Welcome to the World of the Rational Agent

This is the inaugural post of The Rational Agent, a blog that takes sides in the war on humanity, perpetrated by the Neoclassical Economist, the Libertarian, the Free Marketeer, the Eugenecist, the Humanist, and all others that believe society can be perfectly engineered in a manner that does not take cohabitation, diversity of opinion and kind, cooperation, democratic ideals, quality of life, and genuine freedom into consideration.  I reject the tyranny of markets, and I set out to undermine the appeals to science, pseudo-science, and philsophy that attempt to defend it.

I am also an American, and I believe the American experiment was fundamentally about democracy, not about capitalism, and democracy has made the USA the great nation that it is.  When democracy and capitalism clash, I choose democracy because my belief in human nature is optimistic.  The greatest threat to the phenomenal potential of the Wisdom of Crowds is panic, fear, disaffectation.  Our collective intelligence must be protected and preserved in the same manner that a garden must be tended to yield the desired crops.  Collectively, in the right circumstances, we are more intelligent across all subjects than any individual among us.

In the neoclassical world, society is comprised of a number of “me’s”.  However, the greatest society, and the society put forth by the founders of the United States of America, is a “we” society.  It is our job to break down the barriers and false notions that have been set up to undermine our solidarity as free individuals.  We do not need communism, a strict domineering central government, to act as a magnificent collective force.  We do not need capitalism, the commodification of everything and cynical personal incentives, to act in the best interests of our nation and eachother.