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Great piece about leftist statists......yet as the column points out, most of the people that are being described within just won't "get it". They are non-erudites posing as erudites.
Welcome to our Kafka-meets-Dilbert world!
I generally like Taleb, and I agree with most of what he says here. I don't actually know if he's a libertarian, but he definitely stumbled across a very central libertarian idea here: it's arrogant and narcissistic for anyone to believe they know how to run other people's lives better than they can.
Even if I thought I knew what was best for you and ended up being right, that doesn't justify me overruling you like I'm the ultimate decider of your life.
People too worried about "government" telling them what to do that they completely overlook who is really running the show. Please. We're all so exhausted from arguing about who can go to which bathroom that we can't see what is right in front of our faces: Washington is beholden to corporate America, which wields unfathomable power and serves its own interests regardless of which party is currently in charge.
People too worried about "government" telling them what to do that they completely overlook who is really running the show. Please. We're all so exhausted from arguing about who can go to which bathroom that we can't see what is right in front of our faces: Washington is beholden to corporate America, which wields unfathomable power and serves its own interests regardless of which party is currently in charge.
You're right, but it all hinges on government having that power to use in the first place.
We talk a lot about the rise of intelligence and reason, but we don't often mention its counterpart, stupidity. Stupidity is as much an artifact of modern civilization as technology is.
Why bother with facts and reality, they've found someone who states things in a complex sounding way while ignoring reality, but that fits their belief system.
Washington is beholden to corporate America, which wields unfathomable power and serves its own interests regardless of which party is currently in charge.
Have you ever thought it might be the other way around. That corporate America must pay government bribes just to leave them alone?
A solution no matter what is the horse and what is the cart. Reduce the size of government.
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