February 2005 Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat     1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28           Jan   Mar ABOUT EA ABOUT ROB   TOPICS WE DISCUSS HERE: HOME RANTS BOOKS NOISE COMIX LINKS AND BUDDIES ARTWORK THE RAVEN INTERLUDE   SALON BLOG RANKINGS BLOG UPDATES EA REFERERS TECHNORATI         < £ Salon Bloggers & > Rate Me on BlogHop.com! help? Is my Blog HOT or NOT? Click here to visit Blogster.Net - Top Blogs! Blogroll Me!	Wednesday, February 23, 2005 Savage Republic Busy today, so allow me to recommend Stirling Newberry’s excellent post over at the Daily Kos Journal site, called “The Rise of Rove’s Republic.” It’s long, but worth a read. In my opinion, the most interesting point Newberry makes is the identification of the sources of wealth in different types of government. Land- and resource-based economies tend to be conservative and authoritarian, because land is finite and physical control (the essence of conservatism) is decisive in the allocation of power and wealth. Labor- and idea-based economies tend to be more open because labor and especially ideas are fluid and spontaneous. There is no limit on ingenuity, and the amount of value people can add through their labor, craft and innovation is far more varied and unpredictable. The government that supports this type of economy therefore has to be more pluralistic and accommodating of new ideas and participants. Things like nationalism – the ultimate land-fetish – are less important to states and economies where control of resources is not the locus of power and wealth.   Anyway, Newberry’s thesis is that the far right in America sees our growing dependence on oil, and therefore transition toward a more resource-centered economic model, as the opportunity to assert a radically more conservative structure of governance. They are doing this by attacking the pillars that bolster the old liberal order, and by so encumbering existing institutions with debt that the only alternative is to embrace a fundamental political and economic shift.   I am not doing justice to the full scope of his thinking on this subject. Suffice it to say that, as an interested and somewhat informed reader, I was fascinated. Hope you like it as much as I did. 9:06:07 AM    Emphasize This! [] © Copyright 2005 Rob Salkowitz. Last update: 3/3/2005; 8:58:42 AM. Emphasis Added Theme designed by Andrew Lueck and Rob Salkowitz.	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