Horse wrote:
>
> All the recent talk of the wonderful Dynamic Value in a free market
> economy has left me feeling quite ill.
> Ghandi was once asked by a Western visitor what he thought of
> Western civilization. "I think it would be a good idea" Ghandi replied.
Bob replies:
Gandhi? Guy who slept with young naked girls as an old man to prove how
'pure' was? Was always interested in people's bowel movements? Whose
ideas led to the deaths of a million Hindus and Muslims? Gandhi was
close to insane. His persona was a myth. Almost pure propaganda.
> Is there anyone out there who is still naive enough and sufficiently
> blinkered to actually believe that the market to which you refer is
> FREE???? Are you stark staring bonkers!!!!!?
Bob replies:
What do you believe in? Intellectuals who are so utterly and morally
superior to everyone that they should have the right to use government
coercion to make people do what intellectuals 'know' is right? Thomas
Sowell refers to such people as 'the annointed' who are deluded with
what Hayek called 'the fatal conceit.'
Indeed a pure free market does not exist. And that's a shame.
> If you would like to find out a bit more about your precious free
> market and its corporate advocates, both within and without
> governments, and what they actually mean by a FREE market then
> perhaps you could spend some time and effort on the Web looking at
> the Multilateral Agreement on Investment (MAI) and its implications -
Not the free market. Socialism. Attempts to use government power to
exploit others.
> Apply the MOQ to what this is about and you will find that Pirsig
> missed an enormous battle going on between the Social and the
> Intellectual orders. Corporatism and its Social Value is the biggest
> threat to Intellectual Value imaginable. The "free market" is pure
> social level garbage.
>Intellectuals using biological level coercion to force their values on others is social level garbage. A common term for this is 'Marxism.'
Bob
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