Great post.
I couldn’t believe I saw that post further up the thread, but I guess that person must be one of that 99% he asserts never heard of Mises. Or if he has, doesn’t know why he is important, because, well, he just isn’t famous enough.
In my conversations with people I meet in life, that fabled 99% doesn’t know about Milton Friedman, and they most likely know nothing about Hayek either.
Perhaps that is why we are sliding into tyranny and massive debt, because people in that fabled and important 99% aren’t interested at all (even on this very forum) in LEARNING the lessons of history so we can avoid them.
But hey. They ALL know about Taylor Swift. Why don’t we talk about her instead? (spit)
“In my conversations with people I meet in life, that fabled 99% doesn’t know about Milton Friedman, and they most likely know nothing about Hayek either.”
Agreed. It’s not just regular folks either. Many engineers and scientists are also clueless and just as likely to go along with Marxist thinking as anyone else.
‘Perhaps that is why we are sliding into tyranny and massive debt, because people in that fabled and important 99% aren’t interested at all (even on this very forum) in LEARNING the lessons of history so we can avoid them.”
True. I’m naturally optimistic. So, like a Jew in Germany in the 1930s, I feel like everything will turn out right. However, when I think about it, there seems to be little reason for optimism.
I remember a conservative commentator saying, “the left always overplays their hand.” However, this country may be so far gone that they can’t overplay their hand.