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A complex civilization like ours is necessarily based on the individual's adjusting himself to changes whose cause and nature he cannot hope to understand: why should he have more or less, why should he have to move to another occupation, why some things he wants should become more difficult to get than others, will always be interconnected with such a multitude of circumstances that no single mind will be able to...
— Nov 17, 2024 04:22AM
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Jonathan Vincent
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Probably it is true that the very magnitude of the outrages committed by the totalitarian governments, instead of increasing the fear that such a system might one day arise in more enlightened countries, has rather strengthened the assurance that it cannot happen here.
— Nov 14, 2024 02:56PM
Jonathan Vincent
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There is no reason why there should be a majority in favor of any one of the different possible courses of action if their number is legion. Every member of the legislative assembly might prefer some particular plan for the direction of economic activity to no plan, yet no one plan may appear preferable to a majority to no plan at all.
— Jun 26, 2024 01:03PM
Jonathan Vincent
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It may be the unanimously expressed will of the people that parliament should prepare a comprehensive economic plan, yet neither the people nor its representatives need therefore be able to agree on any particular plan. The inability of democratic assemblies to carry out what seems to be a clear mandate of the people will inevitably cause dissatisfaction with democratic institutions.
— Jun 26, 2024 12:47PM
Jonathan Vincent
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"The magnificent motor roads of Germany and Italy..."
I love seeing what people called things before we settled on a name. Motor roads just sounds so quaint.
— Jun 26, 2024 12:12PM
I love seeing what people called things before we settled on a name. Motor roads just sounds so quaint.
Jonathan Vincent
is on page 11 of 274
We are ready to accept almost any explanation of the present crisis of our civilization except one: that the present state of the world may be the result of genuine error on our own part and that the pursuit of some of our most cherished ideals has apparently produced results utterly different from those which we expected.
— Jun 22, 2024 06:22AM
Jonathan Vincent
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A conservative movement, by its very nature, is bound to be a defender of established privilege and to lean on the power of government for the protection of privilege. It will never appeal to the young [for long] and other who believe change is desirable if this world is to be a better place.
This really sums up the issue I had with the applicability of his ideas on conservatism to today's world...
— Jun 20, 2024 08:54AM
This really sums up the issue I had with the applicability of his ideas on conservatism to today's world...
Jonathan Vincent
is on page 2 of 274
The hot socialism against which this book is mainly directed- that organized movement towards a deliberate organization of economic life by the state as the chief owner of the means of production- is nearly dead in the Western world... Attempts will no doubt be made to rescue the name for movements which are less dogmatic, less doctrinaire, and less systemic.
— Jun 20, 2024 08:44AM
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Grasp them; or, even worse, those affected will put all the blame on an obvious immediate and avoidable cause, while the more complex interrelationships which determine the change remain hidden to them.
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