Well, you're the "agitator!" You agitated me a little, at first by making sweeping statements that Sowell had it all wrong from the get-go!!!
Those of us that have had to fight this crappola on an on-going basis, just trying to get reality back like it was when we first started to think as adolescents and learned to love our free market/free enterprise capitalistic system... We get a little annoyed with idealistic thinking being interjected as criticism, no matter how principled it may be!
I cringed just a little when Grampa Dave came on like I did at first, but hey, you may not get paid to teach FReepers, but you gotta expect reactions like this if you're gonna be livin up to your screen name as you have so far on this thread. If you hand it out... you gotta be able to handle it when it boomerangs!!!
I'm not sure about Grampa Dave, but I haven't learned everything there is to know about everything, even though I may act like it at times on here. So if you have something to teach us... don't feel overwhelmed by it and stick around and feel free to agitate us some more. But expect to learn some things you aren't aware of, as well!!!
Have a great day, agiteacher! (grin)