Postmodernism

[Eric D. Dixon]

kwp wrote:
>American thinking of nowadays is fixed on "the state", the state is the evil 
>for everything. The murderers of Oklohoma City thought that the State 
>Department was part of a "secret" UNO world government. The origine of the 
>"American paranoia" is a mistrust against "the state" which 200 years ago
had 
>its good reasons but nowadays is completely absurd. In reality there is a 
>"network" between "the state" and "the market" so that you can hardly 
>separate them. There are only changing regulation regimes but nowhere a 
>contradiction between "the state" and "the market". Both are illusions and 
>ideology.

This is largely true for modern big business, but when "American thinking"
(libertarian thinking, actually) focuses on the evils of the state,
business is included to the extent that it's in bed with government.  When
markets are free, they're largely docile and beneficial -- it's the
partnership with and extensive regulation by government that should be
dreaded and avoided.

Eric D. Dixon

"What a lot of trouble to prove in political economy that two and
two make four; and if you succeed in doing so, people cry, 'It is
so clear that it is boring.' Then they vote as if you had never
proved anything at all." -- Frederic Bastiat