Micromanaging and Universal Planning...good?

Today as well as in the recent past, early 1900s, and even going back to much earlier times there have been individuals, today we call them progressives, socialists, communists or Maoists or any number of other splinter groups that believe that the only hope for mankind is through centralized planning not only on a local level but on a national and global level. This false belief in global centralized planning which has been augmented by the almighty organizer god, the computer, has and is leading us down a path to self destruction based on the premise that conscious control of everything is the ultimate intellectual goal of mankind that will result in a Utopian society. In truth it will lead to totalitarianism, destruction and a final dead end...death. At first, deliberating on total global control of all the various sectors of society, industry, agriculture and the myriad of others that exist seems perfectly logical and the correct approach.

However, we are forgetting one aspect of the human condition and that decisions, truly human decisions have to take place in a specific set of variables that all the computers in the world cannot do. We as individuals or groups of individuals must have the "freedom in everything which depends on the circumstances of time and place, because only the individuals concerned in each instance can fully know these circumstances and adapt their actions to them."*

With absolute central planning, absolute rules concerning the nature of decisions must also be implemented and in doing that we slowly but eventually give up our abilities to make independent decisions and in doing so eventually loose our freedom and liberty. This does not happen all at once but only in small increments, little nudges that are hardly perceptible until we find ourselves enslaved. This "nudging" has been going on since the early 1900s and is slowly escalating...maybe even not so slowly escalating...I could be wrong. Watch, see, listen and be alert before its too late to turn back.

*The Road To Serfdom, Text and Documents, The Definitive Edition, F.A. Hayek, edited by Bruce Caldwell, The University of Chicago Press. p.2, page 114.