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To: CHARLITE
It seems to me there are two possible answers, God or government.

You sre commended for toy using the word "only"

"the extended order arises out of a competitive process in which success decides, not the approval of a great mind, a committee, or a God, or conformity with some understood principle of individual merit."

"To understand our civilization, one must appreciate that the extended order resulted not from human design or intention but spontaneously; it arose from unintentionally conforming to certain traditional and largely moral practices, many of which men tend to dislike, whose significance they usually fail to understand, whose validity they cannot prove, and which have nonetheless fairly rapidly spread the means of an evolutionary selection -- the comparative increase of population and wealth -- of those groups that happened to follow them."
- F. A. Hayek, The Fatal Conceit

6 posted on 04/05/2005 6:17:14 PM PDT by Oztrich Boy (In a mature society, "civil servant" is semantically equal to "civil master - Lazarus Long)
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To: Oztrich Boy

Freud said that America was a mistake.

I don't buy your quote either.


13 posted on 04/05/2005 7:16:06 PM PDT by MacDorcha ("Do you want the e-mail copy or the fax?" "Just the fax, ma'am.")
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