Can Order Be Unplanned?

Some people assume that for there to be order in human society, there needs to be some central planning or direction. But as Chapman University professor Tom W. Bell explains, much of the order we observe in our lives is not the product of human design, it's a product of spontaneous order. Drawing from the work of Adam Smith and Friedrich Hayek, Bell describes how an understanding of spontaneous orders helps us to understand markets, language, social norms, customs, and society itself.

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[Von Ace]

You can see simple spontaneous order while walking in a huge crowd like you'll find in concerts or malls. When you need to go somewhere and it's crowded, you'll find someone to follow behind, and most likely someone behind you, will follow you, and so on. If that person, that is leading is too slow for your taste, you'll try to find your own route, and you'll become the leader. And the people behind you will most likely follow you.

There is no communication is needed. It is spontaneous.

[Malthus0]

Nice simple introduction. You would think that after at least 200 years(if not more) since the first systematic understanding of spontaneious order in the Scottish philosophers, & since Darwins theory is now known in its basics to all, that this video would not be needed. But it is amazing how many people I still come across who still wonder why we don't run society like a commune or Kibbutz or who just assume no qualitative difference between the two types of social order.

[Danial B.]

A heavily regulate capitalistic society isn't a true capitalistic society. I don't see how any right minded individual can think this video is "hose shit", you come off as very closed minded and stuck in your ways.

[KellAnderson]

You would be surprised. Government arise, spontaneously, because people have created a complex system. Government is, in its own way, an Emergent Behavior. In small societies it is not uncommon for individuals to build the necessary infrastructure for power generation, irrigation and plumbing, and roads and bridges because they see a need and the ability to make money by supplying the need. Remember, the first bridges along the Oregon Trail were built by individuals without govt. money.

[GregoryTheGr8ster]

Actually, this video was deliberately planned, designed, and produced.

[Everett Vinzant]

You are comparing apples and oranges. Let us try it this way. Socialism is an economic system that requires central planning. This means a central group of individuals plans out everything that occurs in the market. True capitalism has no such central planning. This is a fact. Markets in true capitalism ebb and flow and cause interesting, "orders." These are studied, and some are understood. This is also a fact. There are math formulas that organize themselves (computer programs). Fact

[Kevin McMahon]

This video is obvious to anyone who spends as much time as I do on Youtube; this website is a case study in spontaneous order.

[joshua a]

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[sdsunshiness]

isn't this very simular to collective conciousness?

[nabeelmerchant]

The way this guy explains socialt thoery in a way that has no insight.

[masonkiller666]

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