Episode Two: Economic Freedom in America Today<\/a>.<\/p>\nRegulation is not only a Federal problem.\u00a0 Regulation is pernicious,\u00a0at every level of government.\u00a0 Today Elbert County has a clear choice\u00a0whether or not to greatly expand our county’s regulatory reach into energy development\u00a0matters it knows next to nothing about.<\/p>\n
At the county level the force of regulation is imposed through zoning law.\u00a0 Our county’s Community and Development Services department works every day to write, refine, expand, detail and enforce their ubiquitous vision of a perfectable society.\u00a0 They want to save this land and this county from its people because, essentially,\u00a0they don’t trust the people.<\/p>\n
They think they are wise stewards who, with a third-party steward’s interest,\u00a0have a more valuable right to forecefully impose their\u00a0vision about\u00a0a sound local economy, than the stakeholders and property holders in the county have in doing so for themselves.<\/p>\n
Zoning regulators think that by stopping people from the pursuit of economic activity, they serve a higher purpose of preservation of our local world.\u00a0 This of course begs questions of preservation for what?\u00a0 For who?\u00a0 For when?\u00a0 And for why?<\/p>\n
Of course they have answers for all of these questions.\u00a0 The answers are myths — myths consisting of\u00a0more tenuous myths in a great pyramid of “smart,” sustainable, no-growth, enviro-jihad mythology.<\/p>\n
The future beneficiaries of county zoning and regulation don’t exist.\u00a0 They are a myth–not real–and unless you’re a believer, not even foreseeable.\u00a0 The great probability is they will never\u00a0come to exist because future unforseen circumstances will change everything long before these present day socio and eco myths\u00a0can ever\u00a0be tested, long after\u00a0they are forgotten in favor of some future mythology as yet unkown.<\/p>\n
Man took matters that\u00a0used to be in God’s domain and invested them in\u00a0Gaia, the environment and\u00a0universe-trekking aliens. That’s\u00a0what humans do at the margins of their knowledge where observation ends and speculation begins–we\u00a0create mythologies–myths that we love. \u00a0 And then we create the legalities to enforce those mythologies.<\/p>\n
Regulatory zealots consider this sort of talk\u00a0heresy.\u00a0 They believe that the forced perfectibility of man and the environment is actually possible.\u00a0 Just as the power that was – the Church – once defended\u00a0Ptolemy’s geocentric universe against the heresy of Copernicus, so too the regulatory powers of today know, without a shadow of doubt, that they know best, and that they can sufficiently describe,\u00a0legislate, and enforce\u00a0a set of rules to govern our behavior, for our own best interest.<\/p>\n
To even imagine\u00a0they could succeed at such a task is a pinnacle of hubris.\u00a0 When has an authoritarian process ever<\/em> led to a best outcome for its subjects?\u00a0 When have a small minority of minds ever<\/em> created the economic output of a diverse population acting in their own interests?\u00a0 The regulatory\u00a0model\u00a0cannot succeed.<\/p>\nRegulation makes\u00a0inevitable change much\u00a0more costly.\u00a0 The\u00a0regulatory parties in government who do this to us have no\u00a0personal skin in the game–only\u00a0myths and the iron fist–a deadly combination.\u00a0 Ironically, the regulatory mission\u00a0of\u00a0governing progressives is about the most regressive\u00a0thing they could do.<\/p>\n
If we can’t stop creating mythologies, at least we should learn to stop legalizing them.<\/p>\n
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