John Perry Barlow interview
You've all already heard about the John Perry Barlow interview over at Reason. But I just had to pull out this quote from the very end of the interview to point out:
In order to be libertarian, you have to be an optimist. You have to have a benign view of human nature, to believe that human beings left to their own devices are basically good. But I’m not so sure about human institutions, and I think the real point of argument here is whether or not large corporations are human institutions or some other entity we need to be thinking about curtailing. Most libertarians are worried about government but not worried about business. I think we need to be worrying about business in exactly the same way we are worrying about government.
What sort of meta-behavior do we have when we get together in companies? IANAEB, but I'm curious: how do collectives of people evolve? Obviously via the evolutoin of the constituents. Or is that obvious? I hvae no idea.
(IANAEB means I am not an evolutionary biologist, of course.)