[Borodog]

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And what has history taught us about making statements of the form, "this new civilizational model is the ultimate in social evolution, and is the form of government that makes all other forms of government obsolete"?

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Ah but the difference is that those statements were wrong, and have been shown to be wrong theoretically. Empirical results confirm those theoretical analyses. Meanwhile, correct economic analysis shows that the free market does in fact provide for any good or service better than a coercive monopoly, and this is backed up by mountains of historical empirical evidence. The fact that thus far we have not yet managed to kick the vampire free of society in every industry at the same time doen't mean that it is somehow good to be preyed upon or that it is inevitable.

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I guess we'll have to agree to disagree because I see all of this as too hypothetical at this point in time to justify these kinds of statements. 'Correct economical analysis' just sounds like a collection of buzzwords to me. There have been no controlled studies or well documented cases to characterize how a society like this would actually flesh out.

Just to clarify I think that AC is a legitimate idea for a social structure but it will be subject to gradualism as much as any other has been in the past. This is why I refuse to jump on the purebred AC bandwagon. ACists will need to be opportunists more than anything else if they want to see their dream realized. Don't try and force the fall of Rome, just be ready to pick up the pieces when it happens.

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You can't be ready to pick up the pieces unless you educate enough people. And really, you have to educate them to not pick up the pieces. The pieces are evil, like the black rock in the toaster oven at the end of Time Bandits.