All moving entities evolve their configurations toward more freedomFreedom and accessAccess in space and time. The freedomFreedom urgeUrge is universal, from the waterWater blocked by the dam to the dogDog walked on a leashLeash by his owner (Chapter 12). Without the leashLeash, man and dogDog have different economicalEconomical speedsSpeed . The most economicalEconomical speedSpeed of the dogDog is lower because the dogDog is smaller. With the leashLeash, the dogDog and the man are coercedCoerced to walkWalk, Walking at the same speedSpeed . At least one of them must make a greater effort than at his most economicalEconomical speedSpeed . The dogDog is not walkingWalk, Walking at his natural speedSpeed . Neither is the person holding the leashLeash. Natural is the speedSpeed of the animalAnimal walkingWalk, Walking freely. Consequently, the couple must always make a greater effort than when walkingWalk, Walking freely, independently. The leashLeash is a symbol of lack of freedomLack of freedom and the inefficiencyInefficiency of collectivismCollectivism. Participants in organized movementOrganized movement (societySociety, lifeLife) are eminently diverse, not of one kind, and certainly not equal. They move with greater effort when they are coercedCoerced to move as one, as in collectivizationCollectivization, marching columns, and scienceScience tribalismTribalism. SocietySociety is healthier and more economicalEconomical when individualsIndividual are free to move, createCreate, change, associate, and evolve. To move freely does not mean to move alone. BirdsBird teach this every day. Geese fly south in V-formations. In a free country, people organize voluntarily. They come together in hierarchical structuresStructure of movementMovement because it is good for their individualIndividual freedomFreedom, accessAccess, lifeLife, and staying powerStaying power. VoluntaryVoluntary association is an entirely different phenomenonPhenomenon—economies of scaleEconomies of scale—which is predictable from the same physicsPhysics lawLaw of evolutionEvolution as the diversityDiversity phenomenonPhenomenon. The difference between freedomFreedom and lack of freedomLack of freedom is the difference between natural diversityNatural diversity and imposed diversityImposed diversity. The diversityDiversity of free people and free dogsDog in motionMotion (alive) is immensely greater and longer lasting than an artificial diversityArtificial diversity of two or three. If you want diversityDiversity, give the people freedomFreedom, not the leashLeash.

Lack of Freedom

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2026年

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Adrian Bejan

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All moving entities evolve their configurations toward more freedomFreedom and accessAccess in space and time. The freedomFreedom urgeUrge is universal, from the waterWater blocked by the dam to the dogDog walked on a leashLeash by his owner (Chapter 12). Without the leashLeash, man and dogDog have different economicalEconomical speedsSpeed . The most economicalEconomical speedSpeed of the dogDog is lower because the dogDog is smaller. With the leashLeash, the dogDog and the man are coercedCoerced to walkWalk, Walking at the same speedSpeed . At least one of them must make a greater effort than at his most economicalEconomical speedSpeed . The dogDog is not walkingWalk, Walking at his natural speedSpeed . Neither is the person holding the leashLeash. Natural is the speedSpeed of the animalAnimal walkingWalk, Walking freely. Consequently, the couple must always make a greater effort than when walkingWalk, Walking freely, independently. The leashLeash is a symbol of lack of freedomLack of freedom and the inefficiencyInefficiency of collectivismCollectivism. Participants in organized movementOrganized movement (societySociety, lifeLife) are eminently diverse, not of one kind, and certainly not equal. They move with greater effort when they are coercedCoerced to move as one, as in collectivizationCollectivization, marching columns, and scienceScience tribalismTribalism. SocietySociety is healthier and more economicalEconomical when individualsIndividual are free to move, createCreate, change, associate, and evolve. To move freely does not mean to move alone. BirdsBird teach this every day. Geese fly south in V-formations. In a free country, people organize voluntarily. They come together in hierarchical structuresStructure of movementMovement because it is good for their individualIndividual freedomFreedom, accessAccess, lifeLife, and staying powerStaying power. VoluntaryVoluntary association is an entirely different phenomenonPhenomenon—economies of scaleEconomies of scale—which is predictable from the same physicsPhysics lawLaw of evolutionEvolution as the diversityDiversity phenomenonPhenomenon. The difference between freedomFreedom and lack of freedomLack of freedom is the difference between natural diversityNatural diversity and imposed diversityImposed diversity. The diversityDiversity of free people and free dogsDog in motionMotion (alive) is immensely greater and longer lasting than an artificial diversityArtificial diversity of two or three. If you want diversityDiversity, give the people freedomFreedom, not the leashLeash.