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You don't really believe that, do you? Free markets cannot exist without a substantial amount of design and coordination. In fact, free markets cannot exist without a complex legal system in place to guarantee the integrity of contracts, a monetary system that holds value for buyers and sellers, a proper system of securing land titles, etc.

But the legal system evolved. The monetary system evolved. The system of titles & title insurance, etc. evolved. If they didn't, then please tell me the names of the designers of today's legal, monetary, title, etc. systems?

"They fail to realize that out of that individual excellence will come the betterment of mankind. When excellent individuals come together, they can create great systems. But in the end it is the free individual who accomplishes, it is the free individual who cannot be manipulated by the statists, collectivists, "agents of change," educrats, progressives, elites or anyone else whose life depends on command and control and setting the agenda."

"Dr. Piekoff relates in his book the statement of a journalist who basically nailed the direction in which the entire American society, from religion to government to education, is headed: "No serious thinker any longer believes in verifiable, objective reality."

"Because of that education, including math and science, can be taught in grade school or high school, to socialize children rather than to impart immutable facts like the times tables or the basic laws of physics. Where that leads, the inability to recognize certain truths as absolutes, is toward chaos and eventual dependence and rule by totalitarians."

"What is even more ominous is that by failing to educate the young, we are creating a society that will be even more easily manipulated in the future. No amount of money for education is going to change what is basically wrong with the present system. Blaming teachers unions is not even important in that regard."

"What is important is to recognize that the entire educational establishment, the philosophy behind it, is coming out of the same... cesspool of thinking---that gave rise to fascism and Nazi Germany and Lenin and Stalin."

But the legal system evolved. The monetary system evolved. The system of titles & title insurance, etc. evolved. If they didn't, then please tell me the names of the designers of today's legal, monetary, title, etc. systems?

I seem to remember you post a similar refutation in the form of the "irriductibly complex" oil industry, too...