tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3242112972165304272.post2324296373555850742..comments2021-08-19T07:36:38.239+01:00Comments on FEDaerated: Von Mises and friendsAJSwtlkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10927070658835473340noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3242112972165304272.post-39056558835535925692010-11-01T23:50:46.846+00:002010-11-01T23:50:46.846+00:00Pre-election thoughts.
Being right here in the mi...Pre-election thoughts.<br /><br />Being right here in the midst of the mania has been fun. What mania? That of those who are led around by 'red' (at one time, this had a whole different connotation) ideologues. You all know who you are, including the Weagle. <br /><br />One irony? That the 'von's rule the message, as in Hayek and Mises (just how far is M-I-S-E-S from M-I-S-E-R?). It is not that Friedrich and Ludwig ought not be given due consideration. <br /><br />But, there is always more to the story, such as this from a letter from Ludwig to Ayn (do you need to know? Rand, of course): You have the courage to tell the masses what no politician told them: you are inferior and all the improvements in your conditions which you simply take for granted you owe to the efforts of men who are better than you.<br /><br />Gosh, some advanced-degreed, technical people think this of those in the structures called management who seem to always muck up the works. <br /><br />But, back to the elections and economics. Have we not seen that the 'market' ideology can lead to extreme unbalances in the commonweal? Adam (as in Smith) knew this. The ca-pital-sino is allowed due to its ability to expand greatly the sucking of economic life from the pockets of the hapless to that of the few (and, has private equity shown itself to be exemplary in what may be the important ways?). <br /><br />From whence can we expect the necessary control (Adam knew that it was not his 'invisible hand' given his groundings in moral philosophy)? I agree with the 'vons' in their abhorrence of top-down (but, we do know that CEOs are the new kings). Yet, are not the money'd of higher stature from certain views? Do they not impose their opinions? <br /><br />And, is not the jobless situation directly related to the out-housing that is both colonialistic in spirit and exploitative in practice (to wit, even Spirit - sacrilegious name?)?<br /><br />Those aforementioned hapless were steered, earlier, by the 'reds' into an unfathomable bucket of red ink (personal). Too, the 'reds' started the massive inflow of red ink into our national bucket despite what the past couple of years may look like. <br /><br />von Mises was fairly dismal personality-wise, some say, no doubt to his main area of interest being so full of interminable issues. One wonders whether politics, in its currently evolved (?) state, suffers from the same syndrome. <br /><br />We must vote anyway, despite that the choices do not offer the satisfaction that one might have expected by this time, the 21st century. Devolution?AJSwtlkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10927070658835473340noreply@blogger.com