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Friday 24 August 2012

…I ask you now to RANDOMLY choose a decade in the last 4000 years… go ahead and use dice or coins to pick one. Now pick randomly a place in that era that had agriculture. Now tell me who oppressed the masses, made sure the sons of peasants stayed peasants, meddled in markets, granted monopolies, connived with other pals to keep everybody else down, suppressed sience and progress, and made horrific mistakes of statecraft. Let me guess… feudal owner-oligarchs, right? The guys who owned it all. Hm… how did I do that? Shall we try again? Roll up random times and places. Do it FIFTY times. See a pattern? You naively believe that the only threat to freedom can come from snooty academics and faceless bureaucrats and the great mass of zombie poor. But those are shiboleths raised by Fox. Sure, communism was awful and I fought it like hell. But your historical myopia is typical on today’s right. You assume that the age-old foe of freedom and of CAPITALIST MARKETS, is no threat at all, anymore. Have you ever read Adam Smith? He and the American founders knew who the enemy was. Why do you ignore it? David Brin

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