The point is that bigness just doesnt work in business, government, or any other kind of organization. Capitalist or communist. Bureaucracy always screws the little guy; it always makes his life worse instead of better. And it always gets in its own way. Small-scale organization of all human activities is the inevitable wave of the future. All our current institutions — government, business, social are like dinosaurs. Theyve grown and grown until theyre so ponderous and unwieldy and bogged down in bureaucratic paper shuffling, they cant even fulfill the simplest tasks. And, like dinosaurs, as long as the climate is favorable, theyll keep on dominating the landscape and keep on growing. But the climate is changing in this country, and changing fast. Theres some cold winds blowing out of the north. We dont have unlimited low-cost energy to squander anymore and we can no longer count on an unlimited flow of inexpensive raw materials from backward nations. And most important of all, the American people are wising up. Theyre demanding an end to things such as pollution and consumer rip-offs. Now this is only the beginning. When the real crunch comes, the dinosaurs wont be able to adapt; theyll die of their own ponderous inertia. And their place will be taken by small-scale organizations made up of people with a sense of individual responsibility, because such organizations and such people will be versatile enough to adapt. — Karl Hess
Posted on: Fri, 23 Jan 2015 10:07:24 +0000
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