I'll turn to an old master for this one:"One can hardly expect people either to like an extended order (free enterprise system) that runs counter to some of their strongest instincts, or readily to understand that it brings them the material comforts they also want. The order is even “unnatural” in the common meaning of not conforming to man’s biological endowments. Much of the good that man does in the extended order is thus not due to his being naturally good; yet it is foolish to deprecate civilisation as artificial for this reason. It is artificial only in the sense in which most of our values, our language, our art and our very reason are artificial; they are not genetically embedded in our biological structures. In another sense, however the extended order is perfectly natural; in the sense that it has itself, like similar biological phenomena, evolved naturally in the course of natural selection." [Parenthesis mine] – F.A. Hayek, Fatal Conceit: The Errors of Socialism
If Progressives had their way, progress would come to a screeching halt. Isn't that ironic?
ReplyDeleteAnd they accuse the Right Wing of being afraid of change. Methinks they protest too much.
Their entire ideology is based on the premise that we can set up a system that will make the world perfect. The system leaves no room for change. That is why most Leftists are Agrarians. A carrot is a carrot.
Leftists, in the name of Labor, have fought all advances of industry and agriculture, again in the name of protecting the worker. Today we are pouring billions of dollars into failing businesses to protect the proletariat.
We are saving businesses that inefficiently make products that people don't want. That is not natural. The majority of GDP coming from government spending is not natural. Supply and Demand is natural. The death of obsolescence is natural.