Doing the wrong thing righter
Elitist condecension.
http://tomchance.org/2024/05/09/until-planners-are-kings/
"Is there a true, or ideal, form of urban and rural development?
Imagine, for a moment that there were. Who would we want in charge of seeking that truth, and governing on the basis of their ruminations?
Until planners are kings, or the kings and princes of this world have the spirit and power of planning, and political greatness and wisdom meet in one, and those commoner natures who pursue either to the exclusion of the other are compelled to stand aside, cities will never have rest from their evils."
my comment.
"Nature rejects the monarch, not the man; The subject, not the citizen; for kings And subjects, mutual foes, forever play A losing game into each other’s hands, Whose stakes are vice and misery. The man Of virtuous soul commands not, nor obeys. Power, like a desolating pestilence, Pollutes whate'er it touches; and obedience, Bane of all genius, virtue, freedom, truth, Makes slaves of men, and of the human frame A mechanized automaton."
Percy Bysshe Shelley, Queen Mab
Similarly I reject the notion that planners should be kings.Platonic Elitism and technocratic managerialism as proposed in the nimby yimby dichotomy here fails to dissolve the "problem"
"Doing the wrong things righter" ( Seddon, vanguard method),is a peculiar prescription and a contributing cause of the continuing stagnation of much of the UK's public private and third sectors problem solving malaise.
Always follow the money. Always seek the context, motivation and vector of a sub-set of governance triangulated to its proximity to the finance system.In short " he who pays the piper calls the tune."
Now Read This
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:RogerGLewis
The Ending of the Long Monetary Expansion Cycle and a Brave new world of Housing Realism.
then this.
Affordable housing finance.a framework of understanding
https://drive.google.com/file/d/103IyogaA-8YXTRNx_nyH1AW9Prdgn5LE/view
ISOURCE:The Works of Lucian of Samosata. Translated by Fowler, H W and F G. Oxford: The Clarendon Press. 1905.
‘I found the city in a ruinous condition, owing to the neglect of the magistrates, who had commonly been guilty of embezzlement, if not of wholesale plunder. I repaired the evil by means of aqueducts, beautified the city with noble buildings, and surrounded it with walls. The public revenues were easily increased by proper attention on the part of the fiscal authorities. I provided for the education of the young and the maintenance of the old; and for the general public I had games and spectacles, banquets and doles. As for rape and seduction, tyrannical violence or intimidation, I abhorred the very name of such things. "
http://lucianofsamosata.info/wiki/doku.php?id=home:texts_and_library:essays:phalaris-i
The Conquest of Circuses ( a poem )
https://www.youtube.com/live/M45fBPxPrbU?si=Y-1bU5TssNo1Rc6w
https://grubstreetinexile.substack.com/notes