Normandos e saxões

Ontem o DN presenteáva-nos com a notícia (ou spin puro e duro) "Sócrates não fo avisado da saída de Dalila Rodrigues", hoje oferece-nos "Cavaco "surpreendido" com afastamento de Dalila".

E aqui estamos nós num país onde nada se faz sem que o Poder (Big Man) saiba, autorize, mande! Porque quando não sabe é notícia!!!

"As society and the economy grew more complicated, however, the feedback loop or selection became less direct, with intermedite, socially driven selection cropping up. The first collision between selection and society undoubtedly came when the first Big Man said, "Let's give this nice, fertile plot of land to my third wife's cousin (who is a lousy farmer) instead of to Mr. X (who is an excellent farmer)." We can safely assume that political meddling in economic affairs is as old as both politics and economics themselves. Such decisions favoring poor Business Plans (the cousin's) over good Business Plans (Mr. X's) do not last long in an environment where everyone was on the edge of survival - if the Big Man did this often enough, then either the Big Man's tribe would perish under his leadership or he'd be overthrown in a revolt. But once a society had crossed the survival threshold (particularly after the advent of settled agriculture), such social short-circuiting of the selection process became not just possible , but ever more likely as the group grew richer.
If a tribe is generally surviving and the Big Man's graft, corruption, or incompetence isn't life threatening, then relatively few people may even be aware of the additional wealth their tribe is giving up."
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"Thus, the main impact of political interference in the process of Business Plan selection is too slow down evolution's clock-speed."
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"In a Big Man system. the fitness function maximized is the wealth and power of the Big Man (and his cronies), rather than the overall economic wealth of the society. Thus, the creative, entrepreneurial, and deductive-tinkering energies of the population are directed toward pleasing the Big Man."

E agora, muito ao gosto deste país de regime neo-patrimonial:

"In a Big Man economy, a business live or dies by political favor. In a market-based economy, a business lives or dies by whether its customers like and are willing to pay for its products and services. In a Big Man economy resources are directed toward the ventures that best line the pockets of the Big Men. In a market economy, resources are directed to ventures that make the best economic use of them."

Trechos retirados da minha leitura de férias "The Origin of Wealth - Evolution, Complexity, and the Radical Remaking of Economics" de Eric Beinhocker .

Agora deixem de pensar no Big Man como uma pessoa, e vejam-no antes como uma classe governante à parte, plena de privilégios (absurdos como a estória de um deputado-um assessor pessoal) e completamente a leste do que é a criação de riqueza no dia-a-dia.

Talvez por isso, muitas vezes dou comigo a sentir o que terão sentido os saxões, depois da batalha de Hastings. Estou no meu país, na minha terra-mãe, onde me devia sentir bem e no entanto, sinto-me cada vez mais um saxão num país governado por normandos, normandos que exigem cada vez mais impostos, que metem o bedelho em cada vez mais coisas... por isso, cada vez mais oiço uma vozinha interior segredar-me "Emigra, vai para outra terra onde os Big Men não tenham tanto poder".

Será que só os saxões cobardes ficam por cá?
E os saxões que não são cobardes emigram? Têm mesmo de emigrar? Não há alternativa?