08-26-2021, 04:55 AM
(08-25-2021, 12:11 PM)Eric the Green Wrote: Yes, although the "libertarian approach to economics" and worship of "personal initiative" is part and parcel of "well serves the rich and powerful", and those "pandering to mass anger and mass superstition" ALSO even-more do the former (called neo-liberalism or free-market economics, trickle-down economics, social darwinism etc.). It's a complete package, each aspect bound up with the other, and the libertarian economics aspect is just as nefarious as the mass superstition aspect. Both aspects must be defeated now after 40 years of regression, or our nation and our world is headed for destruction.
And that's the problem that must be solved; one that probably can't be without a mass change of heart. Note: the SJWs are making that much harder by giving practioners of this philosophy plenty of ammunition to oppose change and, more to the point, reinforce the false values that need changing. The ideas of freedom to succeed and personal responsibility are essentially good. They're part of the core beliefs of the nation. Unfortunatel, they've been easy to use for perverse purposes by the cynical and powerful. We have billionaires bulding their own personal rocketships, and the public cheers them on. Changing that will be a challenge.
Intelligence is not knowledge and knowledge is not wisdom, but they all play well together.