In a comment to the post below, Hey Skipper asked if I've read, "The Road to Serfdom."
Rather than reply in the comments section, I thought the subject important enough to merit its own post.
I'm not sure if I read Hayek's book during a long lifetime of reading, but if I had to guess, the answer would be yes. A quick google popped up this: review and review, so I get the picture.
My life has been one of relying upon myself and judging/analyzing things from my own perspective and reality. When I was in school, even as a young child, I realized that much of what I read and was told, couldn't be true because it made no sense
I wish I had to brain power left to write the necessary book about the enormity of the conspiratorial lies and distortions that define the 20th century. Almost everything we think we know about recent history is quite simply wrong.
It boggles my mind that they almost pulled it off and had it not been for Reagan and Limbaugh, two of the most unlikely heroes imaginable, would have succeeded.
I'm not religious, but reason tells me that we must have had some kind of unworldly assistance in order to stay the course of freedom and even, as it is apparent now, defeated the forces of the "evil empire."
Islamic terrorism is a minor distraction, albeit unfortunately, one that will continue to cause the deaths of innocents until we finally have the will to destroy it. We've always had the means.
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'It boggles my mind that they almost pulled it off...'
Who are the 'they'?
I agree that there has been some sort of conspiracy to introduce a new world order and I think it has been thwarted primarily by the internet. I have been on-line now for 2 years and the almost instant access to facts has educated me far more efficiently than fifteen years' school education which was more or less BS and out-of-date. Like you erp, I looked at the difference between what was said, and what was done and from age 11 or 12 began to query things.
I am still in auto-didact mode and will be for the rest of my life. When I see the truth I recognise it immediately as it neatly fits another piece into the jigsaw.
They are the worldwide leftist movement. Actually the internet was a latecomer to the action. Limbaugh is a radio talk show host who verbalized what a lot of American people were thinking, but who thought they were alone in thinking contrary to the rest of the known world. Reagan was of course the primary factor along with Thatcher. She was very helpful, but by that time the UK was pretty much only a marginal player.
The internet carried the movement to places nobody could have imagined just a few years ago and there is absolutely no way the likes of Stalin or his buddy FDR could gain power today.
erp:
I (at Harry Eagar's suggestion) read the book only last year.
It was a stunning experience -- Hayek pegged socialism's every failing in the 1930s.
Pegged, as in he could scarcely had done any better if he had been able to travel forward in time 60 years.
Ya talked me into it. I'll report back after I get a copy.
All afternoon for some reason I was thinking about the end game. We'll win, I'm quite sure, but how much longer will it take and how many more innocents will be sacrificed before it's over.
It might be an interesting string for the DD.
erp:
I already have a copy -- would you rather borrow mine?
Hint: I get heavily discounted FedEx shipping ...
Erp, if you are waiting to read the next instalment on my blog, I am bogged down with info. I have never been good at economics, only knew I hated being taxed 1/3 of what I earned (here it is taken off before you get the money) and hated paying the high mortgage interest rates common here (between 7 and 10%)when I had a family but knew that both related back to the welfare state somehow -that I had to pay for people who, not only didn't want to work, but who were incapable of working because they had IQs smaller than their shoe size. For these people, breeding many more of themselves became a career choice. Well, now we have the third (maybe fourth) generation of welfare recipients beating up or killing their children. Nobody seems to know why.I am watching with interest to see how things will be resolved. Because it is mostly maoris who are on welfare or in jail there are cries of 'European colonialism' to blame so there is the race card being played as well. A Labour cabinet minister has just been sacked for lying. The dollar is sliding downwards. Corruption in the Police Force is being exposed. Two are in jail on historic rape charges and one on extended leave, while another is on trial for covering up. It's better than a front seat at a circus.
'But above all, there was the curious case of American philosophy - which no longer existed...The reigning doctrine was deconstruction, whose hierophants were two Frenchmen, Michel Foucault and Jacques Derrida. They began with a hyper-dilation of a pronouncement of Nietzche's to the effect that there can be no absolute truth, merely many 'truths' which are tools of various groups, classes, or forces. From this, the deconstructionsts proceeded to a doctrine that language is the most insidious tool of all. The philospher's duty was to deconstruct the language, expose its hidden agendas, and help save the victims of the American 'Establishment': women, the poor, nonwhites, homosexuals, and hardwood trees.
Oddly, when deconstructionists required appendectomies or bypass surgery or even a root-canal job, they never deconstructed medical or dental 'truth' but went along with whatever their board certified, profit-oriented surgeons proclaimed was the last word.' (Tom Wolfe - Hooking Up)
'Every human brain (said Edward O Wilson) is born not as a blank slate waiting to be filled in by experience, but as an 'exposed negative waiting to be slipped into developer fluid.' The negative might be developed well, or it might be developed poorly, but all you were going to get was what was already on the negative at birth.' (Also from Tom Wolfe)
Inbred traits will trump upbringing and environment every time. It's all in the genes.
Skip. How sweet. Thanks, but our local library has a copy.
Jude, so much to digest.
We also get our taxes taken out of our pay checks and we were well on the road to the bad place where you kiwis have gone, but we were saved by a really odd couple. See post above.
You aren't unique in having corrupt public officials. We've got them in droves too.
Don't worry about economics. You write so well. Just a narrative works best.
I'll write the rest as a new post.
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