Part 22 of 22, from Exiting the Wizard's Circle of Economics
When the 'Economic' wizards invite you to step into their wizard's circle of 'managing the economy', you need to recognize it for what it is: a choice between your retaining a foothold in the reality of living a life worth living, or taking a step into an isolating, confused, and meaningless miasma of competing powers, garishly adorned with fleeting utilitarian pleasures of ever diminishing value.
Unlike the period of Political Economy that thrived during our Founders era by seeking to discover and defend an integrated understanding of what is real and true (metaphysics), what follows from that (causality & logic), and what we should do in regards to that (ethics), which is what leads to liberty and prosperity, 'Economic Thinking' is rooted in the pro-regressive presumption that Power is what is of value, and that it should be used to violate principles of individual rights and property in order to advance the current narrative of what 'THEY've decided is best for the greater 'Common Good'.
TURD's (The Umpires of Reasonable Discourse) spin honeyed falsehoods to ease their popular consumption.
Whether it comes from who we recognize as coming from the political (ideological) Left, Right, or Center, such economic Utilitarianism is aimed at solving the 'problems of production' by implicitly creating a victim class of those that the pro-regressive T.U.R.D.'s deem to be at odds with those of the 'greater' class of the moment, which transforms both segments of the population into a fungible pretext that ensures a steadily growing audience for the Oppressor/Oppressed narrative, which their dialectic is focused upon producing and distributing. Don't be deceived, no matter how dazzlingly 'Economic Thinkers' might predict various inflationary rates, income distribution curves, or the 'velocity of money', their positions come no closer to validating the 'reality' inherent in their fundamental presumptions, than the apparent accuracy of Ptolemy's epicycles validated that Mars 'aksually' orbited around the Earth.
One consequence of these school's 'new' approach of having the 'Ends justify the Means', immediately resulted in recasting Ethics into a dis-integrated field for concocting rules that most usefully serve whatever the current narrative might be. What follows from that is that those who engage with these ideological systems - no matter which 'side' they support - become demoralized and apathetic towards 'ideas' that are incompatible with the reality of human nature, morality, and science.
Consequently, just as the good physicist dismisses the schemes of perpetual motion cranks for violating well understood principles of physics, 'Economic Theories' and its kin should be dismissed out of hand for not even being up to the level of being considered 'wrong'. It is important to realize that failing to do so, will draw your own thinking into those perilous currents which will eventually dash them against one or both of the competing dangers of Scylla and Caribdis. To successfully navigate the path through those two perilous poles of dialectical doom, requires you to maintain a principled observance of reality, because only that can enable you to pass by those systems and ideologies - whether political, economic, educational, or otherwise - which are intended to drag you into their dialectical wake.
Don't take the bait of those who've already been lured into that wake.
Don't allow them to pretend to care about the reality which their own positions depend upon denying! Don't forget that arguing over their positions, implicitly grants them the appearance of legitimacy that they so desperately desire. Don't do it. Decline to be mislabeled, identify the nature of their ploy, state what is real and true, and move along.
The reality is that history has no record of Liberty and the prosperity of a Free Market, developing outside of a reasonable and law-abiding people who respect each other's property and individual rights, and such a society as that has developed nowhere else than through the Greco-Roman/Judeo-Christian culture of Western Civilization.
History also shows that undermining and rejecting the Western understanding of those principles that underlie the Rule of Law and Liberty, has consistently led to a rapid loss of prosperity and a return to a barbarous brutality of misery, crime, and if unchecked, eventually to horrific scales of mass murder and war.
The distant and arbitrary decisions of 'Economic Thinkers' regulations are the means of violating those proven principles that lead to liberty and prosperity. Thy sell their aggression on the basis of their promises to 'help' a popular 'some' at the expense of an unpopular 'Other', but promises or not, that can only inject ignorance, confusion, and stupidity, into everyone's lives, which will only produce unanticipated chaos, corruption, and a resurgence of barbarism, for all.
That same history also indicates that if we turn away from the lures of 'Economic Thinking' that actively separate our concerns from what is real and true, and re-engage instead in the pursuit of those ideas and principles that America and Political Economy were derived from; principles which lead to limiting the power of government to a Rule of Law that's dedicated to upholding and defending the lives, individual rights, and property of its people (see Bastiat's The Law) - then we will be achieving greatness once again.
However many pages worth of HTML I've generated with these 22 posts that go into the details behind what I've said in this concluding post, it can be all boiled down to keeping these questions running on a loop in your mind:
What I hope these posts have shown, is that the scope of change that's needed cannot be fully encompassed under popular well intentioned labels that not only fall short in their scope, but unwittingly admit antithetical positions (as is the case with 'Classical Liberal'), or are far too narrow in scope (as with 'Anti-Communist'), to succeed against what we're up against today.
- What is this, does this follow from that, and if so, should it be followed?
What we're up against is not a single philosophy, gnostic or otherwise, that's been taking us backwards. What we're up against is a rebellion against what is, and what they seek above all else, is regress, not progress. 'Economic Thinkers' seek to pro-regress us to a time before our Founders' era made the greatest instance of true progress in the last two thousand years, and indeed they seek to take us even further back than before Christianity, to the sophistical Utopia which they imagine the powerful ruled over without any interference coming from that wisdom which began to be introduced following Moses, Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Cicero and Christ, and that ethos of rebellion is what has been embedded into the modernized fields of religion, philosophy, art, history, literature, education, law, and 'economics', which have been 'taught' to generations of Americans through their own schools (get your kids out).
What I support, is that one small sliver in time which came about within a fragment of the 'Classical Liberal' period, whose understanding gave birth to America, and which fully rejects those ideas that have been used to undermine it, and which has the understanding that is capable of refuting those ideas which oppose it, and that label is one that I'll happily tape to my back: Classical American Liberal (thanks again Clint!)
So if you need any labels to call me out for my positions, they are: Classical American Liberal and Anti Pro-Regressive.
So at least I've gotten that much out of my time on X-Twitter. How about you?
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