, pka PEOPLE) was born in the 1970s, and has never really thrown off the understanding of that era. Radical systematisation of human life seemed necessary for the protection of human life.
It was the new science of systems -- cybernetics -- that seemed to show that the End Is Nigh. Resource depletion, overpopulation, toxic build up...
We were surely doomed.
But when the UFO didn't show up, the Greens (now called Ecology) didn't change the script.
We were surely doomed.
But when the UFO didn't show up, the Greens (now called Ecology) didn't change the script.
This is because the desire to systematise human life is far more enduring than any science that can support the need to systematise human life.
Cybernetics turned out to have very little scientific value, but fantastic political utility.
Cybernetics turned out to have very little scientific value, but fantastic political utility.
Greens are in themselves, completely irrelevant. They are 0.153% of MPs. But they are not, as they like to claim, counter-establishment. They absolutely and perfectly epitomise establishment ideology. This is why debunking them is useful.
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