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Sunday, November 26, 2017

Chris Dillow — The rich as heroes


Was Ayn Rand just the expression of a cultural syndrome and an amplification of the Horatio Alger myth?

Have new cultural myths been born to suit the historical transition from feudalism to liberalism, in the West at least? 

Are the conflicts between liberalism and traditionalism the conflict of different myths characteristic of incompatible worldview?

How is it that many conservatives find no contradiction between economic liberalism and social and political traditionalism?

Is economic liberalism just a variation of cultural traditionalism?

Stumbling and Mumbling
The rich as heroes
Chris Dillow | Investors Chronicle

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5 comments:

  1. Matt FrankoNovember 26, 2017 at 11:14 AM

    “How is it that many conservatives find no contradiction between economic liberalism and social and political traditionalism?“

    They are libertarians Tom.... not conservatives....

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  2. Matt FrankoNovember 26, 2017 at 11:33 AM

    They are ignorant of the migration input issues too...

    Competent/qualified people understand these concepts:

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interface_(computing)

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  3. Matt FrankoNovember 26, 2017 at 11:47 AM

    First Arab oil embargo 1973... rise of OPEC.... ignored....

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  4. Matt FrankoNovember 26, 2017 at 11:51 AM

    Paybacks are hell:

    http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2017/11/report-anti-trump-saudi-prince-alwaleed-hung-upside-beaten-interrogators-saudi-arabia/

    This implosion trend might just be getting started over there....

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  5. Bob RoddisNovember 27, 2017 at 11:14 PM

    Libertarian analysis rigorously differentiates between voluntary exchange and strict respect for private property on the one hand and government subsidies to business on the other hand. Always. Every day.

    Much of the wealth flowing to “the rich” these days comes in the form of the government’s funny money bubble machine and the grotesque government subsidized military-industrial complex which is also funded with funny money. Austrian David Stockman writes about this almost daily. To claim otherwise is just the usual journalistic fraud put forth by people who know they would lose a fair point-by-point debate with a libertarian or Austrian.

    To call the present system “libertarian” is beyond pathetic.

    http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-08-10/stockman-rages-only-way-restore-honest-capital-markets-abolish-fomc

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