Timely article, thank you. It was a good recap and ended with a sobering question:
"What’s required to revive capitalism and restore America’s actual greatness?"
This is the question of the entire last 50+ years. We should be able to describe a proposed laissez-faire system in sufficient practical detail so that liberty-minded people see clearly that there is a way to break free from the slippery downward spiral of unchosen obligations. We should resume humanity's climb, unhindered by socialist dogma and insane totalitarian threats.
Frame this article! I fully agree and often say that capitalism, until safely postsocialist, remains an unknown ideal. Glad to hear also that WSJ might still be worth reading.
The separation of church and state was a major civilizational advance. Spiritual values cannot be imposed from the top-down. Likewise, is the case for material values. All values must be chosen values. Morality is the realm of chosen values. Govt must be separated from the economy.
This is what happens when too many of us adopt the belief that govt ought be involved in business, regulate, and provide permission. You get legalized theocratic mafia. Theocracy being the climate religion or some other tradition of mysticism.
Policy (the use of force upon people) can only be used to protect individual rights (to protect people’s ability to choose). There is no other purpose. Separate govt from the economy as it is from the church! Values, whether spiritual or material must be chosen values and cannot be imposed from the top-down and be ethical. Value presupposes the question of value to whom and for what.
Timely article, thank you. It was a good recap and ended with a sobering question:
"What’s required to revive capitalism and restore America’s actual greatness?"
This is the question of the entire last 50+ years. We should be able to describe a proposed laissez-faire system in sufficient practical detail so that liberty-minded people see clearly that there is a way to break free from the slippery downward spiral of unchosen obligations. We should resume humanity's climb, unhindered by socialist dogma and insane totalitarian threats.
Frame this article! I fully agree and often say that capitalism, until safely postsocialist, remains an unknown ideal. Glad to hear also that WSJ might still be worth reading.
Excellent article!
The separation of church and state was a major civilizational advance. Spiritual values cannot be imposed from the top-down. Likewise, is the case for material values. All values must be chosen values. Morality is the realm of chosen values. Govt must be separated from the economy.
This is what happens when too many of us adopt the belief that govt ought be involved in business, regulate, and provide permission. You get legalized theocratic mafia. Theocracy being the climate religion or some other tradition of mysticism.
Policy (the use of force upon people) can only be used to protect individual rights (to protect people’s ability to choose). There is no other purpose. Separate govt from the economy as it is from the church! Values, whether spiritual or material must be chosen values and cannot be imposed from the top-down and be ethical. Value presupposes the question of value to whom and for what.