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To: koan who wrote (982719)	11/19/2016 3:25:19 PM
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What do you think I missed about The Axemakers Gift? Thirty-odd years ago James Burke did a series, "THE DAY THE UNIVERSE CHANGED. Like your book, it was a rather lyrical overview of particular markers in human progress. It could leave the impression with the uninformed that our escape from brutal existence came from the occasional bright discovery, i.e. Gutenberg's rediscovery of what the Koreans had centuries before. No! Our betterment came from evolutionary trial and error chains of revisions to amalgamations of what came before. That process works best in inverse proportion to interferences from a ruling class, i.e. the classical liberal positions Friedman represented Tinkerers provided the material to supply the information to slowly take advantage of the printing press, which at time of introduction was used mostly for religious tracts. That fact was explicitly covered in your favorite book, but you seem to have missed the implications. "THE AXEMAKER"S GIFT might serve as a beginner's foundation to understand a better primer on the subject. Shame your mind shut off after reading just that. radical conservative. I rejected that philosophy 50 years age You rejected something you never understood. Friedman and his kind are radical liberals, as the term meant before it was highjacked by the evil and nefarious. You're too blinded by your preconceptions to investigate why our betterment comes only from the new order discovered by residents of the British Isles and the Netherlands in centuries past; the dreaded white men. Their offering has lately blended well in parts of the white regions not part of the Anglsosphere, parts of the Orient, now even (hopefully) beginning in the heart of the Dark Continent: Meet Johannesburg's New Libertarian Mayor; Herman Mashaba is something new in South Africa. But can a black pro-market politician make real changes? You seem a rather extreme example of the phenomenae that gave us a President Trump. Your kind imposed a decidedly non-liberal agenda. The resulting wreckage led to desperate victims seeking salvation in yet another illiberal god figure. Thanks a lot!