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Wasn't it in Thomas Sowell's writing that I read that, insofar as the decision makers are isolated - by distance or time - from the results of their decisions, there will be a diminishing possibility that negative feedback can correct or adjust the decision making, and, thusly, a system whereby decisions are made *only* according to "vision" and "ideals" will be engendered (pun intended/not intended!) ? The larger the bureaucratic system, the more likely it falls to irrationality and religiosity, and the less likely it is that rational, individual actors within such a system might survive being rooted out as heretics. It matters not what organizing principles might be seeded at the outset, nor what tasks are imagined: all giant systems are destined to be mindless, automaton monsters. Gato and all critical thinkers must therfore continue to beat the drum of decentralization and individual agency-with-personal-responsibility - which of course is exactly what this piece is. Insofar as anyone gets drawn into endlessly debating ideals, we've lost our ability to solve the practical problems before us. I see more and more why those of action and leadership tend so often to appear as odd, aloof or alone. Systems spurn those they can't control...

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