(urth) The Devil in a Forest
David Duffy
David.Duffy at qimr.edu.au
Mon May 18 21:52:42 PDT 2009
On Mon, 18 May 2009, James Wynn wrote:
> This is answer that socialist economics gives to libertarian/liberal
> economics. The libertarian/liberal position is that governments do all sorts
> of things that are not ethical...
>
> Wolfe is making the L/L argument.
>
> I'm grateful for this discussion, because when I read tDiaF I thought it was
> just a quaint, but obvious, morality tale. Now, I realize that it isn't so
> "on the nose" at all. It's actually a quite exquisite bit of propaganda
> (unlike say "Atlas Shrugged"). Truly masterful propaganda is one where the
> audience doesn't realize it's being propagandized.
>
In the same way, I think, that _Short Sun_ shows the shortcomings of the
libertarian/propertarian/frontier mentality, in the absence of some
higher ethic at work behind it.
David Duffy.
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