Eleutheria
I've had a long history of wandering around like Diogenes with his lamp, looking for an ethos that actually fit me. After writing this it occurred to me that I've finally found my way out of the fly-bottle: skeptical empiricism isn't just an epistemic stance, but a deeply ethical one. In order to do what's right, you need to first know what's right (tacitly or otherwise), and you can't know if you're not incorporating relevant information from your environment into your mental model of it in a continuous feedback process.
The virtue of well-functioning markets is that they teach people to do what's right automatically; incorporating the same design principles into government would do the same over time. The important thing is the learning. This has led me to articulate what I'll dub the Principle of Utopic Convergence:
"In the limit, the eudaimonic consequences of a well-functioning technocracy are indistinguishable from those of a well-functioning market anarchy."
The virtue of well-functioning markets is that they teach people to do what's right automatically; incorporating the same design principles into government would do the same over time. The important thing is the learning. This has led me to articulate what I'll dub the Principle of Utopic Convergence:
"In the limit, the eudaimonic consequences of a well-functioning technocracy are indistinguishable from those of a well-functioning market anarchy."