[quote=@catchamber] The evidence that meshing the systems is effective is the existence of societies that prosper more by following both philosophies, compared to nations that just stick with one. [/quote] Could you provide some specific examples to what you might be describing? [quote=@catchamber] When you build a car, you focus on making every part effective, because that's essential to the whole being effective. The same applies to groups, but groups are more flexible and comprised of individuals that can have many skills. [/quote] Making sure a car part isn't defective, is a lot easier than trying to figure out the various complications of a human being. Because not all humans can make a cohesive whole. But I feel the analogy falls apart even further considering battles for culture. Compelled speech or forcing members of society to dress a certain way. There isn't really a way to please everybody, like you could make sure a car is in perfect working order, which is inevitably what collectivism tries and fails to do... [quote=@catchamber] Incomplete, inconsistent, or invalidated theories that might be viable with the right conditions. As far as I know, applied marxism/communism sought to forcibly end capitalism and transition into statelessness, but ended up violating individual liberties and promoting unprofitable authoritarianism that went right back to capitalism when it suited them. [/quote] This might just be an innocuous addition. But I noticed you often use unprofitable, as a slant against the political systems. Would the system you described be validated in some way, if it actually was financially sound? [quote=@catchamber] Capitalism isn't bad, it's just that it can fail miserably and often does so. This failure is often when aspects of the system assume their worth is higher than the societies they comprise, which is incidentally the same reason why the populist forms of socialism, marxism, and communism during the 20th century failed so painfully. [/quote] So if a business, bank, or some sort of project fails to turn a profit and closes as a result. Do you consider that a failure of the political system? Capitalism certainly isn't perfect. But do you feel, let's say America's Education System is a failure (no, arguing on that one) because we don't have a fully government controlled/taxpayer funded educational system? Which would be a failure, since it doesn't incorporate enough authoritarian control? Or, is it a failure because it's not actually one coherent system. But like many things not doing well in America, it's never truly free-market idea being presented. It's some bizarre mishmash of various systems that only fail spectacularly as a result? If you acknowledge the latter, what problem do you think a 'mixed-bag system' solution would be useful for?