![]() ![]() The list of terms in The Constitution of Liberty that either aren’t defined or are defined in ways that beg further definition by anyone with a half-awake critical faculty encompass every important concept Hayek uses to make his argument, from “freedom” to “coercion” to, my favorite, “civilization.” “Civilization” requires this, this, and that, mostly the unfettered right of people to dispose of their property, at least in the various ways that people near the “height of civilization” - as far as Hayek was concerned, basically, his boyhood in pre-WWI bourgeois Europe - were used to doing. ![]() But I at least expected something more than the sententious performance of intellect, slathered over a fundamental lack of insight or even curiosity, that I got in The Constitution of Liberty. The Road to Serfdom might be the single most ludicrously inaccurate prediction of the future taken seriously by “serious” people in recorded history. I know how much a “Nobel” in economics is worth. I mean it when I say I expect more from these people. ![]() It’s honestly getting to be like Charlie Brown and the football, me and these right-wing intellectuals. ![]()
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