Stating The Obvious – 0096
Human beings are terribly easily talked into following the most absurd and dangerous path for no better reason than that everyone else is doing it. . . . [Many examples illustrate] how easily we can be rendered obedient to the current fashion for no better reason than that it is the current fashion. [T]here was morality before the Church; trade before the state; exchange before money; social contracts before Hobbes; welfare before the rights of man; culture before Babylon; society before Greece; self-interest before Adam Smith; and greed before capitalism. These things have been expressions of human nature since deep … Continue reading →



