| | I think that Phil is assuming that we should pursue collective societal goals, and someone in authority (presumably, Phil) should decide what those goals are.
That's truly wierd. I can't imagine any way that you could come up with such a conclusion from what I said, here or elsewhere, so I have to conclude, using the same brand of logic that you have pioneered for us, that it has to have been a message from GOD! Thanks for letting us know the TRUTH.
Instead I posit that each individual should apply the economic philosophies of division of labor and comparative advantage in deciding which specialization of labor they should pursue to maximize the value they generate -- and that in a world of over 6 billion people, surely there are some individuals who can create the most value by examining statism and finding ways to lessen it or at least slow the expansion.
Actually, I thought that was what I said. I referred to the fact that this is one of Tibor's fields of expertise, and thus, for him, with a much wider audience than this forum, it may be cost effective to spend energy on examining all the current varieties of political madness.
Not everyone is good at creating great new technologies, and if those technologies are created in the context of a thoroughly statist society, those shiny new tools are liable to be used by smiling sociopaths to further enhance statism. Agreed. As I've stated elsewhere, it was the genius of the West to bring political power under objective rule that gave it the advantage in every other field. Without that, ultimately the entire productive capacity of society becomes enslaved in the pursuit of trying to attain power or to prevent someone else from attaining, as "with power, one can get anything; without power, one will lose everything," which is the basic underlying principle of Chinese society, under the emporers, under the KouMinTang, under the communists and still today.
Politics is the art of getting and keeping power, meaning the ability to successfully employ physical force or the threat of such in order to enslave people. I've watched way too many people burn themselves out on the barricades of politics or anti-politics, which ultimately comes down to the same game. Perhaps I'm over-reacting from the endless deluge of stupid, irrelevant political nonsense that has engulfed us this political season. ENUF!
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