You must have a superiority complex, Joe
Quite! (With your kind it’s easy)
For over three decades I indulged a fascination across the whole spectrum of economic thought. I retain at least fragments from the best and the brightest over centuries, and can critique their lessers from a semi-informed perspective. That gives advantage even over many smarter than I, who didn’t have the time or inclination to dig as deep or hard.
America’s poor now luxuriate among intertwining extended orders that yield delights unknown a generation back, and unimaginable a century past. Those orders originated from diffuse people acting in their own interest, individually or in voluntary concert, forming complex chains, unknowable a priori, involving constant trial, error, refinement, capitol accumulation and further bootstrapping investment.
Prosperity and civility ensue best when government is recognized as a regrettably necessary overhead expense to protect private property, thus facilitating development of those orders.
Displacing them with central command inevitably introduces measures of stasis, then deterioration. Evil politicians have insinuated themselves into these processes, sometimes with OK initial results. That inevitably leads to further interferences, then varying degrees of the nasties, none of which are new.
The institutions most rely on have increasingly failed in communicating base truths. Our media, schools, entertainers, even clergy, portray evil usurpers, the most prominent Democrat politicians, as heroes to be celebrated, rather than lowlife skunks. Many are susceptible to their aspirational rhetoric, believe support will satisfy their moral intuitions, unaware they’re buying quite the opposite.
My inability to legibly package big truths briefly on boards such as this disappoints me. The real losses accrue to those who automatically ignore or denigrate that wisdom I try to deliver however inadequately. |
