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To: Peter Dierks who wrote (63465)	3/24/2013 9:50:02 AM
From: Joe Btfsplk	2 Recommendations Respond to of 71588

desiccated dystopias of the soul deTocqueville wrote about a zeitgeist that permeated the attitudes of a free people. Here's another bright light touching on the same subject: Quotation of the Day… … is from page 48 of the 2007 Definitive Edition (Bruce Caldwell, ed.) of F.A. Hayek’s classic 1944 volume, The Road to Serfdom; specifically, it’s from Hayek’s Foreword to the 1956 American paperback edition: The important point is that the political ideals of a people and its attitude toward authority are as much the effect as the cause of the political institutions under which it lives. This means, among other things, that even a strong tradition of political liberty is no safeguard if the danger is precisely that the new institutions and policies will gradually undermine and destroy that spirit. Currently Charles Murray is widely expanding understanding of this theme -- for those paying attention. Battering old ideals about attaining rewards, or paying penalties for failure, is destroying a spirit essential to long term success. Time was, a crude understanding for most Americans was simply in the air. A restoration is in order, but it may be too late.