Libertarians, My Libertarians!
Cruel to be kind means that I love you . Because, while I think you are mistaken, your hearts are in the right place -- yes, even you, Silas -- unlike some people . This Breitbart fellow (discussed in the link above), by all appearances, deliberately doctored a video of Shirley Sherrod to make her remarks appear virulently racist, when they had, in fact, the opposite import. I heard that at a recent Austrian conference, some folks were talking about "Callahan's conservative turn." While that description is not entirely inaccurate, I must say that a lot of these people who today call themselves conservative give me the heebie-jeebies.
Good article Gene. I might just add it to my Austrian II reading list. In particular I liked the thing about no experiment being able to prove the utility of conducting experiments. And the Lewis Carrol thing was good.
ReplyDeleteThat reminds me, I once checked that book out full of excitement, but it was a disappointment. I thought it was more silly than incredibly deep. It's definitely deep in the 365-1 example you mention, but I thought that was more the exception. Should I give it another try?