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Friday, January 20, 2017
Obama's folk are still active
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Where's the meat?
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The
prevailing political discourse seems to be consumed with the bromides
of social justice, carefully tended by political and intellectual
classes claiming special knowledge of its demands.
Friedrich Hayek, perhaps the greatest intellectual of the past century, was famously critical of the concept. “Justice is an attribute of individual action,” Hayek said. “I can be just or unjust towards my fellow man. But the conception of a social justice … is not only a meaningless conception, it’s completely impossible.” Hayek argued everyone talks about social justice without knowing what it means, and he reasoned the idea of social justice puts the cart before the horse by arbitrarily demanding certain end results when justice is actually about means. (1)
(1)
Problem: To current SJ movmentarians, its a toss-up between Bruce
Springsteen and Obama for " greatest
intellectual of the past century."
Consider
20th century communists, whom we might regard as the quintessential
social justice warriors. Their blood-soaked revolutions were supposed
to finally free the workers of the world from the waking nightmare of
drudgery and poverty. Instead, they instituted programs that
exacerbated the problems of poverty and want, undoing the progress
ushered in by the classical liberalism of Mises and Hayek.
Pounding sand here boss. CHE t-shirts are chic appeal for your
target audience. And, they are okay with "a little spilt blood" (of the the right
people, like cops, are the victims.)
Cronyism
and communism rely on the same fundamentally destructive principle:
coercive intervention in the otherwise peaceful world of commerce, the
state’s choosing of winners and losers.
"the state’s choosing of
winners and losers" is a core philosophy of today's Liberals.
Free
markets, private property, and individual rights did this, not
socialism, communism, nor vague notions of social justice. These simple
principles are the most significant anti-poverty program yet
discovered, the only one that has truly spread the wealth.
Better stop here. The Millenniums have dozed off. And,
where's the Dismantle ‘Social
Justice’ part?
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