William Mins [tangentially, this is why the pure anarchistic
   un-governed free-market of goods, ideas, services, and
   arbitration. is a short-lived dream... within a generation or
   two the economy, market, and participants adapts, learns, and
   decides on some rule of order -- a culture is formed, and the
   behaviors are either sanctioned or punished depending on the
   mutual consent of all interested and empowered parties. Over
   time this results in a codified process, and some trusted agency
   of protective and managerial specialization. Those who refuse to
   play by the socially acceptable rules, are expected to refrain
   from playing... or are somehow shunned, repudiated, or penalized
   for known repeat offences.] Me: Beautifully written my friend.*
   I'd like to frame your last paragraph, particularly, in gold.*
   Allow me to relate economics, anarchy and culture, to reading,
   education, anarchy and culture. I think you read my post on
   "Reading Comprehension" (ok, my rant), so I'll be a good boy and
   not repeat it here. My Don Quixote-ness around education seems
   to be centered around a bit of BS I couldn't explain back in
   4th/5th grade, except that it was BS: "What is the Author's
   Intent?" My first exposure to BS was around 3rd Grade, when I
   started noticing TV commercials would try to "lead me" and get
   me excited; and I started seeing them as pieces of stupid
   plastic or stuffing.* Not that I didn't *want* a lot of it; I
   did!* But I could "feel the pull" and didn't like that feeling.
   I didn't like the social pull in school; the attempts to get me
   to think a certain way because, "everybody else was... "* I was
   watching Mork & Mindy; I was weird and proud of it.* I was DERP
   before DERP was a word. But then.. it started showing up in
   tests.* Right and wrong answers about what's happening in the
   author's mind.* Right and wrong answers about how *I'm supposed
   to interpret* them.* My freedom; reading; thinking creatively;
   coming to my own conclusions; codified, measured, marked and
   judged. Nowadays, I'd reword "What is the Author's Intent?"* I'd
   say: *"What are our cultural expectations that we wish for you
   to infer about the intentions of this author that is not present
   in the text as written by the author?"* "This is what you should
   think the author was thinking" seemed wrong then and still does.
   Writing is playful to me.* Reading is playful to me.* It's not a
   game of winning and losing.* There is no goal but the thing
   itself. But.. that's anarchistic.* And... as you beautifully
   said, within a generation or two, it gets codified.* Those who
   do not conform are ostracized in some way. *sigh** At least I
   feel better knowing I wasn't entirely baseless all of these
   years in seeing something wrong with it.