Topic: Laws as walls analogy (Read 752 times)
If you keep in mind that laws are threats (and occasionally they aren't empty threats) to hurt, kill and destroy lives it will never be surprising when they make bad stuff happen.
I'm not necessarily opposed to the idea of government legislation, but doesn't it sometimes feel as if this is happening? Law and innovation rarely seem to be friends.
We have all entered New Landia, a vast space of possibility.
Buildings are built, these represent infrastructure and exploration of this space.
An area of sand is descovered. Buildings on it often sink so a law that covers most of, and a huge space around, the sand is passed.
Later people want to build on most of the huge space of ideas inside the law, so they break down the barriers and build a city there. At the same time the sandy parts just outside the law are being used unsuspectingly and causing buildings to sink.
Instead of doing the obvious thing of adjusting the law, the barriers are built higher and higher instead.
Some people living in the primitive huts away from the city point at the city and then at the buildings being built on the soft ground not covered by the law, comparing the two. Suggesting that the inhabitants of the city are troublemakers.
Eventually law makers work on the problem, bodging the job again. However by this time better ground has been found elsewhere and the city has been moved away.
We have all entered New Landia, a vast space of possibility.
Buildings are built, these represent infrastructure and exploration of this space.
An area of sand is descovered. Buildings on it often sink so a law that covers most of, and a huge space around, the sand is passed.
Later people want to build on most of the huge space of ideas inside the law, so they break down the barriers and build a city there. At the same time the sandy parts just outside the law are being used unsuspectingly and causing buildings to sink.
Instead of doing the obvious thing of adjusting the law, the barriers are built higher and higher instead.
Some people living in the primitive huts away from the city point at the city and then at the buildings being built on the soft ground not covered by the law, comparing the two. Suggesting that the inhabitants of the city are troublemakers.
Eventually law makers work on the problem, bodging the job again. However by this time better ground has been found elsewhere and the city has been moved away.
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