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In many ways I agree.
The ideal economy is a balance between good government and free enterprise. Both are required and neither can achieve maximum results without the other in place. This ideal may never be achieved to perfection but it can be aspired to and worked toward.
Balance is fundamental to many natural systems and understanding its universality and constantly adjusting character is useful.
Perhaps counter intuitively in a balanced system approach there is inherently constant change and adjustment whereas in unbalanced monolithic systems there is rigidity and inability to adapt to change.
In ideologies people tend toward extremes because of the certainty and simplicity that extreme positions appear to offer, when the truth is that in life and natural systems there is always a constant state of flux.
The beauty and strength of democracy, free enterprise and science and the freedom of speech and contest of ideas that forms the basis of them is that balance and need for constant flexibility to achieve it is recognised.
You cannot have good science and innovation, free enterprise and democracy without the freedom of speech and the contest of ideas that underpins them.
Autocracies and rigid dogma on the other hand are locked into a rigidity that ultimately undermines their apparent certainty and strength.
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